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Is AI search a sideshow, or a potential economic apocalypse? Paid Members Public
Will AI-infused search be the end of publishing economics as we know it? Or is the hype outrunning the utility?
Why Google's Core Web Vitals update is going to hit medium-sized publishers hard Paid Members Public
Major changes are coming to Google next year - and the technical burden of them are likely to fall disproportionatly on the middle rank of publishers.
SEO: big changes are coming to nofollow - here's what you need to know Paid Members Public
Google is making the first big change to "nofollow" in a decade and a half. Here's what you should know.
SEOs buying up defunct URLs linked to by major news sites Paid Members Public
The black hat SEO business has a new trick - and publishers should be careful of their old links.
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MailOnline takes brutal hit from Google algorithm update Paid Members Public
A MailOnline SEO has admitted to a big traffic hit from a Google change.
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Google knocks Facebook off the referral traffic top spot Paid Members Public
About four years ago, social traffic eclipsed traffic from search, across publishers generally. And by “social traffic”, I largely mean “Facebook”. That era appears to have passed. According to data from Parse.ly, a real-time analytics platform, Google is back on top: Conrad Lee, writing on the Parse.ly blog
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Google's Top Stories algorithm is failing to detect authoritative sources Paid Members Public
This is a pretty significant Google algorithm fail: > Also, apparently Google is putting 4chan threads in their top story unit now? So, the number one hit for his name is a /pol/ thread. pic.twitter.com/OYwW6pbWvy [https://t.co/OYwW6pbWvy] — Ryan Broderick (@broderick) October 2, 2017 [https://twitter.
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Accelerated Mobile Pages: great for SEO, bad for control Paid Members Public
John Gruber [http://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/10/21/google-amp], back in October: > Can someone explain to me why a website would publish AMP versions of their articles? They do load fast, which is a terrific user experience, but as far as I can see, sites that publish AMP