On 1st July 2021 we learned of the passing of Dan Bell, following a serious accident some weeks prior. Many of us in the SEO and wider digital marketing industry were lucky to know Dan and to count him as …

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. Google’s July 2021 core update is now done rolling out according to Google …

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Google announced a bit after 1pm ET on July 12th that the July 2021 core update is “effectively complete.” That means, in Google lingo, that it is done rolling out 12-days after it first started rolling out on July 1, …

A few years ago we reported that Google may treat a 308 redirects as a 301 redirect. Then shortly later we said you can’t rely on that because it was not documented. Three years later it was added to the …

Google’s John Mueller said that “you’ll start to see positive effects once you get out of the “poor” area in core web vitals.” This means that you may see a positive impact around the Google page experience update once your …

Google’s John Mueller said that Google Search tries “to find the primary language per page.” So when you mix languages, that might cause issues with Google doing that. He added on Twitter “but what you put on different pages is …

I found a question and answer dialog between an SEO and John Mueller of Google on last Friday’s hangout interesting. The answer to the question for most of you is obvious, exchanging a link for a link is against Google’s …

I found it interesting that the local tracking tool, BrightLocal’s Local RankFlux, showed big ranking fluctuations in the local results at around the same time we saw the ranking spikes for the July core update. …