Matt Cutts Finally Announces Link Disavow Tool For Google Webmaster Tools

After months of anticipation, Google’s Matt Cutts, at PubCon in Las Vegas today, finally announced a new tool in Webmaster Tools to disavow links. Cutts made comments at SMX Advanced back in July, indicating that a tool would be on the way, and it is now here. In text on the tool itself, Google says, “If you believe your site’s ranking is being harmed by low-quality links you do not control,...

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Google Penguin Update Gets A New Data Refresh

Oh that Google and their late Saturday 6th Oct announcements. Sometimes it’s the big monthly (at least they used to be) “search quality highlights” lists, but they were kind enough to release that on Thursday this past week. Still, Google’s Matt Cutts managed to sneak in a Penguin announcement on Friday. He tweeted: div.twitterditto254335294063656960 { background: #000000 url(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vT94hl9EEE4ORpELiyQGkZX57oe9iD3dRac5cVZlfC5JQ3JRVAwt4yK-eRX3NtWtS_3ECnpZK4N7aVR86maJWak425yPDq8KVtAApVBoI1KPHO-w=s0-d)...

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Matt Cutts Just Announced A Google Algorithm Change

says it will reduce low-quality “exact-match” domains in search results. It sounds like an extension of the last change he tweeted about, which was aimed at improving domain diversity. Here’s the new tweet: div.twitterditto251784203597910016 { background: #000000 url(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vT94hl9EEE4ORpELiyQGkZX57oe9iD3dRac5cVZlfC5JQ3JRVAwt4yK-eRX3NtWtS_3ECnpZK4N7aVR86maJWak425yPDq8KVtAApVBoI1KPHO-w=s0-d)...

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Google News Gets A New Ranking Signal, And It’s A Keywords Meta Tag

Google announced the news_keywords metatag for publishers in Google News to help Google better identify and understand content that is related to things that are in the news. Do you think this is a good direction for Google News? Let us know what you think. Here’s what it looks like: <meta name=”news_keywords” content=”World Cup, Brazil 2014, Spain vs Netherlands, soccer, football”> If...

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