Category: Search Engine Roundtable

When Google launched the EMD Update in September 2012, I assumed that it only impacted keyword rich domain names. Specifically, sites that target the keyword phrase in their primary domain…

Sometimes I don’t get it… I spotted a thread at BlackHat Forums about spinning articles – yes it is a black hat forum, but seriously.

Looking at the conversation that starts of by explaining that the SEO/Webmaster spun these articles the right way…..

There has always been a lot of discussion around the topic of conversion rates and if that impacts your Google rankings. Of course, the correlation versus causation item is on the top of ones mind when discussing such topics.
But I wanted to share with…

Google has confirmed the complaints about authorship not showing in the search results. They said this is a bug that is impacting a “very few sites” in their index. The fix should be out eventually, as they are working on it…

Should you redirect a site that has a Google penalty to a site that does not have a penalty…

Yesterday at Search Engine Land I covered a video answer from Google’s Matt Cutts on the topic of duplicate content.

In short, should you worry about having duplicate content on your site or not. The short answer…

Joe Hall on Threadwatch highlights a post by Jacob King on how Google Ventures, Google’s investment arm, has a big investment in one of the largest coupon sites on the internet – a site that gets the majority of their traffic from Google organic sear…

As you know, Google pushed out a new Panda update last week, that was “more finely targeted.” I suggested this was the softer Panda release that we’ve been expecting but Google didn’t use those words…