Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google’s John Mueller posted in a Stack Exchange thread that responsive design doesn’t give you a ranking boost.
Yes, Google does officially recommend responsive as the approach to going mobile. But going responsive…

Google’s John Mueller said in black and white in a Google Webmaster Help thread that using Google Translate to translate your whole site, is the same thing as “auto-generated content.”

This should come to no surprise to anyone here…

A WebmasterWorld thread asks the question most SEOs and webmasters try not to ask in a public forum. After a penalty is lifted, should you go ahead and remove your disavow file or even remove some of the links from the disavow file?
Why would you do th…

In a recent video by Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, said that it will continually get harder to take short cuts and spam Google.

Month to month…

The talk of the SEO town these days, outside of Penguins, is all about the Hummingbird. To be honest…

In a recent video by Google’s Matt Cutts, he said that geo-location is not spam. Cloaking and showing GoogleBot content that you wouldn’t show users, is spam. But showing geo-location based content to users, while showing that content to GoogleBot……

As you know, Google announced their Hummingbird algorithm about a month after it launched, claiming no one noticed and no one should notice. But we do think we did notice but no one can confirm that outside of Google and they won’t…

Original and unique content is always something Google says is a very important aspect of ranking and providing value…

One of the SEO tips given by many professionals is to make sure to host your web site in the country you want it to rank in. The truth is, it isn’t that important and may be irrelevant in many cases, Google said…

Last night, I covered at Search Engine Land that Google launched authorship within Google Image Search.

Pierre Far from Google tipped us off at SMX about it and it is true, they launched it and no one knew about it – including me. Yea, even me…
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Internationalizing a site is confusing, let alone the translation details but how do you communicate the language and country-level differentiation details to Google…

There is an interesting conversion going on at WebmasterWorld of a webmaster who wants to change the vertical his site is in but is failing to convince Google the site has changed directions.

His site is 16 years old and was established as the authori…

Yes, Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts did say rel=author can help search quality but he did also say Google is currently not using it.

John Mueller…

The forums are getting restless over a Google Webmaster Tools reporting delay, specifically with the search queries report…

A few months ago, we ran a poll asking our audience if they believe that the site of a site matters when it comes to ranking in Google. In short, do larger sites rank better than smaller sites…

It is not new that Google manual actions expire, it should also not be new to you that an expiration of a manual action does not mean the manual action will never return. It likely will…

You’d think that after Google has penalized link network after link network that SEOs would stop asking the question of how to build links via a link network – but nope…

A few months ago, I ran a poll asking how many recovered after Google ran the softer Panda update in mid-July.

With over 500 responses in, I wanted to share the results.

Question: Did You Recover In Google’s Panda July 2013 Update…

Ghost Rank 2.0 was hit hard by Google. It seems that at least one of the underground and under the radar networks was severely hurt by Google and many of the sites using them to rank well in Google are now penalized. Google’s Matt Cutts did issue a war…

You know that annoying kid who is constantly poking you on your back and asking the same annoying request over and over again…