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. We can't rely on spam and automation to boost traffic and search rankings anymore.
This seems to be part of the link devaluing Cutts talked about in his “What to expect” webmaster video earlier this week. If you have bought so-called “clean” links that pass PageRank, you might want to take a closer look to see if those links are...
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...
Bing's Webmaster Tools ahrefs Google Webmaster Tools Boy, do I love link data. I love generating a list of backlinks and digging through them to get an idea of what a client has so that I can figure out what a client needs to do.
Monitoring (Google Webmaster Tools, reporting, etc. It's been a crazy couple of years for SEO. We've seen the rise of unnatural links manual penalties. The infamous algo updates like Panda and Penguin, and some lesser talked about ones like the...
Instant results often involve SEO practices that are against webmaster guidelines put out by search engines. Nearly every business today must decide how much to spend on search engine optimization (SEO).
If you have a site impacted by ccTLDs, you can update your geolocation preferences right in Webmaster Tools. This can be set up for any site in Google Webmaster Tools for specific geographic targets by the following steps:
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. You Aren't Using Webmaster Resources
Bing Business Portal is Now Bing Places for Business – Bing Webmaster BlogYour business data should be migrated over automatically. Announcing Malware Re-Evaluation and Geo-Targeting in Webmaster Tools – Bing Webmaster BlogNew malware tool in...
Webmaster Central Blog Webmaster Guidelines Webmaster Tools - Crawl Errors The Crawl Errors report is is one of my favorites offered in Google Webmaster Tools. If you haven't already, subscribe to Google's Webmaster Central blog.
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. Three years ago, in April 2010, they indicated the speed of your website is a ranking factor.
There are also immediate webmaster tells if you're in contact. Webmaster sends you a list of sites he owns without you asking. Webmaster contacts you and says he has some great new sites for you to look at.
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: Dear site owner or webmaster of http://www.example.com/,
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...
The main drawback of using Google Webmaster Tools for ranking information, however, is that a view only ends up in the report when someone visited the page your website was on. After all, just by visiting Google Webmaster Tools you get visibility...
