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40 SEO Changes (brought to you by Google)

by JOSourcing Banned
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Posted to its blog a little over an hour ago, Google released Panda 3.3. Search quality highlights: 40 changes for February - Inside Search Some of these changes affect image search, the determination of "official" web pages, backlinks (as in they may no longer be relevant), and a whole bunch of other stuff!
#brought #google #seo
  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Cough, BS, cough!

    I call their bluff on this one.

    Link evaluation. We often use characteristics of links to help us figure out the topic of a linked page. We have changed the way in which we evaluate links; in particular, we are turning off a method of link analysis that we used for several years. We often rearchitect or turn off parts of our scoring in order to keep our system maintainable, clean and understandable.
    Though they don't say which characteristics. Link relevancy is still important.
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Which characteristics does a link really have when we are specifically talking about the link. The "Anchor" txt, which would mean relevant content around the links would be more important then ever and the anchor txt itself of less importance.

      However they said they would turn it off, but Adobe is still ranking at #1 for "click here"

      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Cough, BS, cough!

      I call their bluff on this one.



      Though they don't say which characteristics. Link relevancy is still important.
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  • Profile picture of the author eshapard
    Who knows how many other changes they've made and aren't telling us about....

    In the past, Google has changed the way they do things and just left everyone to figure it out for themselves.

    This happened with nofollow links in 2009. According to Mike Cutts, Google just assumed webmasters would figure out that the changed the way the deal with nofollow links... but ofcourse webmasters did not figure it out. :-(

    Thanks for the link though. :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author Maraun
    Very interesting, thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author dminorfmajor
    Hmmm,

    Improved local results. We launched a new system to find results from a user’s city more reliably. Now we’re better able to detect when both queries and documents are local to the user.
    My rent-a-site for local attorneys in now #3 Well, they did something right! (At least according to me)
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  • Profile picture of the author vipinlalla
    i can't imagine the day when they remove backlinks from their search algorithm , can anyone decode any special change ?
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  • Profile picture of the author MarlboroMonkey
    Good ol' Google. Always so cryptic. I love reading their stuff like a good mystery novel

    This should make for some additional good reading in all the IM forums as they blame this Panda update on their sites falling like a rock in the SERPs.
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  • Profile picture of the author ukcarl
    Interesting, I am not seeing any affects to any of my sites, at the end of the day this is the name of the game.
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