Google Webmaster Tools Index Status Showing Data For HTTPS Protocol
Google has announced they’ve added “more precise” data for the Index Status reports in Google Webmaster Tools. Specifically, Google is now reporting each indexed URLs for each protocol, specifically both for HTTP and HTTPS, as well as for verified subdirectories. Google said this…
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Google Referrer Data Is Getting Passed On Searches From IE8
IE8, still the most popular version of the Internet Explorer browser worldwide, is now passing referrer data from Google searches. The move to drop SSL is recent, and isn’t carried over to other versions of Internet Explorer. The full set of referrer data is passing through. Here’s a…
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How A Single Guest Post May Have Gotten An Entire Site Penalized By Google
Google made it clear earlier this year that those doing guest posts “for SEO purposes” might be subject to penalties. But the latest chapter in its war on guest posts feels a bit crazy: an entire site put into Google’s penalty box because of a single guest post that Google…
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Nearly A Year Later, Google’s Penalty Notices Remain Confusing
Nearly a year after Google’s Matt Cutts told us penalty notifications will get clearer it seems as if the notifications, in many cases, have gotten harder to understand. I spend a lot of time following penalties issued by Google through examples given to me via email, penalties publicizes on…
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Google’s Matt Cutts Implies MyBlogGuest Publishers Will Receive Penalties, While Many Begin Receiving Manual Action Notifications
Google has taken action on a large guest blog network that we believe is MyBlogGuest.com. In fact, the owner of MyBlogGuest.com, Ann Smarty confirmed last night she received a penalty. Yesterday, there as confusion over if those publishers who particip…
Manual Spam Action Revoked! A Case Study
Checklists of how to get out of a Google penalty abound. Five things you should do, five things you shouldn’t do, etc. But the number one thing you shouldn’t do is ignore it. I want to tell you the story of a two-year long penalty, the steps we took and how something we never thought…
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Google Reviewing “Not Provided,” Withholding Keywords From Organic But Not Paid Search Clicks
When Google moved to secure search in October 2011, it was a blow to publishers, who began losing data about the search terms used to reach their sites. It also opened Google up to claims of hypocrisy, in that advertisers continued to receive the terms. Now, Google says it’s reexamining the…
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Google Targets Two Polish Link Networks While Continuing To Target German Link Networks
Google’s lead of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted on Twitter that Google has taken action on two link networks operated in Poland this week. Matt wrote that Google is “not done with Germany yet, but we just took action on two Polish link networks.” The Google Poland Webmaster Blog…
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Google Adds, Then Pulls, Advice Not To Block Ad Landing Pages From Its Crawler
On Wednesday/Thursday of last week, Google added a new guideline to their Webmaster Guidelines to “not block a destination URL for a Google Ad product” via your robots.txt file. 24-hours later, Google reversed that guideline and put the webmaster guidelines back to exactly how they were…
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Google’s Latest Manual Action Penalty: Spammy Structured Markup
Google has recently began sending a new manual action spam notification to webmasters for “spammy structured markup” also known as rich snippet spam. This comes after Google dropped 15% of the rich snippets, setting the bar higher for what sites are able to display rich snippets in the…
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Google Warns German Webmasters That Paid Links Violate Google’s Guidelines
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted on Twitter this morning, another stern warning to German webmasters about a link penalty looming for them. Matt Cutts tweeted: A reminder (in German) that paid links that pass PageRank violate our guidelines: http://t.co/u1MpvL7kh4 — Matt…
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Google Webmaster Tools Crawl Errors Reports Now Showing Errors On Final Redirect URL
Google’s John Mueller announced on the Google Webmaster blog this morning that the Google Webmaster Tools team has updated the crawl errors report to show errors on the final URL of the redirect, as opposed to the origin URL of the redirect. What this means is that Google is now showing the…
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5 Not-So-Common Reconsideration Request Errors
I’ve been struggling with a particularly difficult link cleanup project lately. On the occasion of my 100th reconsideration request (4th for this particular client), I thought it might be helpful to share five not-so-common problems that you might run into during your own link cleanup…
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How To Use Excel To Easily Spot SERP CTR Trends
Get better insights from your SERP Impressions Vs Clicks report with Excel wizardry for SEO content teams.
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WMT: Google Gets Personal With SEOs?
Christmas morning, I got something I never expected: a personal email from Google. And it truly felt like a gift! Right out of bed, I had my 3 cans of Red Bull and checked my messages, as usual. Initially, I wasn’t surprised to see that I had an email from Google. I figured it was […]
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Google Webmaster Tools Search Queries Adds More Details & No Longer Rounds Data
John Mueller, Google’s Webmaster Trends Analyst, announced on the Google Webmaster Blog that they are no longer rounding the search query data within the Google Webmaster Tools Search Queries report. John said, “data in the search queries feature will no longer be rounded /…
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Google Launches Improved URL Removal Tool For Third-Party Content
Google has released an improved URL removal tool that the company says was specifically designed to improve the ability to remove third-party content from its search engine. John Mueller, a Google Webmaster Trends Analyst, announced the change on the Google Webmaster Central blog. Google’s…
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Google Webmaster Tools Upgrades Structure Data Markup Errors Report
Google’s Webmaster Trends Analyst, Mariya Moeva, announced on the Google Webmaster blog a new update to Google Webmaster Tools where they now show items with errors in the Structured Data dashboard. This can help webmasters better debug issues they are having with their structured data…
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6 Ways Google Webmaster Tools Can Improve Your SEO Strategy
Most search experts rely on Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) to analyze the technical aspects of a website. These experts focus on data like crawl stats, page errors and rich snippets. In addition to technical analysis, I recommend using GWT for basic on-p…
Google Seeking Feature Requests For Webmaster Tools
Google’s head of search spam posted on his personal blog a request for webmasters to provide feedback and feature requests for Google Webmaster Tools. Matt and the Google search quality team is looking for new ideas on what would make Google Webmaster Tools more useful to you. Matt talked…
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