Most people know that the (good and bad) links from other websites are a very important signal for Google’s ranking algorithms. However, the links on your own website also influence the position of your...
In a Google Webmaster Help thread, Google’s John Mueller explained that your pages do not have to be identical if you want to redirect page A to page B: “If these pages are equivalent,...
Our keyword suggestion tool has become even more powerful. In addition to the existing countries and languages, the keyword suggestion tool now supports Greece (Greek), Indonesia (English), Philippines (English), Colombia (Spanish) and Switzerland (Italian)....
Google’s algorithm updates have shown that your website can get in major trouble if your website has the wrong type of backlinks. How do you judge the quality of a website? What is a good...
Although you do not know it, some of your web pages might block Google. If Google cannot access all of your web pages, you’re losing visitors and sales. Here are five reasons why Google...
Paid search marketing on Google AdWords and other sites is a quick and easy way to get listed on Google and other search engines for the keywords that are related to your business. Unfortunately,...
All website owners need more traffic and more sales. Search engine optimization (SEO) is one of the best ways to reach these goals. Many people lose a lot of money because they don’t use...
In a webmaster hangout, a webmaster asked if it was a positive ranking factor if a visitor filled out a form or spent time on a website. Google’s John Mueller said that this is...
On Twitter, Google’s Gary Illyes said that links that point to non-existent (404) pages on your website do not count. This even applies to “soft” 404 pages, i.e. pages that show an error message...
Now that Google penalizes websites with bad backlinks, getting high quality backlinks has become even more important than it was before. Many people say that content matters most, which is true to some degree....
It seems that some webmasters add a noindex command to the robots.txt file of their website when they go on vacation. Google’s John Mueller has said on Google+ that you should not do that:...
Search engine optimization is so important that even Google is looking for SEO managers who help it to improve the organic rankings of their web pages. If you think that your website does not...
In a Google Hangout, Google’s John Mueller explained why the latest Panda 4.2 rollout update is taking months instead of weeks: “[The Panda rollout] is actually pretty much a similar update to before. For...
