Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Cyrus Shepard last week posted on Google+ that the big UK law firm was likely penalized by Google based on looking at:

(1) A recent large drop in traffic and search visibility as reported by Search Metrics and

(2) Irwin Mitchell’s web site no longer…

Earlier this week, Matt Cutts of Google, stuck a fork in guest blogging for links or SEO purposes.

Now we have guest bloggers asking in Google Webmaster Help forums if they should be disavowing…

Google announced that they are updating the name for the Googlebot-Mobile user-agent and that if you do any special directives for that user-agent…

Earlier this week, Expedia saw a 25% decline in search visibility by Google. Both Google and Expedia gave a no comment on what was going on – so we are left speculating.

Here is a question I never saw asked before – which is rare. A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster asking how Google handles the content within a strike or delete tag.

The tag is not supported in HTML5 and was replaced by the tag but t…

Yesterday Matt Cutts of Google released a video explaining that Google currently doesn’t do any fancy indexing or ranking for Facebook or Twitter pages. He also said that part of that is they don’t currently try to extract social data…

John Mueller from Google announced on the Google Webmaster Central blog that they’ve updated the crawl error reports specifically to handle better reporting on redirects.

In the past, Google reported the error observed at the end under of the first UR…