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For today’s Ask An SEO, we answer the question: “As an SEO, should I be using log file data, and what can it tell me that tools can’t?” What Are Log Files Essentially, log files are the raw record of an interaction with a website. They are reported by the website’s server and typically include […]

Google’s John Mueller answered a question about Search Console and 404 error reporting, suggesting that repeated crawling of pages with a 404 status code is a positive signal. 404 Status Code The 404 status code, often referred to as an error code, has long confused many site owners and SEOs because the word “error” implies […]

Last Friday afternoon, Digg died. Again. Two months. That’s how long the relaunch lasted before CEO Justin Mezzell pinned a eulogy to the homepage. The platform had raised $15-20 million. It had Kevin Rose. It had Alexis Ohanian – Reddit’s co-founder, no less. It had promises that AI would “remove the janitorial work of moderators […]

Enterprise SEO doesn’t fail because teams lack knowledge. It fails because they’re invited too late. In most large organizations, SEO still operates in a reactive posture. Teams review pages after launch, run audits, document issues, file tickets, and then wait, often for months, for other teams to implement changes. Modern search visibility is no longer […]

SEO, like most organic and non-advertising or paid channels in digital marketing, is labor-intensive. Yes, there are software suites, analytics platforms, research tools, and a number of other things that help in the tech stack. We all have our favorites, and no one is (or should) be doing SEO like I was in 2008 (despite […]

An SEO crafting a newsletter with AI spotted a hallucination about a March 2026 Google Core Update and decided to publish it as an experiment to see how misinformation spreads. While search marketing industry publications ignored the fake news some independent SEOs picked it up and ran with it without first checking the factual accuracy […]

Google’s John Mueller answered a question about moving to HTTPS, explaining why the process of making a site secure is actually a major undertaking that can have a negative impact on rankings. Loss Of Top 3 Google Rankings A person asked on Reddit why they lost their top 3 rankings in Google after making their […]

SEJ Live’s opening panel covered three months of AI search changes from three angles. I covered the news, SEJ Founder Loren Baker covered the business case, and Managing Editor Shelley Walsh covered content strategy. The on-demand recording is available here. The session was called “What’s Hot, What’s Not,” and our goal was to identify the […]

A BuzzStream report analyzing 4 million AI citations found that press releases distributed through syndication channels barely appear in AI-generated answers. Background Press release distribution services have been marketing AI visibility as a selling point. For example, ACCESS Newswire offers an “AI Visibility Checklist” for press releases. eReleases published a guide positioning press releases as […]

Chris Green helped analyze 17 million websites and co-authored the latest SEO chapter for the Web Almanac, and his conclusion should matter to anyone who does SEO for a living. Green said the data showed that individual SEOs have “minimal” web-wide impact compared to CMS platform defaults. He wrote: “If you are really determined to […]