Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

Last night, Google published a blog post on their webmaster central blog notifying affiliates that if their sites do not add any value, then they may be penalized…

Yesterday we covered how Irwin Mitchell was penalized by Google but the penalty only extended to the .com address and not the .co.uk. It seems as of this morning…

Yesterday, Matt Cutts of Google released another video, this one answering why an old site that always ranked well, no longer ranks as well these days…

Cyrus Shepard last week posted on Google+ that the big UK law firm was likely penalized by Google based on looking at:

(1) A recent large drop in traffic and search visibility as reported by Search Metrics and

(2) Irwin Mitchell’s web site no longer…

Earlier this week, Matt Cutts of Google, stuck a fork in guest blogging for links or SEO purposes.

Now we have guest bloggers asking in Google Webmaster Help forums if they should be disavowing…

Google announced that they are updating the name for the Googlebot-Mobile user-agent and that if you do any special directives for that user-agent…

Earlier this week, Expedia saw a 25% decline in search visibility by Google. Both Google and Expedia gave a no comment on what was going on – so we are left speculating.

Here is a question I never saw asked before – which is rare. A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster asking how Google handles the content within a strike or delete tag.

The tag is not supported in HTML5 and was replaced by the tag but t…

Yesterday Matt Cutts of Google released a video explaining that Google currently doesn’t do any fancy indexing or ranking for Facebook or Twitter pages. He also said that part of that is they don’t currently try to extract social data…