‘Tsunami Hits The Philippines; SEO Industry Comes To A Halt’ & Other Headlines You Won’t See in 2018

Mike Blumenthal

In an effort to recognize the SEO value and importance of fake news in the coming year, I asked a number of local friends for local headlines that they would like to see in 2018 but most likely wouldn’t. Please add your own to the comments.

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Google Says It’s Made Enough $$$ – No More Ads! – Mary Bowling

Headlines are always factually incorrect – Joel Headley

Tsunami Hits The Philippines; SEO Industry Comes To A Halt – Andrew Shotland

John Mueller Caught On Hot Mic After Webmaster Hangout Saying “Fuck It, Just Buy Some Damn Links Already” – Andrew Shotland

Apple maps becomes the “most accurate” place to find local businesses. – Mike Ramsey 

Google Decides not to monetize maps because “it’s just getting too expensive to run a small business.” – Mike Ramsey 

Google reveals previously secret details of organic ranking algo noting: “We can now do so as all of the critical ranking slots are paid.” – Mike Blumenthal

Google Gets Confused: Local Service division starts tp pick up phone calls and provides answers to small businesses about their “free” GMB listing – Mike Blumenthal

Facebook Realizes Liking a Business Page Means You Want to See Its Content, Not Just Its Ads – Matt McGee

SEOs Abandon Twitter; Avalanche of 280 Character 2018 Predictions “Straw That Broke Camel’s Back” – Andrew Shotland

Google brings back improved Mapmaker to assist business owners in correcting location issues! Carrie Hill

Google Reviews Are Starting to Become Trustworthy. –Joy Hawkins

3 Tactics that are Guaranteed to Boost You to Position 1 Overnight! –Joy Hawkins

Net Neutrality reinstated after Trump’s Twitter impressions suffer from low subscription rate – Megan Hannay

Google Takes Action on Spam by Demoting the Importance of Keyword in the GMB Business Name – Darren Shaw 

Yelp introduces YelpNPS, a product to help business owners solicit feedback from all customers, not just millennial hipsters with an overinflated sense of the value of their opinions to society. – David Mihm

Google decides to enforce workplace equality, hires 15,000 female engineers. – Mike Blumenthal

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Please add your own headlines you would like to see in 2018 but probably won’t to the comments.