Category: Search Engine Roundtable

There is this fundamental truth when it comes to GoogleBot, treat it like you would all your other users.

So when someone created a new WordPress plugin named WP-Shabbat, he got into some trouble.

The WordPress plugin shuts down the web site to use…

In Google Webmaster Help there is a straight forward question and answer about how to handle M-dot (i.e. m.domain.com sites in Google Webmaster Tools.

In short, an M-dot is a separate site and should be verified separately in Google Webmaster Tools……

This is your opportunity to give Google your two-cents on the features and issues you have with Google Webmaster Tools.

I blew up about it the other day where I asked in a nice way for Google to add a feature named automated actions to Google Webmaste…

One of the most basic reasons Google or any search engine won’t index and rank a web page is because you won’t allow them to.

Either the spiders cannot access the site due to technical issues or you are explicitly instructing them to not enter your s…

Matt Cutts posted a video answering the question “Should I use the disavow tool even if there’s not a manual action on my site?”

The short answer is yes. But when…

An old WebmasterWorld member posted in the WebmasterWorld forums that he had enough…

I spotted a very interested comment by Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts at Hacker News. The obvious comment is that Matt Cutts outs thecupcakeblog.com as being impacted in a negative way by the Panda algorithm…