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Beyonce, Blackout, Ravens And M&Ms — What We Searched For During Super Bowl 2013
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What Google Webmaster Tools Search Query Data Does – And Doesn’t – Tell You
The Algorithm Updates Google Announces Aren't The Only Changes They Make
Google Updates Their Webmaster Guidelines To Include Details On Rich Snippet Abuse
Yahoo BOSS Expands To Offer Geolocation Data
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Is Google's Synonym Matching Increasing? How Searchers & Brands Can Be Both Helped & Hurt By Evolving Understanding Of Intent
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Google "Reveals Index Secrets": Charts Indexing of Your Site Over Time
Bing Launches Way to "Disavow" Links, But Why?
Bing Revamps Their Webmaster Tools & Launches Partial Yahoo Site Explorer Replacement
Peeking Into the World Of Google's Algorithm Changes With Google Search Quality Head Amit Singhal
Google Webmaster Tools Expands Query Data to 90 Days
No, Bing Doesn't Support Pagination Attributes to Consolidate Pages In A Series
Google Webmaster Tools Crawl Errors: How To Get Detailed Data From the API
Implementing Pagination Attributes Correctly For Google
Google Webmaster Tools Revamps Crawl Errors, But Is It For The Better?

Recent Comments

Implementing Pagination Attributes Correctly For Google

Eric, Do you have examples of these search results? You'll likely see the duplicate titles message in webmaster tools (since they are technically d

Implementing Pagination Attributes Correctly For Google

Eric, I talked to Google about this and they said they paginate before they process canonicals. I asked specifically about your scenario, thinking

Implementing Pagination Attributes Correctly For Google

Definitely for search results, the best bet is to noindex,follow them. This is more for category pages that have product listings. This page, for inst

“Spreading Santorum” Drops At Google; New Site Keeps Anal Sex Definition At Number One

This presents as a technical issue to me. (Or possibly but less likely, a penalty I guess.) I wonder if they changed anything recently on the site (th

Is SEO Killing America?

Mark, your comment is exactly what I was trying to say in the article. I think we agree entirely. :)

Did Super Bowl Advertisers Take Advantage of Search Interest?

Haha. Thanks for the catch.

Google’s Jaw-Dropping Sponsored Post Campaign For Chrome

C.A., you said: "The video appears to use javascript links and while Google crawler understands this, it does not pass page rank (i.e. is not again

Do You Have Duplicate Content Issues Across Domain? Google Will Now Alert You

Heh, yes. Thanks.

Panda Update 3.0 Live & Panda “Flux”

See this interview for my thoughts about Google's motivations and impact on Google's revenue: http://www.stonetemple.com/a-holistic-look-at-panda-wit

Former Google Search Reps Start Search Quality Alliance

I don't really think of what I do as offering SEO services at all, actually. I'm not sure if they think of themselves that way either. I help organiza

Google Provides New Options for Paginated Content

Ashish and suzukik - You are correct. I looked into this a bit more. I'll talk through it more in the more detailed article I'm working on. Joost's

Google Provides New Options for Paginated Content

Don, yes, you should remove the noindex when you add rel=next/prev. Ashish, this is different from what wordpress and other CMS systems are doing a

Google Provides New Options for Paginated Content

To clarify -- this isn't meta data you add to links. Add these tags to the head section of pages. So next/previous links on a page aren't completely s

Google Begins Verifying Google+ Accounts

Any idea what the verification process is? I'm verified, but I have no idea how they went about it.

Google Panda Update 2.4: Panda Goes International, In Most Languages

Google said that this update includes some small English tweaks. I haven't seen them confirm one way or another if/how Panda impacts link value, but i

Google Panda Update 2.4: Panda Goes International, In Most Languages

I didn't dub it any number :)

Google Panda Update 2.4: Panda Goes International, In Most Languages

Ideibler, I believe that's correct.

Google Continues to Encourage Site Owners to Think Beyond PageRank

Michael - You are absolutely right. I need to write about 15 more paragraphs for exactly the reason you say. I'm going to edit the post briefly now bu

Another Company Outed for Paid Links: Sequoia-Backed Milanoo

Danny, the point of my article was that we have no idea how often this type of thing is caught so when cases when it's not caught hits the news, it's

Post Panda Social Engagement Measurements

I think the key here isn't that a lot of fans or visits are signals that Google uses, but that fans and visits result when audiences like a site. Beca

The Leaky New York Times Paywall & How “Google Limits” Led To “Search Engine Limits”

Revenue is a tricky problem that goes well beyond convincing advertisers to pay as much for online ads as they do for print ads. (For instance, classi

25 Things I Hate About Google, Revisited 5 Years Later

I'm not angry. I just disagree. I feel as though Google offers a lot of guaranteed support for site owners that didn't use to be available, including

Virgin Mary, Baby Jesus “Seen” On Google Maps

What does it mean that all I see is dirt?

25 Things I Hate About Google, Revisited 5 Years Later

OH COME ON! You "hate" that Google still has no site owner support? You wrote the original article in March 2006 when Webmaster Central didn't exist (

SearchReviews: A Search Engine For 40 Million Reviews (And Counting)

Since they are crawling the web and not grabbing reviews from partnerships and available APIs, will be interesting to see if any of those sites block

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