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Google’s John Mueller told one publisher that “it’s possible that there’s just no SEO solution” to your Google ranking issues. He said sometimes it is not a technical or link building issue, sometimes it has to do with your content and your product and that “the site strategy is now obsolete.” John Mueller said this […]

Here is a photo I found on Instagram recently from the Google NYC office of a Doogler, a Google dog, all dressed up on its return to the office. The person who posted this said “Return to the office never looked so good.” How funny. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of

I spotted this funny chain of tweets on Twitter between different Google reps, each tagging a different Googler to answer a question. You won’t really learn much from it, but for some reason, it made me smile. You had the @AdsLiaison tag the @SearchLiaison, who then tagged @JohnMu for the answer. In short, Ginny Marvin

Here is another interesting Microsoft Bing feature in its search results. Hover your mouse cursor over the pagination page selector on the footer of the search results and if you look at the search results above it, they all turn gray. Frank Sandtmann, a German based SEO consultant, sent this to me but I am

Google’s John Mueller shared some of his thoughts on third-party metrics that try to replicate Google’s internal PageRank metrics. PageRank is one of many signals Google uses for ranking websites in Search, the importance of PageRank in Google’s search ranking algorithms have been debated over the years with more and more saying it has less

Imagine that one day I would write a story here and it would go viral, and get an insane amount of attention. Okay, I wrote a few stories that have done that. But should you be worried about the spammy links viral stories attract? The answer is no, according to Google. John Mueller of Google

A very common question I see SEOs and publishers ask is that they see that Google Search Console shows them in position 3 for a query but when they look at the actual search results page, they are not in that position. Or similar related questions that what they see in the actual search results

Somewhere near the Google office in Haifa, Israel, someone brewed up some Google juices, Google drinks. The person who posted it on Instagram actually said they were “pride drinks” but they look more like Google juice to me. I bet he drank the Google kool-aid. We’ve covered other Google drinks here before by the way.

The past month in Google SEO and webmaster land was a bit insane; I am not sure if we had so many confirmed updates released in a 30-day period ever before. To catch you up in the last 30-days we had the June core update start on June 2nd and finish on June 12th. We

In February, Microsoft Bing started to show explore further recommendations based on what is popular in a textual and simple link user interface. Now, Bing is testing showing this in a more graphical version. Here is a screen shot of the version I see, the text link based version: Here is the version Frank Sandtmann,