Rap Genius Back After 10-Day Penalty
Over Christmas, Rap Genius was penalized by Google for unnatural links. In short, they offered an exchange of traffic for keyword rich links to their site. It was outed, Google’s Matt Cutts saw it, it lead to a manual action that had a serious impact o…
UserInteraction Schema For SEO & Social?
A WebmasterWorld thread has a webmaster who asked if Google will give him a boost because one piece of his content on his site hit over 1,000 Facebook likes.
It is one of those weird questions that makes you nod your head sideways. Why?
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: January 3, 2014
It was a slow week in search, being New Years and all but we still covered some fun topics. Do you need to use structure data to survive in search…
Spammers Cold Calling Local Businesses – Claiming They Need To Update Their Business Listings
Baruch Labunski from Rank Secure in Canada pinged me the other day asking me why I can’t stop the phone calls he is getting from spammers claiming implying they are from Google…
Google: Can’t Crawl Your Robots.txt Then We Stop Crawling Your Site
Did you know that if Google cannot crawl your robots.txt file, that it will stop crawling your whole site…
Google Kills Location History Summary Dashboard
Google has dropped support for the location history dashboard. Alex Chitu first covered this explaining that the location history dashboard, that provides summaries of where you’ve been, has been discontinued…
Googlers Working On New Years Day Also
Just like on Christmas, Googlers were working throughout New Years Day.
Truth is, I don’t think any were working publicly in the support forums New Years Eve, I may be wrong. But we had Zineb Ait Bahajji and Gary Illyes both active New Years day in t…
Google: You Must Wait A Few Weeks To Submit A Reconsideration Requests
We know Google doesn’t like it when you submit a new reconsideration request a day or two after you get a rejection response from your reconsideration request. They want to see you put effort in after you get that response…
Forum Owner: I Was Hit By Pure Spam But It Should Be User-Generated Spam
So we know Google has penalized sites that accept user generared content, such as Mozilla…
SMX Israel: My Two Presentations On 2013/2014 & Predictive Search
I and my volunteer advisor team have been working incredibly hard on putting together an awesome SMX Israel on January 26th in Jerusalem. The agenda is complete and the speakers are 95% finalized…
New Year 2014 Logos From Google, Yahoo & Others
Happy 2014 everyone, wishing you a happy, healthy and successful New Year 2014! I deeply hope all of you have much success, happiness and good health…
Google Not Indexing Your Sitemap URLs? Might Be A Canonical Issue
A Google Webmaster Help thread has a webmaster all upset that Google shows that they have indexed none of the URLs they submitted via the XML Sitemap file. Obviously, this can be concerning to any webmaster.
The thing is…
Top Search Stories Of 2013: Penguin, Panda, Other Google Updates & Search Logos
I normally hate posting the top stories recap of the year, since I spend a heck of a lot of timing hand-selecting what I think the most important stories for the year were when I do my anniversary post but here it is…
New Year’s Eve 2013 From Google, Yahoo, Bing & Dogpile
Today is New Year’s Eve 2013 and some of the search engines are getting ready for the party by posting special logos, Doodles, themes and creatives for the special day…
Google: It’s Hard To Recognize Your Large Photos Because Of Your JavaScript Links
A webmaster is upset that his images aren’t being indexed from his site. He posted a complaint in the Google Webmaster Help forums…
Google: Don’t Change Your URLs For SEO Purposes
Google’s John Mueller responded to a question in the Google Webmaster Help forums about changing a site’s URL structure completely…
Google Engineers Take Offense To Dilbert On Arrogance
See that Dilbert cartoon about Google engineers on the 27th, if not, here it is above.
As you can see, it conveys a stereotype that Google engineers are arrogant. Truthfully, many engineers come off as arrogant, so I doubt it is just a Google enginee…
Medical Sites Caught Google Handed Buying Links
Gary Illyes, a Google Webmaster Trends Analyst for Google Switzerland, who was recruited back in 2011, responded to a few threads over the holiday break. Here are two medical related sites that are complaining they don’t get traffic from Google…
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To Survive You Must Give Google Your Structure Content & Data?
Greg Niland, aka GoodROI, posted a thread at WebmasterWorld arguing that if you do not hand over your data and content to Google in a structure format, then you will die a slow death…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: December 27, 2013
Hope everyone had a nice Christmas holiday! This week, Google penalized Rap Genius for link schemes after