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…
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…
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 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…
Google: Authorship Works With Google+ Vanity URLs
Once you get your authorship working, no one wants to mess around and change URLs. Some don’t like to mess around even if the authorship is not live in the search results…
Google’s URL/Content Removal Tool Now A Wizard
Google has updated their URL removal tool to make it easier and smarter to remove content specifically from third-party web sites…
Matt Cutts: Google Tries To Minimize Search Updates Before Holidays
I am not sure if you noticed but all the Google search results tracking tools flared up yesterday reporting major changes in the Google search results. You can see for yourself at MozCast, SERPs.com…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Ideally ccTLDs Should Have IP In Country
This is probably a topic we’ve covered a dozen times here but it is always nice to have an official video from Matt Cutts on the topic.
Matt said…
Did The Authorship Reduction In Google Begin?
In October, Matt Cutts of Google at PubCon announced there would likely be a 15% reduction in authorship being displayed in the Google search results. Since then, I haven’t seen many – I’ve seen some – complaints about authorship going away…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Our Algorithms Try To Break Black Hat SEOs Spirits
A couple weeks ago, Google’s Matt Cutts was on This Week in Google (TWiG) and on episode 227 Matt had some interesting things to say. He said that Google specifically tries to break the spirits of black hat SEOs…
Google: Duplicate Content Pollutes 25-30% Of The Web
We all know Google’s take on duplicate content, it is not spammy, it is not something they have penalties for unless you are being completely evil…
Anglo Rank Promises To Rebuild After Google Link Penalty
As many of you remember, Anglo Rank was penalized outwardly by Google, as Google keeps targeting more and more link networks.
Shortly after, some customers began receiving Google penalties and the owner of Anglo Rank has been reversing link orders s…
Backlinks.com: The Next Link Network Penalized By Google
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, publicly outed on Twitter another link network that Google has penalized. Matt Cutts’ new trend is the share a link from the marketing material of the link network and then add a word or two to say the opposit…
Google: It’s Not About How Much Or How Many…
Google’s John Mueller gave the typical Google line at this Google Webmaster Help there – quality over quantity…
Google Structured Data Dashboard Adds Error Reports
In the middle of this year, Google released the Structured Data Dashboard for Google Webmaster Tools. Now…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Disavow Links Aggressively
Google’s Matt Cutts released another video this one tries to answer how to remove a penalty for bad link building over a period of time…
Google Panda Impacting Your Mega Site? Use Sitemaps To Recover?
A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion around how to determine which sections or categories of your web site are impacted by Google’s Panda algorithm.
Panda has not gone away and sites are still suffering from not ranking in Google after the Panda alg…
Google’s Matt Cutts Agrees, Guest Blogging Is Getting Out Of Hand
So Matt Cutts released another video yesterday and this is at least the fourth video on the topic of guest blogging.
The deal is, Google is saying Guest Blogging as a whole is getting spammier by the day. As good things get abused, over time, those g…
Google Penalty Notifications Sent To Anglo Rank Link Buyers
As you know, Google’s Matt Cutts publicly outed that Google went after Anglo Rank’s link network and that the penalties and notifications will go out in a few days…