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Ross and John hung out last week in Ohio and along with a lot of geek talk, they attended Content Marketing World for which they provide a synopsis. Further, they discuss the EU’s brain-melting approval of licensing fees for sharing news snippets and the likely global ramifications. They also cover a myriad of Mueller Files, and some great questions from their beloved listeners. Advertising Inquir...

Google’s results are attacked as “rigged”, how Google judges content by-page, a check-in on the Google Medic Update, and more. We’re gonna have to get Political… But he started it. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bing adds another bell and whistle to its fold, the hosts discuss some helpful SEO tips from Google, enhanced mobile featured snippets, and Ross rants about the need for image optimization for every site and that retina displays are not an excuse for overweight imagery affecting all users. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The hosts discuss how the latest major algorithmic update from Google has affected medical-based content sites, Google and China’s blossoming relationship code-named “Dragonfly”, interesting Mueller files, two great questions from listeners, and more. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Ross and John discuss some sad industry news. Google has released some new search quality guidelines worth mentioning, and a few SEO questions brought to Google’s Webmaster Central are put to rest. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this longer than usual episode, John and Ross discuss a cornucopia of news about Google, how to estimate SEO traffic levels, the $5b in EU fines Google is facing, a ton of Mueller Files, and so much more. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The hosts discuss Stephan Spencer’s points in his Ultimate Guide to Bot Herding and Spider Wrangling, updates to Google My Business reporting and Google Search Console, further evidence that Google Duplex is as good as it appears to be, and more. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Facebook appears to have some notable edges on Google that they are putting to good use in their Marketplace. John and Ross devote the remaining show to discussing Google Search Console news and tips that abound this week. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This episode delves into the negatives of some significant changes to the Google Search Console (in Beta), and Google My Business’s new Agency Dashboard rife with bugs. The two SEO geeks also discuss the mind-boggling 6 million manual actions Google applied to websites last year, a possibly earth-shaking Google patent, questions from listeners, and more. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.co...

Ross and special guest host David Harry of the SEO Dojo discuss a wide variety of SEO topics including splitting one site into two, future theories of web marketing, and common SEO client issues. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This episode discusses the first peek at Google Duplex and it’s incredible potential, insights on indexation of ugly sites and sitemaps, as well as questions from listeners. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This episode discusses the first peek at Google Duplex and it’s incredible potential, insights on indexation of ugly sites and sitemaps, as well as questions from listeners. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This episode is unique because Ross and John chose to feature a facet of regulation that has serious implications for all website owners. The show features guest Doc Sheldon, a fellow SEO who has delved deeply into the ins and outs of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and has confirmed that nearly all businesses (online and offline) will need to comply. Advertising Inquiries: https://r...

This episode touched on key elements of local SEO such as fake reviews, Google Maps, building reviews and new guidelines around review-gating, Google QA, tips on Schema markup, and much more. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This episode spread into several areas including defections from Google to Apple resulting in a new Head of Google Search, a fantastic April Fools joke on SEOs, the results of a great “ask me anything” (AMA) at Reddit with Google’s John Mueller, and questions from our listeners. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week’s episode got a little nerdy as John and Ross delved into some interesting insights on the mobile first index roll out, Google’s efforts to radically speed up the web with new standards, and a fascinating break down of a Google vulnerability that would have had been a blackhat’s wet dream. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privac...

Today’s show follows news of SEO 101’s Google Plus Community surpassing 10,000 followers. Ross and John discuss interesting data shared at the latest SMX West about voice search, Google’s testing of zero-result search pages (now stopped), and Google’s confirmation of a recent core update and what it means. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com...

Find out how you stack up to new industry benchmarks for mobile page speed. Stephan Spencer and  The Ultimate Guide to bot herding and spider wrangling P1. Google’s Not Perfect .. Bend Oregon was Missing for a while. Over 60% of Google Search AMP Clicks Go To Non-News Site (From Feb). John Mu clears up the differences in URLs with trailing slashes. Always a Risk of Losing Rankings when moving a si...

The hosts discuss the intriguing results of a voice search ranking factor study by Backlinko, followed by more news on Google’s Mobile First Index, handy new mobile tools from Google, and some Mueller Files. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This show covered a wide variety of SEO topics including the pending Chrome browser update, Google’s new efforts to improve WordPress, a compliment from John Mueller, a new AMP story feature, questions from listeners, and more. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

John and Ross welcome fellow SEO veterans Doc Sheldon and David Harry on the show to discuss a frighteningly impressive website hack that is designed to hijack SEO results. The discussion moves into other interesting findings in SEO audits, improving page speed, and more. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Google My Businesses QA is the topic of Discussion as Ross Dunn and John Carcutt welcome back Mike Blumenthal from GetFiveStars.com. They discuss Google Updates GMB Websites to Include Posts as they Pass 1.25 Million Sites Created and how My Business Now Officially Supports Video. We also learn about a PowerPoint presentation of his QA research, the announcement of a new product release and his ta...

On this first episode of 2018, John and Ross discuss the changes related to the December 12th Google Maccabee Update and a future rumoured update. They also delve into the first official release of Google Assistant Voice Search Guidelines and what they mean for SEO. Lastly, a few pieces of relevant news from John Mueller and a discussion about accepting cryptocurrency as payment in the realm of SE...

Today on SEO 101 John and Dave run down the latest in internet technology and programming. Google has confirmed with Search Engine Land that it has made a change to the way it displays snippets in search results. A snippet is the description of a page shown below the URL in an organic search result that helps show how it relates to the search query. Joy Hawkins discusses 10 Myths of Local at Local...

Google Adds To Featured Snippets: Images, Related Search Content People Relations; Google Tests Mobile Search Interface With Few Organic Results. Plus, Interesting insight into Foursquare from This Week in Local. As it turns out, Foursquare is often underestimated in terms of how many 3rd parties use it for data. Google Q A Rolling out to the Desktop. Plus, get local help with your Google Assistan...