In a Webmaster Help video, Google's Matt Cutts details the types of cases where people are struggling to identify problems on their site, part of how Google Webmaster Tools is trying to provide more concrete actionable information in their emails...
Performing a log file analysis identified 20 "rogue" bots hitting the site, and had some concerns about the possibility of people scraping the client's content, so these "bad" bots had their access removed.
In another survey, almost 25% of people said that receiving an email that looks bad changed their perception to strongly negative of the brand. Fifty percent of people in the same survey said receiving an email that looks bad changed their...
If this were my blog, I'd send a short email to the people featured in the videos and let them know the videos have been re-released and ask them to retweet, +1, etc. His series is a good example how to incorporate local and topical terms/ideas to...
But, they are surrounded by people who love them and will protect them, but cannot hide the fact that there is something bad. They have to know it's possible things are bad. Maurice Sendak was born on this date 85 years ago.
At least it doesn't work the way that many people seem to think it does. Cutts is quoted as saying "… if you were hit by Penguin and know or think you have bad links, you should probably use this tool.
Bad at remembering special occasions? As Google CEO Larry Page himself said at Google I/O last month that “Technology should do the hard work so that people can get on with doing the things that make them happiest in life.
Why Do People Ask for Links to be Removed? Some sites have tens of thousands of unnatural links that need to be addressed, so it is possible that a few mistakes are made in classifying the good and the bad.
Let me be clear that guest posting isn't bad. What is bad is someone trying to put a culinary article on my marketing website: To add to the hype, people are completely misunderstanding all of the signals Google is putting out about authorship and...
One common issue we see with disavow requests is people going through with a fine-toothed comb when they really need to do something more like a machete on the bad backlinks. It will always possible for people to name reasonable exceptions, except...
One common issue we see with disavow requests is people going through with a fine-toothed comb when they really need to do something more like a machete on the bad backlinks. For example, often it would help to use the "domain:" operator to disavow...
In the run up to Penguin 2.0 people have talked about two aspects of guest blogging: It's sad to read articles; many by bloggers and people who run sites based on contributions from guest bloggers, as to the decline in the importance in guest...
Because you're going to represent yourself as a real human being and put in the time and effort, you want to make sure you're only listing sites that are curated by real people. It's also important for a badass link builder to give other people...
While this condition never really affected me — other than having a slightly weaker voice than normal which some people think sounded a little funny — it naturally raised questions in my mind about my second vocal cord.
Machines are pretty bad writers. I would imagine the SEO team are the people who are going to set the thresholds for quality that they find acceptable,” Kaufman said. CQM is a quality assurance algorithm, of sorts, based on data the company has...
You would be amazed at the amount of people who insist that they have a fantastic link profile because they have 18,000 links, but in reality, those links are coming from 500 different domains. I can't say that I have ever seen enough concrete...
It's kinda stunning that people actually need guidance or a tool to do that. Article after article tries to redefine what SEO is because somehow a lot of people got lost. As a consultant that specializes in forensic work, I am tired of seeing...
Since so many people are affected by diabetes, I've never had a problem finding someone willing to create a logo in exchange for recognition and a shirt with their design on it. Let people know how you or someone close to you has been affected and...
As the SEO rumor mill spun this week with murmurs of the arrival of yet another significant Google update, I began to think back on all this year's changes and then back to all the algorithm changes of years past and it started me thinking about...
Couple that with the fact that they move between devices, and you have a recipe for significant losses because even one bad experience at one of the points of discovery or conversion can lead lost customers.
