Did I Mention Panda?
Did I Mention Panda?
Posted 31 days ago

The world economic crisis? Oh, 2011, right, SEO, Panda, big changes.

Panda update in February, combined with the earlier algorithm shift that took place in January. Panda. Yeah, it was…

Google Freshness Algorithm
Google Freshness Algorithm
Posted 94 days ago

Ain't nobody dope as me, I'm dressed so fresh so clean.

Google recently announced 'a significant improvement' to its ranking algorithm that will affect about 35 percent of all searches.…

Google Caffeine
Google Caffeine
Posted 99 days ago

Launched in June 2010 across all data centers, regions, and languages, Google Caffeine was a revamp of Google’s indexing infrastructure – not the same thing as a change to…

Google Caffeine
The Provenance of Panda
The Provenance of Panda
Posted 124 days ago

Like all good bandits in the tumbleweed-strewn landscape that is the search engine morphological ecosystem (I'm coming down with a bad case of logorrhea, here, but you get my…

What is Google Panda
What is Google Panda?
Posted 132 days ago

Google Panda – this is the single biggest change since PageRank – Google has changed more in the last three years than they seem to have done in the…

What is Google Panda?
What is Google's Farmer Update?
What is Google’s Farmer Update?
Posted 132 days ago

Oh dear.
Dr. David Banner: physician; scientist. Searching for a way to tap into the hidden strengths that all humans have. Then an accidental overdose of gamma radiation alters his…

What is Google PageRank?
What is Google PageRank?
Posted 150 days ago

Google describes PageRank as their measure of 'importance'. Authority, trust, whatever. And the PageRank score – or value – for a web page is just a number, an algorithm.

To…

What is Google PageRank?
Google Snippet Links
Google Snippet Links
Posted 203 days ago

Text snippets - those wee precocious dahlings displayed in the SERPS pulled predominantly from the meta description, or the first sentence in the body copy, or from underneath the…

Google Snippet Links
Meta Description Gives Good Snippet
Meta Description Gives Good Snippet
Posted 229 days ago

The meta description tag has so little relative ranking power (to the page title) that we might just as well concentrate on click-through, and in regards to click-through it…

Google Sitelinks
Google Sitelinks
Posted 265 days ago

Snippet links and sitelinks are the same thing. Although, if you want to split hairs, you could argue that a snippet link is a link that occurs within the…

Google Sitelinks
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The world economic crisis? Oh, 2011, right, SEO, Panda, big changes.

Panda update in February, combined with the earlier algorithm shift that took place in January. Panda. Yeah, it was big. read more

Ain’t nobody dope as me, I’m dressed so fresh so clean.

Google recently announced ‘a significant improvement’ to its ranking algorithm that will affect about 35 percent of all searches. The goal is to make search results as fresh as possible. Now all we need is the ball, the net and the gameplan. read more

Launched in June 2010 across all data centers, regions, and languages, Google Caffeine was a revamp of Google’s indexing infrastructure – not the same thing as a change to Google’s ranking algorithms. read more

Like all good bandits in the tumbleweed-strewn landscape that is the search engine morphological ecosystem (I’m coming down with a bad case of logorrhea, here, but you get my drift…), Google Panda has iterative ‘form’. read more

Google Panda – this is the single biggest change since PageRank – Google has changed more in the last three years than they seem to have done in the ten years prior.

This signals a fundament change in Google, this is not just business as usual.. read more

Oh dear.

Dr. David Banner: physician; scientist. Searching for a way to tap into the hidden strengths that all humans have. Then an accidental overdose of gamma radiation alters his body chemistry. And now when David Banner grows angry or outraged, a startling metamorphosis occurs. The creature is driven by rage and pursued by an investigative reporter. [Banner:] “Mr. McGee, don’t make me angry. You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.”

You see where this is going. read more

Google describes PageRank as their measure of ‘importance’. Authority, trust, whatever. And the PageRank score – or value – for a web page is just a number, an algorithm. read more

Google Snippet Links

by herestheskinny

in On-Page SEO

Text snippets – those wee precocious dahlings displayed in the SERPS pulled predominantly from the meta description, or the first sentence in the body copy, or from underneath the kitchen table covered in dog-poo (the neighbour’s, of course) – may find themselves accompanied from time to time by a snippet link (think Supernanny, but without the relentless emphasis on the ‘what makes him do it and how to stop it’ thing going on. And on).

There are two variations of Google snippet links. read more

The meta description tag has so little relative ranking power (to the page title) that we might just as well concentrate on click-through, and in regards to click-through it can be – heck, is – a major factor. read more

Snippet links and sitelinks are the same thing. Although, if you want to split hairs, you could argue that a snippet link is a link that occurs within the snippet itself while a sitelink is a link that is presented to the searcher below the destination url. read more