Category: Google PageRank & Algorithm Updates

A single line added to Google’s announcement about their mobile-friendly labels rolling out to mobile searchers said that Google is experimenting with using mobile-friendly criteria in their ranking algorithms…

I am seeing early but significant chatter this morning around Google algorithm and search results changes. Some are saying it is Penguin related and some are saying it is Panda related. It is too early to tell…

Yesterday I reported how there was some weekend chatter about Google fluctuations.

Well that has really started to pick up as of last night. Many more webmasters are noticing lots of changes, some saying reversals…

With the Thanksgiving shopping season around the corner, SEOs and Webmasters are scared Google is going to release something big that will potentially hurt their best sales period.

This weekend…

2.5 weeks ago, Google pushed out the Penguin 3.0 update after waiting over a year to update Penguin 2.1.

That update later was confirmed and told it would roll out worldwide over the next few weeks…

Talk about a crazy month in Google, Google launched Penguin 3.0 in a pretty sloppy way, they also launched the DMCA algorithm and had Panda refreshes throughout that time.
Google also updated their…

Google launched Penguin 3.0 late Friday night and we have a lot more detail on it now, including that it should be rolling out for the next few weeks now.
It seems that some savvy SEOs are noticing an uptick in ranking changes yesterday…

As you already know, Google launched Penguin 3.0 late Friday. But yesterday, Google’s John Mueller said he believed the roll out was complete but then hours later stepped back on that.
Today we learn from Google’s Pierre Far on Google+ that the roll out is far from complete, that it is still rolling out and will so for the “next few weeks.”
Pierre said, “itâs a slow worldwide rollout, so you may notice it settling down over the next few weeks.”

Late Friday night, Google began rolling out Penguin 3.0.
Google’s John Mueller said in a video hangout minutes ago that the roll out is now complete and fully done. So the rankings should stick around Penguin until they run another Penguin refresh.
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In August 2012, Google introduced the DMCA algorithm, also known as the Piracy Update…

I am working on getting confirmation from Google but I have never seen the forums light up as much as they are now.

Early reports came from webmasters and SEOs in various online forums and social media. The SEO industry chatter is at an all time high…

A couple weeks ago, Google pushed out a large update to the Google Panda Algorithm, version Panda 4.1.

A weekend later, we saw major traffic shifts in Google, which Google said was likely Panda 4.1 still in the process of rolling out 1.5 weeks later.
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December 6, 2013 was the last time we had a Google Toolbar PageRank update, that was over 10 months ago – not as long as a Penguin refresh (which is way more important) but still…

The forums and SEO community has been buzzing all weekend about major shifts in the Google search rankings. Some are 100% positive it is the final roll out of Panda 4.1 while others are saying Google is rolling out Penguin 3.0.

I am honestly not sure…

Today is a sad day, being that Google has not refreshed the Penguin algorithm for a year. Today, October 4th, is the year anniversary of Penguin 2.1 – those hit a year ago, are probably out of business by now.

Today is also Yom Kippur, well…

Yesterday at SMX East, I reported on Search Engine Land in real-time that Google’s Gary Illyes said on stage that Penguin may come next week.

Tomorrow, which is Yom Kippur, will be the one-year anniversary of the last Penguin refresh, Penguin 2.1……

One of my fears was that Google would announce a big algorithm update while I was offline for Rosh Hashanah and they did just that – although the update was not Google Penguin, it was Google Panda related.

This one…

Google’s John Mueller in a video hangout this morning on Google+ announced that the 3rd version of Penguin will launch “in the reasonable future” and he expects it will happen within the 2014 year.

The question was raised by @edwardjohnnash…

On Friday, I saw dozens of threads in the Google Webmaster Help forums with people complaining about major traffic loses. But the automated tracking tools from Moz, SearchMetrics, Algoroo, SERPS.com and others didn’t really show any signs…

Truth is, the month of August was not as crazy as previous months, especially the month of July. We did however have some significant things happen this month…