Tag: SEO

‘Multi-Week’ Google Update Happening Now, Says Cutts
Google is currently running a "multi-week" rollout of an update that will continue until the week after July 4th. Matt Cutts mentioned the update in response to some questions abou...
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Google Webmaster Tools API To Soon Let You Retrieve ‘Search Queries’ And ‘Backlinks’ Data
Today's Webmaster Help video from Google includes something of an announcement. Matt Cutts reveals that the company is working on some upcoming changes to the Webmaster Tools API....
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Should Google Penalize Content For Using Stock Images?
Use stock images on your site? Soon, you may find that it is hurting your rankings in Google. Maybe. Do you think rankings should suffer when content utilizes stock ima...
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Google Kills ‘Links’ In Its Ranking Message To Webmasters
Google has a help center article in Webmaster Tools specifically about "ranking". It's not incre...
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Google Adds Knowledge Graph-Like Carousel For Local Results
Google announced today that it is adding a new carousel feature for local search results on the top of some search results pages. It looks essentially like the recently redesigned...
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Wow, A Lot Of Stuff Just Happened In SEO
It's been a pretty big week for search and SEO news. There have been a lot of announcements, not only from Google, but from Google competitors. Let's recap, and discuss in the comm...
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Google Updates Messaging For Manual Webspam Actions
Google announced that it is now including examples of problems in its messaging to webmasters who have been hit with manual webspam penalties. Google's Matt Cutts actually mentione...
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Mobile Site Speed To Be A Google Ranking Factor?
Google has clearly had it with sites that have lackluster mobile experiences. This week, the company took to its Webmater Central blog to discuss "several ranking changes" it's pre...
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Google Tests Structured Data Error Reporting In Webmaster Tools
Google's Matt Cutts revealed in a Q&A at SMX Advanced on Tuesday night that Google is rolling out a test of a "structured data dashboard,"...
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Google: We Haven’t Updated Panda For A Month And A Half
Back in March, Google launched a Panda refresh. This is something they've done numerou...
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Here’s The Matt Cutts Discussion From SMX Advanced
Matt Cutts participated in a Q&A session with Danny Sullivan at the SMX Advanced conference. SMX has now made the video available to all via its YouTube channel, so if you couldn't...
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Google Goes After ‘Payday Loans’ And Other Spam With New Algorithm Update
Google's Matt Cutts announced that Google has "started" a new ranking update to help clean up some spammy queries. It's one of the changes that Cutts warned us about in that big vi...
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Google Prepares ‘Several Ranking Changes’ For Sites Not Configured For Smartphone Users
Google announced on Tuesday that it plans to roll out "several ranking changes" in the near future, which address sites that are "misconfigured for smartphone users." Essential...
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Matt Cutts: Here’s What You’re Doing Wrong With ‘Disavow Links’ Tool
Google's Matt Cutts recently talked about Google's Disavow Links tool in the comments of a blog post, in which he suggested using it more like a machete than like a fine-toothed co...
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Google Tests Highlighting In-Depth Articles In Search Results
Google conducts tens of thousands of search experiments ever...
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