Google Will Resume Sending Penalty Notifications

A post today at the Google Webmaster Central Blog announced that Google’s Search Quality Team will resume sending notification emails to violators of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines. The notices started in 2005 as a courtesy to let webmasters know that pages...

Google Cracks Down on Link Buying

This week the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog announced an addition to Google’s spam reporting form for people to report sites that appear to be buying paid links in order to influence search engine rankings. This addition ties in with Matt Cutt’s...

XML Sitemap Submission Just Got a Little Bit Easier

Getting Google and other major search engines to spider your XML Sitemap just got a little bit easier. Although submitting through a search engine’s submission interface such as Google Webmaster Tools can offer additional valuable information, if you simply could not...

More on the Robots Meta Tag

I have seen many articles and the like discussing proper use of the Robots Meta tag. It almost seems common knowledge of the purpose of this tag, but every now and then you find some confusion over its purpose and how it works. Recently Vanessa Fox over at the...

Google Finally Provides Decent Backlink Data

Ever since Google stopped showing accurate backlink (aka incoming link) counts to websites webmasters and SEOs have been forced to turn to other, more accurate tools like Yahoo. This hasn’t really been all that bad in my opinion but it is refreshing to hear that...