The Week In Search & SEO: January 25, 2019

Plenty of interesting things popping up in Search and SEO this week, and controversies across the board from merging social platforms to employee activism. But before we get to that, just a quick reminder that Beanstalk CEO Dave Davies will be taking the stage on January 31 at SMX West talking mam vs. machine on […]

No Sandbox For Penalized Sites With Penguin

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. […]

Penguin Update … Update

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 […]

Google Penguin 3 Rolls On

With fluctuations continuing to be reported by webmasters it’s been confirmed by Google that the Penguin 3.0 update continues to roll out.  There are reports of what we’ve seen repeatedly from Google over the years in a pendulum effect wherein rankings fluctuate in one direction only to be returned to their previous or close-to-previous positions […]