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I just returned from a few days in Las Vegas and the Pubcon Conference.

I had the chance to see some great presentations and talk to a number of interesting folks, and the company that I am the Director of Search Marketing at, Go Fish Digital...

Earlier this year, Google announced that it was seeing more search activity on mobile than desktop, for the first time. The caveat was that this was for 10 countries, including the US. Today, Google’s now said this is the case worldwide.

It was last May when Google said that more searches were happening on mobile devices than desktop, in the US, Japan and eight other countries that weren’t named. Today, Google’s senior vice president of search Amit Singhal reiterated that statement when...

Typically, when a site has been suffering with Panda ranking issues in Google, an SEO would look at the pages that are not that useful and purge and delete them. But Google is now saying...

The chatter has not really died down, more and more webmasters are speaking up at both WebmasterWorld and Black Hat World amongst other places about search ranking changes at Google.

It is hard to say if it is Panda related...

My latest column for A List Apart was published today. From The Analog Revolution:

So I wonder. I wonder what would happen if we felt the weight of responsibility a little more when we’re designing software. What if we go into a project as if the product we make might not only be done at some point, but might be something that lasts for a while? Would we make it fit into the web environment better, give it a timeless aesthetic, add fewer unnecessary features, and spend more time...

Google announced they are now making efforts to "aggressively targeting hacked spam in order to protect users and webmasters...

I don't always say this but I think Google misspoke here. Gary Illyes responded to a question from Glenn Gabe asking if "Panda 4.2 is rolling out slowly, but it's manually being pushed (at intervals)."

Gary Illyes from Google said "yes...

September was an interesting month because we had a nice number of ranking fluctuations in Google, all seemed somewhat algorithmic...

So we had this from John Mueller a couple weeks ago, that the next Penguin update that Google plans on releasing will be real-time and hopefully by the end of the year.
Gary Illyes kind of echoed