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I recently wrote a large article about the August 1 2018 algorithm update. While nobody in the SEO industry really knows precisely what is going on, I did nail down several key issues which all pertain to “content quality”. Also called the “medic” update, the algorithm change

I just wrapped up an article about website “metrics” called Good “Metrics” Do Not Mean Valuable Backlinks. I wrote that because I am constantly hearing about “Domain Authority” when people are evaluating backlinks, as if this magic number between 1-100 is the sole metric to evaluate a

Sometimes when people are looking for a backlink, they’ll try to evaluate the value of the link by looking at the source website’s “metrics”. Metrics many people in the SEO industry use include Citation Flow, Domain Authority, Trust Flow, Spam Score, Page Authority, Alexa Rank, PageRank, Authority

On Tuesday, August 28, 2018, President Donald Trump announced that Google search results for “Trump News” displays mostly news stories which are bad. Is this true? Yes and No. In case you missed it, here’s what Trump tweeted: Google search results for “Trump News” shows only the

During the first week of August 2018, many bloggers and other website owners were dismayed to discover that they had received a 20% – 75% reduction in traffic due to decreased visibility in Google’s Search Engine Results Pages. In short, they had lost their rankings. Searching for

It’s a conversation that seems to come up about once a year. People ask me something along the lines of one of these two questions: “Does linking out somehow reduce the seo value of a website or web page?” or, “Should I NoFollow outbound links on my

Google released an update to their Quality Rater Guidelines on July 20, 2018.Here’s how they’ll help you. You can get them here: Download them from Google here. Download them from our mirror here. What are the Quality Rater Guidelines? Google hires “quality raters”, people who visit websites

On August 1, 2018 and August 2, 2018, many webmasters around the globe felt the effects of Google’s latest “broad core” algorithm update. The update may have began rolling out on July 27th and is continuing throughout the first week of August. Page posted: 8/4/2018 Page last

There were several significant changes in Google’s search engine results in July 2018, including a mid-sized algorithm update. Both the algorithm change and other tweaks to the Google algorithm positively impacted some sites and negatively impacted even more. Tweaks to the algorithm Almost every time someone contacts

Are the Fake Reviews in Google worse than Fake News? One law firm thinks so and believes that users are becoming innocent victims. Google is ignoring the spam reports and leaving fake reviews up for everyone to see. One of my clients has a competitor who has

On July 27, 2018, I received a notification from Google that my Google Bulletin account was now live. I went on Twitter and found people in India and Denmark tweeting about the new Bulletin feature as well. Considering the small size of the town I am in,

On July 9, 2018, Google began rolling out the latest change to the way Google ranks websites. Google named this update the “Speed Update”. Over the years I’ve been asked many times about page speed and site speed and I’ve stated it here on this blog numerous