Google: Alt Text Is Important For SEO

Newsflash, Google's Martin Splitt said that "alt text is important for SEO too." I did ask him how important, but he would not disclose that information. Here is more of the context around this on Twitter.

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Yahoo Sign Taken Down At Sunnyvale Headquarters

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5 Local Business Marketing Takeaways from MozCon Virtual 2021

Miriam shares her insights from some of the most relevant and exciting presentations at MozCon Virtual 2021 — learnings you can put to work for the local businesses you’re promoting.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 6, 2021

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

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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Drops Safe Browsing Signal, Core Updates Impact Images & Local & Bing MEB AI

I start off this week with the big Google webmaster report for August, it is a good one. Google has decided not to use safe browsing as a ranking signal in the Google page experience update. Google is now saying...

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Official Google Crawling Exam

Google has posted an exam to test your SEO knowledge on crawling. Google said this is to test your knowledge on how Google crawls and indexes websites. This is a true and false test, with explanations on why the answer is right or wrong.

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