Google Algo

Why Page Rank Goes Down And How to Get Back Lost PR?

December 12, 2012

I’m sure many of you have different opinion about Page rank and it’s useful ness. Google Page rank has nothing to do with the traffic of website. If a website has PR 3 it does not mean that it will have traffic more than a PR 1 website. But it will surely show one thing that the quality of PR3 website is more than the quality of PR1 website. Specially when there are very few ways ...

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Google Confirmed Panda Update 21 : 1.1% Query Affected

November 7, 2012

I could see a big traffic change for few of my blogs starting form 5th November 2012. Initially I thought it’s a Monday effect as 4th Nov was Weekend, but similarly I could see many bloggers asking in the Webmaster forum about traffic change from 5th November. Today (7th November), Google confirmed about the panda data refresh which affected less than 1.1 English queries. Panda data refresh rolling out. ~1.1% of English queries noticeably affected. ...

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How to Remove Spam Backlinks using Google Disavow links Tool

October 17, 2012

Google Disavow links tool is one of the most awaited and talked feature after Penguin update. Before I talk about this latest addition from Google Webmaster team, lets do a Time-travel. Back in April, When Google launched Google Penguin update, which is one of the major update after Panda algo change, it storm the whole SEO blogsphere and it cleaned the link spam by Private blog networks, bulk link buying or link spam in any ...

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Google Panda 20th Update : 2.4% English Search Impacted

October 10, 2012

Last week I talked about Google exact match domain update which was launched on 28th September 2012 and surprisingly at the same time, Google also rolled out a major Google Panda update. According to SEL, this major panda update happened on 27th September 2012 and almost 2.4% search engine queries for English language is impacted with this update. This is the 20th iteration of Panda update and changing the name convention for Panda updates, it’s call ...

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Exact Match Domain Penalty Added to Google Algo

October 3, 2012

Google rolled out a new algo update in which they mentioned they will be penalize low quality exact match domains (EMD penalty). Many Webmasters who are into micro niche blogging, for them exact match domain penalty seems like one of the worse update. As announced by Matt Cutts on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/251784203597910016 https://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/251789327691042816 This new algo change will affect “Exact-match” domains with low quality content. Earlier, exact match domains are priceless as they have the advantage ...

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Panda & Penguin Tool : Find Which Google Algo Hit your Website

September 13, 2012

I have already talked a lot about Panda and Penguin algo, which Google started rolling out from last year and now both of this algo is SEO’s night mare. Panda and penguin update changed the face of SEO and now SEO is getting more Social than just links and on site and on page optimization. Anyways, we are not going to talk about Post panda SEO strategy here, but we will look into a handy ...

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How Not to get Penalized by Next Major Penguin Change

August 19, 2012

If you keep an eye on SEO industry update, you would know current most talked topic is Matt Cutts statement on upcoming Penguin algo change. Till now, there is only one major Penguin update which happened till now, and in recent SES San Francisco conference Matt Cutts added: “If you remember, in the early days of Panda, it took several months for us to iterate on the algorithm, and the Panda impact tended to be ...

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DMCA Takedown Penalty Added as New Factor in Google Ranking

August 11, 2012

Plagiarism and piracy is something which is not new to Internet. Every day, we see lots of torrents and pirated content on the Web. For a Blogger, seeing their content copied somewhere is nothing new and we often file a DMCA takedown request to remove such content from Web index. Specially after First Google panda launch, plagiarism content become an issue and we have seen sites copying content ranked higher in many cases. In last one ...

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