Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Brian Fitzpatrick, a software engineer manager at Google, posted on Twitter a screen shot of NBCNews.com not being indexed properly by Google.

He wrote…

21 months ago, Google launched the disavow tool and SEOs have been eating it up.

This comes despite Google informing us it can harm your site if used wrong, but not when others disavow your site.

However…

Greg Niland, aka goodroi, posted a thread in WebmasterWorld explaining that money management is vital in your long term SEO success.

Greg said, “having good SEO results in Google actually requires smart money management…

Google has said this before but it is always comforting hearing them say this multiple ways.

Google’s Zineb Ait Bahajji said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that if done correctly…

It has been exactly 297 days since the last official Penguin update, Penguin 2.1, which was on October 4th. That means it has almost been 10 months since the last update.
10 months of waiting for those hit hard by the Penguin algorithm. 10 months of ha…

A WebmasterWorld thread asks the question most SEOs and Webmasters have asked themselves but are too afraid to ask out loud…..

Last night, Google pushed out a new and major local search ranking algorithm change. Where Google provided details for me on this update. This is not really a spam change but more of a fundamental change to the local search ranking algorithm.

A discussion forum administrator posted questions about how to improve his forum in the eyes of Google, the question was posted in a Google Webmaster Help forum and Google’s John Mueller responded to it in detail…

A Black Hat World forum thread asks if Google’s algorithms work the same in all the various countries throughout the world.

The quick answer is no…