Google Webmaster Tools Reporting Stalled
Many many webmasters are complaining in the Google Webmaster Help forums that the reporting in Google Webmaster Tools specifically for the “Crawl Errors” section is stalled, delayed and not updating…
Google: Awesome Sites Are Better Than Perfect SEO’ed Sites
When it comes to SEO, I often meet two types of webmasters. The ones that know nothing about how search engines work and the ones that obsess over the smallest SEO concerns. There is often never a balance…
Watch Out For Google Rich Snippet Hacking
There are two reports in the Google Webmaster Help of webmasters noticing that the schema aka rich snippet details show third-party data and links in the rich snippet testing tool…
Google’s Cutts Say Search Flux Not Meant To Trick SEOs?
Several months ago we covered discussion around a patent document filed by Google named ranking documents…
Exact Match Domainers: Are You Switching Or Improving?
Several months ago, Google launched the Google EMD Update that went after “low-quality exact-match domains in search results,” according to Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts.
Since then…
Ask Google’s Matt Cutts Your Webmaster Questions
Google’s Matt Cutts has published over 500 videos in the past four years – most of them answering questions related to SEO or webmaster topics. The questions aren’t made up out of the blue, they come from SEOs and Webmasters asking Matt these question…
Google: Stop Repeating The Same Keyword Over & Over Again
A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster asking why Google isn’t ranking his seven year old web site.
Google’s John Mueller said that he is over doing it with the web site…
Google: Don’t Redirect All Mobile Users To A Single Page
There are two types of people reading this right now, (1) those who are like me and cannot stand when this happens and (2) those who really don’t know it is an issue.
What am I talking about…
Ignore That Last Google Webmaster Tools Notification: Googlebot CAN Access Your Site
In the past twenty-four hours, it seems as if Google sent out a message to thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of site owners, that there is a problem with their site.
Typically, you never ever want to ignore a webmaster tools notification but in …
Google Has Manually Penalized Mozilla
Mozilla.org, the non-profit organization behind Firefox, Thunderbird and tons of developer oriented tools, was penalized by Google.
Christopher More, Mozilla’s Web Production Manager, posted the details of the penalty in the Google Webmaster Help foru…
Google To Mozilla: You Had 12 Megabytes Of User Generated Spam On One Page
Yesterday we broke the news that Google has penalized Mozilla for user generated spam and we did say it was a granular penalty but we didn’t know how granular until today.
It turns out, the penalty was on one specific page…
Happy Birthday Google’s Penguin Update
Today is the one year birthday/anniversary of the release of Google’s Penguin update – it was released on April 24, 2012.
Since then, we’ve had two additional updates of it on May 24, 2012 and then on October 5, 2012. Now we await the fourth update whi…
Google Will Send Notifications To WWW & Non-WWW Webmaster Tools Accounts
Google’s Matt Cutts said in the ongoing Mozilla penalty discussion at Google Webmaster Help that Google will generally send the webmaster tools notification to both the non-WWW and WWW verified Google Webmaster Tools account.
Matt Cutts said the reaso…
Google Authorship Snippet Drops More By… Link
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…
Can User Generated Comments Cause A Google Penalty
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…
Google: Pushing Hundreds Of Thousands Of Pages Can Raise A Red Flag
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…
My Google Traffic After My Linking Penalty Was Lifted
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…
Google: Disavow Links Even If Removed As A Best Practice
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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Poll: Blocking Google Images After Image Search Traffic Drop?
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…
Does Google Want SEOs To Overreact?
An interesting thread at WebmasterWorld is asking SEOs to take a step back…