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Backlinks ranked as Google’s second most important ranking factor in a new survey of 131 SEO professionals conducted by Zyppy. Relevance ranked first, and content quality ranked third.

Asking whether AI content is bad for SEO usually means asking a more practical question: Will publishing this hurt my rankings? The answer depends on how the content was made rather than what made it.

There is a new Google ranking factor survey out for 2026. It has been a while since we had one, and it is here. This one was done by Cyrus Shepard and Dawn Shepard and posted at Zyppy. It says content relevance, backlinks, and content quality are the most important factors, according to the experts…

When a business appears in Google Maps, the listing you see is the end product of a much larger system.

Someone on Reddit asked for help troubleshooting two separate ranking issues that were happening simultaneously. Google’s John Mueller responded with encouragement on how to take a broader view of SEO problems in order to better catch what is going on.