Chrome’s Site Engagement Metrics: Debugging or Something More Sinister? When you’re diving into the murky underbelly of the web, you’ll stumble across all sorts of tools. Some are shiny and straightforward, while others sit in the shadows, quietly shaping your digital world. One such shadow player is Chrome’s Site Engagement Score, part of Chromium’s codebase. […]

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The Sell-Off of Google Chrome: A Big Shake-Up in the Search Biz The name’s Chrome, Google Chrome. It’s the shiny piece of software everyone and their dog uses to surf the web. But now the big wigs at the DOJ want Google to hand it over. Why? Because having the world’s most popular browser and […]

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Mobile First Indexing: The Human Network In a world where data is the new gold, the way tech giants collect and utilize information often remains behind a veil. Hold onto your hats, folks—Cindy Krum has some eye-opening insights that might just make you see the web in a whole new light. In the nearly 45 […]

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Fake Clicks Could Be Harming Your Rankings Extra! Extra! Extra! Read all about it!  A new black hat, negative SEO tactic has been found harming rankings through fake “short clicks”. This has already been seen in the wild, harming rankings for important keywords. Read on for more details, and how to deal with the new […]

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Rand and Zero Clicks Recently Rand Fishkin posted this article about where click traffic goes after a search. He’s got some good points about optimizing for Zero Click traffic that SEO’s should be taking note of. However, I think the whole SEO is dead narrative is overblown. If anything, this data shows something else. I’ll […]

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If You Don’t Follow SEO You Probably Didn’t Hear Google recently leaked API documentation revealing how their Search Engine, YouTube, and Chrome work together. This could impact the Rumble vs. Google case and shows exactly how Google interfered with “Election Misinformation” and “Covid Misinformation” and hides other manipulations as well. This summary is for everyone […]

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