Hi everyone! Hope you had a great and productive week. Undoubtedly, one of he most noteworthy news this week was the update Google´s toolbar #PageRank. This actually came to a surprise as Matt Cutts implied earlier this year that he would be surprised if an update would happen.
@NielsBoschh I would be surprised if that happened.
— Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) October 6, 2013
According to Matt, this “rare PR Update” came about as his team was fixing a bug and decided to push the PR update instead of leaving the old data. That confirms that a PR update was in fact rolled out yesterday.
A rare PageRank update: http://t.co/qMKGOd1UlP Team was fixing a different backend service and did a PR update along the way.
— Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) December 6, 2013
There you go. Did you notice a change in your toolbar PR? Better, worst, same?
In a new video, yet again released by Matt this week, he answers to a question about “content stitching”. The question goes like this:
Hi Matt, Can a site still do well in Google if I copy only a small portion of content from different websites and create my own article by combining all, considering I will mention the source of that content (by giving their urls in the article)?
And finally, SearchEngineLand.com reported that another “private networked” has been torched by Google, along with all other sites that used this network. Anglo Rank had this comment as part of their sales pitch: “Anglo Rank is the only service you´ll ever need, its power is … Our system is tested and works. It´s powerful, yet perfectly SAFE”.
So much for being “perfectly safe”. SEO has changed and techniques of building links like using a “network” still is being used widely. If you are, think twice before you do. It may pay-off on a short term, but on a longer term, it seems it is not worth the effort.
And as usual, in no particular order:
Content Creation & Marketing/SEO
- SEO Changed Forever In 2013. How To Adjust And Thrive In 2014
- Hummingbird’s Unsung Impact on Local Search
- 46 Experts Share Their Top Social Media Management Tools
- 7 Steps To Make Your Blog A Marketing Machine
Social/Small Business Bites
- Facebook Admits: Expect Organic Reach for Pages to Continue Declining
- Facebook Gets Its Own Panda Update
- Twitter for Business: How to Use Twitter to Grow Your Influence
- How to Increase Your Twitter Engagement by 324%
- How I Diversified My Blogging Income Beyond Having All My Eggs in the AdSense Basket
WordPress/More cool stuff!
That’s it! Enjoy and have a great weekend!
frank joseph
Matt Cutt makes it sounds like the toolbar will not be updated again, but then i never trust whatever he says.
Carl
A lot of contradiction in Google team again. However, I doubt that this PR update was done by mistake. Many webmasters reported huge drop in PR and no PR changes for young websites.
I noticed a drop on Wassupblog from 3 to 2 but I’m not at all fussed about it. The traffic is about the same and that is more important than PR.
Andrey
Let’s hope that the next update will come a little more faster than the last one. I just receive 1 on this one
Sunita Sharma
Thanks For Sharing Update About Page Rank.. i think there is also Change in Google algo. my Site traffic is Slightly Up than previous Months..