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This week in search, Google released their Panda 4.0 algorithm and it was big. I dig into that topic for a while. Googleâs spam algorithm was updated over the weekend as well. Googleâs algorithm was definitely in flux...

Tuesday, Google began rolling out Panda 4.0 and it still may be rolling out, but by now, you should know how, if any, you were impacted by the Panda 4.0 release...

MetaFilter is one of the first every community blogs, created in 1999 and helping users with Q&A style answers from before the times of the typical social networks. It is a quality site - no one would argue with that.

MetaFilter is a news and discussion site dating back to the early years of the web. Founded in 1999, it’s attracting attention this week after coming forward about how a Google penalty has severely harmed its business, to the degree of having to let staff go. It serves as a poster child of problems with Google’s penalty process, despite all the advances Google has made over the years. Google Hits Sites Large & Small

If you just can’t wait to get to the specifics of what happened to...

Last night was pretty wild, with Google confirming an update over the weekend targeting spammy queries and also Google's Matt Cutts posting on Twitter that Panda 4.0 was released.

This is a new Panda algorithm, not a refresh that we've seen almost monthly but enough for Google to name this 4...

As I broke last night, Google has released an update to the Payday Loan Algorithm also known as the Google Spam Algorithm over the weekend.

No, I was not crazy expecting something big that happened over the weekend and throughout the month and this week...

You know that thing where you get home after a long day and catch yourself some time later staring off into space, pigging out on a bag of Doritos and…? Oh, uhh, no me either. But I heard that happens to some people.

Anyway. I’ve been thinking about that phrase you always see on consumer goods packaging when they go through a redesign. The almost-apologetic and slightly nervous proclamation that even though the thing now looks different, nothing else has changed:



Clearly marketers...

Despite Google saying nothing is going on, we've been seeing signs of major changes and reports of major changes in the Google search results and rankings.
Again, over the weekend, I've been getting private emails with tons of public chatter in the WebmasterWorld and even BlackHatWorld forums about Google making a lot of changes over the weekend...

There is an interesting conversation going on at Hacker News on the topic of Google sending webmasters manual actions over links...

An interesting Google Webmaster Help thread has a webmaster who has a manual action, he said he removed the content, and even left the page blank but the manual action won't go away.

Google's John Mueller explained why in an interesting way...