You Better Have More Than A Great Site If You Want To Rank In Google
In a thread in the Google Webmaster Central forum (hat tip: Barry Schwartz), a user claimed to have lost all of their traffic over the weekend, and to have found thousands of “fake backlinks”. The user...
View ArticleGoogle Doesn’t Care How Many Nofollow Links You Have
Adding the nofollow attribute to links prevents PageRank from being passed. This is something that Google wants webmasters to do for any links that have been purchased. To do otherwise is strictly...
View ArticleWatch This Google Webmaster Hangout From Monday
Ever wish you had a chance to sit in on one of Google’s Webmaster Central Office Hours hangouts, but just can’t find the time, or they just to don’t correspond well with your schedule? Luckily, Google...
View ArticleDo Your Blog Comments Have Search Ranking Value?
When Google unleashed the Panda update, it waged war on “thin” content in its search results. Google wants to provide pages that offer information valuable to searchers, as opposed to content that was...
View ArticleGoogle Penalizes Mozilla For Web Spam [Updated]
Update: It turns out that Google only penalized a single page from Mozilla. Matt Cutts weighed in on the “penalty” in that same forum thread (hat tip: Search Engine Land). Google has penalized...
View ArticleDo You Follow Google’s Rules On Guest Posts?
Google’s view of guest blog posts has come up in industry conversation several times this week. Webmasters and marketers have long engaged in the practice in writing articles for third-party sites as a...
View ArticleGoogle Admits Link Mistake, Probably Won’t Help Webmaster Link Hysteria
Google is apparently getting links wrong from time to time. By wrong, we mean giving webmasters example links (in unnatural link warning messaging) that are actually legitimate, natural links. It’s...
View ArticleGoogle Webmaster Tools ‘Search Queries’ Feature Gets Some New Tweaks
Google has announced a couple of changes to the Search Queries feature in Webmaster Tools, improving stats for mobile sites and getting rid of rounding. For webmasters who manage mobile sites on...
View ArticleGoogle Says It Will Follow Five Redirects At The Same Time When Crawling
About a year ago, Google put out a Webmaster Help video discussing PageRank as it relates to 301 redirects. Specifically, someone asked, “Roughly what percentage of PageRank is lost through a 301...
View ArticleGoogle’s ‘Completely Clear’ Stance On Disavowing ‘Irrelevant’ Links
We knew that when Google launched the Disavow Links tool, people were going to use it more than they should, even though Google made it clear that most people shouldn’t use it at all. A person doing...
View ArticleNew Google Penguin Update Is Getting Closer
It’s looking like we’ll probably be seeing Google launch a new version of the Penguin update before too long, though Google still won’t give an exact timeframe. Either way, they’re working on it, and...
View ArticleGoogle Just Killed Authorship Entirely
Google announced that it is no longer using authorship markup or displaying author information in search results, saying that it just wasn’t as useful as expected. Actually, it was Google’s John...
View ArticleWere Your Google Authorship Efforts All For Nothing?
Google introduced authorship support over three years ago, leading webmasters and anyone concerned with SEO to jump through a new set of hoops to make sure their faces were visible in Google search...
View ArticleNew Google Penguin Update Coming, Will Refresh Faster
Google’s Penguin update is notorious for taking an extremely long time to get refreshed, leaving sites negatively impacted by it out of luck until Google finally pushes a refresh through. You can make...
View ArticleGoogle Is Not Going To Be Updating Toolbar PageRank Anymore
It looks like Google Toolbar PageRank may officially be a thing of the past. This will no doubt please some, while upsetting others, but for better or worse, don’t expect it to be updated anymore. Do...
View ArticleGoogle Penguin Update Still Lurking, Keep An Eye Out
It’s been a while since Google launched the most recent version of its famous (or infamous, depending on how you want to look at it) Penguin update. If you haven’t seen any changes in your rankings,...
View ArticleGoogle: We Don’t Plan On Updating PageRank Again
The writing has been on the wall for quite some time, but if you’re still clinging to any shred of hope that Google will be updating Toolbar PageRank again, it’s probably time to give it up. Do you...
View ArticleGoogle Still Uses Desktop Page Speed For Mobile Ranking
As you may know, Google has been focusing on how it can better rank mobile search results. The big news last week was that it added a “Mobile-Friendly” label to results, and would give such sites a...
View ArticleGoogle Penguin Update Will Probably Just Continue Indefinitely
As you may know, Google’s latest Penguin update, which launched in October, is still rolling out. Google had said that it would be a slow rollout from the beginning, but here we are two months later,...
View ArticleGet Ready For Google’s New Mobile Ranking Signal
Throughout the course of last year, Google made a bunch of moves showing that it was focusing on improving the mobile search experience for its users by way of getting websites (otherwise known as...
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