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GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Join host Ben as he continues Search Insights Week with Searchmetrics’ VP of Services Tyson Stockton and VP of Sales (Americas) Alan Turner. Together they discuss how to properly improve your decision-making using search data. Once you’ve begun acquiring data, it’s vital that it’s representative, which requires scaling and obtaining […]

Before we dive deep into the intricacies of keyword research and how to find the best keywords for your business, let’s make sure we understand the basics. What are keywords? Keywords are the words and phrases that people type into search engines. They’re also known as search queries or “SEO keywords.” What is keyword research? Keyword

Here is a photo of Google on sticks. Well, the Google logo and its letters mounted on sticks I think at the construction site of the new Google building. This photo is over a years old but hey, it is hard to find recent photos of Google things at Google offices. I found this photo

Google has announced the launch of the new crawl stats report and to be honest, it is a huge upgrade from the previous report. This report now gives you data you can use to debug crawl issues and check the health of your site with crawl related issues in Google Search. The old version just

Looks like Google is adding a message button on the Google Posts for local business profiles. Previously we saw a message button on the “updates” section, but now we are seeing then on the larger Google Posts section. Claire Carlile posted about this in two different posts on Twitter, here is one of those sets

The other day I reported how Google was showing featured snippets with overlays but some of those featured snippets were autogenerated web stories generated by Google’s own AI techniques. Well, after I covered it last night again at Search Engine Land and spoke to Google about it, it seems Google has deleted and 404ed those

Lluc Berrio Penycate posted on Twitter some screen shots of Google testing in Google Maps overlaying hotel attributes over the map pins for hotel listings. These can show average review ratings of hotels, category, pricing, and other attributes. Here is one screen shot: Here is another he shared: Lluc said “So, at the moment hotels

Starting around Monday, November 23rd, there has been some signals that Google was pushing out another Google search algorithm ranking update. But the chatter is almost non-existent while some of the tools show big changes. Here is what I see, but again, this seems like a very narrow update at best. Just to be clear,

Google’s John Mueller said that having a private whois domain name registration status does not change how Google trusts the site. It really does not impact the site’s rankings in Google Search. He was asked on Twitter “from SEO pov, Does keeping WHOIS information public help in website Trust and Authority?” John responded “it doesn’t

GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Join host Ben as he continues Search Insights Week with Searchmetrics’ VP of Services Tyson Stockton and VP of Sales (Americas) Alan Turner. Together they discuss the difficulties with traditional research in search and how to present it to executive teams. A leading challenge facing SEOs is how to take