Fahad HOct 1, 20141 min readA New Click Through Rate Study For Google Organic ResultsAdvanced Web Ranking has released a study showing fresh data on the click-through-rate from Google’s organic search results. The data was...
Fahad HSep 26, 20141 min readGoogle Rolling Out New Panda Update Designed To Penalize Websites With Low Quality ContentGoogle announced a new Panda Update that helps the search engine identify websites with low-quality content. According to Googler Pierre...
Fahad HAug 7, 20142 min readGoogle Dangles A Big Carrot To Make The Web More PrivateGoogle said this evening that it will give sites that use HTTPS a small ranking advantage in search results. This is a very...
Fahad HAug 4, 20141 min readGoogle On Pigeon Fluctuations: We Won’t Detail All Changes In The FutureGoogle’s Pigeon algorithm launched on July 24th, impacting the local search results in Google’s English and US centric web and map...
Fahad HJul 17, 20142 min readeBay: Google SEO Changes Hurt Core Business And Revenuesannounced second quarter earnings which just beat analysts’ expectations. However, revenue fell short of projections. The company earned...
Fahad HJul 2, 20149 min readThanks To “Right To Be Forgotten,” Google Now Censors The Press In The EUThe EU’s Right To Be Forgotten removals have been happening for about a week on Google, and now news publications are discovering the...
Fahad HJun 16, 20142 min readGoogle: We’ll Be Giving More Feedback For Reconsideration Request & Other Search ChangesLast Wednesday at the SMX Advanced show, Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, shared some news and announcements with us during his...
Fahad HMay 23, 20142 min readHow Google’s Panda Filter May Have Hurt Ask, eBay & Google-Backed RetailMeNotOn Tuesday, Google released a rewrite to their Panda filter algorithm and both large and small sites took notice. Some sites gained in...
Fahad HMay 21, 20141 min readGoogle Updates “Panda” Filter, Impacts 7.5% Of Search ResultsYesterday, Google has made a significant change to their Panda filter, named Panda 4.0. This is the biggest update to the Panda algorithm...
Fahad HMay 20, 20146 min readHow To Prepare For MoCo: Mobile, Content & Advanced SEOWhat does it mean to be “mobile ready”? You might say having a mobile responsive site — and that’s certainly part of it. But there’s much...
Fahad HMay 16, 20142 min read10 People Who Want To Be Forgotten By Google, From An Attempted Murderer To A CyberstalkerWho wants things removed from Google under the newly declared “right to be forgotten” in the European Union? A convicted cyberstalker, an...
Fahad HMay 8, 20145 min readWhat Can Keyword Planner Tell Us About Mobile Search Behavior?If you were to ask the question posed by the title of this article a month ago, the answer would be: nothing. Unfortunately, when Google...
Fahad HApr 21, 20142 min readPostJoint Confirms Google Penalty, Says Its Business Will ContinueWe reported the penalty news Friday on our sister site, Search Engine Land, and PostJoint itself confirmed the penalty on its own blog...
Fahad HApr 10, 20145 min readNative Mobile Apps May Dominate Now, But The Mobile Web Will EndureIf you’re lucky enough to be a huge brand marketer with unlimited budgets, what I’m about to say probably doesn’t apply to you. You have...
Fahad HApr 1, 20144 min readThe Fatal Mistake Content Marketers Are Making With NofollowRIP, content marketing. Thanks to Google’s algorithm updates and quality guidelines that require paid links to include a nofollow tag,...
Fahad HMar 19, 20142 min readMyBlogGuest.com Confirms It’s Been Hit By Google PenaltyMyBlogGuest, a well-known service that helps pair writers and blogs for guest blogging, confirmed this morning that it’s been hit by a...
Fahad HFeb 28, 20141 min readGoogle Got Called Out For Being A “Scraper Site” & You Won’t Believe What HapOn Thursday, Google made a call for publishers to report if sites have copied or “scraped” their content and are outranking the...
Fahad HFeb 12, 20147 min read10 Big Brands That Were Penalized By Google, From Rap Genius To The BBCIt’s been a busy year already with big brands getting hit by Google penalties. First came Rap Genius, slammed so hard that you couldn’t...
Fahad HFeb 3, 20147 min readSuper Bowl 2014 Commercials: How Did Advertisers Perform in Search Engines?It’s year number six of tracking how Super Bowl ads compelled us to search and just how well advertisers take advantage of all that...
Fahad HJan 16, 20144 min readSEO Can’t Be Done Without Mobile SEOIt’s 2014, which means we are officially one year away from the year that Kelsey Group predicted mobile search will eclipse desktop...
