GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Benjamin Shapiro meets with Jordan Koene, SEO Strategist and Advisor to Searchmetrics to see who’s making waves in the SEO world. They review the winners and losers, movers and shakers and assess how the busy month of Google Updates has had an impact! What to find out more about
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Original Content and Text Processing Searchers search for relevant documents using a search engine. Those are in a body of documents. The search engine returns a list of documents to respond to a search query. The order of the search results depends on the relevance, or rank, of each document. How does the search engine
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John Shehata shared some data from his Newzdash product showing that the top stories carousel in Google Search broke displaying over 12% of non-AMP URLs for the first time. We expect that figure to grow with the AMP requirement for top stories going away earlier this month. Here is what John shared on Twitter “non-AMP
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Google’s John Mueller said as far as he knows the page experience update does not have any exception list or whitelist. Meaning, there is not a list of sites where Google says do not apply the page experience update to. John wrote on Twitter “as far as I know, there’s no list of exceptions,” when
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I read one of those deep thought lines online from Johan Hulsen on Twitter who asked Gary Illyes of Google a question on crawling. In short, Johan asked if the crawl budget looks to the scheduler, which kind of depends on Googlebot, but Googlebot does not render pages, how does it find links within JavaScript
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Google’s John Mueller said that spammy links to your site would not be the cause of soft 404 errors being displayed in Google Search Console. Honestly, I’ve never heard of this theory before, so it is new, and I figured I would share it. But I do not fully understand why someone would think spammy
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“Fast-paced” is a phrase often used to describe marketing agencies, and for good reason. Working at an agency requires one to juggle many different tasks, projects, and clients simultaneously. That said, time management and organizational skills are paramount to one’s success in this type of work setting. Whether you specialize in SEO, social media, content,
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Google is testing showing two rows of the popular products section on desktop. Brodie Clark shared a video of it on Twitter and it is really really big – it takes up a lot of the search results page. Brodie Clark wrote “Whoa, check out this Google Search test I stumbled across. The Popular Products
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Google announced that on July 1, 2021 it began to roll out the July 2021 core update. We knew we would soon see another core update, and Google delivered this one a month after the June 2021 core update – which launched on June 2, 2021. This one seems to have started out pretty strong
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Google kicked off the July 2021 core update yesterday, right after the spam update. Google ran part two of the spam update on June 28th, the first part ran in June 23rd. While those spam updates ran on only those days, we did see that two days after the spam update there was ranking fluctuations