I am so sad to report that Greg Sterling is leaving Search Engine Land. I’ve been writing with Greg at Search Engine Land and before that, Search Engine Watch, for over 14 years. He is one of the smartest, honest, caring and funny people I know. And I will greatly miss reading his stories and

Join host Ben as he continues his SEO Planning Week discussion with Searchmetrics’ Strategist and Advisor Jordan Koene to talk about how to create SEO SMART goals. Together they discuss how to set specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound goals. The complexity of SEO goals require detailed steps to ensure they’re executed successfully – SMART

Here is an old photo but recently added to Instagram by Jeffrey Carlyle of Google who posted that it took him “over a year to notice the hat from “Windy Day” hidden away in the rafters.” He posted a photo of it but I’ll be honest, I have no idea what “Windy Day” is, I

Generally when Chanukah/Hanukkah falls out in early December, like it does this year, Google launches the Chanukah decorations before the other holiday decorations for Christmas or Kwanzaa. This year, Chanukah starts this Thursday night, December 10 so the decorations were added last night, Tuesday, December 8th. You can see it yourself by searching on Google

It looks like Google is testing a new design for the Google Guaranteed badge or icon. The previous design was a green circle with a white check mark inside of it. The new design is more in Google colors, it is a shield with a checkmark in it, using Google colored lines. Tom Waddington posted

This is a cute mobile search feature, where Google is showing you a carousel of GIFs that you can click on to share with your friends. It is query dependent, and will match relevant GIFs to your query. Here is what it looks like: Saad AK spotted this and posted about it on Twitter and

Google seems to be testing or rolling out a new feature in the people also ask section named “learn more about.” It shows a box that basically teaches you more about the topic you searched for. Valentin Pletzer spotted this and posted on Twitter saying “Google tests a new kind of carousel at the end

Google’s Danny Sullivan said that Google does and did provide “transparency and guidance” around its core updates. He said on Twitter “my response is that we’re giving a lot of things to consider. That page doesn’t guarantee doing all these things somehow equates to improve ranking.” This is in response to a Russ Jones post

Chris Dicker, the Managing Director at Trusted Reviews, has been asking for advice on “traffic loss after traffic loss” for the site Trustedreviews.com. Google’s John Mueller dropped some hints after “briefly” looking at the site and thread. You probably want to first review the Google Webmaster Help thread where Chris asks “does Google think we

GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Join host Ben for a special edition of Winners and Losers, Black Friday 2020 with Searchmetrics’ Director of Services Tyson Stockton. Together they review this year’s Black Friday findings, the impact on the U.S. economy and how companies fared this year. In-store spending was expectedly down this year 51.2% compared