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Monthly Archives: March 2017

Local Search

Outside of the 3-Pack, How Does Google Find Local Results?

March 16, 2017 Michael Cottam
Here's an interesting case of Google's local organic algorithm failing to produce the right results, and it tells us a bunch about how they're trying to produce those local results in the organic results outside of the 3-pack. I'm sitting here near Sunriver, Oregon, and I search for "restaurants near me". The 3-pack looks pretty … Continue Reading ››
Technical SEO

Google Algorithmic Penalties DO Still Exist

March 10, 2017 Michael Cottam
Despite Google's claims that as of Penguin 4.0 last fall, they just ignore the bad links, here's concrete evidence to the contrary. This is the traffic from one of my clients' sites. On March 2nd, I submitted a pretty major disavow file to undo some really bad ancient history. And no, they did … Continue Reading ››

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