Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Yesterday, Google’s Matt Cutts posted a video saying that the number of pages does not directly impact your search rankings.

There may be a side affect to a site having more pages…

As many of you know, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, announced at PubCon that you should expect a 15% reduction in the amount of rich snippets and authorship displayed in the Google search results…

I see threads like this Google Webmaster Help thread all the time. In summary they say, my manual penalty was revoked by Google after I spent the time cleaning up my mistakes but days, months, and even years later, my rankings, traffic and thus sales h…

AJ Kohn, someone who focuses more on authorship and rich snippets than most SEOs I know, wrote a story named Authorship Is Dead, Long Live Authorship.

In that story, he describes why he thinks the classic Authorship Project is slowing being closed dow…

Google’s Eric Kuan said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that even if you use a disavow file to remove links…

One of the highlights of the year for me is Matt Cutts talk at PubCon. So me not being there, being 6,000+ miles away, was unfortunate. It was the first PubCon I’ve missed in, well, I can’t remember…

A WebmasterWorld thread has an interesting discussion around how a webmaster said his manual penalty was revoked on his WWW but remains on his non WWW.

The non WWW is 301 redirected to the WWW and the WWW is set as the preferred domain in Webmaster T…

Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, responded to a Hacker News thread where Dan Goldin was upset with spammer SEOs when he noticed a site was scraping the content and images off of his mother’s site…

Google’s Matt Cutts posted a video explaining that the bold and strong HTML tags are treated the same for ranking and SEO purposes.

He is surprised people still use bold over strong but from an SEO and ranking perspective…

There are several reports in the Google Webmaster Help forums and WebmasterWorld, as well as twitter, email and other reports I’ve seen…

It is rare for Google to admit they are wrong, at least with search quality. Part of the complaints with the Google stock price and questioning if the stock price matches Google’s quality product these days…..

Guest blogging has been a large topic over the past couple years in the SEO space…

A common issue I see with the Google results are the number of Yelp results a Google search can return for a local type of keyword phrase.

It has been going on for well over a year. I even wrote about it when discussing Google’s domain diversity…
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I don’t get it and this happens from time to time. A site owner is upset his site is not ranking well. He goes onto the Google Webmaster Help forums to complain and a Googler comes in and outs his practices…

Google’s John Mueller posted in a Stack Exchange thread that responsive design doesn’t give you a ranking boost.
Yes, Google does officially recommend responsive as the approach to going mobile. But going responsive…

Google’s John Mueller said in black and white in a Google Webmaster Help thread that using Google Translate to translate your whole site, is the same thing as “auto-generated content.”

This should come to no surprise to anyone here…

A WebmasterWorld thread asks the question most SEOs and webmasters try not to ask in a public forum. After a penalty is lifted, should you go ahead and remove your disavow file or even remove some of the links from the disavow file?
Why would you do th…

In a recent video by Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, said that it will continually get harder to take short cuts and spam Google.

Month to month…

The talk of the SEO town these days, outside of Penguins, is all about the Hummingbird. To be honest…

In a recent video by Google’s Matt Cutts, he said that geo-location is not spam. Cloaking and showing GoogleBot content that you wouldn’t show users, is spam. But showing geo-location based content to users, while showing that content to GoogleBot……