Category: Google PageRank & Algorithm Updates

Back in May, we covered how Google is planning on releasing an algorithm to promote subject authorities in the search results. Some call this the “good guy algorithm” and some call it the “author authority algorithm,” while others may have some other …

So Google confirmed they reduced the authorship snippets from showing in the results. We know that. Matt Cutts strongly implied that there was no update on December 17th…

Over a year ago, Google introduced an algorithm to reduce the amount of exact match domains from showing up when those EMDs are not as useful as other sites.
Some at…

This week has been a mess for Google’s search results, despite Google denying anything is going on to me.

There were some tools that sparked up on November 14th that I didn’t see from the webmaster chatter…

Some of the automated tracking tools for detecting shifts in Google’s search results and thus showing evidence of a Google update went haywire on Thursday, November 14th.

Mozcast reported 102 degrees…

There are some murmurs of a possible Google update early this month, but nothing that substantial.

That being said…

I have been seeing some chatter at WebmasterWorld and other sources of a possible update that is being pushed out slowly since late October 31st through today.

If you read the thread…

On October 3rd, Google launched another algorithm change, one I didn’t cover here but wrote about at Search Engine Land named the Google Mugshot Algorithm.

In short, Google has downgraded the rankings of mugshot web sites, such as Mugshots…

There is some very early chatter at WebmasterWorld of reports that another Google shakeup is going on right now.

Webmasters are questioning if it is an update to Penguin 2.1 or if it is something else…

I am a bit late on the monthly Google Webmaster Report recap that I provide every month – but I am going to blame a very busy early of the month.

We had the release of the Google Penguin 2.1 algorithm…

It is now over 8 months since the last Google Toolbar PageRank update, which happened on February 4, 2013. At the six month point, Google told us a “no comment” on why there has not been a PageRank update…

Late Friday afternoon, Google’s Matt Cutts announced on Twitter that they unleashed Penguin 2.1.
In short, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, said it impacted about 1% of search queries.
Looking at the hundreds of comments on our quick post from…

Penguin 2.1 has officially been released today.

Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam announced it on Twitter:

Penguin 2.1 launching today. Affects ~1% of searches to a noticeable degree. More info on Penguin: http://t…

Last week, Google told us they pushed out a completely rewritten algorithm named Hummingbird.

They said the new algorithm was released a month or so ago and no one should have noticed it. But as I said, I think we did notice something…

On Thursday, Google had a press event to announce new changes they have been working on in search, as well discuss the progression over the 15 years of their existence.
Part of that was to announce that they have rewrote their search algorithm for the …

The ongoing WebmasterWorld thread and dozens of posts in the Google Webmaster Help forum suggest that around September 20th, Google did some sort of larger update.

Let me start by saying…

I’ve received a few emails, a bunch of tweets, plus I noticed new comments on our older posts and some updates in the WebmasterWorld thread that signifies a possible Google update rolling out this month.

The chatter is there…

I am seeing some early signs of a possible major Google update currently underway. The chatter has definitely spiked in the early morning hours of today, September 4th.

This comes shortly after an unconfirmed August 21st update…

This past month, we did not have any official update but something made the Google results rumble in late August…

It has now been over six months since the last widespread Google PageRank update. The last update was in early February, where users spotted changes to the Google Toolbar PageRank data.

Since then, I have not seen a major Toolbar PageRank update from…