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Google Search Ranking Algorithm Tremors August 6th & 7th I am seeing signals of yet another Google search ranking algorithm update. There is a lot of new chatter from within the SEO community starting yesterday August 6th through today August 7th about ranking changes. Some of the tools are showing higher than normal fluctuations as well this morning. As you know, we cover a lot of  Google algorithm updates   and they happen frequently. But I try to only cover the ones where I see both an increase in SEO community chatter. So when SEOs begin to take notice and we have not just a few, but a larger number of SEOs in the community noticing changes to the sites they manage. Then I also look to validate that chatter with the Google rank checking tools to see if they see a spike. In this case, I am seeing clear signs of an increase in SEO community chatter around a Google update and also many, not all, of the rank checking tools are showing higher than normal fluct...

Google Test New Interface new for local Q&A  Box Google Tests New Interface For Local Q&A Box? Google seems to be testing the local Q&A box outside of the business's local knowledge panel. I think this is a new interface for the old  Google Local Q&A  box that launched sometime in 2017 or so. Here is the new look that Valentin Pletzer spotted and posted about on Twitter. This design shows the question box outside of the local knowledge panel, which is different. Normally you can asks businesses questions in their local panel but in this case, the query contained "walmart" so maybe the questions get funneled there anyway? VISIT MORE:

Vlog #77: Brian Ussery On GoogleBot & SEO For E-Commerce Sites Brian Ussery is the Director of SEO at Razorfish in Atlanta, Georgia. He is also a Google Product Expert at the Google webmaster help forums. He has been doing SEO since 2000, we are both very old folks in SEO. We both were moderators at the Search Engine Watch Forums back in the day. We joked a bit about the early days of SEO and had a bit of fun there. He said he never spammed, he studied Google from an academic perspective only. He was always very big into writing better content, even in the early days of links being king. He never took the cheap way of doing SEO , he felt it wouldn’t last so he did it the hard way. He never had a site get penalized that he worked on, which is rare for an SEO vet. He is working at Razorfish, an old company, it was founded in 1995 and still doing amazing. After Brian kept making me go off script, we then spoke about GoogleBot. He said GoogleBot is very good at getting to ...