Over a year ago, we first started noticing Google showing featured snippets with one source for the snippet itself while using a second source for the image.   Earlier this year, Google began to increase the likelihood of this happening, resulting in some upset webmasters who claimed the featured snippet, only to see a competitor’s thumbnail […]

It has been a well known secret that some major publications, such as Forbes and Huffington Post, have authors who are using their status as a regular contributor to make money on the side by adding paid links within their articles published on those sites.  And those authors make pretty good money from them, as […]

While many SEOs are trying to earn featured snippets for their sites in the search results, there are some SEOs who don’t like their content featured in the featured snippets by Google, especially when the answer is fully displayed in the search results. Currently, there is the nosnippet meta tag, but this isn’t the right […]

We have long known that Google has a ranking boost associated with page speed.  We also know that it tends to impact sites more negatively, where the page speed algo will not rank exceptionally slow sites as well, when there are other sites with a better user experience with load times.  And it is a relatively […]

Sites that require some kind of age verification gating system, such as you see on alcohol sites or some video game sites, can be a complicated thing when it comes to SEO.  On the one hand, those sites are required by law to ask someone’s age before viewing the content on the site.  But on […]

In a move that should come as no surprise to SEOs, Google has officially stopped using DMOZ as a source for sites and pages in their search results. DMOZ closed earlier this year, meaning Google no longer had an updated outside source – beyond the webpage itself – for pulling snippet information when the webpage […]