Google: PageRank Drops Most Likely Because You Sell Links

In a new Matt Cutts video, the Google engineer answers why webmasters are likely to see a toolbar PageRank drop for their site. He mentions three reasons: (1) You simply lose a link from a third party page that had a lot of high PageRank. (2) You have weird canonicalization issues with your site… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Blocking Sites Within Google Goes International

Google announced that the blocking sites feature introduced in the US based results in March this year, is now available internationally. Google’s Johannes Henkel said “starting today, you can now block sites on most Google domains.” Here is a picture of blocking Matt Cutts blog… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Google Trusted Stores: For Organic Rankings & Search Ads?

Google Operating System Blog discovered a new feature to be released by Google named “Google Trusted Stores.” The landing page for this feature will be at google.com/trustedstores but it is currently not live. There was a video that was released today that was just made private. The… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.