Google+ Optimization or Community Building? Initially I looked at Google+ the same as other Google social projects like Wave and Orkut.
Over the past few weeks, I have seen an influx of both complaints about Google News Spam and publishers being dropped out of the Google News index. I honestly felt they went hand in hand
Aaron Wall named Q&A sites spam of the year in Google. We all know Google doesn’t want search results in their search index. Google says they do not want to display a link to a search engine’s search results as…
Webmasters and SEOs have new reading material for this weekend. Google has published a very comprehensive and detailed Robots.txt Specifications, Robots meta tag and X-Robots-Tag HTTP header specifications and how to control crawling and indexing by GoogleBot. There are two…
On the eve of Thanksgiving, several complaints started popping up in the Google Webmaster Help forums.
Google Social Search launched over a year ago. It really hasn’t caused much of a stir over the year. But now there are signs that Google Social Search is being expanded to Google Image Search
There is a subscription only thread at WebmasterWorld that has one SEO claiming he was able to increase his site’s ranking only through Twitter. What he did was send hundreds of Tweets over the timespan of two months. He tailored…
In the past years, SEOs have known not to use the site command or operator, i.e.
In the past years, SEOs have known not to use the site command or operator, i.e. site:www.domain.com in Google to determine the number of pages indexed for their site
Receiving a message in Google Webmaster Tools that reads “Googlebot found an extremely high number” is not uncommon for large sites.