Everything you need to know about the Google MUM update

As new search experience dimensions open up for users this also cranks up competition between businesses and advertisers for search visibility – how will you win MUM’s good graces?

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SEO in 2021: What your organization’s executives and senior leaders must know

Merkle Inc.’s VP Head of SEO, Eryck Dzotsi discusses six key focus areas that senior leaders across organizations must understand about the role of SEO to drive organic search performance

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Making the argument for nofollow links in SEO

Making the case as to why your SEO team should pursue or at least respond to opportunities even though the result will be another nofollow backlink.

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Google Page Experience update is all set to launch in May 2021 – Webmasters, hang in there!

Here’s how Google’s new algorithm changes can affect your page rankings, as well as the practical steps you can take to stay on top.

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How NLP and AI are revolutionizing SEO-friendly content [Five tools to help you]

It’s exciting to see how SEO, NLP and AI will evolve together. Writer.com’s Co-founder and CEO, May Habib discusses in-depth about SEO content and shares top tools to help you through the content creation process.

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Debunked: Nine link building myths you should ignore in 2019

The link building industry is flooded with many myths that’ll never get you results but can get you into a lot of trouble. Nine myths debunked.

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An updated look at Alpha-Beta in a world of close variants

Google updated their exact match close variants to include implied words, paraphrase words and same-intent keywords. How does this affect Alpha-Beta?

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A cheat sheet to Google algorithm updates from 2011 to 2018

Google makes changes to its ranking algorithm almost every day. Some of them remain unnoticed, others turn the SERPs upside down. This cheat sheet contains the most important algorithm updates of the recent years alongside battle-proven advice on how to optimize for these updates.

Google’s core algorithm update: Who benefited, who lost out, and what can we learn?

There’s been much talk recently about Google implementing a broad core algorithm update. Google has suggested that this update has nothing to do with the quality of content, and instead focuses on improving the quality of the SERPs. However, if Google wasn’t testing quality, what exactly were they testing? Who benefited from the update, and what can we learn from it?

Google’s Page Speed Update does not impact indexing

In response to questions raised in the community, here’s clarification about how indexing is impacted by the Google Page Speed Update.

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From algo to aggro: How SEOs really feel about Google algorithm updates

Algorithm updates got you down? You’re not alone. Columnist Jamie Pitman shares highlights from a BrightLocal survey seeking to understand the ways that algorithm updates impact SEO practitioners’ jobs.

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Google confirms mid-December search ranking algorithm updates

As the updates continue to roll out, early indications suggest disruptions in mobile SERPs, sites with no schema data & those relying on doorway pages being most impacted

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‘Ask Me Anything’ with Google’s Gary Illyes at SMX East

Have questions about Google’s stance on organic rankings? On featured snippets? On the mobile-first algorithm? Get answers in contributor Eric Enge’s recap of this informative session at Search Engine Land’s recent conference.

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