This month’s Ask an SEO question comes from Heather, who asks: “Do you find that, sometimes, even your best formula to rank doesn’t make sense? I advise employment lawyers on how to write. However, I find the “formula” doesn’t seem to work. Have you found you can’t even to get it to work? Loaded question, … Read more
Google’s Search Central team has released a new video in its “SEO Made Easy” series. In it, Search Advocate Martin Splitt addresses common concerns about duplicate content and provides practical solutions for website owners. Key Takeaways Despite concerns in the SEO community, Google insists that duplicate content doesn’t harm a site’s perceived quality. Splitt states: … Read more
Google’s Lighthouse doesn’t use the Interaction to Next Paint (INP) metric in its standard tests, despite INP being one of the Core Web Vitals. Barry Pollard, Web Performance Developer Advocate on Google Chrome, explained the reasoning behind this and offered insights into measuring INP. Lighthouse Measures Page Loads, Not Interactions Lighthouse measures a simple page … Read more
A study by the Data Provenance Initiative, a collective of independent and academic researchers dedicated to data transparency, reveals a mismatch between ChatGPT’s training data and its typical use cases. The study, which analyzed 14,000 web domains, found that ChatGPT’s training data primarily consists of news articles, encyclopedias, and social media content. However, the most … Read more
Google’s Gary Illyes answered a question about negative SEO provides useful insights into the technical details of how Google prevents low quality spam links from affecting normal websites. The answer about negative SEO was given in an interview in May and has gone unnoticed until now. Negative SEO Negative SEO is the practice of sabotaging … Read more
Google’s Search Off the Record podcast covered the topic of Core Web Vitals (CWV), noting that while it’s a ranking factor it’s not so important that improving it will improve search visibility. The podcast explains how to reconcile how CWV can be a ranking factor while at the same not something that will noticeably help … Read more
Most founders set out to innovate. Some get there. Few create categories of their own. Melanie Marris is a celebrity eyebrow stylist and founder of beauty brand Brow Code. Her pioneering techniques and style have shaped the brow and beauty industry since 2012. After a decade of successfully operating brow salons across the globe, she … Read more
Google’s John Mueller answered the question of why a site with “good SEO” doesn’t rank, even when there’s low competition. His answer might seem controversial at first but his words are worthy of consideration. Good SEO But Lackluster Ranking? There is no one definition of what constitutes good SEO. It’s a subjective judgment call that … Read more
In a Google SEO Office Hours, Google’s Martin Splitt answered a question about structured data validation and how Google’s validator can show different results than the Schema.org validator. Structured Data Validation Both Google and Schema.org offer tools for validating if structured data is correct. Google’s tool is called the Rich Results Test. Schema.org’s tool is … Read more
I’ve spent all 23 years of my advertising career in agencies. I’ve never had an “in-house” SEO job. I think working in an advertising agency – particularly in an agency that is great at search – is the best job in the world. I’ve worked with clients of all types and sizes, all over the … Read more
The work is done. The invoices are sent. The rent is due. And the bank account is empty. Entrepreneurs, small-business owners, and consultants alike all know that a predictable flow of cash can be hard to achieve. It’s especially difficult when you find yourself working with clients who don’t pay on time—or those who don’t … Read more
