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You all know I hate writing about legal topics in search but I need to at least document these big ones here. And there is a lot going on. A lot of it is around alleged anti-competitive practices, with Facebook, hurting the advertisers on their platforms. 10 States Accuse Google of Abusing Monopoly in Online

There seems to be significant SEO community chatter along with most of the tracking tools showing big volatility in the Google search results in the past 24-hours. This comes just a day or so after Google confirmed the December 2020 core update is done rolling out and on the 8th day of Chanukah. I figure

This week was again another busy week in search. Google has confirmed that the December 2020 core update is officially done rolling out and guess what, it looks like our site has recovered with this update. The day after the core update was done rolling out, it seems Google pushed out another Google algorithm update

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google Search does not prioritize crawling, indexing, or ranking by platform used. So if you use WordPress, Wix, Movable Type or something completely custom – Google won’t really directly care. Here are those tweets: We don’t prioritize crawling, indexing, or ranking by platform used. It’s not uncommon to

 GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Join host Ben as he continues 2020 Year in Review week with Searchmetrics’ Director of Services Tyson Stockton and SEO Strategist Jordan Koene to discuss the increase in zero-click activity throughout 2020. Together they discuss whether Google made ground toward an integrated search experience and position zero. Google’s efforts

We asked the 13,400 members of Ahrefs Insider, our customer-only Facebook group, to vote for their favorite marketing podcasts.  We also got suggestions from other Facebook marketing groups, Twitter, and LinkedIn. In total, we received close to 90 suggestions and hundreds of votes—with most going to just six podcasts. Authority Hacker Everyone Hates Marketers Marketing

Here is a photo from a few years ago from the main Google offices, the GooglePlex. You can see a dog resting in a strawberry dog bed under a desk at the Google office. This was shared on Instagram by Jessica Dene Earley-Cha back in 2018. This post is part of our daily Search Photo

Google launched a free and easy to use video maker tool within Google My Business. The videos come out okay but it wouldn’t be something I share on my home page of my web site. But that being said, it is something maybe some small businesses would showcase. You can access this tool at marketingkit.withgoogle.com/videomaker.

Bill Slawski recently had a medical issue, specifically a Brain stroke, where he needs to relearn how to walk and conduct certain motor functions. To many of us in the SEO industry, Bill has been our teacher, our professor, our mentor, that not only educates us on both core and complex SEO principles but also

Google has finished rolling out the Google December 2020 Core Update on December 16th. It began rolling at around 1pm ET on December 3rd and took 13 days to fully roll out, which is just about the two-week timeframe Google has given us for the core update rollouts. Here is Google’s announcement that it is