Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Gabs at Cre8asite Forums noticed that just recently, Amazon has lost their rich snippets in the Google search results.

About a year ago, Amazon had rich snippets even without them adding the rich snippet markups for product reviews…

About a week ago, Google began sending out a nice number of SSL warnings via Google Webmaster Tools.
Google has paused those warnings…

Matt Cutts, Google’s face of search for webmasters, posted a future telling video yesterday on when and how Google may rely less on links in the future for ranking pages…

As you may know, there are tons of new TLDs that hit the market, such as .cash, .foo, .best and so on…

Might be obvious for most of you but not all know that if you use the site removal tool to remove your HTTPS site within Google Webmaster Tools…

Sebastian Johnsson, a self proclaimed grey/black hat wrote an incredibly interesting story on his blog on how he started getting into the black/gray hat world of SEO…

Google’s Eric Kuan from the Google spam team posted a response to one webmaster who said a competitor is spamming them with bad links and asked Google to provide examples of some bad links.

Eric did so in the Google Webmaster Help thread by showing a …

In a magical video where Google’s head of search spam, had his body removed all to make a point that the body of a page’s content is really important.

Yes, Matt actually removed his body, in a way to show just how important the body is…

Google posted on the Google+ webmaster channel, in Chinese…

Google announced they have updated two of their webmaster guidelines documents to better describe ways you should not use redirects to trick or manipulate Google’s search results.

The Sneaky redirects added examples…

There are many rumors around if Google+ is dying based around Vic leaving and some other stories…

Bill Hartzer wrote that Google has targeted HARO, Help A Reporter, links in the latest manual action of unnatural links.

HARO links? Really? Would Google do that…

Google’s John Mueller posted an excellent example of a case of where a webmaster is nervous about a report in Google Webmaster Tools, when in reality, all is good.

He posted this on Google+ and shared a screen shot by Jodi Bennett…

Google’s Matt Cutts posted a video explaining why and when Google may use something other than your title tag for the search results title snippet.

Matt Cutts suggested that it is best for your to try to anticipate what the user will search for when …

A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster upset Google is not picking up his markup and showing rich snippets for his site in Google’s search results.

Google’s Zineb responded that Google doesn’t show rich snippets for all sites, even if there …

Since 2008 we’ve known Google stopped their 100 links per page limit. Last year, Matt Cutts posted a video answer on that topic as well.

While Google has said they don’t have a 100 link limit anymore…

Rand Fishkin, the co-founder of Moz, announced on his personal blog a new thing he is playing with he named IMEC, aka Internet Marketing Experimental Collective…

Andrew Steel searched Google for the definition of [what is guest blogging] and the answer Google’s Knowledge Graph returned was from a parked domain site named moneyonlinemaking.com. I kid you not…

Google’s Matt Cutts posted a video on the question How can I research a domain that I may want to purchase…

Last month, we created a poll asking if you fear Google’s knowledge graph.

The reason was surrounded around the news of Google’s Singhal around the swiss army knife analogy and if that is Google’s true intent. Go read up about that if you do not kn…