Find the webmaster or blog owner's name. Just write the webmaster a real message. If it doesn't make sense for a webmaster to link to your site, don't pursue it. Use Google to find target sites. We can't rely on spam and automation to boost traffic...
This seems to be part of the link devaluing Cutts talked about in his “What to expect” webmaster video earlier this week. Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts reports that they have taken action today against several thousand link sellers...
The latest Google Webmaster video features Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts talking about what webmasters can expect to see in the next few months in terms of SEO for Google, particularly changes combating black hat web spam from many different...
Google Webmaster Tools Bing's Webmaster Tools ahrefs 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...
Monitoring (Google Webmaster Tools, reporting, etc. Now let's consider Google's take on whether a link was manufactured to increase rankings. I was reading some articles lately about unnatural links messages and various tools and remedies to deal...
Instant results often involve SEO practices that are against webmaster guidelines put out by search engines. Invariably, Google seeks out these techniques and penalizes them, resulting in lost rankings that can take months to recover.spot on Google.
This can be set up for any site in Google Webmaster Tools for specific geographic targets by the following steps: If you have a site impacted by ccTLDs, you can update your geolocation preferences right in Webmaster Tools.
Google Webmaster Tools is the first place to look for inbound link information, specific to SEO related content marketing assets. Bing Webmaster Tools also has an inbound link reporting tool and it is interesting to compare differences both search...
Well, Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts brings up the topic of the many Google patents in his latest Google Webmaster Help video, which was an answer to the question about the latest SEO misconception he would like to put to rest.
However, not only does asking or requiring links for the review come off as confrontational and like you are trying to influence the news, it also is against Google's Webmaster Guidelines. This is not really surprising, considering how the...
Rel=author and rel=publisher tags are probably (IMHO) the first in a series of standardized "tags of authority association", but beyond these webmaster defined signals are a wealth of corroborating signals of expertise and trust in an entity's...
In a new Webmaster Help video, Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts reveals five of the biggest basic SEO mistakes webmasters make, and suggests a few ways to improve your website. In addition to providing Webmaster Tools, Google provides...
Announcing Malware Re-Evaluation and Geo-Targeting in Webmaster Tools – Bing Webmaster BlogNew malware tool in Reports Geo-Targeting tool in Configure my Site section lets you tell Bing the audience of a specific country you're targeting for your...
If you haven't already, subscribe to Google's Webmaster Central blog. The Crawl Errors report is is one of my favorites offered in Google Webmaster Tools. Webmaster Central Blog Put your website optimization skills to the test and see how you do at...
Google has published an entire set of webmaster help documentation centered around site speed. Over the past several years, Google has been all about speed. Last year, Google published the findings of a study of the speed on the web.
Let's not forget to check Google's Webmaster Guidelines, which, as they related to links, seem to be getting tighter and tighter. There are also immediate webmaster tells if you're in contact. Webmaster sends you a list of sites he owns without you...
Annotation also supported by Yandex.common mistakes with rel=canonical – Google Webmaster Central BlogGoogle shares its best practices to avoid the following problems: rel=canonical to the first page of a paginated series; absolute URLs mistakenly...
After you have meticulously completed a link audit and followed all of the steps necessary to emerge from a manual penalty, you will find a note like this in Google Webmaster Tools: We received a request from a site owner to reconsider http://www...
Lesson 1 for anyone new to SEO: set up your Google Webmaster Tools account and verify your website today. Google Webmaster Tools revealed that spammy links now accounted for approximately 40 percent of his link profile (and as I found out over time...
After all, just by visiting Google Webmaster Tools you get visibility, ranking and click through information for each region, timeframe and search result type straight from the source. The main drawback of using Google Webmaster Tools for ranking...
