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Google's Matt Cutts put up a new Webmaster Help video, discussing how Google handles font replacement. The video was created in response to a user-submitted question: How d...

Google Should Now Be Much Better At Handling Misspellings

Late on Friday, Google unveiled its monthly list of algorithm changes, for the month of April. As usual, there is plenty to take in, with over 50 changes. Here are some observation...

Microsoft, Yahoo Search Alliance Transition Complete in UK, Ireland, France

In mid-April, Microsoft announced that the Microsoft-Yahoo Search Alliance was nearly final in the UK, Ireland and France, after announcing the expansion into these countries in Fe...

Google Penguin Update: Report Spam With Google Docs

You can learn a lot of little helpful tidbits by listening to what Googles head of webspam has to say, and lucky for webmasters, he's always saying through various channels on the...

Google Makes More Freshness Tweaks To Algorithm

Google has clearly placed a lot of focus on freshness in recent months, and that continues with the company's...

Google Penguin Update: Google Has Read, Processed Almost All Spam Reports

Google's Matt Cutts recently tweeted that people should fill out a form to report post-Penguin spam. "We're reading feedback," he said. .ditto19603042651...

Matt Cutts: Excessive Blog Updates To Twitter Not Doorways, But Possibly Annoying

Google's head of webspam took on an interesting question from a user in a new Webmaster Help video: Some websites use their Twitter account as an RSS like service for every...

Google Analytics Social Reports Get Backlink URLs, Post Titles

In March, Google announced the release of new social reports in Google Analytics. Th...

Google Penguin Update: A Lesson In Cloaking

There are a number of reasons your site might have been hit by Google's recent Penguin update (formerly known as the Webspam...

Google Gives More Details On Human Raters

Google has people that it pays to rate the quality of search results. They're called raters. Google mentioned them last year in a widely publicized...

Will The World End In 2012? Google Still Has No Official Position

Let's assume that Matt Cutts speaks for all of Google. Ok, assumed. And as it turns out, you still shouldn't look to Google for any predictions involving the apocalypse. Bac...

Experimental Search Engine Removes Top Million Sites From Your Results

Do you ever feel the search results that Google yields are too mainstream? Are you looking to explore the cavernous, cobweb-laden outer reaches of the interwebs? If you want to s...

Google Paid Inclusion Results: Sponsored, But Not Ads?

It would appear that some companies get the privilege of paying to be featured in Google search results that most others don't. Obviously anyone can pay for AdWords ads, but Googl...

Google’s Fresh Results: Irrelevancy In Action

Google continues to place a certain emphasis on the freshness of search results. Even with its latest monthly list of algorithm changes (which reminds me, another one should be...

Google Talks About Getting Your Images Removed From Google Images

Last week, Google's Matt Cutts posted a video talking about why Google, in most cases,...

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