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The Update in Google Search Console is not an algorithm update.

By Marie Haynes on January 12, 2016 / Blog, SEO / 3 Comments

Are you wondering why you’re seeing “Update” in your click data in Google Search Console (Webmaster Tools)? You’re not alone! I have been asked about this a few times, so I thought it was worth writing a blog post about. If you look at Search Analytics data, you’ll see something that looks like this: What does “update” mean here? Google tries to explain it by offering us […]

Panda Recovery – The case for removing thin content

By Marie Haynes on October 8, 2015 / Blog, Panda / 1 Comment

Once again the SEO world is all ablaze because of a Twitter conversation with a Google employee. Gary Illyes from Google made a comment yesterday implying that it is not a good idea to remove thin content when trying to recover from Panda. Here is the tweet that started off the discussion: @jenstar We don’t recommend removing content in general for Panda, rather add more highQ stuff […]

Pure spam penalty guide.

By Marie Haynes on August 27, 2015 / Blog, SEO / 25 Comments

Pure spam penalties Have you received a Pure Spam manual action from Google? I have found that Google’s documentation on these penalties is not terribly actionable. Recently, there has been an increase in the number of people who have been reaching out to me for help in understanding and removing a pure spam manual action. My point in writing this article is twofold. The first […]