seo history timeline
For many, M edic will pass unnoticed. But it’s the latest stage in a long string of changes , enhancements and outright replacements to the core algorithm that got Google started in the late 90s. However unimportant individual changes may seem, all are geared towards enhancing the user experience; ensuring search results are high quality, well-written and well-researched.
Panda actually had over 20 different versions, because the problem it looked to solve was more complex than one algorithm change could fix. At some point between the first and twentieth update, Panda began to turn the tide against these content farms, and today they’re a dated concept.
The next step in Google’s next generation of search came in September 2013 in the form of Hummingbird, a new algorithm designed to better address natural language queries and conversational search. With the rise of mobile (and voice search), Google needed to completely rebuild how its algorithm worked to meet the needs of modern searchers.
In the last decade of the 1900s, the search engine landscape was highly competitive. You had your choice of search engines – both human-powered directories and crawler-based listings – including the likes of AltaVista, Ask Jeeves, Excite, Infoseek, Lycos, and Yahoo.
We wanted to provide our readers with an infographic of a condensed timeline of our company history. The infographic shows some of the significant milestones we have made in our 22+ years as leaders and innovators in the Internet Marketing business verticle.
SEO Company » SEO Inc’s TimeLine and History.
Users: Better quality search results.
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The nineties saw the creation of search engines that would assess websites in many different ways. It became clear then, that in order for websites to rank at the top of search results, they would need to begin implementing ‘keyword stuffing’ – meaning writing content with a lot of reference to keywords. In these content pieces backlinks would be included, where the quality of these links did not really matter, just as long as they were included in the articles!
On August 6th, 1991 the first website was launched live. This website can still be viewed via http://info.cern.ch/. Of course, there is a very big difference with the websites that are common right now. Nevertheless, from that moment on, the flood gates opened and it was a race to the top of the search engine results for websites.
Resources:
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/seo-101/seo-history/
http://www.seoinc.com/seo-blog/seo-inc-timeline-and-history/
http://expresswriters.com/infographic-a-timeline-history-of-seo-and-web-copywriting/
http://www.lameco.co.za/blog/the-timeline-of-seo-in-google
http://www.bigdogsolar.com/solar-school/solar-energy-history/