Category: Search Engine Industry News

I just read a really sad message in the ongoing WebmasterWorld thread from a webmaster nicknamed browndog. This user shared that she has lost everything over Google ranking spammy, low quality content…

In the past couple months or so, we had some significant departures of key personalities from the SEO industry. First with Danny Sullivan retiring, then with the news around Rand Fishkin leaving Moz and then Matt McGee leaving Search Engine Land…
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Matt McGee has announced and posted on Twitter he is leaving the search industry, including Third Door Media and its properties, Search Engine Land, Marketing Land and MarTech Today.

After 9 yrs…

By now, most of you heard the news that Rand Fishkin is transitioning out of Moz, the company he founded 16 years ago. I’ve known Rand since 2005 or so, when he and I were moderators back at some old SEO forums…

By now, most of you heard the news that Danny Sullivan is stepping away from covering the search industry after 21 years of devoted service to our industry. He told me the news several months ago and I’ll be honest…

Earlier this month we shared a preview of the SEO: The Movie by John Lincoln from IgniteVisibility – well, it came out for free, fully, and is available for viewing…

John Lincoln, who we have cited her a few times, has spent the past several months producing a movie about our industry named SEO: The Movie. I saw a full draft of the movie and it was done very well. John released the trailer and will be releasing t…

Rishi Lakhani posted on Twitter a link to an awesome robots.txt file he wrote at fastfwd.com/robots.txt which says “DEAR GOOGLE, SINCE THIS IS THE ONLY TIME YOU COME TO ME, LET ME TALK TO YOU…

A couple weeks after Matt Cutts announced his official resignation from Google he posted potentially a final post on Google+ – it was <3.

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With no surprise to I am sure most of you, Matt Cutts, the man at Google who helped shaped the SEO community from within the search engine, has announced he has officially resigned from Google. His last date at Google officially was December 31, 2016…

At Pubcon last week they held the US Search Awards and Brett Tabke…

Sad news for the industry broke yesterday, although there is no official word from the owners of Search Engine Strategies. The conference program founded by Danny Sullivan back in November 18, 1999 in San Francisco under the Search Engine Watch brand….

Moz did massive cuts last week, where 28% of their staff, or over 60 people…

Many of us have really good friends and colleagues at Moz. In fact, I’ve known Rand Fishkin since before there was a Moz/SEOMoz…

Facebook has a job listing up to hire a SEO or SEM engineer. I am not sure why it says SEO or SEM, why not SEO & SEM or SEO only or SEM only because the job description seems very SEO oriented.

The deal is…

News this week broke that Cranberry, a content marketing, and amplification platform founded by PRWebâs founder David McInnis, has acquired WebmasterRadio.FM. With that, WebmasterRadio.FM is now known as Cranberry.fm.

WebmasterRadio…

Truth is, I hate April Fools day because it messes with people like me who try to find real news. But some of the jokes make me laugh, so it is all good. Also I have way too much going on, on the 1st of the month. Client billing, payroll, my weekly …

This is a first, the fine folks over at Majestic, a tool many many SEOs use for link detection and management, amongst other things, announced that they sent up a 3D printer into space…

As many of you know, I am fascinated with the SEO community and how it reacts to changes that Google makes. So I had the opportunity to to interview Pedro Dias…

On April Fools, Matt Cutts, the on leave head of Google’s search quality team, announced a new spam tool named AutoSEO. He said you can request to be part of a limited beta and provided this form to fill out…