Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

I am not sure if you noticed but all the Google search results tracking tools flared up yesterday reporting major changes in the Google search results. You can see for yourself at MozCast, SERPs.com…

This is probably a topic we’ve covered a dozen times here but it is always nice to have an official video from Matt Cutts on the topic.

Matt said…

In October, Matt Cutts of Google at PubCon announced there would likely be a 15% reduction in authorship being displayed in the Google search results. Since then, I haven’t seen many – I’ve seen some – complaints about authorship going away…

A couple weeks ago, Google’s Matt Cutts was on This Week in Google (TWiG) and on episode 227 Matt had some interesting things to say. He said that Google specifically tries to break the spirits of black hat SEOs…

We all know Google’s take on duplicate content, it is not spammy, it is not something they have penalties for unless you are being completely evil…

As many of you remember, Anglo Rank was penalized outwardly by Google, as Google keeps targeting more and more link networks.

Shortly after, some customers began receiving Google penalties and the owner of Anglo Rank has been reversing link orders s…

Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, publicly outed on Twitter another link network that Google has penalized. Matt Cutts’ new trend is the share a link from the marketing material of the link network and then add a word or two to say the opposit…

Google’s John Mueller gave the typical Google line at this Google Webmaster Help there – quality over quantity…

In the middle of this year, Google released the Structured Data Dashboard for Google Webmaster Tools. Now…

Google’s Matt Cutts released another video this one tries to answer how to remove a penalty for bad link building over a period of time…

A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion around how to determine which sections or categories of your web site are impacted by Google’s Panda algorithm.

Panda has not gone away and sites are still suffering from not ranking in Google after the Panda alg…

So Matt Cutts released another video yesterday and this is at least the fourth video on the topic of guest blogging.

The deal is, Google is saying Guest Blogging as a whole is getting spammier by the day. As good things get abused, over time, those g…

As you know, Google’s Matt Cutts publicly outed that Google went after Anglo Rank’s link network and that the penalties and notifications will go out in a few days…

Hacker News thread points out that heavensgate.com is still live after 16 years. Heaven’s Gate was a religious group/cult where

Google’s Matt Cutts posted a video answering the old question…

There is this fundamental truth when it comes to GoogleBot, treat it like you would all your other users.

So when someone created a new WordPress plugin named WP-Shabbat, he got into some trouble.

The WordPress plugin shuts down the web site to use…

In Google Webmaster Help there is a straight forward question and answer about how to handle M-dot (i.e. m.domain.com sites in Google Webmaster Tools.

In short, an M-dot is a separate site and should be verified separately in Google Webmaster Tools……

This is your opportunity to give Google your two-cents on the features and issues you have with Google Webmaster Tools.

I blew up about it the other day where I asked in a nice way for Google to add a feature named automated actions to Google Webmaste…

One of the most basic reasons Google or any search engine won’t index and rank a web page is because you won’t allow them to.

Either the spiders cannot access the site due to technical issues or you are explicitly instructing them to not enter your s…

Matt Cutts posted a video answering the question “Should I use the disavow tool even if there’s not a manual action on my site?”

The short answer is yes. But when…