Webcology takes a deeper look at the ecosystem of the Internet as it affects webmasters and web marketers from the points of view of two well known web marketers, Jim Hedger and Dave Davies. Based on interviews with special high-profile guests or panels, Webcology introduces, explores and explains how the various segments of the web marketing world work.
Several years of Mobile First. What’s changed? Mobile-first indexing has been a topic for years, but have you stayed up to date? https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-mobile-first-index-guide/437472/ Google clarifies
Greg’s Guide to Social Media Algorithms https://www.searchenginejournal.com/social-media-algorithms/453220/ Roger Montti on LaMDA https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-lamda-sentient/454820/ Google updates its notes on HTTP status codes https://www.seroundtable.com/google-updates-http-status-codes-googlebot-job-posting-docs-33638.html Google: Hypens over underscores
Google Researcher Punished Saying ” Google’s Artificial Intelligence Had Achieved Sentience” as Google placed Blake Lemoine on leave last week after he published transcripts of
Google Core Update finished rolling out https://www.seroundtable.com/google-may-2022-core-update-done-rolling-out-33562.html EU Publishers and Webmasters can’t block US traffic without also blocking Google and Googlebot https://www.seroundtable.com/eu-publishers-block-us-users-google-33557.html Don’t add your
Reports say Apple is likely to announce a new user-centric web search. However, for the search engine to become functional, Apple wants to wait till
Jim and Kristine comment on the sudden passing of the great Bill Slawski, the Dean of SEO https://www.seroundtable.com/rip-bill-slawski-33446.html May 2022 Broad Core Update https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2022/05/may-2022-core-update More
Google Russia declares bankruptcy after Russian authorities seize bank account. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/05/googles-russia-subsidiary-is-filing-for-bankruptcy/ Canada forces Google and Facebook to pay news publishers for loss of ad revenue
Google Says Ignore Bad SEO advice and Removes Bad SEO Advice. https://www.seroundtable.com/google-drops-word-count-keyword-density-slide-33399.html All Search related stuff from Google I/O https://www.seroundtable.com/google-i-o-2022-search-related-announcements-33403.html Use it or Lose it
The Right to Remove Personal Identifiable information from Google https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-remove-pii-33326.html Google, “we’re not stealing your content, you’re stealing ours!” https://www.seroundtable.com/google-stealing-knowledge-panel-content-33328.html New editor-in-chief at Search Engine
New Google tool allows you to import goals from Universal Analytics (UA3) to GA4 https://www.seroundtable.com/universal-analytics-goals-import-google-analytics-33268.html Don’t tell them it’s broken Roger, tell them the issue
March 2022 Google Product Update has completed its rollout https://www.seroundtable.com/march-2022-google-product-reviews-update-live-33235.html Multiple Campaigns + multiple accounts support comes to Google Ads https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-aggregate-reporting-on-manager-level-33253.html No Technical method for
Jim and Kristine discuss Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover plus discuss a bubble chart that can help you understand which queries are performing well for your
Google is rolling out a new label is search results for pages that are recognized as highly cited sources. Plus, Google Analytics 4 is Examined
Jim and Dave speak with author Ted Harrington who argues that companies need to take a similar approach to secure their systems. He explains how
Beware the Ides of March! Google announces end to Universal Analytics . “Universal Analytics was built for a generation of online measurement that was anchored
Jim and Dave discuss how John Mueller of Google responded to a complaint on Reddit where the SEO or site owner was upset his one
This week we have another special guest, Olesia Korobka is a SEO consultant based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Olesia is compiling a list of SEOs in
Today’s episode was recorded the day Russia invaded Ukraine. Jim and Dave speak with two SEO industry members living and working in Kiev, Igor Shulezhko
Jim and Dave speak with Navah Hopkins, a search industry veteran, who has officially launched her consulting business, Navah Hopkins Consulting, LLC. Bill Hartzer.com reports:
1+ Million WordPress sites affected by vulnerabilities that could lead to remote code execution attacks https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wordpress-vulnerability-in-essential-addons-for-elementor/436179/ Webcology named as one of the 15 top SEO
Jim and Dave welcome back Mark Traphagen and Mitul Gandhi to discuss the launch of ClarityAutomate a groundbreaking new platform that solves the most fundamental
Danny Goodwin Talks to Jim and Dave About Joining Search Engine Land. Search Engine Land is happy to welcome well-known search marketing journalist Danny Goodwin
Google Union Busting https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/01/google-hired-union-busting-consultants-to-convince-employees-unions-suck/ Project Vivian.” In the words of one senior manager, Project Vivian existed “to engage employees more positively and convince them that
Moving into the New Year I have a strange sense of déjà vu. Tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 2020 Two, the updated edition. This
Jim and Dave speak to Mike Rhodes, a serial entrepreneur and founder of one of Australia’s largest digital marketing firms, Websavvy about his book, the
The SEO who wasn’t (learned a few tricks) https://www.seroundtable.com/seo-learned-a-few-tricks-job-32596.html Google <3’s affiliates just like affiliates <3 Google – No nofollow? No Problems https://www.seroundtable.com/google-wont-penalize-no-nofollowing-affiliate-links-32597.html You don’t
The Effect of Expired Landing Pages and other items from your website’s landfill on SEO https://searchengineland.com/how-expired-landing-pages-kill-your-google-rankings-377055 Great piece by Kasper Szymanski at SEL.Google local search
Jim Hedger hosts a Holiday SEO Roundtable Discussion with Kristine Schachinger, Jenny Halasz, and Ryan Jones. 6 signs you need to migrate your ecomm store. Now
Jim and Dave speak with Mark Traphagen (VP of Product Marketing & Training) and Mitul Gandhi, (Chief Architect & Co-Founder) of seoClarity. They discuss the
Old XML Sitemaps won’t help your migration recoveries very much https://www.seroundtable.com/google-old-xml-sitemaps-url-migration-32441.html Google’s SEO Interactive Checklist https://www.seroundtable.com/google-interactive-seo-checklist-32447.html https://developers.google.com/search Google Translated Search https://www.seroundtable.com/google-translate-help-docs-32446.html Google Updates Indian searches
Google November spam update is fully rolled out by @rustybrick. November Spam Update might be a bit less well adjusted than… https://www.seroundtable.com/google-november-spam-update-impactful-32394.html Hi Robot https://www.seroundtable.com/googlebot-ip-addresses-32402.html
Google Tackles Spam and Adult Content An update targeting content that doesn’t follow the Google guidelines started rolling out today. Named the November Spam Update…
Facebook changes company name to Meta https://cnb.cx/3blo77s The company will also change its stock ticker from FB to MVRS, effective Dec. 1 Out of the
Facebook Corporate Rebrand To Reflect Role In the Metaverse https://dailyhive.com/toronto/facebook-new-name-rebrand-report Story broke in TheVerge https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse Facebook doesn’t know how they will rebrand (short history of
More actionable error reports for Rich Results in Google Search Console https://www.seroundtable.com/google-rich-results-status-reports-detailed-32212.html Penalizing Interlinked Link Schemes https://www.seroundtable.com/google-interlinked-link-schemes-32207.html Carbon Rating your Flying Routes – Sustainable with
Are You Older Than Google? MUM (multitask unified model) It’s not just a new algorithm; it’s a new way of ordering and facilitating search -Things
Google Search Console Performance Data outage appears to have ended https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-console-performance-report-back-32131.html SMX will remain a virtual conference until at least 2022. https://www.seroundtable.com/smx-virtual-through-2022-32128.html Google is now
Jim and Dave interview Lily Ray, the Sr. Director, SEO & Head of Organic Research at Amsive Digital, where she provides strategic leadership for the
Sometimes website quality can’t be fixed with technical changes Maybe it’s not the Core Web Values. Perhaps it’s not links or that nasty pagination problem.
Google’s Data’s Gone Dave it’s Gone, the Data’s Gone… the data’s gone away https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-console-performance-report-data-gone-32011.html (read from page if necessary) Twitter $uper Followers Twitter is allowing
Rumour has it TikTok might have just bought a Virtual Reality company – Robert Scoble FB Tease The metaverse is quickly gentrifying from a virtually
Core Update Recovery – How do you know you’re on the right track? https://www.seroundtable.com/google-core-update-quality-changes-track-31940.html Keep Rollin’ Rollin’ Rollin’ Rollin’ – Google Spam Update still rolling
Maximize Discover results with the Max Image Preview tag.https://www.searchenginejournal.com/increase-google-traffic-with-max-image-preview-tag/416123/ Explaining Google’s new Work at Work or Lose at Home Pay Scale Plans https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pay-cut-google-employees-home-100348715.html In which
Dave Davies is joined by guest co-host Jason Barnard, CEO and founder at Kalicube. Google: If You Remove A Part Of Your Site, The Site
Webcology – July 29, 2021 We have another sad announcement to start the show with this week. Erik Stafford, the witty and well loved Creative
Google’s three strikes and you’re out ad policy https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-three-strikes-and-your-out-policy-31784.html (X) Warning: First instance of ad content violating our Enabling Dishonest Behavior, Unapproved Substances and Dangerous
July 2021 Core Update is over https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-july-2021-core-algorithm-update/413204/ seroundtable.com/google-local-core-update-31739.html Yandex SEO Comrad https://www.searchenginejournal.com/yandex-seo-guide/252885/ Google hit by fine by French Government https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-fined-e500-million-for-french-news-negotiation-breach/413436/ News Corp Website set up
Jim and Dave talk about Brand SERP optimisation and knowledge panel management with Jason Barnard, the CEO and founder at Kalicube. This is a day
Google puts all its policies on one page. https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-content-policies-31648.html (list of all it covers) https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/10622781 Spam Updates – Spam Algo update ran yesterday, another scheduled
Google Page Experience update is slowly rolling out. Will ratchet it up between now and end of August. https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2021/04/more-details-page-experience June 2021 Core Update v1 done.
