October 2014 SEO News - Penguin and Voice Search

[DJ]

First off, the Google Penguin update started on Friday and was confirmed to be complete this morning. What is the significance? This is the update that relates to links. It is the update that caused the manual link penalty. Its the first release in over a year. There is a chance that it will impact your analytics.

http://searchengineland.com/google-rele ... ear-206169

Looking to the future, the link below was posted by Steve in our internal system over the weekend. Have you all seen movies like the Minority Report where people are talking to computers? Well much like we were talking about the importance of mobile search back in 2010, we are just a few short years away from voice search becoming dominant in our world. This video just gives you something to think about. It will dominate how search works in just a few years and it will certainly be a big part of companies SEO plans. Just something to watch when you have a few minutes and something to keep in the back of your mind. It will become incredibly important to being found in search.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxxRAHVtafI#t=422