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...
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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...
Google: be careful with article marketing
In a post on Google’s webmaster central blog, Google reminded webmasters that they can get in trouble if they syndicate articles just to get links. Lately we’ve seen an increase in spammy links contained...
Google’s John Mueller: getting links from spammy sites is different from getting unnatural links
On Twitter, Google’s John Mueller said that links from spammy sites can be ignored as long as these links aren’t unnatural: @scottzi07791910 @methode If they're not unnatural links, just happen to be from a...
Google’s penalty for intrusive interstitials on mobile websites now live
Google’s John Mueller and Google’s Gary Illyes both confirmed that Google started to roll out the penalty for mobile websites that use intrusive interstitials. What are intrusive interstitials? Google does not like the following...
Google: we take action against rich snippet spam
In a webmaster hangout, a person who works in Google’s rich snippet team said that Google takes action on rich snippet spam: “I’ve seen a lot of [rich snippet] spam reports and in my...