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On Friday news broke that Moz has been acquired by iContact, subsidiary of J2 Global. The financial details of this acquisition were not disclosed and the news about this came to a shock to many, although, we all know the goal in the past several years was to likely sell the company. Although, the goal […]

Google’s John Mueller posted a short #AskGooglebot video question and answer on indexing limits. In short, like we covered numerous times before, Google does not have a limit to what it can index, but Google does not have unlimited resources to index everything. So Google prioritizes what it indexes and when it indexes it. John

In 2013, Google told us that it is not enough to disavow links if you want your unnatural link manual action to be reversed. Is that still true in 2021? The answer is probably yes. John Mueller of Google was asked this on Twitter the other day and John said disavowing is generally still not

Microsoft Bing announced on Twitter that they are rolling out Bing Themes to the Bing search results pages. The company said “you can now personalize your search experience with 7 colorful themes on Microsoft Bing’s web search.” You should be able to access the themes at the top right of the Bing menu bar: Here

Here is an old one and we’ve seen Google hairdos before, but this one has multiple photos of the process of making the G logo hair cut work, including painting the hair. See the embedded Instagram photos below. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find fun

The past month or so was one of the most active months I’ve seen with Google Search in a while. We had a confirmed Google June 2021 core update, several unconfirmed algorithm updates including the big May 22nd update, Google announced MUM (it’s not live yet), and Google told us the page experience update will

The question of which anchor text does Google count when you have the same link multiple times on your page, linking to the same location, is not a new question. We have been covering it since before 2008 and even Matt Cutts made a video on it in 2009. John Mueller of Google just addressed

In 2019 Google came out with new rules and new types of link attributes, the new attributes were ugc and sponsored, to be companions with the nofollow link attributes. Google said back then it was to help Google understand links better and that we, SEOs, don’t need to worry about it too much. Well, Google’s

As more and more writers try to write using a more inclusive approach; specifically using inclusive language, does Google adapt to understand that language and rank that content as well to language that maybe is not that inclusive? Inclusive language aims to avoid offense and fulfill the ideals of egalitarianism by avoiding expressions that express

As you know, the Google June 2021 Core Update began rolling out at about 6:30pm ET on Wednesday, June 2, 2021 but the chatter within the industry was not at core update levels. Meaning, SEOs who track these changes didn’t really say this was a big update and I still think that to be the