Webcology

Aussie Journalists Get Help From Facebook and Google Facebook agrees to Aussie journalism fund Google already agreed to pay Australian journalists through its News Showcase program Critics argue the agreement sets the bar for compensation too high with companies elegiable under Australian legislation needing to earn more than $150,000AUD in annual income. Page Experience update will not be overwhe...

Texas How to help How to survive No Aussie News on Facebook isn’t Google News for Aussies https://www.searchenginejournal.com/facebook-removes-australian-news/396312/ The Boney M Rasputin TikTok Challenge YouTube explores new ways for creators to make money on its platform https://www.searchenginejournal.com/youtube-is-adding-new-ways-for-creators-to-make-money/396423/ Developers rejoice – Google...

Michelle Stinson Ross – Marketing Director at Mindful Abby, a mental health focused startup. Michelle is one of the go-to social media experts in the industry. Google Goes Dark Mode https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-dark-mode-theme-controls-30907.html Harder to see paid ads https://www.seroundtable.com/google-dark-mode-google-search-ads-30913.html Google Phrase Match expands to cover Broa...

AI and Google Ads Auto-Applied Recommendations https://searchengineland.com/tactical-advice-on-google-ads-auto-applied-recommendations-control-center-345740 About this Result https://www.seroundtable.com/wikipedia-gatekeeping-about-this-result-google-30872.html The Google Experience Trust Mark https://www.seroundtable.com/google-experience-update-label-all-factors-complaint-30870.html Core Web Vit...

Webcology – January 28, 2021 – An It was the Worst of Times edition. Hamlet A sad story started spreading through the SEO community last night as word of Hamlet Batista’s passing emerged through Facebook and Twitter. A small number of people close to him knew he was sick for several weeks but Hamlet wanted to keep it quiet. He had somehow contracted COVID after doing everything he could to avoid i...

Old Disavow Tools is gone, replaced by the Disavow Links List. Apparently it does the same thing but speculation suggests it might rat out sketch sites.  https://www.seroundtable.com/old-google-disavow-tool-shut-down-30759.html Don’t pay bloggers to write for dofollow backlinks. Pay writers to write. Google!!! https://www.seroundtable.com/bloggers-dofollow-backlinks-google-guidelines-30771.html Go...

WordPress now offers Website Development https://www.searchenginejournal.com/built-by-wordpress/392315/#close Automattica is the business arm of WordPress, the one that runs WordPress.com, WooCommerce, JetPack, Gavatar, and Akismet. Will introduce web development business with site prices starting at $4900. Matt Mullenweg suggests the move targets Wix and Squarespace rather than traditional websit...

Welcome to Webcology on WMR.FM, the post-revolution edition. I call it that because something remarkable has happened in a horrible but less than disastrous way. The revolution has ended and, after four years of division, lies, distortions and horrible economics, the revolution has clearly failed. The fascists lost and, though they took the country to the brink of collapse, the traditions, institu...

Chris Brogan is president of Chris Brogan Media, offering business storytelling and marketing advisory help for mid to larger-sized companies.  Chris is a sought after keynote speaker and the New York Times bestselling author of nine books and counting. He’s working on his tenth: title forthcoming. Chris has spoken for or consulted with the biggest brands you know, including Disney, Coke, Google,...

Daniel Faggella is the founder of Emerj Artificial Intelligence Research and is best known for being an unbiased voice covering the applications and implications or artificial intelligence in industry and society. Founder and Head of Research at Emerj Artificial Intelligence Research, Daniel Faggella is an internationally recognized speaker on the use-cases and ROI of artificial intelligence in bu...

Last episode of 2020 and throughout the show our spirits were flying through COVID’s dark glow. The stories were loaded, all devil may care in hopes something useful was there to be shared. With thoughts of old Chicago all snug in our heads we just want to put a craptastic year to bed. Because exhaustion and distraction get nothing good done and perpetual lockdowns are not very fun. And Google is...

Top-Trending 2020 YouTube Videos Demonstrate Longer Is Stronger | These 10 videos made it to the top this 2020. Get insights on video length and strategies to help you make better content. Google Transparency Core Updates Greg Sterling leaving Third Door Media and Search Engine Land Google December 2020 Core Update still rolling out US Government moves to break up Facebook Rural Broadband is avail...

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Happy Birthday, Brasco! It’s the 45th birthday of Jorge Brasco Hermida, WMR.FM and CannabisRadio producer extraordinaire! In fact, today should be a commemorative day in tech history. Sad news. The Hand of God reaches out for Diego Maradona, dead at age 60. Jim and Dave covered ideas for small businesses to improve their holiday search marketing as quickly and efficiently as possible. Advertising...

GWC is now GSC but not the GSC you’ve come to know and love? WTF? That used to be GWT. Confused, you won’t be after this episode of Webcology, or SOAP, it’s hard to tell the difference sometimes. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Google: Home Page Outranking Internal Pages For Deeper Keywords How Google Chooses Canonical Page | Google's Gary Illyes shares details of signals and weightings used for identifying canonical page and duplicates. Most SEOs Use Few SEO Tools & Don't Spend Much On Them. Google – Code Push to get stuff published. SEO Tools left sitting in the chest. Dupe and Canonicalization. And Google...

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Navah Hopkins is the Director of Paid Media at Hennessey Digital to chat about what's going on in the paid world. Navah Hopkins is the Director of Paid Media at Hennessey Digital, an integrated digital marketing agency helping our customers own their markets via PPC, SEO, CRO, PR, and Content. A veteran of the digital marketing industry, she began as an SEO in 2008, transitioning to PPC in 201...

Robert Nickell, Founder, and CEO of Rocket Station joins Jim and Dave to chat Virtual Assistants and use them to enhance SEO. Robert Nickell is the Founder and CEO of Rocket Station, the leading provider of outsourced staffing and process management for the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry. Operating in Dallas Ft Worth since 2013, Rocket Station helps small to mid-sized businesses hire...

In a priority of problems... Google tells us their canonicalization bug and mobile-indexing problems SEOs self-diagnose gender, racial, ethnic, and sexual orientation-based bias as a problem in the wider industry. According to an exhaustive report issued yesterday by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook wield monopoly power over their respective market...

The COVID crisis has lasted six months and a week and maybe more and Jim says he’s starting to lose it as both his and Dave’s regions enter a distinct second wave of the virus. The conversation strays around the news of the week with a constant loop back to planning for a future with fewer in person gatherings and retail opportunities. Going into a new growth phase of the disease is frightening bu...

It’s about six months even in the ongoing COVID crisis and we’re starting to see numbers crawl upwards in central and western Canada again. Transmission appears out of control in the United States though some states appear to have a handle on it. It was a busy week in search with a lot of items to cover. Google has shown such volatility various forecasting tools are constantly suggesting a Google...

Google says a lot of things. Sometimes the search engine’s spokespersons are incredibly transparent and sometimes they’re bizarrely opaque. Sometimes they contradict each other and sometimes the effects of technologies being innovated on the far side of the Googleplex aren’t as well known by their spokespersons around the world. Today Jim and Dave discuss a number of things Google’s said in the la...

It's been about six weeks since Jeff published a Search Engine Journal article ( https://www.searchenginejournal.com/math-decode-google-algorithms/374391/) questioning the methods, conclusions, and qualifications of many SEO studies that try to decode Google's algorithms. Jeff Ferguson, partner at Amplitude Digital, joins Jim and Dave to talk about the statistical science, or lack thereof,...