Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google authorship rich snippets are everywhere these days and they supposedly do help increase traffic to your web site by improving the visibility of your listing in the search results. But can they help you rank higher…

There is an interesting discussion going on in the Google Webmaster Help forums between an old community site that is supposedly heavily moderated and Google. It is long but in summary…

Yesterday, Search Engine Watch published a story that was a bit outdated. What they eventually did was redirect the story to an older story which said the same thing.

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In December 2012, Google launched a data highlighter tool that aided more novice webmasters in creating structure data for use in the rich snippets in Google’s search results.

Google announced that they added more data types support to that tool…
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Google’s Jens O. Meiert and Tony Ruscoe posted on the Google Webmaster Blog 6 quick tips for international web sites.

This is a topic we covered a lot and honestly is somewhat foreign (pun) to me.

The 6 tips in short are:

1. Make pages I18N-ready …

Last week I wrote about How Do You Uncover Your Spammy Links? There I said, when you want to disavow links or have them removed, using Google Webmaster Tools link report is probably not enough. You probably need to use third party tools as well.
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A WebmasterWorld thread asks the question, is having too many internal links with the same anchor text something you have to worry about post Penguin 2…

Alex Yumashev wrote a blog post about how authorship lead to a drop in traffic from Google to his site.

He said he noticed this when Google sent him a warning that his traffic suddenly dropped. He noticed his authorship showed up for a specific bl…

Yesterday, Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts posted a video on Google’s stance on using advertorials in a way to manipulate Google’s search results.
As you can imagine, if you use advertorials …

A Google Webmaster Help thread has some interesting details from Google’s John Mueller about content removal from Google’s index and/or search results.

Some of these points you already know but every SEO and webmaster should understand these. Heck……

Earlier this month, Google’s head of search spam, responded to a comment on his blog explaining that when most SEOs and Webmasters use the disavow tool, they use it wrong.
Matt Cutts said you should not use it like a “fine-toothed comb” but rather use …

As you know, Penguin 2.0 #4 is live and webmasters and SEOs are buzzing about that. The thing is, some misconceptions about Penguin 2.0 are driving me absolutely crazy.

Matt Cutts, in his video about this update, talks about how Penguin 2…

As I reported yesterday at Search Engine Land, the site command may be a bit buggy for you right now and may not be resolved for about a week.

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The Google Data Highlighter tool, which initially launched in December with support for just marking up pages that had event data…

The next large brand to be penalized by Google is Sprint, the large U.S. wireless provider.

A Google Webmaster Help thread has Kent Van Deusen, the Sprint website support representative…

A WebmasterWorld thread has one SEO/Webmaster asking how long will it take for Google to show him the fruits of his efforts after nofollowing a bunch of links on his site.

He wanted to know how long will it take Google to notice the nofollows and see …

Google has announced they’ve added support for the schema.org markup for organization logos within the search results, specifically not the search snippets but within the knowledge graph…

On May 15th, Google’s head of search spam, announced on Twitter that Google has taken “action on several thousand linksellers in a paid-link that passes PageRank network.”

Google has done this time and time again…

A month ago, I posted a poll asking our readers if they fear someone citing your web site in the Google Disavow Tool?
The results are in, with 250 plus votes tallied…

As part of our ongoing deeper thoughts on the video Matt Cutts made about ten Google SEO changes happening this summer – I wanted to discuss the points about going upstream to devalue link spammers and Google rethinking their link analysis techniques.
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