Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Yesterday, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a long video describing what the typical day is like for a Google spam fighter…

Google’s Developer Programs Tech Lead, Maile Ohye and Crawl Team, Mehmet Aktuna wrote a detailed blog post on best practices for faceted navigation…

A new update has been made to the Google webmaster guidelines document…

The other day, Google’s Matt Cutts posted a video answering if poor grammar in comments hurts the page’s rankings. In short, the answer is no – bad or poor grammar does not hurt your rankings if done in comments…

I was almost floored reading a post at High Rankings Forum from an “SEO expert” who explained how Google has crippled SEO companies and is driving them into “the dreaded adwords…

There are many reports both in the Google Webmaster Help forums and WebmasterWorld reporting major drops in the number of impressions reported within the search queries report in Google Webmaster Tools…

You’ve all seen it, parking signs that are so confusing that sometimes you wonder, is the local government trying to mislead you…

Webmasters are asking themselves the same questions about Google…

There is this ultra-orthodox religious Jewish magazine named Ami Magazine, I was actually profiled in it a few months ago. The interesting part is that when you Google the name, [ami magazine]…

A webmaster posted an issue in the Google Webmaster Help forums with the Google URL Removal tool.

In short, the site he is working on was hacked. He is using the tool to manually remove the hacked pages from Google, one by one…

WebmasterWorld moderator, Greg Niland, posted a thread at WebmasterWorld on the topic of Google dropping links from their ranking algorithm…

Folks on Google+ noticed that Google+ has recently began nofollow many of the links in your profile by default.

So if you visit my profile page on Google+, the section where it says “Links”, most of those, if not all, seem to be nofollowed…

Rich snippet spam has been an issue since rich snippets came out and eventually added a report rich snippet spam tool. Then Google dropped the amount of rich snippets showing in the search results recently…

Yesterday, Google posted a stern warning on the German Google Webmaster blog telling webmasters that you will be penalized for unnatural links.
Matt Cutts then Tweeted the same warning saying A reminder…

Two weeks ago, we reported that Expedia may have been penalized by Google for unnatural links…

A WebmasterWorld thread has a webmaster who has a site that doesn’t have any real content. It is basically statistical downloads and specifications downloadable as PDFs or Zip files…

In a short video yesterday, Google’s Matt Cutts told webmasters and SEOs not to use article directory sites for link building strategies.

Well…

Google for as long as I can remember showed answers for basic questions. Questions like what is the weather, what is 1+1 and so forth.

Now, Google is answering more complex questions with more more detailed responses…

Google for as long as I can remember showed answers for basic questions. Questions like what is the weather, what is 1+1 and so forth.

Now, Google is answering more complex questions with more more detailed responses…

Last night at around 3am EST (this morning), Google’s Matt Cutts Tweeted, “Today we’re taking action on a French link network that violates our quality guidelines (Buzzea).”
Buzzea has already posted a message on their site acknowledging the Google pen…

Last night at around 3am EST (this morning), Google’s Matt Cutts Tweeted, “Today we’re taking action on a French link network that violates our quality guidelines (Buzzea).”
Buzzea has already posted a message on their site acknowledging the Google pen…