Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

There is this theory going around by “giveaway bloggers” that non-spammy comments can cause a Google penalty. You can read about it over here and over here – where you can see that an SEO told this site that they are penalized in Google because of the…

As I covered at Search Engine Land yesterday, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a video answer to a question Google’s John Mueller asked named Should I add an archive of hundreds of thousands of pages all at once or in stages…

As promised, I wanted to share my traffic changes after I’ve nofollowed my paid links. I already shared with you the interesting reconsideration request submission, response and analysis…

A Google Webmaster Help thread has Google’s John Mueller implying that it may be “good practice” to list the sites and URLs in your disavow file even if they links were removed and especially if you simply requested the webmaster to remove them…
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In late January, Google launched a new design change for Google Image search. Google said they’ve “seen a net increase in the average click-through rate to the hosting website.”

But webmasters are not seeing that or believing that…

An interesting thread at WebmasterWorld is asking SEOs to take a step back…

It is no surprise to many that more and more SEOs are using the Google link disavow tool. The issue that comes up as time goes on is that there are some using it as a threat to remove or change the links or anchor text pointing to their site.

I am su…

On Friday I announced that I nofollowed my paid links after several years of being a stubborn blogger. I promised more details on the reconsideration request and the traffic results from Google…