Tags no longer appear in YouTube videos

You may have noticed a change with tags on the video page when you're watching a video.

Tags no longer appear on this page - this isn't a bug, but a change that went out this week. Having them on the watch page, in some cases, gave users an opportunity to abuse tags by copying them from other videos. We also didn't see much usage of tags by the average viewer. 

Copying our content

Hello,

We have a website with daily new content, the problem is that several website are copying our articles daily and the worse is that this website positioning our articles in firsts positions and ours are lost.

How is possible a searcher like Google that show of benefit original content can't detect which is the original source.

I've sent 80 urls to delete in Google of one of the websites four days ago but I still have no response, how long take this?

I'm desperate, anyone with our content ranks in the top positions, we are working for others.

Google SEO News

A good friend of mine got in touch to let me know he'd finally reversed the effects of a Panda update that affected his site greatly. His approach was to go through every page and improve them by making them more useful and targeted to various informational search queries. His is not a site that sells product.

While that sounds typical what isn't typical is that all of the pages which needed work the most were ranked in the 150 range of serps. After improving them and regaining traffic these are mostly now ranked between 4th and 6th in serps. It would seem there hasn't been a second Panda/Penguin update since his recovery and so top spots are currently off limits to him?

Do you think this yields credence to the possibility that the top few spots are baked in somehow? He'll find out after the next couple of updates if he can regain top spot or not but right now his stats do suggest a ceiling, not that he's complaining... he'll take it so to speak.

Google Updates and SERP Changes - August 2013

The results are fluid but not as much as we would believe.

When updates are rolled out they change the value of pages/links. The change in values makes the current rollout instantly obsolete which will impact the next rollout, and the next. While the changes are current they impact page rank which sends ripples out that won't be accounted for until a future update.

 

The trick is to not add more flux to the ripples hitting your own site by making too many dramatic changes. Reduce spam pointing at your site, create great content and acquire solid backlinks where possible... but don't turn the puzzle upside down too often with dramatic changes or you keep starting over.