SEO Rockstars

Chris Boggs and Frank Watson discuss New Title and Description Lengths for Google SEO in Search Results.  Google has increased the width of the search results for nearly all users (although they could roll it back at any time). Google Search Queries With Commercial Intent Return More Ads In Results as Data from BrightEdge released reveals the impact of changes to Google’s recent ad layout on organ...

Bing reports One-Quarter Of Searches Are Voice Search Queries as one in four searches on the Windows 10 taskbar using Bing are voice queries. Plus: The State of Mobile Web – US 2015  Google is testing a radical change by turning people's search results blackLocal Businesses: How Google Displays Search Analytics Data in Search Console  Google Search Console updates the Search Analytics report a...

Google AdWords Expanded Headlines Now LiveGoogle Adds New “Instant Content” Feature in Search ResultsGoogle brings back in-depth articles to search results after 17-day outagePPC spend impacting SEO CTR for generic terms https://lseo.com/5-essentials-creating-content-strategy/Creating a Content Strategy? Don’t Forget These 5 EssentialsGoogle Webspam Report: Google Manually Penalized 500 Sites Per...

Frank Watson and Chris Boggs discuss:  How Bloggers Can Fix a Manual Penalty Caused by Compensated Content Reviews Should You 301 Redirect Old Product Pages to Existing Category Pages on Sites? 6 Key Areas of a Comprehensive Website Audit How local search and discovery apps will generate $12.2 billion in revenue annually in 2020, up from an estimated $3.4 billion in 2016  Image compression as a ta...

Google Issues Mass Unnatural Outbound Links Penalties as Google has issued a large number of unnatural links penalties over the weekend, specifically around outbound links. Plus, Brands Losing Trust In Google To Serve Most Valuable Search Results after the UK Advertising Standards Authority found eDreams advertisements running on google.com misleading, prompting consumers to book higher-priced tic...

How SEO Best Practices Became Irrelevant and What You Need to Know to Compete Better in the SERPs. Plus, Google Pumps Up Cloud Platform With Machine Learning as Google execs at the GCP Next 2016 conference pitched the company’s cloud platform by highlighting advantages, including security, commitment to open source, and machine learning. Also, Chris Boggs and Frank Watson run through a TensorFlow...

Former Googler: Google’s Early March Update Gone Unnoticed Long Enough as Glenn Gabe posted some data for one of his non-clients on Google+ . Plus, Google to boost mobile-friendly algorithm this May as Google announced increase in mobile-friendly update factors, but don’t expect another Mobilegeddon. Also, Why real-time search algorithm updates may be bad news. With real-time algorithm updates bec...

Google SERPS  is removing all Right Hand Side Ads on SERPs worldwide as ads will now only show ads at the top and bottom of the SERP. Although it may increase the number of ads from three to four if the search query is “highly commercial.” Plus, Which US sites gained the highest Google visibility in 2015? Google’s Review Stars Rich Snippets Continue to Drop in Search Results as Google began to dro...

Google SERPS  is removing all Right Hand Side Ads on SERPs worldwide as ads will now only show ads at the top and bottom of the SERP. Although it may increase the number of ads from three to four if the search query is “highly commercial.” Plus, Which US sites gained the highest Google visibility in 2015? Google’s Review Stars Rich Snippets Continue to Drop in Search Results as Google began to dro...

Pulp Fiction Ranking Factors; 7 Characteristics That Can Make A Link “Bad” For SEO; Judging a Link’s True SEO Value and Google’s Medium investment and SERP play (scraping for knowledge graphs).

Chris Boggs gives us o a quick review of Pubcon, plus he and Frank Watson share some Cost-Efficient Tips for Ramping Up Your SEO, plus Google Looking to add Featured Snippets to Search Results. Also, Do Googlers use their knowledge when they leave.

Non Mobile Friendly Sites Disappearing from Top Organic Results; 35 Ways To Make Your Site Search Friendly Before You Hire An SEO; Google testing Local Pack Without Plus Links;  Google Local Search Ranking Factors Revealed.

Google Confirms Another Core Search Algorithm Update; Google PSA: Don’t Add Noindex Directives In Your Body Content; SEO Website Migration; Google Rolls Out YouTube Newswire, Curates Real-Time Eyewitness Clips; Google: Write A Great Reconsideration Request, Get Back In Fast Like Thumbtack; Essential SEO Suggestions to Enhance your Site Rankings.

Line changes in serps using search for SEO and How to Make Seasonal Keyword Heatmaps. Now Google see you, now they don’t. Danny Sullivan on the State of Search Marketing in 2015. Chris Boggs and Frank Watson also go through the 2015 Google On-page SEO Ranking Factors List.

Frank Watson and Chris Boggs weigh in on a recent HubStaffarticle which lists 20 SEO Tips from Marketing and Content Industry Experts. We hear takeways from the likes of Bruce Clay, Danny Sullivan, Marcus Tober , Joost De Valk and others.

Jim and Chris give their  thoughts about Pubcon 2014 in Las Vegas,  Google not updating PageRank Anymore and some Google PageRank Alternatives. Plus, Google Penguin 3.0:  Is It Too Late To Disavow Links Once They Show In Google Webmaster Tools.

Chris welcomes Frank Watson of Kangamurra Media discuss some stories that flashback to the closing of two throwback platforms. Plus, Switching to HTTPS Will Not Increase Your Search Rankings; Google Panda 4.1 Now Rolling Out; Aims To Help Smaller Web Sites; Bye Bye Yahoo Directory;  Fare well, Orkut, the story of Googles first attempt at a social network .

Headlines include: Google Penalizes Private Blog Networks;  Baidu Chief Scientist predicts half of web searches will soon be speech and images.  Google Has Tightened Its European Search De-Listing Request Process; Google Adds Structured Snippets To Search Results

SEO Rockstars Celebrates 200 Episodes; Google Indexing Google Maps Search Results Pages; Google Notifying Webmasters Of Sitelinks Search Box Via Webmaster Tools ;Google Patent Changes Ranks Based on TV Viewing

Google Confirms Penguin Refresh Needed to Recover  Google Brings PLAs  Product Listing Ads To Third-Party Sites Like Walmart.com. AdSense for Shopping and Yahoo doing same thing. Google Changes Documentation On Mobile Redirection From 302 To 301 Redirects ; Google's Matt Cutts Migrates His Blog To HTTPS; Google: Responsive Design Doesnt Get Better Ranking Directly.

Google has completely dropped all authorship functionality from the search results and webmaster tools. Amazon is planning to launch their own online advertising program, which includes replacing all of Google’s ads. Eric Schmidt says unbreakable' encryption is coming and Google Webmaster Help Announces Series of Reconsideration Request Tips to Help Penalized Webmasters;  Google Now Crawling F...

Google is prepping to issue penalties for content spam guest blogging; Google IPO 10 years ago this week; Google Targets Two European Link Networks; Google Penalties Reappearing In Manual Spam Action of Webmaster Tools. Yahoo’s New CIO Plans to Bring Tech Cred Back.

A new law imposing restrictions on users of social media has come into effect in Russia. It includes measures to ensure that bloggers cannot remain anonymous, and states that social networks must maintain six months of data on its users. Also, Chris and Daron discuss how some SEOs feel that long tail traffic from Google is not as effective as it once was.

Googles John Mueller on The Effects Of Duplicate Content In Search; Google Penalty May Have Cost eBay 200 Million dollars and It Keeps Getting Worse; What is the real impact Google Hummingbird has had on search?

Daron and Chris run down a list from a MarketingLand article breaking down the 10 Lies You Should Never Believe From SEO Gurus. Promising customers The number 1 Position on Google, links, Duplicated Content, keyword stuffing are just some the myths the Rockstars break down.