XLOOKUP and Crawl Spikes - Backlink Breaker #20
Lucky number 20, let’s dive in people.
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Chat Lifecycle Share Grows and Amazon Black Hat SEO Proves Fruitful - Backlink Breaker #19
I took vacation, but the world kept turning. Weird.
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Chat may soon become an essential...
Podcast Marketing Grows, Tumblr Sells, and AMP SSR Launches - Backlink Breaker #18
SEO life can be tough, but at least we don’t have to deal with Facebook Ad Manager. Amirite?...
Google’s Fresh Information Algorithm Update and New Image Search Design - Backlink Breaker #17
Everything felt good this week. Positive late summer vibes bleeding directly into the digital...
Backlink Breaker #16 - Tulsi Gabbard needs an SEO Consultant
Perspective Friday! Facebook generated $16.6 billion in Q2 ad revenue. That’s more than three...
Backlink Breaker #15 - New Knowledge Panel CTA, Yoast 11.7, and Emoji SEO
Did you notice any dramatic traffic or rank changes this week? The SEO community is buzzing around...
Backlink Breaker #14 - YouTube Monetization Features and Google News Card Layout
Are smart speakers are just surveillance devices? It’s naive to think that bringing a device into...
Backlink Breaker #13 - New Features from YouTube and Pinterest, Yoast 11.6, Overstock Success Story
Lucky number 13 is here. Overstock released some interesting details behind its recent, dramatic...
Backlink Breaker #12 - Standardizing REP, Mobile-First Dates, and LinkedIn Algo Details
The holiday week failed to slow anything down in the SEO and content marketing world. New features...
Backlink Breaker #11 - New Features from Google My Business and Yelp
Google My Business and Yelp both released new feature batches. Predictably, Yelp’s features are...
Backlink Breaker #10 - Red Handed Lyrics and Cloudflare AMP Real URL
Lyric scraping drama with a small UI update to the SERP were the highlights this week, as well as...
Backlink Breaker #9 - Google Core Rollout, AMP Link Bug, SEMrush Backlink Update
Google’s communications department gets an A+ this week with clear messaging on the core rollout...
Backlink Breaker #8 - Google June Core Update and North Face Blackhat Fail
Exciting week with Google’s core update announcement putting all SEOs on maximum alert and The...
Backlink Breaker #7 - Food Delivery, Mobile Index Defaults, and Yoast 11.3
Another week, another Yoast update (hey, maybe give the team a few days off?) along with some big...
Backlink Breaker - Search Quality Evaluator Updates, New Mobile Results, and Dynamic Content Indexing
I was wrong about GOT. I formally, and sincerely apologize to everyone. This is why I should stick...
Backlink Breaker - Podcasts in Search, Recent Review Weight, and Assistant Speed
Some nice, small updates this week. More importantly, I seem to be the only person who actually...
Backlink Breaker - New Structured Data, Evergreen Googlebot, 3D/AR in Search
Google I/O has been bringing the heat with all these new announcements.
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Google announced...
Backlink Breaker - 16 Days of Lost Data, Canonical Bug, Sitemaps vs Date On Page
Another week, another set of Search Console issues.
Backlink Breaker - Coverage Report Down, Images Up, and Wordpress AMP Story Support
We did it. Made it to episode 2. I’d like to take this moment to pat myself on the back for not...