Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

The Guardian, a huge UK newspaper, posted a story named How the Guardian successfully moved domain to www.theguardian.com.

Yes, The Guardian migrated content from www.guardian.co.uk, m.guardian.co.uk or www.guardiannews.com to one domain name…
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Over the past couple weeks there has been a lot of people reporting large brands being penalized by Google and the question has come up if search sites should cover these penalties or not.

Our policy, if the search community is talking about it in a …

A Google Webmaster Help thread has someone complaining that his site’s rankings dropped and the one thing he noticed was that his home page and 56 other pages are indexed in Google with the https version…

Google’s John Muller said in a webmaster hangout on Friday that GoogleBot will follow up to five redirects at the same time, past that, you are probably out of luck.

I don’t believe we had a number, a solid number, on how many redirects Google will fo…

Yesterday, Google’s John Mueller, Maile Ohye, and Joachim Kupke co-authored a technical blog post on the Google Webmaster Blog on how to make infinite scroll pages more search engine friendly…

Earlier this week, we reported about widespread reports of mass impression drops within Google Webmaster Tools. It was so widespread that it had to be a Google bug.

The weird part was, no Google response. Nothing from them saying, we know…

Yesterday we broke the news that Google added that you should not block Google ads within the technical requirements within Google’s Webmaster Guidelines.

It seems Google has pulled the new line completely from their guidelines…

Yesterday, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a long video describing what the typical day is like for a Google spam fighter…

Google’s Developer Programs Tech Lead, Maile Ohye and Crawl Team, Mehmet Aktuna wrote a detailed blog post on best practices for faceted navigation…

A new update has been made to the Google webmaster guidelines document…

The other day, Google’s Matt Cutts posted a video answering if poor grammar in comments hurts the page’s rankings. In short, the answer is no – bad or poor grammar does not hurt your rankings if done in comments…

I was almost floored reading a post at High Rankings Forum from an “SEO expert” who explained how Google has crippled SEO companies and is driving them into “the dreaded adwords…

There are many reports both in the Google Webmaster Help forums and WebmasterWorld reporting major drops in the number of impressions reported within the search queries report in Google Webmaster Tools…

You’ve all seen it, parking signs that are so confusing that sometimes you wonder, is the local government trying to mislead you…

Webmasters are asking themselves the same questions about Google…

There is this ultra-orthodox religious Jewish magazine named Ami Magazine, I was actually profiled in it a few months ago. The interesting part is that when you Google the name, [ami magazine]…

A webmaster posted an issue in the Google Webmaster Help forums with the Google URL Removal tool.

In short, the site he is working on was hacked. He is using the tool to manually remove the hacked pages from Google, one by one…

WebmasterWorld moderator, Greg Niland, posted a thread at WebmasterWorld on the topic of Google dropping links from their ranking algorithm…

Folks on Google+ noticed that Google+ has recently began nofollow many of the links in your profile by default.

So if you visit my profile page on Google+, the section where it says “Links”, most of those, if not all, seem to be nofollowed…

Rich snippet spam has been an issue since rich snippets came out and eventually added a report rich snippet spam tool. Then Google dropped the amount of rich snippets showing in the search results recently…

Yesterday, Google posted a stern warning on the German Google Webmaster blog telling webmasters that you will be penalized for unnatural links.
Matt Cutts then Tweeted the same warning saying A reminder…