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What we know so far On December 3rd, Google rolled out their third Core Update for the year. It’s early days so the full extent of the impact remains to be seen. First Insights: The rollout is not complete – the true impact will be seen over the next 1 to 2 weeks. We can […]

 GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview:  Join host Ben as he kicks off SEO Planning Week with Searchmetrics’ Strategist and Advisor Jordan Koene as they discuss the first planning step – Company goal alignment. Together they discuss the best processes to follow that will ensure companies enter 2021 on the right foot. Aligning with company

It looks like Apple is creating physical trophies, similar to the YouTube Creator Awards buttons, for those who won the Apple App Store app of the year awards. Here is Andres Canella of the Wakeout app sharing a video of his award on Twitter: @Apple I am forever grateful for this award. We’ve met nothing

As you know, Google released the December 2020 broad core update at 1pm ET on December 3, 2020. This was after Black Friday (November 27) and Cyber Monday (November 30) but before the actual holiday season – Chanukah is Thursday night (December 10th) and Christmas is later this month. Was this the right time to

It looks like Google has now re-enabled the ability for businesses to request phone support from the Google My Business team. This feature went away during when COVID hit but now it seems to be back, as Ben Fisher noted on Twitter the other day. If you go to the Get Help section in Google

It looks like Google is testing a new label in the local business reviews for recently added reviews on businesses. The label says “new” and it is an outlined box. Here is a screen shot that Darcy Burk shared with me on Twitter (click to enlarge): I kind of like the label, it makes it

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google is able to read unsupported structured data, structured data that is in the schema.org docs but is not listed by Google as something they support on the Google developers site. But I would not expect you to see rich results from any of those unsupported structured data

Alan Rabinowitz got started doing SEO in the early days of Google and he is the CEO of a company named SEO Image. He got started when he was trying to figure out how he can get his art web site to rank well in the search engines. He actually read a lot of the

There has been some speculation or questions if Google, along with the December 2020 core update, released the passage indexing feature. Google did say passage indexing would be live by the end of the year, so is it live? I asked John Mueller of Google that question on Friday’s office hours hangout at the 6:32

Microsoft Bing Search added to its video search user interface the ability to drag and drop videos into a box to create your own playlists. If you search for videos in Bing Search and click on the videos tab, on the bottom left corner a playlist button will show you how to add videos to