A Black Hat Loses Everything & Thanks Matt Cutts For Improving Search Results
Sebastian Johnsson, a self proclaimed grey/black hat wrote an incredibly interesting story on his blog on how he started getting into the black/gray hat world of SEO…
Google Search App Adds Parking Reminders, Indoor Maps, In-Store Products & Offline Cards
Google announced on Google+ that the Android version of the Google Search App has been updated to support a bunch of new features, including reminding you where you parked your car.
When you park your car, Google may ask you, do you want to be reminde…
Google AdSense Cross Device Ad Unit Design Update
Google announced that they have launched a new default ad unit style that works better across all devices, mobile to desktop…
Google Inorganic Links For “DoFollow” Links
Google’s Eric Kuan from the Google spam team posted a response to one webmaster who said a competitor is spamming them with bad links and asked Google to provide examples of some bad links.
Eric did so in the Google Webmaster Help thread by showing a …
Google Image Search On Android Not Functioning Properly
There are dozens of reports in the Google Web Search Help forum and Android Central that Google Images is not working properly on specific Android phones and tablets…
The Head Of Matt Cutts Tells Us The Body Is Important Too
In a magical video where Google’s head of search spam, had his body removed all to make a point that the body of a page’s content is really important.
Yes, Matt actually removed his body, in a way to show just how important the body is…
Massive Google Webmaster Tools SSL Warnings?
This morning and yesterday, the webmaster forums started getting polluted with questions about Google Webmaster Tools issues and notifying them about SSL certificate errors.
In short, back in 2009, Google began notifying webmasters of security certif…
Is Google Ethical & Moral For Penalizing Webmasters? One SEO & Ethics PhD Says Absolutely Not.
Josh Bachynski is a name many folks who are involved in the SEO community, attend the conferences, are on Twitter or the forums…
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 30, 2014
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
Google Penalizing HARO Links…
Google Holds Webmaster Meetup At Google Taipei May 15th
Google posted on the Google+ webmaster channel, in Chinese…
Google AdSense Fraud Leak Seems Fake, Publishers Doubt It & Matt Cutts Calls B.S.
Last night, some anonymous person claiming to have worked in the Google AdSense department for “several years” posted a story named “Google AdSense Leak.” In where he describes…
Google Adds Examples For Deceptive Sneaky Redirects
Google announced they have updated two of their webmaster guidelines documents to better describe ways you should not use redirects to trick or manipulate Google’s search results.
The Sneaky redirects added examples…
Google+ Dying? Would That Impact Google’s Search Results?
There are many rumors around if Google+ is dying based around Vic leaving and some other stories…
Google Penalizing HARO Links? Not Really.
Bill Hartzer wrote that Google has targeted HARO, Help A Reporter, links in the latest manual action of unnatural links.
HARO links? Really? Would Google do that…
Scam Alert: FIFA & Gmail Promotion Awards
There is a new scam floating around the web, this one is being sent with the notification that FIFA and Gmail (Google) have a network promotion award and you have won $920…
Google AdWords Express Grants Expanded To 15 More Countries
Google announced on Google+ that they have expanded the Google AdWords Express Grants program to 15 new countries.
Google said they are excited to allow “more nonprofits across the world can now take advantage of AdWords Express to quickly and easily…
Google Index Status Count Drop After Update Line
Google’s John Mueller posted an excellent example of a case of where a webmaster is nervous about a report in Google Webmaster Tools, when in reality, all is good.
He posted this on Google+ and shared a screen shot by Jodi Bennett…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Anticipate The Query To Better Control Titles In Google
Google’s Matt Cutts posted a video explaining why and when Google may use something other than your title tag for the search results title snippet.
Matt Cutts suggested that it is best for your to try to anticipate what the user will search for when …
Google: No Snippets For You…
A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster upset Google is not picking up his markup and showing rich snippets for his site in Google’s search results.
Google’s Zineb responded that Google doesn’t show rich snippets for all sites, even if there …
Google: No Limit To The Number Of Links You Can Have On A Page
Since 2008 we’ve known Google stopped their 100 links per page limit. Last year, Matt Cutts posted a video answer on that topic as well.
While Google has said they don’t have a 100 link limit anymore…