Gary Illyes from Google said on Reddit that for a page to be indexed by Google “the content still has to pass quality checks.” If that content does not pass the quality checks, Google may not index it even if …

Google’s John Mueller reiterated on Twitter that consistency is the number one piece of SEO advice. He said last night that “SEO lives and dies with consistency.”

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On the coattails of the Google product reviews update, the Google product search results features seem to be getting larger. Saad AK and Glenn Gabe, amongst others, have shared numerous screen shots of the new product boxes in Google Search.…

Saad also spotted back in March Google testing showing that bell icon feature directly in the image search carousel box. The bell icon lets you tell Google you are interested in being pushed information about that topic via Google Discover …

Can you be more specific says Google Search with this new “more specific searches” box in the search results. Mordy Oberstein was being super vague with Google and Google shot back at him to be more specific and even gave …

Frank Sandtmann, an SEO consultant, sent me a screen capture of Microsoft Bing testing showing query refinements and search suggestions in a sticky footer user interface. As you scroll down the search results Bing shows you these “results related to” …

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Starting around Friday, April 23rd or so, there seems to have been an unconfirmed Google Search ranking algorithm both on the web search results side and the local search results side. There is chatter in the SEO forums, coupled with …

Apple has finally announced its new music streaming service, Apple Music

CD Baby has covered the news about Apple Music’s launch from a few angles already, including:

* a basic description of Apple Music’s streaming service,

* some thoughts …

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…

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How do I earn royalties from my sound recordings?

Making money from your sound recording involves the exploitation of that sound recording’s copyright. But what is your copyright? 

As we covered in our Copyright 101 article, copyright signifies the …

Do you know all the ways your music can generate income?

Royalties. Earnings. Income. Revenue. Scratch. Bones. Loot. Notes. Moolah. Dough.

There are a lot of words for money.

And there are also a lot of ways for musicians …

In part one, Shimon Sandler and I spoke outside of my house in the cold weather about growing your search marketing agency. We continued that talk outside about how he went out and jumped from being in-house to starting his …

Google confirmed with me yesterday that while the Q&A On Google feature is really going away, the Google Question Hub is not going to be impacted by this. The Question Hub is a separate but similar feature of that of …

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Google’s John Mueller said when it comes to breadcrumbs, the links you see on pages that tell you where you clicked from, the placement and location of those breadcrumbs don’t really matter for SEO. John said “no, the placement doesn’t …

Google’s John Mueller described how Google is able to recognize an author and all of that author’s content and mentions across the web, without supporting authorship markup anymore. In short, John said Google can do this when all of the …