Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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…

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.

John Mueller…
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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.

In short…

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…