Tag Archives: Panda

Google+ Local Changes and Facebook Enters the Search Game

This month has seen some significant changes in the search world.  Google+ Local made more changing to their guidelines which will help out a lot of organizations, especially churches and schools, and Facebook has now entered the fray. Watch the video below for the full update: Video Transcript: Hi, I’m Kurt Steinbrueck, Director of marketing […]

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Google Updates Terms of Service and more…

I thought I’d try something new with this post and deliver the update in video.  If you’re not in a place where you can watch a video, I’ve also included the transcript below.  Let me know what you think. Transcript: Hi, I’m Kurt Steinbrueck, Director of Marketing Services with OurChurch.Com.  I’m here with the monthly […]

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Silent Night (or Month)

Silent Night (or Month)

It’s Christmas time.  A time for singing.  A time of joy.   A time of peace.  And that’s what we had in the last month, peace.  No major updates in the search engines.  There was one Panda update (they’re coming about once a month now), but it only affected about 1% of all US searches. […]

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Google’s Been Busy At The Zoo

In the past few weeks Google has been pretty busy.  They’ve released updates to Penguin and Panda (twice) and launched a new update related to Exact Match Domains (EMDs). Definition – Exact Match Domain (EMD): An exact match domain is a domain name that exactly matches a keyword.  For example, books.com exactly matches the keyword […]

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Google Makes Some Minor Updates

Google Makes Some Minor Updates

The month of August was a pretty calm month for SEO. Google released a minor update to Panda and refreshed the Panda data.  This was a small update that only effected about 1% of searches.  Google also announced they are going to start penalizing websites which have multiple, legitimate copyright complaints against them.  In other […]

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Google Panda, Penguin, and the Rest of the Algorithm Managery

It’s been a busy few months at Google.  In March, Google released a refresh to Panda, changed some aspects of how they evaluate links, and squashed several private blog networks.  In April, Panda has returned for another refresh and Google launched another named update, Penguin. Panda: The Panda update was and still is intended to lower the […]

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Google Panda Strikes Again…With Some Friends!

In February of 2011, Google released an update to their algorithm code named, Panda, and the search world was turned on its head.  The stated goal of the Panda update was to try to remove lower quality content from Google’s search results and increase the rankings of the higher quality content. The results of Panda […]

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