What is a canonical tag? If you look in the source code of a modern website you will see that a canonical tag looks like: <link rel=”canonical” href=http://www.example.com/” /> This code should be entered into the head HTML of the web page. Why use a canonical tag? Top SEO specialists will suggest that a canonical tag should appear in …
There has been a lot of speculation regarding some SERP changes over last weekend, Google have not yet confirmed anything. They have said that there will be a Panda update over the next few days though, so the changes were most likely to do with Panda but have not yet been completed. If the changes were due to Panda this means …
Well it is official, Google confirmed that Panda was updated on the 5th of November. This is now the 21st Panda refresh update that is on record, the update before that was on the 27th of October 2012. This update will have a impact on around 0.4% of search terms that a normal user may use …
Ooops, bit late on this one, been so busy here with other things. Well yet again Google has released an update on the Panda, this time they have called it Panda 20. This is the 20th Panda update now, hence calling it Panda 20. the update is a pretty major one, changing around 3% of …
Matt Cutts (head of Google web spam) dropped the bomb last week, that Exact Match Domains will no longer carry their heavy weight on the Google search engine. This is no real shock as he announced that Exact Match Domains would be getting reviewed a couple of years ago. Who has been affected? …
Don’t know if any one else has reports on Google changing it’s algorithm today? However webmaster tools blog has a lot of reports and people noticing major surges and down surges on their keywords. Check out the Google webmaster blog Huge traffic increases have been reported to us, we doubt that this is anything to do with Panda – …
Just as we were all thinking the Google pandas had gone to sleep, along comes the Google Panda 3.9.1 update. There was a lot of people talking about the update around a week before it happened, so yes the rumors were true. Google have told us via Twitter they updated the Panda on August the 20th. Not many …
Are you waiting for the next Penguin update, been a while hasn’t it! We are looking at around 9 – 10 weeks since Google updated or even just sent out the same edition of the last Penguin. All we are hearing is SEO’s pondering over when Google will send out their Penguins again. From previous refreshes, we have learnt …
There have been rumours on the web master world blog that there may be another Google Panda update on it’s way, or has it been? This update would be version 3.9, and if the rumors are correct the Panda update will hit only just after 2 – 3 weeks of 3.8. Google are defiantly keeping everyone on their toes. We really do not mind about …
Google officially announced on Twitter that the Panda 3.8 went live on June the 25th. The Panda update was pushed out as a refresh, no algorithm changes have been made to the way it penalises sites. All Google have mention is that the refresh was just a Panda re-run, targeting any sites that deserved to be penalised, according to them …
