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@Marie_Haynes

Completely obsessed about Google Penalties and algorithm changes...Penguin, Panda, Unnatural Links and diagnosing the reason for a site's traffic drop.

Ottawa, Ontario
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jul 27

    YEAH! Got this incredible email today from a client for whom we did a site review and made a bunch of recommendations. Their main terms were on page 2 and 3. And now they're #2 for their most important keyword. Improved E-A-T, internal linking and much more.

    10 replies 5 retweets 109 likes
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  2. Retweeted
    Aug 21

    A Recent Google Continuation Patent tells us that Google may look at over 5 million distinct features (so much for 200 ranking factors). I'll be blogging about that patent shortly.

    10 replies 47 retweets 137 likes
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  3. 13 hours ago

    We're mostly through several site reviews, and there is a theme we're seeing pop up often for Aug 1 hit sites. Many have sites that are presenting themselves as informational sites, but then work hard to funnel ppl to buy a product/service. Often in a way that's a bit deceptive.

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  4. 16 hours ago

    The new links report for "most recent" links from GSC beta lists them as "last crawled". It used to say, "first discovered". "Links" is now changed to "target page" which actually doesn't make sense as the target page would be the page it's pointing at. Hmmmm. 🤔

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  5. 16 hours ago

    From the new documentation on links in beta GSC. Google is so confusing when it comes to giving us disavow information. If we can ignore spammy links, why is this necessary? I have 2 ideas: 1) Could be helpful in hacking cases 2) There are other link algos outside of Penguin

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  6. Retweeted
    Aug 21

    Please Retweet, or bid.

    was a project and I worked on a few years back. Now I am auctioning off the domain to benefit Mike's son's college education. Read more and bid here>>
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  7. Aug 21

    Just finished grabbing notes from the Jul 27 help hangout with (for the newsletter). Wanted to say once again, thank you John for all you do to help site owners. There is so much great information in there!

    2 replies 1 retweet 36 likes
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  8. Aug 20

    I agree. We've had a few more requests for help with unnatural links manual actions in the last couple of weeks. Looks like Google may be handing more of these out now.

    Replying to @glenngabe
    I think there has been a bit of an uptick in the way of unnatural link manual actions.
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  9. Aug 20

    It does look like there was some kind of tweak over the weekend (or perhaps Friday) to the update. Many sites that saw gains Aug 1 saw more gains at this time.

    1 reply 2 retweets 13 likes
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  10. Aug 20

    Hopefully I can get some time to look at GA profiles for a bit today, but I'm hearing a lot of rumbling about further algo turbulence going on.

    Replying to @glenngabe @herbalseo and 2 others
    I looked at a number to check the visibility with and it looks a lot like people hit have seen another drop since but this could just be the frequency of crawling. Impact appears to be huge though overall.
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  11. Aug 20

    I'm not seeing any obvious recoveries as of yet. That said, I've been mostly offline all weekend. I'll let you know if I do see some.

    Replying to @glenngabe @herbalseo @Marie_Haynes
    I covered this - I am skeptical but I covered the rumors
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  12. Aug 19

    This was recorded a while back, but still is good info on E-A-T.

    If you're still researching about the 1st August Google Update. Check this out Podcast on Quality Guidelines Aired in Jan 2018 and said healthcare , legal , financial will be affected and it actually happened
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  13. Aug 17

    This is new to me too. Looks like Google is sending notifications of site migrations that may have gone awry.

    google cannot find pages after HTTPS migration.
    Ooooh first time seeing this. "Site migration gone wrong" notice.
    4 replies 4 retweets 16 likes
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  14. Aug 17

    The local update (which was likely started Jul 31, not Aug 1) is still a bit of a mystery. Lots of SERPS missing local packs, and a whole lot of filtering/unfiltering going on.

    All I can say so far about the local algo update is that it was NOT about quality. Copied this from the About Us page for a new (fake) listing for an attorney: "Edit this text and tell your site visitors who you are. To edit, simply click directly on the text and add your own."
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  15. Aug 16

    Anyone want to weigh in on this ranking mystery? If you have a comment, I'd love for you to leave it on the help forum thread. (as I won't be on Twitter too much today.) Any thoughts ? Thanks!

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  16. Retweeted
    Aug 16

    One of the observations made by and others about the August 1 Google update was that not showing authoritative authors for content may have been a factor. In my latest for I cover evidence that author authority and reputation are indeed important.

    Here's why it's crucial for authors to prove their reputation, especially for via . ⚡️
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  17. Retweeted
    Aug 16

    Good example of how long it can take to see a surge. The site got hammered during the 9/18/17 update, then saw more negative impact during the 4/16/18 update, and then finally started to surge during the 8/1/18 update. That's nearly one full year. "Long-term" can mean LONG-TERM.

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    Aug 16

    Are you signed up to ' newsletter? If not you are MISSING OUT:

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  19. Aug 15

    I need to up my "guess the animal game". All my ten year had to say is "Does it live in Antarctica?"

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  20. Aug 15

    Newsletter is out!

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  21. Retweeted
    Aug 9

    Reminder: now more than ever is a good time to refresh on these 23 questions from Amit Singhal - originally from 2011 but I think VERY relevant to the last Google update

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