Google Panda 4.1 Now Rolling Out; Aims To Help Smaller Web Sites

One of my fears was that Google would announce a big algorithm update while I was offline for Rosh Hashanah and they did just that - although the update was not Google Penguin, it was Google Panda related. This one, Pierre Far has the privilege of announcing on his Google+ page. He wrote: Panda update rolling out  Earlier this week, we started a slow rollout of an improved Panda algorithm, and we expect to have everything done sometime...

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Redesigning Your Website? Why You Need to Think About SEO From the Start

The following is an excerpt from 10 SEO Mistakes to Avoid During Your Next Website Redesign. To download the full guide, click here. The glitz, the glam, the glorious design elements that make your website look like a million bucks. When contemplating a website redesign, it’s easy to focus only on those features that are appealing to the eye. Unfortunately, redesigning a website isn’t simply an exercise in aesthetics. Sure,...

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6 SEO Tools to Analyze Your Site Like Google Does

Google is constantly tweaking their algorithm -- just look at the history of Google's 2011 algorithm updates chronicled on this very blog to get a little snapshot. In fact, they announced 40 algorithm updates in February 2012 alone, followed by another 50 in March. And while Google freely talks about their overarching goals with these updates being to weed out lower-quality websites that don’t satisfy searchers with quality content, there...

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