Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Google’s 2.0 Penguin update went live over 3 months ago and we ran a poll shortly after asking how many of you were impacted by this Penguin update.

We had almost 1…

I see many threads with complaints, excitement, sadness and fear in the forums. Most have to do with Google rankings. It goes like this… The webmaster says something like, “my rankings and traffic from Google tanked,” now I look and I have…
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Google launched the data highlighter tool in December to make it easier for website owners to add rich snippet data to their web pages. Google last added six new data types a few months ago to the tool and now has added support for book reviews…
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Last week, we reported on a situation where Google said a link to a site was unnatural and thus the site still has a penalty but the truth is, the link was indeed natural and as natural as it gets…

Google’s disavow tool launched almost a year ago and has been a very common topic amongst the SEO and webmaster community since…

I see a lot of different web sites, with a lot of different problems. From manual actions, to huge drops after a major algorithm update, to hacked sites…

Last night, Matt Cutts tweeted that he is working up several “ghost-related puns for a spam network.”

I suspect they are working on targeting more and more link and spam networks and it is thus on his mind…