Google To Publishers: Use The Canonical Tag For Duplicate Article Consolidation
Duplicate content is a fun topic in the SEO space because Google says don’t worry about it because 30% of the web is duplicative. Google deals with it. But all good SEOs know…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Yea, Google Changes Search On Average Twice A Day
The other day, Matt Cutts of Google released a 10 minute video on YouTube explaining the how search works page Google launched in March 2013.
Matt said a few relevant things that you may have not noticed before…
Google Webmaster Tools Search Queries Improved For Separate Mobile Sites
Google’s Maile Ohye announced yesterday improvements to how Google reports on search queries for web sites that run their mobile sites on a separate URL. Such as on m.example.com or example.mobil or so forth…
Google Search Queries Report Now Showing Exact Numbers
If you visit your Google Webmaster Tools Search Queries report, you will see an “update” line across the graph. When you place your cursor over the update, it reads…
Issues With Google Webmaster Tools Verification
A Google Webmaster Help thread has dozens of webmasters complaining about not being able to verify their web sites.
The first report came in yesterday afternoon. The webmaster said…
Google Webmaster Tools Search Queries Shows Top Pages By Keyword Clicks
You know the search queries report in Google Webmaster Tools? Of course you do…
Google: Your Rankings Dropped Because Of Links, Not Hummingbird
A Google Webmaster Help thread has an office furniture site complaining that his Google rankings dropped after the Hummingbird update was pushed out.
Of course…
January 2014 Google Webmaster Report
Despite it being the month of December, which normally means it is slow, it was a pretty busy month. The past week or so has been dead, so not much to report in the first week of January…
Zemanta Links & Google’s Guidelines
Zemanta is a content discovery platform, they have a popular WordPress plugin that helps bloggers find related posts and related images while you write your post.
It does mention a bit on links on the plugin page:
Link Love by linking to other blogge…
Google On What To Do If You Can’t Have 100% Unique Content
Google has said time to time that having some unique content, even if it is a few sentences of unique content may be enough.
So when Gary Illyes from Google responded to a thread at Google Webmaster Help – his response stood out…
Rap Genius Back After 10-Day Penalty
Over Christmas, Rap Genius was penalized by Google for unnatural links. In short, they offered an exchange of traffic for keyword rich links to their site. It was outed, Google’s Matt Cutts saw it, it lead to a manual action that had a serious impact o…
Google: Can’t Crawl Your Robots.txt Then We Stop Crawling Your Site
Did you know that if Google cannot crawl your robots.txt file, that it will stop crawling your whole site…
Google: You Must Wait A Few Weeks To Submit A Reconsideration Requests
We know Google doesn’t like it when you submit a new reconsideration request a day or two after you get a rejection response from your reconsideration request. They want to see you put effort in after you get that response…
Forum Owner: I Was Hit By Pure Spam But It Should Be User-Generated Spam
So we know Google has penalized sites that accept user generared content, such as Mozilla…
Google Not Indexing Your Sitemap URLs? Might Be A Canonical Issue
A Google Webmaster Help thread has a webmaster all upset that Google shows that they have indexed none of the URLs they submitted via the XML Sitemap file. Obviously, this can be concerning to any webmaster.
The thing is…
Google: It’s Hard To Recognize Your Large Photos Because Of Your JavaScript Links
A webmaster is upset that his images aren’t being indexed from his site. He posted a complaint in the Google Webmaster Help forums…
Google: Don’t Change Your URLs For SEO Purposes
Google’s John Mueller responded to a question in the Google Webmaster Help forums about changing a site’s URL structure completely…
Medical Sites Caught Google Handed Buying Links
Gary Illyes, a Google Webmaster Trends Analyst for Google Switzerland, who was recruited back in 2011, responded to a few threads over the holiday break. Here are two medical related sites that are complaining they don’t get traffic from Google…
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To Survive You Must Give Google Your Structure Content & Data?
Greg Niland, aka GoodROI, posted a thread at WebmasterWorld arguing that if you do not hand over your data and content to Google in a structure format, then you will die a slow death…
Google’s Matt Cutts Tells Webmaster The Penguin Algorithm Is Impacting Rankings
It seems like Google is on a trend of telling webmasters which algorithms are impacting their site the most, at least in a negative way…