Barry Schwartz at SERoundtable noticed a huge increase in the number of websites that were showing hacked warnings in the Google search results yesterday. Most of the webmasters who posted on the Google help forums couldn’t find any evidence that their sites had been hacked and there were no notices showing up in Google Webmaster […]
Google Adds New Carousels for Popular Sites in Mobile Search Results
Google has added new carousel results for popular topics and websites in the search results. These new carousels are meant to make it quick and easy for users to flip through multiple articles, videos and more from the same source while on a mobile device. This is also good news for webmasters because this means […]
Separating the SEO Signal from the Noise
With hundreds of voices clamoring to be heard, most professing to be God’s gift to SEO, it can seem impossible to figure out who to listen to. The fact that there is so much disagreement in what they all have to say makes it even tougher. So how do you pick the right voice to […]
Google Blocking Websites Infected with Malware Through Fancybox-for-WordPress
If you use the WordPress plugin “Fancybox-for-Wordpress” , you want to ensure that you have updated the latest version, as there is an exploit that is injecting malware into WordPress sites. The exploit is hard to spot, and you might not realize you are infected until you receive an email from Google to inform you […]
Google Webmaster Tools Updating Search Query Data Once Again
Search query data is once again showing up in Google Webmaster Tools after disappearing for about a week. There was some speculation that the missing data was somehow related to the alpha test of the new search query reports. However the problem is affecting both people who had applied to be a tester of the […]
Which is Better: Subdomains or Subdirectories? Here’s What Google Says
There has been plenty of discussion lately over whether subdomains or subdirectories are the better route to go – with many people from both sides supplying Google Analytics screenshots details to prove their argument, with probably the subdirectories side winning the argument. Obviously someone else who has seen all these posts and tweets lately decided […]
Why Google is Slow to Process & Index Some 301 Redirects
On today’s Google Webmaster Office Hours, one of the questions was why it can sometimes take significantly longer for Google to process some 301 redirects while others are processed quickly. John Mueller from Google says there’s actually two parts of this issue. Google processes 301 redirects right away, as soon as they discover it. So […]
Lazy Loading Images Likely Will Not Be Indexed By Google
If you are using lazy loading images – images that are located below the fold but will not load on the page until they are in the viewable portion of the screen – you should be aware that they probably will not be indexed by Googlebot. Lazy loading images have become more popular as webmasters […]
Some Of My Favorite Must-Have WordPress Plugins
As I sat with my staff discussing WordPress plugins and talking with my staff about making a list of all the ones we put on the majority of WordPress sites we work on it stuck me, “I’ll bet,” I thought to myself, “that others might find this list handy as well.” That thought was well […]
How to See Wildcard Results with Google’s Auto Suggest Tool
It has always been amusing to start typing into Google the first part of a phrase and see all the crazy things that people search for. But there is a way to do a search with a wildcard in the middle of the phrase you are typing into Google, which will bring up suggestions showing […]