With Penguin and Panda there's a real need to build links that help humans, not solely designed for search engines (which would be manipulative). Build links like Google doesn't exist – links that are creative, helpful, and useful not just to the...
While Panda is an algorithmic change that addresses sites that have thin content, there is also a manual site action that can be applied to your site that means someone on the Webspam Team looked at your site and didn't like what they saw.
Google's Penguin/Panda algorithm changes combined with the sheer volume of content being produced, makes PR a much larger component to effective SEO. Google wants quality content that is highly vetted.
Beside Panda updates Google began to first give marketers a clear signal of increased focus on quality content with is Structured Data report in Google Webmaster Tools. Google currently supports microdata, microformats and rdf-a.
But Matt points out that if you look at Google’s quarterly statements, Panda actually caused revenue to drop. I have seen a lot of accusations after Panda and Penguin that Google is just trying to increase its revenue, and let me just confront that...
This is going to be the summer of change on Google, and this article has only touched on some of the items known to be part of the Penguin and Panda algorithms and the coming attractions. Content marketing has been around since SEO on Google has...
Google's Panda update is a different release than Penguin. Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts recently stated that Google is actually pulling back on Panda because of too many false positives.
Panda They are looking for some additional signals for sites that are in the "gray area" or "border zone", and looking for other signals that suggest the site truly is high quality, so it will help those sites who have been previously impacted by...
The infamous algo updates like Panda and Penguin, and some lesser talked about ones like the page layout algorithm. Now let's consider Google's take on whether a link was manufactured to increase rankings.
The problem for Google is these sites provided little value for Google's users, so Google decided to deal with them by putting out the Panda Update, part of which deals with thin or poorly written content sites.
International brands who have had their site punished through the Google Panda and Penguin updates after entering into agreements with some of the largest and most renowned SEO companies in the U.S.and Canada.
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.
Over time the most popular topics have changed as well; for example in 2011 Panda was a big concern. Interestingly I didn't star as many articles on Penguin; I think that this is a reflection on the fact that Panda was more around owned media...
And the 2011 Earth Day Google Doodle was interactive, featuring nine different animated animals – including a panda, penguin, and bear. Today's Google Doodle for Earth Day 2013 has a lot to experience.
The study didn't mention why, but I suspect Google Panda has something to do with that. Have you been adding content to your site since Panda hit? Over the past several years, Google has been all about speed.
Panda punched spun articles and gibberish content in the head, which was a wake up call. Good, normal people got slammed by Panda and Penguin. Google Strikes Back The industry's reputation affects all of us, and the question demands an answer.
Step 2: Panda-Proof Your Website In the days before Panda, you could take a really bad website, stuff it with keywords, point the right links to it and rank number one for "name any keyword. Steps to Panda-proofing a site include:
Panda has already been subsumed into the core algorithm and Penguin will follow. While traffic metrics probably fall more under Panda than Penguin, the lines between the two are increasingly blurring to a point where the two will shortly become...
With the rapid adoption and renewed interest in content, part cause and part consequence of Google's Panda and Penguin updates, search engine optimization (SEO) tactics, tools, and business processes have changed dramatically.
April Fools Pranks 2011 - Bamboo Update Restores Sites Dropped by Google Panda Google I/O - Gadgets, over-heated computers and innovation Ever been searching Google and wanted to know what something smells like, what other searchers are sniffing...
