SEO By RankMath, a popular SEO plugin recently fixed several vulnerabilities. One of the issues fixed allowed a subscriber to reset the plugin settings. Web publishers are encouraged to update their plugin. Description of SEO By RankMath Vulnerability Fix The WordPress Vulnerability Database (WPVULNDB) announced the vulnerability in SEO by RankMath in a post. According Read more
Google has responded to a Wall Street Journal investigation claiming Maps is home to millions of fake business listings. The article goes into great detail to examine the issue of fake listings in Google Maps. Here’s an example of what The Journal found in one area of New York City: “A search for plumbers in Read more
Google’s Gary Illyes updated his original writeup on crawl budget with clarification about disallowed URLs. The document now includes the following information: “Q: Do URLs I disallowed through robots.txt affect my crawl budget in any way? A: No, disallowed URLs do not affect the crawl budget.” The question refers to the “User-agent: * Disallow: /” Read more
Focused on new link acquisition for your clients or company? Link building is always a slog, but Rand has a PR-focused tip that makes it much easier to find people and publications that’ll cover and amplify you. Check it out in this week’s edition of Whiteboard Friday! Click on the whiteboard image above to open Read more
Google is rolling out new ways for businesses to market their GMB listings, including giving discounts to new followers. Businesses can now attract people to their listings with welcome offers, cover photos, logos, and photo displays. Here’s more information about each of these new features. Welcome offers More than half of online customers are looking Read more
Last month we announced that the new Moz Local would be arriving soon. We’re so excited — it’s here! If you’re a current Moz Local customer, you may have already been exploring the new and improved platform this week! If not, signing up now will get you access to all the new goodies we have in store for Read more
So, you’ve been debating for years about whether to attend MozCon and you’re finally ready to pull the trigger. Or, maybe you’re still not sure if MozCon is right for you and you’re wondering what the big deal is (a fair and reasonable thought). Whether you’re still on the fence or looking to get hyped, here’s the Read more
Almost everyone has heard of the importance of site speed, even the average blogger with lackluster technical skills. In a previous article we did a comparison between two domains and found speed was the likely signal pushing one site above another in mobile searches. Google wants to provide sites that users will actually use. You Read more
Google is sunsetting the preferred domain setting in Search Console that allowed site owners to specify which URL to display in search results. Along with the deprecation of this setting, Google will no longer use any existing Search Console preferred domain configuration. The preferred domain setting was one of many ways of signalling to Google Read more
On June 6th, on the heels of a core update, Google announced that a site diversity update was also rolling out. This update offered a unique opportunity, because site diversity is something we can directly measure. Did Google deliver on their promise, or was this announcement mostly a PR play? There are a lot of ways to Read more