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It is time for the monthly Google Webmaster report where we share all the latest Google SEO related topics of the past month and recap you on anything particularly new going on in the search results.
The ongoing WebmasterWorld thread has chatter about the PageRank update and then some discussion around weird messages about blocked pages in Google Webmaster Tools, and finally the normal ranking fluctuation chatter. Outside of that, the start of the month has been pretty quiet.
In terms of the most important Google SEO related topics, here they are in some order:
Updates:
- Official: Google Panda 3.9 Refresh
- Korea & Japan Get Google's Panda Algorithm
- Google PageRank Update: August 2012
Link Notification Debacle:
- Google's Cutts Explains Untrusted Link Notifications
- Google Sends Out Notifications For Links They Ignore
- Google Sends Out New Batch Of Unnatural Link Notifications
- Want Me To Remove That Link? Pay Me $500!
Google SEO Advice:
- Google's Cutts: Links Still More Powerful Than Social Signals
- Google: Infographic Links To Be Discounted
- Want To Disavow Links In Google Now? 404 The Target Page
- Google: Ignored Links Can Confuse Google's Algorithms
- Google On JavaScript & Responsive Web Design
- Google: Don't Wait For Your Penalty To Expire
- Google: Wouldn't It Be Annoying If USPS Did Multiple Sites?
- Google: Aggregated Statistics Is Not Great Content
- Google: 2-3 Sentences Of Unique Content Is Enough
- Google: We Show Better Titles Than Your Title Tags
Google Webmaster Tools:
- Structured Data Dashboard On Google Webmaster Tools
- Google's New Advanced Index Status Report
- Author Stats Returns To Google Webmaster Tools
- See Your Newest Links In Google Webmaster Tools
- Google Previews Added To Google Webmaster Tools Crawl Errors
- Google Webmaster Tools Now Adds Crawl Error Alerts
For the past month's report, see the July 2012 Google webmaster report.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
Comments:
Brad Dalton
08/03/2012 09:55 pm
Got back my PR but Links have now tripled over the last month according to the MOZ bar. Not sure if this is good news. Would love to see a simple guide on which links to disavow before Google releases their tool. I was thinking anything with a DA below 20 and spammy looking site that loads really slowly!
sanket patel
08/04/2012 09:34 am
Google Pagerank is the only update for which all the webmasters are always waiting for as it actually describes the importance of the website. Like always Google has only focused to the quality of the links.
Ashutosh
08/06/2012 06:57 am
In my view links which are of negative accent should be disavowed for eg. links coming from pages that are following black hat practices and other webpages that are totally against Google best webmaster guidelines.
dharmenderadhana
08/12/2012 08:47 am
google is high traffic an that the google block on 2014