It's Friday, Friday, Friday! that's the good news. Now comes the bad, we've been told today that Google has updated their search engine Algorithm since last month. This Google update is being called "Hummingbird". Search Engine Land has a great article about the update - http://searchengineland.com/google-hummingbird-172816 Don't worry my fellow SEOs, the "Hummingbird" doesn't effect our efforts much as we have been doing (unless you are black hat!). The update does more good than bad for SEOs. Google updated their Algorithm better indexing of websites to accommodate for "conversational search". Conversational search as describe by fellow SEOs is the human speak to search engines. For example, I would type in Google search "find me a great Italian restaurant near me" instead "restaurants in Toronto". This open the door to a large number of new search queries and rankings never seen before. Another effect of th...
Happy Monday Everyone! Over the weekend, Cady and I packed up all our stuff and moved over to the new apartment with the help of some friends ( Andrew Yeung was one of the helpers). The day was met with many problems - one being that we had the elevator at the new place for 1 hour less than they quoted us for. So we had to move a whole truck full of stuff up to our apartment in 30 minutes (not possible); luckily the people that booked the elevator after us allowed us to use the elevator for 45 minutes as they went to pick up their second load of stuff (phew). Yesterday, Cady and I just unpacked most of our stuff and built patio furniture. The stupid Lowes patio set came with 3 right arms and 1 left arm for the chairs. We'll have to ask for a new chair left arm now from Lowes. We're all settled now and getting used to the place. We have no internet until September 3rd (I might go crazy). Cady's best friend Megan is staying with us starting tomorrow until the first week...
The new Penguin 2.1 Algothrim update happened on October 4th and it affected 1% of all queries (confirmed by Matt Cutts). Penguin 2.1 is just an improved version of the Google Penguin update - the penguin update fights against black hat SEO tactics and spammy link building. This is the 5th update of the series of updates with more to be confirmed. See the dates below for the updates. Here are all the confirmed releases of Penguin to date: Penguin 1 on April 24, 2012 (impacting around 3.1% of queries) Penguin 2 on May 26, 2012 (impacting less than 0.1%) Penguin 3 on October 5, 2012 (impacting around 0.3% of queries) Penguin 4 (AKA Penguin 2.0) on May 22, 2013 (impacting 2.3% of queries) Penguin 5 (AKA Penguin 2.1) on Oct. 4, 2013 (impacting around 1% of queries) Source: http://searchengineland.com/penguin-2-1-and-5-live-173632 My friend's agency website just went live today. Feel free to check it out at www.digitalkits.co . That...
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