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, […]

“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 […]

Farmer Update & Panda-monium

It has been a few weeks since Google’s Farmer/Panda algorithim updates. Many sites were devastated by the wild fluctuations of rankings that occurred. Other sites were not hit as hard. The update has made anyone concerned about their website rankings to sit up and take notice. Most of us are still trying to determine the […]

Google Farming Update Fallout

An official Google Blog titled: "Finding more high-quality sites in search" written on February 24th, by Matt Cutts and Amit Singhal, announced a significant change in Google’s rankings of Web pages in search results. The blog post stated that this new algorithm update would "noticeably impact 11.8% of Google’s queries." Referred to as the "Farmer […]

The Google 2011 Algorithm Update

You may have noticed some wild fluctuations recently in the Google SERPs. Site’s that were ranking well are nowhere to be seen or have changed rank significantly. As SEO’s are keenly aware, every year about this time, Google tends to make large changes and updates to their search algorithm. This tends to skew most search […]