Category "Search Updates"
So, Matt Cutt’s panel at SMX West (San Jose) is over. It has been so insightful that search marketers are already looking into new directions and strategies for their efforts. Lot of information was shared by the Google Engineer today and here’s a summary of the most important take away points that every SEO must take home, memorize and chew on.
1. Authorship is the new Page Rank (sort of).
Well, Page Rank was never a prominent factor in determining search result ranks for a site, so it Read full article [...]
Looks like there’s a significant amount of SEO seismic activity as we speak. Activity was noted couple of days back on December 5th, and today (December 11th, 2012) there is more. Mozcast details. SERPs details. Also, there’s activity reported in Web Master World forums. If these reported activities turns out real, this might be the major update after the recent Panda update on November 22nd. I have seen, improved organic traffic on certain properties since December 4th. Not sure Read full article [...]
I think we’re at the middle of a major transition in Search. An evolution, so to speak. 2012 was all about cleaning up, improving quality and moving on from the old school ways. Updates came in one after the other, bringing a lot of clarity to the SEO community. Some metrics that were “possibly” affecting search, were now confirmed, some myths dispelled and many new, now confirmed. It was also probably an year, where Google made its best communication efforts with the webmaster community. Read full article [...]
With the changing SEO landscape, the webmaster community is pretty much unanimous in acknowledging the fact that today’s SEO is vastly different from what had been practiced earlier couple of years ago.
There were several articles that got my attention this week. Here are a few.
1. Is Google trying to punish SEO?
This article written by Ian Spencer of Clear Web Services, looks at the changing face of SEO from a different perspective. It asks a question, that is Google punishing SEOs for what Read full article [...]
So, here is a round up of all search activities and major updates from the search engine world for the week of October 7 – 14, 2012.
Google rolled out mod_pagespeed – takes it out of beta.
Google wants every webmaster to speed up their pages. We’ve seen instances where Google search team had mentioned it casually and otherwise (2010 – Site speed as ranking factor). In its efforts to help webmasters measure and speed up their page load times, Google rolled out mod_pagespeed tool last week.
Google Read full article [...]
