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This week, we had not just one, but two different unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm updates – one on Saturday and one on Wednesday. Google said the link spam update that was suppose to be done rolling out about two weeks ago, is still rolling out. Google made a change to the title link it […]

Aleyda Solis ran a super interesting poll on Twitter asking SEOs about their SEO project success rate. She asked “what percentage of the SEO Processes/Projects/Initiative that you work at end up having the “agreed/expected outcome” & are seen as a “success” by the client/stakeholders?” As you can imagine, the results are pretty much all over

   GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Today on the Voices of Search podcast, Jordan Koene and Tyson Stockton of Searchmetrics join Ben to give advice on post-site migration steps you should be taking. What does the process of ensuring site integrity after the relaunch look like? How can you make sure your website is

Jonathan Gonzalez, a Googler who works out of the Zurich office, went back to the office for the first time in over a year and a half and took a photo of the Zurich city sign hanging near the Google organic leafy signage in that office. This was posted on Instagram and said “After a

I can sometimes be naive when it comes to some differences between the USA and the rest of the world. One example is spelling curbside and kerbside. Honestly, I think spelling it kerbside is way cooler and so does other countries like Australia. Did you know Google will customize that spelling by region? Here is

We have seen lots of SEO threats in the past, mostly around negative SEO but I have not seen one threaten to delete a whole website. Someone went to Twitter asking for advice from Google on how to deal with such a threat. The agency that controls the site right now said if they switch

Google has replaced the “feedback” link we’ve seen on knowledge panels in Google Search with a “report” link. It is a small, subtle change but I guess Google felt “report” means a lot more to someone trying to change a knowledge panel in Google Search. This was spotted by Jeetesh Vaishya first and reported to

As I mentioned yesterday in my story on the slow rollout for the Google link spam update – there seems to be a Google update going on. It started – maybe Tuesday but spiked in a big way on Wednesday, August 18th. It is not clear if this is related to that link spam update

A couple of days ago, we broke the news, that many are noticing a change where Google is using the header tag over the title tag more often these days for the Google search result snippet link. Some are suggesting that this change (which is not that huge right now) is related to passaging indexing

Google’s top stories carousel is not loading all the images for those articles. It seems like a bug is causing some of the images to not show up as of early this morning. I’ve received numerous reports of this in the morning (I thought I’d sleep in until 6:30 since I am on a family