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On "Google confirms deploying goto URL redirects to search results links"
Google's playing whack-a-mole with redirects that add an extra hop between search results and the actual destination, and calling it an abuse measure is generous marketing for what's really a band-aid on a bigger problem: sites that game click attribution, referrer data, and ad…
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On "How Aaron Steed Turned a High School Side Hustle Into an 8-Figure Moving Company"
This is a founder story, not an SEO story, and it belongs in a business podcast, not an SEO publication. Moving companies do need local search visibility to survive, but a playbook for scaling a services business doesn't tell us anything about how search actually works or how to…
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On "Google releases August 2026 spam update: What marketers need to know"
Google's spam updates are now regular enough that treating each rollout as a major inflection point is pointless—what matters is whether your site got hit and why, which Google still won't tell you. The real work is boring: audit your backlink profile, check for thin content,…
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