Google Penguin Update Gets A New Data Refresh

Oh that Google and their late Saturday 6th Oct announcements. Sometimes it’s the big monthly (at least they used to be) “search quality highlights” lists, but they were kind enough to release that on Thursday this past week. Still, Google’s Matt Cutts managed to sneak in a Penguin announcement on Friday. He tweeted: div.twitterditto254335294063656960 { background: #000000 url(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_sWyzS36y1X0FircVaYZ8Gu323_mTTAxJopamcXzy6f2ToplngQr-QKXy35sxYGLks32do-XzmbKYCHy_6VIkKAXe4OjiqHycB4JoSU6vmkMzVl3Q=s0-d)...

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Google: By The Way, A Panda Update Is Rolling Out Alongside The EMD Update

Last Friday, Google announced the EMD update. It was billed as a small and minor update, but the effects seemed to be fairly large, with many webmasters claiming to have been hit. Google’s Matt Cutts made it a point to say that the algorithm change was unrelated to both Panda and Penguin. He then said it was not the only update that was rolling out during that timeframe, noting that Google...

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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_sWyzS36y1X0FircVaYZ8Gu323_mTTAxJopamcXzy6f2ToplngQr-QKXy35sxYGLks32do-XzmbKYCHy_6VIkKAXe4OjiqHycB4JoSU6vmkMzVl3Q=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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