DuckDuckGo ads are everywhere these days, on the radio (targeting JohnMu), TV, billboards and even as you walk through the airports. Here is a photo shared on Twitter of a DuckDuckGo ad in an airport shared by the CEO of DuckDuckGo Gabriel Weinberg. Meanwhile, DuckDuckGo is growing both in terms of users and financial backing.

Google has released several updates to both the robots.txt documentation and the structured data documentation last Friday. Here is a list of those changes from Google’s site. Simplified the introduction page to make it clearer what is robots.txt and what is its intended use. Expanded the instructions about creating and updating robots.txt files. Removed redundant sections from our documentation

Google is using a new justifications label for the Google Maps local pack named “seen by shoppers.” Justifications are the labels you in the local pack sometimes based on Google thinking you may want to know that extra bit of information about that local business. Here is a screenshot of this from Brodie Clark on

John Mueller from Google said on Twitter that Google does not have the concept of page authority. “We don’t have a notion of page authority,” John Mueller said. How does this differ from maybe site quality, well, that is a good question. First, here is the context behind why John responded the way he did:

There has been what I would call light fluctuations in the Google search results over the past several days, some a bit over the weekend as well. There is more than the average chatter and fluctuations that you would typically see but not at really big Google update levels. I figured I’d just write about

John Shehata is the Global Vice President of Audience Development Strategy & CRM at Condé Nast. John also founded NewzDash.com, an SEO software toolset for news publishers. But more importantly, John is a 20+ year SEO vet that has a deep passion about news SEO. We spoke for a pretty long time but the conversation

Google is testing letting searchers in specific countries filter Google News to only show news from their country. You can see the filter, if you are in this test, by going to Google News, doing a search, selecting “tools” and then you may see “the web” filter that let’s you select a country filter. I

Google MUM Update: How new Google AI technology will change the face of SEO Google has unveiled MUM, its latest technology that will enable the search engine to better understand content and search intent. Google itself says that MUM is a thousand times more powerful than its predecessor BERT, and will help Google better understand

It has bothered me for the past several years now that it seems both Google and the mainstream media treat Google’s main revenue driver, main product and service in such an underrepresented manner. I see media and Google talk about almost everything Google, outside of core search topics. So when John Mueller of Google brought