Google published a new webmaster help video in that Matt Cutts answers the question: “How can I guest blog without it looking like I pay for links?”
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Google Adds Review Extensions To AdWords
In June, Google announced the beta release of review extensions, which allow advertisers to include said testimonials right in their ads. After testing with select partners, Google is now making the feature…
Don’t Hold Your Breath For A PageRank Update
Barry Schwartz points to a Twitter response from Cutts to a question about it: The last update came in early February. Google has typically updated the data about every three or four…
Google Penguin 2.1 Was A Big Hit
Google’s Matt Cutts announced late on Friday that Penguin 2.1 was launching, affecting roughly 1% of searches “to a noticeable degree.” Penguin 2.0 was the biggest improvement to Penguin since the update…
Google: Don’t Use Nofollow On Internal Links
Google’s Matt Cutts published a new Webmaster Help video in that discusses about the use of rel=”nofollow” on internal links, addressing the following user-submitted question: Does it make sense to use rel=”nofollow”…
Google Tests Search Quality Feedback Form On SERPs
Google has a new way of getting feedback from users about the quality of its search results. Some users are reportedly seeing an experiment the search engine is running, which lets them…
Google’s 15th Birthday Doodle
Google celebrates its 15th birthday with an interactive version of the piñata, a popular Mexican birthday party game. The purpose of the game is to hit the pinata and extract as many…
Google Announces Launch of Ready Creatives
Google announced the launch of a new display ad creation solution called Ready Creatives. It is made up of two tools called Ready Image Ads and Ready Ad Gallery. With Ready Image…
Matt Cutts: Does Googlebot care about valid HTML?
Google’s Matt Cutts published a new Webmaster Help video. Matt Cutts was answering the following submitted question: Does the crawler really care about valid HTML? Validating google.com gives me 23 errors and…
Gmail Problems Affected 29% of All Messages
Google is apologizing for Monday’s Gmail service disruption, which they say affected 29% of all message sent during the period. During the disruption, messages were slow to deliver and some users had…