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There was an excellent phrase I wanted to pull out from another part of Martin Splitt’s interview on passage indexing. Martin said at the 38:30ish mark that passage indexing is really a lifeline for pages that have good content on them but it is buried or diluted on a big page. SEOs and folks who […]

 GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Join host Ben as he concludes his Q3 2020 conversation with Searchmetrics’ Senior SEO Manager Kathy Brown and VP of Services Tyson Stockton about the SEO industry trends that emerged this quarter. One of the biggest developments throughout the year, and especially in Q3, is the evolution of Google’s

Microsoft is launching, again, a community forum for its search ad side of the business. It is called the Microsoft Advertising Community and can be found over here or within the larger Microsoft Community portal. Here is a screen shot, you need to click on the Microsoft Community link by expanding to show more communities:

 GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Join host Ben as he speaks with Textbroker CEO Phillip Thune about the content strategy for a site he’s building. Together they discuss the strategies Ben should apply from a content perspective for his MarTech podcast website. In a previous episode Searchmetrics’ SEO Strategist and Advisor Jordan Koene debated

I am seeing a number of complaints around Google My Business review replies, the replies owners leave on reviews, not all showing up. I am not sure if the issue is resolved, but based on my tests over the past 12-hours or so, it seems when I leave replies for reviews I see them, plus

 GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Join host Ben as he continues his conversation with Textbroker CEO Phillip Thune reviewing Ben’s content strategy for his website. Together they discuss how to scope the content creation process and what costs to expect as you create more content.   Throughout the discussion Ben uses his MarTech directory page

If you bring up Google Translate in Google Search, you will see the ability to translate your text from one language into Turkey language. And when you try to do the translation, Google will translate the word into “gobble” and you can even click to play and hear the sound. Here is a video I

GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Join host Ben as he kicks off Black Friday Predictions Week with Searchmetrics’ VP of Services Tyson Stockton as they make predictions for Black Friday. Together they review the prediction that instead of Black Friday occurring on its namesake, it’ll be a month-long event. A majority of the top 10

It seems like for many, the manual actions within Google Search Console are disappearing. This is no magic trick, instead it seems to be some sort of bug. Google has not yet confirmed it but I am seeing numerous reports of complaints around this from SEOs over the past 24-hours or so. If you go

Core Web Vitals, the new user experience metrics from Google, are made up of three metrics that webmasters and SEOs will have to keep in mind in the future: loading, interactivity, and visual stability. Because Core Web Vitals are based on the user experience, they are measured with field data which is different to previously