Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

As you know, Yandex, the popular Russian search engine…

It seems Google has gone after yet another guest blog network that is being used by SEOs for link building purposes. The link network is named PostJoint and has gone on record that they are different from MyBlogGuest, which was penalized a month ago.
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Google’s Matt Cutts released a video on the topic of some of the largest SEO myths out today.

He broke it down into two categories:

(1) Ads and their influence on organic results.

(2) Quick fixes to break Google’s algorithm.

On the ads from…
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We ran a poll late last year asking did Google’s disavow link tool work for you or not?

As you know…

Google’s John Mueller posted on Google+ a hint and reminder about the problems with not thinking too far ahead. In short…

A while back, we polled our audience asking if they prefer manual or algorithmic penalties by Google – that is, if you had to pick one or the other.

Imagine Matt Cutts coming over to you and saying, you’re a bad boy…

We always knew 410s were more immediate and I thought they were also more permanent but I didn’t know 410s worked immediately.

In a video released by Google’s Matt Cutts yesterday…

In a Google Webmaster Help thread, Google’s John Mueller said Google mostly ignores Web 2.0 links, specifically calling out Pinterest, YouTube and others.

He wrote:

We’re already mostly ignoring those links (just like we’re ignoring the “web 2…
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Google’s Matt Cutts said he has to research about 10% of the SEO questions he answers on those daily videos. I always find it interesting trying to understand how complex the algorithm is. So I always wonder how much one person can know about it. No…

For news publishers included in Google News, you may have noticed a significant decline in your crawl stats within Google Webmaster Tools starting in March of this year…

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……