11 years, who would have known when I started this little diary on the search industry on December 2, 2003 that it would still be going strong 11 years later. 11 years is over 4,000 days and of those days, I've pretty much posted on average five stories per weekday, for all those years.
Normally I do these massive posts on the anniversary, I did one for the 10th anniversary but honestly, the past few weeks have been insane in my personal life. I just do not have time for it this year.
Quick stats on the site, there are a total of about 19,500 stories on this site, of which, I wrote about 16,700 of them. In the past year, we published over 1,700 stories, which had 25,000 comments this year. I've also posted about 420 videos all time, with 50 in the past year.
So I figured I'd do top eleven stuff below, since it is the 11th anniversary:
Top 11 Most Important SEO/Webmaster Stories (plus two):
- Confirmed: Google Penguin 3.0 Released Late Friday Night
- Google Panda 4.0 Now Rolling Out; A New Panda Algorithm
- Google Panda 4.1 Now Rolling Out; Aims To Help Smaller Web Sites
- Google's Page Layout Algorithm Updated For Third Time
- Google Launches New Local Search Algorithm: SEOs Notice Significant Ranking Changes
- Google Kills Off Their Authorship Support
- Google Spam Algorithm Version 3.0 Launches Today
- Going HTTPS/SSL Will Now Give You A Ranking Benefit In Google
- Google: We're Experimenting With Mobile-Friendly Ranking Factors
- Google Manual Actions Over Links, Link Networks, Blog Networks, etc. (too many to link to)
- Google's DMCA Piracy Algorithm Went Live Last Week
- +1 Microsoft's New CEO Is A Search Guy, Satya Nadella
- +2 Matt Cutts, Google's Lead Spam Fighter, Takes Extended Time Off
Top 11 Stories By Pageviews Over Past Year:
- Google Captures Murder: Body Being Dragged Into Lake?
- Google Analytics: Visits Now Sessions & Unique Visitors Now Users
- Get Google Maps Lite, 3D Or Classic With These URLs
- Google Sochi Olympics Logo For Olympic Charter & Gay Rights
- Google Drops Discussions Search Filter & Others
- Confirmed: Google Penguin 3.0 Released Late Friday Night
- Google Maps Traffic By Day/Time For Roads
- Google.com Replaces Mayan Logo To Respect Sandy Hook Victims
- Google Panda 4.0 Now Rolling Out; A New Panda Algorithm
- Did Google Do An Algorithm Update Yesterday?
Just to end with one piece of advice, if you did everything right today in SEO and had to focus on one thing for 2015, I'd say, focus on mobile.
Anyway, I deeply appreciate all the readers here. You really have no idea. Thank you!
