According to Wikipedia, a controversial alternative medicine website called Natural News has been delisted from Google. The news site confirmed being removed from Google and recently claimed that the search engine banned them due to the site was pro-Trump. But according to Google, the site wasn’t removed for its politicall views, but because of a webmaster guidelines violation. […]
Recently, Google came under fire when search suggestions came up, such as “are women evil” or actual results that question if the Holocaust even happened. Luckily, there are folks at Google who are not ignoring the issue. They’re taking time to figure out the best and most comprehensive response. Last week, Danny Sullivan met with a number of […]
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It was in a conversation with Google’s Gary Illyes (part 1) podcast at Marketing Land that we learned that Google is adding labels to your links. With these labels, classifications or attributes can be added to the link, including whether the link is a footer link, whether it’s impacted by the latest Penguin update, or if it’s disavowed or other […]
On the evening of September 28th, Google’s Garry Illyes said tonight that those who were suffering from previous Penguin penalties should begin seeing recoveries. This is what he said on Twitter: @atmoore81 it’s happening as we speak. or tweet. it will take a few more days to finish that part — Gary Illyes (@methode) September 28, 2016 […]
Eric Enge from Stone Temple Consulting joins the SEJ team to discuss solutions to search penalties, declining traffic, and more. Learn more from Eric in his SEO guide chapter: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/seo-guide/what-to-do-when-things-go-wrong Download SEJ’s complete FREE SEO guide: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/s…
In a Google Webmaster Blog post this morning, Google issued a stern warning that they are reminding webmasters that links within widget can go against their webmaster guidelines. Googlers, Agnieszka Łata, Trust & Safety Search Team and Eric Kuan, Webmaster Relations Specialist wrote “we would like to reiterate our policy on the creation of keyword-rich, hidden or […]
Action has been taken by Google against airline deal websites like TripAdvisors, Expedia and others for misusing product rich snippets in their structured data markup. Googled ended up taking manual action against these sites by removing the rich snippets in search results for using this markup when showing price data for fight destination pages. It was confirmed yesterday […]
The other day, it was reported that over the weekend that Google had sent out outbound linking penalties to a mass number of webmasters. More information came out saying that this was directly related to the warning from Google gave a number of weeks ago for any bloggers to disclose free product reviews as such and nofollow links in their posts […]
Google has, over the past weekend, issued a number of manual actions, Google penalties for “unnatural outbound links.” This particular penalty is handed out manually by the Google manual actions team These penalties are given to sites that are linking out to other sites in an effort to manipulate the Google search results. With these situations Google […]