The past month was a bit intense with Google search ranking volatility. With the June 2025 core update kicking off the day before July 1st, we started to see ranking movement in early July and it continues throughout the core update, even after it finished. It was just a super-heated month with Google Search.
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Google’s John Mueller answered a question about a site that received millions of Googlebot requests for pages that don’t exist, with one non-existent URL receiving over two million hits, essentially DDoS-level page requests. The publisher’s concerns about crawl budget and rankings seemingly were realized, as the site subsequently experienced a drop in search visibility. NoIndex…
Review platforms can help you build trust with your audience, improve online visibility, and gain a competitive edge. To choose the right review platform(s) for your business, consider: Which platforms are popular with your target audience How much effort and expense is needed to remain active on each platform What features you want from your…
Whether you’re working on a brand new website, or building your existing site’s organic presence, it’s important to showcase your topical authority to both Google and your audience. They want to see that the information you provide, or the products that you sell, are of great quality and are coming from a credible source. That’s…
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry is also the founder of the Search Engine Roundtable and the News Editor of Search Engine Land. He is well known & respected for his…
This week’s Ask an SEO question comes from Mike in Toronto who enquires: “For a small business that wants to sell products online, would you advise me to set up my own ecommerce website, or should I use a marketplace like Amazon instead? This is undoubtedly one of the most common dilemmas for small business…
Good content is good content, and top websites are top websites. These things don’t change. However, biases in the training data and partnerships can change which sources are mentioned by different AI Assistants. AI Assistants may also work slightly differently. By default, they don’t have any notion of websites and can make up sources. Looking…