Marketing News & Consulting
There’s been some chatter lately around a possible Google algorithm update. I had been seeing some significant fluctuations across a number of client sites here at Beanstalk over the past couple days before stumbling on the post from Barry Schwartz over on Search Engine Roundtable that I’m not the only one. There’s significant changes in […]
Welcome to the last post of the week. Let’s look at what happened today to give you some light reading for the weekend: Google Update ‘Fred’ & More On yesterday’s episode of Webcology Jim and I discussed a whole array of issue but the most prevalent was the latest Google Update folks are naming ‘Fred’. […]
So you want to keep up with what’s going on in search and SEO do you? Well here’s what’s happened over the past 48 hours (sorry – couldn’t get to it yesterday). The Data Behind Quality Content Sometimes I have to go with a little self-promotion and today is one of those days. My latest […]
It’s been an exciting day in the search and SEO realm and rather than babble a build-up let’s just jump into what’s going on. Only Two Months To Prep For The Holidays Alright, that might be a bit of an overstatement but in an article published earlier today by yours truly over on Search Engine […]
There are only 4 top stories today in search and SEO. A fairly slow Tuesday to be sure which means there’s not a lot of catching up to do and more time to work on sites. So let’s jump in … Content Link Building Is Flawed Chris Liversidge over on Search Engine Journal wrote an […]
It’s been an interesting past 24 hours in search. Here are the top stories we’ve been following: How Google’s Q4 Search Growth Got There Ginny Marvin over at Search Engine Land analyzes Merkle’s latest Digital Marketing Report and explains where the continued growth from Google comes from. CPC was down 0.5% so how is Google […]
As anyone familiar with Penguin knows, the timeframe between updates was a killer for many businesses. On the plus side for Google; this created an environment where fear over multi-month or even multi-year penalties encouraged compliance with their rules. Penguin sought to punish those who violated Google’s Webmaster Guidelines and there’s no doubt, a punishment was doled out. […]
Ordinarily we would be publishing our 5 Quick Tips piece today but when I awoke to news that the Penguin Update was rolling out after 705 days it became pretty clear that: A – I had a far larger topic that needed to be researched and covered, and B – I didn’t think a 5 […]
We’ve been hearing for a while not that there’s a Penguin Update scheduled for 2015 and we’d heard it was switching to everflux but some additional light has been cast by Google’s Gary Illyes on Twitter in response to a question from Todd MacDonald. The exchange was: @forefront1 it will be an update to the […]
