Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

At SMX West, Google’s Matt Cutts said something very interesting. I tweeted it and Matt Cutts responded but that made it even more interesting…

Google has penalized a few more international link networks on Friday afternoon. Google went after, as promised Italian and Spanish networks and those who participated in them – as well as a couple more Germany link networks…

I am pretty sure we covered this before but the message is not getting out. If someone puts your site in their disavow link file…

At SMX West Matt Cutts gave the attendees a few tidbits, one of those items was that making your site secure, encrypted, i.e. SSL enabled, is an important trend for 2014.

At the end of the session…

Here is a fun story at the Google Webmaster Help of a webmaster who said his rankings dropped the day after he got in a fight with his AdWords representative.

As you may know, Google has said time and time again…

On Twitter, Google’s Matt Cutts confirmed that Google uses a form of author rank or author specific authority in the in-depth articles ranking formula…

Over two years ago, Google released a new feature to show concert dates in the search results. Yesterday, Google announced that when possible, Google will pull those dates “directly from that artist’s official website when they add structured data mar…

Over the past week or two there has been some people suggesting that Google does not review manually every single reconsideration request…

Yesterday, Google’s head spam man, Matt Cutts, issued a stern warning to link spammers in Italy and Spain. This warning will likely be followed up with some unnatural link notifications and ranking penalties within the week…

Daniel from Miami asked Matt Cutts of Google a fun question, which Matt turned around and answered almost a year later in a video response…

Google does indeed look at the other sites a webmaster or business owner operates when one of their sites gets a manual action – at least, some of the times they do…

A hot topic recently is when should you start fresh after a penalty and when should you try to recover.

Google’s John Mueller said it is “never a decision to make lightly” but there may be times where you need to go the fresh route…

SEOs obsess about the smallest things, even how long is too long for a URL.

A Google Webmaster Help thread has SEOs and webmasters asking how long can they go for a URL. Google actually answered the question…

You know that often, Google Webmaster Tools shows an image preview of your site’s home page on the dashboard listing view of your site profiles within Google Webmaster Tools.