Master The Art of Google Algorithm Updates with these Tips

 Apply These  Secret Techniques To Improve Google Algorithm
Updates

Have  you  checked the new Updates regularly  or 
monthly basis.If yes then,
  

First, understand  the 
aspect  of  Search 
engine Optimizer –

The task of   this is 
optimize a website for Google. This 
include various  methods  such as On-page and  off-page Seo

How  user  Get 
their  Query –

Users type a 
keyword  in  search 
bar and gets results.

Methods 
include –

Organic – This category is seen  just 
below the  feature snippet .

Paid -Identify 
your search through ad sign  in Google , Bing.

 

Types  –

·     Major Search Engine – Google,
Bing  , Yahoo  and Baidu

·     Minor – Ask  , AOI , Duck Duck Go   , Naver , Ecosia, Start Page , Qwant

 

After  knowing 
all  the  things 
let us Discuss  the about how
Search Engine works 

 

Search Engine Do 
Four  Things –

ü
Crawling 

ü
Processing/ Indexing 

ü
Storing 

ü
Ranking   

 

 Crawling –  It means Discover new  Content  on your  website 
. This work is done by the crawler. Also, know as  Bot.

 

 

Processing / indexing   – 
After  Crawling  Your website are stored in search engine Server
.

Google and other Search Engine Store  information 
in  the  form 
of  Cache  and Cookies 
.

Indexing – This
information is stored  in the User Data base. This will  help the Search engine to index a 
website.

  Note –  This Information is Hidden from the Marketer and user.

 

Ranking -Ranking 
Depends on the certain  factor Such as –

Content length

Time Spent on site

Content Length 

 

Major Updates 
Done  by  Google 
between ( 2009-2021)

Florida Updates ( Nov 16  2003)

Jogger updates (   2005)

Vince Updates( jan 
18  2009)

Google cafferine (2009) –

 Google Panda
(2011)

 

Google penguin(2012)

Page Layout(2012)

Pirate (2012)

 Knowledge  Graph ( 2012)

 

Hummingbird(2013)

 Penguin (2014)

Mobilegeddon (2015)

Rank Brain(2015)

Possum (2016)

Fred(2017)

Hawk 
Upadtes(2017) – Focus on Duplicate Business Listing

BERT updates ( oct 13 , 2019 )

Google January Core  – 
update  (jan 2020)

May  core
Updates  ( May 2020)  EAT ( More Focus  on EAT )

Dec Core Updates ( DEC 2020)

 core web vitals
( lcp , FID , CLS)

EAT and YMCL

 

1.  Florida Updates ( Nov 16  2003)- This
is the  First  major Update happen  in  SEO
Industry.

Penalizes that website 

·    
Which use affiliate links to  drive traffic. This  updates 
mostly retailer.

·    
Using 
invisible text

·    
Use 
of spammy techniques such  Keyword
Stuffing

·    
Multiple sites under same brand name .

 

2.  Jogger updates(2005) – 
This Updates deal  with  –

 

·    
Building  Unnatural 
links

·    
Paid links 

3.  Caffeine  Updates (2009) –  

This  updates Penalizes  those website

§ 
less authoritative Website  .

§ 
More 
tighter  Integration with  the Social 
Network.

After  this Certain 
changes Happen
 

§ 
Increase Speed

§ 
Better Indexing

§ 
More 
relevant result

 

§ 
Fresh 
/new content  Updated fast  .

4.  Google Panda– This updates name given  by  the
google employees Naveen  Panda .

De-Rank those website

·     ·    
Low quality  sites

·    
Low Quality  Backlinks and Content  

 How Do you Identify 
low Quality website  –

Using 
the  Formula Todas

T- Thin 
content / Shallow Content
– A site  that is used to  rank 
content in multiple locations or cities.

Changes 
certain things Such as 

ü
Location /Country

ü
Changes every Single Page in the text.

 

ü
Over optimized  Content 

 

ü
Using 
of  irrelevant keyword 

ü
Use of  too many keywords in 
your topic

ü
Links 
to  the Spammy website

Duplicate Content  – In  the  laymen  terms  
it  is types  of  a topic that are  present  in 
more than one place.

 
Why  this  problem 
Happen   from  Search Engine Side and  site owner

 

Search Engine side
Google don’t  know Which version  of  the
website is  to  index 
and which  to  not  .

 From  the 
Site Owners  -Can  not use data  from  search  engine  Console .

  Changes  certain things  to  improve visibilty in google –

Keep  eyes  on  –

Excluded

Valid without  warning 

Error 

 Article Spinning  –  Use of 
software to  make  a content more effective  . Copy 
a topic  from  other website or source and   change certain words or lines . This is
called as article Spinning.

Slow –  If a website speed loading speed is low . that
is not better for your website .

  How do you 
increase you website Speed

·    
Remove java Script  files

·    
Compress Images

·    
Evalute  your website loding Speed

 

  How to Write 
lengthy Article

·    
Add 
More unquieness ( Write Lengthly Article)

·    
Remove Scraped Content

·    
Add 
More Relevance

 

Google Penguin(2012)-  Rejected 
those website that  used  link farm 
and purchase links .

 How
to remove from Google Penguin Penalty 

§ 
Do 
not use of Black Hat Techniques-

§ 
Use of Disavow tools.

§  Do 
not Stuff  Keyword( Keyword  Stuffing ) 

§ 
Spin 
Content ( Copy  a Topic from  the other Source and do  certain 
Changes )

§ 
Internally links  a Content 
to  the Irrelevent Content

 

Techniques  that 
a  Marketer  Should Avoid

 Use of Door Way Pages/ Gate Way  – This types  of 
page  is designed  to Create fake Pages that stuffed  with Content and Optimized for two  or 
more  keyword  and further link  to another landing page .

§ 
Buying links – Purchase the link for the
sake  of 
increase the  site Ranking  .

Participate in 
Link networks-

PBN/ Link Farms –  It is a 
Group  of website that are
hyperlinked to each other  . Its 
main  objective is build Backlinks
.

and increase in
search ranking  . But this is not a good
technique.

 

Keyword Stuffing –It
is  a 
type  of method   in which an article /web  page 
is using s  too many  unwanted meta tags and keyword is  known 
as  Keyword Stuffing.

 

Page Layout 
– It  is also
known as Top Heavy  Algorithm.

·    
This algorithm  down the ranking of website who uses too
many  ads in  at  the
top .

·    
If 
they are Distracting  for Users
and  have 
too  little Content.

·    
This is also for  not user user 
experience  points  of 
views. 

 

Pirate updates  (2012) – This
updates  was designed  to 
down  grad  those 
website that violate Copy right 
laws.

 It affects
those website  That violates DMCA (
Digital Millennium Copy Right  act  )

 

Knowledge 
Graph ( 2012)-
In this types of google algorithm    gets  
information  from  the 
multiple source through  Semantic
Search  .

·    
It 
Provides  information  in  structural
form.  It also     provides of  list of 
Pages  that helps  the user 
to  find  the 
information without  navigate
on  other website and source.

·    
It gives  you 
related information  .

 

 Humming
bird(2013
)-  This
Updates  is  all about Semantic Searches  , 
focusing   on  the 
context  of a search query.

 Also  the 
intent  of  the 
query. Where the meaning of the whole phrase  is understand .

This updates credits those website that uses  language naturally  in 
their  content  .

 

How this algorithm works 

·    
Focus on Synonyms  and 
Content

·    
Evalutes  the Entire Search engine Phrase.

Algorithm 
gives   more weightage given  to 
query such as

§ 
Rewards natural  Content 
that  is Conversational 

§ 
More emphasis  on 
long  tail words 

§ 
Matches  Synonyms 
to search  Queries

Some Myth about  SEO

 

Number  of times a  keyword appears  on  a
webpage . You should  requires  certain 
Density for optimal ranking.

 Keyword 
Density used by ALT Vista Search 
Engine in the late 90s.

 You 
need a   Good amount of words  to 
rank  a website in  a Search Engine.

 

Penguin(2014)-  It was Specially designed to
tackle web Spam in Search results.

 It Penalizes 
those  website that uses Black Hat
Techniques  such  as 
paid  links or Keyword Stuffing .

That do  not 
follow Search Engine Guideliness.

 

 

List 
of  Black  Hat Techniques  used 
in Penguin Update-

·    
Hidden  and Individual Text

·    
Sneaky  Redirection

·    
Cloaking 

·    
Create a  pages 
with  malicious Behaviour .  

 

Hidden and Individual
Text 
– Content
is  hidden  through 
various  methods Such as  –

§ 
White 
Text In the White Background

§ 
Fix the Size of Font 0

§ 
Hidden  the text 
by  linking  one Small 
Character as  a Hypen.

 

 

Sneaky Redirection-Let
us  understand through  Example – IF a  person 
clicks  on link and does not
land  to 
the desired location what they want 
to reach is  called as Sneaky  redirection .

 

Cloaking
In Simple term it is  techniques  that 
gives  different  result 
to the user and  search engine.

 

 

Recover from Penguin

§ 
Do 
not  focus  on Buying 
links .

§ 
Avoid techniques  that 
Manipulates Search  engine  .

§ 
Create  Social 
Profile on FB , Insta , twitter  
that build trust among users.

§ 
Create  a  link
that  gives value  to  the  user  .

 

Mobilegeddon  (2015)- 
It Mainly Deal 
with  responsive website .

After 2015
google emphasis on  Mobile Indexing first
.

Points  to 
remember

·    
It affects  only  Mobile
Devices  .

·    
Applies  only to 
Individual  Pages .

 

Rank 
Brain( 2015)
– This Algorithm 
works   on 
two  factor  such as CTR and Average Session  time  .

Penalize 
those website 

·    
Site that used  shallow content .

·    
User Bad Expeience 

 

Possum (2016) –  This 
is basically related   to  the 
local  search results and local  Searches 
that are  mapped  to 
the  users  to 
gets the  most  relevant results .

On  the  other hand 
this is related to  the
Business  listing  .

 Penalize those website

·    
Using Different address  for your Business   . 

·    
Business outside the city  limits

 Fred  (
2017  ) 
– It 
targets  those  website 
that  do not  follow 
search  engine  guidelines.

Affects Ranking  of 
those website

·    
That 
have little  or  no 
content .

·    
Website that  Participate 
in In irrelevant   affiliate
program.

·    
Site that  focus on 
hidden content.

Hawk 
Updates
( 2017)

– This Updates is 
related to  duplicate
Business  Listing .

BERT update (2019)
Bidirectional  Encoder  Representation Transformation  – This Algorithm related  to  NLP
( Natural  Language Processing . It is
the  process  of finding 
natural  language  from 
the web .

 

Basically 
this  Update  is realted 
to  long  tail 
keyword  and  to 
understand better Natural 
language query.

Myth  about  this Algorithm  update 
that it affects  your ranking  is 
totally  wrong .

Suggestations  – Write Content for user not  for the 
search engine .

  This  algorithm 
better understand  the  intent 
behind  the user search queries.

 EAT –  
Expertise  authortivness  and trustiness 
.

 Expertise – There are
millon  of the website  on a web pages in  search 
engine.Google  does  not  know  which   person 
and website and expertise  in  specific 
field  .

 How  google 
know  which  website  /  person  and expertise 
in  field  –

  Search engine 
know the  seed  sites .

Seed 
sites 
–  If  A
site is  linking  another  reputed 
sites  google  consider as 
high rated  sites . 

·    
Make an author 
profile on  Social media  sites

·    
Create a  Home 
and about us  page in the website 
or   youtube  channel 
.

·    
Focus 
on  Creating Backlinks  .

·    
Authoritativeness  – 
Social  media  make  Authoritativeness.

·    
Contribute to  Reddit , tumblr , quora .

·    
Create  a  backlinks  through 
Profile Creation and  forum
sites  . 

Trust–  If you 
create   create 
trust  among  new user  Quality 
rater guidelines.

Note  – This Quality raters guideline is Updated every year. 

 

YMYL–  Your 
life your  Money  which affect your life and money  .

Affect those websites that  effect  on  user growth these include –

Health 

wealth 

 

Passage 
Indexing (Feb  2021 ) 
– After BERT Update Google  understand 
your query  through  NLP ( Natural 
Language processing ).

IN Bidirectional Encoder representation  Transformer Google Understand your  result 
through  suffix  and prefix 
.

For example –

 If you search
for Term Sarkari online  form  has 
two  meaning  that you want 
to  fill  the govt 
jobs form   or  you  are 
looking for a search for new govt vacancy.

 In  this 
type  of  indexing search engine understand  your whole 
article  and rank  the full 
paragraph.

 

 

How 
to  rank   in  Passage 
Indexing

§ 
Create a  Summary 
about  the  topics .

§ 
Choose Questions  in 
the   people also  ask Section 
.

§ 
Use 
of Bullet   and 
numbered list 

§ 
Get 
idea  from  Related searches

§ 
Use of  tools such as Answer the public , Quora , reddit
and tumblr and you tube.

§ 
Most important  things that 
check  your  mobile friendless.

§ 
Gives to the  Points Information  .

 

 

Page  experience
Algorithm  Update
–  Google Recognizes this algorithm  on three-factor  –

ü
FID

ü
CLS

ü
LCP

  FID – First  InPut Delay – 
It  is  the time 
your website takes to load the first element of the site in which user  first touch or click.

Understand through  example – 

Suppose  you  visit a website and  that site 
load . After  the  website loads you  touch a 
button  in  that 
site . The delay happen  in  that site is 
called FID .

 

FID is measure 
in Mili sec.

Good  -100ms  Needs 
Improvement  –

Poor  – 300 ms

Note – This  type of  data is  not seen
in  page Speed  Insights 
.FID Comes  under Page Field
Data  .

 

Points 
to reduce that times

 Reduce  the 
java  script  Execute time

Optimize  CSS

Compress  the Images  and 
heavy  element in  a  website  .

 

CLS – Culmative Layout  Shifts – You  visit 
a website  first  element you 
see is  Button. If a  button is shifited this  is 
known  layout  Shift 
.

CLS – 0.01 – Good  Needs Improvement  – 0.25

Fix the Element  that  cause
layout  Shift 

·    
Open 
you website

·    
Chrome Developer  tools – Press 
F12 from  the  keyword  .

·    
Click 
on  the  performance 
tab

·    
Web vital   loads – 
Layout Shift  – Position

 

 How
tackle  with  layout 
Shift 

·    
Fonts 
– Use  Fonts  that are similar  to System 
Font.

·    
Don’t use  image which  is 
larger in size .

·    
JPEG, JPG

·    
Use of WEP format.

·    
Fix properties  Such as 
height   and width  

·    
Avoid 
Excessive use  of ads in  home 
page.

 

LCP – Largest  Contentful 
Paint.

In Simple It  is
the largest  Part  of  Page   Content 
 only  which 
you have seen in  a site
 while loading  a website 
.

 These largest
element    can be 
Image  Slide and other elements.

 It  is  known
as  above the  fold  content 

LCP Score is 
differ  from  mobile and 
Desktop  . 

Methods 
to  increase your LCP

·    
Upgrade Hosting

·    
Minify  Java Script and  CSS file 

·    
Enable Caching 

·    
NO slide Show 

·    
Keep 
your  image  optimized

·    
Well   text optimized 

 

For 
better  understanding  of 
the  topic how javaScript, Html and 
CSS files Executed  –

 

Html files– These  files    are 
executed from upper to downside means one line executed after the other.

 

CSS Files  – 
These files are excluded from  the
downside  to the upper  side 

Java script– In this first
the  code 
is download  from  the server after downloading  files 
from the server, the  files start
executing.

First execute first 
line than other .

Web vital  The score does not use page insights score  –

There are 
two to  data  that is 
used by google
  –

·    
Field Data 

·    
Lab Data 

Lab 
data 
– This  types  of
information is taken from   Page Speed Insight by a search engine.

Pages Speed 
insights tell you how  to correct the data /  Mistakes 

 

Field Data –    Performance experience of  your real 
world  website from  the Past 28 
–  30  Days.

·    
Get 
idea  from Search console

·    
Google analytics  –

·    
Go 
the  Audience Section

·    
Select  Mobile – Choose 30 days data

 

  Google core 
May core update 2020

This update on 
purely focus on  Content  Quality –

·    
Write original  and well-researched content

·    
Avoid 
headlines    title 
and descriptions that are Shocking in nature.

·    
Irrelevent  Amount 
of  information .

·    
This 
update is  known as Pandemic
Upadte  , force update.

 

 

  

  Jan Core Update 2021

Points to remember  in this Update 

·    
Fresheness  of the 
Content 

·    
People  who 
are updating  the content  regulary 
but  now ranked  is 
beneficial now.

 

·    
Credit to  well 
researched content

·    
Unique  Title and Descriptions 


link Spam Update Oct-Nov 2021- As the name suggest this update is related to Spamming.


things  to remember- Search  engine reminds that link your sites carefully

More  emphasis on-site tag –

this includes-

Affiliate links – Google  takes Interset of Affiliate  Program  For this rel=” Sponsored “

rel = ”  sponsored”  Value 


Links  from guest post  rel=”no follow”  value

 

Product Review  Algorithm (2021) – 

This update  is
Basically related  to the  Product 
and service .

From an expert point of 
views this  is not  a negative 
update.

How 
to increase  you visibility  

·    
Give Expert Opinion  whenever 
required.

·    
Give weightage to that review which gives 
you  metrices and data about  the 
product and services.

·    
Better use  of Schema

·    
Gives 
information pros and cons of the product.

 

·    
Do 
not write a  review  in 
one  line

 Resources where  you
learn about algorithm update

·    
Search  engine Journal

·    
Search engine land

·    
Search  engine watch 

·    
Moz

·    
Ahref

·    
SEM

L

·   Ranking monitorin

 
SERPmetrices

§ 
Algoroo

§ 
Advanced web Rankings

§ 
Accuranker

§ 
Rank Ranger

§ 
Cognitive SEO .

SSistrix 

tltl dr Marketing


 Official
Channel  to  learn 
about google Algorithm Update

ü
Learn with google

ü
Google Search Central

ü
Follow Google Search  liaison( Get Offical Information about Search
Engine Update ).

ü
@danny Sullivan

ü
@johnmu

ü
Read Google webmaster guidelines

ü
Try 
to  understand each word meaning
 in Search engine.

 

  

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