SEO
SEO Update #2: structured data, more on BERT and (gasp) the algorithm changes…
What you need to know in the world of SEO this week…
news innovation
Taking Google (and Facebook)'s money ethically
Can you use funding from the tech giants to build products that are sustainable without them?
SEO
New Google update aims to prioritise original reporting over rapid writethroughs
Big news from Google: it's tweaked its algorithms to prioritise original reporting - and to display it for longer.
SEO
SEOs buying up defunct URLs linked to by major news sites
The black hat SEO business has a new trick - and publishers should be careful of their old links.
privacy
We'll regret surrendering our ambient privacy
You don't know what you've got til it's gone. They paved paradise and put up a Facebook lot.
MailOnline
MailOnline takes brutal hit from Google algorithm update
A MailOnline SEO has admitted to a big traffic hit from a Google change.
AMPs
The trouble with AMP
Many publishers feel compelled to use the Accelerated Mobile Pages format because Google favors it so strongly. Could we make it better?
apple
Apple kills Google's internal apps, too
Google feels Apple's banhammer a day after Facebook fell before it…
local journalism
Facebook's donations won't save local journalism, but better CMSes just might
This week, Facebook has joined Google in throwing millions at the local news business. Is this really going to help the industry recover - or should we bee looking elsewhere?