Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Google authorship rich snippets are everywhere these days and they supposedly do help increase traffic to your web site by improving the visibility of your listing in the search results. But can they help you rank higher…

There is an interesting discussion going on in the Google Webmaster Help forums between an old community site that is supposedly heavily moderated and Google. It is long but in summary…

Yesterday, Search Engine Watch published a story that was a bit outdated. What they eventually did was redirect the story to an older story which said the same thing.

In short…

In December 2012, Google launched a data highlighter tool that aided more novice webmasters in creating structure data for use in the rich snippets in Google’s search results.

Google announced that they added more data types support to that tool…
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Google’s Jens O. Meiert and Tony Ruscoe posted on the Google Webmaster Blog 6 quick tips for international web sites.

This is a topic we covered a lot and honestly is somewhat foreign (pun) to me.

The 6 tips in short are:

1. Make pages I18N-ready …

Last week I wrote about How Do You Uncover Your Spammy Links? There I said, when you want to disavow links or have them removed, using Google Webmaster Tools link report is probably not enough. You probably need to use third party tools as well.
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A WebmasterWorld thread asks the question, is having too many internal links with the same anchor text something you have to worry about post Penguin 2…

Alex Yumashev wrote a blog post about how authorship lead to a drop in traffic from Google to his site.

He said he noticed this when Google sent him a warning that his traffic suddenly dropped. He noticed his authorship showed up for a specific bl…