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The other day I wrote about how Google said fluff content is hard for search engines to understand and thus rank. I explained how Google does rank content that is surrounded by a lot of fluff. But then I heard John Mueller of Google…

For businesses of all sizes, good competitive intelligence is crucial for success. Business owners and marketers need to understand the competition, stay ahead of industry trends, and adapt quickly as markets shift. Conducting custom market…

Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller explains how the search engine uses synonyms and whether there’s a human component to it.Mueller discusses this topic when addressing a question submitted to the Google Search Central SEO office-hours…

When Google announces a broad core algorithm update, many SEO professionals find themselves asking what exactly changed (besides their rankings).Google’s acknowledgment of core updates is always vague and doesn’t provide much detail other…

Google's Ginny Marvin via the AdsLiaison account on Twitter confirmed that target CPA, tCPA, is not being cancelled in 2022. She wrote "we have no plans to sunset tCPA in 2022" after there were some speculation that it might be…

In part one Riley Hope and I spoke about her SEO career, how she did her thesis on ethics in SEO and we spoke about the automotive SEO space. In part two we talk about women in SEO and more on the automotive space and search results.…

Friday and Saturday, January 14th and 15th there may have been another unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update. This comes a few days after the unconfirmed January 11th update. There is some chatter but this time, the…

Branded content is a term that is thrown around quite a lot in marketing circles, but many people struggle to understand what it actually means.It’s likely that you’ve come across and engaged with plenty of pieces of branded content before…

Google's John Mueller posted one of those PSA tweets this morning asking hosting companies that trigger robot detection interstitials to not use a 200 status code. John also said not to place a noindex on that page. If you do these…

Google's John Mueller was asked a series of questions around the product reviews update on last Friday's video hangout. In short, it will expand to other languages and countries, it probably does use machine learning and eventually…