Get To Know Google’s Before: and After: Search Operators

Get To Know Google's Before: and After: Search Operators

Google offers a lesser-known advanced search command that could make your Google searching a whole lot easier. While it’s possible to use Google’s Tools menu to do the same thing, it takes six clicks to do what advanced search operators accomplish with one click. Advanced Search Operators Advanced search operators (otherwise known as search commands) … Read more

Google’s Digital Marketing Certificate Recommends Keyword Density Percentages

Google's Digital Marketing Certificate Recommends Keyword Density Percentages

Someone from the SEO community called attention to a section in Google’s new digital marketing training course that recommends writing at least 300 words of content, advised specific areas of a web page for seeding keywords and recommended a keyword density for target keywords of under 2%. Some in the digital marketing community called Google … Read more

Google’s Chain of Thought Prompting Can Boost Today’s Best Algorithms

Google's Chain of Thought Prompting Can Boost Today's Best Algorithms

Google announced a breakthrough research in Natural Language Processing called Chain of Thought Prompting that raises the state of the art of advanced technologies like PaLM and LaMDA to what the researchers call a remarkable level. The fact that Chain of Thought Prompting can improve PaLM and LaMDA at these significant rates is a big … Read more

Mastering SEO Within Google’s SERPs [Podcast]

Mastering SEO Within Google's SERPs [Podcast]

Google is always looking for ways to push the limits and make its search engine more intelligent. Dr. Pete Meyers from Moz joined me to talk about how you can optimize your site to better represent itself within Google’s search results, including title tags, featured snippets, indented results, and other Google SERP real estate opportunities. … Read more

Google’s Hummingbird Update: How It Changed Search

Google's Hummingbird Update: How It Changed Search

Google Hummingbird was a rewrite of Google’s algorithm that consciously anticipated the needs of searching on mobile devices, in particular by enabling conversational search. Hummingbird set the stage for dramatic advances in search. Google never published an explainer of what Hummingbird was. However, there are records of Googlers explaining what it is. Let’s take a … Read more

Are Brand Mentions Important to Google’s Algorithm?

Are Brand Mentions Important to Google's Algorithm?

Google’s John Mueller was asked if “unlinked brand mentions” were important in Google’s algorithm. It was apparent from John’s response that “brand mentions” is probably not a real thing in Google’s algorithm, but he also said that there may be value to site visitors who encounter them. Brand Mentions There is a longstanding idea in … Read more

Is Author Expertise Important To Google’s Algorithm?

Is Author Expertise Important To Google's Algorithm?

Google’s John Mueller answered whether a content author’s expertise was important to Google’s algorithm because this plays such an important role in the Quality Raters Guidelines. John answered that he assumed there was some indirect work done on author expertise but noted that it was a “fuzzy area.” E-A-T and Google’s Algorithm It’s established already … Read more

Is Google’s MUM A Search Ranking Factor?

Is Google’s MUM A Search Ranking Factor?

At Google I/O earlier last year, Google announced that it’s exploring a new technology called MUM (Multitask Unified Model) internally to help its ranking systems better understand language. Dubbed “a new AI milestone for understanding information,” MUM is designed to make it easier for Google to answer complex needs in search. Google promised MUM is … Read more

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