Confirmed: Google Penguin 3.0 Released Late Friday Night

I am working on getting confirmation from Google but I have never seen the forums light up as much as they are now. Update & Confirmed: Google Sunday afternoon has confirmed they have done a Penguin update. I am trying to get more details at this moment. Early reports came from webmasters and SEOs in various online forums and social media. The SEO industry chatter is at an all time high and it all leads to Penguin 3.0 being released. The Google Penguin algorithm, which has not been updated in over a year, since Penguin WebmasterWorld, Google Webmaster Help, DigitalPoint Forums, Threadwatch and BlackHat World. Twitter, Facebook, Google+...

Google Begins Rolling Out Panda 4.0 Now

Google’s Matt Cutts announced on Twitter that they have released version 4.0 of the Google Panda algorithm. Google’s Panda algorithm is designed to prevent sites with poor quality content from working their way into Google’s top search results. But didn’t Google stop updating us on Panda refreshes and updates since they are monthly rolling updates? Yes, but this is a bigger update. Panda 4.0 must be a major update to the actual algorithm versus just a data refresh. Meaning, Google has made changes to how Panda identifies sites and has released a new version of the algorithm today. Is this the softer and gentler Panda algorithm? From talking...

Penguin 5, With The Penguin 2.1 Spam-Filtering Algorithm, Is Now Live

The fifth confirmed release of Google’s “Penguin” spam fighting algorithm is live. That makes it Penguin 5 by our count. But since this Penguin update is using a slightly improved version of Google’s “Penguin 2″ second-generation technology, Google itself is calling it “Penguin 2.1.” Don’t worry. We’ll explain the numbering nonsense below, as well as what this all means for publishers. New Version Of Penguin Live Today :- The head of Google’s web spam team, Matt Cutts, shared the news on Twitter, saying the latest release would impact about 1 percent of all searches: The link that Cutts points at, by the way, explains what Penguin...

Google’s Hummingbird Takes Flight: SEOs Give Insight On Google’s New Algorithm

On the eve of its 15th birthday last week, Google revealed a new search algorithm named Hummingbird. Designed to be more precise and provide faster query results, the algorithm is based on semantic search, focusing on user intent versus individual search terms. As Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan explained in his FAQ: All About the New Google “Hummingbird” Algorithm: Hummingbird is paying more attention to each word in a query, ensuring that the whole query – the whole sentence or conversation or meaning – is taken into account, rather than particular words. The goal is that pages matching the meaning do better, rather than pages matching...

Google Confirms Panda Update Is Rolling Out: This One Is More “Finely Targeted”

This morning, I noticed a possible Panda update was rolling out, one that seemed to be “softer” in nature than the previous updates, where many webmasters who were originally hit by the algorithm are now claiming recovery. Google has confirmed a Panda update is rolling out and this specific update is “more finely targeted.” As you may remember, Google told us new Panda algorithms are being pushed out monthly over a ten day period. Google’s Matt Cutts did imply there was a bit of a delay in pushing out their monthly Panda refresh because they wanted to release signals that would soften the algorithm a bit. Google confirmed with us that...

Google Update Underway: But For Payday Or Panda?

There appears to be an update underway, one that will be rolling out over a “multi-week” timeframe according to Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts. The update was announced by Matt on Twitter in response to a question about why some of the search results look spammy. Matt replied saying, “Yup we saw that. Multi-week rollout going on now, from next week all the way to the week after July 4th.” It is unclear exactly what this is an update for. Is it in response to an update on the PayDay algorithm or maybe the softer Panda update? We asked Matt Cutts and Google to clarify but Google won’t clarify. Google has said that Panda is a multiday...

Google Changes Ranking Advice, Says Build Quality Sites Not Links

Google has quietly updated the rankings article within the Google Webmaster Help documentation. The change is to keep Google consistent with their general change in messaging that content is what webmasters should focus on, not links. Previously, the article had a line that read: In general, webmasters can improve the rank of their sites by increasing the number of high-quality sites that link to their pages. We’ve bolded the key part, which was changed on May 27th to say: In general, webmasters can improve the rank of their sites by creating high-quality sites that users will want to use and share. You can see the old version on The Wayback...

22 May 2013 Penguin 4 Next Generation Penguin 2.0 rolled out today Means Is Now Live

The fourth release of Google’s spam-fighting “Penguin Update” is now live. But Penguin 4 has a twist. It contains Penguin 2.0 technology under-the-hood, which Google says is a new generation of tech that should better stop spam. We started rolling out the next generation of the Penguin webspam algorithm this afternoon (May 22, 2013), and the rollout is now complete. About 2.3% of English-US queries are affected to the degree that a regular user might notice. The change has also finished rolling out for other languages world-wide. The scope of Penguin varies by language, e.g. languages with more webspam will see more impact. This is the...

Google’s Matt Cutts: Domain Clustering To Change Again; Fewer Results From Same Domain

Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a new video about a new change coming to Google’s search results related to the diversity of the results being displayed. Matt said that Google is launching “soon” a new change that will make it less likely to see results from the same domain name, if you already have been shown that domain name in previous results three or four times before. Matt explained that once you’ve seen a cluster of about four results from a specific domain name, the subsequent pages are going to be less likely to show you results from that domain name. To explain this in more detail, Cutts explained the history...

Google’s Matt Cutts: Black Hat & Link Spammers Less Likely To Show Up In Search Results After Summer or GOOGLE'S MAJOR PENGUIN UPDATE

It a time to come when finally Google Launch the new update and says openly. Previous Friday , Google's head of search spam, Matt Cutts announced on Twitter that the Penguin update we are expecting this year, will be coming in the next few weeks. and Finally Google Update Penguin 4 , Coming this Week. A video from Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, today answers some of the questions about what webmasters and SEOs should expect in the near future in regards to SEO. The question Matt asked and answered was, “What should we expect in the next few months in terms of SEO for Google?” Matt addressed 10 points, all summarized at the end...