While Google's Panda updates did help define "better content" through a user-focused lens, with Panda's future as part of Google's primary algorithm, it seems an opportune time to help redefine exactly what is "awesome frickin' content.
We also owe it to ourselves – women and men alike – to stop taking shortcuts to just game the algorithm. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but I believe enough in Google's power that they will find you.
This is the result of many things including marketing automation, Google algorithm changes, and social networking. Consider that 30 million books have been published to date, according to a report from Mashable that used Google's algorithm to add...
According to "two people briefed on the agreement," the agreement means that Google must clearly label search results for its own services such as Google News or Google+, but it won't involve any changes to Google's search algorithm.
To paraphrase Google’s web spam lead Matt Cutts the algorithm filter has "iterated" to date but there will be a "next generation" coming that will have a major impact on SERPs. In my view Google uses its Hilltop algorithm, which identifies so...
Google's previous local algorithm for Places was weighted on three main factors: With the updated +Local, the algorithm has become as complex as Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson's relationship. If you're a small local business, having a Google...
With 3 Million new users, Feedly upgrades search and discovery engines, looking at user behavior to improve algorithm, adds title only view, "Must Reads", and redesigns sharing options. Google's Matt Cutts answers SEO questions.
The harder legwork is ideal for algorithm-driven technology like natural language processing and data analytics offloading. Thirty percent of all product searches now begin on Amazon as opposed to 13 percent on Google according to Forrester...
When people don’t sufficiently understand the basics of SEO, they will blame each individual effort, even though it might just have been the effort of your competitor, an algorithm change or the effect of time.
Step 4: Reporting on the Evolution of Highly Converting Keywords s algorithm updates have changed the practice of SEO. If you ask marketers today what SEO is about they will likely still say things like, "ranking number one in Google".
Google Apps Levity Algorithm Created in partnership with legendary improv comedians from Chicago's Second City Communications, the Levity Algorithm is carefully tuned to help you spice up even the most boring of work days," reads the Google...
The algorithm Google uses to match advertising sites within GDN is built off the same relevance algorithm used for organic search. These exported prospects are guaranteed to be relevant to your site in the eyes of Google.
We know that Google’s algorithm runs on links at the core. Regardless of the debate on Google’s effectiveness today, all agree that Google will continue to make updates to its algorithm to spot unnatural link manipulation.
After Blocked Sites launched, Google said it was using data from this feature, as well the Chrome Personal Blocklist extension, as a ranking signal as part of the Panda algorithm. Remember Google's search feature that let you block websites?
Like all SEO factors, as the algorithm evolves, so should our strategies. Google has done well at scaring webmasters to linking out fairly to other websites. When the abuse becomes too obvious, Google is forced to take measures.
Portent, a Seattle-based Internet marketing agency, has released a report offering new insight into Google’s Penguin algorithm. We explain this more in "Google Penalty or Algorithm Change: Dealing With Lost Traffic.
The biggest change over the last 12 months has been that Google has closed the gap between where they said the algorithm was, and where it actually is. But we found gaps and shortcuts in their algorithm, which we used to take our sites and clients...
Google Panda will soon evolve from monthly (or so) manual refreshes to a constant part of Google's real-time algorithm, according to Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts. Now if Panda hits your website for having "low-quality" (thin) content...
Also, Cutts has revealed that Google is working on a significant change to the Penguin algorithm. Panda is Google’s algorithm aimed at surfacing high-quality sites higher in search results. Also, Cutts said the update will be significant and one of...
Google Shopping's Google Trusted Stores program is a clear indicator of a quality merchant under Google's ranking algorithm. Last year at SXSW, Cutts hinted at a coming algorithm update to punish sites guilty of "over-optimization", which fueled...
