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 […]
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Bing Collaborates with Klout Creating Personal Snapshots
In an attempt to further help people manage their online presence, Bing has teamed up with Klout to allow for the creation of Bing Personal Snapshots. These act as an expansion to the People Snapshots that Bing had introduced this past March. Personal Snapshots are Klout verified, and pull in data from a person’s LinkedIn […]
Google WILL Take Action Against Auto Generated Content
Google has long made it clear that content is king, however someone finally flat out asked what Google will do against websites that are found to have auto-generated content.
Google Asks for Your Feedback on Their Search Policies
Google has posted on their blog asking searchers to help provide some feedback on Google’s search policies. The form, hosted obviously on Google Docs, includes
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 […]
Yahoo Testing New Green Background Search Ads
Looks like Yahoo is doing some Google-like experimenting of their own and trying out a new background color for their search ads. Spotted originally by @tecnonetblog – Yahoo seems to be testing a green background color for their ads. Now with the original screenshots that were provided it was rather hard to see the difference, unless you’re […]
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 […]
Google Announces New Navigation & More for Webmaster Tools
Monday of this week Google has announced the launch of several new design & organization related updates to their Webmaster Tools platform. Probably the most noteworthy
Google Introduces New Carousel View for Local Search Results
Google is the search leader for a reason — it has the best results. That said, its presentation can be somewhat bland, especially when compared with its closest rival Bing. Google
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 […]
Google Launches New Structured Data Markup Helper Tool
Google is always hard at work to provide better organization and structure for all of their search results and listings – and this is where rich-snippets and Schema.org come into play.
Matt Cutts New Video Explains the Treatment of Native Advertisement
Matt Cutts has posted a video last week discussing the new outlook that the Google spam team will take towards native advertisement. The biggest point that is made
Penguin 2.0 Is Upon Us
Just last week Matt Cutt’s discussed the upcoming changes in terms of SEO for Google and stated that Penguin 2.0 is coming soon; and soon apparently means within a week. Yesterday, May 22 2013, Matt Cutt’s announced via a post on his blog that Penguin 2.0 has officially rolled out. We started rolling out the […]
Google’s Matt Cutts Explains What To Expect In The Coming Months with SEO for Google
Matt Cutts posted a great overview video of Google’s plans for the next few months for orgnic search – what website optimizers and webmasters can expect.
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, […]
Google Introduces X-default hreflang for International Landing Pages
A few days ago Google made an announcement on the Google Webmaster Central Blog introducing the “x-default hreflang” annotation which a webmaster can use to specify
Google News Reminds Us About Promotional and Commerce Journalism
In a recent post on the Google News Blog, Google made a point to touch base on promotional journalism, and the negative impact the submission of these types
Running A Reciprocal Linking Campaign
Reciprocal linking means forming partnerships with other sites who place a link from their Web pages to yours. You then give them a similar link in return. When you look for people to swap links with, make sure that you don’t reduce the quality or content of your own site. You don’t want users to […]