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Best SEO blogs: 6 I recommend after 20 years in publishing
My picks for keeping up with search, sharpening your SEO skills and making better decisions for your website.
Google Business Profile adds new photo verification method
Google Business Profile now has a new way to submit a business photo as part of verification. Ben Fisher spotted this and…
How I used Fable 5.1 to spot likely automated queries in Google Search Console
Recently Google Search Console is showing some weird queries, which are highly unlikely to be something which a real human user is…
Google responds to user who lost ranking after disavowing backlinks
A user posted on Reddit describing a ranking drop after using Google’s Disavow Tool, asking for advice on recovery. Here’s what he…
August 2026 Spam Update impacted French SEOs
Google started rolling out August 2026 Spam Update on 18 August 2026 (12:30 PM ET) and the rollout was completed on 21…
Google Search Console social properties show strange search queries
Google Search Console recently introduced a new feature that allows property owners to see performance data for their social accounts. This property…
Google Analytics missing data for September 1
Google Analytics appears to be missing data for September 1. We’re seeing complaints about this on Google Analytics Forums, and after checking…
Bing tests removing site names from search results
Bing is testing the removal of site names from its search results. Instead, it’s just showing favicons followed by website URLs with…
Google answers whether old backlinks to hijacked domains hurt rankings
Google’s John Mueller replied on Reddit to a user asking whether Google would penalize a website for old outbound links pointing to…
Google search operators I still use after 20 years as a publisher
I have spent more than 20 years building and running publishing websites that live or die by search. For much of that…