Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Here is a question I never saw asked before – which is rare. A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster asking how Google handles the content within a strike or delete tag.

The tag is not supported in HTML5 and was replaced by the tag but t…

Yesterday Matt Cutts of Google released a video explaining that Google currently doesn’t do any fancy indexing or ranking for Facebook or Twitter pages. He also said that part of that is they don’t currently try to extract social data…

John Mueller from Google announced on the Google Webmaster Central blog that they’ve updated the crawl error reports specifically to handle better reporting on redirects.

In the past, Google reported the error observed at the end under of the first UR…

Yesterday morning Patrick Altoft tweeted to me that SearchMetrics is reporting Expedia lost about 25% of their Google traffic overnight.

SearchMetric is indeed reporting this and I confirmed it with Marcus Tober from SearchMetrics via email…

Yesterday, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam and the most loved to be hated man at Google, posted on his personal blog that guest blogging is dead at least for link building or SEO purposes…

Mark Traphagen posted on Google+ how Google is getting better at understanding Semantic Search. Truth is…

Mark Traphagen posted on Google+ how Google is getting better at understanding Semantic Search. Truth is…

A WebmasterWorld thread has a story of a webmaster who received a phone call from someone with an Indian accent threatening to use negative SEO on their site if they don’t pay up. A form of search pirates…

Google is really stepping up their transparency about sites spamming them.

A Google Webmaster Help thread has a site owner upset his site no longer ranks for [maternity jeans] in Google…

Google’s Matt Cutts released a video yesterday answering the question…

Patrick Wagner, the Senior Search & Digital Analyst at TD Trust Canada, a major bank, posted in the Google Webmaster Help forums complaining that Google listed their mobile site in the desktop search results.

In short, if you search for [canada trust] in Google Canada…

Google has a change of address feature in Google Webmaster Tools…

Despite Google cracking down over the years on rich snippet spam and then applying rich snippet reductions recently – Google told a webmaster that the rich snippet spam didn’t hurt their rankings…

There is an excellent question at WebmasterWorld asking how does one know when Google does process your disavow link file…

The Google Disavow tool is a popular subject with all the link penalties floating around. But the big question is, does it actually help your site to rank better…

A webmaster at WebmasterWorld claimed that while some reconsideration requests he submit take five or more times…

On Friday, I broke the news that Google changed their link schemes guidelines on widget links. In short…

There is an interesting thread that I am not sure if I am looking into too much. The Google Webmaster Help thread has a representative from Rasmussen College complaining that his business management degree page no longer ranks well in Google. Now that…

Kenichi Suzuki notified me via Google+ that Google has updated the link schemes guideline page. Specifically making the widget links section more specific and less general…

Let me get you up to speed… In October, Matt Cutts said there will be a 15% reduction in authority to only show authorship and rich…