Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

In an April 1st video released by Google’s Matt Cutts – Matt makes it clear, Google will never stop adapting, changing the search results. The search results will always be changing, the result of that change is “flux,” Matt said…

Google announced the Index Status reports within Google Webmaster Tools now lets you differentiate between HTTP, HTTPS and subdirectories.

Google’s John Mueller said “If you’re a data-driven SEO (or just love to see how your site’s indexed), you’ll l…

Google’s Matt Cutts, depicted here in an April Fools style animated GIF, posted a video on how Google goes about evaluating new search algorithms…

Google is now testing product images within the free/organic listings. Google has had product images in the AdWords and Google Product Listing Ads for a long time but it is rare to see Google test showing product images within the free listings…
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Google has a new design and with that your title tag length, the blue clickable link in the Google search results, may be impacted.

Pete Meyers from Moz posted New Title Tag Guidelines & Preview Tool…

The other day, Steve Plunkett asked Matt Cutts of Google, what percentage of penalties/filters are based on violations of Google’s Quality Guidelines versus technology issues or bugs on the webmaster side?

In yesterday’s video from Google’s Matt Cutts, Matt addressed a pretty straight forward question we’ve touched on here a few times about how to inform Google of multiple ccTLDs for your business…

Google has quietly added a line to the rich snippets – organizational help document saying they now support “any of its sub-types.”

Here is the new line added to the document:

In addition to the schema.org/Organization type, Google supports any of it…

Yesterday, Matt Cutts, Google’s head spam fighter…

There is this big discussion going on at Inbound.org on a penalty Doc Sheldon, a respected SEO in our community, complained about.

In short, he received a manual action on his site for outbound links that sell PageRank or participate in link scheme…

The truth is, for an experienced SEO, this video sheds nothing new about the question on determining if your site was hit by an algorithm or not…

Early this morning, after 3am EST, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, seems to have confirmed that Google took action on spam in Greece recently.

Matt responded on Twitter to someone noticing penalties to Greek web sites…

Does Google’s Knowledge Graph scare you? It isn’t a new topic, we talked about it before when asking if we should markup our pages and during Amit Singhal’s swiss army knife…

There is an interesting SEO question that Google’s Matt Cutts did a video answer for. The question was:

Many of my items belong to multiple categories on my eCommerce site…

Yesterday, Google’s Matt Cutts announced they’ve penalized a large guest blog network but never said which one. The search community believes it is MyBlogGuest…

Should you use noindex a page that has a re=canonical tag on it…

A couple years ago, Google launched Google Webmaster Academy that was aimed at helping newbies learn the ropes quickly with SEO and general Google webmaster questions.

Now…

Google’s Matt Cutts announced on Twitter at 2:13am EST that Google has taken action on a “large guest blog network.” This time, Matt Cutts did not specifically say which network they targeted.
Matt links to his post on his personal blog named The decay…

A common question large sites or e-commerce sites have to ask themselves is what do I do about product pages that are either temporarily out of stock or forever out of stock. It is a question we asked a couple times. In fact, Google’s John Mueller g…

A common question large sites or e-commerce sites have to ask themselves is what do I do about product pages that are either temporarily out of stock or forever out of stock. It is a question we asked a couple times. In fact, Google’s John Mueller g…