{"id":379,"date":"2019-11-07T11:04:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T05:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cedarsofttech.com\/blog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2019-11-07T11:04:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T05:34:03","slug":"google-algorithm-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cedarsofttech.com\/blog\/google-algorithm-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Algorithm Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Web trends &amp; SEO practices have been dominated by famous algorithm updates, search index changes and refreshes of Google! Whenever search ranking algorithms of Google are updated, sites can do better or worse in the search results.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cedarsofttech.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cedar Software Technologies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a leading digital marketing company providing the best <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cedarsofttech.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SEO services in Kochi<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> brings to you a list of Google Algorithm. Check them out&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Panda (<\/b>February 24, 2011)<\/h4>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Hazards: Duplicate, plagiarized or thin content; user-generated spam; keyword stuffing<\/span><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assigning a supposed \u201cquality score\u201d to web pages; which is then used as a ranking factor. Panda rollouts have become more frequent, so both penalties and recoveries now happen faster.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Penguin (<\/b>April 24, 2012)<\/h5>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Hazards: Spammy or irrelevant links; links with over-optimized anchor text<\/span><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Penguin\u2019s update works real time &amp; down-ranks sites whose links seem manipulative. A part of Google\u2019s core algorithm since late 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Hummingbird <\/b>(August 22, 2013)<\/h5>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Hazards: Keyword stuffing; low-quality content<\/span><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hummingbird update makes it possible for a page to rank for a query even if it doesn\u2019t contain the exact words the searcher entered. Keywords are still important.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Pigeon <\/b>(July 24, 2014 (US); December 22, 2014 (UK, Canada, Australia))<\/h5>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Hazards: Poor on- and off-page SEO<\/span><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Local searches were most affected by Pigeon algorithm update. Closer ties are created between the local algorithm and the core algorithm. Local results ranked by traditional SEO factors.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Mobilegeddon (<\/b>April 21, 2015)<\/h5>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Hazards: Lack of a mobile version of the page; poor mobile usability<\/span><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Mobile Update ensures that mobile-friendly pages rank at the top of mobile searches &amp; others are filtered out from the SERPs.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>RankBrain (<\/b>October 26, 2015)<\/h5>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Hazards: Query-specific relevance features lacking; shallow content; poor UX<\/span><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Very much a fundamental part of Google\u2019s Hummingbird algorithm, the RankBrain algorithm update identifies relatable features of web pages ranking for a given query.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Possum <\/b>(September 1, 2016)<\/h5>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Hazards: Tense competition in your target location<\/span><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The algorithm update Possum influences the local results depending on the searcher\u2019s location. The closer you get to a business\u2019s address, the possibility of seeing it among local results is more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Fred (<\/b>March 8, 2017)<\/h5>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Hazards: Thin, affiliate-heavy or ad-centered content<\/span><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Websites that violate Google\u2019s webmaster guidelines are most affected by the Google algorithm update &#8211; Fred. The most affected were Blogs with low-quality posts created mostly for the purpose of generating ad revenue.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>March 2019 Core Update <\/b>(March 12, 2019)<\/h5>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Hazards:\u00a0 poor user experience (due to excessive pop-ups, poor navigation, over-optimization sites.<\/span><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The update affected sites whose search traffic increased experienced higher rankings site-wide, with no increase in the number of keywords ranked.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Google BERT Natural Language Processing Update BERT <\/b>( October 21, 2019)<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is Google\u2019s AI powered update intended to serve hyper-relevant results. BERT model processes words in relation to all the other words in a sentence, rather than one-by-one in order.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hope this article has been informational and useful. Get in touch with us at Cedar Software Technologies for effective <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cedarsofttech.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">digital marketing services in Kochi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Web trends &amp; SEO practices have been dominated by famous algorithm updates, search index changes and refreshes of Google! 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