Is Google Influencing the Organic Ranking for Political Searches on the Web?

When you open up Google to perform a search about politics, the company may be influencing how you feel about these topics. At least that’s what some speculators are stating in the aftermath of the NSA scandal. A recent study, cited in a Fox News clip,was conducted to evaluate the role of SEO in how …

Matt Cutts Answers Questions About Rel=Author and Misconceptions SEO Professionals Have

Time for more invaluable answers to questions about SEO from Google engineer and head of the webspam team, Matt Cutts. The first question we’re going to cover today has to do with the tag rel=author. A user asked if Google will be evaluating how this tag is used in the future and if those who …

Matt Cutts Answers Questions About Advertorials and SERP Subjectivity

It’s that time again! Time to talk about some questions and answers posted up on Matt Cutts’ YouTube channel. Matt Cutts is the head of the webspam team at Google and today he’s talking about advertorials. Advertorials are basically like native advertising but look much more like natural content or editorials. The problem here is …

Matt Cutts Answers Questions About Domain Names, Page Ranking, and Unnatural Links

It’s that time of the week once again, where we look at some of the questions Google engineer, Matt Cutts has been asked and the answers he provided. Hopefully, this will give you some good insights into current SEO practices and what you can do to further optimize your website. The first question had to …