The Big Disconnect: Charting The Growing Disconnect Between Google And SEOs

From Elephant in the Room:For years, SEOs suspected user behavior to matter for Google’s Search ranking systems, but Googlers either denied or belittled the point. At the same time, Google’s SEO Starter Guide is nearly 9,000 words long with dozens of links to additional material. Google also said this helped reduce low-quality and unoriginal content in search results by 45%, which is up from their estimate of 40%. Public ComplaintsThen, we have the (not new) critique of big domains dominating search results. Journalist Ed Zitron recently published a story titled “The Man Who Killed Google Search” on his blog that went viral.