90% of businesses fear losing SEO visibility as AI reshapes search
Businesses aren’t waiting for AI to take over search – 85.7% are investing in AI SEO, and 61.2% plan to spend more on SEO, survey finds.
Topic: Ann Smarty
This day in search marketing history: February 12
Google penalizes JCPenney for link scheme, plus: Google SEO certifications, Automated Bidding overhaul, canonical tag announced and more.
SEMRush drops paid guest blogging service after Google policy scrutiny
Google said selling paid links on blogs is against its webmaster guidelines and that Google can take action against those using the service.
13 stories of women who are shaping the SEO field
If you’re just starting to pave your way in SEO, read these empowering stories to learn what women love about SEO.
Video: Ann Smarty on the history of guest blogging & the future of link building
Remember when Google cracked down on guest blogging? Ann Smarty does, she ran MyBlogGuest that got hit hard by that penalty.
Reaction: What SEOs Think About Facts & Answers Showing In Google Search Results
Last week, Google officially rolled out Structured Snippets, the search giant’s move to show snippets of relevant data directly in its search results. According to Google, the content being displayed is powered by its Knowledge Graph, as well as other data sources. As Search Engine Land news editor Barry Schwartz noted in his article, “Where […]
Expert Insights On The Future Of SEO, Part 2
In today's installment, search industry veterans predict where SEO will be in 2020.
It’s Over: The Rise & Fall Of Google Authorship For Search Results
Anyone who follows Google knows that nothing it creates is immune from elimination. Like so many efforts before it, Authorship is fading into the sunset.
Nearly A Year Later, Google’s Penalty Notices Remain Confusing
Nearly a year after Google’s Matt Cutts told us penalty notifications will get clearer, including more actual examples of what a problem is, it seems as if the notifications have gotten harder to understand. I spend a lot of time following penalties issued by Google through examples given to me via email, penalties publicizes on blogs […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 20, 2014
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Yelp and YP Enter Into “Strategic” Content, Distribution Partership YP and Yelp have announced a strategic partnership that will in the near future provide YP advertisers with an enhanced presence on […]
Google’s Matt Cutts Implies MyBlogGuest Publishers Will Receive Penalties
Google has taken action on a large guest blog network that we believe is MyBlogGuest.com. In fact, the owner of MyBlogGuest.com, Ann Smarty confirmed last night she received a penalty. Yesterday, there was confusion over if those publishers who participated in MyBlogGuest.com would also be penalized. I suspected they would be and it seems that […]
Google’s Matt Cutts: We’ve Taken Action On A Large Guest Blog Network
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, announced really early this morning on Twitter that Google has taken action on “a large guest blog network.” Cutts previously warned the webmaster and SEO community that guest blogging is done, at least for SEO and link building purposes. Well, it might not have been done — it […]
Keep Writing Quality Content: SEO Bloggers React To Matt Cutts’ Claim “Guest Blogging Is Dead”
Google’s head of webspam, Matt Cutts, caused an uproar in the SEO community yesterday when he published a blog post on his personal blog claiming guest blogging for SEO purposes is dead. In his post, Cutts offered a history of how guest blogging has moved from being a reliable source of high-quality content to now […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 23, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Google Gets Lowest Score Ever In Customer Satisfaction Survey There’s a mystery surrounding the latest customer satisfaction numbers released by ForeSee Results (for the American Customer Satisfaction Index [ACSI]). Published late […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 13, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Googler Quits To Build Browser To Block Google Tracking TechCrunch reports Brian Kennish, a former Googler, quit Google a few weeks ago in order to build a browser that essentially blocks […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 23, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Back to School Time: A Refresher Course on Writing Great Ads In this month’s column, we’ll take a quick refresher course on what goes into writing great ads and then we’ll […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 12, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Gnarly, Dude: Google Solves Rubik’s Cube In 20 Moves This’ll make a lot of us feel a lot dumber: Scientists have used Google to prove that Rubik’s Cube can be solved […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 9, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google AdSense Updates Ad Layouts The Google AdSense blog announced they have updated the layout of some AdSense units. The main changes were to make the ads “more space-efficient and visually […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 5, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Two Simple Rules For Fixing High Bounce Rate Pages Of all the metrics that I struggle and fight with, probably the easiest one I’ve found to correct is a high bounce […]
6 Discovery Methods For Finding Ideal Linking Partners
One of my link builders recently had the brilliant idea of putting together and sending out a questionnaire designed to gather information how the other link builders in our agency perform their daily link building tasks. We’ve always worked on the assumption that each link builder will naturally be drawn to using certain specific tools […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 26, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 3, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 20, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.