Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google’s Matt Cutts has published over 500 videos in the past four years – most of them answering questions related to SEO or webmaster topics. The questions aren’t made up out of the blue, they come from SEOs and Webmasters asking Matt these question…

A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster asking why Google isn’t ranking his seven year old web site.

Google’s John Mueller said that he is over doing it with the web site…

There are two types of people reading this right now, (1) those who are like me and cannot stand when this happens and (2) those who really don’t know it is an issue.

What am I talking about…

In the past twenty-four hours, it seems as if Google sent out a message to thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of site owners, that there is a problem with their site.

Typically, you never ever want to ignore a webmaster tools notification but in …

Mozilla.org, the non-profit organization behind Firefox, Thunderbird and tons of developer oriented tools, was penalized by Google.

Christopher More, Mozilla’s Web Production Manager, posted the details of the penalty in the Google Webmaster Help foru…

Yesterday we broke the news that Google has penalized Mozilla for user generated spam and we did say it was a granular penalty but we didn’t know how granular until today.

It turns out, the penalty was on one specific page…

Today is the one year birthday/anniversary of the release of Google’s Penguin update – it was released on April 24, 2012.
Since then, we’ve had two additional updates of it on May 24, 2012 and then on October 5, 2012. Now we await the fourth update whi…

Google’s Matt Cutts said in the ongoing Mozilla penalty discussion at Google Webmaster Help that Google will generally send the webmaster tools notification to both the non-WWW and WWW verified Google Webmaster Tools account.

Matt Cutts said the reaso…

Google has quietly changes the authorship snippet within the search results. Google has removed the “more by” author link, which was added in 2011 and has changed the click behavior of some of the links in the authorship snippet…

There is this theory going around by “giveaway bloggers” that non-spammy comments can cause a Google penalty. You can read about it over here and over here – where you can see that an SEO told this site that they are penalized in Google because of the…

As I covered at Search Engine Land yesterday, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a video answer to a question Google’s John Mueller asked named Should I add an archive of hundreds of thousands of pages all at once or in stages…

As promised, I wanted to share my traffic changes after I’ve nofollowed my paid links. I already shared with you the interesting reconsideration request submission, response and analysis…

A Google Webmaster Help thread has Google’s John Mueller implying that it may be “good practice” to list the sites and URLs in your disavow file even if they links were removed and especially if you simply requested the webmaster to remove them…
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In late January, Google launched a new design change for Google Image search. Google said they’ve “seen a net increase in the average click-through rate to the hosting website.”

But webmasters are not seeing that or believing that…

An interesting thread at WebmasterWorld is asking SEOs to take a step back…

It is no surprise to many that more and more SEOs are using the Google link disavow tool. The issue that comes up as time goes on is that there are some using it as a threat to remove or change the links or anchor text pointing to their site.

I am su…

On Friday I announced that I nofollowed my paid links after several years of being a stubborn blogger. I promised more details on the reconsideration request and the traffic results from Google…