Google has been granted what could be its patent for the controversial Panda update. It was filed on September 28, 2012, a year and a half after the update first launched, and awar...
If you've ever lost your search engine rankings to a competing site, you may have wondered if you were suffering from an algorithmic penalty from Google or if your content simply w...
Google's Matt Cutts spoke at the Search Marketing Expo on Thursday, and reportedly said that the search team is working on the "next generation" of the controversial Panda update,...
Google's Matt Cutts answers an interesting question in a new "Webmaster Help" video: "Should I write content that is easier to read or more scientific? Will I rank better if I writ...
Demand Media reported its financial results for Q4 and fiscal 2013 on Tuesday. The company continues to suffer at the hands of Google algorithm changes (it just so happens that thi...
Monday marked the three-year anniversary of the day Google first announced the controversial Panda update. So much has happened since then. So many sites have felt the effects....
Some popular viral content sites have suffered drastic traffic declines since Facebook implemented its News Feed algorithm changes in December, which some have dubbed, for all inte...
As reported earlier this week, Facebook has made some changes to how it ranks content in the news feed, putting a greater emphasis on content quality. The update may have a signifi...
Demand Media just announced its results for the third quarter. Revenue was down 2% year over year. Content and media revenue specifically was down 7%. Registrar revenue was up 11%,...
There has been an interesting discussion about Google and search quality this week thanks to comments made by a Googler who suggested that a site with higher quality, better inform...
Google has released a new Webmaster Help video about the Panda update. Matt Cutts responds to a user-submitted question asking how she will know whether her site is hit by Panda si...
Google has put out a bunch of new videos (seven, to be exact) about various types of web spam. So far, we've looked at a trio of them dealing with unnatural links. You can find the...