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Yesterday, Google sent mass notifications for blocked JavaScript and CSS. I recommend you read that story if you haven't yet.

Since then, there have been many questions about what to do...

Google is now sending out a rush of new warnings via Google Search Console, formerly Google Webmaster Tools to notify webmasters that GoogleBot cannot access their CSS and JS (JavaScript) files on...

Google's Gary Illyes shared on Twitter that although Google currently uses mostly desktop factors for mobile rankings, it doesn't mean Google is dumb and only trusts what the desktop web site says...

I love Hal Phillips’s story of how ethnographic research changed the culture at Benjamin Moore1. From Escaping a Strategic Cul de Sac: Using Ethnographic Insights to Challenge Organizational Bias:

They no longer saw homeowners simply as property owners who were protecting their investments – they were also people whose homes were reflections of their changing selves.

They no longer saw painting contractors simply as skilled applicators who would always choose the best paint...

About two months ago, I was at a major tech conference where search got mentioned as “boring.” Sigh. Search — which makes up half of all online ad spend in the United States — is far from boring. And search marketers, now’s your chance to prove it.

This is the last week to enter the Search Engine Land Awards, where we will recognize the best in search marketing over the past year.

Search marketing is the marketing activity that, more than any other, delivers that oft-sought “right...

I've been noticing some webmasters complaining Google has dropped many of their images out of the index. I have two recent threads, but there are many more I can reference...

A couple of years ago, Google acquired the startup Behavio. One of the selling points behind Behavio was how it used behavior data from Phones to better understand human behavior. It’s likely that Google acquired the company Zipdash back in 2004...

Google Panda 4.2 started rolling out this past weekend, on July 18th, Saturday. Google told us it would be a very slow roll out and even on a single domain...

As I announced last night at Search Engine Land, Google has released Panda 4.2 after being without a Google Panda refresh for about 10 months.

The most interesting thing about this Panda refresh was that virtually no one noticed. Really, no one...

A new survey is out that shows that those employed in search marketing are much more likely to say their work makes the world a worse place than those in other occupations. Ouch. But the percentage saying this is small, and there are several issues about how reliable the survey is.

The data is from PayScale, a company that crowdsources compensation information. The company looked at survey data it has gathered over a two year period, from June 2013 to June 2015, from 2.7 million...