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Google Algorithm Gets Mysterious Jolt
Google changes its algorithm constantly, so an update is hardly newsworthy unless it causes major changes. Something pretty big apparently happened wi...
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Google Update Bumped Down Half Of Pages It Threatened To
Google released an algorithm update on April 21 that began taking the mobile-friendliness of a site into account when ranking that site in search resu...
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Businesses Brace For Major Google Update
About two months ago, Google announced two mobile-related algorithm changes. While it was somewhat surprising that Google announced them so clearly, t...
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Google’s ‘Transparency’ Under Fire Again
Google’s transparency is being called into question again in light of mixed messages it’s been sending webmasters about its two most famou...
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Google Panda Update MIA For About Six Months
What happened to the Google Panda update? It seems to have gone missing for about six months after Google last officially confirmed a refresh in Septe...
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How To Use Google’s New Blocked Resources Report
Google just introduced a new Webmaster Tools feature called the Blocked Resource Report, aimed at helping webmasters find and resolve issues where Goo...
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Google Ranking Signal Not As Pressing As You Thought
Last week, Google announced two new ranking signals related to mobile. One has already been implemented, and takes into account app indexing when show...
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Site Takes Google Pounding, Reduces Staff
Google updates can have devastating effects on websites that depend on traffic from the search engine to thrive. It’s become clear over the year...
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Google ‘Update’ Impacts E-Commerce Sites
Google makes adjustments to its search algorithms every day, but sometime last week, it made one that was bigger than the average tweak, and a lot of ...
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Google Wants Some Ideas For Webmaster Tools Again. Got Any?
Google is once again calling on webmasters for ideas on how to improve Google Search and Webmaster Tools. The company put out a brief Google+ update e...
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Google Rolls Local Update Out To More Countries
Back in July, Google launched an algorithm update that shook up local search results in the U.S. While Google never gave it an official name like Pand...
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Matt Cutts Won’t Be Back At Google Any Time Soon
Back in July, Google’s head of webspam Matt Cutts announced that he was taking an extended leave from work to enjoy his personal life. On Friday...
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MetaFilter Reportedly Recovering From Google Update
A few months ago, MetaFilter founder Matt Haughney revealed in a blog post that a decline in Google traffic resulting from a 2012 algorithm update had...
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Google: Links Will Become Less Important
Links are becoming less important as Google gets better at understanding the natural language of users’ queries. That’s the message weR...
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Rufous Hummingbird Gets Top Billing In Google’s Earth Day Doodle
Google has an interesting doodle up for Earth Day. It’s animated, and it shows several different animals as you click. You can click the search ...
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Google Is Working On The ‘Next Generation’ Of Panda
Google’s Matt Cutts spoke at the Search Marketing Expo on Thursday, and reportedly said that the search team is working on the “next gener...
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Sandy Pentland Talks Social Physics At Google
Data scientist Sandy Pentland recently gave an “At Google” talk, which the company has now made available for all to view. He talks idea f...
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Googler Rachel Searles Writes Sci-Fi Novel
Googler Rachel Searles has a new sci-fi book out called The Lost Planet. Matt Cutts points us to it, and has only good things to say about it: Amazon ...
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Google Propaganda, SEO and Why Marketers Need to Wake Up
As the entire search world knows, Matt Cutts released a post last week – I’m paraphrasing – warning us that Google now considers ...
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Google Accused Of ‘Double Standard’ Over Rap Genius Penalty Lift
Google is being accused of employing a double standard for its handling of web spam and enabling one penalized site to recover speedily from a manual ...
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Is Google Being Transparent Enough?
Many would say that Google has become more transparent over the years. It gives users, businesses and webmasters access to a lot more information abou...
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