In July 2014, a local search algorithm update was released, which was dubbed Google Pigeon. Under the algorithm, Google aims to release more useful, accurate, and relevant local search results, which are visible within Google Maps and Google Web search. With local searches attracting 50 percent of mobile users to visit stores, Google Pigeon may…
An Honest Look at 5 Important SEO Practices that Google Demonized
Over the last couple years Google was on a rampage. Manual actions, panda, penguin, pigeon, hummingbird, sandboxes, too much anchor text, ahhh!!! All of the commotion around SEO topics is enough to freak anyone out, especially if you don’t read between the lines and study this stuff on the daily. Nonetheless, there are still important…
Google Announces Experiment to Give Mobile-Friendly Sites ‘Special Treatment’
In June 2013, Google introduced a penalty for websites that provide a poor mobile search experience as they continue to push for overall improved capabilities for mobile users. In addition, Google unveiled Mobile Usability reports in Google Webmaster Tools earlier this month to encourage webmasters to resolve issues that may hurt the mobile user experience….
Why Google Wants You to Stop Blocking CSS and JavaScript for SEO
For a long time webmasters would block Javascript and CSS. By doing so, it would make the site faster for Google to crawl. Also, Google couldn’t execute this stuff, so most SEOs thought, “What is the point?” Now Google has come out and said, allow us to crawl your Javascript and CSS. In fact, they…
Google Panda 4.1 Update Released, Winners, Losers, Information
The Google Panda 4.1 update started rolling out on September 24th. The update was official made public on the 25th. Since the update, we have learned information on winners, losers and the types of websites that won and lost. I will say one thing to start, the update is very new. We do not know…
Google Confirms Recovering from Penguins Requires Refresh
For those people who have been trying to recover from the Penguin algorithm since October 2013, it has been a long road. Especially since, you really can’t recover from Penguin completely unless there is a refresh of the algorithm! John Mueller from Google confirmed this in a recent webmaster help thread. Yes, assuming the issues…
13 Critical SEO Strategies To Implement Before Penguin 3.0
Penguin 3.0 is speculated to run any day now, and SEO professionals are scrambling to get their websites in line for the update. (Why so many have waited until now, I have no idea.) Here are some things you should do before the next Penguin update — and for your website’s SEO in general. 1….
Penguin 3.0 To Launch Soon – Could Mean SEO Disaster or Success
There has been a storm brewing surrounding Penguin 3.0. If algorithm doesn’t rerun soon, the search engine optimization community might release a tornado of excessive Google slander around the topic. Many are speculating the cloudburst will occur today (sorry just wanted to see how many weather references I could fit in the intro). OK, so let’s…
10 Ways to Maintain Website Traffic without Google
With Google constantly changing their algorithms, it’s hard for many webmasters to keep up with each new update unleashed. More and more webmasters are questioning if it’s even worth the hassle, while others fear penalties for falling behind on an update. As a result, many are turning from Google and choosing to try more organic…
Google Update: Google Spam Algorithm PayDay Loan Version 3.0 Launched
In the SMX Advanced keynote last night Matt Cutts, Mr. Webspam at Google, announced that PayDay Loan 3.0 has been launched. This new algorithm will have an impact on the most competitive and spammy SEO niches. This launch of PayDay loan 3.0 comes right after version 2.0, which was just launched a few week ago!…