Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

As you know, Google announced their Hummingbird algorithm about a month after it launched, claiming no one noticed and no one should notice. But we do think we did notice but no one can confirm that outside of Google and they won’t…

Original and unique content is always something Google says is a very important aspect of ranking and providing value…

One of the SEO tips given by many professionals is to make sure to host your web site in the country you want it to rank in. The truth is, it isn’t that important and may be irrelevant in many cases, Google said…

Last night, I covered at Search Engine Land that Google launched authorship within Google Image Search.

Pierre Far from Google tipped us off at SMX about it and it is true, they launched it and no one knew about it – including me. Yea, even me…
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Internationalizing a site is confusing, let alone the translation details but how do you communicate the language and country-level differentiation details to Google…

There is an interesting conversion going on at WebmasterWorld of a webmaster who wants to change the vertical his site is in but is failing to convince Google the site has changed directions.

His site is 16 years old and was established as the authori…

Yes, Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts did say rel=author can help search quality but he did also say Google is currently not using it.

John Mueller…

The forums are getting restless over a Google Webmaster Tools reporting delay, specifically with the search queries report…

A few months ago, we ran a poll asking our audience if they believe that the site of a site matters when it comes to ranking in Google. In short, do larger sites rank better than smaller sites…

It is not new that Google manual actions expire, it should also not be new to you that an expiration of a manual action does not mean the manual action will never return. It likely will…

You’d think that after Google has penalized link network after link network that SEOs would stop asking the question of how to build links via a link network – but nope…

A few months ago, I ran a poll asking how many recovered after Google ran the softer Panda update in mid-July.

With over 500 responses in, I wanted to share the results.

Question: Did You Recover In Google’s Panda July 2013 Update…

Ghost Rank 2.0 was hit hard by Google. It seems that at least one of the underground and under the radar networks was severely hurt by Google and many of the sites using them to rank well in Google are now penalized. Google’s Matt Cutts did issue a war…

You know that annoying kid who is constantly poking you on your back and asking the same annoying request over and over again…

All this talk about having the best, most authoritative, most professional, most correct and accurate information on your web site – throw it out the window. Okay, maybe I am being a bit sarcastic but stick with me here…

There is no one who would argue that Google hasn’t made the search results more cluttered with other search results. Be it search ads, product ads, youtube videos, local results…

Cyrus Shepard posted on Google+ about a case study he posted on his blog about the results after he disavowed 35,000 links pointing to a site.

He said, “On April 3, 2013 I disavowed every link to my website I could find through Google Webmaster Tools….

Last week, I covered how unlinked URLs are used by Google for discovering and indexing new content – heck…

You can now stop clicking the +1 button on my articles, they have no ranking benefit.

Eric Enge published an exhaustive study named Direct Measurement of Google Plus Impact on Search Rankings…

We have discussed people charging fees to do link removals several times but Google’s John Mueller said you shouldn’t have to pay for your links to be removed – instead just use the disavow tool…