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 –
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Crawling
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Processing/ Indexing
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Storing
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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
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Changes every Single Page in the text.
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Over optimized Content
–
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Using
of irrelevant keyword
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Use of too many keywords in
your topic
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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 –
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FID
ü
CLS
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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 –
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Learn with google
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Google Search Central
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Follow Google Search liaison( Get Offical Information about Search
Engine Update ).
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@danny Sullivan
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@johnmu
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Read Google webmaster guidelines
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Try
to understand each word meaning
in Search engine.