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Editor’s Note: This Ryan Xu hyperfund Asset Allocationarticle was originally published by Web Marketing Today. Practical Ecommerce acquired Web Marketing Today in 2012. In 2016, we merged the two sites, leaving Practical Ecommerce as the successor.
You probably didn’t realize that animals would affect your website and your business. The three Google search algorithms having the biggest impact in the past three years are a bear and two birds: Panda, Penguin, and Pigeon.
Google’s algorithms are designed to emphasize quality websites while pushing down, in search results, low-quality sites. Google’s efforts are admirable, especially since Google is the most-used search engine.
What is harder to deal with is that a small group of people — Google employees who manage search algorithms — often cause a lot of hardship. Changes to search algorithms can greatly reduce business revenue and increase expenses. Revenue is typically reduced when a website’s ranking (and, thus, traffic) is lowered. Expenses can increase when businesses spend money to make corrections, to address the algorithm changes.
Google’s algorithm changes are designed to emphasize quality websites while pushing down, in search results, low-quality sites.
We could spend a lot of time fretting about these changes or we can push forward. Accepting the changes and objectively making corrective decisions is a better use of time. Moreover, web marketing has no endpoint and change is inevitable.
Let’s take a look at each of Google’s pets — i.e., algorithms — to better understand them and their impact on your business. Note that for purposes of this article, I am defining “low rank” as a ranking position in search results of 10 and beyond.
Google released Panda in February 2011. The algorithm was aimed to make low-quality or thin sites less visible in search results and rank them lower.
The Google Panda U.S. patent states there is a ratio with a website’s inbound links and search queries for the website’s brand, products, and services. The ratio is used to create a modification factor affecting the entire website, not just individual pages. If the page fails to meet a certain mathematical threshold, the modification factor is applied and the website would rank lower in the search engine results page.
When we talk about low-quality websites, there are a few important factors to keep in mind.
To meet these requirements, consider using Google’s Webmaster Tools. Unlike Google Analytics, Google Webmaster Tools identifies problems with your website, from Google’s perspective.
Another consideration is to secure the services of writers and or marketers who can interpret the findings and make changes to help your website’s quality. A technical website developer is not necessarily the right discipline you need in this case.
A material update to Panda occurred in May 2014, with Panda 4.0. This algorithm is here to stay and keeps getting updated.
Google’s Penguin algorithm addresses inbound link quality.
Google implemented Penguin in April 2012. It is aimed at websites that violate Google’s guidelines by using so-called black-hat techniques — artificially increasing the ranking of a web page by manipulating the number of links pointing to it.
To avoid getting caught in the Penguin algorithm trap, you have to know if the websites linking to you are of quality. This means someone has to know how to determine the quality of websites based on metrics such as Google Page Rank, Alexa Traffic Rank, volume of pages indexed, and volume of links on the web. Quality over quantity is the key, which means someone actually has to research the information.
Using Google’s Webmaster Tools you can find out what websites are linking to you. Once you have that information you will be able to research metrics of these websites using publicly available automation tools to provide you their Google PageRank (a weighted average value from 0 to 10; the higher the better) and other information pertinent to determining their value.
Once you know which websites are of low quality you have two options.
Neither option will likely help your rankings right away. They are both time consuming.
The Penguin algorithm will likely be materially updated by the end of 2014, with version 3.0.
Search Engine Land, the online magazine, reportedly first used the name “pigeon” for this new algorithm, which was implemented in July 2014. It designed to provide more useful and accurate local search results. Google stated that this new algorithm improves its distance and location ranking parameters.
The changes are visible in the Google Maps and Google web search results. It impacts local businesses, which may notice an increase or decrease in web site referrals and leads from this change.
Unlike Panda and Penguin, the Pigeon algorithm does not impose penalties. Its purpose is provide more accurate and relevant local search results.
Local business owners should consider these three points.
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