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| 161: |  What To Do With A Great Google SEO TrickI discovered something in one of my zillions of tests I always have running, something huge. Something so huge in fact that after several additional tests has me shaking today. | Oct 28, 2011 | ||
| 162: | Google Removes + Search Operator, Expands Quotation Marks Functionality We've made the ways you can tell Google exactly what you want more consistent by expanding the functionality of the quotation marks operator. In addition to using this operator to search for an exact phrase, you can now add quotation marks around a single word to tell Google to match that word precisely. | Oct 24, 2011 | ||
| 163: | So Long Google And Thanks For All The Fish Two months ago I sold my main business. It was a website that depended 100pct on free Google traffic. We had owned the site since 1995 and after I visited a conference and found out what Google wanted to see to rank well, it started making money in 2001.[br][br]Then came Panda. The time I had feared for over 10 years had finally arrived and Google no longer loved us, they liked us, but the heavy petting of the past was over between us. Our income dived by 45% which was tough to swallow. | Oct 21, 2011 | ||
| 164: | So Long Google And Thanks For All The Fish Two months ago I sold my main business. It was a website that depended 100pct on free Google traffic. We had owned the site since 1995 and after I visited a conference and found out what Google wanted to see to rank well, it started making money in 2001.[br][br]Then came Panda. The time I had feared for over 10 years had finally arrived and Google no longer loved us, they liked us, but the heavy petting of the past was over between us. Our income dived by 45pct which was tough to swallow. | Oct 21, 2011 | ||
| 165: | Minor Google Panda Update Reported Oct 19/20 It would seem my previous Panda slap has been reversed although I hesitate to say that for sure since the day is only half over. | Oct 21, 2011 | ||
| 166: | A Fix for Google, How to Implement Referral Privacy Correctly WebmasterWorld Members discuss a possible solution to the issue of Google referrer data under SSL. | Oct 21, 2011 | ||
| 167: | Google to stop giving referral data - by moving to SSL? When you search from https://www.google.com, websites you visit from our organic search listings will still know that you came from Google, but won't receive information about each individual query. | Oct 19, 2011 | ||
| 168: | Google Panda Update Continues WebmasterWorld Members discuss the latest Google Panda update of the last few days. | Oct 18, 2011 | ||
| 169: | Google Updates and SERP Changes - Oct 2011 WebmasterWorld's monthly look at Google's SERPs changes. | Oct 10, 2011 | ||
| 170: | New Panda Related Update - September 27 When asked if an iteration of Panda was implemented this week, a Google spokesperson told us, "yes." She also provided the following statement: [br][br]"We're continuing to iterate on our Panda algorithm as part of our commitment to returning high-quality sites to Google users. This most recent update is one of the roughly 500 changes we make to our ranking algorithms each year." | Oct 1, 2011 | ||
| 171: | Happy 13th Birthday Google Google is celebrating its 13th Birthday, today, 27th September. | Sept 27, 2011 | ||
| 172: | Analysing Optimal Reading Level in Google SERPs WebmasterWorld Members assess the Optimal Reading Level in Google SERPs. What does it mean for you and your site? | Sept 25, 2011 | ||
| 173: | The Impact on SEO of Changing IP Address from US to UK WebmasterWorld Members discuss the impact on positioning by changing the server IP from US to UK. | Sept 24, 2011 | ||
| 174: | Google Panda Interation Sept 16-18 or so? I'm hearing some reports of site-wide ranking demotions over the weekend that have a similar pattern to what we saw with Panda. That is, lots of keywords affected, but the demotions are not at all uniform the way we often see in a site-wide penalty. | Sept 20, 2011 | ||
| 175: | Google Layout Change of SERPs Google changed the layout of their SERPS this week to add an additional 1-2cm white gap between the search box and the results with the word "search" on the left and "about 10,000,000 results (0.15 seconds)" above the results.[br][br]This additional gap has pushed down all organic results so would essentially reduce the number of referrals for people. | Sept 16, 2011 | ||
| 176: | Google incorporates blocked sites into search results "We've also started incorporating data about sites people have blocked into our general search ranking algorithms to help users find more high quality sites..." | Sept 15, 2011 | ||
| 177: | Life After Google Penalty I thought I would share this with everyone to show Google may be King but Bing is most definately the Queen. It would be interesting to hear of similiar stories.[br][br]It can seem like the end of the world getting a G penality. I have had my share of them, the most recent at the start of the year a -50. The site was a high earning site and I was ready to hang the boots up and move on.[br][br]After the initial shock and numb feeling that lasted around three days, I decided that it was time to look at what to do and where to go. Looking at my stats traffic was down from a high of 18,000 to numbers that I had seen years ago, 800+. Not a single Google referal a few Yahoo and the rest of them Bing. | Sept 11, 2011 | ||
| 178: | Google Updates and SERP Changes - Sep 2011 WebmasterWorld's monthly look at Google's SERPs changes. | Sept 10, 2011 | ||
| 179: | Googlebot Is Getting Caught in robots.txt Spider Traps I saw today that Googlebot got caught in a spider trap that it shouldn't have as that dir is blocked via robots.txt I know of at least one other person recently who this has also happened to. Why is GB ignoring robots? [br][br]...Perhaps we need a list from Google explaining EXACTLY under which circumstances they would/will ignore robots.txt, since they are essentially acting like a spam bot or scraper.[br][br] | Sept 4, 2011 | ||
| 180: | Having Google +1 button on a page will override robots.txt blocks! Now this one is interesting.I just found this answer from a google employee in one of their forum threads. The +1 Button is only intended to be used on pages that contain all public content. By putting the button on a page we're taking it as an indication from you that this page is public content. This means that we will fetch your page even if crawler directives indicate otherwise. | Sept 2, 2011 | ||
| 181: | Google Webmaster Tools Now Sees Subdomains As Internal Links "Today we're making a change to the way we categorize link data in Webmaster Tools. As you know, Webmaster Tools lists links pointing to your site in two separate categories: links coming from other sites, and links from within your site. Today's update won't change your total number of links, but will hopefully present your backlinks in a way that more closely aligns with your idea of which links are actually from your site vs. from other sites." | Sept 1, 2011 | ||
| 182: | Fancy Snippets - Bullet Points in SERP's I noticed recently google started to have a 3 line bullet points description for some retail sites. [br][br]Instead of showing the meta description or some text taken from the page in 2 lines, it's listing very short form of meta description on the first line, then taking a combination of the name, price and review rating of the top 3 items listed on page and list them in bullet points. | Aug 27, 2011 | ||
| 183: | Matt Cutts Announces Scraper Site Reporting Tool Google takes another look at scraper sites and poached content. | Aug 27, 2011 | ||
| 184: | New Advertisment Video on Google Nice ad from the search team: How Google makes improvements to its search algorithm | Aug 25, 2011 | ||
| 185: | Google traffic drops to ZERO. Penalized or pandalized? I read quite often here that people should not just jump to conclusions upon loosing some Google referrals. That your site is more likely to be algorithmically downgraded rather than penalized outright. Yet it's hard not to think of being penalized when the traffic drops to ZERO, (as in zilch). | Aug 23, 2011 | ||
| 186: | Google Panda And The Webmaster Web Content Purge WebmasterWorld Members discuss their content purging exercise and what its effect is on Google's Panada update. | Aug 22, 2011 | ||
| 187: | New "Show More Results" Infinite Scroll Google again tests auto loading scrolled results that stop at 1000 resutls (old page 100). | Aug 17, 2011 | ||
| 188: | Mega Sitelinks - everybody can see big sitelinks now We've seen Google testing big sitelinks many times so far. It seems official now (or rolling out gradually). It's so huge that it occupies above the fold. | Aug 16, 2011 | ||
| 189: | Google puts Google+ Posts on/in SERPs Whenever a user publicly shares a link on Google+, an annotation will show up under that link when it appears in a friend's search results. For example, if I share a Mashable article about Google+ eliminating pseudonyms publicly on my Google+ page, users who have added me to their circles will see a note that I shared that link if they stumble upon it in Google Search. | Aug 13, 2011 | ||
| 190: | Google Panda Now In All Languages Earlier this year, we rolled out our 'Panda' change for searches in English around the world. Today we're continuing that effort by rolling out our algorithmic search improvements in different languages. | Aug 12, 2011 | ||
| 191: | Google Panda Update 2.4? Are They Now Processed In Real Time WebmasterWorld Members reporting Google Panda 2.4, and asking the question whether thay are now processed in real time. | Aug 10, 2011 | ||
| 192: | Google Improves Webspam And Malware Report Form We've noticed that our users sometimes report these other issues using our webspam report form, causing a delay between when a user reports the issue and when the appropriate team at Google handles it. The new form's interstitial page allows you to report these other search issues directly to the correct teams so that they can address your concerns in a timely manner. [br] | Aug 9, 2011 | ||
| 193: | "In The Plex" - Getting a Clearer Picture of What Google IS If anyone wants to sail, then they need a real appreciation for the ocean. If they want to go backpacking, they need knowledge of the woods and terrain, and the more accurate the better.[br][br]We want to use Google organic search results as one way to market our web businesses, and yet we often have a very unrealistic idea of what, exactly, Google is. And when we operate under false assumptions, sooner or later we can get crushed.[br][br]For this reason I work very hard to build a realistic model of what Google is as a business - and what they are not. No kool-aid for me, but no knee-jerk negativity either. Both are distortions and will lead use astray. | Aug 9, 2011 | ||
| 194: | Google Synonym Bolding In SERPs For some sites, the synonym is bold, but for other sites, the synonym isn't bold - even when it seems clear that the synonym has the same meaning when used on all sites. | Aug 8, 2011 | ||
| 195: | Google Updates and SERP Changes - Aug 2011 WebmasterWorld's monthly look at Google's SERPs changes. | Aug 6, 2011 | ||
| 196: | Google Reconsideration Requests - New Clarity The area of Reconsideration Requests has become increasingly muddy, especially because Google now assesses some spam penalties by algorithm, and only manual penalties will be lifted through a Reconsideration Request. Unfortunately, there's no certain knowledge about what kind of spam penalty may have hit a website... so what's a webmaster to do? | Aug 5, 2011 | ||
| 197: | Reports Circulate of Google PageRank Update Today WebmasterWorld Members are reporting they may have seen a Google PageRank update. | Aug 4, 2011 | ||
| 198: | URL Submission to Google with Fetch as Googlebot The Fetch as Googlebot feature in Webmaster Tools now provides a way to submit new and updated URLs to Google for indexing. After you fetch a URL as Googlebot, if the fetch is successful, you'll now see the option to submit that URL to our index. When you submit a URL in this way Googlebot will crawl the URL, usually within a day. We'll then consider it for inclusion in our index. Note that we don't guarantee that every URL submitted in this way will be indexed... | Aug 4, 2011 | ||
| 199: | Google Chrome Pre-Fetch Caching Raising Ire Of Webmasters Instant Pages is on by default in the latest stable version of Chrome. | Aug 3, 2011 | ||
| 200: | Writing Titles That Get Clicks and Still Help Site Rank "So, how do you write titles that are eye-catching yet won't mess up your google rankings?"[br][br]WebmasterWorld Members come up with some great ideas. | Aug 2, 2011 | ||
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