Google Kills Off Authorship

By Steve Erlich | August 29, 2014

It’s official. Google has removed all authorship data from search results and Webmaster Tools. Google reports that as a whole, not enough people took advantage of the authorship markup to make it a valuable ranking factor and they saw little difference in click-through rates for sites with authorship markups versus those without. A major goal of…

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Matt Cutts Confirms Google Panda 4.0 Release

By Steve Erlich | May 22, 2014

Its official! Panda 4.0 has struck and it should come to no one’s surprise. We have seen rankings bounce around and then return to normal quite a bit this month and knew Google was testing something. However, after releasing both Penguin 1.0 and 2.0 in May of previous years, Google decided to keep search engine…

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