Category: Search Engine Roundtable

There is an interesting thread that I am not sure if I am looking into too much. The Google Webmaster Help thread has a representative from Rasmussen College complaining that his business management degree page no longer ranks well in Google. Now that…

Kenichi Suzuki notified me via Google+ that Google has updated the link schemes guideline page. Specifically making the widget links section more specific and less general…

Let me get you up to speed… In October, Matt Cutts said there will be a 15% reduction in authority to only show authorship and rich…

Duplicate content is a fun topic in the SEO space because Google says don’t worry about it because 30% of the web is duplicative. Google deals with it. But all good SEOs know…

The other day, Matt Cutts of Google released a 10 minute video on YouTube explaining the how search works page Google launched in March 2013.

Matt said a few relevant things that you may have not noticed before…

Google’s Maile Ohye announced yesterday improvements to how Google reports on search queries for web sites that run their mobile sites on a separate URL. Such as on m.example.com or example.mobil or so forth…

If you visit your Google Webmaster Tools Search Queries report, you will see an “update” line across the graph. When you place your cursor over the update, it reads…

A Google Webmaster Help thread has dozens of webmasters complaining about not being able to verify their web sites.

The first report came in yesterday afternoon. The webmaster said…

You know the search queries report in Google Webmaster Tools? Of course you do…

A Google Webmaster Help thread has an office furniture site complaining that his Google rankings dropped after the Hummingbird update was pushed out.

Of course…

Despite it being the month of December, which normally means it is slow, it was a pretty busy month. The past week or so has been dead, so not much to report in the first week of January…

Zemanta is a content discovery platform, they have a popular WordPress plugin that helps bloggers find related posts and related images while you write your post.

It does mention a bit on links on the plugin page:

Link Love by linking to other blogge…

Google has said time to time that having some unique content, even if it is a few sentences of unique content may be enough.

So when Gary Illyes from Google responded to a thread at Google Webmaster Help – his response stood out…