Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

There has always been a lot of discussion around the topic of conversion rates and if that impacts your Google rankings. Of course, the correlation versus causation item is on the top of ones mind when discussing such topics.
But I wanted to share with…

Google has confirmed the complaints about authorship not showing in the search results. They said this is a bug that is impacting a “very few sites” in their index. The fix should be out eventually, as they are working on it…

Should you redirect a site that has a Google penalty to a site that does not have a penalty…

Yesterday at Search Engine Land I covered a video answer from Google’s Matt Cutts on the topic of duplicate content.

In short, should you worry about having duplicate content on your site or not. The short answer…

Joe Hall on Threadwatch highlights a post by Jacob King on how Google Ventures, Google’s investment arm, has a big investment in one of the largest coupon sites on the internet – a site that gets the majority of their traffic from Google organic sear…

As you know, Google pushed out a new Panda update last week, that was “more finely targeted.” I suggested this was the softer Panda release that we’ve been expecting but Google didn’t use those words…

Every wonder what the analytics and impression charts look like when you recover from a Panda update…

Yesterday, Google’s Matt Cutts posted a video answer to the question “If I have 20 domains, should I link them all together?”
The short answer is, most likely no – you should not link them all together.

Google announced their next spam target are those who are implementing manipulative browser history techniques to trick the user to thinking they are on Google’s search results, when in reality…

Joe Hall posted at Threadwatch that Google may have penalized TechCrunch, one of the most popular blogs on the internet.
He looked at SEM Rush and Search Metrics data

A Google Webmaster Help thread has a webmaster who made his site responsive. Meaning, he made his site mobile/smartphone friendly through the responsive design approach. The responsive design approach is Google’s recommendation…

A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion around one word – the word “useful.”

Netmeg said it in a thread and senior member…

Whenever you hear a Googler talk about SEO or the ranking algorithm, SEOs tear apart each word. Now, when Matt Cutts talks, it is a billion times worse.

Eric Enge interview Matt Cutts…

The topic of how Google handles downtime and how that may impact your rankings in Google’s search results is nothing new. In short, short periods of downtime, even a day…

A webmaster noticed his rankings and traffic from Google sharpely declined after the Penguin 2.0 release and decided to ask about it in the Google Webmaster Help forums.

The webmaster said they noticed a “sudden drop in rankings for branded” right aft…

WebmasterWorld moderator, goodROI, posted a thread at WebmasterWorld asking SEOs and webmasters to share “what method(s) do you use to formulate your SEO strategy?”

In short…

A WebmasterWorld thread is having renewed discussion around an old debate on does the size of a web site matter in Google.

There is no doubt, the more pages you have on your web site, the more chances you have to rank for more keyword phrases…
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A webmaster posted in the WebmasterWorld forums that he received a manual spam notification for “unnatural links” from Google on June 27th. He cleaned things up and quickly submitted a reconsideration request…

It has been almost 7 weeks since the Penguin 2.0 update was released by Google. We know over 50% of our readers said they were hit by this Penguin 2.0 update.

We also know…

A WebmasterWorld thread brings up a topic that came out of SMX Advanced a month or so ago on something Google’s head of search spam…