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Don't ask 20-year search veteran Wil Reynolds, who heads up digital agency Seer Interactive, what he thinks about, say, page speed. "There's nuance with all these things," Wil says, "You should always pull your own data." Wil told Barry Schwartz he had an epiphany about looking at data two and a half years ago after realizing how little data he was looking at as an SEO after getting experience in paid search. He now works with large data sets to inform his work. Watch the full video interview with Wil and Barry.

The beleaguered coworking biz WeWork paid roughly $126 million for SEO platform Conductor in 2018. A source familiar with the process tells us WeWork has been in talks to sell Conductor "for a while" and that a deal could come soon that represents "a very positive outcome" for the business, its customers and employees. Conductor has reportedly been growing over the past year, and a sale could put the firm in a better position to keep growing. 

Read on for a Pro Tip on continuous integration for SEO tests and more. 

Ginny Marvin
Editor-In-Chief

 
 
 
Pro Tip
 

Work with your dev team to review SEO tests, make recommendations

"Most development teams that write automated tests, also implement a technique called continuous integration. This allows developers to push their code changes to a code repository and have each commit trigger a suite of automated tests," explains Hamlet Batista of RankSense. "If the tests pass, the code is packaged for release and deployed automatically. But, if any of the tests fail, the packaging and release pipeline is halted. Some continuous integration tools require you to add a simple test definitions file to your code repository, add the project to their service and they will run all automated tests, including the deployment pipeline, plus include reporting."

"As an SEO practitioner, you could ask your dev team to give you access so you can review SEO tests that fail and review SEO test coverage to recommend any missing tests."

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Search Shorts
 

Google update, crawling and hotlinking.

Feeling the Google update. That Google Sept. 2019 core update is now starting to be felt by the SEO community.

Google crawl setting. Google's crawl setting takes about a day to kick in, so if you are getting slammed by GoogleBot, you might want to use 503 status codes instead of changing your crawl setting, said John Mueller of Google.

Hotlinked images. John Mueller of Google said hotlinked images do not count as inbound links.

 
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Announcing the ROI of SEO Calculator | Conductor + Forrester โ€“ Conductor

Cheat sheet: What type of text ad to use? โ€“ Microsoft Advertising

Dixon Jones Joins Fred Laurent at inLinks โ€“ InLinks

Google Turns 21 Years Old On September 27th โ€“ Here Is The Doodle โ€“ Search Engine Roundtable

How to deal with a Google Algorithm Update โ€“ Wellspring Search

More improvements for Android on entry-level phones โ€“ Google Blog

PSA: Using rankings to track SEO success is dumb โ€“ SEO, Growth and International Marketing โ€“ Eli Schwartz

 
 
 
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