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Today’s Ask an SEO question comes from Sasank in Telangana, India, who asks:“Which is more suitable for starting a website in 2021: To start with a specific niche or a website that covers diversified topics (not a news/magazine)?”Sasank,…

Colan Nielsen noticed the other day that for some local keyword searches, Google will change the local pack header in the keyword spot to a brand name. Colan shared an example, I can replicate it, and said "Google is listing the…

Google has added a new business attribute to the Google My Business console. You can now specify if your business identifies as a Latino-owned business and if so, you can add that attribute to your business profile and highlight it in…

Did you know that Wikipedia has a WikiProject Spam section where it publishes all its link spam reports for all to see? That is basically a list of all those who do link drops on Wikipedia. Long story short, Google Search does not…

Google has added a multipage set of new help documentation around e-commerce best practices for Google Search. The docs include how to build the best possible e-commerce site for your users and Google Search.It seems to stem off a…

Google announced yesterday that Google Ads is moving away from last-click. Instead the data-driven attribution (DDA) will soon be the default attribution model for all new Google Ads conversion actions, Google said. In addition,…

Tons of startups are emerging every year, but only a small number of them become large companies. Why? You can do everything according to traditional marketing techniques, but still end up in the middle when the company needs a really big…

Google says websites can run into problems if they hide content behind captchas, as its web crawler won’t be able to see it.Googlebot doesn’t interact with anything when it crawls webpages.If it lands on a page with a captcha blocking the…

In a Google SEO Office Hours Hangout, Google’s John Mueller revealed that Google has “moved away from the 200 ranking signals number.” He said that having a number like that is misleading.Mueller said it’s not the case that the ranking…

It’s essential to understand your customer's behavior, especially when running a new website. The more you know about your visitors’ interactions with your site, the better you can match their search intent and earn more visits. Most web…