Danny Sullivan: My new role as advisor for Third Door Media
Search Engine Land continues on strong, with an outstanding team in place.
Danny Sullivan was a journalist and analyst who covered the digital and search marketing space from 1996 through 2017. He was also a cofounder of Third Door Media, which publishes Search Engine Land and MarTech, and produces the SMX: Search Marketing Expo and MarTech events. He retired from journalism and Third Door Media in June 2017. You can learn more about him on his personal site & blog He can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.
Search Engine Land continues on strong, with an outstanding team in place.
Danny Sullivan | Jun 26, 2017 at 12:30 pm ETMobile, direct answers & site speed factors gain greater weight.
Danny Sullivan | Jun 12, 2017 at 1:00 pm ETDespite less traffic, paid subscriber conversion said to be up fourfold.
Danny Sullivan | Jun 5, 2017 at 4:48 pm ETIf the primary purpose of distributing content is to gain links, both authors and publishers risk a Google penalty.
Danny Sullivan | May 25, 2017 at 1:24 pm ETGoogle has no single authority metric but rather uses a bucket of signals to determine authority on a page-by-page basis.
Danny Sullivan | May 3, 2017 at 9:01 am ETGoogle hopes to improve by better surfacing authoritative content and enlisting feedback about suggested searches and Featured Snippets answers.
Danny Sullivan | Apr 25, 2017 at 10:00 am ETInfowars article was used to help illustrate how quality raters might judge content, but raters have no power to censor, ban or penalize pages.
Danny Sullivan | Apr 18, 2017 at 4:09 am ETIs an online claim true or not? Google hopes special callouts for fact-checking articles will help searchers get the right answers or better make their own decisions.
Danny Sullivan | Apr 7, 2017 at 3:05 am ETYour feedback helps us update The Periodic Table Of SEO Success Factors. Please lend us a few minutes and your expertise!
Danny Sullivan | Apr 4, 2017 at 1:45 pm ETUnder fire for months, can Google reverse the drip-drip-drip of criticism as incorrect, absurd or even dangerous results surface to the top?
Danny Sullivan | Apr 3, 2017 at 9:00 am ETProgram opens in US and Brazil. Expansion is a sign Google no longer sees it as just an experiment.
Danny Sullivan | Mar 22, 2017 at 10:00 am ETThe closure marks the final end of a chapter of humans trying to organize the web.
Danny Sullivan | Mar 17, 2017 at 5:05 pm ETAppears to be the first-ever commercialization of Google's home assistant product.
Danny Sullivan | Mar 16, 2017 at 3:21 pm ETUsing data from human "quality raters," Google hopes to teach its algorithms how to better spot offensive and often factually incorrect information.
Danny Sullivan | Mar 14, 2017 at 1:00 pm ETGoogle Assistant is coming widely to Android phones. Here's how to use it and other ways to Google on your smartphone -- even for iPhone users.
Danny Sullivan | Mar 14, 2017 at 9:00 am ETGoogle Assistant is officially available for many Android phones now, but the rollout will take time.
Danny Sullivan | Mar 6, 2017 at 2:07 pm ETObama's planning a coup? Women are evil? Several presidents were in the KKK? Republicans are Nazis? Google can go spectacularly wrong with some of its direct answers.
Danny Sullivan | Mar 5, 2017 at 5:04 pm ETAs of March 14, DMOZ will no longer be available.
Danny Sullivan | Feb 28, 2017 at 5:48 pm ETWSJ move might cause other publishers to remove content from Google's program, if it turns out "Subscription" label doesn't hurt conversions.
Danny Sullivan | Feb 16, 2017 at 1:54 pm ETNew anchor button enables copy-and-paste of URLs directly to publisher sites.
Danny Sullivan | Feb 6, 2017 at 2:00 pm ET