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… …

If you try to login to your Google Ads account right now, you will be out of luck. I suspect this will be fixed any minute now, but for now, just know, you are not alone. …

Newsflash, Google’s Martin Splitt said that “alt text is important for SEO too.” I did ask him how important, but he would not disclose that information. Here is more of the context around this on Twitter. …

Google’s John Mueller clarified on Friday that when Google pushes out new core updates that each one can be unique and impact Google’s core rankings differently. So if your site is impacted by one, it might not be impact by …

Google’s John Mueller confirmed that Google Search Console does not filter out all bot traffic. John said on Twitter in response to someone suspecting seeing bot traffic in the Performance report, “sometimes it can be from bots – we don’t …

Over the past couple of weeks or so, I have been hearing complaints from the SEO and publishing worlds that since some of the more recent core updates, Google has been ranking big publisher brands well above smaller, more specialized …

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Ever since Friday morning, August 6th, I’ve been seeing signals of a possible Google Search ranking algorithm update. This looks like a typical unconfirmed Google search update with both chatter from the SEO community and the automated tracking tools picking …

Brett Bodofsky is the senior paid media specialist at Elumynt, he explained how he got into doing paid search. He actually went from being a web developer to a paid search specialist… …