It was reported at Search Engine Land that the new panda 4.0 could have hurt press release sites. In order to prove this, Search Metrics data for PR, PR Web, Business Wire, Newswire and PR Log was shown. It showed them losing between 60-85 percent of their SEO visibility. The drop seems to have appeared right after the Panda 4.0 ... Read More »
Recently, there has been a trace of an early possible Google update on forums, social media spaces and from gossip at Web Master World. Some are even tracking this closely and have also revealed some information about an upcoming update. Google has said that the update is not Penguin or any spam quality control change. However, the feeling has come ... Read More »
The yearly ‘we’re getting better at JavaScript’ was posted on Friday by Google, which included crawling, indexing, what’s behind it and understanding it. Another thing to be getting excited about is the hint that Google is developing tools within Google Webmaster Tools in order to show common crawl issues with JavaScript on your site. This is what the blog post ... Read More »
As soon as the Google Panda 4.0 was released, it was implied that it is gentler for some sites, but it didn’t lay the groundwork to future changes in the direction of a softer and gentler Panda algorithm. You can think of the Panda 4.0 as a new architecture, which brings in some of the softer side, but also lays ... Read More »
Google has changed their logo again, anyone noticed? Well it was just slightly, so it wouldn’t be surprising if you’re answer to that question was no. All Google did was shift the letters a bit around, a few pixels. It’s kind of shocking to how someone could even notice the change, because it was something most cannot have noticed. Only ... Read More »
It was only a few days ago, the world got scared from Google’s report, which revealed the SEC report about placing ads everywhere. Amongst the items listed about where to place the ads, thermostats were one, which created the whole scare around their purchase of Nest. Despite all the jokes from the industry about putting ads on Nest, Google have ... Read More »
With a wild night with Google trying to confirm an update targeting spam-related requests, it has been announced that the Panda 4.0 has been released. This Panda algorithm is new, but not a refresh, which we have seen almost every month. It is enough for Google to name it the 4.0, which defines it as a new algorithm update. The ... Read More »
It was yesterday that the SEO space faced a little panic when Google unexpectedly dropped authorship images from their search results page. There were tons of threads on many social media sites, including Twitter and Google+, where individuals were going crazy about the whole situation. Google says it was a bug, which caused the faces from the search results with ... Read More »
Matt Cutts of Google recently posted a video regarding why and when Google may use something other that your title tag for the search results snippet. He suggested that the best thing to do is to try to anticipate what a likely user may search for when crafting the title tags. Then this is done then it matches the query ... Read More »
About three years ago Schema.org was introduced as the preferred markup for websites trying to communicate to search engines about what their pages were about. However according to Searchmetrics less than 1% of websites have implemented Schema.org markup. Despite this fact, pages with Schema.org integration rank better by an average of four positions compared to pages without it. It ... Read More »
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