A couple of days ago, John Mueller commented on a post asking if a Penguin penalty would definitely require a Penguin refresh to be lifted, which he confirmed it would, so long as the issues were fixed. The post got a bit more attention than Mueller likely expected, so he came back with a much […]
Google Clarifies Sitelinks Search Box Usage in Search Results
When Google added the new search box in sitelinks within the Google search results, there were certainly many questions about the new feature. Was it guaranteed to display if a webmaster sets it up? Would it only display for certain queries that would lead Google to believe that additional site: search would be warranted? Or […]
Google Showing Inline Knowledge Graph Snippets in Search Results
Alex Chitu at the Google Operating System Blog has noticed a new feature Google is testing in their search results – inline facts displayed underneath a search result listing. It is unclear when Google decides to display these inline knowledge graph snippets. For example, searching for “King of Rome” shows inline snippets, as does “King […]
Google’s Webmaster Academy Now Available in 22 Languages
Back in March, Google re-launched the Webmaster Academy for English webmasters, which was essentially a roadmap – albiet a fairly basic one – of what webmasters should be doing to rank well in Google. It must have proven to be a hit, as they have updated it to include the academy in 22 languages. They don’t […]
Google Confirms Penguin Refresh Needed to Recover
It has long been debated whether a Penguin update is needed in order to recover from a true Penguin algo hit, or whether it is possible that you can recover despite the fact we haven’t seen a Penguin refresh for almost a year. General consensus is that an update is needed, but there are those […]
Google Reconsideration Tips: Submit Helpful Documentation
It is day # 5 – and the final day – in the Google Webmaster Help Reconsideration Request series of tips. It has long been known that webmasters should include additional information with reconsideration requests, whether it is to show you have taken steps to get links removed or perhaps actual evidence of a negative […]
Google Introduces New Search Box Within Sitelinks in Search Results
Google has introduced a new sitelink feature where it will show a site search box above the sitelinks for a website in the search results. The new change, in addition to the search box getting a prominent spot just under the site description, also takes advantage of auto-complete when people type something into the search […]
Google Reconsideration Tips: Identify Hacked Content
It is day # 4 in the Google Webmaster Help Reconsideration Request series of tips this week. Sometimes a page may look clean to you but hackers often inject content that only search engines can easily see. ‘Fetch as Googlebot’ shows how your page looks to Googlebot (our website crawler) so use it to identify […]
3 Google Webmaster Tools For Implementing Structured Data
For some time now, the SEO community has been abuzz about semantic search and incorporating structured data markup to sites in an effort to help search engines understand the context of content on a given page and render rich snippets within search results. And for good reason! In a (relatively) recent case study conducted by […]
Google Reconsideration Tips: Remove Inorganic Backlinks
Another day and another Google Webmaster Help Reconsideration Request Tip in their series of tips this week. Day # 3 brings us “remove inorganic backlinks”. Day 3 of #GoogleRecon — For a reconsideration request to be successful, a significant percentage of inorganic links should be removed from the website. If you can get a backlink […]