Category: Google PageRank & Algorithm Updates

The Google mobile interstitial ad penalty is just around the corner now.

What constitutes a mobile interstitial that would trigger the penalty is something Google has been answering for months now…

I am seeing some chatter over the past few days of traffic and algorithm shifts within Google search. The issue is…

Over the past week or so, Google has been getting some heat around various anti semitic and racist sites ranking well in their search results. One of those queries getting a ton of attention is [did the holocaust happen]…

Looks like on Thursday, December 15th there was a Google search algorithm shift. We have some chatter on social media and in the WebmasterWorld forums…

It seems we may have had a Google algorithm update yet again over the weekend. You can actually see all our confirmed and unconfirmed Google updates…

On Monday, we reported about the ongoing chatter around a potential Google search algorithm update that touched down on November 10th of last week. Some of the…

On Thursday, November 10th, I saw some random chatter in the ongoing WebmasterWorld thread about zombie traffic and potential algorithmic updates to Google – but the chatter was pretty weak…

As you know, Google finally pushed out Penguin 4.0 in late September and the recoveries and declines were fully rolled out in the first two weeks of October…

Over the past couple days I’ve been seeing some signs of a Google update, most from forum and social chatter within the community…

Google has said the Penguin changes you’ve been seeing, and many of you are seeing recoveries espesially recently but those fluctuations and changes should all settle down soon.

Monday I scheduled a post about webmasters noticing Penguin recoveries after not seeing much of an impact shortly after the Penguin 4.0 launch.

But now I am seeing an uptick in chatter as of this morning, October 5th…

Wednesday Google started pushing out Penguin recoveries that should be rolled out by around now. We know the initial Penguin 4.0 launch showed…

Tuesday I reported that Google said nothing changed with when you should use the disavow file when it comes to Penguin – well, that might not be true now.

As I reported yesterday at SEL…

Google’s Gary Illyes said that the part of the Penguin 4.0 algorithm where sites impacted by Penguin 3.0 will recover is now rolling out…

As you know, Google announced the launch of Penguin 4.0, the real time Penguin algorithm, on Friday September 23, 2016. Many want to know if it is fully rolled out – it doesn’t seem so. Many want to know if it only started to roll out on Friday or if …

Everyone is asking me, did anyone see a recovery from the September 23, 2016 launch date of Penguin 4…

Google has officially confirmed on the Google webmaster blog that they’ve began rolling out the Penguin 4.0 real time algorithm. It has been just under two years since we had a confirmed Penguin update…

I am reluctant to write something about this because the chatter in the SEO community is all over the place. It seems like many are saying that Google is testing the new Penguin 4.0 update in the wild…

Google’s Gary Illyes did say they do have launch a date for Penguin 4.0 but John Mueller said this weekend on Twitter that they don’t have any dates to announce around this Penguin update.

John said, “we don’t have any dates to announce for that…
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Something is going on and it is getting bigger and bigger as time goes on. On September 2nd we reported significant changes in the Google search results…