An interesting question about Google Panda came up in today’s Google Webmaster hangout, asking if forcing a recrawl of a site would cause Google’s Panda algo to reevalate it sooner. If this was possible, this could definitely speed up Panda recovery time. That said, before you get into the if it would work, there are […]
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Does Google Value AJAX Content Less Than Static HTML Content?
AJAX is still pretty popular for websites, and at Google Dance Tokyo, Gary Illyes and the other Googlers were asked about whether AJAX content was valued less by Google when compared to straight static HTML content, or if Googlebot still has trouble with AJAX – something that many webmaster dealt with years ago. But does Googlebot […]
Crawl Frequency on NoIndex & Unavailable Pages Decline Over Time
During Gary Illyes keynote with Stone Temple one of the questions was regarding how Google handles a long term noindex on a page in regards to Googlebot crawling that page, if the crawl frequency would decline over time. Gary Illyes said that yes, they do drop the crawl frequency, not only for noindex, but for […]
3 DIY SEO Action Items for a $0 Budget
SEO is a marathon, not a sprint. It takes a methodical, slow-and-steady approach to achieve long-term results that can actual give you a decent return on investment. The issue with slow and steady is that it can cost a fair bit up front. Many SEO strategies are front-loaded, requiring technical clean up, baseline reporting, and […]
75% of Site Owners Cleaned Up Hacked Sites After Google Notification
Google released some interesting data on hacked sites and their attempts to notify webmasters that their sites were compromised. They also released information on just how many sites are hacked – Google detected over 800,000 alone last year. Email Notifications This led to 75% of hacked sites being cleaned up when Google was able to […]
Google Officially Turns Off All Public PageRank
If you were grasping onto the last visible signs of PageRank after Google officially announced the start of PageRank being turned off for SEOs, you will now have to go through PageRank withdrawl… Visible PageRank is now a thing of the past. Multiple users reported that the visible PageRank both within the toolbar and in […]
Implementing Hreflang? Google Recommends Hreflang Sitemaps
Is there one type of hreflang implementation that is more successful than others? Maile Ohye from Google was asked this question during the SEJ Summit on Wednesday. And she had some interesting comments about it, especially for first-time implmenetations. So does one hreflang implementation have greater success? I would say yes. And then there’s like […]
Using New JavaScript Frameworks? Google’s Advice for Crawling
At SEJ Summit on Wednesday, Maile Ohye from Google was asked about sites that are created using new JavaScript frameworks and progressive design elements… they can create fantastic looking websites, but when it comes from a search perspective, they can definitely cause crawling and ranking issues with not just Google but all search engines. Ohye […]
Outbound Link Manual Actions Related to Links in Paid Reviews
It seems that my speculation that the unnatural outbound link manual actions sent over the weekend were related to Google’s recent warning to bloggers about using followed links for paid reviews is accurate. Many, if not all, of the targeted sites are blogs and it is becoming apparent that they seem to have compensated reviews […]
Google Featured Snippets Expand to 10 European Countries & Languages
SEO just got a lot more interesting for those in the EU as Google has brought featured snippets to 10 European countries and languages. This means that the featured snippet could be the visual #1 organic result on pages where the search query triggers a featured snippet in the search results. The ten new countries/languages […]