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Earlier today Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Roundtable reported the strong possibility of a Google algorithm update over the past weekend. Many web masters on the Webmaster World forum have reported seeing a significant change in organic traffic. Some have seen recovery while other s are seeing stable impressions with and increase in click through rates. […]
Rumor has it that there’s a Google update underway. While there were some noting changes are early as late Saturday/early Sunday – general experience has it starting on Monday with many webmasters experiencing significant drops. From the significant drops reported by many webmasters and the only one or two position movement we can see among […]
Following up on my previous blog post from Monday where I recapped the launch and implementation of the Google Algorithm update affectionately known as "Panda." First released in February of 2011, Panda has been through several iterations and has a profound effect the quality of search results, webspam and SEO. Google confirmed on February 27th […]
Yesterday, over on the Google Inside Search blog, Matt Cutts shared 10 recent changes to the Google search algorithms from the last few weeks. As always these posts can get a bit technical, and anyone subscribed to the feed can just get it from the horses’ mouth. The goal of this post is to put […]
You may have noticed some wild fluctuations recently in the Google SERPs. Site’s that were ranking well are nowhere to be seen or have changed rank significantly. As SEO’s are keenly aware, every year about this time, Google tends to make large changes and updates to their search algorithm. This tends to skew most search […]
In today’s episode of Webcology on WebmasterRadio.fm Jim Hedger and I discusses a couple recent events at Google. Namely the release of their Q1 earnings (SURPRISE – they’re up over last quarter) and Yahoo! using Google’s paid ads instead of their own. Rather than re-hash “old news” (OK – it was earlier today but you […]
In what can only be considered a devastating leak of information from Google HQ in Mountain View, a confirmed but as yet publicly anonymous executive from Google has leaked papers detailing some of the key fundamentals to Google’s link value calculation system. The announcement by Google earlier today details some of the contents of this […]
This morning while checking some of my personal project websites I noticed a few had some extra green in the pagerank bar than normal. Most of these sites are rather fresh out of the box and were previously either a page rank zero or unranked. This comes as a surprise since the last update was […]