Jim Hedger – SEO

Enterprise SEO with Keith Goode SEO at IBM and March2019 Core-Update Talk

Posted by on March 28, 2019 at 3:49 pm

Think Big. Think Big Blue – Try to imagine practicing SEO in an almost infinite working environment, one that has its own positronic brain. We had a special guest, Keith Goode, one of the SEO team at IBM on the show. Keith talks about SEO as a harbour pilot talks about bringing massive cargo ships […]

Google Shifts to Journeys and Facebook Admits Big Mistake

Posted by on March 21, 2019 at 4:30 pm

Facebook was forced to acknowledge it had, for years, stored hundreds of millions of user names and passwords in a simple, unencrypted text file. The admission came after cybersecurity writer Brian Krebs reported on it. Facebook’s Pedro Canahuati said the discovery was made in January as part of a routine security review. While the logs […]

Google March 2019 Broad Core Update

Posted by on March 14, 2019 at 4:40 pm

Google released a significant algorithm update on March 12, a week after the recent Pubcon conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The last time Google made a major update directly after a Pubcon conference was held in Florida was November 2003 and the update was aptly named Florida by Brett Tabke and the WebmasterWorld community. Naturally, […]

Google’s answers drive SEOs nuts – Search Console Replaces Property Sets

Posted by on February 28, 2019 at 3:58 pm

Does Google use Click Through Rates (CTR) as a ranking signal? It’s a good question requiring a completely indirect answer. Goodbye property sets and hello domain properties much more A busy week in search brings another news round-up on Webcology.

Gary Illes from Google does a Reddit AMA

Posted by on February 14, 2019 at 4:14 pm

Happy Valentine’s Day. In this episode we discuss a Reddit AMA Google’s Gary Illes conducted covering, Robots.txt Rank brain Behavioural signals Image and video search more… Also, Google now consolidates data under canonical URL in Search Console, and changes a number of metrics while it’s at it.

Can’t Buy Likes – Yoast Adds Live Indexing

Posted by on February 7, 2019 at 4:04 pm

Another news update show in another busy week in search and tech. A court has essentially outlawed the buying and selling of Facebook likes or other social media recommendations in a judgement against American firm, Devumi. The chief executive of cryptocurrency company Quadriga CX has died. He was the only person with the password to a […]

Removing old sitemaps – Google adds voice search

Posted by on January 31, 2019 at 5:20 pm

Google offers fairly simple albeit roundabout instruction on removing pesky old sitemaps. Google adds vocal search results and metrics for vocal search

Google My Mobile Business – Google Lightbox – Google Labour Problems

Posted by on January 24, 2019 at 4:53 pm

Yet another heavy newsweek in tech Google allows mobile businesses entry into Google My Business program by allowing them to specify service areas. Previously businesses required a solid street address for inclusion Google testing a video lightbox to display video in mobile search results Google asks National Labor Board to nullify an Obama era rule […]

Advertising Legend Terry O’Reilly on Gillette and Nike

Posted by on January 17, 2019 at 4:59 pm

Today was a special show. We were joined by Canadian advertising legend, Terry O’Reilly, host of CBC’s Under the Influence and Age of Persuasion. Terry talked about the recent Gillette and Nike social action commercials.

Danny Sullivan Retires – Digital Knowledge for the Intelligence Era

Posted by on June 30, 2017 at 10:43 am

Danny Sullivan Retires – Digital Knowledge for the Intelligence Era Air Date: June 29, 2017   Kristine Schachinger joins me to talk about the news of the week, including: Danny Sullivan announced his quasi-retirement earlier this week. Danny is widely regarded as the Godfather of the SEO industry. Danny is the founder of Search Engine […]