SEM Strategy In 2023: More Ahead With Your Year In Review via @sejournal, @jonkagan

Google unleashes the Panda algorithm In 2011, Google released an algorithm update that would eventually become known as the Google Panda Update. Google had been facing mounting criticism over content farms earning top rankings in Google with “shallow” or “low-quality” content. The Panda algorithm was Google’s response. The change impacted 11.8% of its search results in the U.S., which was a far higher impact on results than most of its algorithm changes. This may have been one of the most memorable days in the history of […]

Did you know that Microsoft Bing lets you share some of the direct answers (or as Google calls it, featured snippets) on social or other means? Well, it is not for most direct answers but for maybe Microsoft based answers it does. It also has this neat animation in the search results as well.

Google has made some changes to its sitemap documentation and title links documentation but has yet to document those changes. Here are a list of the changes, some might be considered more than “minor” but since Google did not document them, I assume they are super minor.