After the first Panda wave that swept across article directories and other content farms we knew that it’s not going to end there. Any website with massive amount of pages and content, especially the ones with duplicate content, like ecommerce websites, would be hurt eventually.…
SEO News & Updates
With the emphasis on social media over the past few years we all started searching for news using mostly social media like Twitter or Facebook. Yes, Google is still number one search engine with no signs that it is going to change, but lately there have been a few changes that may have gone under the radar but should not go any further unnoticed.…
Recently, Google made some changes to its search algorithm, and these changes are now collectively known as the “farmer update” by those in the industry. This update gained its nickname since it seems to have been a case of Google targeting a lot of the popular content farms that have sprung up over the past few years.…
Google recently announced in its blog the rollout of major changes in its search engine algorithm. While details of the algorithm update are kept secret due to its proprietary nature, the new changes are expected to impact nearly 12% of all Google queries.…
In this post we will go over a great question asked by Brian Provost on Focus and it goes like this:
“How Does Google Address “Content Farms” Without Crippling Their Adsense Revenues”
They incentivized this whole mess.
In this video (14th minute) Sergey Bring talks about AdSense as an enabling feature and a way to help people who publish great content to secure a steady income stream in order to maintain the cost of hosting and domain registration.…
Google’s famous algorithmic metric – PageRank has finally updated. Our team has noticed sporadic updates in January following with a more broad burst around the 20th of January. Google decides to push out the Toolbar PageRank values to public after a long waiting period.…
In this post Switched on Media report about a new feature which has popped out for Google searches related to flood. After a bit of investigation we realised that the extent of keywords which trigger the extra info are quite broad and even target generic terms like flood if you are searching within Australia which is a very nice use of geo-targeting feature by Google.…
According to our observations Google has recently removed as much as 360 million pages from its index.
Days monitored: 35
Start Date: 18/11/10
End Date: 22/12/10
Maximum Pages in Index: 25,630,000,000
Minimum Pages in Index: 25,270,000,000
Major Difference: 360,000,000 pages…
Since April 2010 Google has been rolling out gradual improvements to Google Webmaster Tools. December update brings more visual information about search queries and page popularity data.
Search queries section now contains all filters in one place in addition to the date range selection.…
