4th February 2013 Google Toolbar PageRank Update

After the back-to-back Panda Algorithm updates, it’s time to dance on the floor because Google has just rolled out an update to their PageRank Algorithm. Yeah, all those bloggers who were anxiously waiting to see a massive change in their Page Ranks can shout out loud with joy and pleasure. Though, we did not get any confirmation from Google Team, but lots of webmasters are seeing changes in their Page Ranks so we can confirm that the first Page Rank update of the year has arrived. 

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How to Optimize Images for Higher Search Engine Ranking in Blogger

Sometimes Pictures could bring a lot of organic traffic to a website. Getting traffic From Google Images is neither difficult nor stress-free because the entire thing depends upon the way a person optimizes his images for SEO (Search engine optimization). Since, Blogger is not renowned for its SEO Friendly experience. Therefore, a person has to optimize each and every element of his site on his own and that also includes Images. If an image is optimized with proper techniques then, it could bring plenty of traffic without any hassle or breakage. Those who think Blogger Platform is not ideal for Image SEO then today in this article, we will learn How to Optimize Images for SEO in Blogger.

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Does Google Panda #22 Update is under Progress?

Not Even 10 days have passed since the Last Panda 21 Update, but still there are lots of rumors going around in the blogosphere about the Panda 22th Update. Last Friday on 16th of November, Lots of chatters started a discussion about another Panda Update. At that time, we ignored it because the algorithm was just refreshed few days back. However, today while we were checking our Traffic statistics, it was pretty fascinating because we saw a significant increase in our organic traffic on the same Date (16, November) when the discussion about the New Algorithm update took place. Today in this article, we will take a look at few evidences and will also discuss more on this unconfirmed Algorithm update.

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According To Google "What is High Quality Content?"

What is Quality Content? How Google analyze a page and give it a tag of Quality Content? To be honest, this is the one question which is over and over again asked by site owners and webmasters. Before, Panda Algorithm update there was no concept of quality article. This is the reason why in the past it was extremely straightforward to get high SERP Ranking. However, nowadays only those sites ranked well who have highly professional quality content. Since then, almost all webmasters are searching for the accurate meaning of quality content, but the blogosphere shares a mixture of facts which confuse lots of new bloggers. For that reason, all these mind boggling questions would be answered today in this article. 

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Google Panda #21 Algorithm Update on November 5th

All webmasters were anxiously waiting for a Page Rank Update, but Google did totally reverse by throwing out a taunting Panda 21th Algorithm Update. Since, the previous 20th Panda algorithm was rolled out on 4th September, so it is an ideal time to witness yet another refresh. This new 21th Panda Refreshment affects around 0.4% search queries for a normal visitor. However, USA users will get some extraordinary treatment because for them around 1.1% of search queries are affected. It seems to be a minor refresh because it hardly affected less than 0.5% search quires worldwide. Today we will discuss more about the 21th Panda update. Towards the end of this article, as always we will provide some unique but splendid tips to recover from any Algorithms.

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How To Get a Dofollow Backlink From Pinterest?

As Page Rank update is nearing, all the webmasters are busy in creating Backlinks expecting that Google will award them with a precious Page Rank. One of the best ways of creating Backlinks is to link your website on different social networking platforms. It has become a trend because it is one of the easiest ways of building backlinks without any hesitation whatsoever. However, the only problem we discovered in most of Social networking website (including Facebook, Google plus and even twitter) is that they assign a nofollow attribution to external links. Therefore, it doesn’t pass the Page Rank Juice entirely. Keeping everything a Side, Pinterest has recently introduced a Verified website functionality that gives a Dofollow backlink to a certain website. Therefore, today we will learn How a Person can get a Dofollow backlink from Pinterest or How to verify your website on Pinterest. 

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How To Use Google's Disavow Link Tool To Reduce Spam

Today Google introduced a new tool for webmasters, and they named it as “Disavow Tool”. You often receive notification from Google in webmaster tool regarding manual spam detection ”unnatural links” or If you have discovered unnatural linking of your website on different directories, then this tool can play foremost role in resolving your issue. Matt Cutts the head of Google web spam team while speaking at the Pubcon conference made an announcement about this tool. This tool has been BETA tested by some of the Top SEOs already from the past couple of weeks. Now a bulk of questions might be popping up in everyone’s minds that, How to use this Tool, when we should use it, and this tool could harm our website? All these fascinating questions about the “Disavow Tool” would be answered today.

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Google Emailing Authorship Confirmations To Bloggers

Did you receive an email from Google officials in which they are welcoming you in their Authorship Program? A few weeks ago, many Bloggers and guest writers who have successfully integrated the Google authorship program on their website received an email from Google officials, welcoming them into their authorship program. However, many other verified authors are still guessing why they haven’t received an email for their authorship activation. This thing has created an enormous Buzz among those authors and bloggers who were expecting to get this certain notification. However, many writers have ignored this serious issue. If you are getting confused about the Google authorship email confirmation, then today we will be removing all the doubts that are boggling in your minds.

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What is Google Page Layout Algorithm? Explanation

Now days, the Google Web spam team has become more dramatic with their Algorithm updates. From time to time, we have witnessed not only old but new Algorithms getting updates. Past Week, was the perfect example of Google’s dramatic approach in which they updated almost three of their search algorithm which includes, Panda 20th, Penguin 3rd and EMD (Exact Match Domain) Updates. This is not the end of the fairy tales, because Google has just bombed webmasters with the Page Layout Algorithm. However, it's not a fatal algorithm when we compare it to Panda and Penguin. The main idea behind it is to keep balance in between the layout and the content of a webpage. Today we will talk about the recent Page Layout update and would also answer whether you should panic from it.

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Google Algorithm Updates: Should You Really Panic?

Since, a couple of months back you might have heard and read on different blogs about the Google Algorithm Updates such as Panda, Penguin, EMD and the latest one Above the Fold Page Layout Algorithm (Will explain about this Update later). Most webmasters request Google to reconsider their website for manual spam or they depend on the solutions that can help them to recover from the Algorithm Updates. However, this article might prove out to be a shocker for you as this post is totally different from others. Today we will answer a million dollar question that, a Blogger should panic on these Algorithm Updates? Well our answer to this question is a NO! A blogger should not panic on these Updates. Shocked, let me explain.

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3rd Google Penguin Algorithm Update Released

Last Friday, Matt Cutts twitted that the 3rd Google Penguin update is under progress, a basic refresh that only affected 0.3 % of English queries. All the predictions were proven wrong as lots of Webmasters and Matt Cutts himself predicted the penguin update to be “Jolting and jerking”. In fact, it was the first time when Google fully pushed out an update on the same day. It means you may have seen key changes from Friday to Saturday. Well, lots of bloggers reported that they have witnessed a foremost dip from Friday to Saturday. Comparing your site traffic from Last Friday to Saturday would allow you to distinguish whether you are safe or hit by Penguin Algorithm. Today we will discuss the Penguin 3.0 Algorithm refreshment from depth.

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Google Authorship Disappearing From Search Results

During few days, we were closely watching Google Authorships slowly getting removed from several blogs. First, we thought that it might be a bug or something. However, today we come across a devastating fact that Google has removed Verified Authorships not only from Low Quality blogs, but some highly professional blogs are also affected. It means Google is preparing something that could either hurt bloggers from top to bottom or could easily turn the tables towards them. We are still not sure whether Google is updating their publisher system, or there is any other reason behind it. Nonetheless, it is pretty much clear that it may slightly decrease your traffic because Google Verified authorship was your ticket to get featured on Search engine free of cost. (Our Authorship is also disabled)

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Official Google Panda 20th Algorithm Update

Back to back algorithm refreshments have brutalized webmaster by making them a bit lazy, and now they have to face yet another nut cracker and this time it is a Panda Algorithm update. Within a week, two notable refreshments have been rolled out First the EMD (Exact Matched Domains), and now its Panda 20th Algorithm refreshment. According to the Matt Cutts, “Google has begun to refresh its algorithm and it will continue till the weekend”. Looking at the early reports, we assume that it is a key update which affected almost 2.4% of English and 0.5% of non-English queries. Today we will be discus why Panda 20^th is a foremost refreshment.

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Google EMD Update: Exact Match Domains Ruled Out

On Friday, while webmasters were enjoying the weekend Google Web Spam team fired yet another bombshell towards them. Google’s head of web spam department Matt Cutts tweeted that they have rolled out an algorithm update which was neither Panda nor Penguin because it was an EMD (Google Exactly Match Domain) Update. He also mentioned that Google is trying to eliminate “Low Quality” exact match domains from their Search engine. According to the early reports, “the EMD algorithm” affects 0.6% of English-US queries. However, it is not taunting refreshment, but you can expect more explosions from coming updates. Today we will be discussing how EMD update can affect our blogs.

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Effective Way to Send A Reconsideration Requests To Google

When all of a sudden a website started to get less traffic from search engines, a webmaster will scratch his head, and struggle to understand why his site dropped in ranking. In most of the many cases, webmasters are unable to recognize why the Google web spam team has penalized their website until hit by any of the panda or penguin algorithmupdates. By penalizing a website, Google is giving a second chance to webmasters to follow the guideline otherwise they could easily ban a site that is violating rules without sending any notification whatsoever. A reconsideration request is an online form through which webmaster can send a personal email to Google telling them to reinstate your SERP ranking. Today we will discuss when and How to send reconsideration request to Google.

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Google Panda 4.0 Was A Rumor: Diversity Update

As we are getting near to the end of this month and already webmasters as well as bloggers are getting curious about the next Google Algorithm improvement it is because of the controversial statement given by Matt Cutts about Penguin Updates he said that, “it will be shaking and jerking”. After that conspiracy, lot of webmasters got freshened because, that statement had the power to shake the boots of Bloggers and even SEOs. However, on various webmasters forums the chat is on its peak that Google has rolled out yet another Panda improvement instead of Penguin. What are your feelings, does Google have rolled out yet another fireball towards webmasters, or it is just a normal diminished algorithm change that cannot be named as an update?

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Google Panda 3.9 Algorithm Update (July 24th, 2012)

Few weeks ago there were some rumors going around about Google Panda 3.9 Algorithm update which was denied by Google officials. For that reason, lots of Bloggers and webmasters were blissed because they thought that, they have survived a complete month without noticing any change in the Algorithm. On the other hand, Google has just updated their algorithm and named it to “Panda 3.9 Update” which affected 1% search queries. If we compare the previous Google Panda 3.8 update with the correct 3.9 Algorithm change the difference are quite clear that the current update is not threatening. To learn more about Google Panda 3.9 check the following information.

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How To Identify And Recover From Google Panda 3.8 Update?

Bloggers and Webmaster were loving the summer bash, when Google once again fired a freezing Panda 3.8 Algorithm update which is already up to test the blogger’s potentials and skills. Within a day of its release, lots of webmasters noticed a sudden collapse in their traffic due to which lots of websites lost their ranking, and it cause them loss in money as well as in their hard-work. Google Panda 3.8 algorithm change not only affected bloggers but also demolished lots of online business. From then, it has become a risky game to play, so now everyone is getting themselves ready to maintain solidity on the next update.

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Blogger Introduces Permalink Tool To Create Custom URLs

After waiting many years finally Blogger is up with yet another impressive SEO enhancement for all BlogSpot Blogs. Unlike previous times, Blogger users have the liberty to write custom URLs for their posts using Blogger in draft. You will not find this permalink tool in your post editor, if you are using blogger.com. This permalink tool can only be accessed from draft.blogger.com. Permalink is used to define the URL structure of a website, which points to a specific blog or website. Previous times, when we published a post it automatically generates a URL of 30 to 35 characters and occasionally these keywords were not Search engine Friendly which is illogical, but now you can create custom URLs with fluent keywords as you have complete control of the URL structure. After Search engine preferenceand 404 pages for blogger its one of the best featured ever released.

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20 Useful SEO Tips and Techniques For Bloggers

This is a Guest Post By Kate Willer

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Search Engine Optimization, typically abbreviated SEO, is essential to increase your Web site’s visibility in search engine results. It is vital to incorporate SEO keywords and techniques into your Web site’s development so your site will appear higher up in the search results because most users will only click on the first page or two of search results when looking for pertinent Web sites. If you’re not well versed in SEO, you may want to consider hiring a professional who is knowledgeable in this area to incorporate SEO into your site, otherwise, you could end up doing more harm than good. Whether optimizing your site for search engines for yourself or hiring a professional, there are several tips and techniques you should be aware of. Make sure you inquire about these tips of you’re employing a professional to optimize your Web site.

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