Stephen Mahaney
CEO & Founder of Planet Ocean
Washington State / Hawaii
Stephen Mahaney founded Planet Ocean in 1990, published 'The UnFair Advantage Book on Winning The Search Engine Wars' in 1996 (the Web's *original* $97 eBook) and established SearchEngineNews.com--the longest running membership-based publication site on the Internet--in 1997.
Today he splits his time between Kona, Hawaii and the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State.
Articles by Stephen Mahaney
- Google Ads Developer Blog Summary for February 2021
- Facebook Breaks the News in Australia to Prove a Point
- Facebook Knew for Years Ad Reach Estimates Were Based on 'Wrong Data' But Blocked Fixes Over Revenue Impact
- Facebook Puff Piece Stirs Controversy For NYTimes Writer
- GMB Auto Populating Services
- GMB Messaging Rolling Out For Desktop
- Years in Business Feature Added to GMB
- GSC Changes To Web Story Performance Report
- Search Console Discover Report Adds Chrome Data
- Updated Metric Boundaries for Core Web Vitals
- Use 503 To Avoid Losing Rankings While in Social Statement Mode
- Official Google Video On Duplicate Content
- New Manual Action Penalties for Google News and Discover Policy Violations
- Google Expands Phrase Match To Include Broad Match Modifier Traffic
- Google Launches Passage Ranking
- Google Announces Price Enforcements for Merchants
- February 26th Digest - John Mueller's Hangouts - Search Central Office Hours
- February 19th Digest - John Mueller's Hangouts - Search Central Office Hours
- February 12th Digest - John Mueller's Hangouts - Search Central Office Hours
- February 5th Digest - John Mueller's Hangouts - Search Central Office Hours
- WebSite Cleanup Tips for a faster, better-indexed site
- How to relocate a GMB attorney listing
- Tips for getting listed in People Also Ask
- Does using the disavow tool indicate to Google that a site might be shady?
- What, exactly, is Core Web Vitals?
- DuckDuckGo Hits 100 Million Searches Per Day -- Updates Privacy Protections
- GMB Updates Flag Review Options
- Google to Invite Advertisers to Test Alternative to 3rd Party Cookies
- URL Removal Tool in GSC Doesn't Actually Remove Pages
- Price Drop Added to Google Rich Results
- Google to Stop Collecting Ad ID's To Avoid Pop Up Warning in iOS Apps
- Google Notifies Site Owners About New HTTP/2 Protocol Crawling
- Google Wants Web Stories, not Web Teasers
- Google Threatens to Leave Australia
- WordPress Launches New Website Building Service
- High-severity Vulnerability in WordPress Plugin Contact Form
- Facebook Moving UK Users to US Privacy Terms & Conditions
- Facebook Attacks Apple's Plan to Give Users a Privacy Choice
- Twitter Relaunching Verified Accounts
- Update on the Structured Data Testing Tool
- Noindexed Pages Can Impact Core Web Vitals
- Google Placing UK Users Under U.S. Jurisdiction
- Why Ad Heavy Pages Might Still Rank Well in the SERP
- Copied Content is Sometimes More Relevant
- Request Indexing Tool Reenabled in GSC
- Google Rolls Out Dec 2020 Core Algorithm Update
- Top Google Searches for 2020
- An Important Message from The Founder of Planet Ocean / SEN
- Would owning a new top level domain (TLD) with keywords provide a ranking advantage?
- Are keyword heavy titles a problem?
- Free Online Video Converter Tools
- Editorial: Subscribe With Google / The Google News Initiative
- Google for Jobs is LIVE & Based on Schema Markup
- Google Launches 'Ad Experience Report Tool' in their Fight Against "Bad" Ads
- Google Launches Free 'Website' for GMB Participants
- AdWords Expands Language Options for Structured Snippets Globally
- Need to Know Details of 'Ads Added by AdWords'
- SEO for Voice Search: Digital Assistants
- SEN Celebrates 20 Years!
- OMG! Here Comes A Whole New Can Of Black-Hat Whoopass!
- Why is America so polarized? ...it's the Echo Chamber!
- A Virtual Paradi$e of Low Hanging Fruit
- How to track customers without hurting your Local Listings in Google
- Once They Find Your Page How Do You Get Them to Take Action?! Common Mistakes Marketers Make.
- Once They Find Your Page How Do You Get Them to Take Action?
- The Missing Link To Writing Effective Ad Copy
- The Missing Link To Writing Effective Ad Copy
- How to Easily Analyze your Competition in Seconds Using the Site Strength Indicator Tool
- The 'Local Search' Gold Rush Begins
- The Top 12 Link-Offenders You Should Avoid Like A Ticking Bomb!
- Google's Local Business Center
- Advanced SEO Tutorials
- Essential Title Tag Strategies for Top Ranking Pages in 2009
- Entrepreneurial Thoughts on the so-called Financial Meltdown
- 7 Ways to Boost Your Sales and Build More Links By Increasing Your Site's Speed!
- 9 Critical Steps to Evaluating Incoming Link Quality
- Proof Positive that Run-of-Site 'Paid' Links are BAD for your Website!
- How to Use Flash in Top Ranking Pages
- Your 4 Week Step-by-Step Link Building Task Planner
- Wikia Search Launch
- The Ultimate Link Building Quick-Start Guide, Part II
- How to Legally and Instantly Download All of Your Competitor's Top-Secret PPC Keywords!!!
- How to Leverage Your Company's Most Powerful Asset
- How to Automatically Build an AdWords Campaign
- How to Craft a Money Making Home Page
- There are Some Lists You Just Don't Want to be On
- "The Most Effective, Yet Overlooked, Marketing Strategy on the Internet"
- Are you ignoring 350,000 potential customers?
- Check your Popularity!
- Guide to Infoseek's ESP Search Engine
- How to get your pages to "Stick" in Excite
- The Best Kept Secret on the Internet?
- Making Money the Easy Way
- The Best Way to Sell Products or Services On The Internet
- Mining "Gold" from your "Back-End" Market
- Creating Web Sites that Load Fast & Sell
- Once they find your page how do you get them to take action?