Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

This is more of a theoretical question… So last week we covered how Google will use unlinked URLs for discovery. I.e. If I list out a url, like www.bigbluepineapplechart.com/unlinked.html…

A Google Webmaster Help thread has an interesting question, does Google use QR codes for discovering new content and pages…

Google can be very picky about the type of photo they show in their authorship rich snippets. They want the photo to be recognizable and they have many more guidelines…

I’ll be honest, I am still confused on this. The other day, I reported on how an ex-Googler who worked in the web spam team…

Yesterday, Google announced they have immensely improved the linkage data from Google Webmaster Tools “links to your site” export option for “download sample links…

I apologize for missing this a week ago, when I was sitting in the Google hangout where Google’s John Mueller went on record that Google uses unlinked URLs or domains in body content as a way of discovering new content and pages.

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Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a video on what to do if you think your site may have been impacted in a bad bad way by the Panda algorithm.

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For some reason, I was under the impression that there was one manual action that Google sends out to some webmasters that is a warning of something that looks spammy but no negative manual action was taken on the site.

I was wrong…

Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a video yesterday on the question of, “can nofollow links hurt your site…

Google is really encouraging people to (1) sign up for Google+ and (2) mark their pages with rich snippets and authorship for the search results.

Google came out with a way to encourage publishers and webmasters to do both of these…

Dave Cain posted on Google+ that his client received an unnatural link warning via Google Webmaster Tools and one of the two examples given was a link he has from DMOZ, the Open Directory Project…

On Friday, Danny Sullivan reported at Search Engine Land that Google is planning to give webmasters a year worth of top search query data within webmaster tools.

Currently, Google only provides 90 days worth of this data…

Yesterday we covered the poll results of those impacted by Penguin 2.0 and today I wanted to share the results from our June poll asking how many of you recovered from the Penguin 2.0 update…

A week ago, we shared the news that Google is collecting information on small sites that should rank better in Google.

Well…

Google’s 2.0 Penguin update went live over 3 months ago and we ran a poll shortly after asking how many of you were impacted by this Penguin update.

We had almost 1…

I see many threads with complaints, excitement, sadness and fear in the forums. Most have to do with Google rankings. It goes like this… The webmaster says something like, “my rankings and traffic from Google tanked,” now I look and I have…
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Google launched the data highlighter tool in December to make it easier for website owners to add rich snippet data to their web pages. Google last added six new data types a few months ago to the tool and now has added support for book reviews…
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Last week, we reported on a situation where Google said a link to a site was unnatural and thus the site still has a penalty but the truth is, the link was indeed natural and as natural as it gets…

Google’s disavow tool launched almost a year ago and has been a very common topic amongst the SEO and webmaster community since…

I see a lot of different web sites, with a lot of different problems. From manual actions, to huge drops after a major algorithm update, to hacked sites…