New Google Manual Action for Image Mismatch

There is a new Google manual action that has came out recently, and one every webmaster should be fully aware of. This is Google’s new “image mismatch” manual action, which comes up when the images on your site don’t match up with what Google has indexed. Google has published a new help document on this […]

Matt Cutt’s Gives Warning About Using ‘Creative’ ccTLDs

Matt Cutt’s had answered a great question earlier this week about using ccTLD’s to create a unique domain name such as www.google.it for “Google It”. “Should I use ccTLDs for sites not targeted to those countries?” In-fact there is an awesome tool out there created by @case, @ceedub, @connor, and @rr called Domainr which quickly finds you some creative domain names that […]

Bing Expands Categories Featured in Autosuggest

Lately it seems all of the search engine related news has been revolving around Google. The new webmaster tools navigation, the display of favicons within text ads, etc. Even Yahoo jumped into the news with their new search engine ads testing; so it’s nice to finally hear something from the team over at Microsoft’s Bing […]

Prepare Your Site for Rolling Google Panda Updates

The online community was abuzz over the past few weeks in speculation that the first rolling Panda update is now live. Search Engine Roundtable founder and Search Engine Land news editor Barry Schwartz released a study showing increased Google volatility before July 4, which only declined and stabilized on July 7. MozCast bar graph showing turbulence […]

Google Makes a Stand Against Faked User Histories

Google has made a new post earlier this week, titled a A reminder about manipulative or deceptive behavior; and if you read it closely you’ll see that this isn’t so much a reminder, but a statement as to the next spam target for Google. Google states that “Recently, we’ve seen some user complaints about a deceptive technique […]

Yahoo Redesigns Their U.S. Search

In a post on the Yahoo! Tumblr yesterday, Yahoo! SVP of Search – Laurie Mann announced a fresh new redesign of the  U.S. Yahoo search engine. The redesign introduces a much more cleaner and modern look, with a new top navigational bar, and more real-estate available for search results. When it comes to search, nothing […]

What is On-Page SEO?

Most first time webmasters launch their website and immediately start worrying about generating backlinks and increasing their ranking in search engines, however many miss the first and most important step – On-Page SEO. On-Page SEO defines how search engines will view and list your website. This starts from your core meta and open graph tags, […]

Understanding Keyword Density for SEO

Keyword density is an indicator of the number of times the selected keyword appears in the web page. But mind you, keywords shouldn’t be over used, but should be just sufficient enough to appear at important places. If you repeat your keywords with every other word on every line, then your site will probably be rejected […]

Bing Launches the Bing Site Move Tool

Bing has recently announced the launch of the Bing Site Move Tool which can be found under the Diagnostics & Tools section within Bing Webmaster Tools can be used to tell Bing that you have moved and permanently redirected your site, or a section of your site, to a new location. Now, before you mention it, yes 301 redirects accomplish the […]

Google Images Layout Gets More Updates

At the end of January Google released their first big change to the layout of Google Images providing a more streamlined process – changing their Google Images layout to now display the a preview of the image directly inline with the image you clicked on. However this morning when I went to run a search on […]

Bing Launches Bing Ads Intelligence

Having trouble building your keyword list for your website? Then try using Bing Ads Intelligence. This tool will build lists from suggested keywords, which in turn will help you develop strategies. The tool uses Bing’s extensive network data to assist you with the various tasks. To quote straight from the Bing Ads Intelligence website, the […]