• Categories: SEO

    Five large-scale Google algorithm updates have occurred in the past three months, possibly breaking some kind of record. This year seems to be the culmination of the broad themes from the last decade of SEO advice, converging in a combined fruition. Publishers are now compelled to adhere to the principles of quality content, user experience [...]

  • Categories: Content

    On May 10, Google introduced future plans for the search engine result pages (SERPs). These plans include featuring AI-generated responses at the top of certain queries in a much more robust and well-formulated answer than in versions past. You can read Google's official blog post on their search generative experience. Mind-blowing, right? Preview: Over the [...]

  • Categories: SEO

    Google turned up the heat in 2022, having more than ten major algorithm updates. A mix of core updates, several targeted at product reviews, a few more targeting spam and also introducing a new signal into the algorithm, called the helpful content update. There are over 200 factors within the algorithm, some carrying significant weight [...]

  • Categories: Content

    Somewhere on the Most Frequently Asked Questions By Publishers list is the question of blocked keywords. What keywords or phrases should be avoided in the content they publish so that CPMs aren’t lower than average? The list they’re asking for is usually customized to the brand, but even if I really searched and eventually found my [...]

  • Categories: SEO

    Google's search algorithm is welcoming a brand new signal to the bunch. Yep, that black box formula that evaluates any given domain against hundreds of signals and then, aligns you somewhere in search results for the 3.5+ billion search queries each day, will now "automatically identify content that seems to have little value, low-added value [...]

  • Categories: SEO

    One of the most common questions asked by publishers after implementing Freestar’s traffic growth suggestions is when there will be evident reward for their efforts. Along with it comes THE most common SEO answer of all time: it depends. The full list of potential answers is a post for another day, but seeing hard work [...]