Graphic Journey
Olga Crawling Henry Nguyen, a computer science student at the University of Waterloo, scraped 50,000 websites from Resonant.live and displayed them as a graph. There are clusters of sites that all link…
Generalists vs. Specialists
Sure, here’s the text with an active hyperlink included: You don’t need to know programming, UX, web performance, etc. to be good at SEO. Aha! But how many truly excellent…
Review of the ‘disavow’ file and indexing status
1 = submitted (30% complete maybe) disavow file 2 = made Google crawl the pages from the disavow file No CPC because Google won’t let you buy clicks for this…
Quality assessment of blogs
From the Google patent US8442984B1 “Website quality signal generation”: “If a blog provides a link to a web page containing information that is not related to the topic of the…
Detect AI Text by Just Looking at it
The use of AI tools like ChatGPT and Mistral is becoming increasingly common. These language models can generate text that occasionally incorporates complex or less commonly used words, which may…
The dimensions of the Google ranking
Document Level Ranking factors responsible for assessing relevance usually operate at the document level. Something is considered relevant for search engines if a document or content is significant in relation…
Why affiliate programs don’t mean the best products
If your expert reviews only include products that have affiliate programs, is that really a “best” list? I’d argue it’s NOT. E.g. Titleist is the #1 ball in pro golf.…
Copywriter vs. SEO
I’m auditing a site that was written by a copywriter who knows nothing about SEO, says Taleb Kabbara. They hired an SEO agency to rewrite the content to make it…
“Success Stories of Publishers” Google
Someone analyzed several of Google’s “Publisher Success Stories” and found most were hit by either the HCU, March Core update, or both. Morgan: We are one of those success stories…
Google: New Rules for Old Materials
Information about artificial update policy violations has been added to Google’s documentation in the Manual Actions Report. The following appeared in the “News” and “Discover” policy violation sections: Google has…