Google’s Matt Cutts Tells Webmaster The Penguin Algorithm Is Impacting Rankings
It seems like Google is on a trend of telling webmasters which algorithms are impacting their site the most, at least in a negative way…
Johannes Kepler German Astronomer Celebrated With Google Doodle
On select Google home pages, you will see a special animated GIF Doodle, Google logo, for the 442nd birthday of the life of Johannes Kepler. Johannes Kepler was a astronomer, astrologer and mathematician who was born on December 27, 1571 in Weil der …
Google’s Matt Cutts: Don’t Copy Wikipedia Content & Expect To Rank Well
A Google Webmaster Help has Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, giving advice to a webmaster. The advice, don’t copy content from Wikipedia and expect to rank well.
The truth is…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Expired Domains With Penalties Last For…
We know manual actions expire but what about algorithmic actions, do they expire?
When you pick up a new domain name, you now need to look to see if it had a bad history. We know expired domains can either benefit you, do nothing for you, or seriously …
Black Hats Prepare To Spam Google’s Author Authority Algorithm
For the past six-months, Google has been working on an algorithm to promote authorities on topics.
In short, Google is going to try to figure out which authors or individuals are authorities on a specific topic and promote their content across any sit…
PlugRush Adult Ad Network Might Harm Your Google Rankings
As I said, Googlers were spam fighting over Christmas and it is interesting to see Matt Cutts chime in on the forums. In fact, I believe he is most active in the Google forums on holidays.
That being said…
Where Is The Kwanzaa In Google’s Happy Holidays Logo
Today, the third-day in a row, Google has a happy holidays logo, this one is more wintery and snowy, with a winter cabin look. But today is not Christmas, it is the day after Christmas…
Google: Sitemaps Do Not Guarantee Indexing
This is likely obvious to most the readers here but it is simple, submitting an XML sitemap to Google does not mean the pages in that sitemap will be fully indexed…
Rap Genius’ Link Scheme Goes Public Leading To Google Penalty
John Marbach outed Rap Genius for masking a link building scheme as an affiliate program. Right before Christmas, Matt Cutts posted first on Hacker News and then on Twitter that Google is looking into it. A day later…
Google Christmas Spam Fighting & Webmaster Support
Google representatives have been in the webmaster forums helping webmasters with their SEO and webmaster related questions all Christmas eve and day.
There are dozens of threads that Google’s John Mueller has responded to both on Christmas eve and day…
Did Google’s Happy Holidays Logo Get More Christmasy With ‘Tis The Season
With all the complaints this year and last year with Google’s Happy Holidays logos, Google may have decided to change it up a bit…
Christmas Day Logos From The Search Industry (2013 Edition)
Yesterday I promised to catalog the Christmas Day logos from the search industry, when I documented the Christmas eve logos. Some of the logos did not change from day to day…
Christmas Eve Logos From The Search Industry (2013 Edition)
Happy Christmas, or Happy Holidays as Google would say, to all our readers. As we do every year, I wanted to share the various logos from around the search community for Christmas Eve.
Tomorrow I will post the Christmas Day logos but here are Christm…
Google Sharing More About What Their Algorithms Think
About a month ago, we reported that Googlers indeed know if a site is impacted by an algorithm or not – not just if a site is impacted by a manual action…
Google’s Happy Holidays Doodle More Christian Friendly This Year?
As you know, Google’s Happy Holidays logos are up today, but for Christmas Eve here and Christmas Day (in Australia now).
Last year, there was huge firestorm about the logo being hurtful to Christians. Why…
When You Have Bad Links Impacting Your Google Rankings, Which Do You Remove?
I see this all the time, a forum thread, where a webmaster knows his rankings are suffering in Google because he was hit by Penguin because he has a lot of really bad…
Google’s Happy Holidays Logos Start Going Live
Google has started to post their Happy Holidays series of Google Doodles today, well, tomorrow but today is tomorrow in Australia. On the 24th of December…
Ok Google Is Not Okay! It’s Spelled Wrong.
A Google Web Search Help thread has a couple of searchers who are upset with Google’s use of English. Specifically in their marketing and use of “Ok Google” for the hot word to trigger a search. They want Google to spell it either “OK Google” or “Ok…
Google Fetch As Googlebot Won’t Crawl When Site Is Too Slow
A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster complaining his site isn’t being crawled by Google and isn’t showing up in the search results. The reason…
Google: Is Amazon Spamming Google With Footer Links?
Remember, the warning from Google’s Matt Cutts on linking too many sites together using footer links and keyword rich anchor text…