Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Every wonder what the analytics and impression charts look like when you recover from a Panda update…

Yesterday, Google’s Matt Cutts posted a video answer to the question “If I have 20 domains, should I link them all together?”
The short answer is, most likely no – you should not link them all together.

Google announced their next spam target are those who are implementing manipulative browser history techniques to trick the user to thinking they are on Google’s search results, when in reality…

Joe Hall posted at Threadwatch that Google may have penalized TechCrunch, one of the most popular blogs on the internet.
He looked at SEM Rush and Search Metrics data

A Google Webmaster Help thread has a webmaster who made his site responsive. Meaning, he made his site mobile/smartphone friendly through the responsive design approach. The responsive design approach is Google’s recommendation…

A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion around one word – the word “useful.”

Netmeg said it in a thread and senior member…

Whenever you hear a Googler talk about SEO or the ranking algorithm, SEOs tear apart each word. Now, when Matt Cutts talks, it is a billion times worse.

Eric Enge interview Matt Cutts…

The topic of how Google handles downtime and how that may impact your rankings in Google’s search results is nothing new. In short, short periods of downtime, even a day…

A webmaster noticed his rankings and traffic from Google sharpely declined after the Penguin 2.0 release and decided to ask about it in the Google Webmaster Help forums.

The webmaster said they noticed a “sudden drop in rankings for branded” right aft…

WebmasterWorld moderator, goodROI, posted a thread at WebmasterWorld asking SEOs and webmasters to share “what method(s) do you use to formulate your SEO strategy?”

In short…

A WebmasterWorld thread is having renewed discussion around an old debate on does the size of a web site matter in Google.

There is no doubt, the more pages you have on your web site, the more chances you have to rank for more keyword phrases…
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A webmaster posted in the WebmasterWorld forums that he received a manual spam notification for “unnatural links” from Google on June 27th. He cleaned things up and quickly submitted a reconsideration request…

It has been almost 7 weeks since the Penguin 2.0 update was released by Google. We know over 50% of our readers said they were hit by this Penguin 2.0 update.

We also know…

A WebmasterWorld thread brings up a topic that came out of SMX Advanced a month or so ago on something Google’s head of search spam…

I hate being in over packed elevators, don’t you? Now, imagine if the elevator comfortably fits 8 people…

I am surprised this topic has not come up more often in the SEO forums – the topic of being able to test the Google Disavow Tool but uploading a file, waiting, removing links…

Over the past several months, there has been a quiet but repetitive topic taking place in the Google forums. A recent one was started by loupiote, who said “a couple of weeks ago, I have demoted the link yet…

Google has announced a clean up of Google Webmaster Tools, where they reorganized the left hand navigation menu…

Just in case anyone had any questions about Google’s disavow tool being able to help those hit by Penguin, Matt Cutts said the tool can help with Penguin…

The Google Disavow Tool is probably one of the more talked about webmaster functions in the past few months. New questions come up about it every day.

Martin Macdonald âasked Google’s Matt Cutts on Twitter if Google had “any plans to allow wildcard disavows” like they do for the robots…