Google Algorithm Update Hurting Large Sites’ Rankings

Posted by admin | Posted in Google, SEO | Posted on 01-06-2010-05-2008

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Search engines are known to always change or update their search engine algorithm, the search engine algorithm contains that different search ranking criteria or factors on how a website is going to be ranked or if the website is ready to be indexed in the search engine’s database. The continuous or constant upgrade of the search engine algorithm is primarily geared to improving the search engine results page of a search engine and the SERP’s improvement is aimed towards displaying the most relevant websites according to the search query of the user. Conforming to the search engine algorithm’s criteria is a very difficult thing to do because of the mere fact that search engine algorithms are kept secret. It is because of this that many webmasters have evolved into becoming SEO companies or SEO consultants whose primary goal is to have their target website rank high in the search engine’s SERP, which can only be achieved by practicing proper SEO techniques and researching for new ways on how to incorporate new internet technologies in order to gain traffic and a good search engine ranking.

Many search engine optimisation companies are always on the lookout for such algorithm changes which can be measured or seen through the observation of the drastic change in the ranking of their target website. Google is a search engine company that is most sought after by SEO Companies and SEO consultants because of the fact that it is the search engine that is being utilised by around 65%-70% search engine users. However, Google has recently created or updated their search engine algorithm which affected a lot of websites especially those that are considered to be large websites. The algorithm change of Google which now favors quality sites that are using long tail keywords for long tail queries have affected large websites that has several dedicated web pages for product descriptions. E-commerce sites are generally affected since the web page containing the product description only has a small number of content as well as a short tail keyword.

Although such is the current situation Google is set to make several algorithm changes which would help in the development and increase the accuracy of the search engine results page of Google.

Tips for Improving Your Rankings

Posted by admin | Posted in SEO | Posted on 01-06-2010-05-2008

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The process of search engine optimisation is dynamic, because of the fact that the SEO industry is considered to be technology driven and thus this would mean that any processes or any of the different strategies involved in search engine optimisation is influenced by the different or current internet technology. One concrete example is during the emergence of social network sites, search engine optimisation has been revolutionised ever since search engine companies have incorporated social and real-time search, this prompted SEO consultants to research on the potential of social media networks as part of an SEO campaign thus the social engine optimisation strategy was born. The current changes and upgrades in the field of internet technology truly creates new strategies for SEO companies and SEO consultants to utilise.

The following are some strategies that were developed brought about by the emergence of new technologies.

  1. Mobile Media Optimisation – With the emergence and popularity of the mobile industry with incorporation of the ability to connect to the internet makes the mobile industry to be another potential ground for search engine optimisation. Incorporating and regularly updating your target websites content would make your website to be amiable with mobile search engines, content is important because of the fact that the mobile search engines would favor non-stagnant websites.
  2. Google Caffeine  Optimisation  – When Google announced the release of their Google Caffeine every SEO researchers sprang into action and started deciphering the criteria or algorithms of the said search engine feature, one product of such research are the following tips.

2.1   Relevance still plays an important role in the ranking of Google, this is the reason why it is important that the title of the website must be relevant to that of the content of the website. The products, services and or the text content of the website must be generally described by the single title of the website.

2.2   Another aspect of relevance is determined with the type of outbound links of the website, quality can be determined from the reputation or page rank of a website and its relevance to your website. Each website that is connected to another website should both be tackling similar traffic.

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