Has it really been ten months since the release of Google’s Hummingbird algorithm upon the search world?  It doesn’t feel that long ago that I was writing blog posts about how this new animal-named algorithm popped its head out of the bosom that is Google.  I bet that statement really conjures up a strange image […]

We love polls don’t we?  With enough participants involved, we can get a good grasp at the information that we are looking for when creating polls.  Recently, almost 300 marketers were asked by Moz which Google update has affected their traffic the most.  Panda and Penguin were at the top of the list of the […]

As Google releases more and more updates, it always makes SEOs and marketers feel like they have to work harder to be able to adjust to the new changes.  Naturally, that is the case, but why would Google want to cause more problems for SEOs and marketers? That’s actually not their intent at all.  Google […]

With every update to Google’s search engine, there is always going to be some big change that happens to it that seems to impact how thing happen with search results.  There seems to be a qualitative shift in local results due to Hummingbird’s release that many search engine blogs and media outlets haven’t posted about. […]

With all the major changes and updates going on behind Google’s doors, it’s no surprise that this keeps people busy trying to understand how they work.  With the newest update, Hummingbird, it seems that there is a new paradigm of SEO that isn’t revolving around keywords as we’re all accustomed to.  Now, SEO revolves around […]

We as humans tend to want to oversimplify things.  It’s the way we work.  When we think of Google, we think of the Penguin, Hummingbird and Panda updates as three “simple updates.”  Well, in technicality, they’re really not all that simple. In some conversations that Dr. Peter J. Meyers with some folks on Twitter, including a conversation […]

Now that Hummingbird has been around for a little while now, we know that there are some pretty big differences between this update when compared to Penguin and Panda.  Because of Hummingbird’s new algorithm, it changes how Google understands the search queries it’s given and what it finds on the web pages it crawls. In […]

The intention of Google’s newest search algorithm, Hummingbird, was designed with the users in mind.  The new algorithm was made to deliver more precise results with faster search query results.  Hummingbird is meant to be a total replacement to the previous search algorithm that was in place before, and not just a simple update to […]