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While I was offline, my search mentor, Danny Sullivan announced he has accepted a job offer to work at Google. I'll be 100% honest, I did not see that coming, in fact...

For about almost 14 years now, I've been reported on Google algorithm updates. We've been through different levels of communication with Google regarding...

Google's John Mueller confirmed yesterday in a hangout at the 15:38 mark that Google is indeed testing the mobile first index in the live search results. He did not explain what percentage of searchers are seeing these live test results but I have to imagine it is really small...

This past month was filled with many many Google algorithm shifts, ranking changes, tools going nuts and chatter at all times high. We saw lots of ranking changes last week which Google didn't really confirm. Then the week of September 15th or so and then a couple weeks before that...

With no surprise, Google has announced they are moving away from the first click free program, which is how Google handled paywalled content in search for a decade with what they are calling "flexible sampling."

Flexible sampling is offered in two formats...

This week I was invited to give a spotlight talk at Hubspot’s INBOUND in Boston. INBOUND is a unique event for me. It’s typically the largest in-person audience I’ll speak to in a given year (often in excess of 3,000 people in the room), and a less SEO-focused crowd than usual. Most of the time, I’m just trying to impress one person — my friend Dharmesh Shah, Hubspot’s co-founder.

I find this optimization tactic to be powerful. Choose someone whose opinion you deeply respect, someone...

Starting around Tuesday of this week, we noticed Google algorithm and ranking shifts throughout the SEO industry and search results. There were significant chatter and the algorithm watching tools all, all of them, were responding heavily to the changes...

I’m a really big Mutemath fan. If you haven’t listened to their latest album, please do yourself a favor and get on that! In the Rolling Stone interview Mutemath’s Paul Meany on Near-Breakup, New LP ‘Play Dead’ they talk about their creative process on the album:

Mutemath assembled the track list in an unconventional way. Instead of arguing endlessly over what songs to pull from their massive pile of 30 demos, the musicians each hand-picked three and assembled the basic framework...

Yea, yea, yea, more of the same. Google is updating their search results, it is in flux, search results are shuffling around. But I only try to report it when the signals all seem...

If you try to login to your Google My Business section now, you will probably see a 404...