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Just like Saved By The Bell was great for four seasons in 1989, it didn’t mean it would come back and be a success in 2020. Same with your website that ranked well in the early 2000s or even ranks …

Danny Sullivan of Google confirmed that Google has not released a new broad core update since the company last confirmed one in December of last year, December 2020. Danny said on Twitter “we haven’t had a broad core update. We …

While we had our typical weekend Google Search ranking update, we also saw a ton of chatter on Thursday morning and that is unusual. So there may have been two updates to Google Search this past week, one between May …

Nicolas Bouchand posted on Twitter that he is working on his thesis and selected SEO as the subject. He asked on Twitter “What do you think are the trends that will shake up the sector and that will absolutely have …

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

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If you missed it, last week, Rachel Maddow from MSNBC complained on Twitter that the Google Ads were not labeled and jumping in and out. Danny Sullivan from Google responded that Google always labels its ads and it doesn’t sound …

Google seems like it will be migrating more data from the Google My Business Insights report to the Google My Business Performance report. Specifically, Google will be adding driving direction requests and website visits to the newish performance report.

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I am seeing early signs and signals of a possible Google Search ranking algorithm update going on right now. It seems to have kicked off this morning and is now spiking in terms of chatter in the SEO forums and …

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A Reddit thread asks if guest posting is safe and asks how you can ensure the site posting your guest blog post uses a dofollow. John Mueller from Google spotted the thread and responded with a joke that read “just …

Google’s John Mueller was asked if moving the navigation in your HTML code from the top of the source code to the bottom, while using positioning techniques to render the navigation at the top (not the bottom) – if that …

Do a search in Google for [dvd screensaver] and just wait a bit. The Google logo will start to move around and change colors, like an old fashion screensaver for a TV, monitor, DVD and so on. Here is a …

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

SEO Sessions At Google I/O
Google I/O kicks off …

The different types of artist names

An artist name seems pretty straightforward, right?

We all know Lizzo, Simon & Garfunkel, and Jay-Z & Kanye West. But did you know each of those artists fall under a different name designation on …

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Google’s local pack is typically three local listings, but here is an example of a local pack showing ten listings. This is probably a bug and was triggered by Ramesh Singh who shared this videocast of it on Twitter.

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