Catégorie : SEO

Last year, after spending a few days at a work summit in Austria, I asked Perplexity for the latest news related to SEO and AI search. It responded with details about a supposed “September 2025 ‘Perspective’ Core Algorithm Update” that Google had just rolled out, emphasizing “deeper expertise” and “completion of the user journey.” It […]

The quarterly business review is upon us. We pull reports from Google Analytics 4, Search Console, Google Ads, and customer relationship management, and we find that none of them match. In fact, despite being connected to the same campaign and focus, they are quite different. This is work done, data collected, and reported back to […]

Google updated their report spam documentation to make it clear that they may use reported spam to initiate manual actions against websites that are found to be spamming. This is a change in policy that makes it easier for site owners and SEOs to report actual spam. Change In Spam Report Policy The previous spam […]

Google Search Console erroneously sent out emails to site owners advising them that Google has just started to record impressions beginning on April 12th. The implication of the message is that Search Console has not previously been collecting those impressions, which is incorrect. Search Console Impressions The Search Console impressions report shows how often a […]

Google added a new section to its spam policies designating “back button hijacking” as an explicit violation under the malicious practices category. Enforcement begins on June 15, giving websites two months to make changes. Google published a blog post explaining the policy. It also updated the spam policies documentation to list back-button hijacking alongside malware […]

It works, until it doesn’t. The Chase Imagine you’re a news publisher. Your journalism is good, you write original stories, and your website is relatively popular within your editorial niche. Revenue is earned primarily via advertising. Google search is your biggest source of visitors. Management demands growth, and elevates traffic to the throne of all […]

Google’s John Mueller responded to a question about how Google treats outbound links from a site that has a link-related penalty. His answer suggests the situation may not work in the way many assume. An SEO asked on Bluesky whether a site that has what they described as a “link penalty” could affect the value […]

An analysis of more than 400 websites by Zyppy founder Cyrus Shepard identifies five characteristics associated with whether a site gained or lost estimated organic traffic over the past 12 months. Shepard classified sites by revisiting many of the same ones covered in Lily Ray’s December core update analysis, categorizing them by business model, content […]

Everyone is scrambling to incorporate AI. But what takes priority? Is generative engine optimization (GEO) replacing traditional SEO? Should you shift budget from traditional SEO to AI content experiments? Watch this on-demand SEO webinar to see how to prioritize SEO vs. AI search based on your business model. Before You Reallocate SEO Budget, Validate Where […]

The next time you ask an AI what product to buy, which agency to hire, or which software platform actually works, pay attention to where the answer comes from. Increasingly, it does not come from the vendor’s own website. It comes from a stranger’s Reddit comment written eighteen months ago, upvoted 847 times by people […]