Before 2010, May Day simply referred to May 1st, a celebration of the beginning of Spring, or International Workers’ Day (Labour Day), as practiced in many countries, most notably in Russia… The alternate spelling Mayday was a signal used by ships’ captains and airplane pilots to announce “Come and Help me!”, as derived from the French word, “m’aidez”…
Google’s Mayday Update
Beginning in May 2010, Mayday became the code word for a major ranking change in Google and new attacks of “Google paranoia” by webmasters everywhere…
As webmasters, we should leave the paranoia to those who truly have a reason to be paranoid, like my ex-wife and her family. 
Google has always advised that we, as webmasters, should focus on giving searchers what they are trying to give Google’s search users: the most relevant, useful results possible for searchers.
As for myself, many of the new ranking factors included in the Mayday Update are things that I have expected the engineers at Google to include for a long time…
Call me strange if you will — my ex-wife and her family do — but I have always tried to plan my website optimization based on what I thought Google should have been doing already…
So, when Mayday finally came, I was ready…
Unlike many of my peers, I was not crying in my beer in the aftermath of Google’s Mayday Update…
About The Mayday Algorithm Update
An article on Search Engine Guide (http://bit.ly/8ZQ9yL), about Google’s May Day Update, suggested that Matt Cutts, of Google
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