Category: Search Engine Roundtable

We have discussed people charging fees to do link removals several times but Google’s John Mueller said you shouldn’t have to pay for your links to be removed – instead just use the disavow tool…

This is more of a theoretical question… So last week we covered how Google will use unlinked URLs for discovery. I.e. If I list out a url, like www.bigbluepineapplechart.com/unlinked.html…

A Google Webmaster Help thread has an interesting question, does Google use QR codes for discovering new content and pages…

Google can be very picky about the type of photo they show in their authorship rich snippets. They want the photo to be recognizable and they have many more guidelines…

I’ll be honest, I am still confused on this. The other day, I reported on how an ex-Googler who worked in the web spam team…

Yesterday, Google announced they have immensely improved the linkage data from Google Webmaster Tools “links to your site” export option for “download sample links…

I apologize for missing this a week ago, when I was sitting in the Google hangout where Google’s John Mueller went on record that Google uses unlinked URLs or domains in body content as a way of discovering new content and pages.

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Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a video on what to do if you think your site may have been impacted in a bad bad way by the Panda algorithm.

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