Google Panda 3.8 Rolled out: What To do Next? Google updates it’s algo or refresh the data every month and with every month data refresh, we can see the impact on our blog traffic. Google has confirmed about the latest Panda 3.8 algo data refresh rolled out on Monday 25th June. You can bookmark Google algo change page, to keep an eye on latest panda and penguin updates. As reported by official Google Twitter profile, Google has confirmed the same in a tweet: This data refresh will affect only 1% of search queries globally. As we say, somebody’s loss is somebody gain and if you see and traffic change after 25th June 2012, it’s time to evaluate your site. If your traffic increased, you should work harder as Google loves your site and treats it as quality site. With hard and smart work, you can take your blog/Website to next level. Now, for those who is missing out traffic after 25th June data refresh, as many users in webmaster forum reported that they lost significant Keyword ranking after 25th update.
Article by Harsh Agrawal. Page Layout Algo : Too Many Ads Above Fold Bad for SEO. 11th Feb 2014: On 6th February 2014, Google rolled out another refresh of Page layout algo targeting websites which is still showing too many ads above the fold section and have too little or almost no content at the above fold. If you are seeing a drop in your search engine traffic after 6th Feb 14, you should check if your website have too many ads.
If yes, you should work on placing the ads below fold. Do read the complete post to learn how you can optimise your website to avoid too many ads alto penalty. Here is the official tweet from Matt Cutts confirming new refresh in the algorithm: Page layout algo is the term given by Google search team for the new tweak they added in their search engine algo today. As Added by Matt Cutts in an official Blog post today: This algorithmic change noticeably affects less than 1% of searches globally. Do you think Google will penalize such pages too? Share Get Free Blogging updates in your Email. Google “Recent” Search Result Obsession will Impact 35% of Searches. Google panda party is not yet over, and here comes another algorithm tweak from Google.
Today, in a blog post, Google mentioned about a new tweak in their Search engine algorithm, which will impact 35% of searches. Though somehow, this new tweak will make much sense and will be useful for users. This new search engine algo tweak is all about giving priority to recent topics instead of showing year old results, which is outdated and in maximum cases, not interesting for users. Here is an example, on how this search engine tweak will work.
Lets say you want to search for F1 race and chances are high that you might be searching for big event which is happening this year or something which is going to happen in coming days or years. Instead of showing result of first ever F1 championship which happened in 1950. Here is search result for Keyword F1 Race: Similarly when you search for “WordPress” you would like to know about latest WordPress and not year old WordPress 2.X version. Question: Post Panda/Penguin SEO Strategy for Bloggers. Last year (2011) when Google Panda rolled out, many Bloggers expected it like just another Google algorithm change but honestly it changed the Blogging industry big time. Every professional Blogger has to re-work on their strategies. I have already shared a guide on how to recover from Google panda and for people who are badly struck with new Google Panda algorithm, I also offer personal Panda recovery consultancy.
Read: Google new Algo Google Penguin One thing, which people have talked about after Panda updates is, SEO is not relevant and now it’s dead and believe it, SEO is not dead and it never will. SEO is basically a quality guidelines and set of rules a Website and a Webpage should follow to meet Google SEO guidelines. Before 2011, SEO and domain value used to be an important factor but it never used to be ranking factor for complete domain.
Post Panda SEO Strategies: Content Quality: Let me start with the basic of SEO and that is your quality content. Becoming more Social: Google Panda Fail: SEXY ANGELICA DANCE Search Result. We all know about Google panda and how good and bad it is. No doubt, despite of so many iteration, Panda updates are not perfect and that’s’ why we have seen many changes in our Keyword ranking in last couple of months. Needless to mention, effect in traffic because of that, good for some and worse for many. Anyways, here is a nice result spotted by @Nirmaltv who found some weird result for one of Google own product search term. Search in Google with term “www.Gmail.com” without quotes and you can see the result which link to some sexy dance video on metacafe.
Here is a screenshot of the result and you can check that too: Here you can see total number of searches/month for www.gmail.com keyword: Interesting thing, you should note here is this page is ranking among 767,000,000 results and also beating official Gmail blog. Anyways, it’s already clear that Panda is all about favoring big brand and lowering down ranking of low quality blogs. Meanwhile, what’s your opinion about this result?
SEO Software. Simplified. Whats Optimum Keyword Density for Better Ranking. SEO some time sounds like rocket-science as there are so many things comes in SEO for example: Keyword research, On Page optimization, Image alt tag, Outbound links, nofollow and many more which sometime makes us feel, can’t we just blog instead of writing content for better search engine visibility. Sadly, search engine is an algo and you have to help them understand about our content and site, you need to work on search engine optimization for better visibility and more traffic. An example of high Keyword percentage & Stuffing Good news here is, SEO is not at all tough and with few hours of time and good study material, you can easily understand the basics. I suggest you to browse our SEO and WordPress SEO archive, where you can get more information about SEO.
Today, we will be looking into one more important factor of keyword ranking and that is Keyword density. (No. of Keywords/ Total number of Keywords) * 100 There are other Formulas too, which you can refer here. Pointers: 10 Onpage Optimization Factors for SEO Copywriting. When it comes about optimizing a website or blog posts, there are two factors that plays a big role. These two factors are Onpage optimization and Offpage optimization. Today’s article, remain focused around Onpage optimization and I will be sharing some good on page SEO techniques you should implement while working on onpage aspects of your blog posts. Now, lets not confuse onpage SEO optimization with Onsite SEO optimization. Talking about, onpage SEO, we mostly take care of content with Keyword target. This includes use of proper heading, keyword placement, content quality and many other factors. We will look into them one by one in this detailed post. Read: Importance of Keywords So what’s the target of this post: This post will help you to write more search engine optimized article.
But, again here is a takeaway from Harsh last post on Recover from Google panda: Search engine is nothing but a set of algo, it look into various factor to rank your page for certain Keyword. Heading Tags. How to Noindex WordPress Categories and Tags. When I posted about How to recover from Google panda, I mentioned that let your quality pages indexed by Google and keep others as noindex but dofollow. This goes for your tags, categories, author and monthly archive pages. There are two solid reasons to Noindex WordPress Categories and Tags Avoid post duplication issueOnly quality pages will become part of search. Second reason is very important after Google panda algo went live, as Google mentioned that Google panda focus on quality content. Obviously your tags and categories pages can’t be considered as quality pages for search engine.
Many WordPress users are not aware of how they can keep WordPress blog tags and categories as noindex. Robots.txt method: This is so far one of the easiest method. User-agent: *Disallow: /category/Disallow: /tag/ This will stop crawling of your tags and categories page, but to Noindex, you need to add Noindex tag from the method explained below. Robots Meta WordPress plugin: Article by Harsh Agrawal. What is Readability for SEO & Online Readability Calculator. When I started ShoutMeLoud as a guest blogging, I hardly knew the pros and cons of it.
Over the time, I realized just enabling guest blogging is not the best thing to do, it requires moderation and lots of editing. Probably, if you visit all the recent guest posts here at SML, you will realize most of them have been excellent quality. Personally, I spend like almost 2-3 hrs., before publishing a guest post and making it ever green content.
Now, one of the things which is very common in all guest blogging enabled blog is different voices. Readability has different meaning, but let me put straight away for writers and bloggers. Readability is the ease in which text can be read and understood. There are many ways to calculate readability level of any text and article online and there are many different formulas used to calculate the same. Flesch Reading EaseFlesch-Kincaid Grade LevelColeman-Liau IndexGunning-Fog Index How to check your Website Readability level in Google? Google Panda WordPress Plugins to Kick Panda Back to Jungle. It was one scary night, when Google decided to roll out a wild animal on the farm of Bloggers call Panda. When ShoutMeLoud got hit by Panda, I was stunned and realize, I must be doing something wrong that’s why I got hit and similarly any other blogger who got struck by panda traffic drop, we must be making mistakes in terms of anything (Content, SEO , Backlinks), and that’s why Panda hurt him hard.
Anyways, now since there is no escaping from Google Panda, we have to work and fix content and blog and make it a Google eye candy. Here I’m going to list few Google panda WordPress plugins, as I named it..You can use them to fix your site and make your blog panda love blog. These are normal SEO plugins that we use but I’m listing them on one place, so that you can do a specific job with them and make sure your blog is SEO error free, and your blog starts getting same traffic from Google search. I will try to explain the usage and how to use these panda plugins and start fixing your site. What is WordPress Duplicate Content Issue & Fix for SEO. Whenever we talk about WordPress SEO, WordPress duplicate content is one thing which every SEO professional will suggest you to avoid. It doesn’t mean when people say “WordPress is SEO optimized” they are lying, they are right, but the duplicate content issue in WordPress arises because of many reasons.
Today, we will look into some of the basic reasons and will try to fix it one by one. Whenever we talk about WordPress, one common comment which you will always get “WordPress is SEO optimized”. That’s true but not completely. You can start a website on WordPress and expect to start ranking well. Content which is the same but can be accessed by two URL. (External website) How to find WordPress duplicate content: Let’s talk about duplicate content within your WordPress blog. Google Analytics JS Bookmarklet: Check WebPage Traffic Instantly. When Panda hit ShoutMeLoud last year, I spent almost months of time to fix all old content and improve them. Even after months, I’m left with almost 40% of content which requires editing and have scope of improvement.
Now, as I talked in my How to recover from Google panda post, the very first step is to get rid of low quality content. Now, you can either simply use noindex tag and put a URL removal request using Google Webmaster tool to remove it from web index or you can work and re-optimize them to get traffic in coming days. One of the major step which I used to identify low quality content or content which was not performing well is by using my Google analytics stats. I use Google analytics to track my blog traffic stats and it’s one of the best free stats tool available in the market.
If you are new to analytics, you should consider reading: What is Google Analytics and how to add analytics to WordPress blog. Here is a quick video showing, how to use this bookmarklet: EasyWPSEO Plugin : Keyword Optimization Plugin for WordPress. One of the most common question which I have been asked by fellow Bloggers is how to rank#1 in Google and how to write Keyword optimized post. I already shared about this earlier: In post Panda SEO world, SEO includes many signals and you need to have an authoritative domain for higher ranking.
Now, one of the most common tip which you will be getting after Panda updates and Penguin update is, to work on high quality content. Which is true and essential for higher ranking, but the question remains the same: How Google will figure out which Keyword you are targeting. For example, you writing a post on WordPress SEO and you give an example of Fish site, how Google will determine, for which Keyword you should be ranking for. This is where, Keyword optimization comes into the picture. We have already shared a handy guide on Onpage optimization but On page SEO score contains more signals like LSI words, Readability, Page load time, Image alt tag and many more. Check out EasyWPSEO plugin. Google Algorithm Updates and Changes 1998-2012 Infographic. Google is most popular search engine at the time of writing and many online businesses depends on Google Algorithm.
Google algorithm is the set of rules and expressions which determine how a webpage will rank in Google. In simple word, when you search for any query “SEO changes”, this algo will decide the placement of search results. For any online business and Bloggers, it’s important to keep an eye on Google algorithm updates and changes. Google is one of the search engines that change their algorithm so much that sometimes it is hard for people to keep up with the updates and stay current. The most obvious reason for these frequent changes is the fight against spammers and black hat SEO techniques. Most of the changes are minor but each year there are about 500-600 hundred of them. There are also bigger algorithmic updates that Google launches every few months.
Some of these big updates include the “caffeine update”, the “Panda farmer”, the query encryption and much more. Share. 11 Delicious Ways to Judge High Quality Content. When Panda was rolled out last year, we all understood the importance of high quality content and freelancers and Bloggers have moved from quantity to quality. The question, which remain unanswered for many blogger is how to differentiate between low quality and a high quality content. Is it minimum 300-350 word criteria? If yes, how small dictionary words are being ranked in SERP’s?
Is it Keyword stuffing only, then why Google is hitting hard on automated and keyword stuffed sites? So, by the end question remains the same for Bloggers on how SERP”s determine quality content writing on any blog. First thing which you need to understand is a quality content is just one part of ranking and Google consider many other factors like over all site SEO, domain ranking, social signal to place you really high in Search engine ranking. As a marketer, in addition to creating blog posts that are popular, you will want to come up with posts that rank highly in the search engines as well. Share. Panda 4.0 Launched and Google Unnatural Links Warning Drama. Google Panda Algorithm Launched Globally for English Users.