During SMX West, Andrew Ramm and Sean Murphy outlined strategies to stay ahead of the competition. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

It’s time to refine your tactics with tips to avoid big data overload, improve E-A-T Scores and help YMYL industries bounce back after the Medic update. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

On Friday, February 22nd, it would be Steve Irwin’s 57th birthday. I am pretty sure most people know the name Steve Irwin. He was the legendary, fun and entertaining Australian zookeeper who were and is still part of many people’s lives.

Posted by willcritchlow If you’re a big site competing to rank for popular head terms, where’s the best place to focus your content strategy? According to a hypothesis by the good folks at Distilled, the answer may lie in perfectly satisfying searcher intent

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Despite repeatedly saying they do not use click data for search ranking purposes, a fresh document triggers confusion around the topic again. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Google is testing showing images or icons in the Image Search related searches section. Related searches began showing up in December 2017 and now it is common to see them

Google is now sending out what I believe are new notifications when a site verified in Google Search Console has seen a drop in clicks, impressions, etc. This alert communicates to the site owner or webmaster that there may be an issue.

As you know, it can take weeks from the time Google crawls some pages to fully render them.