Like previous years, including last year, both Google’s John Mueller and Matt Cutts were spotted answering questions from webmasters in their support forums.

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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Fed up with Google’s continual changing of the rules?  Worn out by all mixed messages they send?  Sick and tired of being sick and tired of the endless insanity that’s known as SEO? Listen up, people.  If you want to stop getting hammered by Google for your SEO practices, you really need to pull your The post Get Over Yourself – Matt Cutts Did Not Just Kill Another SEO Kitten appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

As I mentioned in a previous post, search marketers should work on finding the middle ground between a high CTR (appealing ads) and a high conversion rate (qualified traffic). This process is trickier than it seems because of the inverse relationship between those two metrics. In this article, I’ll..

Most SEOs know that links are a very important ranking factor in Google’s algorithm.

Just over three months ago, Google launched the news keyword meta tag designed to let news publishers have a better chance of ranking for words they might not have included in their headlines. Adoption rate so far