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Webcology: The Helpfully, No Roads Lead to Recovery Edition

Posted by on October 31, 2024 at 11:24 am

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 in September 2023 who attended Google’s Web Creator Summit at the Googleplex this week were told the hope they’d held for seeing their rankings recover were likely in vain and […]

Webcology Extra: The Fork in the Road at WordPress Edition

Posted by on October 26, 2024 at 11:30 am

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 fill us in on the backstory and implications of the ongoing drama in the world of WordPress. Jono has been around for a long time. He knows where the bodies […]

Webcology: The Acquisitive Conglomerations of Autumn Edition

Posted by on October 17, 2024 at 11:35 am

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 show. The WordPress mega-drama continues with the founder’s faction at Automattic grabbing control of one of their rival WP-Engine’s best known custom WP-Contributions, Advanced Custom Fields in a forking incident […]

Webcology: The WTFPress Edition

Posted by on September 26, 2024 at 11:45 am

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 founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, the commercial arm of WordPress, laid down his version of the law by banning WPEngine from the greater WordPress environment. The dispute centers […]

Webcology: The Who Ya Gonna Anti-Trust Edition

Posted by on September 12, 2024 at 11:50 am

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 Google. Hosts Jim Hedger and Kristine Schachinger talk about the various anti-trust cases covering two types of Googley advertising monopolies and a spiffy tax dodge scheme the EU’s angry with […]

Gemini Changes Everything yet SEO is Far From Dead

Posted by on May 17, 2024 at 6:00 pm

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 View CA. Collected under an umbrella known as Gemini, these changes are more about using artificial intelligence to solidify Google’s role as a lifestyle ecosystem provider for its billions of […]

Google EATs Product Reviews in April algo update

Posted by on April 9, 2021 at 1:08 pm

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 Product Review algo-update is designed to promote “… product reviews that share in-depth research, rather than thin content that simply summarizes a bunch of products.” Google is telling online retailers […]

COVID19 Update

Posted by on May 19, 2020 at 1:18 pm

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 of the Internet continues. The Internet is likely to be the most stable business environment for the foreseeable future. For small businesses that were already struggling in the brick and […]

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 […]

Protect Net Neutrality

Posted by on July 12, 2017 at 10:41 am

The Internet is the single greatest business resource and wealth generator invented by humans. Help protect it. Contact your elected representative and tell them you respect those who respect Net Neutrality.