Posts Tagged ‘ google ’

After a Little Deception, Google Releases Panda Refresh (#22)

November 30, 2012
The Pandas Game

Google loves to play games. They love saying one thing while playing it a bit differently in practice. They always want to keep webmasters in the shade and unprepared for whatever algorithm update they plan to release in order to avoid manipulative blackhat SEO activities. So they had another tiny……

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Severe Google Bug Regains Access to Prior-Privy Webmaster Tools Users

November 28, 2012
Google Webmaster Tools

One of the worst things that could harm a site’s search traffic from Google is if someone unauthorized had gained access to its Webmaster Tools account. Changing a couple of the site’s settings here and there, and poof, the website is out of Google’s index. Well, hold tight anxious webmasters……

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Only Google+ Users Can Now Post App Reviews on Google Play

November 27, 2012
Google Play Logo

As I’ve already discussed extensively in the past, online reviews can be quite tricky. Sadly, it’s not always easy to distinguish between honest reviews and fake ones created solely for the purpose of manipulatively bloating/diminishing product’s reputation. That makes users also to be incredulous about the reviews platform itself. I’m……

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Google Enables Anyone to Connect Google+ Profile/Page with YouTube Channel

November 20, 2012
YouTube Logo

Well, you can’t say it was unpredictable or somewhat surprising. In August, Google began allowing YouTube partners to connect their account with Google+ and since then the writing was on the wall. Yup, now everybody can use YouTube with their personal Google+ identity (and Pages coming soon too). YouTube has……

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Google Panda Refresh (#21) Pops on November 6th

November 8, 2012
Panda Confused

Okay, this already gets way too structural monotonous. But yet, it still has enough weighty effect on Google’s search results and as derivative, on innumerable websites’ traffic. Another month went by (sort of), another Google Panda update has arrived to redeem us from our spammy shallow sins. Unlike the prior……

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After Many Leaks, Google Considers Releasing Quality Rater Guidelines

November 2, 2012
Human Quality Raters

For the most part, Google’s search results are purely algorithmic without any human editorial touch. Except for cases where members of the search team are manually penalizing a website for violating Google’s guidelines (and recuperating if eligible), the rankings process is completely automatic. But Google also employs humans as “Quality……

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Google Denies (Again) Advertisers Prioritized in Organic Results or for Support

October 30, 2012
Google Analysis Logo

There aren’t many industries where a nerdish man wearing a panda t-shirt and talking about algorithms can rouse a lot of heed and in some cases even some trepidation. But in the search industry (and in the wizarding world) such a powerful man does live and breathe. Matt Cutts, Google’s……

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Google Rolls Update to Target Japanese Low-Quality and Affiliate Sites

October 25, 2012
Google Japanese Doodle

Hello nifty Japanese site owners! Have you noticed anything different in the last few days, you know, Google-wise? Experienced sudden and vehement rankings movement up or down? Trying to make sense in the Nihonkai of traffic chaos? Well, it appears that Google unleashed a new search algorithm just for you!……

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Google’s Page Layout Algorithm Second Strike – Analysis and Examples

October 10, 2012
Google Page Layout Hit Example 2

And there we go again… Google continue to throw out more algorithm updates and refreshes into the search jungle in just a matter of less than two weeks, where this time it’s the turn of the engine’s Page Layout filter to elicit an update. Google’s anti-spam lord, Matt Cutts, had……

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