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Over the past couple of weeks or so, I have been hearing complaints from the SEO and publishing worlds that since some of the more recent core updates, Google has been ranking big publisher brands well above smaller, more specialized publishers that may know the topic better. In fact, the big ongoing WebmasterWorld thread has […]

Ever since Friday morning, August 6th, I’ve been seeing signals of a possible Google Search ranking algorithm update. This looks like a typical unconfirmed Google search update with both chatter from the SEO community and the automated tracking tools picking up the fluctuations. The last update we wrote about the July 29th update that seemed

Brett Bodofsky is the senior paid media specialist at Elumynt, he explained how he got into doing paid search. He actually went from being a web developer to a paid search specialist. He was very self taught when it comes to PPC but learned a lot from the Google Ads help documents, and the various

Google’s John Mueller confirmed that Google Search Console doe snot filter out all bot traffic. John said on Twitter in response to someone suspecting seeing bot traffic in the Performance report, “sometimes it can be from bots – we don’t necessarily filter all of that out in Search Console.” Michael Jarrett noticed the spike in

Here is Peter the Greeter at the Google offices in Mountain View, California, sharing a photo of his ices, sometimes referred to as icies. Not sure how he will eat it with the mask, but they do look very refreshing. He shared this on Instagram and wrote “”I hate my job” said no Peter The

This is an SEO/SEM blog, we get some of our traffic from people doing SEO/SEM related queries in Google Search. But some SEOs are claiming that Google is sending more of those searchers to google.com sites, like the Google blogs, than SEO or SEM blogs. Cyrus Shepard shared this chart on Twitter the other day:

Microsoft announced their next AI model, a large-scale sparse model that complements our production Transformer models, they are calling MEB or “Make Every Feature Binary.” Microsoft said this makes the search results on Bing more relevant. In fact, MEB is running in production for 100 percent of Bing searches, in all regions and languages. How,

Google’s local pack user interface and design tests have been a bit whacky over the past several days. Google is now showing a super sparse looking local pack for bus rental types of queries. Google is just showing the directions button, there is no review stars, and no website icons, no ABC label – just

Google has posted an exam to test your SEO knowledge on crawling. Google said this is to test your knowledge on how Google crawls and indexes websites. This is a true and false test, with explanations on why the answer is right or wrong. Beforehand, this was just a list of myths, with the response.

I start off this week with the big Google webmaster report for August, it is a good one. Google has decided not to use safe browsing as a ranking signal in the Google page experience update. Google is now saying that the page experience update is not just a tie breaker ranking factor. Google said