Chances are if you have ever done a disavow file, you have come across multiple blogspot.com links, as well as links coming from the various international versions of Blogspot, each of which is hosted on its own country-specific TLD. And it can be a chore to disavow them all. Marie Haynes shared an incredibly useful […]
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Google Panda Update: Everything We Know About Panda 4.2
UPDATE: We have a new complete analysis of the Google Panda Algo, complete with brand new quotes directly from Google (January 2016). Understanding Google Panda: Definitive Guide for SEOs Yes, we have liftoff! Panda 4.2 has finally arrived, following Gary Illyes announcement last month that the refresh was coming. “This past weekend we began a […]
Google’s Quality Algo Update: What We Know About It
Google has finally confirmed what many of us suspected… they have made a change to their core search ranking algorithm, and it is being dubbed as the Quality Update or the Quality Algo, and formerly referred to as the Phantom Update, or Phantom Update 2. Changes were first noticed at the beginning of the month […]
How to Force Google to Use Blogspot.com URLs Instead of Country Specific URLs
If you are frustrated by the fact that any blogspot URL redirects you to the local country version blogspot URL instead of the.com, there is a solution other than banging your head against the keyboard. Many users have utilized the /ncr trick with Google over the years, which forces Google to use the Google.com URL […]
Huge Changes in Google Search Results, Here’s What We Know About the Changes, is it Panda or Penguin?
There are some major search results fluctuations happening in Google right now. Mozcast is showing high volatility in the results, something that Dr. Pete Meyers from Moz is confirming. Seeing some serious stormy weather on Google yesterday. @SERPmetrics and Algoroo also showing very high flux (cc @dejanseo). — Dr. Pete Meyers (@dr_pete) February 5, 2015 […]
Penguin 3.0: Is it an Update or Merely a Refresh? Google’s Response
When Penguin began rolling out Friday night, we all assumed this was the long awaited Penguin update. After all, with over a year to work on it, many assumed it was a new groundbreaking Penguin that would leave the old one in the dust in terms of spam fighting. So while a year is a […]
Switching to HTTPS Will Not Increase Your Search Rankings
After webmasters were scrambling to make their sites secure with Google’s announcement that using https would give those sites a ranking boost, John Mueller states that using https will not visibly increase your rankings. In a Google Webmaster Help Office Hours, the question about https as a ranking boost came up. I wouldn’t expect any […]
Large Popups on Websites Could Trigger Page Layout Algorithm Penalty
This will be good news for surfers but bad news for marketers employing this tactic – sites that display large popups as soon as a visitor loads a site could trigger the above the fold layout algorithm penalty. “When we look at the page layout, we look at what we crawl with Googlebot,” says John […]
Penguin Will Launch in the Reasonable Future in 2014 According to John Mueller
Another Google Webmaster Central Office Hours was held today, and yes, John Mueller was asked about Penguin, and more specifically, whether the next Penguin update would happen in 2014. Here was his response… Will the Penguin 3.0 launch in 2014? My guess is yes, but as always there are always things that could happen in […]
Google Confirms Penguin Refresh Needed to Recover
It has long been debated whether a Penguin update is needed in order to recover from a true Penguin algo hit, or whether it is possible that you can recover despite the fact we haven’t seen a Penguin refresh for almost a year. General consensus is that an update is needed, but there are those […]