Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Google has quietly changes the authorship snippet within the search results. Google has removed the “more by” author link, which was added in 2011 and has changed the click behavior of some of the links in the authorship snippet…

There is this theory going around by “giveaway bloggers” that non-spammy comments can cause a Google penalty. You can read about it over here and over here – where you can see that an SEO told this site that they are penalized in Google because of the…

As I covered at Search Engine Land yesterday, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a video answer to a question Google’s John Mueller asked named Should I add an archive of hundreds of thousands of pages all at once or in stages…

As promised, I wanted to share my traffic changes after I’ve nofollowed my paid links. I already shared with you the interesting reconsideration request submission, response and analysis…

A Google Webmaster Help thread has Google’s John Mueller implying that it may be “good practice” to list the sites and URLs in your disavow file even if they links were removed and especially if you simply requested the webmaster to remove them…
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In late January, Google launched a new design change for Google Image search. Google said they’ve “seen a net increase in the average click-through rate to the hosting website.”

But webmasters are not seeing that or believing that…

An interesting thread at WebmasterWorld is asking SEOs to take a step back…