Articles Tagged - algorithm

By Natalie Contreras, Posted in Blogging

Blogs are a great online avenue for businesses looking to promote their brand, industry, products, or services. Businesses can use social-media accounts and blogs as news sites as well. You won't satisfy clients and readers until you understand how Search Engine Optimization works and how important it is for your content to stand out in a search engine. It's important to write content that will stand out to both human readers and the algorithm that runs the search engine. As a writer, you don't have... read more.

• June 12, 2012
• 23 Comments

By Rania Eldekki, Posted in Social Networking Websites

Update: This article describes my assumption as to why there seems to be a lack of structure on pins and boards. Do you have a better explanation? Please share if so-  Internet users across the globe have flocked to visual social networking site, Pinterest. And savvy internet marketers have attempted strategy after strategy in an effort to understand how to effectively utilize this Pinterest traffic for brands. After Pinterest reportedly changed their algorithm to deter spammers, marketers were left... read more.

• April 18, 2012
• 5 Comments

By Rania Eldekki, Posted in Google Articles

Last week, Google announced important changes to its algorithm that businesses should definitely take notice of. The latest algorithm updates will rank newer content higher in the SERP's in an effort to give users the freshest and most relevant Google search results. "Given the incredibly fast pace at which information moves in today's world, the most recent information can be from the last week, day or even minute, and depending on the search terms, the algorithm needs to be able to figure out if a resu... read more.

• November 09, 2011
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By Rania Eldekki, Posted in Search Engine News

After Google's algorithm was questioned in the Google Webmaster Forum earlier this month, the search engine giant reported that they do not, in fact, incorporate a "white-list for algorithms", but a recent statement from Matt Cutts proves completely different. Last week at SMX West, Barry Schwartz reported that the head of Google's webspam team, Matt Cutts, answered this very same question during the Spam Police panel. Schwartz describes his answer as long and detailed, but the bottom line is that Google d... read more.

• March 15, 2011
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By Rania Eldekki, Posted in Google Articles

In a recent post on the Official Google Blog, Principal Engineer, Matt Cutts, wrote about Google's recent efforts to reduce webspam. Cutts starts out by calling attention to the fact that, "Google's search quality is better than it has ever been in terms of relevance, freshness and comprehensiveness" but he goes on to say that Google is still "not perfect", hence this change in Google's algorithm. What kind of changes did Google make to its algorithm, you ask? Outline of the changes made to Google's al... read more.

• February 01, 2011
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By Rania Eldekki, Posted in Search Engine News

Its official: Yahoo's organic search results are now being powered by Bing. The changes, which began yesterday, August 24th, now mean that the same search engine results will be showing up for both Yahoo and Bing. The search engine results page, or SERP for short, on each site will now be identical since the results for both are coming directly from Microsoft. In terms of SEO, the order in which sites are ranked on each SERP typically varies based on individual search engine algorithms. However, now tha... read more.

• August 25, 2010
• 1 Comments

By Lauren Litwinka, Posted in Google Articles

Last Friday, the official Google News Blog posted information on recent updates to the news feature including refined changes for the algorithm which gathers and ranks stories from around the world. Over the past months, Google has refined several aspects of Google News which, Google commented, are subtle but effective. Firstly, Google restated that the goal of its news application is “to offer as many perspectives on a story” by providing articles in “every language, in every countr... read more.

• December 10, 2007
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