Diving Into the Future of Digital Marketing: The MozCon 2024 Day One Recap


In his inaugural MozCon talk, Garrett Sussman explored the untapped influence of searcher bias in SEO. Following up on his Moz Blog post on the psychology behind search, Garrett dove deeper into the psyche of searchers. From leading queries like “Is coffee good for you”? to the self-guided nuances of conversational search, he examined how […]

Leave the Best Possible Negative Review for a Local Business


If your face is still hot from having a really poor experience at a local business, you can forget to ask the most important question. Before you take to your phone or keyboard to dash off a negative review, ask, “I’m about to invest more of my valuable time in this business that failed to […]

AI Overview’s Dangerous Fails + a Life Lesson


Even if you weren’t born yet in 1980, you may have heard this American pop culture catchphrase stemming from an episode of the wildly popular soap opera Dallas, in which the TV show’s villain was assailed by a mysterious figure. The follow-up episode that revealed the identity of the assassin was the second-highest-rated primetime telecast […]

March Core Update & Spam Updates: Four Major Trends


At the start of the March Core and Spam updates, Google claimed it intended to reduce unhelpful content in search by 40%. After the conclusion of the March Core Update on April 19 (which Google announced seven days after the fact), Google then clarified that it had actually reduced unhelpful content by 45%. One of […]