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If you happen to follow this blog you already know I am almost never a fan of disavowing backlinks. It’s rarely necessary and Google has put a lot of effort into ignoring junk backlinks. They have a tremendous amount of data and are well aware of junk

On May 8, 2019, Google announced that they’d be displaying several new types of snippets in search results, including FAQ snippets. Shortly after the announcement I began adding FAQ markup to FAQs on client websites. I’ve been adding FAQs to much of my content for decades now

Update: As of January 29, 2020, pages which get a Featured Snippet in Google Search results will no longer rank in organic results. Google says “a Featured Snippet IS an organic result”. The rest of this article is intact in its original form as it contains relevant

On January 13, 2020, Google changed the way search results are displayed on desktop. Google’s Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) now display a favicon, it is more difficult to tell what’s an Ad, and, URLs and page titles have swapped places. Note: After an uproar, Google is

On January 13, 2020, Google began rolling out their first Broad Core Algorithm update of 2020. This article will be updated as data is collected and details emerge. Lindsey, one of our SEO managers here, began calling this algorithm the “Hindsight” algorithm. After all, hindsight is 2020,

Having multiple types of content on your website confuses search engines and may result in a rankings loss across the entire website. I have mentioned this several times when covering various algorithm updates on this blog, however, I never provided clarity, case studies, or confirmation from Google.

Today, on November 21, 2019, I was checking out some search results for someone and happened to discover a new type of Featured Snippet which has me very excited. For lack of a better term I will be referring to it here as a Multi-Featured Snippet. Check

On October 31, 2019, I saw a very odd search result for a local search. Just below the local pack was a People Also Ask (PAA) box. I chalked it up as an error or random test. Then, I saw it again November 12, 2019 and decided

In September 2019, Google rolled out a new change which was supposed to remove self-serving review stars from search results produced by businesses using markup on their websites. Some people called the change “Starmageddon”. The technical name for these review stars is Review Rich Results, or review

August 1, 2018, Google adjusted their core algorithm. Overnight, several sites with medical content tanked. Google didn’t nickname it “Medic“, people in the SEO industry did. While it is a very fitting name, the algorithm also affected a huge variety of niches including finance, news, sports, business,

On or around November 7, 2019, Google rolled out a change to it’s core algorithm. The algorithm update impacted medical sites as well as news, tech and finance sites and sites in other niches as well. What we know about the November 7, 2019 Algorithm Update: This

On October 23, 2019, a Google algorithm change rolled out. There’s a lot I do not know and will not know about this algorithm, but, I’m going to share what I do know. First, let’s start with a screenshot from RankRanger: Sometimes the best change after a

On October 25, 2019, Google announced the BERT update which impacts search results. In a nutshell, this is a great update which helps Google produce more relevant search results for longer / natural language / conversational search queries. A BERT example: Instead of a keyword, such as

October 2019 – When a law firm wants their Google ad to come up on the top of the search results, they can bid on their competitors name in Google Ads (formerly AdWords). If their bid is successful, then when a potential customer the searches that brand