Everything You Need To Know About Google’s New Stance On Mobile
In preparation for the release of Google’s mobile-friendly algorithm update on April 21, columnist Neil Patel summarizes what we already know and what you should do to adapt.
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Run For Your Life, Chicken Little — Mopocalypse Is Coming!
Late to the game in overhauling your strategy in time for Google’s mobile-friendly algorithm? Columnist Will Scott advises you to start now with three easy steps.
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They Fooled Us All: Why Google May No Longer Announce Major Algorithm Updates
Google’s investment in artificial intelligence does more than just create better search results; it allows Google’s engineers to make constant algorithm changes right under our noses. Columnist Nate Dame explains.
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How Much Traffic Will You Lose From The Upcoming Mobile SEO-Pocalypse?
Google’s mobile-friendliness update is coming this April, but should you be rushing to make your site mobile-friendly? Columnist Bryson Meunier explains how to estimate the impact on your site.
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Everything You Need To Know About Google’s Local Algorithm, Pigeon
Columnist Neil Patel provides a summary of what we know about Pigeon, Google’s new local search ranking algorithm that was rolled out in July 2014.
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2014 Year In Review: A Look Back On What Happened With SEO
Every year, we say how much has changed in the industry – and every year, we’re right. It never ceases to amaze me how much SEO constantly refines itself to more sophisticated Google guidelines and smarter, savvier searchers. Think about it: Since 2011, Moz has counted more than 83…
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How Google’s Penguin 3.0 Is Playing Out Across The Web
How has Penguin 3.0 resonated globally? Contributor Philip Petrescu of Advanced Web Ranking shares data on the algorithm update’s impact.
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Glimpses Of The Future: 10 Fringe SEO Predictions For 2015
It’s that wonderful time of year when blogs and social media are cluttered with predictions of what the new year will bring. Whether it’s Social Media Predictions for 2015, How SEO Will Change in 2015, or the catch-all Digital Marketing Trends in 2015, it’s all been done – many…
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Is This The End Of The Penguin & Panda Era Shakeups And Recoveries?
For many webmasters, major algorithm updates like Panda and Penguin turned their world upside down, but columnist Aaron Friedman believes the days of big upsets may well be over.
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Why Did Google’s Pigeon Poop All Over Big Local Brands?
Many large, multi-location brands found that their traffic dropped after Google released its Pigeon algorithm. Columnist Andrew Shotland discusses why.
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How Panda 4.1 Should Change Your Content Strategy
Contributor Jim Yu shares proprietary data that will help you determine how the latest Panda update might affect your site — and how you should adjust.
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Worried About Pigeon? Just Keep On Truckin’
Pigeon has rocked the local SEO world. How should we respond to Google’s new local search algorithm update?
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Penguin: Google’s Punitive Algorithm – And A Call To Google To Fix It
For many years, a staple of my discussions with people who had been penalized by Google was the following advice: “Don’t worry — at Google, there is a culture of letting you repent of your sins and then be forgiven.” Even if you had made some bad choices, if you started…
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Assessing Hummingbird’s Impact On Search — 10 Months Later
On September 26, 2013, Google let slip that it had updated its overall search platform, which they referred to as “Hummingbird.” In this post, I am going to take a look back at the past year to see what impact Hummingbird may have had. One of my goals with this post is to help dispel…
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Panda 4.0: Redefining Site Authority
Everyone in SEO talks about it: authority. It’s the key measurement for ranking, right? But what defines authority in the eyes of each search engine? We all have our theories and correlations, and authority measurement has certainly changed over the years as new signals emerge that may give…
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Were You Really Hit By A Search Engine Penalty, Or Is It Something Else?
Often, I’ll speak to prospective clients who think they’ve been hit by an algorithm update or a penalty. They’ve lost a lot of organic traffic, so they immediately think that a search engine change is to blame. Unfortunately, I’ve also run into many situations where SEOs are…
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A Complete Guide To The Essentials Of Post-Hummingbird SEO
Google has made stark changes over the past couple years in the way it ranks websites. When one of its most recent algorithm incarnations, Hummingbird, was released in August of 2013, it created a whirlwind in the search landscape and has since continu…
How Long Can RetailMeNot’s “SEO Empire” Survive?
RetailMeNot is having remarkable SEO success. According to an analysis by Priceonomics, RetailMeNot is first for numerous coupon-related and “promo code” searches — an amazing 71 percent of the time. This is what the company said based on an analysis of nearly 300 coupon-related…
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Google’s Matt Cutts: Determining If Your Site Ranking Is Result Of A Penalty Is “Tricky”
Today’s video from Google’s head of webspam Matt Cutts tackles the question, “How can you tell if your site is suffering from an algorithmic penalty, or you are simply being outgunned by better content?” According to Cutts: It’s kind of tricky because we have a large…
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Manual Spam Action Revoked! A Case Study
Checklists of how to get out of a Google penalty abound. Five things you should do, five things you shouldn’t do, etc. But the number one thing you shouldn’t do is ignore it. I want to tell you the story of a two-year long penalty, the steps we took and how something we never thought…
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