Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Yesterday I reported at Search Engine Land that Panda 4.0 may have hurt press release sites and showed SearchMetrics data for PRWeb, PR Newswire…

Google launched their manual action viewer back in August of 2013. The question was, would Google show manual actions dating back years before that…

Pando wrote an article named After Google bought Nest, it removed one of the companyâs biggest competitors from search results showing how Vivint was removed from Google shortly after Google acquired Nest.

Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam called this “silly…

This week, Google introduced the new fetch as Google tool that now supports rendering the page as well. The tool is actually very sweet in many ways, including visualizing what Google sees and showing you what Google cannot see…

Back in 2008, Moz published a report claiming the first anchor text counts – meaning, if you have a web page that has two or more links going to the same page, but the anchor text of those links differ…

Some folks in the search space feel that adult sites, pornographic sites, are automatically considered to be spammy by Google. Truth is, while there is a ton of spam in those industries, not all adult sites are spammy.

Google’s John Mueller said so i…

As expected, Google has introduced a new tool to help webmaster determine what JavaScript, CSS, and other resources they are blocking from GoogleBot’s crawl…

Sometimes you see some of the most obviously painful questions in the forums and you scratch your head…

As you know, Google released Panda 4.0 last week today and a bunch of sites dropped like rocks, including eBay.

In fact, here is an updated SearchMetrics chart of the drop, it is a 78% loss in search visibility…

On Friday, Google posted their annual we’re getting better at JavaScript, crawling it, indexing what is behind it, and understanding JavaScript. That itself, did not get me excited, they’ve been messing with it since 2004…

Last Tuesday, when Google pushed out Google Panda 4.0, Matt Cutts implied that gentler for some sites but it does lay the groundwork to future changes in the direction of a softer and gentler Panda algorithm.

Now, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search s…

The ongoing thread about Google Panda 4.0 at WebmasterWorld has an interesting post from someone who was hit by Panda a while back and is slowly recovering.

In short, he blames himself. He said, he got comfortable and lazy and didn’t invest in his sit…

MetaFilter is one of the first every community blogs, created in 1999 and helping users with Q&A style answers from before the times of the typical social networks. It is a quality site – no one would argue with that.

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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