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Covering the latest news, trends, and insights for Paid Media, SEO, Content Marketing, and remote work.

Story Strip and SEO Budgets - Backlink Breaker #24

I studied politics in college. I wanted to change the world. I believed that if I could master the...

Moz Domain Analysis Tool and Google Video Report - Backlink Breaker #23

I’m back! Need to take a few weeks off the SEO news beat to focus on client work. Our little...

Organic Search Dominates and Rich Review Results Change - Backlink Breaker #22

Google’s finally cracking down on the review rich snippet spam that’s been plaguing search results...

New Link Attributes, RIP Legacy Search Console - Backlink Breaker #21

Why do we do what we do? We should all take a minute and really think about it. Not to uncover...

XLOOKUP and Crawl Spikes - Backlink Breaker #20

Lucky number 20, let’s dive in people.

Chat Lifecycle Share Grows and Amazon Black Hat SEO Proves Fruitful - Backlink Breaker #19

I took vacation, but the world kept turning. Weird. 

The News

Chat may soon become an essential...

Podcast Marketing Grows, Tumblr Sells, and AMP SSR Launches - Backlink Breaker #18

SEO life can be tough, but at least we don’t have to deal with Facebook Ad Manager. Amirite?...

Google’s Fresh Information Algorithm Update and New Image Search Design - Backlink Breaker #17

Everything felt good this week. Positive late summer vibes bleeding directly into the digital...

Backlink Breaker #16 - Tulsi Gabbard needs an SEO Consultant

Perspective Friday! Facebook generated $16.6 billion in Q2 ad revenue. That’s more than three...

Backlink Breaker #15 - New Knowledge Panel CTA, Yoast 11.7, and Emoji SEO

Did you notice any dramatic traffic or rank changes this week? The SEO community is buzzing around...

Backlink Breaker #14 - YouTube Monetization Features and Google News Card Layout

Are smart speakers are just surveillance devices? It’s naive to think that bringing a device into...

Backlink Breaker #13 - New Features from YouTube and Pinterest, Yoast 11.6, Overstock Success Story

Lucky number 13 is here. Overstock released some interesting details behind its recent, dramatic...

Backlink Breaker #12 - Standardizing REP, Mobile-First Dates, and LinkedIn Algo Details

The holiday week failed to slow anything down in the SEO and content marketing world. New features...

Backlink Breaker #11 - New Features from Google My Business and Yelp

Google My Business and Yelp both released new feature batches. Predictably, Yelp’s features are...

Backlink Breaker #10 - Red Handed Lyrics and Cloudflare AMP Real URL

Lyric scraping drama with a small UI update to the SERP were the highlights this week, as well as...

Backlink Breaker #9 - Google Core Rollout, AMP Link Bug, SEMrush Backlink Update

Google’s communications department gets an A+ this week with clear messaging on the core rollout...

Backlink Breaker #8 - Google June Core Update and North Face Blackhat Fail

Exciting week with Google’s core update announcement putting all SEOs on maximum alert and The...

Backlink Breaker #7 - Food Delivery, Mobile Index Defaults, and Yoast 11.3

Another week, another Yoast update (hey, maybe give the team a few days off?) along with some big...

Backlink Breaker - Search Quality Evaluator Updates, New Mobile Results, and Dynamic Content Indexing

I was wrong about GOT. I formally, and sincerely apologize to everyone. This is why I should stick...

Backlink Breaker - Podcasts in Search, Recent Review Weight, and Assistant Speed

Some nice, small updates this week. More importantly, I seem to be the only person who actually...