Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

A webmaster noticed his rankings and traffic from Google sharpely declined after the Penguin 2.0 release and decided to ask about it in the Google Webmaster Help forums.

The webmaster said they noticed a “sudden drop in rankings for branded” right aft…

WebmasterWorld moderator, goodROI, posted a thread at WebmasterWorld asking SEOs and webmasters to share “what method(s) do you use to formulate your SEO strategy?”

In short…

A WebmasterWorld thread is having renewed discussion around an old debate on does the size of a web site matter in Google.

There is no doubt, the more pages you have on your web site, the more chances you have to rank for more keyword phrases…
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A webmaster posted in the WebmasterWorld forums that he received a manual spam notification for “unnatural links” from Google on June 27th. He cleaned things up and quickly submitted a reconsideration request…

It has been almost 7 weeks since the Penguin 2.0 update was released by Google. We know over 50% of our readers said they were hit by this Penguin 2.0 update.

We also know…

A WebmasterWorld thread brings up a topic that came out of SMX Advanced a month or so ago on something Google’s head of search spam…

I hate being in over packed elevators, don’t you? Now, imagine if the elevator comfortably fits 8 people…

I am surprised this topic has not come up more often in the SEO forums – the topic of being able to test the Google Disavow Tool but uploading a file, waiting, removing links…

Over the past several months, there has been a quiet but repetitive topic taking place in the Google forums. A recent one was started by loupiote, who said “a couple of weeks ago, I have demoted the link yet…

Google has announced a clean up of Google Webmaster Tools, where they reorganized the left hand navigation menu…

Just in case anyone had any questions about Google’s disavow tool being able to help those hit by Penguin, Matt Cutts said the tool can help with Penguin…

The Google Disavow Tool is probably one of the more talked about webmaster functions in the past few months. New questions come up about it every day.

Martin Macdonald âasked Google’s Matt Cutts on Twitter if Google had “any plans to allow wildcard disavows” like they do for the robots…

I am not sure that Matt Cutts will enjoy this too much but hey, if you ever see him at an SEO convention, it may appear as if he is a god…

Tuesday we reported that Google quietly dropped the ~tilde operator due to lack of use.

The operator helped searches find synonymous, a form of expanding your query. It was primarily used by librarians and also SEMs looking for keyword research ideas…

Google is now inviting webmasters to try out the new Webmaster Tools structured data error reports.

I signed up for the beta a few weeks ago and was invited yesterday to check out the reports. Fortunately for me, but unfortunately for you…

About nine days ago Webmasters started noticing an issue with the link report within Google Webmaster Tools. Then the issue grew and more and more webmasters noticed a bug in Webmaster Tools where the link count dropped significantly from what Google …

Two of my favorite Google Search Quality folks, Kaspar Szymanski and Uli Lutz…

I know I am not the prettiest guy in the world or even in the SEO space – probably very far from it – but why would Google drop my authorship image for this site…

As I reported yesterday at Search Engine Land with Google Changes Ranking Advice, Says Build Quality Sites Not Links – Google made a change to their messaging on the ranking article help document. This was first spotted by @Baeumlisberger and it is an…

Google’s Matt Cutts latest video answers a quick question, “does using stock photos on your pages have a negative effect on rankings…