Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google issues lots of different manual actions or penalties on sites for various reasons. But not all those manual actions lead to a ranking demotion in Google.

Google’s Matt Cutts said this on Twitter that “not every manual action gives a ranking de…

Keyword stuffing is as cute as a teddy bear that is losing their stuffing – don’t do it.

A Google Webmaster Help thread has one site owner complaining his site suddenly dropped in the rankings…

Google announced this morning that they now have added additional schema support for business information. Specifically, they now support customer support related phone numbers, hours of operation and restaurant menus…

The Google Penguin algorithm has been taunting SEOs for a long time now, but did you know there are different degrees of Penguin?
It is not that you are hit by the Penguin algorithm or not. You can be hit harder or softer depending on your links…
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Google’s Matt Cutts announced on Twitter at 2:30am this morning that over the past few months, Google has taken action on seven link networks in Japan…

I am seeing some reports from Webmasters that the link report in Google Webmaster Tools is reporting a much smaller fraction of links.

A Google Webmaster Help has one webmaster complaining a drop from 7,000 to 4…

Back in November, Google introduced app indexing, which basically lets a searcher on Android click on a Google search result and end up in an app…

Large sites or very detailed server administrators, sometimes go through the process of blocking rogue spiders and bots. To make sure you do not block legit spiders, like GoogleBot…

In yesterday’s video from Google’s Matt Cutts, Matt summarized three topics that aren’t necessarily new but often confused by folks in the webmaster and SEO community…

Based on all the guest blogging for SEO being dead and sites being penalized over guest blogging, the Econsultancy blog has decided to nofollow all guest blog contributions.

Econsultancy, in my mind, is a respected blog on internet marketing topics……

In an April 1st video released by Google’s Matt Cutts – Matt makes it clear, Google will never stop adapting, changing the search results. The search results will always be changing, the result of that change is “flux,” Matt said…

Google announced the Index Status reports within Google Webmaster Tools now lets you differentiate between HTTP, HTTPS and subdirectories.

Google’s John Mueller said “If you’re a data-driven SEO (or just love to see how your site’s indexed), you’ll l…

Google’s Matt Cutts, depicted here in an April Fools style animated GIF, posted a video on how Google goes about evaluating new search algorithms…

Google is now testing product images within the free/organic listings. Google has had product images in the AdWords and Google Product Listing Ads for a long time but it is rare to see Google test showing product images within the free listings…
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Google has a new design and with that your title tag length, the blue clickable link in the Google search results, may be impacted.

Pete Meyers from Moz posted New Title Tag Guidelines & Preview Tool…

The other day, Steve Plunkett asked Matt Cutts of Google, what percentage of penalties/filters are based on violations of Google’s Quality Guidelines versus technology issues or bugs on the webmaster side?

In yesterday’s video from Google’s Matt Cutts, Matt addressed a pretty straight forward question we’ve touched on here a few times about how to inform Google of multiple ccTLDs for your business…

Google has quietly added a line to the rich snippets – organizational help document saying they now support “any of its sub-types.”

Here is the new line added to the document:

In addition to the schema.org/Organization type, Google supports any of it…

Yesterday, Matt Cutts, Google’s head spam fighter…

There is this big discussion going on at Inbound.org on a penalty Doc Sheldon, a respected SEO in our community, complained about.

In short, he received a manual action on his site for outbound links that sell PageRank or participate in link scheme…