Category: Google PageRank & Algorithm Updates

Last week, during the AMA with Google at SMX West, Google’s Gary Illyes said he doesn’t see machine learning and artificial intelligence taking over most of the Google ranking algorithms because it is too hard to debug…

As you know, we finally received real confirmation this past Friday on the March 7th/8th update named the Google Fred update, which I believed targeted low value content sites…

Yesterday, during the AMA with Google session at SMX West, Google’s Gary Illyes may have confirmed the Fred algorithm update that targeted low value content on March 7th/8th…

Google has been very quiet about what SEOs have been calling the “Phantom update.” The Phantom update has been floating around for the past couple years now, and we’ve covered it multiple times here. In fact…

The Google Fred Update which we first spotted rolling out early morning on March 8th seems to be fairly big. After reviewing well over 70 sites that were hit by this update, 95% of them share two things in common…

As you know, yesterday I posted about the big Google algorithm ranking update and it seems to be getting a lot more attention this morning as SEOs and webmasters dig into their rankings and traffic this morning…

There appears to be a large Google ranking or algorithm update happening right now in the core Google web search results…

This past month, we had a fairly significant Google algorithm ranking update on February 7th which Google did not confirm so we suspect it was a Phantom update. Then shortly after…

As you know, we were by far the first to break the news on the February 7th Google update that seemed really big so big that I actually asked Google to confirm it which they said no comment. And when Google gives a no comment…

As you know, we reported about the February 7th Google update and that it seems pretty big. So I asked Google for a comment and got a no comment from them on the update.

Last week, I reported about a Google update that touched down on Tuesday, February 7th. Well…

We just had some Google algorithm update a week ago potentially targeting spammy links I believe. And now a week later, around February 7th, yesterday…

We cover many Google algorithm updates here but not all the international ones. A big one hit Google Japan this morning, specifically aimed at targeting low quality web sites and lowering their rankings in the Google Japanese search results…

For the past 48 hours, I’ve been hearing some rumbles around Google algorithm updates and sites dropping. But the chatter was not that drastic…

Back in the day, Google use to launch specific algorithms in different regions. Like with Panda, when it launched, it launched in English regions only at first. Then it was pushed to other language afterwards…

Over the past 24-hours, the ongoing WebmasterWorld thread has seen an uptick in chatter around ranking and traffic changes from Google. Plus, many of the tracking tools that have updated for the day are showing signs of a Google update…

Yesterday was a US holiday, so overall there was less people working, searching and buying online. But…

In November 2016, Google began experimenting with the mobile-first index and since then, many SEOs and webmasters began thinking it is live – it is not.

In fact…

I am really delayed this month with the monthly Google Webmaster Report, but here it is for January. The big items were the December 15th Google update, which many many webmasters saw…

Google have of plenty of notice that yesterday, January 10th, the Google mobile intrusive interstitials penalty would launch on January 10…