Marie Haynes has said that she uses WMT links exclusively to get manual penalties removed it works for her. It has now been 18 days since Penguin 2.0 rolled out on May 22, 2013. In the aftermath of that rollout, webmasters that were affected are...
Take data from Google and Bing Webmaster Tools (WMT) and try to validate what you’re seeing there in your web analytics tools (e.g. Take the time to really understand your WMT data. For example, if you notice you have a slow page load time in WMT...
Of course, the incredible webmaster tools given freely to us by search engines should have equal importance as analytics and visitor tracking, since issues found within WMT can suggest other problems with site design and visitor path, if viewed...
On February 6, 2013 I noticed that over half of the links that once appeared in a client’s WMT backlink sample had “disappeared. The worst time to conduct a link audit is when you need to. Don’t wait for a Penguin update to wipe out your rankings...
From initial glance at our WMT’s accounts we now have regained access to every old account we have previously been given access to, whether that is a previous client or maybe a site that came to us for some short term consultancy.
WMT Overview on January 10 This is Bing’s first crack at a set of official guidelines around most major topics affecting webmasters looking to optimize their sites for Bing. The broad categories covered in their guidelines are:
Another confusing caveat is that the WMT Help resource has been updated to reflect the new tool name, but it still says it is available in English only, despite the announcement of new languages. Google announced improvements to their rich snippet...
Here's the final email sent to the client from WMT: These types of preventive measure alerts from WMT are relatively new and part of Google's continued campaign to give site owners more visibility into their site's performance (and diagnose...
Google WMT team members Thomas Biggs and Andrei Pascovici explain, “Google parses and stores a fixed number of pages for each site and item type. The second minor change in WMT allows webmasters to prove ownership of their domain using CNAME records.
Over the weekend, Google worked on it more and Cutts announced a couple changes to differentiate “individual links aren’t trusted” from “our opinion of your entire site is affected” messages – individualized messages and the elimination of a...
If you're working on an aged site with Webmaster Tools implemented, you might also grab site-wide CTR (you'll need to download and average it yourself from WMT since average CTR isn't an exposed data point) and use that as a data point, since you...
Did Google Send WMT Notifications About Penguin? What is Google looking for in a high quality website, worthy of top rankings? Well according to Matt Cutts, head of Google’s web spam team, you must first use as many keywords as possible; the...
Strangely enough, no data was pulled in by Google WMT on UCSF so that locale was excluded from the graph. Most local search professionals will tell you that citations and site relevance to the target geo are the keys to ranking in local search...
Tools (IIS, Firebug, Linkdex, WMT etc. One thing that is frequently brought up by SEO directors or people in similar roles both in-house and agency side, is that it’s really hard to find good people. Even though SEO isn’t an entirely new subject...
As Cutts outlined in the launch of Webmaster Tools back in August 2006 - WMT allows sites to discover crawl errors, set the redirect for domains' www and non-www and even warns of spam penalties - and that was six years ago.
Set up email delivery for WMT messages to get these notifications right away. Remember that notifications are only available for your top pages, the ones your WMT account is already monitoring. The actual language in Google’s WMT Help article says...
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