Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google’s Pierre Far, their mobile SEO man, announced on Google+ that Google has quietly added support for skip

Earlier this month we covered Google’s revamp of their pagespeed insights tool, where they greatly improve the usability and details within the tool itself.

Last night, Google announced this new tool on the webmaster blog and added new mobile guidelin…

As I mentioned a few minutes ago in my story about Google’s new manual spam action viewer – Google has documented all of the manual actions a site may receive for spamming their search results…

Google announced the introduction of a new awesome feature in Google Webmaster Tools named manual action viewer.

The manual action viewer let’s you see if your site currently has any manual actions applied to it…

David Mihm and the folks at Moz released their 2013 local search ranking factors last night. They polled dozens of local SEO experts on 104 different ranking factors and asked hundreds of questions to come up with this report.

You can read the detail…

In one of his shortest video responses, Matt Cutts, the head of search spam at Google…

Two months ago, we quoted a Google search quality representative named Aaseesh as telling us that all the links you need to analyze can be found within Google Webmaster Tools link report. Despite it only being cited as a “sample” of links…

A month ago, we reported tests of in-depth search snippets from Google – well that test is now a reality. Google announced last night that they will show these in-depth articles in the search results when the query is about understanding a broader topi…

Google’s Matt Cutts said Google does indeed fight spam at a global level both algorithmically and manually.

In a recent video, Matt said they have Googlers who fight spam manually in over 40 different languages and regions…

A month ago we asked Do Link Tools Help Find Your Really Toxic Links…

A WebmasterWorld thread has an SEO asking if all messages sent to webmasters via Google Webmaster Tools necessarily mean the site was indeed penalized.

You know, when you get one of those messages from Google about problems with your site…

Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, in another video answer, responds to the question about using ccTLDs (country code top level domain names). The question was “Should

It seems there are many webmasters complaining that the “Links To Your Site” section within Google Webmaster Tools is showing the error message…

One complaint I see a lot from webmasters and publishers is that someone stole their content and is outranking them for their own content. The Scraper and Panda algorithms don’t help.

I cannot tell you how many times I hear this complaint and it sad…

Yesterday we reported about the link schemes Google update and later on I had the opportunity to ask Google’s John Mueller specific questions about this update and what it means.
My main concern was how specific the example was given on this one…
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A WebmasterWorld thread has webmasters and SEOs discussing the SEO research benefit by using Google’s similar or related search functions…

On Friday, I wrote at Search Engine Land Google Warns Against Large-Scale Guest Posting, Advertorials & “Optimized Anchor Text” In Press Releases…

In one of Google’s Matt Cutts recent videos, Matt answered the questions of it is okay to use those expandable web techniques to expand and collapse content. It is okay to use those techniques or is it considered hidden text and against Google’s Webmas…

When Google launched the EMD Update in September 2012, I assumed that it only impacted keyword rich domain names. Specifically, sites that target the keyword phrase in their primary domain…

Sometimes I don’t get it… I spotted a thread at BlackHat Forums about spinning articles – yes it is a black hat forum, but seriously.

Looking at the conversation that starts of by explaining that the SEO/Webmaster spun these articles the right way…..