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So now that we know that bolding works for SEO and rankings in 2021, we need to start bolding everything. Or maybe we need to be more random about our bolding efforts. Or maybe we need to really think about what we bold. In all…

The term ‘thought leadership’ is getting increasingly abstract these days, as if we are forgetting its original meaning. The truth is, not every content piece that has some educational value or offers an opinion is true thought…

Running a small business means you have to be ready to face countless challenges and find solutions on the fly. To be as effective as possible, you need to organize your work wisely, figuring out what you can handle yourself and what…

We are seeing big volatility again in the Google Search results as of yesterday and today, which might be the tail-end of the November 2021 Google core update. Yep, talk about timing - the Black Friday shopping is in high gear today…

Google has updated the Google Business Profiles Get Reviews help document to explicitly say that having a mix of positive and negative reviews are more trustworthy, than I guess just all positive reviews. Joy Hawkins spotted this and…

Remember the Google Ads bug where CPC, cost per click, prices soared out of control on a Friday night? Well, about two weeks later, Google started to issue credits to those accounts that were impacted by the bug.As a reminder, On…

Google has another bug, this time with Google Search Console's crawl stats report. The report has a gap in the data, missing data on November 19th and November 20th. Google's John Mueller confirmed the issue and said on Twitter the…

Today is Thanksgiving in the U.S. and I am starting my coverage a bit late and I will try to keep it a bit slow today... Here is the Google Doodle for the History of Thanksgiving Google logo for Thanksgiving Day here.Google wrote:The…

I've been checking for the past week, multiple times per day, and just now, Google has launched the Chanukah/Hanukkah decorations for the 2021 season. Chanukah starts this Sunday night, so I was expecting it to come soon and it is…

Google says the best way to hide a website from search results is with a password, but there are other options you can consider.This subject is spotlighted in the latest installment of the Ask Googlebot video series on YouTube.Google’s John…