Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a video on what to do if you think your site may have been impacted in a bad bad way by the Panda algorithm.

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For some reason, I was under the impression that there was one manual action that Google sends out to some webmasters that is a warning of something that looks spammy but no negative manual action was taken on the site.

I was wrong…

Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a video yesterday on the question of, “can nofollow links hurt your site…

Google is really encouraging people to (1) sign up for Google+ and (2) mark their pages with rich snippets and authorship for the search results.

Google came out with a way to encourage publishers and webmasters to do both of these…

Dave Cain posted on Google+ that his client received an unnatural link warning via Google Webmaster Tools and one of the two examples given was a link he has from DMOZ, the Open Directory Project…

On Friday, Danny Sullivan reported at Search Engine Land that Google is planning to give webmasters a year worth of top search query data within webmaster tools.

Currently, Google only provides 90 days worth of this data…

Yesterday we covered the poll results of those impacted by Penguin 2.0 and today I wanted to share the results from our June poll asking how many of you recovered from the Penguin 2.0 update…

A week ago, we shared the news that Google is collecting information on small sites that should rank better in Google.

Well…

Google’s 2.0 Penguin update went live over 3 months ago and we ran a poll shortly after asking how many of you were impacted by this Penguin update.

We had almost 1…

I see many threads with complaints, excitement, sadness and fear in the forums. Most have to do with Google rankings. It goes like this… The webmaster says something like, “my rankings and traffic from Google tanked,” now I look and I have…
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Google launched the data highlighter tool in December to make it easier for website owners to add rich snippet data to their web pages. Google last added six new data types a few months ago to the tool and now has added support for book reviews…
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Last week, we reported on a situation where Google said a link to a site was unnatural and thus the site still has a penalty but the truth is, the link was indeed natural and as natural as it gets…

Google’s disavow tool launched almost a year ago and has been a very common topic amongst the SEO and webmaster community since…

I see a lot of different web sites, with a lot of different problems. From manual actions, to huge drops after a major algorithm update, to hacked sites…

Last night, Matt Cutts tweeted that he is working up several “ghost-related puns for a spam network.”

I suspect they are working on targeting more and more link and spam networks and it is thus on his mind…

In a video by Google’s Matt Cutts yesterday, Matt shared that Google receives about 5,000 reconsideration requests per week. Google has told us they review each and every request submitted individually. So as you can imagine, that can take a lot of m…

Over the past few days, there were several reports in the Google Webmaster Help forum that the structure data report within Google Webmaster Tools was reporting zero elements of structured data…

The question of big sites vs small sites and how they rank in Google has always been one of those questions SEOs have asked. In fact, it seems that only 30% of SEOs believe web site size does not matter in terms of rankings…

There are two common sayings you’ve all heard in this field. The first is, “no one is perfect” and the second is, “never tell Google they are wrong.”

As you can imagine, they don’t go well together. No one, including, no algorithm or person…
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Some people think that if you know someone at Google, they can pull strings and give you better rankings. Truth is, it doesn’t work that way. In fact, I know Googlers who struggle with their own personal sites’ rankings more than most SEOs…
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