Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

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……

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…