Google is running daily tips this week to help webmasters dealing with having to file a reconsideration request. The first day of Google’s Webmaster Tips on reconsideration requests is short but sweet, dealing with helping webmasters figure out which manual action is taken and the resources Google offers to help. We provide many resources to […]
Google Webmaster Help Announces Series of Reconsideration Request Tips
Google has announced they are doing a series of tips to help webmasters who have violated the Google Webmaster Guidelines and are navigating the world of reconsideration requests to get their sites back into Google. This week, we’re focusing on the reconsideration request process in a series called #GoogleRecon. Websites go through this process after […]
Why You Should Care About PageRank
If you’re an experienced SEO you likely read the title thinking, “Oh no.” If you’re newer to SEO you’ll have read it and thought to yourself, “But … that goes against what I’ve read on a hundred other sites.” If either of these was your instinct you’re right, assuming you were thinking of that little […]
Google Acquires SSL Network Speed Patent from AT&T
In a very interesting patent re-assignment, Google has acquired a patent from AT&T that deals with speeding up SSL network speed. This patent comes hot on the heels of Google’s announcement that they are using SSL on sites as a ranking factor, which sent many webmasters scrambling to get security certificates up and running on […]
Google Takes Action Against European & German Link Networks
Google has once again stepped up their attack on international link spam by announcing they have taken action against two link networks, one European and one German. One of the networks was centralized in Germany, however the one that Google is describing as a European network is referred to such because of the geographical coverage […]
Google Penalties Reappearing In Manual Spam Action of Webmaster Tools
If you have had a manual action spam penalty lifted in Google Webmaster Tools, yet aren’t seeing an expected bounce back in the rankings, you might want to have an other look at your manual spam actions in Google Webmaster Tools once again. It seems that some penalties are showing back up, even after a […]
Why Google Dislikes Zombie Sub-Domains
Google dislikes spending precious resources indexing web content on your site that is of no consequence to itself or its users. Inconsequential web content can be present in the form of duplicated pages and irrelevant or repetitive and/or thin text. Even worse, it is a waste of Google’s crawl budget on your site and such […]
Why Haven’t We Seen a Penguin Algo Refresh From Google?
We haven’t seen a Penguin update since last October, and many people are questioning just why that is. John Mueller in a recent Google Webmaster Office Hours that engineers were working on a new Penguin update, but for those suffering in Penguin purgatory, it is an awfully long time to wait until they are back […]
Make SEO a Part of Your Next Website Design Project
In most cases, SEO projects take place after a website is created. People think of improving the web design, the usability, and even some content strategy, but they rarely think of SEO at the beginning of the website design process. There are usually 3 primary reasons for site owners to not implement your detailed SEO […]
Sites Blocking Third Party Link Tools Ahrefs & Majestic
Many SEOs rely pretty heavily on link tools such as Ahrefs and Majestic in order to audit links or simply watch for newly linking sites. But some websites are either tired of receiving link removal requests or are selling backlinks and don’t want them to show up as a low quality link under analysis, and […]