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I recently started helping a site that was negatively impacted by the May 17 algorithm update. The site had been surfing the gray area of quality for a long time, surging with some quality updates, and sometimes dropping. So I started digging in via a crawl analysis and audit of …

Rand Fishkin, the founder of Moz, is stepping down from his operational role at the company and moving into an advisory role. Fishkin founded Moz, originally called SEOmoz, 16 years ago with his mother, Gillian Muessig. Sarah Bird, the CEO at Moz, announced the news this morning, calling this a …

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google begins rolling out messaging feature within Google My BusinessJul 12, 2017 by Barry Schwartz You can now message with your customers directly via your Google …

In this report, Marin compared results from advertisers who manage their programs separately to those that have integrated search and social programs. The research showed that marketers who integrate their search and social advertising programs find significantly more consumers who are not only more likely to convert, but who are …

Google My Business has updated its monthly insights email, the email they send business owners summarizing the statistics and analytics around how well their Google local listing is performing. The new email is much more visually appealing than the previous email and shares a lot more data as well. The …

I thought with the introduction and adoption of responsive design, we wouldn’t be doing any more custom formats for mobile pages — but I guess I was wrong. The web is complicated enough, and we don’t need another code base to maintain, causing more problems for more websites. AMP is fairly …

Feed your obsession for SEO  SEM with actionable and proven tactics by attending Search Engine Land’s SMX East, October 24-26 in New York City. The agenda is packed with 50+ sessions and led by search marketing experts in paid search advertising, search engine optimization, conversion and analytics, social media and much more. Here’s a quick look …

Google has been cranking out the updates this year for Local Search, and the latest thing to hit the SMB market is Google Posts. This new feature allows you to publish your events, products and services directly to Google Search (in the Knowledge Panel) and Maps. Here’s an example of what …

Even though the new AdWords Next UI doesn’t quite have feature parity with the current AdWords yet, it actually offers some exclusive features. They can be hard to identify without some hunting, so we’ve gathered them here in one place. The new interface has been steadily rolling out to more advertisers over the …

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google says it lost 20 days of data of new Google Search Console usersJul 12, 2017 by Barry Schwartz Did you recently sign up for Google …