Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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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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 …