All about Google’s Hummingbird Algorithm

Announced on September 26th, Google suggested that the "Hummingbird" update rolled out about a month earlier. Our best guess ties it to a MozCast spike on August 20th and many reports of flux from August 20-22. Hummingbird has been compared to Caffeine, and seems to be a core algorithm update that may power changes to semantic search and the Knowledge Graph for months to come.

All about Google’s Hummingbird Algorithm

What Should we Expect in the Next Few Months in Terms of SEO for Google?

A video from Matt Cutts, today answers some of the questions about What Should we Expect in the Next Few Months in Terms of SEO for Google?

The question Matt asked and answered was, “What should we expect in the next few months in terms of SEO for Google?”

Here are the 10 points Matt addressed in his video, followed by the video itself:

1. Penguin Updates
2. Advertorials
3. Spammy Queries
4. Going Upstream
5. Sophisticated Link Analysis
6. Improvements On Hacked Sites
7. Authority Boost
8. Panda Sympathy
9. Domain Clusters In SERPs
10. Improved Webmaster Communication

When it comes to the conclusion of this video, Matt Cutts describes the goal of all these changes is to reduce the number of website owners doing black hat spam techniques from showing up, while giving smaller businesses that are more white hat the chances to get ranking better in Google.

Here is the video for you all to watch: