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In the world of SEO, Google E-A-T is on every SEO specialist’s radar and has been a trending subject since August 2018. E-A-T stands for Expertise, Authority, and Trustworthiness, which was outlined in Google’s official Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines. E-A-T looks at the content creation, the content creator, and the website overall to understand whether the content provides valuable and correct information to the user. This guide will explain what E-A-T is, how important it is, and how to optimise towards a SEO friendly website by using Google’s E-A-T as guidance.

The Innovation Visual team recently attended HubSpot’s Inbound 2021, one of the worlds’ largest global inbound marketing events. The event spanned three days and encompassed a wide range of inspiring discussions across all areas of digital marketing and culture. This year also saw some particularly inspiring speakers, including the likes of Oprah Winfrey and Spike Lee.

While the event was used to present and announce a series of new HubSpot tools and updates, its primary goal was to share ideas from industry leaders, many of whom delivered some exceptional sessions on the current inbound marketing thought-leadership and emerging trends. As a team we value Inbound as it is a great way to ensure we stay up to date on all things new in this area of digital marketing. Here are a few ideas from two presentations that stood out for us in particular this year:

2020 has been the year of digital revolution. While bricks and mortar stores and businesses have been forced to close their doors, customers and consumers have shifted to buying online to meet their needs which in turn has meant businesses have had to adjust where they are focusing their efforts in order to compete. 

For some time now Google Chrome and other browsers like Safari have been rolling out updates which have been increasing the restrictions placed on third party cookies, and even first party cookies to a degree. Safari was one the first to bring in these changes (on a large scale), but they also have less to lose from these kinds of restrictions. And Microsoft Edge, we don’t really care about (we’ll let you look this up).

Soon things are about to change, drastically! Google Chrome is going to start to ‘phase out’ third party cookies, natively. The intention is to do this within two years; however, changes could come sooner.  But what effect will this have on marketers and where will this leave adtech companies which are solely reliant on these cookies to function?

Dr Martin Stillman-Jones, MBA.MSc.C.Eng.FRSA.FRIBC shares his thoughts on how to lead from the front and make rapid decisions in a coronavirus pandemic world. 

Google have announced that if your page has been listed as a featured snippet on a search result page, then it will no longer also appear as a standard blue link on the first page.

How this will impact your page's rank?