March was a crazy month for search and social news. First, Google randomly announced it hasn’t been supporting rel=prev and rel-next recommendations (it turns out it hasn’t for years, and it just didn’t tell us). Then, expandable Featured Snippets (see below) was rolled out. It was a tough month to be an SEO where it […]

Below you’ll find the SEO, social media research and tips that you should absolutely read and bookmark. I’ve also inlcuded what I (a marketer who has been doing SEO for 15+years) learned over the last month. In full disclosure: last month I was recovering from a surgical procedure, so my personal digital marketing learning “to […]

Search and social news and what I learned about SEO last month… Over the last year I’ve been sharing SEO and social media news with you monthly and I’ve decided to change the format a bit. In addition to sharing with you what I believe are the news announcements, research findings, and new tactics of […]

Wow. 2018 is coming to a close and what a year it has been for search updates! It’s also been a big year for me personally and professionally. It’s been nice over the last next few weeks during the holiday break. I’ve used it to catch up with my own reading and professional development. I hope […]

November was a busy month for search with a major algorithm update over the Thanksgiving holiday. The industry also had the #TechSEOBoost conference in Boston with the associated live stream, which was a “Christmas is here early” type event if you’re responsible for troubleshooting technical SEO issues. In fact, it was a great month for […]

October was busy for me with lots of new opportunities, existing client work and a family wedding in Maine that we attended. It was a busy month for SEO updates too. Here are the search updates in October that I thought you shouldn’t miss: Impact of Google’s 20th Anniversary announcements on SEO Google celebrated their […]

Again, another month has gone by and I’ve rounded up the search news and research that I think you can’t miss. Google (as usual) has made some changes over the last month, they celebrated their 20th year in business, rolled out new features, and have given us a hint of where they are going. There’s […]

Here we go. There is only one update for August, and I’m realize that I’m posting it in September. This is not because there weren’t any updates (in fact, there was a big Google “broad core” algorithm update). There’s a great SEO community discussion about the update on this Twitter thread that I think is […]

There was great SEO research this week in addition to Google announcements, updates and changes in Google Analytics. So, let’s get to it. SERPs without an organic opportunity Spotted in the wild: A SERP with 13 “other” links besides URLs. A good reminder to check your SERPs before picking a keyword to target: Google Human […]

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted a search news update -My family took a break for the entire July 4th week. We enjoyed the DC museums and, like the rest of the country, tried desperately to stay cool. There were so many updates this week that this post is longer than usual. So buckle in […]