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This day in search marketing history: January 31

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This day in search marketing history: March 27

Google research finds a #1 organic ranking can still benefit from PPC, plus: RIP Blekko, authorship, Google robots.txt generator and more.

Danny Goodwin | Mar 27, 2023 at 12:01 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: March 26

More sites move to Google mobile-first indexing, plus: Google penalizes entire site over one guest blog post, Google Maps logo bomb and more.

Danny Goodwin | Mar 26, 2023 at 12:01 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: March 25

Google Panda patent granted, plus: Microsoft starts IndexNow push, mobile-friendly update details, AdWords remarketing and more.

Danny Goodwin | Mar 25, 2023 at 12:01 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: March 24

Google’s top 3 search ranking factors, plus: Google Maps blocks abusive business profile edits, Google penalties and more.

Danny Goodwin | Mar 24, 2023 at 12:01 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: March 23

March 2022 product reviews update launches, plus: PPC salaries, Google Panda 3.4, Yahoo Search Direct and more.

Danny Goodwin | Mar 23, 2023 at 12:01 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: March 22

Google AdWords forces use of call extensions, plus: zero-click searches, rel=next/prev apology, PC search query volumes peak and more.

Danny Goodwin | Mar 22, 2023 at 12:01 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: March 21

No more rel=next/prev support on Google, plus: CTR patent, neural matching versus RankBrain, Google wins KinderStart case and more.

Danny Goodwin | Mar 21, 2023 at 12:01 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: March 18

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Danny Goodwin | Mar 18, 2023 at 12:01 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: March 17

Google AdWords further dilutes exact match, plus: DMOZ officially closes, Matt Cutts hints at HTTPS ranking signal and more.

Danny Goodwin | Mar 17, 2023 at 12:40 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: March 16

Google to sunset Universal Analytics, plus: Google's doorway page penalty, over-optimization, Chrome’s paid link penalty ends and more.

Danny Goodwin | Mar 16, 2023 at 12:01 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: March 15

Spurious SEO trademark claim fails, plus: core updates named, EU wants Google's ranking factors, BBC link penalty and more.

Danny Goodwin | Mar 15, 2023 at 12:01 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: March 14

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Danny Goodwin | Mar 14, 2023 at 12:01 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: March 13

Google hides organic search listings plus: broad core search algorithm update, Panda updates, author rank, incremental ad clicks and more.

Danny Goodwin | Mar 13, 2023 at 12:01 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: March 12

Go inside a Google search quality meeting, plus: Google core search ranking algorithm update, how Google prices and ranks ads and more.

Danny Goodwin | Mar 12, 2023 at 1:01 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: March 11

Google officially acquires DoubleClick, plus: how dates in Google snippets work, nofollowing links, interest-based advertising and more.

Danny Goodwin | Mar 11, 2023 at 12:01 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: March 10

Google and Bing exception lists, plus: key moments, HTTPS URLs not showing, Google's block sites feature, searchers ignore PPC ads and more.

Danny Goodwin | Mar 10, 2023 at 12:01 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: March 9

Google's Fred update, plus: people also ask, personalization, Google puts bad merchants on notice and more.

Danny Goodwin | Mar 9, 2023 at 12:20 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: March 8

RIP Google PageRank score, plus: member of SEO community killed in Ukraine, Google's Full Coverage feature, Google penalizes itself, and more.

Danny Goodwin | Mar 8, 2023 at 12:01 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: March 7

Landing page load time added to Google Quality Score, plus: Broad Core Algorithm Updates, bogus Domain Authority pitches, and more.

Danny Goodwin | Mar 7, 2023 at 12:01 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: March 6

Google Webmaster Tools adds user administration, plus: no click search study, Trusted Stores program shuttering and more.

Danny Goodwin | Mar 6, 2023 at 12:01 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: March 5

Google confirms Vince Update, plus: mobile-first indexing, webspam, Google adds page load time to Quality Score algorithm and more.

Danny Goodwin | Mar 5, 2023 at 11:31 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: March 4

Sheryl Sandberg leaves Google for Facebook, plus: new GA4 homepage, Wikipedia turns PPC into SEM, goodbye Scroogled and more.

Danny Goodwin | Mar 4, 2023 at 12:01 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: March 3

Google Panda name revealed, plus: desktop page experience update completes rollout, Interflora gets its Google rankings back and more.

Danny Goodwin | Mar 3, 2023 at 12:24 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: March 2

Happy 28th birthday, Yahoo!, plus: Semrush plans IPO, click to call ads, Google's About 260 problem, Steve Ballmer yelling at SMX and more.

Danny Goodwin | Mar 2, 2023 at 12:01 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: March 1

Google publishes Search quality rating guidelines, plus: Ginny Marvin joins Google, AdWords Price Extensions, click fraud and more.

Danny Goodwin | Mar 1, 2023 at 2:05 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: February 28

R.I.P., DMOZ, plus: Multifaceted featured snippets, Google's non-answer on CTR, voice search ranking factors and more.

Danny Goodwin | Feb 28, 2023 at 12:01 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: February 27

Google Panda Update 3.3 and Venice, plus: GSC domain properties, Google Scraper Report, XML sitemaps change and more.

Danny Goodwin | Feb 27, 2023 at 12:01 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: February 26

Google expands mobile-friendliness for ranking, plus: mobile-first indexing, AdWords Flexible Conversion Counting, Google Panda and more.

Danny Goodwin | Feb 26, 2023 at 12:01 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: February 25

SEOs upset over Google featured snippets, plus: Google's red Slow label, Google Panda fallout, PageRank 301 redirect dilution myth and more.

Danny Goodwin | Feb 25, 2023 at 12:01 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: February 24

Google unleashes the Panda update, plus: E-A-T patent, AMP Top Stories, Overstock's Google penalty, optimize by conversions and more

Danny Goodwin | Feb 24, 2023 at 12:08 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: February 23

Google penalizes Natural News, plus: Google AdSense separates YouTube earnings, BrightEdge acquires Oncrawl, florist war on AdWords and more.

Danny Goodwin | Feb 23, 2023 at 1:28 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: February 22

Google page experience update for desktop rolls out, plus: Google’s Pirate Update impact, Google Shopping experience scorecard and more.

Danny Goodwin | Feb 22, 2023 at 12:01 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: February 21

Google Search Console sends alerts for big drops in clicks, plus: CTR myth resurfaces, poor grammar and typos impact Bing rankings and more.

Danny Goodwin | Feb 21, 2023 at 12:01 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: February 20

Google stops supporting meta news keywords tag, plus: Google Ads tweaks mobile speed score algorithm, Voluntary Code of Practice and more

Danny Goodwin | Feb 20, 2023 at 12:06 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: February 19

Google removes right sidebar ads, plus: Bing Webmaster tools refresh, YMYL ranking weights, hreflang notifications and more.

Danny Goodwin | Feb 19, 2023 at 12:01 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: February 18

Yahoo stops using Google search, plus: Core Web Vitals, RSAs become default, Google Shopping Campaigns For PLAs and more.

Danny Goodwin | Feb 18, 2023 at 12:01 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: February 17

Microsoft introduces the Bing Network, plus: Standard Shopping campaigns, Google Panda eats Demand Media, Google Social Search and more.

Danny Goodwin | Feb 17, 2023 at 12:01 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: February 16

Google says avoid link building, plus: Conductor buys ContentKing, Google shows less than 10 results, Forbes paid links, and more.

Danny Goodwin | Feb 16, 2023 at 12:01 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: February 15

Google explains how to hire an SEO, plus: mass search ad disapprovals, Marin IPO, Google blurs paid and unpaid results (again) and more.

Danny Goodwin | Feb 15, 2023 at 12:01 am ET

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This day in search marketing history: February 14

Google Webmaster Tools comes out of beta, plus: Chrome's personal blocklist, AdWords video ads and quality score updates and more

Danny Goodwin | Feb 14, 2023 at 12:01 am ET

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