Comments on: Eating Panda for Breakfast – 5 Ways to Stay Ahead of Google’s Algorithm

By: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:56:40 +0000

[...] Google Panda is the nickname given to the most recent Google algorithm update that drop kicked thousands of websites off their perch atop the search rankings and erased as much as 80% of their traffic overnight. Even very well established websites like Ezinearticles.com and tons of other previously high traffic websites were affected. [...]

By: Gary Magnone

Gary Magnone — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:06:52 +0000

Thanks Alan! I’m a big fan of your distinction between SEO types as Sustainable & Myopic (as opposed to the hat-color distinction), and I think it’s that forward-thinking that is going to make all of us SEO’s better at what we do, and ultimately improve the entire search engine marketing ecosystem.

By: Alan Bleiweiss

Alan Bleiweiss — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:58:19 +0000

Gary,
I thinks this a good, broad-view article to help site owners, webmasters and teams head in the right direction.

One thing I’ll point out however, is that you say

“While Schema.org microdata is not currently a search engine ranking factor, I’d be willing to bet it’ll factor in soon.”

In fact, after predicting that same thing before SMX Advanced, in my SEJ article that Tuesday, and in my SMX Advanced slide deck (the last screen), I spoke with Stephan Weitz, Microsoft’s head of search and he said “yes, it will be a factor”.

So good work on including Schema.org in your list of five.