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Facebook moves to ‘fix’ the News Feed by de-emphasizing commercial content. The company said it’s trying to prevent posts from ‘businesses, brands and media’ from

The new Google Search Console is rolling out over the next few weeks to all webmasters and you will be able to access the new

Today on Webcology we ring in the new year with a whole new set of great breakthroughs. First the surprising thing Google learned about its

Jim Hedger and Dave Davies are joined Jennifer Van Iderstyne, Gretchen Shelby-Dormer Jeremy Knauff and Patrick Stox for a SEO 2017 End of Year Roundtable.

U.S. regulators ditch net neutrality rules as legal battles loom, plus Google isn’t just good for finding cat videos on the internet. The search giant’s machine

Net Neutrality Protests in front of Verizon stores; Feud between Amazon and Google has Google cut YouTube stream to Amazon products.If you’re in Zurich, John Meuller

Today on Webcology our hosts Jim Hedger and Dave Davies go through all of your weekly headlines. Google Expands Phone Call Organic Links In Search

Jim Hedger and Dave Davies motor through a litany of topics from Googles new features to Politics. , Google said they will not be moving

Today on Webcology we go through a massive amount content from the internet world. Google’s focus on local search the past couple of years has

Dave Davies returns from the MERGE Conference 2017 in Orlando and welcomes aboard alongside co-host Jim Hedger:Mary Davies (President of Beanstalk Internet Marketing, Inc.) who

Lurie has recently posted a presentation entitled Burying Hate Speech in the SERPS, where he explains,”Google tries to handle hate sites, but they can’t. Racist,

Today on Webcology we talk about everything need to know up and coming in internet toys. Plus we touch a very cool way a band

Today on Webcology the guys get into a bunch of different topics to keep you in the know. They speak about Google expanding phone call

Today on Webcology the guys talk about the Equifax leak, Google Brain, and changing your HTML to affect your search rankings. Sometimes you see the

Today on Webcology the guys talk about everything from Google to mobile web development. Ever wonder what the number one, most important, search ranking factor

On Today’s episode of Webcology Jim and Dave talk about all the latest and greatest in search engine optimization. Google upgrades flight and hotel search

Jim and Dave speak with Search Engine Optimization SEO Consultant Bill Hartzer. He fills us on a recent announcement of the first Digital Search Summit event,

Jim and Dave welcome the ‎CEO at Spartan Media Jeremy Knauff and Jon Henshaw, the Director of Digital Marketing and Product Evangelist for TapClicks and Raven Tools.

Joel Klettke gave an awesome presentation at Mozcon 2017 covering how to structure and develop content using what your customers tell you. He says the

Artificial Intelligence and The Truth About Mobile-First Indexing as Jim Hedger and Dave Davies welcome back Cindy Krum and Emily Grossman from MobileMoxie. Cindy calls

Back-to-school tips for Bing Shopping CampaignsGoogle confirms testing auto-play videos in the search resultsGoogle adds vacation rentals filter to hotel search resultsGoogle adds new SOS

Google Search Console Sees Changes to Impressions and Position Data as Google made some changes to make searches with lower positions more accurate, which is

New Google search console users who signed up for the service between June 21 and July 10, 2017 might notice that the data associated with those

Today on Webcology Jim is Riding Solo, well sort of. Kristine Schachinger sits in with Jim to talk about Google getting hit with a fine

Today on Webcology the guys are joined by the ‎VP of Industry Insights with Yext, Duane Forrester. They talk about how the Launch of Yext

Today on Webcology the Guys are joined by Mike Dover, a very special guest to the show. Mike Dover is a writer, educator, technologist, and

Google’s algos share useful data with each other; How featured snippets steal significant traffic from the top organic result; If you want to see it

Following his Conversion Conference 2017 presentation (CRO tactics for making money with YouTube videos ads) Dave Davies catches up with Greg Jarboe from SEO-PR. .

Dave Davies speaks with Marty Greif , EVP of SiteTuners on location at Conversion Conference who spoke on a session called Ouch! – Avoiding Common

On todays episode of Webcology Jim and Dave talk about the difference between spammy links and unnatural link. They touch on how it’s not good

Today on Webcology Jim and Dave talk about how Google Chrome will add new ‘Not secure’ warnings later this year.  Google assessing the ‘authority’ of

Google takes on Fake News and False information search results with Project Owl to launch a new emphasis on authoritative content to improve search quality.

Jim and Dave discuss social media imaging guidelines, YouTube’s reduced subscriber criteria for their live stream feature, how Google will be launching “Google Hire” a

A survey breaks down what those local SEOs believe are the most important ranking factors for both local packs and localized organic search results. Apparently Burger

Today on Webcology Google’s Mobile first index unlikely to launch before 2018. Gary Illes, Next10conf. Remember, Gary is the person who predicted the coming Penguin

Jim and Dave discuss how the Trump Administration and Republican Congress are allowing ISPs to monitor, manipulate, and sell your private information – from financial,

Jim and Dave discuss the security side of Facebook, mobile applications, the difference between the Facebook App and Facebook Messenger. Looking at the sheer number

State of Searcher Behavior Revealed; PayPal shares slide after Google announces rival email feature which leads to some commentary about Peter Theil. Google Allo can reveal to

Weight of Google Ranking Signals Changes Based on Search; Internal Links to About Us, Contact Us & TOS Pages for SEO; Long mobile load brings bigger bounces; Google

12 year Google veteran Mailie Ohye announced Tuesday she would be leaving former Developer Programs Tech Lead. The carousel is Mailie’s most recent contribution to

Jim and Dave are joined by Jonathan Allen. Co-Founder, President, Longneck and Thunderfoot. The guys talk about Google’s latest search features, virtual reality  in google

Jim Hedger and Dave Davies dive into the world of AI and artificial intelligence talking about voice first search and machine learning with Eric Enge

Jim and Dave talk to Rhea Drydale from Outspoken Media about brand and reputation marketing. Rhea presented at MozCon 2016 speaking about How to do

James Gandolfini Death, Build a Good Site not Links; Why Google Stopped Asking Job Applicants to Answer Impossible Brainteasers; Will Google Plus overtake Facebook for

Search Engine Optimization Companies: Break Google Rules to Get Top Rankings?Google Slaps Another Guest Blog Network: PostJoint; Also, returning guest Kristine Schachinger joins Jim and

Google Instant Apps are the abbreviated applications would be streamlined enough to start working immediately after users open them with a URL tap, temporarily loading the

DuckDuckGo Reaches 10 Million Searches; Matt Cutts Retires From Google, and chooses to head up the US Digital Service. Plus, Google Home units arguing over which

 Google confirms rolling out the mobile intrusive interstitials penalty. This penalty only impacts intrusive interstitials that happen directly after going from a Google mobile search result to

Some May See A Drop In Google Link Counts In Search Console;  Google: SEO Is One Of The Primary Reasons Websites Are Targeted For Hacking. Plus Jim

SEO AS Dirty As Ever. As much as the SEO industry wants to grow up and shed the shady reputation it had in the past,