Disclaimer: Penalties of any type are difficult to recover from – especially if they are severe, such as homepage removal. Have you ever received a Google Webmaster email stating that your site was given a "manual spam penalty" for having "pure spam"?
For instance, having a blanket redirect to your mobile homepage when the site detects a user is on a smartphone, despite the fact they have clicked on a deep link, has now been called out as an explicit no-no (see diagram below for what not to do).
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.
When analyzing the link profiles of websites hit by Penguin 2.0, you can clearly see unnatural links pointing to deeper pages on the site, and not just the homepage. When announcing the release of Penguin 2.0, Cutts explained that Penguin 1.0 only...
A key indicator that the site is managed by a cybersquatter would be if there are adverts all over the homepage. While online marketing is still a major tool for bringing new customers into your sales funnel, many business transactions are still...
Or the homepage may have 99 percent of the links and barely any of the subpages get any good ones. In some cases, a homepage might have barely any links, but subpages have a ton of great ones, and the competitors show the same pattern.
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. So before you decide you must, must, must have those ads on your site, think about having an...
Seeing more content on the YouTube homepage? In an announcement made April 23 via the YouTube Creators blog, YouTube let users and creators know that there would be a change, or rather a series of changes, coming to the homepage feed (or sub-box...
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? Enhanced campaigns get Google+ annotations and an upgrade center.
Comedy Central has added a #ComedyFest tab to its homepage slideshow that takes users to the festival schedule on its Tumblr page. If Shakespeare was right and brevity is indeed the soul of wit, Comedy Central and Twitter are on the right track.
This approach is excellent for small businesses who need the essence of their homepage text to appear on their mobile site. Finding the right match is already complicated, and adding in the source device sheds some light on visitors and traffic...
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. The American jazz vocalist won 13 Grammy awards and sold 40 million albums.
The feature was originally launched on Yahoo's homepage last February. Yahoo has launched an iPhone app using Summly's technology less than a month after buying the firm. Yahoo bought Summly for $30 million in late March.
Homepage Article Image Credit: SuperLaugh Once that work is done, you'll then have to file a reconsideration request to get your penalty removed and return to Google's search results. However, Google's message doesn't provide you with any...
WordPress Homepage: Blog Posts or a Static Page? Because its conception was for bloggers, the default setting sets the homepage to output your latest posts. WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems available today.
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. We all know that. However, in the rush to get those rankings (that lead to converting traffic of...
In addition to first-degree connections, Yang said you can also mention other LinkedIn members engaged in conversations in the comment sections of posts on the Homepage. Professional social network LinkedIn is rolling out a Facebook-style tool that...
Looking further, what are the URLs that are ranking aside from the homepage and other top level pages? Beyond the homepage, main product/service offering pages, what are the "supporting content" pages which have a high amount of links linking back...
