Crawl Frequency and the Google Farmer Panda

March 14, 2011 by  
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How long do you normally give a change before you decide if it had any effect or not and move on? Is it even possible to answer that, since its largely dependent on crawl frequency? Ross and John answer that and other listener questions and discuss the Google Farmer Panda situation.

Google Algorithm Changes for Fixing Spam

January 24, 2011 by  
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Google Plans Algorithm Changes for Fixing Spam as Matt Cutts, head of the search quality team, wrote in his blog that he agreed about the increase in spam and detailed what the company is doing to keep it under the hood. Ross and John also look into Googles answer to Groupon, Google Offers.

SMX West 2010 Recap

March 15, 2010 by  
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Ross recaps his visit to SMX West 2010, and he mentions meeting with Bing representatives seeking to find tips for searching local Canadian web pages, plus how Bing will feed Yahoo with content and an organic spin to their algorithm.