Site migrations are necessary at times, but rankings and traffic can drop if you’re not careful. At SMX Next, Bruce Clay showed how marketers can ensure SEO success during site migrations. “Migration is a burden that we all have with websites,” said SEO industry leader Bruce Clay at SMX Next. “We have to upgrade them periodically. […]

ContentKing customers can continue to use the tool. Conductor plans to fully integrate ContentKing into its platform within 12 months. Enterprise SEO SaaS platform Conductor today announced the acquisition of ContentKing, a real-time technical SEO monitoring tool. The exact terms of the deal were not revealed, but Conductor CEO Seth Besmertnik told Search Engine Land […]

Data without wisdom is useless. That is why relying only on the recommendations of your SEO software is an inefficient way to do SEO. “Any SEO tool will spit out 10s or 100s of ‘recommendations,’ most of those are going to be irrelevant to your site’s visibility in search. Finding the items that make sense […]

There are multiple reports about ‘Untitled’ title tags appearing in Google’s search results that redirect users to spam sites. Google search results have been showing an “Untitled” title tag for some sites over the past 3 days. People who click on those sites are being sent to spam sites, according to postings from users on […]

This could make Semrush a more robust source of SEO knowledge and may help it pull away from other toolset providers. Semrush, the SEO toolset provider, has acquired SEO training website Backlinko, the company announced Wednesday, for an unannounced sum. Why we care. Semrush’s acquisition will likely strengthen the company’s own SEO education hub, Semrush Academy. This could […]

DuckDuckGo, the privacy focused search engine, keeps growing steadily. DuckDuckGo, the privacy focused search engine, announced it has surpassed 100 billion searches – all time. It posted this announcement on Twitter. 100 billion searches. Here is the announcement on Twitter: A year ago, the search company announced it was hitting over a 100 million searches per day. […]

On December 28, 2021 Google made a change to how it evaluates and reports errors in product structured data, so you may see a change in errors in that report going forward. Google has made a change to the rich result reports for product structured data on December 28, 2021. This rich results report is […]

In this webinar, discover exactly what you need to get in front of your audience and deliver on your 2022 marketing goals. It’s a new year, and it’s time to up your SEO game if you want to improve your rankings or keep your position at the top of Google results. With the end of […]

A lot has change since the Page Experience update rolled out. At SMX Next, Patrick Stox shared tactics to prepare for what’s next. When Google’s Page Experience update finished rolling out in early September, it changed how the search engine evaluates websites — namely, a new emphasis on user experience signals. In his session at SMX […]

In Windows 11, Microsoft made switching default browsers a multi-step process. After feedback and criticism, it reinstated the ability to change defaults with a single button. Microsoft has reversed the Windows 11 changes that made switching default browsers more difficult. Now, users who prefer Chrome, Firefox or other browsers can change their default with a single […]