Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

As expected, Google has introduced a new tool to help webmaster determine what JavaScript, CSS, and other resources they are blocking from GoogleBot’s crawl…

Sometimes you see some of the most obviously painful questions in the forums and you scratch your head…

As you know, Google released Panda 4.0 last week today and a bunch of sites dropped like rocks, including eBay.

In fact, here is an updated SearchMetrics chart of the drop, it is a 78% loss in search visibility…

On Friday, Google posted their annual we’re getting better at JavaScript, crawling it, indexing what is behind it, and understanding JavaScript. That itself, did not get me excited, they’ve been messing with it since 2004…

Last Tuesday, when Google pushed out Google Panda 4.0, Matt Cutts implied that gentler for some sites but it does lay the groundwork to future changes in the direction of a softer and gentler Panda algorithm.

Now, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search s…

The ongoing thread about Google Panda 4.0 at WebmasterWorld has an interesting post from someone who was hit by Panda a while back and is slowly recovering.

In short, he blames himself. He said, he got comfortable and lazy and didn’t invest in his sit…

MetaFilter is one of the first every community blogs, created in 1999 and helping users with Q&A style answers from before the times of the typical social networks. It is a quality site – no one would argue with that.

Tuesday, Google began rolling out Panda 4.0 and it still may be rolling out, but by now, you should know how, if any, you were impacted by the Panda 4.0 release…

Mark Traphagen, who follows Google+ and authorship more than anyone else I know (it is a bit obsessive in a good way)…

Back in October, Google’s John Mueller told us directly and clearly that authorship is not used for rankings. That has not changed, as John Mueller said it again in a Google Webmaster Help thread yesterday…

There is an interesting conversation going on at Hacker News on the topic of Google sending webmasters manual actions over links…

An interesting Google Webmaster Help thread has a webmaster who has a manual action, he said he removed the content, and even left the page blank but the manual action won’t go away.

Google’s John Mueller explained why in an interesting way…

Sometimes I see these unique questions in the SEO forums and I just have to share them.

This one comes from High Rankings Forums where a webmaster asks if he can use a singular and plural version of the same word, to be his brand name and domain name….

On Monday, we shared a bold example from Bing’s Duane Forrester about what good links are versus bad links.

It was bold because Duane from Bing basically said the only real valuable links are the ones you don’t know you are getting in advance…
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I rarely submit questions for Google’s Matt Cutts, but I did submit one and he actually answered it in a video.

The question was, Matt – what are your regrets related to web spam…

Google’s Zineb Ait Bahajji posted on the Google Webmaster Central blog, Google’s official advice on how to handle home pages for sites with internationalized content.

In short…

You see it all the time, SEOs requiring content to be a certain length or else be penalized by Panda…

In January, we reported how Expedia may have been penalized by Google because SearchMetrics showed a huge drop in search visibility for the company’s website.

Now, after about three months, SearchMetrics is showing an increase in their Google traffic….

Dan Barker spotted a fun rich snippet in Google where the ratings displayed for an IMDB movie result was 8 out of 11. Out of 11, not 10…

Someone asked Matt Cutts, Google’s head of spam, on Twitter if Google would treat the same subdirectory as different pages if the URLs are slightly off.

The example give were:

http://domain.com/dir
http://domain.com/dir/
http://domain.com/dir…
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