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Danny Sullivan of Google confirmed that Google has not released a new broad core update since the company last confirmed one in December of last year, the December 2020 core update. Danny said on Twitter “we haven’t had a broad core update. We do announce those,” when asked about if there was some sort of […]

 GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Join host Ben as he kicks off a two-part episode with Searchmetrics’ Senior SEO Strategist Karl Kleinschmidt. Together they chat about optimizing your Core Web Vitals.  Karl talks about his journey around Core Web Vitals. One of his priorities is answering questions like “how do I determine what is

Here is a photo, I suspect an old one, from the Google Zurich office, of a spread of cheese. I suspect some Googlers that we all know miss the assortment of cheese options at the Google office in Zurich. This was recently shared on Instagram with the message “Thinking of Switzerland.” This post is part

A Reddit thread asks if guest posting is safe and asks how you can ensure the site posting your guest blog post uses a dofollow. John Mueller from Google spotted the thread and responded with a joke that read “just make sure not to let Google know.” I suspect the joke was intentional – i.e.

Google seems like it will be migrating more data from the Google My Business Insights report to the Google My Business Performance report. Specifically, Google will be adding driving direction requests and website visits to the newish performance report. I should note, these data points are already on the Insights report, but Google will be

Google’s John Mueller was asked if moving the navigation in your HTML code from the top of the source code to the bottom, while using positioning techniques to render the navigation at the top (not the bottom) – if that would cause any issues. John Mueller said on Twitter “that shouldn’t be a problem.” Here

If you missed it, last week, Rachel Maddow from MSNBC complained on Twitter that the Google Ads were not labeled and jumping in and out. Danny Sullivan from Google responded that Google always labels its ads and it doesn’t sound like those ads are from Google. To me, it sounded like Rachel Maddow’s computer had

I am seeing early signs and signals of a possible Google Search ranking algorithm update going on right now. It seems to have kicked off this morning and is now spiking in terms of chatter in the SEO forums and also some of the tools have picked up on it (not all are updated yet).

 GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Join host Ben as he continues his chats with Eric Enge, Principal at Perficient Digital. Together they discuss how SEO agencies should communicate with their clients to ensure success.  Eric dives into his strategies around agency management so that he can effectively communicate with his clients. One of the