Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Shopify’s Craig Miller, the Vice President of Marketing, posted in the Google Webmaster Help forums complaining that 70…

Over at Hacker News there are some complaints about the Google SEO Starter Guide (PDF). So Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts jumped in to try to understand what is wrong…

There is an interesting discussion at Google Webmaster Help forums where a new site at microbialgenomics.org…

There is a new Google manual action that you need to be aware of named “image mismatch.” This manual action is when your images on your site don’t match what Google is indexing and displaying in their search results…

There are two different threads at Google Webmaster Help where sites with Google manual actions received responses back from Google citing bad link examples including links already in the site’s disavow file.

As you can imagine…

Google announced they now support the ability for app developers to submit the content within their Android apps to Google, somewhat like through a Sitemap file. This way, Google can index the content, and then display the content within the search re…

Google announced a new outstanding feature for Google Webmaster Tools named Security Issues.

This new dashboard helps quickly know what security issues your site has…

Yesterday, Google’s Matt Cutts posted a video saying that the number of pages does not directly impact your search rankings.

There may be a side affect to a site having more pages…

As many of you know, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, announced at PubCon that you should expect a 15% reduction in the amount of rich snippets and authorship displayed in the Google search results…

I see threads like this Google Webmaster Help thread all the time. In summary they say, my manual penalty was revoked by Google after I spent the time cleaning up my mistakes but days, months, and even years later, my rankings, traffic and thus sales h…

AJ Kohn, someone who focuses more on authorship and rich snippets than most SEOs I know, wrote a story named Authorship Is Dead, Long Live Authorship.

In that story, he describes why he thinks the classic Authorship Project is slowing being closed dow…

Google’s Eric Kuan said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that even if you use a disavow file to remove links…

One of the highlights of the year for me is Matt Cutts talk at PubCon. So me not being there, being 6,000+ miles away, was unfortunate. It was the first PubCon I’ve missed in, well, I can’t remember…

A WebmasterWorld thread has an interesting discussion around how a webmaster said his manual penalty was revoked on his WWW but remains on his non WWW.

The non WWW is 301 redirected to the WWW and the WWW is set as the preferred domain in Webmaster T…

Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, responded to a Hacker News thread where Dan Goldin was upset with spammer SEOs when he noticed a site was scraping the content and images off of his mother’s site…

Google’s Matt Cutts posted a video explaining that the bold and strong HTML tags are treated the same for ranking and SEO purposes.

He is surprised people still use bold over strong but from an SEO and ranking perspective…

There are several reports in the Google Webmaster Help forums and WebmasterWorld, as well as twitter, email and other reports I’ve seen…

It is rare for Google to admit they are wrong, at least with search quality. Part of the complaints with the Google stock price and questioning if the stock price matches Google’s quality product these days…..

Guest blogging has been a large topic over the past couple years in the SEO space…

A common issue I see with the Google results are the number of Yelp results a Google search can return for a local type of keyword phrase.

It has been going on for well over a year. I even wrote about it when discussing Google’s domain diversity…
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