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 and search marketing industries. Tech can expect an era of deregulation, starting with Trump’s aim to strip away federal safeguards over AI development, deferring any regulatory oversight to individual states. […]
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 much worse that it was when it started by banning WPEngine, establishing a loyalty pledge complete with a box to check to swear your WP-Loyalty, running down investors, getting himself […]
Negative SEO Attack – More Googly Advice Air Date: June 13, 2019 SEOs agreeing to be disagreeable… A question from a Google forum about negative SEO gets extremely negative for the person who asked the question and the people trying to answer it. The matter gets more complicated when John Mueller jumps in suggesting most […]
Re:Naming the Update CshelFish Air Date: June 6, 2019 Today was the 75th anniversary of D-Day. We started the show remembering the effort it took to defeat the Nazis and bring generations the benefits of freedom and stability. Monday June 2 was Catfish Comstock’s birthday. Catfish has been an SEO who has been a contributor […]
Canada Issues Summons for Zuckerberg – Explaining the Wix SEO Challenge Air Date: May 30, 2019 Though CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself appeared before a congressional committee looking into the role Facebook played in the 2016 US election, Facebook has declined to appear at an interparliamentary committee made up of representatives from the UK, Australia, Canada, […]
Google Drives News Traffic – Guest Brian Massey Air Date: May 16, 2019 Kristine Schachinger cohosts as we talk through a slew of news about search and social. Topics included: Google accounts for nearly half of all external referral traffic (traffic from mobile platforms and apps) to news sites. Search delivers over 25% of all […]
Chromium Google Evergreen – Info from Google I/O Air Date: May 9, 2019 This week we cover information coming out of Google’s annual developer conference, Google I/O. The biggest announcement is Googlebot is now rendering for Google’s new browser Chromium which means it can detect and deal with most incidents of JavaScript. That means Googlebot […]
Airdate: May 2, 2019 – Mark Zuckerberg gave a presentation at Facebook’s F8 conference suggesting FB owned WattApp is being redeveloped as an ecommerce platform for web shops. Google appears to be using its AI to answer questions predictively. Using information from previous answers and from Google My Business data, Google is suggesting new questions […]
Airdate: April 25, 2019 – Canada’s federal privacy commissioner is taking Facebook to court after an investigation found it had violated numerous privacy laws by failing to protect Canadian users’ personal information. Lime electric scooters have been pulled from the streets of Brisbane Australia after hackers reprogrammed the scooters to talk dirty to users. “Please […]
Airdate: April 18, 2019 A twitter spat between Rand Fishkin and Danny Sullivan demonstrates the continued tensions between SEOs and the search engine’s spokespeople. This dispute was over link attribution to sources quoted by websites like news organizations Let your Blackberry messenger contacts know you’re not being rude it’s just that nobody is supporting the […]