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[Jim and Dave speak with Search Engine Optimization & SEO Consultant Bill Hartzer. He fills us on a recent announcement of the first Digital Search Summit event, being held as a part of the Merge! Show, this Fall in Orlando, Florida. He tells us how he is working with conference organizers of Merge! Show to put together a great set of digital marketing and search marketing sessions, presented by world-class speakers./>

[Jim and Dave welcome the ‎CEO at Spartan Media Jeremy Knauff and Jon Henshaw, the Director of Digital Marketing and Product Evangelist for TapClicks and Raven Tools. Jon is also the Co-founder of Raven Internet Marketing Tools, an online marketing management and reporting platform that was acquired by TapClicks in 2017. Jon talks about trying to build custom WordPress themes that are as fast as AMP, plus a roundtable discussion of some recent SEO headlines. />

[Joel Klettke gave an awesome presentation at Mozcon 2017 covering how to structure and develop content using what your customers tell you. He says the usual path and layout can be great but can also lead to a boring, useless page. He started a task to create great content and with the understanding that every conversion is a conversation. He warns that we focus on demographics but too little on motivation. Motivations guides us. If you want check out his presentation just click HERE/>

[Artificial Intelligence and The Truth About Mobile-First Indexing as Jim Hedger and Dave Davies welcome back Cindy Krum and Emily Grossman from MobileMoxie. Cindy calls back her MozCon 2017 presentation on The Truth About Mobile-First Indexing. She explains how Mobile-first indexing is REALLY about cloud-first indexing (URL’s are not required). With all the new devices, many without browsers or with tiny screens URLs are irrelevant./>

[​Back-to-school tips for Bing Shopping Campaigns​ Google confirms testing auto-play videos in the search results​; Google adds vacation rentals filter to hotel search results​; Google adds new SOS Alerts to search and Maps as part of its crisis response features​ Google officially changes Sitelinks design to carousel format​; Google has dropped Google Instant Search​ Google intros new call bid adjustments in AdWords​; Facebook is going to let publishers start charging readers to view stories​ NPR survey: Americans love their smart speakers, 42% call them ‘essential’​/>

[Google Search Console Sees Changes to Impressions and Position Data as Google made some changes to make searches with lower positions more accurate, which is reflected in the changes. Google has posted an update in their Data Anomalies list, as well as including a notation when you look at your data in Search Analytics within Search Console./>

[​New Google search console users​ who signed up for the service between June 21 and July 10, 2017 might notice that the data associated with those twenty days has gone missing. Greg Stirling covered the Future of Retail report​ from Walker Sands which notes that - 19% of consumers made a purchase using a voice controlled device in the last 12 months. - Millenials however 37% always or often shop online using voice controlled devices. - 43% of this group made a purchase using voice in the last twelve months. - 80% of all surveyed said they had not made a voice powered purchase and - 48% said they were unlikely to ever do so Message with Customers​​ in Google My Business​ Rand Fishkin Retiring!​ Early next year Rand Fishkin is stepping back from his role with the company he and his mother Gillian Muessig founded 16 years ago. Rand started SEOMoz back in 2002 and stepped down as CEO in 2014 to be replaced by current CEO Sarah Bird. Rand will remain Chairman of the Board and will assume the volunteer rol

[Today on Webcology Jim is Riding Solo, well sort of. Kristine Schachinger sits in with Jim to talk about Google getting hit with a fine from the EU, and SearchEngineLand Founder and SMX Conference Chair Danny Sullivan Retiring.After 21 years running sites about and covering digital and search marketing, it’s time for a change for Danny Sullivan. He's becoming an advisor to Third Door Media, a shift from my position as chief content officer. Third Door Media is the company that he cofounded with the CEO Chris Elwell, VP of programming Chris Sherman and VP of sales Sean Moriarty. It publishes the Search Engine Land, Marketing Land, Digital Marketing Depot and MarTech Today sites and produces the SMX: Search Marketing Expo and MarTech conferences. European Union regulators slapped Google with a record €2.4 billion ($2.7 billion) antitrust fine on Tuesday, the latest broadside fired at big American tech companies doing business in the region. The European Commission found that the U.S. tech giant denied "consume

[Today on Webcology the guys are joined by the ‎VP of Industry Insights with Yext, Duane Forrester. They talk about how the Launch of Yext App Directory Makes it Even Easier for Brands to Structure Digital Knowledge for the Intelligent Era. Duane has 20 years of direct search and digital marketing experience, including content development, planning ad campaigns, managing ad buys, running e-mail and social media programs and more. Extensive content planning and creation experience. Author of two business books about digital marketing and conversion optimization, published by McGraw-Hill. During his career, he gained experience in domain development, business development, audience development and public relations./>

[Today on Webcology the Guys are joined by Mike Dover, a very special guest to the show. Mike Dover is a writer, educator, technologist, and sometimes humourist. Most importantly, Mike is a modern thinker’s thinker. Many of you might be familiar with Mike’s first book, Wikibrands, Reinventing your Company in a Customer-Driven Marketplace coauthored with Sean Moffitt and forwarded by his long-term mentor Don Tapscott. (yeah, Mike is a protégée of Don Tapscott. For technologists, that’s something serious, somewhat a kin to being Mcluhan’s TA. Wikibrands challenged its readers to make their businesses and brands more empathetic and engaging, to be driven by a process designed to constantly deliver a better customer (or user) experience while sustaining the attention of the market and keeping it fun for the owners. After a truly bizarre week of truly spectacular PR disasters and the ham fisted or tone deaf responses from Bombardier to Pepsi, the White House and United Airways the value of Mike and Sean’s work co

[Google’s algos share useful data with each other; How featured snippets steal significant traffic from the top organic result; If you want to see it as Google sees it, render in search console; News being treated with your money or your life quality rating, according to new Google guidelines. Plus, Dave shares more interviews with PushCrew and Evergage at the 2017 Conversion Conference. />

[Following his Conversion Conference 2017 presentation (CRO tactics for making money with YouTube videos & ads) Dave Davies catches up with Greg Jarboe from SEO-PR. . They discuss conversion rate optimization tactics you should test on your YouTube videos and ads. Plus, Over-optimization is a thing. So are link-schemes./>

[Dave Davies speaks with Marty Greif , EVP of SiteTuners on location at Conversion Conference who spoke on a session called Ouch! – Avoiding Common CRO Mistakes for Marketing Executives. The show mourns the sudden death of 90's grunge rocker and lead singer of Sound Garden, Chris Cornell. Today the FCC Votes To Begin Rollback Of Net Neutrality Regulations, Jim talks about the pros and cons of the net neutrality rollback and what it will do to our internet. />

[On todays episode of Webcology Jim and Dave talk about the difference between spammy links and unnatural link. They touch on how it's not good SEO to always agree with Google, because they’re often wrong. The conversation of net neutrality is started based on the recent comments by HBO host John Oliver. Last but not least they go over the recent Landy Awards./>

[Today on Webcology Jim and Dave talk about how Google Chrome will add new ‘Not secure’ warnings later this year. Google assessing the ‘authority’ of web pages and has no single authority metric but rather uses a bucket of signals to determine authority on a page-by-page basis. Also Google Won’t Demote Pages For Linking to a 404 Page. />

[Google takes on Fake News and False information search results with Project Owl to launch a new emphasis on authoritative content to improve search quality. Jim and Dave speak on the disturbance in Google's advertising algorithms: currently Google raters are scrambling to adjust algorithms to no longer show unhelpful, offensive, or downright horrific content among ads. With this, Google’s army of live raters just became a militia. Google is busy launching new software like the new Google Assistant SDK, that can build hardware prototypes that include the Google Assistant, like a self-built robot or a voice-enabled smart mirror. Google advertisers start getting claims notices after parked domain PPC case settled for $22.5mm, the settlement stems from a case that dates back to 2008 about Google ads showing on error pages and parked domains. Jim and Dave discuss the huge drop on AMP pages over the last week in Google Analytics. Surprising to all, Google says 15% of all search queries are "new" to them - is it du

[Jim and Dave discuss social media imaging guidelines, YouTube's reduced subscriber criteria for their live stream feature, how Google will be launching "Google Hire" a job search service, and Google's 1210 acre land grab in Reno for future data center site. Jim and Dave also touch on the Google Earth's guided tours, importance of content hierarchy and website navigation, and Google's plan for a built in ad-blocker for Chrome. They go on to say Google offering its own ad-blocker in Chrome that targets specific types of ads that users find particularly annoying (like pop-overs and auto-playing audio and video) may cause those users to never seek out another third-party ad-blocking extension. They discuss how Google did not ban Infowars and how the right wing conspiracy machine had it wrong again, Ripoff Report subverting Google content takedowns through changing URLs, and Search Engine Land's columnist Megan Hannay's article on local reach in a post-rank world./>

[​A survey breaks down​ what those local SEOs believe are the most important ranking factors for both local packs and localized organic search results. Apparently Burger King​ listens to the show. LOTS OF H1s for everyone. Everyone gets a H1​. Domain age important in ranking, Meuller says NO​. />

[Today on Webcology Google’s Mobile first index unlikely to launch before 2018. Gary Illes, Next10conf. Remember, Gary is the person who predicted the coming Penguin update, starting in autumn 2015. They think its time to update the SEO Periodic Table. Every 2years Search Engine Land updates the table. Lastly, The future is PASO (Personal Assistance Search Optimization) – John E. Lincoln. Digital marketers should know where PAs get their information. If you accept the premise that the future of SEO is all about PAs and personal assistant search optimization, then you should be asking yourself the following question: “Where do PAs get all their information?”/>

[Jim and Dave discuss how the Trump Administration and Republican Congress are allowing ISPs to monitor, manipulate, and sell your private information - from financial, medical, social security number, browsing history, mobile app usage, content of emails and online chats to third parties that place the highest big without your consent and with no opt-out feature and how Canada is taking a different approach in this matter. They then discuss Kelsey Jones leaving Search Engine Journal to focus on her own business, MoxieDot and StoryShout. They follow up with the now free Google Optimize 360 and the impact of A/B testing; and how Google Home is integrating new features like August, Wink, LIFX, TP-link, Rachio, and Vivint. Jim and Dave talk more on the new era of technology and how 2018 will be so different from the world we know today in 2017./>