Google seems to have announced some coming changes to its algorithm in the latest "Webmaster Help" video. Head of webspam Matt Cutts said the search engine is working on some chang...
Google announced an adjustment to the way sites' index status data appears in Webmaster Tools. The index status feature now tracks a site's indexed URLs for both HTTP and HTTPS as...
In the latest "Webmaster Help" video from Google, Matt Cutts talks about what goes into evaluating the quality of an algorithm change before they push it out.
Here's the questi...
Google has been fined by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to the tune of roughly $166,000 (US) in relation to an antitrust probe launched two years ago.
The probe bega...
In the latest "Webmaster Help" video from Google, Matt Cutts takes on the following question:
Is there any way Google identifies "sister" websites? For example, relationshi...
Have you thought about branching out in different directions for your blog content? It might not be a great idea if you're worried about staying on Google's good side. No, it would...
Google's Matt Cutts randomly tweeted a tip about the Disavow Links tool. Don't delete your old file if you upload a new one because it "confuses folks," and the last thing you'd wa...
Google has been granted what could be its patent for the controversial Panda update. It was filed on September 28, 2012, a year and a half after the update first launched, and awar...
As Google's Knowledge Graph continues to give users "quick answers" to their queries, it reduces the need to have to click over to another website.
Google has quietly been servi...
Remember the days when you could build some nice solid links by writing guest posts on other people's blogs and publications? Well, it's entirely possible that those days are still...
If you've ever lost your search engine rankings to a competing site, you may have wondered if you were suffering from an algorithmic penalty from Google or if your content simply w...
Dorothy Irene Height is being remembered with a Google doodle on her 102nd birthday (she passed away in 2010).
Height was a civil rights and women's rights activist, as well as...