When was the last time you encountered a doorway page in Google’s search results? Although this doesn’t happen very often, Google seems to think that doorway pages are still an issue. In the official...
Some webmasters think that it was more difficult to get high rankings for websites that had a Google penalty in the past. In a webmasters hangout, Google’s John Mueller said that this was not...
In a Google Hangout, Google’s John Mueller said that the next Penguin update might not be announced: “We are generally moving to a little bit of a faster [Google Penguin] update cycle there. But...
Negative SEO has become a problem. While most webmasters know that other websites can be damaged by adding low quality links to these sites, there are more things that your competitors can do to...
Google released a new version of the Penguin algorithm about a month ago. Websites that were penalized by a previous Penguin update should have recovered with the new update if they removed spammy links...
Google’s recent Penguin 3.0 update has confirmed that Google is serious about low quality backlinks. If your website has paid backlinks, or automatically created backlinks, chances are that your site will be penalized by...
On Google+, Google’s Pierre Far posted further information about Google’s recent Penguin update: “On Friday last week, we started rolling out a Penguin refresh affecting fewer than 1% of queries in US English search...
In a post on Google’s official blog, Google announced an update of the anti-piracy algorithm. There are three major changes: New ad formats that show legal alternatives: “We’ve been testing new ad formats in...
In a post on Google+, Google’s Pierre Far announced the latest version of Google’s Panda update. How will this update affect the rankings of your web pages on Google? What can you do to...
In a video on YouTube, Google’s John Mueller announced a new Penguin update: “I am pretty confident we will have something in the reasonable future.” The new Penguin update is expected to be a...
Some days ago, Igor Rondel, Principal Development Manager, Bing Index Quality, published a blog post about the way Bing treats web spam. His post explains how Bing detects, processes and filters out search spam...
On Twitter, Google’s Matt Cutts announced the release of the third version of Google’s Payday Loan algorithm. The first version of that algorithm was announced about a year ago. What is Google’s Payday Loan...
