Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

A Google Webmaster Help has Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, giving advice to a webmaster. The advice, don’t copy content from Wikipedia and expect to rank well.

The truth is…

We know manual actions expire but what about algorithmic actions, do they expire?
When you pick up a new domain name, you now need to look to see if it had a bad history. We know expired domains can either benefit you, do nothing for you, or seriously …

For the past six-months, Google has been working on an algorithm to promote authorities on topics.

In short, Google is going to try to figure out which authors or individuals are authorities on a specific topic and promote their content across any sit…

As I said, Googlers were spam fighting over Christmas and it is interesting to see Matt Cutts chime in on the forums. In fact, I believe he is most active in the Google forums on holidays.

That being said…

This is likely obvious to most the readers here but it is simple, submitting an XML sitemap to Google does not mean the pages in that sitemap will be fully indexed…

John Marbach outed Rap Genius for masking a link building scheme as an affiliate program. Right before Christmas, Matt Cutts posted first on Hacker News and then on Twitter that Google is looking into it. A day later…

Google representatives have been in the webmaster forums helping webmasters with their SEO and webmaster related questions all Christmas eve and day.

There are dozens of threads that Google’s John Mueller has responded to both on Christmas eve and day…

About a month ago, we reported that Googlers indeed know if a site is impacted by an algorithm or not – not just if a site is impacted by a manual action…

I see this all the time, a forum thread, where a webmaster knows his rankings are suffering in Google because he was hit by Penguin because he has a lot of really bad…

A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster complaining his site isn’t being crawled by Google and isn’t showing up in the search results. The reason…

Remember, the warning from Google’s Matt Cutts on linking too many sites together using footer links and keyword rich anchor text…

Once you get your authorship working, no one wants to mess around and change URLs. Some don’t like to mess around even if the authorship is not live in the search results…

Google has updated their URL removal tool to make it easier and smarter to remove content specifically from third-party web sites…

I am not sure if you noticed but all the Google search results tracking tools flared up yesterday reporting major changes in the Google search results. You can see for yourself at MozCast, SERPs.com…

This is probably a topic we’ve covered a dozen times here but it is always nice to have an official video from Matt Cutts on the topic.

Matt said…

In October, Matt Cutts of Google at PubCon announced there would likely be a 15% reduction in authorship being displayed in the Google search results. Since then, I haven’t seen many – I’ve seen some – complaints about authorship going away…

A couple weeks ago, Google’s Matt Cutts was on This Week in Google (TWiG) and on episode 227 Matt had some interesting things to say. He said that Google specifically tries to break the spirits of black hat SEOs…

We all know Google’s take on duplicate content, it is not spammy, it is not something they have penalties for unless you are being completely evil…

As many of you remember, Anglo Rank was penalized outwardly by Google, as Google keeps targeting more and more link networks.

Shortly after, some customers began receiving Google penalties and the owner of Anglo Rank has been reversing link orders s…