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The Web is filled with factual information, and Search on the web has been going through changes to try to take advantage of all of the data found there. Mainstream search engines, such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo, traditionally haven’t given us...

Google Panda 4.2 was released in mid/late July 2015 and Google promised us it would roll out over "several months." So 4.2 started around July 18th, which was less than two months ago...

The month of August in Google organic land was not that slow, despite it being a summer month. We had a possible Google Panda reversal, Google announce app interstitials as being not mobile friendly...

Ashley Madison has received a lot of attention in the past couple months. If you don't know, not sure how it is possible that you don't know, but on July 15...

In my latest column for A List Apart, called The Distance to Here1, I discuss a theory I’ve had for a while now:

The larger the distance between people who build a product and people who make decisions about the product, the harder it is to make a good product.

The post goes into detail on how I think companies can continue to make good products as they grow.

Anyone else old enough to get the reference? ↩

Google announced that starting November 1, 2015, mobile sites that have app interstitials that hide a "significant amount of content" will not be considered Google mobile friendly and thus won't benefit from the mobile friendly ranking boost.

This morning, I ran across the news article Google reportedly kills plan to let retailers send notifications in Maps, and I knew exactly what the story was about, without reading past the headline, because I had noticed a patent application that...

As you know, Google quietly and is slowly pushing out a Panda 4.2 refresh, one that hit home since this site saw a nice and steady recovery over the weeks after the release...

Google seems to be slowly removing the Search Queries report from the Search Console...

Denali in 1996, by Danny Sullivan

North America’s highest mountain has been restored to its native name of Denali by US President Barack Obama. The peak had been known as Mount McKinley since 1917.

The move has sparked some political debate, especially among Ohioan politicians who view it as a slight against Ohio native William McKinley, who was the 25th president of the United States. Alaskan politicians had been pushing for the change.

I was curious how quickly our major search...