Last February's first Panda Update was a devastating time for websites that were almost totally reliant on search traffic. An algorithm update, called Panda, caused many site’s rankings to suddenly drop which reduced the amount of traffic coming to that site. The update was primarily focused on content farms, however, it also effected many other sites as well. The goal of Panda’s future updates is to continue to filter out low-quality Read More
In an ongoing effort to create a more enjoyable search experience, and to remove junk from search results, Google has been implemented a new algorithm update called Panda Update 2.2 and we're already seeing dramatic changes. Panda Update 2.2 is an update that Google implemented in March 2011 that affected the SERPs for almost every website. As you can imagine everyone has been concerned about it ever since. Since the first Panda update Google has released a new algorithm update every month come out. There Read More
Google has been busy lately. Following a significant change to their algorithm Google has specifically targeted content farms and sites that offer low quality content. Many websites have dropped significanly in search phrases that they used to rank well for. This is good news for websites that offer useful information and for the users who are looking for them. Most of the web sites that are getting hit are those Read More
Forbes.com, the extremely popular magazine web site, has been notified by Google that they have been penalized for selling links on their web site. Denis Pinsky, the Digital Marketing Manager at Forbes.com, posted a Google Webmaster Help thread with the notification warning. As some of you know, Google now email site owners when they are participating in unnatural links and Forbes.com just received their email from Google. The email read: Dear site owner Read More
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