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I have 25 years hands-on experience in SEO, evolving along with the search engines by keeping up with the latest research, patents and what’s happening in the search results.
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I recently presented at Pubcon Vegas in October and March 2024, and over the past 20 years have presented at search conferences across the United States: Pubcon, SMX, Affiliate Summit & SES (Search Engine Strategies) and have served as a Head Judge at the U.S. Search Awards .
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Google On What To Do About 404 Errors In Search Console
Google’s John Mueller answers what to do about 404 errors reported in Search Console
G7 Reported To Agree On AI Code Of Conduct
Code of conduct is meant to encourage companies to transparency and limitations to prevent misuse of the AI
OpenAI Announces Preparedness Team And $25k API Credits For Top Survey Responses
OpenAI announces a Preparedness Team for safety in AI development and offering $25,000 in API credits for ideas on preventing catastrophic misuse of AI
New WordPress Gutenberg 16.9 Makes It Easier To Create
Gutenberg 16.9 improves the site editing workflow by making it more intuitive to get things done
Google Now Allows Mixing Structured Data Formats
Google announced a new way to communicate Structured Data which can help reduce the amount of code used on a page
WordPress LiteSpeed Plugin Vulnerability Affects 4 Million Websites
XSS vulnerability in LiteSpeed WordPress caching plugin affects up to 4 million websites
Duda Adds SEO Automation To Their AI Assistant for Enhanced Efficiency
Duda announces AI SEO automation that helps agencies and developers scale SEO for clients while reducing costs
SERP Volatility: What Do You Do About It?
This is what SERP volatility is and how to keep it from disrupting your rankings.
Google Explains The “Hostload Exceeded” Issue With Indexing
Google’s John Mueller offers possible explanations for the Hostload Exceeded error and why search console does not index submitted URLs
Google Trends: How To Use It For SEO & Content Marketing
Use these Google Trends insights to elevate your keyword research and SEO.
Kinsta Unveils Free Hosting for Your Static Sites
Kinsta announces free hosting for static websites, including static WordPress sites, with 100 GB bandwidth per month for up to 100 websites
Google Lighthouse 11.2.0 Updates Coming To PageSpeed Insights
Google Chrome team published details about an update to Lighthouse that introduces numerous changes to PageSpeed Insights
WordPress 6.4 Release Contains +100 Performance Wins
The New WordPress 6.4 contains over 100 performance improvements, making this version one of the most important updates so far
SEO For AI Search: Understand Qualified Clicks
The concept of Qualified Clicks is relevant to AI search and to the future of SEO
X Is Testing a $1 Paid Subscription To Reduce Spam
X (formerly Twitter) rolls out a $1/year charge for new users in two test countries
Bing Explains SEO For AI Search
Bing’s Fabrice Canel offers insights about AI search and what SEOs should do right now to get ready for it
Ahrefs Not Renewing 15% of Legacy Accounts
Ahrefs CEO announced it is not renewing 15% of legacy accounts who are overloading the system with data scraping and heavy use
Jetpack WordPress Plugin Update Adds More AI
Jetpack WordPress plugin updated with a new AI excerpt generator and a tiered newsletter subscription option
WordPress 6.3.2 Security Update For 8 Vulnerabilities
Important WordPress security release patches vulnerabilities, including one that could lead to a full site takeover
Research: GPT-4 Jailbreak Easily Defeats Safety Guardrails
Research shows how to bypass GPT-4 safety guardrails and make it produce harmful and dangerous responses
Right Now: Tell WordPress How To Make It Better For You
This is how to improve WordPress if you’re an SEO, recipe blogger or small business. But the window is closing soon
HTTP/2 Rapid Reset DDOS Vulnerability Affects Virtually All Websites
Details of a DDOS vulnerability that affects virtually every modern server is publicly releases
How AI Search Will Impact SEO
This is how AI search engines are evolving and how SEO should respond to keep up
GA4 Unveils New Way To Redact Personally Identifying Information
Google published documentation on GA4 Data Redaction Feature, which is turned on by default for new properties
Google Discover Documentation Updated
Update to Google Discover documentation clarifies why Discover traffic cannot be relied upon
Emails Show Google Search & Ad Execs Working Together To Increase Ad Revenue
Emails between Ads, Chrome and Search executives uncovers scheme to increase ad revenues
Is E-E-A-T A Ranking Factor?
Google’s E-E-A-T is important for top rankings in Google. So how come some say they’re not ranking factors?
Google Completely Removes How-To Rich Results
Google is simplifying the SERPs by removing the How-To rich results from desktop and mobile search in all languages
Google September 2023 Helpful Content Update – Changes To The Algorithm
Google’s September 2023 Helpful Content Update contains two algorithm changes that affect how sites are ranked