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It's officially done the Google spam update for March 2024 has completed. After 14 days and 21 hours it's all over. How did you do? First some background. On March 5, Google announced its commitment to removing unhelpful, irrelevant, and unoriginal content from search results. This initiative...

According to our sources and corroborated by Search Engine Land, and The SEM Post, Google has confirmed that it is removing ToolBar PageRank. You may have noticed that your Google PageRank is showing as unavailable, if not yet, it soon will. This removal will be a process that spreads over the...

SEO remains a core focus of website owners in 2015, but practical considerations like improving search rankings aren't the only motivational factor that goes into a site redesign. Aesthetics may not seem as important as boosting searchability, but users' impressions of and experiences with a...

Companies in the United States are revising their employee handbooks following instances in which the National Labor Relations Board went to bat for employees sanctioned and fired for posting about their jobs on social media. As the Chicago Tribune detailed, workers are still prohibited from...

The majority of senior-level marketing decision-makers are still not factoring SEO into their budgets, according to the recent Marketing Silos report released by Hotwire, a global public relations agency that specializes in tech. Even though search engines are a key part of digital advertising...

What tools and services does the average member of the online search marketing industry use? In a bid to answer that question, Moz recently collated the responses of more than 3,600 search marketers, "each one more intelligent and good-looking than the last," quipped Dr. Peter J. Meyers...

Over the past decade or so, social media has undergone a dramatic transformation. The social networking sites of yesteryear (think MySpace and Friendster) seem positively archaic compared to today's heavy hitters. As modern-day platforms proliferate, each one is becoming known for certain...

We are seeing some reports of issues with our new caching service at the moment. If you go into a thread it's service as usual, BUT on some of the main pages it appears as if you are logged out when you are not. We are rolling out a resolution for this at the moment, it should be fixed in...