How does one go from being a veterinarian to a running full time SEO agency? Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Discover how SEMrush’s new Market Explorer tool can be your secret weapon for marketing success. The post Meet SEMrush’s Solution for Industry Benchmarking: Market Explorer via @semrush appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Majestic released an improved version of their popular link checking tool.

Survey also finds that SEOs think government investigations are least likely to impact the industry. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Google looks to be testing, or maybe it is a bug, capitalizing the URL or breadcrumb part of the snippets in the search results.

There may (or may not) be an issue with the changes Google made back in February around consolidating around the canonical URL, which means the AMP, mobile, etc will all be counted towards the main URL’s data in the performance report. This may not be happening correctly for some sites and Google is supposedly investigating this issue.

Hackers are reportedly exploiting vulnerabilities in over ten WordPress plugins in order to backdoor sites with rouge admin accounts. The post WordPress Hackers Are Using Vulnerable Plugins to Gain Access to Sites via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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

YouTube detailed the work it put into removing harmful content last quarter, revealing over 100,000 individual videos were removed. The post YouTube Removed Over 100K Videos and 17K Channels in Q2 2019 via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .