Month: April 2012

Penguin 1.0 Initial Findings – Unnatural Inbound Links Heavily Targeted, Other Webspam Tactics Await Penalty?

The past few days have been fascinating for SEO’s.  Google’s latest algorithm update, now officially named Penguin, has been rolled out.  The update was originally called the Over Optimization Penalty, then the Webspam Algorithm Update, and now Penguin.  As you can imagine, there have been screams from webmasters far and wide about the update (from … Read more

Google’s Over-Optimization Penalty and Exact Match Domains

Yesterday, we found out that the latest Google algorithm update was underway (dubbed the Over Optimization Penalty).  Google posted about the update on the Webmaster Central Blog.  By the way, Google is officially calling the update the Webspam Algorithm Update and not the Over Optimization Update (although I like the sound of the latter).  There … Read more

How to Manage Negative Keywords in Microsoft adCenter Desktop Using the New Negatives Tab [Tutorial]

Microsoft adCenter has been rolling out new features and updates at a rapid pace recently.  Several of the changes aim to make your life a lot easier, and bring AdWords-like functionality to adCenter.  That’s great news, because when you’re managing a lot of campaigns, ad groups, and keywords, you don’t want to have to deal … Read more

How To Use Fetch As Google In GSC To Submit An Updated Page To Google’s Index [Tutorial]

{Updated on April 18, 2016 to cover the latest changes in Google Search Console (GSC).} Any marketer focused on SEO will tell you that it’s sometimes frustrating to wait for Googlebot to recrawl an updated page.  The reason is simple.  Until Googlebot recrawls the page, the old content will show up in the search results.  … Read more