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In the latest "Webmaster Help" video from Google, Matt Cutts talks about what goes into evaluating the quality of an algorithm change before they push it out. Here's the questi...

Cutts On Determining If You Were Hit By An Algorithmic Penalty

If you've ever lost your search engine rankings to a competing site, you may have wondered if you were suffering from an algorithmic penalty from Google or if your content simply w...

Google Thinks You Don’t Want To Know About Its Algorithm Changes

Google, for a little while, used to be more transparent about the changes it made to its algorithm. Then it became much less transparent, and is now saying that people were simply...

Have Google’s Results Improved After 3 Years Of Panda?

Monday marked the three-year anniversary of the day Google first announced the controversial Panda update. So much has happened since then. So many sites have felt the effects....

Facebook To Show Users Less Text Status Updates From Pages

Last month, Facebook launched what some considered to be its "Panda update". The company reve...

Google Hummingbird And Structured Data: Is There A Connection?

There has been a lot written about Google's Hummingbird algorithm since it was announced. Unfortunately, very little of it comes in the form of reliable facts that really give anyb...

Google Penguin Update 2.1 Is Bigger Than Your Average Penguin Refresh

Google's Matt Cutts announced late on Friday that Penguin 2.1 was launching, affecting roughly 1% of searches "to a noticeable degree." Did you notice? Has the update h...

Google’s ‘Mugshot’ Update Has Been In The Works For The Majority Of The Year

As previously discussed, Google launched an algorithm update a few days ago...

Google Launches Update To Demote Shady Mugshot Sites

As previously reported, Google announced the launch of Penguin 2.0 on Friday, but that's...

Hummingbird Is Google’s Biggest Algorithm Change In 12 Years

Let's get one thing straight right up front. Hummingbird is not a new algorithm update like Panda or Penguin. It's a new algorithm. Panda and Penguin are parts of the bigger algori...

Google Hummingbird Algorithm Said To Be Biggest Overhaul Since Caffeine

Google made a bunch of search-related announcements today....

Hitler Is Talking About The Google Panda Update Again

There's a new Hitler Panda update video out. This isn't the first time we've seen Hitler address the subject of Google's controversial algorithm update, but it's been a while. In f...

‘Multi-Week’ Google Update Happening Now, Says Cutts

Google is currently running a "multi-week" rollout of an update that will continue until the week after July 4th. Matt Cutts mentioned the update in response to some questions abou...

Yandex Tweaks Algorithm To Include Search Session History

Russian search engine Yandex announced a new change to its algorithm that looks at a person's search history from within a particular search session to deliver results and suggesti...

For Better Or Worse, A Lot Of Change Is Coming To Google SEO

Google has a lot of stuff in the works that will have a direct impact on webmasters and the search engine optimization community. In a seven-minute "Webmaster Help" video, Google's...

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