Googlers Working On New Years Day Also
Just like on Christmas, Googlers were working throughout New Years Day.
Truth is, I don’t think any were working publicly in the support forums New Years Eve, I may be wrong. But we had Zineb Ait Bahajji and Gary Illyes both active New Years day in t…
Google: You Must Wait A Few Weeks To Submit A Reconsideration Requests
We know Google doesn’t like it when you submit a new reconsideration request a day or two after you get a rejection response from your reconsideration request. They want to see you put effort in after you get that response…
Forum Owner: I Was Hit By Pure Spam But It Should Be User-Generated Spam
So we know Google has penalized sites that accept user generared content, such as Mozilla…
SMX Israel: My Two Presentations On 2013/2014 & Predictive Search
I and my volunteer advisor team have been working incredibly hard on putting together an awesome SMX Israel on January 26th in Jerusalem. The agenda is complete and the speakers are 95% finalized…
New Year 2014 Logos From Google, Yahoo & Others
Happy 2014 everyone, wishing you a happy, healthy and successful New Year 2014! I deeply hope all of you have much success, happiness and good health…
Google Not Indexing Your Sitemap URLs? Might Be A Canonical Issue
A Google Webmaster Help thread has a webmaster all upset that Google shows that they have indexed none of the URLs they submitted via the XML Sitemap file. Obviously, this can be concerning to any webmaster.
The thing is…
Top Search Stories Of 2013: Penguin, Panda, Other Google Updates & Search Logos
I normally hate posting the top stories recap of the year, since I spend a heck of a lot of timing hand-selecting what I think the most important stories for the year were when I do my anniversary post but here it is…
New Year’s Eve 2013 From Google, Yahoo, Bing & Dogpile
Today is New Year’s Eve 2013 and some of the search engines are getting ready for the party by posting special logos, Doodles, themes and creatives for the special day…
Google: It’s Hard To Recognize Your Large Photos Because Of Your JavaScript Links
A webmaster is upset that his images aren’t being indexed from his site. He posted a complaint in the Google Webmaster Help forums…
Google: Don’t Change Your URLs For SEO Purposes
Google’s John Mueller responded to a question in the Google Webmaster Help forums about changing a site’s URL structure completely…
Google Engineers Take Offense To Dilbert On Arrogance
See that Dilbert cartoon about Google engineers on the 27th, if not, here it is above.
As you can see, it conveys a stereotype that Google engineers are arrogant. Truthfully, many engineers come off as arrogant, so I doubt it is just a Google enginee…
Medical Sites Caught Google Handed Buying Links
Gary Illyes, a Google Webmaster Trends Analyst for Google Switzerland, who was recruited back in 2011, responded to a few threads over the holiday break. Here are two medical related sites that are complaining they don’t get traffic from Google…
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To Survive You Must Give Google Your Structure Content & Data?
Greg Niland, aka GoodROI, posted a thread at WebmasterWorld arguing that if you do not hand over your data and content to Google in a structure format, then you will die a slow death…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: December 27, 2013
Hope everyone had a nice Christmas holiday! This week, Google penalized Rap Genius for link schemes after
Google’s Matt Cutts Tells Webmaster The Penguin Algorithm Is Impacting Rankings
It seems like Google is on a trend of telling webmasters which algorithms are impacting their site the most, at least in a negative way…
Johannes Kepler German Astronomer Celebrated With Google Doodle
On select Google home pages, you will see a special animated GIF Doodle, Google logo, for the 442nd birthday of the life of Johannes Kepler. Johannes Kepler was a astronomer, astrologer and mathematician who was born on December 27, 1571 in Weil der …
Google’s Matt Cutts: Don’t Copy Wikipedia Content & Expect To Rank Well
A Google Webmaster Help has Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, giving advice to a webmaster. The advice, don’t copy content from Wikipedia and expect to rank well.
The truth is…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Expired Domains With Penalties Last For…
We know manual actions expire but what about algorithmic actions, do they expire?
When you pick up a new domain name, you now need to look to see if it had a bad history. We know expired domains can either benefit you, do nothing for you, or seriously …
Black Hats Prepare To Spam Google’s Author Authority Algorithm
For the past six-months, Google has been working on an algorithm to promote authorities on topics.
In short, Google is going to try to figure out which authors or individuals are authorities on a specific topic and promote their content across any sit…
PlugRush Adult Ad Network Might Harm Your Google Rankings
As I said, Googlers were spam fighting over Christmas and it is interesting to see Matt Cutts chime in on the forums. In fact, I believe he is most active in the Google forums on holidays.
That being said…