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.
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...
Search algorithm changes that deemphasized thin content in the SERPs pushed marketers to focus on quality content. In the last 12-18 months, several factors have come together to form what could be described as a digital marketing perfect storm...
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.
We know that Penguin is purely a link quality filter that sits on top of the core algorithm, runs sporadically (the last official update was in October 2012), and is designed to take out sites that use manipulative techniques to improve search...
With the updated +Local, the algorithm has become as complex as Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson's relationship. Google's previous local algorithm for Places was weighted on three main factors: With more than 1 billion smartphone users around...
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. Nearby renamed Local Search on iOS.
The harder legwork is ideal for algorithm-driven technology like natural language processing and data analytics offloading. Consumers are spending less time on traditional search engines and more time on shopping engines like Amazon.
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. Search engine optimization (SEO) has changed dramatically over the years and will continue to change.
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. Identifying and leveraging SEO opportunities is at the core of achieving organic search dominance.
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. Search Engine Watch (SEW) asked the organizers of these Meetup groups five questions about hot industry topics and here are the answers that Gregory Cox (GC), David Burgess...
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...
Now if Panda hits your website for having "low-quality" (thin) content, it may be harder to detect in analytics due to this new integration with the main search algorithm, but it could mean a faster recovery.
Panda is Google’s algorithm aimed at surfacing high-quality sites higher in search results. Also, Cutts has revealed that Google is working on a significant change to the Penguin algorithm. The Penguin algorithm, initially released last April, was...
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...
If Alibaba takes Yahoo’s search algorithm and combines it with purchasing insights from Taobao and ETao to create Aliyun as a “best of breed” engine for searching, it will be a serious threat to traditional search players like Baidu and Google...
