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.
