Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Yesterday, Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts posted a video on Google’s stance on using advertorials in a way to manipulate Google’s search results.
As you can imagine, if you use advertorials …

A Google Webmaster Help thread has some interesting details from Google’s John Mueller about content removal from Google’s index and/or search results.

Some of these points you already know but every SEO and webmaster should understand these. Heck……

Earlier this month, Google’s head of search spam, responded to a comment on his blog explaining that when most SEOs and Webmasters use the disavow tool, they use it wrong.
Matt Cutts said you should not use it like a “fine-toothed comb” but rather use …

As you know, Penguin 2.0 #4 is live and webmasters and SEOs are buzzing about that. The thing is, some misconceptions about Penguin 2.0 are driving me absolutely crazy.

Matt Cutts, in his video about this update, talks about how Penguin 2…

As I reported yesterday at Search Engine Land, the site command may be a bit buggy for you right now and may not be resolved for about a week.

In short…

The Google Data Highlighter tool, which initially launched in December with support for just marking up pages that had event data…

The next large brand to be penalized by Google is Sprint, the large U.S. wireless provider.

A Google Webmaster Help thread has Kent Van Deusen, the Sprint website support representative…

A WebmasterWorld thread has one SEO/Webmaster asking how long will it take for Google to show him the fruits of his efforts after nofollowing a bunch of links on his site.

He wanted to know how long will it take Google to notice the nofollows and see …

Google has announced they’ve added support for the schema.org markup for organization logos within the search results, specifically not the search snippets but within the knowledge graph…

On May 15th, Google’s head of search spam, announced on Twitter that Google has taken “action on several thousand linksellers in a paid-link that passes PageRank network.”

Google has done this time and time again…

A month ago, I posted a poll asking our readers if they fear someone citing your web site in the Google Disavow Tool?
The results are in, with 250 plus votes tallied…

As part of our ongoing deeper thoughts on the video Matt Cutts made about ten Google SEO changes happening this summer – I wanted to discuss the points about going upstream to devalue link spammers and Google rethinking their link analysis techniques.
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A couple of weeks ago I polled you guys on the question of if you proactively disavow links or not. The question came up in that many are fearing the Penguin updates as well as manual link penalties and…

Yesterday, Google’s Matt Cutts did something he doesn’t often do – he pre-announced changes Google will be implementing to the ranking and indexing algorithms in the next few months…

A WebmasterWorld thread asks if one should be proactive when using Google’s disavow link tool or not.

The webmaster said with the next generation Penguin update expected to roll out sometime this year…

Many many webmasters are complaining in the Google Webmaster Help forums that the reporting in Google Webmaster Tools specifically for the “Crawl Errors” section is stalled, delayed and not updating…

When it comes to SEO, I often meet two types of webmasters. The ones that know nothing about how search engines work and the ones that obsess over the smallest SEO concerns. There is often never a balance…

There are two reports in the Google Webmaster Help of webmasters noticing that the schema aka rich snippet details show third-party data and links in the rich snippet testing tool…

Several months ago we covered discussion around a patent document filed by Google named ranking documents…

Several months ago, Google launched the Google EMD Update that went after “low-quality exact-match domains in search results,” according to Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts.

Since then…