Google: information about keyword stuffing
Keyword stuffing is a spam technique that was popular many years ago. If you included a keyword often enough on a page, it was possible to get high rankings for that keyword. Of course,...
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Google: we don’t like spam
Google’s Juan Felipe Rincon shared further information on Google’s war on spam in Google’s official blog. Google sent 6 million manual action messages last year Google’s algorithms detect spam automatically. When Google’s algorithms detect...
How to recover from a Google penalty
Google penalties are bad. If Google penalizes your website, they have found out that you used spam methods to promote your site (see list below). It can be difficult to recover from a penalty....
Google’s John Mueller: AMP does not increase your rankings
In a webmaster hangout on YouTube, Google’s John Mueller talked about the influence of AMP on the rankings of your web pages. Your website will be listed differently on Google’s search result pages (for...
Google’s definition of doorway pages
Google does not like doorway pages. In a webmaster hangout on YouTube, Google’s John Mueller gave is own definition of doorway pages. “A doorway page would be if you have a large collection of...
Google does not recommend generic disavow files
In a Google webmaster hangout, a webmaster asked Google’s John Mueller if it was okay to use one generic disavow links file that can be used for all sites that he manages. John Mueller...
Google: do not use misleading event markup
Google has posted a blog entry about misleading event markup code. Appearantly, Google has been receiving feedback from users seeing non-events like coupons or vouchers showing up in search results where “events” snippets appear:...
Google’s John Mueller: when to submit a disavow links file
Some days ago, Google’s Gary Illyes said that you do not have to submit a disavow links file to Google unless your website has a manual penalty. In a Google Webmaster hangout, Google’s John...
Google’s Gary Illyes: you do not have to submit a disavow file if you do not have a manual penalty
At the Pubcon Search, Social Media, Marketing conference in Las Vegas, Google’s Gary Illyes said that you do not have to submit a disavow file to Google if your website does not have a...
Google: moving domains won’t help if your website has low quality
If your website has been hit by Panda, it won’t help to move your website to a new domain. Google Panda is part of Google’s core algorithm. Websites with low quality content are downranked...
Google: we can also ignore links from Forbes and Entrepreneur.com
On Twitter, Google’s Gary Illyes said that they can also ignore links from Forbes and Entrepreneur.com if these links are artificial: First, I doubt they can actually pull that off. Second, we're pretty good...
Google: we penalize egregious link manipulation schemes
Some weeks ago, Google’s John Mueller said that Google makes a difference between unnatural links and spammy links. Gary Illyes has confirmed on Twitter that Google ignores unnatural links as long as it does...