Did Google Hit Forbes Advisor With A Search Penalty Over Site Reputation Abuse?
Google may have hit Forbes Advisor with a manual action, downgrading its rankings over maybe the site reputation abuse policy. Lars Lofgren wrote about this marketplace, as he put it, on September 18th and then a week or so later, it looks like it wa…
Google Search Console Recommendations Not Fully Rolled Out
About 8 weeks ago, Google announced Google Search Console Recommendations and rolled it out to a limited number of properties within the platform. Google said the roll out will be slow and yea, it is slow. Daniel Waisberg from Google confirmed on Fri…
3 core flaws of SEO audits (and what to do instead) by Crowdo

Automated SEO audits often lead to nowhere. Let a tailored SEO roadmap guide your business to success.
How to set up Hobo SEO Dashboard
Hobo SEO Dashboard is a tool in Google Sheets that helps marketers, SEOs and website developers perform an SEO audit report of any website. SEO Dashboard will autonomously run regular reports on every client in your Search Console to a schedule you set…
SEO Dashboard in Google Sheets
SEO Dashboard is the quickest way to accurately audit your website SEO, track your website performance and manage your SEO project. SEO Audit Reporting Domain Stats Reporting Winners and Losers reports on pages and keywords Rank tracking and analysis T…
Today Is Google’s 26th Birthday – Where Is The Doodle?
Today is the day Google would be celebrating its birthday or anniversary – September 27th. As Google posted last year, On September 27, 1998, Google Inc. was officially born.
15 AI tools you should use for SEO

Get more done in less time with these must-have AI tools to automate tasks, optimize content and improve your search engine rankings.
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Volatility With Gains & Losses, Updated Web Spam Policies, Cache Gone & More Search News
Google Search rankings gains were lost for many, followed more more volatility this week. Google updated its web search spam policies, with a focus on site reputation abuse. Google’s cache operator is now fully dead…
How SEO can work with digital marketing teams

SEOs can help boost digital marketing efforts through collaboration, all while championing the customer journey.
Report: Small Google Business Profile Updates May Trigger Re-Verification
Krystal Taing, a Google local product expert in the Google Business Profiles forum and Vice President at Uberall, said she is seeing a rise in re-verifications from Google Business Profiles even after just making small changes or additions to your Goog…
Google Local Panel Adds “About This Place” Section
Google is testing adding a new section named “About this place” to the local panel in the Google Business Profile listings within Google Search and Google Maps. This section shows you text and image reviews of this place in a stacked card format.
Bing Short Videos Now With Details
Microsoft is testing adding more details to the short video carousel it shows in Bing Search. Now it is showing video length, descriptions, a swipe to see more and other changes.
Spike In Removed Google Reviews On September 17th
Google seemed to have removed/deleted a ton of reviews from Google Business Profiles within Google Maps and Local search last week, around September 17th. This came a day or so before Google updated its Google Business Profiles review restrictions pol…
Google Search Content Suggestions In Specific Languages Toggle
Google has this setting some searchers can manage that lets them turn on or off seeing content in a language that is popular in their region. The searcher can either leave the content language suggestion on or turn it off.
Navigating Content Marketing Amidst the Rise of AI — Whiteboard Friday
In this episode of Whiteboard Friday, Ross talks about how search has changed and how we, as marketers, can navigate that change to produce quality content. With the increased use of AI and LLMs, content creation may seem more complex, but it’s still b…
The future of keyword targeting by Edna Chavira

Leverage your existing search expertise on a new performance marketing platform.
Key Google Search Console metrics to monitor every month

Refine your analysis techniques by learning how to effectively track technical SEO metrics in Google Search Console.
Google’s Ads Data Hub: What you need to know

Explore Ads Data Hub – Google’s tool for privacy-centric advertising insights, data integration, campaign optimization and more.
Google Search Ranking Movement Heated, Volatility Continues 9/25
Google Search still has not calmed its ranking shifts, volatility and movement. The search results remain incredibly volatile with rankings and traffic changing again in a big way over the past day or so. I know I sound like a broken record but even s…
5 ways to scale global search management

Here’s how consistent reporting, centralized SEO development and shared templates reduce friction and improve performance across markets.