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Google Considers Branded Anchor Text Unnatural in Widget Links

June 27, 2017 at 5:10 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Considers Branded Anchor Text Unnatural in Widget Links

Google has repeatedly warned site owners over the danger of using widgets for link building.  But simply using branded anchor text as the link within the widget was a gray area where some site owners were saying that if it was branded – and not “keyword keyword keyword” links – then it shouldn’t be considered […]

Filed Under: Google, SEO

Google Sending Newly Renamed Major Spam Warning Messages

February 22, 2016 at 5:22 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Sending Newly Renamed Major Spam Warning Messages

Marie Haynes spotted a new change on a recent alert from Google Search Console – instead of the usual Pure Spam related messages, it was renamed as Major Spam Warning. Here is how it looks: This change seems to be a name change only, and not anything different about what the manual action is specifically […]

Filed Under: Google, SEO

Check Google Search Console for New Errors in Hreflang Tags

February 19, 2016 at 5:03 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Check Google Search Console for New Errors in Hreflang Tags

If you use hreflang on any of your pages, you might want to double check Google Search Console for errors.  Many webmasters received “Errors in hreflang” emails from Google yesterday, even for sites/pages that previously passed. You can check for messages from Google, or you can also check the “International Targeting” section in Google Search […]

Filed Under: Google, SEO

Understanding Google Panda: Definitive Algo Guide for SEOs

January 11, 2016 at 5:30 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Understanding Google Panda: Definitive Algo Guide for SEOs

Note: We have many brand new quotes about Panda from Google attributed to a “Google Spokesperson.”  These are all quotes given directly to the author and The SEM Post by Google.  All other Google quotes are cited to their sources. Google Panda is one of Google’s ranking filters that seeks to downrank pages that are […]

Filed Under: Google, SEO Tagged With: Google Panda, Panda

Google Changes Emails for Reconsideration Request Response

December 8, 2015 at 4:50 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Changes Emails for Reconsideration Request Response

Google has changed the wording on emails it sends out to webmasters who have filed a successful reconsideration request. Previously, the emails read “Manual Spam Action Revoked” but now Google has changed that to “Reconsideration Request Approved”. They have also changed the body of the email to say: Good news!  Your reconsideration request has been […]

Filed Under: Google, SEO

Google Manual Actions on a Subdomain Don’t Affect Rest of the Site

December 1, 2015 at 5:07 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Manual Actions on a Subdomain Don’t Affect Rest of the Site

In a recent Google webmaster help thread on the forums, an interesting question was raised about whether a manual action received on a subdomain on a site could impact the rest of the site that is not on the subdomain. And the answer is no. John Mueller responded to a help thread where a dev […]

Filed Under: Google, SEO

Google’s RankBrain: 9 Industry Experts Weigh In

October 27, 2015 at 7:16 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google’s RankBrain: 9 Industry Experts Weigh In

Google’s new artificial intelligence algo, RankBrain is definitely interesting (all the details about RankBrain can be found here).  We have reached out to 9 industry experts to get their reactions about RankBrain and what it means.  Here is what they had to say. Glenn Gabe, G-Squared Interactive There’s been a lot of talk in the […]

Filed Under: Google, Google RankBrain, SEO

Duplicate Content Issues Not Directly Related to Panda

October 15, 2015 at 5:34 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Duplicate Content Issues Not Directly Related to Panda

If you are concerned that having duplicate content could be a factor in the Panda algo, John Mueller from Google has confirmed that duplicate content and Panda are two separate and independent things. Marie Haynes raised the question with John Mueller, and whether duplicate content could have an impact on Panda. @Marie_Haynes Those are 2 […]

Filed Under: Google, SEO

To Fix Panda, Better to Improve Quality Content Than Remove Pages

October 8, 2015 at 4:21 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

To Fix Panda, Better to Improve Quality Content Than Remove Pages

When it comes to cleaning up from a Panda penalty, many people will simply remove all the suspected low-quality content from a site rather than improving the quality on those pages.  And it turns out that many people are removing good content and Google itself recommends that improving quality should be the solution to Panda, […]

Filed Under: Google, SEO

Google Panda Rolling Out in Pushed Increments, Not Constant

October 7, 2015 at 3:55 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Panda Rolling Out in Pushed Increments, Not Constant

While we know that Google has been rolling out Panda 4.2 very, very slowly, the roll out is actually happening in pushed increments and isn’t a constant on-going rollout. Glenn Gabe asked Gary Illyes & John Mueller on Twitter whether Panda was being manually pushed out in increments versus a single push that has been […]

Filed Under: Google, SEO

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