Ari Roth

If you’re in SEO these days, as much as you’re suspicious of Google, you also have to make sure to keep up with what they tell the webmaster community so that you can give the best recommendations to your clients.  For me, one of the main places I go to follow this information is Barry Schwartz’s site, Search Engine Roundtable.  During one of my reading sessions last week, I saw Barry’s article about John Mueller’s Google Webmaster Central Hangout, and I bookmarked it to watch later because the video was almost an hour long. Finally, yesterday, I got around to watching the video, and I noticed a couple of seeming contradictions between what John said and what his colleague Gary Illyes said a month earlier here.
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