Category: Google PageRank & Algorithm Updates

On Friday I reported about a lot of chatter and signals of a possible update from Google coming down the pipe.

Well, as of this morning, it seems some are saying their rankings are back to where they were…

I mentioned there was some chatter about a Google update on May 2nd but now we are seeing even more chatter and signs of flux in the Google search results on May 7th…

April was another month chock full of Google webmaster and SEO tidbits. We also suspected at least two updates, FYI, there were some signs of a possible update on May 2nd, although that buzz died down quickly…

The ongoing WebmasterWorld thread has been pretty active with webmaster chatter since Sunday, when I went offline for two days.

It also appears that the automated tracking tools are seeing nice spikes over the past couple of days including Mozcast…
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About six-months ago, Google unleashed a major update to Penguin, the Penguin 2.1 update.
The earlier feedback from that update was that is was a big impact to webmasters and mostly SEOs who used links in an aggressive manner.
So I posted a poll asking…

Let me start off by saying that I normally would wait another 24 hours before posting this because the chatter is so new, but I will be offline tomorrow and the day after and I am going with what I see now…

Busy month at work? Didn’t have time to follow all of Google’s changes? Don’t you worry, here is a short recap of what happened over the past month specific to Google changes that may impact SEOs and webmasters…

We’ve been noticing a steady and consistent level of chatter in the forums and social networks from webmasters and SEOs around Google’s search results fluctuations…

The ongoing WebmasterWorld thread that tracks Google activity has webmasters and SEOs asking if there are algorithmic updates going on, either Panda or Penguin…

At SMX West Matt Cutts of Google announced they are actively working on the “next generation” Panda update that will “soften” the algorithm.

Matt specifically said this is aimed at helping small businesses that may be impacted by the Panda algorithm….

It was a pretty crazy month in February and if you want to catch up quick on all the webmaster related Google topics…

We reported about a possible Google update around February 13th and I do believe there was something rather large on that date – but now there is more chatter about a possible update early this week…

On February 6, 2014, Google did their third refresh to the Page Layout algorithm.
I am happy to report that some webmasters who were initially hit by either the first or second implementations of the Page Layout algorithm have reported recoveries on Fe…

There is a tremendous amount of chatter going on about Google updating over the past couple days or so at WebmasterWorld.

On February 6th we had the Page Layout algorithm update but that didn’t cause much of a fuss in the SEO forums. But something …

Yesterday, Google’s Matt Cutts announced on Twitter that they have pushed out a refresh to the Google Page Layout algorithm on or around February 6th.
He did not specify how much this impacted the search results but based on my analysis of the SEO comm…

Last night, the spam czar of Google, Matt Cutts tweeted the expected, that they penalized a German link network.

This time, Cutts did not call out which network, instead he said Google went after a Germany agency and their clients over their link netw…

Here is the monthly recap for all Google webmaster related topics for the past month. January was a pretty wild month with a pretty big update happening on January 8th and 9th, which Google did not confirm…

On January 9th we reported on early chatter of a Google update, which has now grown to almost 200 comments. Early on, the chatter was slow but now, over the past couple days…

I am seeing early signs of a possible Google update underway today. The WebmasterWorld thread started to get some chatter yesterday of people noticing shifts in the search results.

One WebmasterWorld senior member said, “Jez…

I keep coming back to this episode 227 from TWiG and in the video, Matt Cutts talked about the Hummingbird algorithm at exactly one hour and twenty minutes into the video. He spent maybe a minute or so talking about it.
Matt Cutts said that the Humming…