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SearchCap: Google drops feature phones, Sitemap file size increases & videos in panels

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

Barry Schwartz on November 30, 2016 at 4:00 pm

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

From Search Engine Land:

  • How Google is tackling fake news, and why it should not do it alone
    Nov 30, 2016 by Ian Bowden

    What can Google do to combat fake news? Columnist Ian Bowden illustrates some ways the search giant can tackle — and already is tackling — this problem.

  • Removing duplicates in Yext: still a hands-on process
    Nov 30, 2016 by Corey Barnett

    Columnist Corey Barnett explains that if you plan to use Yext to suppress duplicate local listings, you should first understand the strengths and weaknesses of the platform.

  • Jagdish Chandra Bose Google doodle marks 158th birthday of biophysicist, botanist & crescograph inventor
    Nov 30, 2016 by Amy Gesenhues

    Bose’s professional endeavors spread across many scientific fields, from plant life to radio science, and even science fiction.

  • How brands can win with omnichannel discovery
    Nov 30, 2016 by Adam Dorfman

    Omnichannel marketing is quickly becoming the norm in a multi-device world, and columnist Adam Dorfman explains the steps business can take to begin developing an omnichannel location strategy.

  • Google drops their feature phone crawler & error report in Search Console
    Nov 30, 2016 by Barry Schwartz

    Google has officially dropped full support for feature-phone web sites.

  • Google & Bing increase the file size limit of Sitemaps files
    Nov 30, 2016 by Barry Schwartz

    While the 50,000 URL limit has not changed, your Sitemaps file size can now be up to 50MB.

  • Google knowledge panel now showing videos from the web carousel
    Nov 29, 2016 by Barry Schwartz

    Videos are now showing up below the Google knowledge panel for some queries, including local panels and other knowledge panels.

  • MarTech Conference series adds Boston event in 2017
    Nov 29, 2016 by Search Engine Land

    Search Engine Land publisher Third Door Media announced today that it will produce an East coast edition of MarTech®: The Marketing Tech Conference at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston October 2-4, 2017. A West coast edition of MarTech will take place in San Francisco May 9-11, 2017. “Marketers are implementing technologies at a breakneck […]

Recent Headlines From MarTech, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:

  • Commerce Signals and PlaceIQ turn in-store sales data into campaign optimization tool
  • Is in-house marketing better than using an agency?
  • Google’s shift to mobile-first: mobile moments that matter
  • ‘Beacons are dead,’ says CEO of a retail analytics firm
  • Size matters: 5 tips for creating LEAN programmatic creative
  • Return Path buys email deliverability specialist Email Copilot
  • Snapchat shuts down Story Explorer feature in Live Stories
  • 10 domain name secrets to repair your online reputation
  • Amazon: Alexa devices were best-selling products from any manufacturer
  • Ranked conversations have arrived to the Twitter mobile experience

Search News From Around The Web:

Local & Maps

  • Adding 50 new tours for schools with Google Expeditions, blog.google
  • If Nobody in Your Area Cares about Yelp, Should You Still Bother Getting Reviews There?, LocalVisibilitySystem.com

Link Building

  • 5 Takeaways from Earning Links in 130 Countries, Moz
  • Link Building: Why You Keep Getting Rejected & How to Change it, iPullRank

Searching

  • Google Asked to Remove a Billion "Pirate" Search Results in a Year, TorrentFreak
  • SearchResearch Challenge (11/30/16): Mercury where??, SearchReSearch

SEO

  • Answering Featured Snippets Timely, Using Sentence Compression on News, SEO By The Sea
  • Google Search Console’s Update Indicator Line Finally Clickable, Search Engine Roundtable
  • Google Updates Site Move Recommendations for Webmasters, thesempost.com
  • How Much Does Google Index Twitter? Study Shows Decline, Stone Temple
  • If Not Dates in the URL, What Then?, sistrix.com
  • Mobile First Index & What you should stop doing right now, State of Digital
  • Upcoming Google Interstitial Penalty Could Harm Jewish Websites, jpupdates.com

SEM / Paid Search

  • 5 Fast Fixes For Your Holiday PPC Strategy, PPC Hero
  • Remarketing comes to Bing Ads Editor and additional support for Bing Shopping Campaign, Bing Ads Blog

Search Marketing

  • How to Monitor – and Capitalize on – Your Competitors, 3Q Digital

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    New Yelp feature: Request a Call

About The Author

Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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