Google announced a couple months ago that it would start calling out sites in mobile results for faulty redirects. This was aimed at saving users the "common annoyance" of tapping...
Google announced that HTTPS is now a ranking signal used in its algorithm. The company has been pushing the use of HTTPS (HTTP over TLS/Transport Layer Security) for quite some tim...
Update: We've updated the post with some additional comments from Fishkin he gave us via email. See end of article.
Google has been on a warpath again...
Google announced on Monday that it is adding a new feature to Google Webmaster Tools to make it easier to debug rel-alternate-hreflang annotations. These are the attributes Google...
Groupon ran an experiment to try and figure out where "direct" traffic that appears in analytics programs is really coming from. Gene McKenna, director of product management at Gro...
Just ahead of the holiday weekend, Google's head of webspam Matt Cutts announced that he is taking leave from Google through at least October, which means we shouldn't be hearing f...
It would appear that Google's attack on European link networks is not over (if it ever will be).
Google has been penalizing link networks on the Internet with a vengeance over...
Here's a bit of interesting info about how Google views links. Apparently the search engine trusts them less if they've been changed.
That is according to former Googler Pedro...
It appears that Google is actually making the reconsideration request process more helpful for webmasters by giving them more clues on what the problems are with their sites.
A...
Negative SEO - the practice of competitors engaging in SEO attacks in order to harm businesses in search results - has been a concern in the search industry for years. It's rare th...
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