The search landscape has shifted significantly over the past year. Google released Panda, and then more recently, the Penguin update and these changes have had a major impact on business marketing. With each update Google is trying to reduce spam and bring the most relevant pages to your search terms. Is the algorithm always doing the best job? Of course not. With each update there seems to be a large group of disgruntled webmasters who used to rank well for certain phrases that are longer in contention for the top spots.
These changes are forcing business owners and SEO companies to re-think their marketing campaigns. These SEO teams have had to go back to the drawing board in some instances where well-ranking websites have all but dropped off the radar. In the past, webmasters focused on keyword density and the volume of back-links to their pages. With this update keyword stuffing and back-links were both affected. Some data suggests domains which had a similar keyword as anchor from various sources were adversely affected. This would suggest that using varied anchor text from reliable sources in the way to go.
Google also targeted quality content. Creating great material that is well presented is quickly becoming more and more important. Weak article spinning is a thing of the past. The best approach to creating links naturally is by creating unique articles aimed at niche that get passed along by readers, not computers. "Webmasters and SEO consultants need to be more focused on gaining natural links and creating quality content that gets attention from both search engines and readers," says Leonard McCann of a NJ Law Firm SEO Company.
It seems Google's is also focused Social Media activity. Their new dashboard provides more meaningful traffic analysis and a new set of social reports that help you measure the impact of your social marketing campaigns and evaluate the effect those social media activities have on your overall goals. These four new reports aggregate specific data points to ensure you see the entire scheme of how social media marketing affects your business. It makes sense that social media is a great way to promote links and company branding naturally.
It's been a really busy year for both Google and SEO folks alike. It will likely be some time yet before the dust really settles on the effects of these changes. Of course I doubt Google will let the dust settle. They've communicated that more changes of this nature are on the way. Again, we must hope that these changes will benefit everyone and really reduce spam and junk search results from folks who are obviously not serving up quality content. Let's just hope that they are careful to reduce the risk of downgrading quality sites who have domain authority.
These changes are forcing business owners and SEO companies to re-think their marketing campaigns. These SEO teams have had to go back to the drawing board in some instances where well-ranking websites have all but dropped off the radar. In the past, webmasters focused on keyword density and the volume of back-links to their pages. With this update keyword stuffing and back-links were both affected. Some data suggests domains which had a similar keyword as anchor from various sources were adversely affected. This would suggest that using varied anchor text from reliable sources in the way to go.
Google also targeted quality content. Creating great material that is well presented is quickly becoming more and more important. Weak article spinning is a thing of the past. The best approach to creating links naturally is by creating unique articles aimed at niche that get passed along by readers, not computers. "Webmasters and SEO consultants need to be more focused on gaining natural links and creating quality content that gets attention from both search engines and readers," says Leonard McCann of a NJ Law Firm SEO Company.
It seems Google's is also focused Social Media activity. Their new dashboard provides more meaningful traffic analysis and a new set of social reports that help you measure the impact of your social marketing campaigns and evaluate the effect those social media activities have on your overall goals. These four new reports aggregate specific data points to ensure you see the entire scheme of how social media marketing affects your business. It makes sense that social media is a great way to promote links and company branding naturally.
It's been a really busy year for both Google and SEO folks alike. It will likely be some time yet before the dust really settles on the effects of these changes. Of course I doubt Google will let the dust settle. They've communicated that more changes of this nature are on the way. Again, we must hope that these changes will benefit everyone and really reduce spam and junk search results from folks who are obviously not serving up quality content. Let's just hope that they are careful to reduce the risk of downgrading quality sites who have domain authority.
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