Google Says The Penguin & Panda Algorithms Still Require Manual Data Pushes

It has been over 4 months since a Google Penguin or Panda update and Google’s John Mueller tells us the data updates are currently done manually.

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How Panda 4.1 Should Change Your Content Strategy

Contributor Jim Yu shares proprietary data that will help you determine how the latest Panda update might affect your site — and how you should adjust.

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Google’s Matt Cutts: Feel Free To Use The Disavow Tool Even Without A Manual Action

In a new video answer today from Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, Matt says that you can use the disavow tool even if you do not have a manual action. In which cases can you use this tool even without a manual action? (1) You tried to remove links but the webmaster linking […]

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Google’s Matt Cutts On What To Do If Your Site Was Hit By Panda

Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts posted a new video today talking about the Panda update. The question he tried to answer was, “what should a site owner do if they think they might be affected by Panda?” Matt’s short answer to the question is to make sure to write…

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How to Recover When Your Content Is Stolen

Last month, I shared a case study of a client I’m currently working with on a duplicate content issue. It turns out that this particular site had significantly lost rankings over the past year because of other sites “lifting” their content, often verbatim, causing the…

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Google’s Panda Dance: Matt Cutts Confirms Panda Rolls Out Monthly Over 10 Of 30 Days

At SMX Advanced, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, announced that the Panda algorithm is still being updated roughly every month but that update is rolled out slowly throughout the month. It is like a Google Dance, but in this case, a Panda Dance. What happens is Google will run the…

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