Google Webmaster Trends analyst John Mueller says sites shouldn’t focus on individual factors of individual algorithms, but rather on fixing sites themselves to improve rankings.

Today, Google announced it is extending its popular product listing ads (PLAs) to retail and e-commerce sites across the Google Search Network. The ads are served via a new Google product called AdSense for Shopping, which offers retail and e-commerce sites another way to monetize site traffic… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

On Friday, I saw dozens of threads in the Google Webmaster Help forums with people complaining about major traffic loses.

After Getty Images filed a lawsuit citing “massive infringement,” Bing has temporarily removed the new tool it said would make it easier to display images and slideshows on websites.

Who wouldn’t want every single visitor to their website to make a purchase (or three), before they leave?

As part of our coverage from the Share 14 conference in San Francisco, I caught up with Dixon Jones from Majestic SEO to discuss topical trust flow and get a better understanding of what that is and how it helps people find what they’re looking for online. In the video below, Dixon explains that topical trust flow is a way of connecting the dots between different websites based on their relevance and correlation to each other. He says this type of data is used by SEOs to figure out where influence exists within a specific niche and how different pages are […] The post Understanding Topical Trust Flow: An Interview with Dixon Jones by @murraynewlands appeared first on Search Engine Journal

No one would embark upon an SEO plan without optimizing their text for SEO.

In a lot of cases, links from methods that many would consider bad are not just part of a natural profile but can actually drive traffic and PageRank.

I personally spend a lot of time within the SEO space investigating claims of Google algorithm updates; it is a fascinating topic because there are so many variables involved and a lot of secrecy on Google’s end around its search algorithms. Often, Google will not confirm updates or algorithm…

We know Google demotes non mobile friendly web sites in smartphone search results. But for some reason, there is a debate if Google gives a ranking boost to responsive design sites over other mobile formatted sites that deploy Google’s best practices…