The SEMPDX conference, Engage 2017 Portland, formerly known as SearchFest, is being held on Thursday, March 9, 2017 at the Sentinel Hotel in Portland, Oregon. I'm honored to be speaking again this year at the conference, where I'm presenting on … [Continue reading]
Apparently I'm one of the top SEO bloggers, according to Google. If you search Google for this: list of SEO bloggers, you will see that Google is showing a list carousel of, well, SEO bloggers. And, according to Google, I'm number nine on the list … [Continue reading]
As of March 14, 2017, Dmoz.org, the Open Directory Project, will no longer be available. The word on the street is: DMOZ shutting down. If you go to the site's home page, you'll see the message from the editors: … [Continue reading]
I've written several times about various domain name email spam (scams) out there. There is one in particular, now, that seems to be very persistent with their sending of emails. The Subject of the email that you receive is usually "DomainName.com … [Continue reading]
Ever since Google started introducing Featured Snippets into their search results, I always thought of Google Featured Snippets as being informational and helpful. And, non-commercial. Well, today my opinion of featured snippets quickly changed when … [Continue reading]
According to Gary Illyes, a Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google, the Google search engine has no duplicate content penalty. In a Tweet on February 13, 2017, Gary said the following: … [Continue reading]