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: A key factor in recovering from a penalty is a promise to adhere...
Shaun Andersentweeted that same day “Less backlinks available in Google Webmaster Tools by the looks of it - I am seeing about a third of the links once shown. For competitive purposes, having access to Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics...
They will check your site health through not only Webmaster Tools, but also your analytics and tools of their own choosing to make sure your site is hitting the quality indicators, so you never get one of these:
SEO has evolved into a series of webmaster best-practices mixed with well worded descriptive content, participation and promotion in social media, and ongoing page or site modifications based on analytic data.
Google is also indexing structured data found in the form of schemas and microformats on websites, which it shares with the webmasters in Google Webmaster Tools. Google is so committed to this that Google's Search Quality team has been renamed to...
Cutts recounted how Google started out slow only giving messages in Webmaster Tools for hidden text and parked domains. Cutts says long term Google wants as close to ideal rankings and best quality search results possible.
For future updates, Lee added they would be announced on Baidu’s Webmaster Tools. While Baidu generally do not acknowledge such changes, the Chinese search giant’s engineer from the anti-spam team known only as "Lee" told webmasters that an update...
Starting on July 19, Google’s Search Quality team sent out alerts via Webmaster Tools, informing site owners and webmasters: Perhaps we should call this new Google Webmaster Tools message an “unnatural link watch” – at least until you’ve spotted a...
You need to do technical SEO, to make sure that your content is registered with Google Webmaster Tools, and fully crawlable by the search engines. FC: I got those first 3,500 search visitors a day purely accidentally, though the sheer volume of...
A penalty is a manual action taken against a site and you will “pretty much always” be notified in Webmaster Tools if it’s a penalty affecting your site. What is Google looking for in a high quality website, worthy of top rankings?
In Google’s handling of the ‘unnatural link’ notices in webmaster tools, they did not provide clear guidance to all webmasters and treated webmasters as “guilty until proven innocent”. He had received but never actually noticed the warning letter...
So how do you do that and how can it help you should a dreaded unnatural links email fall into your inbox via Webmaster Tools? It is possible to save your site even if you have a spammy backlink profile cluttered with links Google may view as low...
Granted, Google’s definition of spam has varied, but generally they have done a good job of being vocal in the community through Matt Cutts, head of Google's web spam team, and also through Google’s own Webmaster guidelines.
Unlike site verification files for Webmaster Tools and Analytics, however, there will only be a limited supply of Bamboo at large for those threatened by the Big Panda update. Due to the limited supply of Bamboo, Google's Webmaster Central team are...
These days a webmaster needs an SEO in much the same way that a business needs an accountant just to keep up with the latest changes in tax law. The innovation which Google brought to search engine algorithms was to try to derive content quality...
There are other ways to accomplish the same thing, via rel canonical meta tags and URL normalization and parameter handling in the Bing and Google webmaster toolsets, respectively. Bing, especially, seems to respond to high-quality sitemaps, and...
Apparently as early as last week, State of Search reports, users whose WordPress was out of date were receiving notices from the Google Webmaster Tools team stating as such. The Google Webmaster team is now notifying webmasters who are using an...
Using a process similar to Google's site verification process, site owners will be able to be automatically re-included into the Google Search Results (SERP) by downloading a text file from their Webmaster Tools account.
This data is available in a few ways, either through the (now outdated) Overture leak, or by viewing CTR data for many clients across industries through the Google Webmaster Tools search query report (one of the benefits agencies have working with...
The site performance was slow, with Google Webmaster Tools showing page load times taking up to 15 seconds (slower than 92 percent of sites). However, given the sheer quantity, we were concerned that it could be affecting the perceived quality of...
