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, […]
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.
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.
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 […]
Google offers fairly simple albeit roundabout instruction on removing pesky old sitemaps. Google adds vocal search results and metrics for vocal search
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 […]
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 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 […]
Air date: April 6, 2017 The show covered a wide range of topics including: Personalized Assistant Devices and SEO “The future is PASO (Personal Assistance Search Optimization) – John E. Lincoln. Digital marketers should know where PAs get their information. If you accept the premise that the future of SEO is all about PAs and […]
The Four Daily Habits of Successful SEOs Air Date: August 11, 2016 Dave Davies and I discuss our own SEO work habits following an article in Search Engine Land by John E. Lincoln titled . Here are John’s four essential habits, with some of our ideas added on. Study (the news like crazy). I generally […]
Google Giveth and Google Taketh Away? Air date: August 4, 2016 It was a busy week in search, at least as related to Google. We had, in no particular order: Google’s possible  of last week’s algorithm update No loss of PageRank for any How Google Treats  in 2016 Singular and plural words can be different in Disavow […]
Machine Learning and Trying to Predict Google Rankings Air date: July 21, 2016 Jim Hedger and Dave Davies speak with JR Oakes, Director of Strategy for , an agency that specializes in online marketing for law firms throughout the United States and internationally. JR wrote a piece in Search Engine Land on machine learning, “”.
WME Training founder David Ogletree on AdWords, Pay per Click, and SEO Air date: July 14, 2016 News round-up: Air BnB taking out of communities –  • WTF? Marketing boom for small businesses with lures or gyms Amazing for augmented reality applications. Will Penguin Ever Launch?  at SE RoundTable Pop-ups as? Coining of a new […]
Is SEO as Dirty as it’s Ever Been? Air date: July 7, 2016 As a technical practice and marketing channel, Search Engine Optimization has built credibility over the years but spammers, poorly trained SEOs, and black-hat practitioners continue give it a bad name. Jim Hedger and Dave Davies discuss a recent article by who wrote, […]
Gaining Demographic Data In Relation to Your Facebook and Email Lists, an Interview with WordStream founder Larry Kim Air date: June 23, 2016 Larry Kim founded WordStream in 2007. He bootstrapped the company by providing internet consulting services while funding/managing a team of engineers and marketers to develop and sell software for search engine marketing […]