Lance Faulkner Phoenix SEO http://www.lancefaulkner.com Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:45:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Updated: Google Update April 2012? Over SEO Penalty? http://www.lancefaulkner.com/updated-google-update-april-2012-over-seo-penalty/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=updated-google-update-april-2012-over-seo-penalty http://www.lancefaulkner.com/updated-google-update-april-2012-over-seo-penalty/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:45:47 +0000 barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) http://www.seroundtable.com/google-update-april-2012-15023.html In the past 20 hours or so, I have seen a huge uptick in the number of complaints in the Google Webmaster Help forums with people complaining that their sites no longer rank in Google.
This is not the “over optimization” penalty as we thought. Matt Cutts posted on Google+ it is related to a “classifier for parked domains” which went haywire.



]]> http://www.lancefaulkner.com/updated-google-update-april-2012-over-seo-penalty/feed/ 0 Google Rethinking Webmaster Tools Internal Links Report? http://www.lancefaulkner.com/google-rethinking-webmaster-tools-internal-links-report/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=google-rethinking-webmaster-tools-internal-links-report http://www.lancefaulkner.com/google-rethinking-webmaster-tools-internal-links-report/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:45:46 +0000 barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) http://www.seroundtable.com/google-internal-links-tools-15024.html Susan Moskwa, Google’s Webmaster Trends Analyst, is fishing around for webmaster feedback on the internal links report within Google Webmaster Tools…



]]> http://www.lancefaulkner.com/google-rethinking-webmaster-tools-internal-links-report/feed/ 0 Daily Search Forum Recap: April 17, 2012 http://www.lancefaulkner.com/daily-search-forum-recap-april-17-2012/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=daily-search-forum-recap-april-17-2012 http://www.lancefaulkner.com/daily-search-forum-recap-april-17-2012/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:45:46 +0000 barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) http://www.seroundtable.com/recap-04-17-2012-15025.html Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…



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]]> http://www.lancefaulkner.com/social-block-heads/feed/ 0 Now Really Test Your Google Rich Snippets http://www.lancefaulkner.com/now-really-test-your-google-rich-snippets/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=now-really-test-your-google-rich-snippets http://www.lancefaulkner.com/now-really-test-your-google-rich-snippets/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:45:46 +0000 barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) http://www.seroundtable.com/google-rich-snippets-testing-html-15027.html Google announced on the Google Webmaster Central blog that they have rolled out the product rich snippets globally to work in any language. So now no matter where you search and what language the site is in, if it has the product rich snippets and Google approved them…



]]> http://www.lancefaulkner.com/now-really-test-your-google-rich-snippets/feed/ 0 Google Places Bug Limits Search Results To 10 http://www.lancefaulkner.com/google-places-bug-limits-search-results-to-10/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=google-places-bug-limits-search-results-to-10 http://www.lancefaulkner.com/google-places-bug-limits-search-results-to-10/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:45:46 +0000 barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) http://www.seroundtable.com/google-places-10-results-15028.html Google Places has an unusual bug, where they are only showing up to ten results for a local search query without the option to go to page 2 for an additional 10 results.

For example…



]]> http://www.lancefaulkner.com/google-places-bug-limits-search-results-to-10/feed/ 0 7% Of Searches Are Misspelled: Google AdWords To Change Match Type Settings http://www.lancefaulkner.com/7-of-searches-are-misspelled-google-adwords-to-change-match-type-settings/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=7-of-searches-are-misspelled-google-adwords-to-change-match-type-settings http://www.lancefaulkner.com/7-of-searches-are-misspelled-google-adwords-to-change-match-type-settings/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:45:46 +0000 barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) http://www.seroundtable.com/google-match-misspellings-adwords-15029.html Google announced that in about 30 days from now, the way they handle AdWords match types for exact and phrase based matching will change…



]]> http://www.lancefaulkner.com/7-of-searches-are-misspelled-google-adwords-to-change-match-type-settings/feed/ 0 Preparing For Google’s Over SEO Algorithm http://www.lancefaulkner.com/preparing-for-googles-over-seo-algorithm/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=preparing-for-googles-over-seo-algorithm http://www.lancefaulkner.com/preparing-for-googles-over-seo-algorithm/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:45:46 +0000 barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) http://www.seroundtable.com/google-over-seo-checklist-15030.html Just about a month ago, Google’s head of web spam, Matt Cutts announced Google is going to release a new algorithm to target overly SEO’ed sites to “level the playing field” for the rest of the web…



]]> http://www.lancefaulkner.com/preparing-for-googles-over-seo-algorithm/feed/ 0 Daily Search Forum Recap: April 18, 2012 http://www.lancefaulkner.com/daily-search-forum-recap-april-18-2012/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=daily-search-forum-recap-april-18-2012 http://www.lancefaulkner.com/daily-search-forum-recap-april-18-2012/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:45:46 +0000 barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) http://www.seroundtable.com/recap-04-18-2012-15031.html Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…



]]> http://www.lancefaulkner.com/daily-search-forum-recap-april-18-2012/feed/ 0 Google+ Puffy Stickers For $2 http://www.lancefaulkner.com/google-puffy-stickers-for-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=google-puffy-stickers-for-2 http://www.lancefaulkner.com/google-puffy-stickers-for-2/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:45:45 +0000 barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) http://www.seroundtable.com/photos/google-stickers-15032.html Google+ Puffy Stickers



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