Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Last night, Matt Cutts tweeted that he is working up several “ghost-related puns for a spam network.”

I suspect they are working on targeting more and more link and spam networks and it is thus on his mind…

In a video by Google’s Matt Cutts yesterday, Matt shared that Google receives about 5,000 reconsideration requests per week. Google has told us they review each and every request submitted individually. So as you can imagine, that can take a lot of m…

Over the past few days, there were several reports in the Google Webmaster Help forum that the structure data report within Google Webmaster Tools was reporting zero elements of structured data…

The question of big sites vs small sites and how they rank in Google has always been one of those questions SEOs have asked. In fact, it seems that only 30% of SEOs believe web site size does not matter in terms of rankings…

There are two common sayings you’ve all heard in this field. The first is, “no one is perfect” and the second is, “never tell Google they are wrong.”

As you can imagine, they don’t go well together. No one, including, no algorithm or person…
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Some people think that if you know someone at Google, they can pull strings and give you better rankings. Truth is, it doesn’t work that way. In fact, I know Googlers who struggle with their own personal sites’ rankings more than most SEOs…
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If you didn’t get the memo yet, and we’ve covered what Google expects from reconsideration requests before – Google wants details in the request.

If you have a manual action and it shows up in the manual action viewer…

Yesterday on the Google Webmaster Blog, Maile posted and FAQ on using Google authorship, rel=author…

Typically, SEO concepts are very logical. You want your pages to be easy to read, you want your title tags descriptive (bookmarks, etc)…

There has always been a lot of confusion amongst none experienced SEOs about the difference between a manual and algorithmic action by Google. And Google is aware of that and promises to make changes to help clarify the difference between the two…
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Moz published a story yesterday showing a high correlation between Google +1s and Google’s search rankings.
Shortly after, Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, went over to Hacker News and debunked it. He said, +1s do not have any impact on search…

A WebmasterWorld thread has SEOs and webmasters discussing what is better, a manual penalty or an algorithmic penalty? If you had to choose between Google giving you a penalty, which would you choose…

There has always been a lot of talk about page speed and Google rankings. There are several tools that Google has for documenting page speed and improving it. Google even has the features in Google Analytics and had it in Webmaster Tools…

Back in early June I reported how Google told us that the only links you need are the links in Webmaster Tools for reconsideration request purposes…

Two months ago, I got very emotional about my ugly face not showing up in Google…

A WebmasterWorld thread has some fears that I see are beginning to worry some publishers and webmasters – the fear of linking to external sources…

Last week, Google launched the new manual actions viewer within Webmaster Tools. Since then, webmasters have been asking where the reconsideration request form has gone.

Well, it is now part of manual actions…

A WebmasterWorld thread has SEOs and Webmasters discussing what Google expects or wants to see from a reconsideration request for link issues…

Yesterday, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted another video on links clearly telling widget makers and those who embed widgets on their own sites that those links should be nofollowed.

He said clearly, “I would recommend putting a nofol…

Friday we reported that Google launched manual actions within Webmaster Tools, which basically shows you in almost real time if you have any manual actions against your web site.

Shortly after, Google had to take down the tool because of some issue……