Google strikes again! However Good SEO practices will always ring true for those who were unaffected. Here’s a handy Audit guide you can go through and make sure the common sense SEO applies to your website: Web Browser Test See the way Google s…
Google strikes again! However Good SEO practices will always ring true for those who were unaffected. Here’s a handy Audit guide you can go through and make sure the common sense SEO applies to your website: Web Browser Test See the way Google see’s your pages. Disable your java script and cookies, and test to [...]
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
Google Penguin 1.1 Update Underway? Nope.
There are some reports of majo…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
A Google Places Help thread has confirmed reports from Google on the bug…
Their latest CEO…
Around May 8th…
Both sources say that Bing powers just about 30% search market share (between Microsoft and Yahoo properties together). Hitwise says Google dropped in market share…
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
For the past few weeks, website owners and online marketers have been warned about Google’s upcoming algorithm changes. Penalties for over-optimized websites, warnings about unnatural linking, and the dreaded Google updates, were seen as ‘empty th…
For the past few weeks, website owners and online marketers have been warned about Google’s upcoming algorithm changes. Penalties for over-optimized websites, warnings about unnatural linking, and the dreaded Google updates, were seen as ‘empty threats’ by many. But on April 24th, things changed for thousands of website owners. Penguin, the latest Google update, came [...]
Social media marketing has quickly become one of the most efficient, cost-effective, and popular ways to make your home care business known. Even if you offer quality services, potential customers have little to no chance of finding your company’s p…
Social media marketing has quickly become one of the most efficient, cost-effective, and popular ways to make your home care business known. Even if you offer quality services, potential customers have little to no chance of finding your company’s profile. An online presence is the key to success for any type of business. Introduction to [...]
There are some reports of major shuffling going on in the Google search results as of yesterday. I believe from the reports that it may be a Penguin update – but I do not have confirmation from Google on this yet.Update: A Google spokesperson told me…
There are some reports of major shuffling going on in the Google search results as of yesterday. I believe from the reports that it may be a Penguin update – but I do not have confirmation from Google on this yet.
Update: A Google spokesperson told me there was no Penguin refresh or update yet. Google said it was not a Panda refresh either and there is no update as far as they are concerned. Interesting… continuing story below…
There are WebmasterWorld threads and if you scan the Google Webmaster Help forums you will see tons of threads about ranking changes in the past 24 hours or so.
One of the WebmasterWorld threads has one guy claiming he recovered from being hit by Penguin. He said yesterday, “I had around 30 sites hit by Penguin on the 24/4, yesterday the first one resurfaced back to number 2 for it’s keywords which is encouraging.”
He even explained what he did to “recover”:
What did I do – the site was just 15 pages, the inner pages were all thin content boiler plate stuff, so I deleted them all to see what would happen and left the home page which is 500 words of original content.Links – did i touch incoming links, no I am going to try anchor text dilution on some other sites where I suspect this problem but did not create any more links on the recovered site.
Now, you have to be careful with this recovery reports because who knows if the site was truly hit by Penguin or a weird penalty. They did say his traffic dropped on the 24th which is a good sign of it being Penguin.
But there is a huge increase in reports of traffic and ranking drops yesterday on the discussion forums. The question is, is this related to Mother’s Day or an algorithm change?
I will email Google for a statement on this.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld and Google Webmaster Help.
Update: A Google spokesperson told me there was no Penguin refresh or update yet. Google said it was not a Panda refresh either and there is no update as far as they are concerned. Interesting…
Image credit to ShutterStock for shuffling penguin
Yet another Google Maps bug to report but to be fair, they might all be related – this one is of the videos not showing on Google Maps/Places landing pages for businesses.A Google Places Help thread has confirmed reports from Google on the bug. Vaness…
Yet another Google Maps bug to report but to be fair, they might all be related – this one is of the videos not showing on Google Maps/Places landing pages for businesses.
A Google Places Help thread has confirmed reports from Google on the bug. Vanessa from Google Maps team said:
Thanks, guys! So this might be related to the bug from last week â” we’re pushing out a more permanent fix for that one Thursday/Friday. I’d like to check back in end of day Friday to see if these videos are back up. (So don’t touch anything in your account, just sit tight.) And then if that doesn’t work, I’m gonna do an edit > submit on some of your listings, Susan, and Linda if you have some examples, see if the videos come back by Monday. And from there I’ll check back in on next steps.
As far as I can tell by scanning some examples and the forum thread, the bug is still not fully fixed.
I think Google is working really hard on the underlining bugs with Google Maps/Places and when they do their new release (who knows when), I am hopefully the number of bugs will drop drastically.
Forum discussion at Google Places Help.
With Google always aiming to improve the quality of its SERPs, it is becoming more and more important to develop link building strategies that will get you featured in highly trusted websites. The most popular such strategy is creating an infographi…
With Google always aiming to improve the quality of its SERPs, it is becoming more and more important to develop link building strategies that will get you featured in highly trusted websites. The most popular such strategy is creating an infographic. After you come up with an idea and get the infographic design, you will [...]
Interviews can be incredibly stressful, and hunting for a job is never fun. So when you are lucky enough to secure an interview, you need to have the skills and confidence necessary to land the job you want. Here are the top ten most important intervi…
Interviews can be incredibly stressful, and hunting for a job is never fun. So when you are lucky enough to secure an interview, you need to have the skills and confidence necessary to land the job you want. Here are the top ten most important interview skills that will help you impress employers and outshine [...]
A new social media study released by Market Force Information suggests that companies are more influential on social media channels like Facebook and Twitter than many think. The study found that 81% of U.S. consumers are influenced by their friends
A new social media study released by Market Force Information suggests that companies are more influential on social media channels like Facebook and Twitter than many think. The study found that 81% of U.S. consumers are influenced by their friends’ social media posts, while a comparable 78% reported being influenced by posts from businesses. One [...]
The standard industry opinion about social media when it comes to search engine optimization is that it has little, if any, effect on a website’s ranking. Therefore all social media is useful for according to some professionals is the ability to…
The standard industry opinion about social media when it comes to search engine optimization is that it has little, if any, effect on a website’s ranking. Therefore all social media is useful for according to some professionals is the ability to generate massive amounts of traffic in a short period of time if your following [...]
