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(This is a personal post so if that isn’t your thing then you should move on.)

2017 was a lot like 2016, but on steroids. That meant a 40% increase in the business, which unfortunately came with a lot more stress and angst. I did figure some things out and managed to make some decisions that I plan to put into practice in 2018. Nothing Succeeds Like Success 



Last year I was finally comfortable calling Blind Five Year Old a success. I’d made it. But that came with a lot of strange...

Google announced yesterday a new ranking algorithm designed specifically to downgrade the search rankings of really slow mobile pages. Google said "starting in July 2018, page speed will be a ranking factor for mobile searches...

I am starting to see some early chatter within the webmaster and SEO community around a Google search algorithm update. It is pretty early but the ongoing WebmasterWorld thread has some chatter as of yesterday afternoon through today...

We have been reporting on the ongoing issues of AdSense publishers complaining about drops in earnings and ad display issues, resulting in drops in earnings.

Well, finally...

The new Google Search Console is rolling out over the next few weeks to all webmasters and you will be able to access the new Google Search Console and the old one via links in the navigation...

It seems that while it may have kind of quieted down a bit over the first few days of the new year - starting around January 5th and 6th throughout the past couple days...

If you check out the Google News Help forums you will see many many complaints from news publishers that their news site is no longer in the Google News index...

December, normally a pretty slow month in the Google organic SEO world, at least in 2017 was super busy, again...