Surviving the Panda-mic

As most of us know, the Panda update launched by Google in the US in February and this week in the UK has cause a lot of confusion, a lot of ranking drops and a lot of people scratching their heads wondering what to do to recover from it. The Panda was designed to attack […]

Panda Spanks eHow

When the Panda update rolled out in the US a scant number of weeks ago, many expected to see the popular eHow site from Demand Media to be hit hard as the industry regards it as a “content farm.” Oddly enough, eHow actually managed to gain traffic after the update leaving many groups and individuals […]

Return of the Panda

There appears to be speculation that there is another Google Update underway. Several reports from webmasters in a Webmaster World thread have stated that they are seeing some significant changes in the Google SERPs. Often in isolated reports like this, it is usually the result of specific tests being run on isolated data centers. However, […]

After the Panda-mic

I came across a good post this morning from Greg Niland talking about how to recover after the Panda Algorithm update from Google. As you may know, thousands of sites were devastated by the update, which left many wondering how to proceed and how to regain their once former rankings and traffic. Greg speaks about […]

2011: Year of the Organic Web

Some people in the industry are speculating that keyword rich domain names will be the next target to be hit by Google’s latest algorithm update. When you go to register a new domain name, the first question that inevitable rises is: "DoI go with a keyword rich domain name? (www.buy-cilais-online.net for example), or something that […]

“Do Ads Affect Rankings?”

There seems to some confusion as to whether Ads do or do not play a significant role in Google Ranking Algorithm. During the initial release of the Farmer Update it was stated that Google is now using the presence of ads on a website as a ranking factor. Of course they were quite vague regarding […]