Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Google’s Matt Cutts posted a video explaining that the bold and strong HTML tags are treated the same for ranking and SEO purposes.

He is surprised people still use bold over strong but from an SEO and ranking perspective…

There are several reports in the Google Webmaster Help forums and WebmasterWorld, as well as twitter, email and other reports I’ve seen…

It is rare for Google to admit they are wrong, at least with search quality. Part of the complaints with the Google stock price and questioning if the stock price matches Google’s quality product these days…..

Guest blogging has been a large topic over the past couple years in the SEO space…

A common issue I see with the Google results are the number of Yelp results a Google search can return for a local type of keyword phrase.

It has been going on for well over a year. I even wrote about it when discussing Google’s domain diversity…
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I don’t get it and this happens from time to time. A site owner is upset his site is not ranking well. He goes onto the Google Webmaster Help forums to complain and a Googler comes in and outs his practices…

Google’s John Mueller posted in a Stack Exchange thread that responsive design doesn’t give you a ranking boost.
Yes, Google does officially recommend responsive as the approach to going mobile. But going responsive…

Google’s John Mueller said in black and white in a Google Webmaster Help thread that using Google Translate to translate your whole site, is the same thing as “auto-generated content.”

This should come to no surprise to anyone here…