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After much speculation over time, and finally introducing a beta, Google has officially announced the new Search Analytics API for the Google Search Console...

It seems like the black hat SEO community is noticing a Google update this weekend. Starting Saturday through yesterday.

There is a lot of chatter in the Black Hat Forums and just a little bit of chatter in the WebmasterWorld forums...

I was excited to see a Google Patent granted this past Thursday, which describes how Google may rank pages in part based upon user feedback (clicks) in response to rankings for those pages. The patent tells us that this kind of identifying of a...

When Google rolled out Panda 4.2 they told me this will roll out over months and months, a very slow roll out. It was just technically how this roll out was happening they told me.

John Mueller in a Google+ Hangout added more things on record about why it is rolling out slowly...

Google's John Mueller in this mornings Google Hangout said at the 4:37 mark into the video that Google doesn't tend to give advice around algorithms.

Yes, for manual actions...

As many of you know, Google confirmed the Google Panda 4.2 refresh last week.
But one question we did not have answered from Google directly in the public was

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...