Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

A WebmasterWorld thread has an interesting discussion around how a webmaster said his manual penalty was revoked on his WWW but remains on his non WWW.

The non WWW is 301 redirected to the WWW and the WWW is set as the preferred domain in Webmaster T…

Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, responded to a Hacker News thread where Dan Goldin was upset with spammer SEOs when he noticed a site was scraping the content and images off of his mother’s site…

Google’s Matt Cutts posted a video explaining that the bold and strong HTML tags are treated the same for ranking and SEO purposes.

He is surprised people still use bold over strong but from an SEO and ranking perspective…

There are several reports in the Google Webmaster Help forums and WebmasterWorld, as well as twitter, email and other reports I’ve seen…

It is rare for Google to admit they are wrong, at least with search quality. Part of the complaints with the Google stock price and questioning if the stock price matches Google’s quality product these days…..

Guest blogging has been a large topic over the past couple years in the SEO space…

A common issue I see with the Google results are the number of Yelp results a Google search can return for a local type of keyword phrase.

It has been going on for well over a year. I even wrote about it when discussing Google’s domain diversity…
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I don’t get it and this happens from time to time. A site owner is upset his site is not ranking well. He goes onto the Google Webmaster Help forums to complain and a Googler comes in and outs his practices…

Google’s John Mueller posted in a Stack Exchange thread that responsive design doesn’t give you a ranking boost.
Yes, Google does officially recommend responsive as the approach to going mobile. But going responsive…

Google’s John Mueller said in black and white in a Google Webmaster Help thread that using Google Translate to translate your whole site, is the same thing as “auto-generated content.”

This should come to no surprise to anyone here…

A WebmasterWorld thread asks the question most SEOs and webmasters try not to ask in a public forum. After a penalty is lifted, should you go ahead and remove your disavow file or even remove some of the links from the disavow file?
Why would you do th…

In a recent video by Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, said that it will continually get harder to take short cuts and spam Google.

Month to month…

The talk of the SEO town these days, outside of Penguins, is all about the Hummingbird. To be honest…

In a recent video by Google’s Matt Cutts, he said that geo-location is not spam. Cloaking and showing GoogleBot content that you wouldn’t show users, is spam. But showing geo-location based content to users, while showing that content to GoogleBot……

As you know, Google announced their Hummingbird algorithm about a month after it launched, claiming no one noticed and no one should notice. But we do think we did notice but no one can confirm that outside of Google and they won’t…

Original and unique content is always something Google says is a very important aspect of ranking and providing value…

One of the SEO tips given by many professionals is to make sure to host your web site in the country you want it to rank in. The truth is, it isn’t that important and may be irrelevant in many cases, Google said…

Last night, I covered at Search Engine Land that Google launched authorship within Google Image Search.

Pierre Far from Google tipped us off at SMX about it and it is true, they launched it and no one knew about it – including me. Yea, even me…
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Internationalizing a site is confusing, let alone the translation details but how do you communicate the language and country-level differentiation details to Google…

There is an interesting conversion going on at WebmasterWorld of a webmaster who wants to change the vertical his site is in but is failing to convince Google the site has changed directions.

His site is 16 years old and was established as the authori…