If you keep up to date with all things search optimization (like you should be!), you know that the rel=author tag is really important for establishing yourself as an authority in Google search results. Declaring authorship presents the articles you write in the search results with your photo positioned next to them. This makes your …
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Recently, a user on YouTube asked Matt Cutts, chief of Google’s webspam team a question about when the company will support webmaster questions and not just provide automated responses. This user in particular was lamenting the fact that he has only ever received automated responses to his reconsideration requests, even though he always wrote out …
When you’re trying to optimize a website, much of your focus is on the content you create. That is, you spend you’re time thinking about how to rank well for specific keywords or making sure your site doesn’t have any duplicate content. This is all fine and well but it leaves a huge gap in …
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Today we’re going to discuss the latest video from chief Google engineer, Matt Cutts, who offers up regular tips and tricks to webmasters. The topic for today is penalty link examples. When you manage a website, it’s important to have an understanding of your linking strategy. This means you need to know what sites link …
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We have another confirmation that with right amount of effort the manual spam action taken by Google for unnatural/spam links can be revoked. It took us a significant amount of time spent on reviewing our client’s website for unnatural linking, contacting many webmasters for removing unnatural links and utilizing Webmaster disavow tool for links/domain we …
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We’re going to talk about some information given out by SEO expert and Google engineer, Matt Cutts today. As you know, he’s the go-to source for everything having to do with webspam and site optimization, so without further adieu, let’s discuss some questions and answers. First up, a user wanted to know how Google treats …
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The Webmaster Guidelines put out by Google help people who build websites learn what to do and what not to do in terms of designing and creating their homes on the web. Basically, there are some things you can do that might penalize you in the eyes of the search engine. Webspam content violations are …
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Welcome to yet another post about Google engineer, Matt Cutts, who is the head of the webspam team, and some of the answers he’s provided to questions recently over on his YouTube channel about SEO. We’re going to talk about three specific topics today. First, Cutts noted that they are going to begin sending out …
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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 …
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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 …
