Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

I hate being in over packed elevators, don’t you? Now, imagine if the elevator comfortably fits 8 people…

I am surprised this topic has not come up more often in the SEO forums – the topic of being able to test the Google Disavow Tool but uploading a file, waiting, removing links…

Over the past several months, there has been a quiet but repetitive topic taking place in the Google forums. A recent one was started by loupiote, who said “a couple of weeks ago, I have demoted the link yet…

Google has announced a clean up of Google Webmaster Tools, where they reorganized the left hand navigation menu…

Just in case anyone had any questions about Google’s disavow tool being able to help those hit by Penguin, Matt Cutts said the tool can help with Penguin…

The Google Disavow Tool is probably one of the more talked about webmaster functions in the past few months. New questions come up about it every day.

Martin Macdonald âasked Google’s Matt Cutts on Twitter if Google had “any plans to allow wildcard disavows” like they do for the robots…

I am not sure that Matt Cutts will enjoy this too much but hey, if you ever see him at an SEO convention, it may appear as if he is a god…

Tuesday we reported that Google quietly dropped the ~tilde operator due to lack of use.

The operator helped searches find synonymous, a form of expanding your query. It was primarily used by librarians and also SEMs looking for keyword research ideas…

Google is now inviting webmasters to try out the new Webmaster Tools structured data error reports.

I signed up for the beta a few weeks ago and was invited yesterday to check out the reports. Fortunately for me, but unfortunately for you…

About nine days ago Webmasters started noticing an issue with the link report within Google Webmaster Tools. Then the issue grew and more and more webmasters noticed a bug in Webmaster Tools where the link count dropped significantly from what Google …

Two of my favorite Google Search Quality folks, Kaspar Szymanski and Uli Lutz…

I know I am not the prettiest guy in the world or even in the SEO space – probably very far from it – but why would Google drop my authorship image for this site…

As I reported yesterday at Search Engine Land with Google Changes Ranking Advice, Says Build Quality Sites Not Links – Google made a change to their messaging on the ranking article help document. This was first spotted by @Baeumlisberger and it is an…

Google’s Matt Cutts latest video answers a quick question, “does using stock photos on your pages have a negative effect on rankings…

A featured WebmasterWorld thread has an emotional but powerful post from a Webmaster who has been creating web sites for over 15 years. In fact, he joined WebmasterWorld as a member back on March 4, 2003, so he has been around a long time…

Last Wednesday we reported complaints in the forums of webmasters noticing their links are dropping within Google Webmaster Tools. In short, the links shown in Google Webmaster Tools today versus two weeks ago was a fraction of the number.

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As you probably remember, Google launched a new spam algorithm to target spammy queries such as payday loans. It had a serious impact on spammers from what I see, which I will cover right after this story…

Normally it is Googlers defending Google on Hacker News but Ryan Moulton, a software engineer at Google since 2006, who I think works on the Google search team, is defending SEO and the SEO business on Hacker News.
In short, a blogger called out an ema…

In January 2012, Google announced the page layout penalty and then updated it in October 2012, it basically sets to penalize sites with too many ads, too much in the way of your organic content…

There are new reports surfacing of a bug in Google Webmaster Tools…