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Abby Reimer posted a Twitter poll that asks is there a shortage of SEO talent available on the market. The poll is open for the next several hours, so please take it. It does seem like there are a lot of jobs on the market currently hiring SEOs but that is not based on any

A couple of months ago John Mueller of Google was asked a question about a site with a mega menu of about 1,000 links in it but those links would dynamically change based on user action. John responded that it might be an issue for Google to understand a menu that has that many links

A Beginner’s Guide to the Core Web Vitals Rollercoaster SEOs might not scream out loud when details of a surprise Google Update hits the news, but it ordinarily gets hearts racing as they wonder what algorithm changes have been made. The announcement of a ‘future’ Page Experience Ranking Factors update has created a different sense

Here is a photo from the Google Pittsburgh office of the sleep pods they have in that office. They have these sleep pods attached like picture frames to the walls with ladders to climb up to access them. Google has all sorts of sleep pods in their offices, here is another version to add to

So we’ve seen Google do the scroll to text fragment links for a while now, with featured snippets and some product listings in search. Soon it might also come to images and videos. Google’s Chrome Developers Twitter account announced it on Twitter saying “the team that brought you text fragments ???? links [`#:~:text=cool` → https://web.dev/text-fragments/]

Last week, Max Prin from Merkle, notified me that one of his awesome free tools on technicalseo.com was removed over a false DMCA takedown request. There are a couple of issues here (1) the DMCA takedown was false and successfully removed his free tool from Google Search and (2) he was not notified of the

Since 2013 Google had a method to follow news and updates related to social profiles and other knowledge panels by clicking “get updated or “get notified” or more recently in 2017 “follow” button. Now Google is testing showing a bell icon and testing this on medical knowledge panels. Here is what Lily Ray spotted and

Ginny Marvin has announced on Twitter she has joined Google as the new Google Ads Product Liaison. She left Search Engine Land in December after being with the company since 2013 and now is going into a similar role that Danny Sullivan took after he left Search Engine Land. Ginny said “Some work news from

The beloved SEO toolset provider announced it will be going public. The stock will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SEMR. It shared its performance numbers including revenues of $144 million, gross profit of $95 million with a net loss $7 million. In the past year they spent $54 million

Google Sites over a decade, almost 15 years, has automatically generated XML sitemap files to be used for Google Search Console. Well, that is no longer the case. Google has removed the Google Sites sitemaps details from the documentation yesterday. It previously had these four options for generating the sitemap: (1) XML (2) RSS, mRSS,