Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

So we know Google has penalized sites that accept user generared content, such as Mozilla…

A Google Webmaster Help thread has a webmaster all upset that Google shows that they have indexed none of the URLs they submitted via the XML Sitemap file. Obviously, this can be concerning to any webmaster.

The thing is…

A webmaster is upset that his images aren’t being indexed from his site. He posted a complaint in the Google Webmaster Help forums…

Google’s John Mueller responded to a question in the Google Webmaster Help forums about changing a site’s URL structure completely…

Gary Illyes, a Google Webmaster Trends Analyst for Google Switzerland, who was recruited back in 2011, responded to a few threads over the holiday break. Here are two medical related sites that are complaining they don’t get traffic from Google…
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Greg Niland, aka GoodROI, posted a thread at WebmasterWorld arguing that if you do not hand over your data and content to Google in a structure format, then you will die a slow death…

It seems like Google is on a trend of telling webmasters which algorithms are impacting their site the most, at least in a negative way…

A Google Webmaster Help has Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, giving advice to a webmaster. The advice, don’t copy content from Wikipedia and expect to rank well.

The truth is…

We know manual actions expire but what about algorithmic actions, do they expire?
When you pick up a new domain name, you now need to look to see if it had a bad history. We know expired domains can either benefit you, do nothing for you, or seriously …

For the past six-months, Google has been working on an algorithm to promote authorities on topics.

In short, Google is going to try to figure out which authors or individuals are authorities on a specific topic and promote their content across any sit…

As I said, Googlers were spam fighting over Christmas and it is interesting to see Matt Cutts chime in on the forums. In fact, I believe he is most active in the Google forums on holidays.

That being said…

This is likely obvious to most the readers here but it is simple, submitting an XML sitemap to Google does not mean the pages in that sitemap will be fully indexed…

John Marbach outed Rap Genius for masking a link building scheme as an affiliate program. Right before Christmas, Matt Cutts posted first on Hacker News and then on Twitter that Google is looking into it. A day later…

Google representatives have been in the webmaster forums helping webmasters with their SEO and webmaster related questions all Christmas eve and day.

There are dozens of threads that Google’s John Mueller has responded to both on Christmas eve and day…

About a month ago, we reported that Googlers indeed know if a site is impacted by an algorithm or not – not just if a site is impacted by a manual action…

I see this all the time, a forum thread, where a webmaster knows his rankings are suffering in Google because he was hit by Penguin because he has a lot of really bad…

A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster complaining his site isn’t being crawled by Google and isn’t showing up in the search results. The reason…

Remember, the warning from Google’s Matt Cutts on linking too many sites together using footer links and keyword rich anchor text…

Once you get your authorship working, no one wants to mess around and change URLs. Some don’t like to mess around even if the authorship is not live in the search results…

Google has updated their URL removal tool to make it easier and smarter to remove content specifically from third-party web sites…