Mike Friedman

Hey Ryan. Glad you enjoyed the video. I'm trying to put together a few more videos. Next few I have planned are updated videos on silos and one about keyword research using competitors and SEMrush. I'm also thinking about redoing the entire private network course and putting it on YouTube for free. I was toying with the idea of making myself do 2 videos a week for the rest of the year. I haven't been creating much content lately and I do enjoy it. As for links being stronger from already ranking pages, yes I agree. Pretty sure I have discussed that in the private area

The bandanas and scarves definitely makes sense. Many are made of crap material that isn't going to help anything. And to be honest, I always thought of face shields as extra protection for you, not to help keep you from transmitting the virus to others. When you said it was illegal, that was what threw me. Really what they are saying is that they are not good enough.

You have a source for that? I don't see anything where any leader in the world declared them illegal to wear in public.

https://www.seroundtable.com/spike-google-my-business-suspensions-30476.html Sounds like a lot of the suspensions are account wide.

Looks like the bug has been fixed. https://www.seroundtable.com/manual-actions-return-to-google-search-console-30481.html

Who gives a shit what health advice "state leaders" want to give? The only people anyone should be listening to are medical professionals.

Nope. It's just a glitch. Lots of people are reporting seeing manual actions against sites in Search Console have just vanished. Sites seem to still be penalized, so looks like a bug. https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-console-manual-actions-disappearing-30465.html I don't have any sites I'm working on right now with manual actions, so I cannot confirm it.

The Jared "reveal" was my favorite part.

I'm putting pollsters right up there with meteorologists in terms of reporting accuracy.

Threw together a quick video on how to install Microsoft Clarity with Google Tag Manager.

Good to see you. It's been awhile. Hope business is going well. SEMrush is the leader in my opinion. It is the best tool for competitor and keyword research. They do a pretty good job with links too. Ahrefs is still the leader for link research, but all their keyword search volumes and data has been messed up since January when one of their data providers shutdown. Moz doesn't even belong in the discussion. Horrible value. For SEMrush, I have a special offer where you can get a 14-day trial if you use this link instead of their normal 7-day trial. Sometimes the s

I do not think I'm exaggerating when I say I think this might be one of the greatest websites ever created and that I'm extremely jealous I did not think of this first. https://yourfuckingpollingplace.com/

https://clarity.microsoft.com/ Microsoft just launched this new and free tool. It provides some analytical data on your users, but the really interesting part of it to me is it provides heatmaps and session recordings for free. There are other tools that do that, but they are pretty expensive. There is also no cap on it. If you get 1 million visitors a month, no problem. They say it is designed to not impact page speed. We will see about that. I'm going to add it to a few sites today and start testing. Will be interested to hear feedback from others on what they are seeing with

By the way, on a side note, if anyone has had a look at the new Google Analytics 4, if you are not used to Google Data Studio, you better get used to it. Google Analytics is largely shifting from a reporting tool to an analysis tool. Reporting is going to have to be done in GDS. Of course, the migration might be a hear or two away, but it is coming.