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We all know how good Google is at understanding and crawling JavaScript, AJAX and complex web pages in many forms, but Google’s John Mueller said, when it comes to discovering links within onclick events in JavaScript, sometimes Google is not able to follow such links. John...

The problem is that this advice is lost upon what would appear to be a worryingly large portion of the SEO world. At critical points, the SEO community has proven that they are prone to not only making knee-jerk reactions, but then vehemently defending these reactions long after...

Matt Cutts posted on his personal blog some terrible personal news that explained his wife passed away this week. Matt never mentioned his wife by name, but always referenced he had a wife and how much she has meant to him. I was always felt a deep sense of love and admiration in...

Just when we thought the saying “Content is king” was gone for good, there it goes showing its sneaky little face again in the search engine optimization (SEO) world. Bearing in mind also that “Content is queen,” it appears that content is, in fact, pretty danged important — so...

In the Google webmaster hangout last week, an SEO who is going on a job interview at a really huge web site, a news publisher he said, wanted some advice from Google’s John Mueller on how to impress them with his SEO skills. So he asked some questions about how really large...

We’ve been hearing about mobile-first indexing forever, and now the changes are here. Contributor Jim Yu shares five ways webmasters can optimize their content and on-site technical elements to succeed in the new world. After a relatively lengthy wait, Google has started to...

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google launches Outstream Ads to boost video reach beyond YouTube Apr 18, 2018 by Greg FinnA new video ad format brings video to mobile...

During my career, several executives have asked why so many of my search engine optimization (SEO) team members are poached by other teams in the organization. The answer is always the same: True SEO professionals evolve quickly and are in a constant mode of progressing their...