A December 2024 Core Update started running a few short days after the November 2024 Core Update ended and mere hours before this episode was…
Webcology: The Changes Will Intensify Until Morale Improves Edition
Recorded in the week after Black Friday hosts Jim Hedger and Kristine Schachinger talk through a bunch of stories affecting the world of search. The…
Webcology: The Thankful For the Long Weekend Edition
Twas the eve before Thanksgiving and through the studio’s haunts, no creatures were talking or recording our thoughts. The channels all hummed with inactivity because…
Webcology: A Cold November News Edition
It was a busy news week with a continuing November Core Update, Google’s Site Reputation Abuse Policy Update and the subsequent major publisher crackdown, the…
Webcology: The When the Going Gets Weird the Weird Keep Going Edition
Recorded two days after the 2024 presidential election, Jim Hedger and Kristine Schachinger contemplate the outcome and how a Trump presidency might affect the tech…
Webcology: The Helpfully, No Roads Lead to Recovery Edition
The Helpful Content Update wasn’t about the content and the hope of recovery wasn’t about to happen. Web publishes hit by the Helpful Content Update…
Webcology Extra: The Fork in the Road at WordPress Edition
Jono Alderson is a well known SEO Consultant, one of the top WordPress contributors, and a bonafide Digital Superstar. He joined Jim and Kristine to…
Webcology: The Acquisitive Conglomerations of Autumn Edition
A busy, news heavy show has hosts Kristine Schachinger and Jim Hedger cover three major stories, each of which could occupy a full hour long…
Webcology: The WP-Glitch – Where’s My Money Edition
Jim Hedger returns from bereavement time as he and cohost Kristine Schachinger learn that Matt Mullenweg has found a way to make the WordPress controversy…
Webcology: The WTFPress Edition
A war is being waged in the deepest heart of the Open Source movement for that movement’s very soul. Last week, Matt Mullenweg, the original…
Webcology: The Who Ya Gonna Anti-Trust Edition
So it seems that anyone who’s anyone has an anti-trust suit or some other major legal challenge taking place, especially if you’re with Apple or…
Gemini Changes Everything yet SEO is Far From Dead
Google announced a series of sudden changes that are coming, some as soon as they were unveiled, at Tuesday’s Google I/O conference held in Mountain…
Google EATs Product Reviews in April algo update
Google announced the introduction of an algorithm update designed to reward original and informative product reviews earlier today. According to the Google Developers Blog, the…
COVID19 Update
The business of the world has been interrupted for the past few months by the Covide19 pandemic. As we move through the crisis the business…
How to Cope with a Google Core Update
Originally written for Brand Labs Insights. Here’s a short snippet. In some ways, a core update might just be routine improvement and maintenance. Google is…