Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

In early October, we reported Google added authorship to image search. We also reported how confusing it was because the authorship was applied to the author of the story on the page but not the author of the image…

As someone who manages a content site with comments, there are things that bother me with some comments I get here. I dislike it when I see comments from people but they use their company name and/or keyword rich anchor text…

John Mueller announced on Google+ that Google will be offering short site reviews for webmasters this coming Monday, November 18th at 10am EDT…

I always find it interesting to share SEO questions submitted by huge brands and online properties…

Over a year ago, Google launched their disavow link tool and webmasters and SEOs have been all over it since. But every now and then…

A BlackHat Forum thread asks SEOs and Webmasters if the Google Disavow Tool works for you or not…

A Hacker News thread cites a story I wrote at Search Engine Land named Long-Time SEO Jill Whalen Moves On, Praises Google For Rewarding Content More which I also wrote over here…

Shopify’s Craig Miller, the Vice President of Marketing, posted in the Google Webmaster Help forums complaining that 70…

Over at Hacker News there are some complaints about the Google SEO Starter Guide (PDF). So Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts jumped in to try to understand what is wrong…

There is an interesting discussion at Google Webmaster Help forums where a new site at microbialgenomics.org…

There is a new Google manual action that you need to be aware of named “image mismatch.” This manual action is when your images on your site don’t match what Google is indexing and displaying in their search results…

There are two different threads at Google Webmaster Help where sites with Google manual actions received responses back from Google citing bad link examples including links already in the site’s disavow file.

As you can imagine…

Google announced they now support the ability for app developers to submit the content within their Android apps to Google, somewhat like through a Sitemap file. This way, Google can index the content, and then display the content within the search re…

Google announced a new outstanding feature for Google Webmaster Tools named Security Issues.

This new dashboard helps quickly know what security issues your site has…

Yesterday, Google’s Matt Cutts posted a video saying that the number of pages does not directly impact your search rankings.

There may be a side affect to a site having more pages…

As many of you know, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, announced at PubCon that you should expect a 15% reduction in the amount of rich snippets and authorship displayed in the Google search results…

I see threads like this Google Webmaster Help thread all the time. In summary they say, my manual penalty was revoked by Google after I spent the time cleaning up my mistakes but days, months, and even years later, my rankings, traffic and thus sales h…

AJ Kohn, someone who focuses more on authorship and rich snippets than most SEOs I know, wrote a story named Authorship Is Dead, Long Live Authorship.

In that story, he describes why he thinks the classic Authorship Project is slowing being closed dow…

Google’s Eric Kuan said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that even if you use a disavow file to remove links…

One of the highlights of the year for me is Matt Cutts talk at PubCon. So me not being there, being 6,000+ miles away, was unfortunate. It was the first PubCon I’ve missed in, well, I can’t remember…