Penguin 3.0: 1% of English Queries Effected
Penguin has become Google’s most notorious update. Small business owners that rely on their web presence fear Penguin more than just about any annual or semi-annual event, and rightfully so. What makes Google’s Penguin so devastating and scary for small business owners? When you are hit by Penguin, you need to take immediate action. You…
Read MoreGoogle Kills Off Authorship
It’s official. Google has removed all authorship data from search results and Webmaster Tools. Google reports that as a whole, not enough people took advantage of the authorship markup to make it a valuable ranking factor and they saw little difference in click-through rates for sites with authorship markups versus those without. A major goal of…
Read MorePenguin 3.0 May Be On The Way – Make Sure You Are Protected!
With Matt Cutts on leave, we thought we’d potentially have some quiet months. This morning, Barry Schwartz at SERoundTable.com announced his suspicion that the stars are aligned for Google to release Penguin 3.0 today. If they don’t release it today (it’s customary for Google to release updates on Fridays), John Mueller confirmed in the latest…
Read MoreNegative SEO: Is It Real? And Should I Be Scared?
What is Negative SEO? Negative SEO is the practice of deceiving Google to believe that a domain you do not own is doing something to violate Google’s webmaster guidelines or interfering with Google’s ability to crawl a domain. This includes everything from spam link building to denial of service attacks. The goal of negative search…
Read MoreGoogle Launches New Local Search Algorithm: Pigeon
On the same day we talked about stability in the search rankings, Google took a big new blender, turned it on high power and dropped their local search results into it. What is “Pigeon” Pigeon is a new local search algorithm implemented by Google. Pigeon is the name given to the algorithm by marketers, not…
Read MoreSome Stability May Be Ahead: Google Updates; Matt Cutts Goes on Leave and More!
While there haven’t been the massive overhauls to search results we’ve seen in recent years, there has been absolutely no shortage of updates from Google in 2014. First, the world saw some huge fluctuations in the rankings in January all the way through May as Google began one by one manually penalizing websites frequented by…
Read MoreA Link Is A Link, Right? Wrong!
One of the many consulting and SEO services we provide for law firms involves link building, link removals and link clean-up. Even attorneys foreign to SEO best practices know that a link should be a good thing and law firms are constantly paying for new services to showcase their practice. With your search engine optimization…
Read MoreCan Law Firms Compete And Cooperate At The Same Time?
So many law firms are so caught up in what their competition is doing and how their competition is beating them, that they never take the time to sit back and think how they can cooperate to increase profitability for both law firms. You do this all the time within your referral networks without thinking…
Read MoreMatt Cutts Confirms Google Panda 4.0 Release
Its official! Panda 4.0 has struck and it should come to no one’s surprise. We have seen rankings bounce around and then return to normal quite a bit this month and knew Google was testing something. However, after releasing both Penguin 1.0 and 2.0 in May of previous years, Google decided to keep search engine…
Read MoreDuckDuckGo Quacks Back – Search Engine Relaunch
With all of the other initiatives Google has on their shoulders right now, DuckDuckGo.com has found an interesting opportunity to jump back into the picture. Long considered a niche search engine that embraced the concept of user privacy, but lacked many of the traits of its larger competitors including Google, Bing and Yahoo!, they appear…
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