April was a tumultuous month for search engine optimization (SEO), especially in light of Google’s Penguin Update in addition to revisions for Panda. A few days ago, Google offered some assistance and clarity to SEO’ers everywhere by announcing a list of 52 search changes, all of which have already taken effect.
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At least somebody out there is concerned with your social media privacy rights, but you might be surprised to hear that the concerned parties actually reside in Washington.
Google released a webspam update (now officially referred to as the “Penguin Update”) last week which has a lot of website developers, bloggers, search engine optimization (SEO) marketers, and owners wondering what happened to their page rankings.
Yesterday, we reported that Google would soon be releasing a search engine update to reduce the website page rankings of websites that engaged in webspam, or black hat search engine optimization (SEO) practices and techniques, that are in direct violation of Google’s quality guidelines and procedures.
According to a post published on the Google Webmaster Central Blog, Google will soon be launching another update aimed at minimizing webspam and reducing the visibility of sites that fall short of the search giant’s quality guidelines. The post indicates that approximately 3% of all search queries will be affected.