Charles Floate
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- Google fed rank trackers results for one word of your query
A week of frozen, scrambled and heated search results means your keyword chart probably lied to you.
- Top Google spots may be frozen in place for days
Charles Floate says some search results have been stuck for weeks, and rank trackers will not tell you the difference.
- A popular SEO plugin shipped malware last week
Paid downloads of the WordPress SEO plugin on two days in October carried hidden access for attackers.
- Video subtitles may be feeding Google's AI answers
One SEO says to treat your video transcripts as pages Google can read, not just captions.
Be the person who already knew
One email a day. Under three minutes. You will hear about a Google change before it shows up in your traffic.
- AI answers on brand searches sit below the normal results
Two more SEOs checked the finding that Google now writes AI answers when people search a company by name.
- Your rank tracker may be showing a crash that never happened
Three well known SEOs reported wrong rank tracking data on the same day, with Ahrefs named most often.
- Google is building simple free tools into its answers
A working character counter now appears inside Google's AI answer box, and SEOs say any simple tool site could be next.
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