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Search Engine Ranking Factors for 2015 Revealed in New Study

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has changed in many ways over the past years. Lot's of changes have been triggered by updates of the Google search engine. A new study released by SEO tools maker Moz...

Microsoft’s Bing Starts Showing Mobile-Friendly Search

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Microsoft recently announced that it was taking steps so that it could improve the search rankings for mobile friendly websites. This change is going to be very similar to what Google did with its...

Google Mobilegeddon has not Happened yet and 46% of Fortune 500 Companies Don’t Care

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Yesterday Google started to roll out what the media calls Mobilegeddon. The Mobile-Friendly search ranking update has though not shown any real impact yet. There are some first reports from Webmaster...

Google Mobile-Friendly Update aka Mobilegeddon Launches

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Mobilegeddon launches today! Really? Will the new Google search ranking update be a Webmaster nightmare? The good news is that apparently Google updates the mobile-friendly status of a web page...

Google ranks HTTPS Sites Higher

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Google announced in a blog post that they rank https sites higher in search results. The search monopoly says that they are already do this since the past few months. They include https into the set...

Google Panda 4.0: Google is Still Gunning For Low Quality Sites

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Contributed by Marcus Tober, CTO and Founder of Searchmetrics Since May 20th many web sites that Google deems ‘poor’ in quality will have found themselves ranking lower in search results, potentially...

4 Changes Google Is Making And How They Affect Content Creation

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SEO experts and webmasters spend a lot of time worrying about Google algorithm changes. In 2013, the search engine giant tweaked the algorithm 15 times, and in 2012, it was updated 37 times. Worrying...
    






Google destroy’s Rap Genius’ search rankings as punishment for SEO spam

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Now, the RapGenius.com does not even appear on the first page of Google results for a search of “Rap Genius”, and some popular queries, like “Justin Bieber- Boyfriend” does not bring up the startup...
    






Rap Genius Gets Rapped By Google For SEO Spam

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There’s two lessons to be learned from this little episode of Rap Genius getting rapped over the knuckles by Google concerning SEO spam practices. The first is that it’s terribly dangerous to base an...
    






Google’s gunning for web spammers, bans us from mentioning Bieber

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Google's changing its search algorithm to punish sites that emphasize search-engine optimization over quality. Mountain View's data centers will exclude sites that offer no useful content, have articles written in keyword-sprinkled gibberish or only link to sites within a cluster. If the computers find it, the site's pagerank will be demoted, with the company expecting to affect around three percent of all English language queries when it goes live later this week. The company isn't providing more details (lest it help those trying to game the system), so just get all of those gratuitous Justin Bieber references out of your system before Friday, okay?

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