Have you ever received a Google Webmaster email stating that your site was given a "manual spam penalty" for having "pure spam"? All of these are examples of modern types of keyword stuffing and hidden text and in the case of hiding text via CSS...
Did you catch Google's recent post on its webmaster blog regarding mobile website infrastructure and search results? I found it really interesting; Google announced changes to their algorithm which will favor sites with best-in-class mobile...
Other options include entering a Google-provided meta tag to your homepage, uploading an HTML file to your site's root folder, or confirming ownership via Google Analytics if it's already installed on your site.
Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts announced that Penguin 2.0 went live on May 22 and webmasters braced for the worst. For example, Majestic SEO, Open Site Explorer, Google Webmaster Tools, Bing Webmaster Tools, etc.
We've all done it before – we see a commercial for a brand we haven't heard of before and immediately go to Google to find the company website. For SMEs and popular brands, retaining ownerships of them can make a massive difference to the business...
While Google and Bing's tools are good for giving you an idea of what those engines see as your backlinks, you'll probably be better off using a more robust link tool for analysis, as they don't give you all the information that you might want.
Ever wanted to craft art on Google's homepage? The Mother's Day logo appears on Google's homepage in more than 50 countries today. Today is your lucky day – if, for some reason, your mother really likes Google's logo.
In fact, Google dislikes the overuse of ads so much Google has created an algorithm that punishes sites that have too many ads on their homepage. As the SEO rumor mill spun this week with murmurs of the arrival of yet another significant Google...
Additional Activity: Notifications of activity (Comments and subscriptions) from subscribed channels and Google+ activity . Similarly, it is likely that users engaged with comments and on Google+ will see content of that vain higher as well.
I've always been interested in the work of Saul Bass and was delighted to get the opportunity to celebrate his birthday on the Google homepage," writes Doodler Matthew Cruickshank. Google honors iconic graphic designer Saul Bass in today's Google...
Google Now for Google's Homepage in Testing – Google Operating SystemDoes code reveal Google has plans to add personal assistant Google Now to its desktop homepage? One page out of millions gives Mozilla trouble with Google.
The "Queen of Jazz" is in the spotlight today on Google's homepage. A colorful Google Doodle pays tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, who was born on this date 96 years ago. Google's logo depicts Fitzgerald front and center on a stage, with the letters...
If your website has received a manual penalty notice from Google, then your first step is to repair the site so it complies with Google’s quality guidelines. Once that work is done, you'll then have to file a reconsideration request to get your...
The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin makes it easier for you and adds functionality such as tracking users by username, which is useful for ecommerce sites and ignoring administrators who spend a lot of time in the site and cause anomalous...
Most sites have no Toolbar PageRank, are not indexed in Google and if they are, they don't rank for the brand/URL or any snippets from the homepage. Same Google Analytics number or Google AdSense number used.
With this in mind, your content must be that which serves an informational, resourceful and captivating intent for which it meets Google Quality Guidelines but also would gain the sharing of it by your users socially and hopefully the attainment...
For Google, it is recommended that you use vary server headers in cases where you are serving different HTML on the same URL. Making this change will help Google serve the proper cache of the page and it will help Google find mobile optimized...
We believe every brand should claim their name in the top social media outlets – Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, etc. Google Webmaster Tools: An Overview How to Implement Video Microdata for Google but we don't have to...
Watch Google Trends and Twitter. To this end I pose the question: which link is more likely to be appreciated on a third party website: a link to your homepage or a link to a post that discussed a related topic?
How to get this: You will need to select the ecommerce site button in the Admin>>Profiles>>Profile Settings>>ecommerce Settings section in Google Analytics. There are three basic types of goal tracking in Google Analytics: ecommerce tracking, event...
