Category: Search Engine Roundtable

We know webmasters, especially those impacted by Penguin 2.1 are getting really anxious. It has been 11 months and 6 days since the last complex to refresh Penguin and it is taking them time.
Google confirmed a few newish items around Penguin and what …

This is probably old but I’ve never heard it before… If your news web site is rejected from Google News, you cannot resubmit it for inclusion again for a 60-day period.

A Google News Help thread has Google’s Stacie C. saying that in the thread…
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Just a few months ago, Google revamped Google Webmaster Academy as a resource for new webmasters to get acquainted with Google.

Now, Google is bringing that content to 22 other languages.

Google announced this on Google+ saying:

Today…

Google is pretty clear about not wanting to have search results listed in their search results, they have been since at least 2007. So why is Google indexing and ranking their own search results…

We know Google demotes non mobile friendly web sites in smartphone search results. But for some reason, there is a debate if Google gives a ranking boost to responsive design sites over other mobile formatted sites that deploy Google’s best practices….

Back in June, Google updated their site moving documentation drastically but webmasters questioned why Google specifically recommended using 302 redirects to communicate separate smartphone URLs from desktop URLs. Well that has changed…

In response to our story on Google confirming a Penguin refresh is needed to recover from Penguin, Google’s John Mueller added more context to his answer in the Google Webmaster Help thread.
In short, he made a few important points…

The last in the series of Google Reconsideration tips, all of stuff you all know…

For the readers here, this is probably very obvious, but @Marie_Haynes tells me, that it is not so obvious and it is “an issue many people argue about.” You cannot recover from a Penguin penalty (algorithm) if Google did not run the algorithm again.
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