Category: Search Engine Roundtable

There are two types of people reading this right now, (1) those who are like me and cannot stand when this happens and (2) those who really don’t know it is an issue.

What am I talking about…

In the past twenty-four hours, it seems as if Google sent out a message to thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of site owners, that there is a problem with their site.

Typically, you never ever want to ignore a webmaster tools notification but in …

Mozilla.org, the non-profit organization behind Firefox, Thunderbird and tons of developer oriented tools, was penalized by Google.

Christopher More, Mozilla’s Web Production Manager, posted the details of the penalty in the Google Webmaster Help foru…

Yesterday we broke the news that Google has penalized Mozilla for user generated spam and we did say it was a granular penalty but we didn’t know how granular until today.

It turns out, the penalty was on one specific page…

Today is the one year birthday/anniversary of the release of Google’s Penguin update – it was released on April 24, 2012.
Since then, we’ve had two additional updates of it on May 24, 2012 and then on October 5, 2012. Now we await the fourth update whi…

Google’s Matt Cutts said in the ongoing Mozilla penalty discussion at Google Webmaster Help that Google will generally send the webmaster tools notification to both the non-WWW and WWW verified Google Webmaster Tools account.

Matt Cutts said the reaso…

Google has quietly changes the authorship snippet within the search results. Google has removed the “more by” author link, which was added in 2011 and has changed the click behavior of some of the links in the authorship snippet…