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At the recent SXSW event, Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s search spam team, announced that Google’s Penguin algorithm updates would undergo some major changes in 2013. So take this as your official warning!
Cutts claimed that the Penguin algorithm update in 2013 is going to be so large that it is likely to be the most talked about algorithm update that Google makes …
Thanks Google, just when we thought we could quietly sneak into the holiday period with little fuss, you go and release a new ranking update. Talk about a buzz kill!
Google confirmed the 23rd Panda update on 21st December, which is said to have impacted around 1.3% of English queries.
Surprisingly, this is a bigger update that the previous one in November, which Google says …
Back in January this year Google announced a change to the way it analyzes websites and how they place them within their search results. The new algorithm places emphasis on content which is “above the fold”. What this means is that Google is looking more at the content a reader sees without having to scroll down the page.
This was the initial launch of the …
Did you notice the update that Google rolled- out early last week? According to Google it was their 20th Panda algorithm update and it was big news with as many as 2.4% of all English search queries being impacted, with a smaller 0.5% of all other language search results.
We first heard news of this update when Google pushed out an exact match domain update …
Google rolls out more than 500 algorithm changes each year and some of these updates can have a devastating effect on your websites’ ranking in the Google search engine.
We usually let you know each time there has been a major algorithm update, but do you know what to do once the update hits?
Search Marketer Adam Dince shared some great advice recently which I …
Did you notice the Google algorithm update last week?
It was released last Friday (14th September) with very little fanfare. It wasn’t as serious as a Panda or Penguin update, but webmasters still found it had quite an effect on their rankings.
Here is some of the chatter from a WebmasterWorld forum post on the topic:
We saw a 50% increase in our Google referrals
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Take this as your official warning: the next Google ranking update is going to be big!
The warning comes straight from the horse’s mouth, Google’s Matt Cutts to be exact, who said at the recent SES San Francisco conference that the next few updates will be “jarring and jolting” for webmasters and SEOs. He warned that the Google “engineers have been working hard,” on this …
To continue the never-ending fight against web spam, Google’s Matt Cutts announced the release of the latest instalment of the Penguin ranking algorithm updates.
Called Penguin 1.1, this release is an update of the initial Penguin algorithm set loose back in April of this year.
Cutts, the chief web spam fighter at Google, tweeted news of this release saying that it will affect about 0.1% …
Most people who own a website will have heard about the latest Google Panda and Penguin algorithm updates, which have upset the SEO apple cart.
Some of the biggest changes have come from Google cracking down on keyword spammers and on link farms, which are sites that exist only to improve back linking numbers for websites. Despite Google’s statements that these updates do not represent …
Late last Friday, Google announced over 50 new changes that are set to change how search results are displayed in some big ways.
The big topics of focus with this update are on how Google handles spelling errors, classifies keyword stuffing, focuses more on freshness being factored into SERPs and adding a larger website index size. Other features that have been added and upgraded in …