Matt Cutts Just Announced A Google Algorithm Change

says it will reduce low-quality “exact-match” domains in search results. It sounds like an extension of the last change he tweeted about, which was aimed at improving domain diversity. Here’s the new tweet: div.twitterditto251784203597910016 { background: #000000 url(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vNT9McjF1YNDkq-KxWzwoB4fzZFSYJ4TTtiUzL3t9o7Cyj3gRxNL8iUZ40rG_4hv8_0ZFUZyi6lyU-st2vp0SwyqOIfyPwV9Cv01jbSkQJDuUEZQ=s0-d)...

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Google News Gets A New Ranking Signal, And It’s A Keywords Meta Tag

Google announced the news_keywords metatag for publishers in Google News to help Google better identify and understand content that is related to things that are in the news. Do you think this is a good direction for Google News? Let us know what you think. Here’s what it looks like: <meta name=”news_keywords” content=”World Cup, Brazil 2014, Spain vs Netherlands, soccer, football”> If...

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Google Launched An Update This Week To Improve Domain Diversity

Google launched an algorithm update that affects the diversity of search results. Google’s head of webspam and Distinguished Engineer, tweeted: Matt Cutts @mattcutts Just fyi, we rolled out a small algo change this week that improves the diversity of search results in terms of different domains returned. Reply · Retweet · Favorite 20 minutes ago via web · powered by @socialditto There...

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Fear Of Google Ironically Has People Considering Making Natural Links Unnatural

We recently published an article called “Links Are The Web’s Building Blocks, And Fear Of Google Has Them Crumbling“. This was about the panic Google has caused among webmasters with its messages about links. It’s a panic that has led to many webmasters requesting to have links removed from sites that they would otherwise find valuable, if not for fear that Google will not like them and hurt their...

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