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Julia McCoy on Writing, Persistence & Building a Million-Dollar Company [PODCAST]
Learn how Express Writers CEO Julia McCoy escaped a religious cult and built a successful business.
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Danny Goodwin is the former Executive Editor of Search Engine Journal. He formerly was managing editor of Momentology and editor of Search Engine Watch.
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![Julia McCoy on Writing, Persistence & Building a Million-Dollar Company [PODCAST]](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/sejshow-featured-image-ep-157-760x400.webp)
Melissa Fach on Content, Managing Communities & Helping People Break Out [PODCAST]
Melissa Fach shares her thoughts on content, managing communities, and helping people break out.
![Julia McCoy on Writing, Persistence & Building a Million-Dollar Company [PODCAST]](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/search-engine-nerds-ep155-banner-better-know-a-marketing-pro-1-760x400.webp)
Microsoft’s Purna Virji on Lifelong Learning, Lifting Others & Positivity [PODCAST]
Get to know Microsoft’s Purna Virji – her career journey, real-life struggles, and lessons she’s learned along the way.
![Julia McCoy on Writing, Persistence & Building a Million-Dollar Company [PODCAST]](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/search-engine-nerds-ep153-banner-760x400.webp)
Eric Enge on Growing & Selling a Successful Digital Agency, SEO, Content & More
Eric Enge offers advice on building and selling an agency, communicating the value of SEO, and more.
![Julia McCoy on Writing, Persistence & Building a Million-Dollar Company [PODCAST]](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/search-engine-nerds-ep151-banner-760x400.webp)
Kelsey Jones on Creativity, Living on Hope & Hustle, and Launching a Successful Business [PODCAST]
Kelsey Jones talks about her 12-year journey as an SEO pro and what she’s learned along the way.
![Julia McCoy on Writing, Persistence & Building a Million-Dollar Company [PODCAST]](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/google-thanos-easter-egg-760x400.webp)
Google Thanos Easter Egg Wipes Out Half of All Search Engine Results
A new Thanos Google easter egg is turning the search results to dust. Here’s how to see it for yourself.
![Julia McCoy on Writing, Persistence & Building a Million-Dollar Company [PODCAST]](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/7-Terrible-No-Good-SEO-Tactics-to-Abandon-Forever-760x400.webp)
7 Terrible, No-Good SEO Tactics to Abandon Forever
Are you using any of these bad SEO tactics? Stop now. Here are smart solutions to help you avoid them.
![Julia McCoy on Writing, Persistence & Building a Million-Dollar Company [PODCAST]](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Googles-Gary-Illyes-Pubcon-Florida-2019-760x400.webp)
Google’s Gary Illyes on Real-Time Penguin, Negative SEO & Disavows
Should you disavow unnatural links you didn’t build to avoid a ranking drop? Here’s what Google’s Gary Illyes said.
![Julia McCoy on Writing, Persistence & Building a Million-Dollar Company [PODCAST]](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/gary-illyes-pubcon-2018-760x400.webp)
23 SEO & Search Takeaways from Google’s Gary Illyes
Gary Illyes, Google Webmaster Trends Analyst, opened up Pubcon in Las Vegas this morning talking about what’s new with Google and what you need to...
![Julia McCoy on Writing, Persistence & Building a Million-Dollar Company [PODCAST]](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/google-doodle-20th-birthday-760x400.webp)
Google Celebrates 20th Birthday With Doodle, 17 Search Easter Eggs
Google is celebrating its 20th birthday with a video Doodle highlighting popular searches, plus 17 search easter eggs.
![Julia McCoy on Writing, Persistence & Building a Million-Dollar Company [PODCAST]](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/google-featured-snippets-volatility-760x400.webp)
STUDY: How Volatile Are Google’s Featured Snippets?
A new study reveals how volatile Google’s featured snippets are and which websites get the most featured snippets.
![Julia McCoy on Writing, Persistence & Building a Million-Dollar Company [PODCAST]](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/seo-fundamentals-basics-5dcaabba7d9ee-760x400.webp)
SEO Fundamentals: Your Guide to SEO Success Factors
As you approach SEO, especially in terms of content, make sure your strategy takes these three areas into account.
![Julia McCoy on Writing, Persistence & Building a Million-Dollar Company [PODCAST]](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/bing-ads-760x400.webp)
Microsoft Launches New AI-Powered Audience Network
The Microsoft Audience Network lets advertisers reach users across MSN, Outlook.com, the Edge browser, and select partner sites.
![Julia McCoy on Writing, Persistence & Building a Million-Dollar Company [PODCAST]](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/google-pubcon-keynote-760x400.webp)
6 Things We Learned at the Google Webmaster Relations Pubcon Keynote
Here are some of the interesting tidbits we learned from Google about disavowing links, featured snippets, and more.
![Julia McCoy on Writing, Persistence & Building a Million-Dollar Company [PODCAST]](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/eric-ward-760x400.webp)
In Memoriam: Link Building Pioneer Eric Ward Has Died
The search industry remembers pioneer Eric Ward, who was known for being THE expert in all things link building.
![Julia McCoy on Writing, Persistence & Building a Million-Dollar Company [PODCAST]](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/sej-summit-760x400.webp)
17 of the Greatest Tweets from SEJ Summit 2017
Top search experts shared countless great insights, ideas, tips, and takeaways at SEJ Summit 2017. Here are 17 top tweets.
![Julia McCoy on Writing, Persistence & Building a Million-Dollar Company [PODCAST]](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/facebook-like-keyboard-760x400.webp)
Facebook Tests Showing More Related Articles
Facebook is running a test that shows you related stories before you click on an article in your News Feed.
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New: LinkedIn Launches Matched Audiences
LinkedIn Matched Audiences gives advertisers three new targeting tools: website retargeting, account targeting, and contact targeting.
![Julia McCoy on Writing, Persistence & Building a Million-Dollar Company [PODCAST]](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/facebook-video-metrics-760x400.webp)
Facebook Makes 5 Changes To Video Metrics
Facebook is adding a couple new video metrics to Page Insights and changing the way others are measured.
![Julia McCoy on Writing, Persistence & Building a Million-Dollar Company [PODCAST]](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/facebook-instant-article-email-sign-up-cta-unit-760x400.webp)
New Facebook Instant Articles CTAs: Page Likes & Email Sign-Ups
People who read your Facebook Instant Articles can now Like your page or sign up for your email newsletter.
![Julia McCoy on Writing, Persistence & Building a Million-Dollar Company [PODCAST]](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/celebrating-success-760x400.webp)
Content Marketers: Organic Traffic Is The Key Success Metric
How are content marketers measuring the success of the content they create? Organic traffic is the top metric of choice, according to a new survey.
![Julia McCoy on Writing, Persistence & Building a Million-Dollar Company [PODCAST]](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/LinkedIn-lead-gen-forms-760x400.webp)
New: LinkedIn Launches Lead Gen Forms
LinkedIn has launched Lead Gen Forms. This new feature in Sponsored Content campaigns removes a huge barrier on mobile devices: filling out forms.
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Twitter Unveils a New Look for Replies
Whenever you reply to an individual or a group of Twitter users, the user names of those people won’t subtract from your tweet’s 140 character...
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Twitter to Offer Paid Version of Tweetdeck?
Twitter is considering offering a paid version of Tweetdeck. The premium version would be geared toward marketers, brands, and other power users.
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YouTube Videos Losing to Facebook Native Videos
A new study finds that brands use Facebook native videos 3x more often than YouTube videos. Facebook native videos also get much higher engagement.
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YouTube Discontinues Annotations Editor
The YouTube Annotations Editor is being discontinued. As of May 2 you will no longer be able to add new annotations or edit existing annotations.
![Julia McCoy on Writing, Persistence & Building a Million-Dollar Company [PODCAST]](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/disappointed-small-business-owner-760x400.webp)
Survey: Small Businesses Want $100 SEO
A new survey says an astonishing 46 percent of small businesses allocate 0 percent of their marketing budget to SEO and 54 percent don’t have...
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LinkedIn Adds 6 New Profile Picture Filters
New photo editing tools are now available in LinkedIn’s mobile app. You can now edit and apply filters to improve the look of your profile...
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6 Big Family Vacation Search Trends From Bing
Here’s how you can reach and influence people who are seeking ideas, planning their travel, and searching for family-friendly vacation deals this year.
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Visual Search Comes to Pinterest Browser Extension
Pinterest is bringing visual search to its Chrome browser extension. The new feature lets you select objects in images to see related images from Pinterest.