The Google team has always had a knack for answering questions and John Mueller is no exception. This Google Webmaster Hangouts features someone asking John Mueller directly if Google+ affects rankings, how video spam is increasing, how Google is handling rich snippets, social media and much much more. Here is what we learned from the session:
Viper Chill writes about this in their post called: “Why Google Pushed Me To A Bigger Link Network” where they discuss how Google’s favoring larger corporations and why you need to take back control of your rank. According to ViperChill, GoDaddy is ranking while violating Google guidelines and they are getting away with it. Namely with the keyword “SSL certificate” that employs keyword links inside widgets/badges they distribute. They have thousands of widget links which…
Another day, another threat. Matt Cutt’s on the warpath again saying that some German SEO groups are abusing paid links that pass pagerank. https://twitter.com/mattcutts Really? Again? Matt Cutts seems to really like announcing incoming manual penalties on Twitter before they take action. What is the philosophy behind announcing such threats?