The Penguin Has Landed

Last Week at Search Engine Marketing Expo East, Google’s Webmaster Trends Analyst and Search Quality Engineer Gary Illyes stated the latest update should drop some this week. After almost a year since the last update, the refresh could give websites having a Penguin penalty a bit of bump if they’ve cleaned out their bad links. […]

Top SEO News From Around The Web: Sept 22-26

Panda 4.1 (Update27) Rollout Google has started a slow rollout update of its thin content filter Panda this week. This latest is expected to between 3-5% of search queries and Google hope the update will allow small and medium sized sites with high quality content rank better. Read the full story > New Google AdWords […]

Celibrate Your Failures

Most of what today’s link-building has to do with shaping the best pitch or strategy but let’s be honest with ourselves not every pitch or strategy is going to be great. We are going to fail many times in our career but we have to be able to keep focused. Be aware of the failure, […]

RIP to Rel+Author Tag

I don’t know about you but for at least two years I’ve been telling clients to implement the rel=”auth” tag. Just the other day I got word from an article by Alan Bleiweiss that Google’s John Mueller had communicated that they hit the kill switch on rell=”auth”. It felt like a kick to the stomach […]

Googles Has A Lot Less To Say About Net Neutrality

Once upon a time Google was a proud defender of net neutrality, but according to an article published by Businessweek the search giant has been relatively silent on the subject. In May, the FCC proposed that large cable and telephone companies be allowed to offer paid internet fast lanes, something that Google railed against in […]

Google Glass Hit’s The UK

Well it’s not a crown Prince Charles is wearing but it could be the Google equivalent of it. Google Glass has opened up market within the UK this week through the “Glass Explorer Program”. Lucky ladies and gents over the age of 18 have the opportunity to wear the unit for a measly £ 1,000. […]

Cute Little Panda 4.0

On Monday via Twitter, Matt Cutts head of Google’s web spam team announced that the latest version of the Panda algorithm had been released. The Panda 4.0 update is said to target different languages, as well as, the usual attack on thin, spammy content. Many companies are claiming a jump in search query referrals and […]