Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Google announced early this morning that they are now using SSL/HTTPS as a ranking signal in their Google search algorithm.

The signal is incredibly weak and webmasters should not go crazy about it…

The University of California, Berkeley is having some issues with Google crawling, indexing…

Google Webmaster Tools already has special features for Google News publishers, like a separate view of the news indexing and processing details, as well as news specific errors…

When you submit a reconsideration request, Google notifies you they received it with a blanket message in Google Webmaster Tools. Now, supposedly, Google will also show you a copy of your submission via the reconsideration request form…

On Friday we reported on a refresh of the local search results, after the major Google Pigeon update a week or so before. Google basically told us they have nothing to say on this and likely will not provide future details on local search algorithm ch…

In December 2011, Google launched author stats, a way to see how your content, across sites, based on your Google Authorship profile, fared. That is now gone…

EGOL, a long time SEO and webmaster, posted in the Cre8asite Forums thread saying long tail traffic from Google “ain’t what it use to be.”

He said back in the day he would write an article and get more than twice the traffic he does now from a simila…

Around November 17, 2012, MetaFilter got nailed by a Google update that back then Google denied.

As we explained in March, Google was working on a way to fix the algorithm that hit them back in November 2012…

Google noted on their Google+ page that they are going to announce some “big news” around their Google Webmaster Academy.

The Google Webmaster Academy is a place you can go to learn the basics around making great web sites that world well with Google’…