Nextdoor is doing more to monetize traffic as it heads toward a likely IPO. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Forensic SEO may be a term that’s used a lot, but what exactly is it? Find out in this post. The post What Is Forensic SEO

Expect Googlebot to readjust your crawl frequency, though. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Posted by Dr-Pete On Monday, September 16, Google announced that they would be restricting review stars in SERPs to specific schemas and would stop displaying reviews that they deemed to be “self-serving.” It wasn’t clear at the time when this change would be happening, or if it had already happened. Across our daily MozCast tracking set, we measured a drop the morning of September 16 (in sync with the announcement) followed by a continued drop the next day …

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A decision in favor of French regulators might have set a ‪difficult precedent. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

We all know by now that podcasting is a fantastic content marketing tactic , right?  To review:  Over 81 million people listen to podcasts ( Edison Research ) 80% finish the majority of every episode on their favorite podcasts ( Edison Research ) Most people who listen to one podcast are likely to pick up more ( Edison Research ) In other words, there’s an enormous audience out there, ready to spend multiple hours with your quality content.

Several publishers report problem with Google’s URL Removal Tool. Some report that it is working.

Google has pre-announced that a new core update is rolling out sometime later today, are you ready?