SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 17, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Topic: Webmaster
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 16, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Must Read Link Building Posts From This Week
Over the past couple days and specifically yesterday and today, we have seen a large number of high quality blog posts in regards to link building, link buying, link exchanges and bad links. I thought I share with you some of those posts here:
Google Updates Link Scheme Webmaster Guidelines
I reported on a WebmasterWorld thread, which noticed Google added the word “excessive” to their link schemes Webmaster guidelines page. The line now reads, examples of link schemes can include “excessive reciprocal links or excessive link exchanging (“Link to me and I’ll link to you.”).” The new word added to this page, as of yesterday, […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 14, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Webmaster Tools Adds Malware Review Form
The Google Webmaster Central Blog announced a new feature to submit a request to Google to review pages that were labeled as being malware. Google Search Results Now May Display Malware Warnings from us provides background on how the warnings work. In addition, Google has been sending malware notifications via email to webmasters. The main […]
Google Dumps The Supplemental Results Label
As many expected, Google has announced that it is dumping the supplemental result label for pages listed within its supplemental index. Does that mean the supplemental index has gone away? No. But Google promises that being in the supplemental index versus the main index should be less of an issue for site owners, going forward. […]
Vote For The Next New Google Webmaster Central Feature
Matt Cutts of Google has invited people to vote on the next possible Google Webmaster Central feature. The available features on the poll include:
When Ignorance Isn’t Bliss: What You Don’t Know About Your Web Site Can Hurt You
It’s tough to be a small business in today’s fast paced world. Small businesses not only have to know their core industry inside out, but now they have the additional burden of being proficient in online marketing. Since many small businesses have limited staff, most people within these companies wear multiple hats, from CEO to […]
You’ve Got Mail! Google Webmaster Central Gains Message Center
The Google Webmaster Central service has gained a new “Message Center” area that will initially be use to notify site owners of official spam penalty problems and eventually used to communicate about other issues related to site inclusion at Google. You’ll find the message center when you log into Google Webmaster Central, from the Dashboard […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 18, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Ask.com Adds Sitemaps Autodiscovery Support
It appears that Ask.com is now implementing support for the Sitemaps protocol that they got behind back in April. One of our readers commented here notifying us that Ask.com added a pinging service for autodiscovery. Checking further, I found the details on how to ping Ask.com is its Webmaster Help documents. In addition, try this […]
Moving Your Site? How Quickly Do Search Engines Catch Your 301 Redirect
Most webmasters dread moving a site from one domain to a new domain and would do whatever they can to avoid it. However, sometimes you cannot avoid making the move. In these cases, what are the various strategies you can use to reduce the SEO concerns with making this move? Aaron Wall posted a case […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 6, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
June 2007: Search Engine Land’s Most Popular Stories
Below are Search Engine Land’s 10 most popular stories from June 2007:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 19, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Webmaster Tools Adds Paid Link Reporting Form & More
The Google Webmaster Central blog announced the addition of a few new features to Webmaster Central Tools. The main feature is a new form where you can report paid links that you find on various sites. This feature was discussed at the Search Marketing Expo conference and provides a more formal way of reporting paid […]
Happy 10th Birthday, Search Engine Watch – A History Of The Site
Ten years ago today, I created Search Engine Watch. Now I’m here at Search Engine Land, but since I ran SEW for 95 percent of its existence, I thought it would be nice to look back and cover how it evolved and changed over the years. So here’s a stroll down memory lane. Some of […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 5, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google Updates & Details Webmaster Guidelines
Google has just updated their Google Webmaster guidelines page with clearer and more detailed guidelines. If you scroll down to the quality guidelines portion and the “Quality guidelines – specific guidelines” section, you will notice that those specifics are now hyperlinked to more details. Avoid hidden text or hidden links. Don’t use cloaking or sneaky […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 11, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google Stops Sending Penalty Notification Emails Due To Fake Warnings
Vanessa Fox posted an update to fake German Google webmaster penalty notifications that I reported yesterday. In that post, she explained that the emails sent from [email protected] warning that your site will be banned from the Google.de index are fake. Google will temporarily be halting the notification of webmaster penalty emails until they can “provide […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 3, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Live Search To Offer Webmaster Tools Section Soon?
Eytan Seidman of Live Search responded to the recent questions on why the Live.com link command went offline. He said it was primarily due to “mass automated usage for data mining.” So they have decided to block all queries with backlink operators for the time being. Eytan adds that they hope to bring this functionality […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 27, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google Webmaster Central Blog Jetzt Auf Deutsch
Like the advice you get from the Google Webmaster Central blog? Heute kommt es auf Deutsch. Think I got that right. Two years of college German, and that’s the best I can do. German speakers can now keep up on the happenings with Google’s support for site owners in their native language. Some posts from […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 6, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Term Highlighting and Search Engine Optimization
One of the reasons I tend to focus on “organic” search engine optimization (SEO), as an online marketing strategy is that the majority of search results come from the natural spidering process. Admittedly, searchers tend to look at and click on the top results from both the paid and unpaid listings. However, after carefully evaluating […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Feb. 21, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Some SEOs Suggest To Verify But Not Submit A Google Sitemap
Google Webmaster Central is an awesome product and I personally love it. It offers ways for SEOs and Webmasters to learn more about how Google is treating their site. It also offers ways for Webmasters to notify Google of content by submitting a Google Sitemap to them. But some SEOs suggest that you should not […]
Google Releases New Link Reporting Tools
For years, Google’s link: command (and see here) has deliberately failed to show all the links to a website. This came out of Google’s fear that site owners simply wanted the data to try and manipulate rankings — which was pretty true. Instead, they only provided a sampling of backlinks. Today, that changes. Google Webmaster […]
Yahoo Adds Link Badge In Site Explorer
Kevin Gibbons spotted the “badge” link on Site Explorer that takes you to this page enabling anyone to place code on their site to show of the number of links they have to a specific page or to their site. As I commented earlier, badges that show off the number of links to a site […]
Of Disappearing Sex Blogs & Google Updates
Last week, Barry Schwartz reported there seemed to be a Google update going, based on forum activity he was seeing. Google’s Matt Cutts quickly followed up with a short refresher on the difference between algorithm updates, data refreshes and index updates. The purpose was to explain that any changes some people were seeing were likely […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Dec. 22, 2006
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web: Danny, I and the rest of the Search Engine Land crew would like to wish you all a Happy Holidays!
Yahoo Says No Directory Tag Coming January 2007
I reported this morning at Search Engine Roundtable that Tim Mayer from Yahoo posted in a WebmasterWorld thread saying support for a “No Yahoo Directory” tag will be coming this January. A No Yahoo Directory tag will enable webmasters to tell Yahoo not to use their Yahoo Directory title in the search results. Yahoo began […]
Google On Using Images
Vanessa Fox at the Google Webmaster Central Blog posted tips on using images on your site. In short, she explains that: (1) Don’t put the bulk of your visible text in images, use real text (2) Use alt tags to describe the images (3) Do not keyword stuff the alt tags (4) Alt tags are […]