Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Last chance: Save $450 on a seat at SMX WestNov 12, 2018 by Search Engine Land Results-obsessed marketers are attending SMX® West for actionable SEO and SEM tactics and strategies. Join […]
Company reportedly has been meeting with officials and developing prototype search apps that comply with Chinese censorship demands.
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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: A year in review: Search Engine Land’s top 10 columns of 2016Dec 30, 2016 by Jessica Thompson Which topics drew the most attention within the search industry this year? From infographics […]
Initial fix merely bumped denial site down, then failed to work consistently. Now the denial site is gone from first page of results.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Merkle’s early data on expanded text ad CTRs: Results are mixedJul 29, 2016 by Ginny Marvin The agency looked at expanded text ad performance from both brand and non-brand traffic. Excited […]
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 says keywords in the TLD part of your URL are ignored for ranking purposes Jun 15, 2016 by Barry Schwartz After a controversial sponsored post on Search Engine Land, Google […]
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 Search Console now lets you unsubscribe from some email notifications Apr 26, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Finally, after much feedback from webmasters, they can now unsubscribe and mute email notifications […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Local Traffic “Diversion”: Google Claims It’s A Bug, Yelp Says It’s Intentional Nov 24, 2015 by Greg Sterling Local search represents between 30 and 40 percent of mobile search results. Local […]
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 Adds Additional Ranking Boost For Using App Indexing APISep 30, 2015 by Barry Schwartz Google announced a new ranking boost for App Indexing, as well as a new iOS indexing […]
Google has added a hyperlink to the brand's web site in the knowledge graph box.
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 Maps Plus Codes Now Searchable, Making Hard-To-Find Places Easier To Locate Google’s Open Location Codes can now be searched on both Google and Google Maps. Is Google Experimenting With Bringing […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: US Paid Search Growing But At Slower Rate, Google Brand CPCs Surge [Report] Paid search ad spend growth continued to decelerate and clicks rose just 3 percent in Q2, according to […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: SEMPO Names 20 Leaders From Locations Around The World To Drive SEMPO Cities Initiative The new leadership will be charged with creating local communities to help educate and support search marketing […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Yahoo Signs Deal With Oracle To Attract New Users Via Java Installs Yahoo hopes to repeat the success of last year’s Mozilla Firefox partnership, which grew its search share in the […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Gay Pride Month Gets Google’s Support With Rainbow-Colored Images For LGBT Searches For the month of June, LGBT-related search terms will deliver a Google results page with a rainbow-colored heart and […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Yahoo Gemini Gaining Mobile Search Share, But Not At Google’s Expense, Yet A criticism of the Yahoo Bing partnership is that the two have merely traded market share rather than cut […]
Google doesn't want you to join ISIS, drops the autosuggest after BBC News notifies them of the Google Suggest fail.
Google has long maintained it’s not responsible for third party content in its index. And that’s the law in the US. However increasingly in Europe authorities and individuals are seeking to make Google legally responsible for the content in its search results. The latest example comes in the form of a legal settlement in a UK […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Agencies Take Note: Google Third-Party Policy Changes Coming Nov. 2014 Last month, Google rolled out an updated policy center for all advertisers. Starting in November, agencies and other third-party firms and […]
Google is notifying publishers when it de-indexes their links under the controversial “Right to Be Forgotten” (RTBF). What this does is often trigger republication of a version of the story by the media outlet or a page that indicates what URLs are being removed from the search index. Among others, that’s what the BBC has […]
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 Now Lets Travelers Know When Flight Prices Drop Google is helping travelers save money with a new Now card that tells users when a price has dropped on a flight. […]
It’s not often you have a vote that might create a new, independent nation. But that’s what’s happening today with Scotland. It’s such a big event that you’d think Google and Bing would be doing something special to provide election results. That’s not the case. Both search engines have long done special presentations for U.S. elections or […]
Bing is now offering predictions on the outcome of the Scottish Independence Referendum. Search Bing for [scottish independence] or [scottish referendum] and Bing will provide the best mathematical guess based on Bing Predicts. Here is the current prediction, which was last updated yesterday: Bing said it has successfully and accurately provided predictions on reality TV shows, […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Launches Xiaolce Chinese Chatbot With Cortana Smarts For Windows Phone After taking its Windows Phone 8.1 with Cortana to China last month, Bing announced today the launch of XiaoIce (“little […]
A French court has ordered a blogger to pay a substantial fine and change the title of a restaurant review because the review was too prominent in search results and harmed business at the restaurant. The post has since been removed but can be viewed here (via TechDirt). The restaurant, Il Giardino, complained to the […]
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions,” the saying goes. There are plenty of good intentions with the EU’s Right To Be Forgotten mandate, as well as Google’s attempt to meet new obligations under it. Things are still going to hell regardless. Thanks to the new right, the EU has helped enable convicted […]
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 Takes Down Japan’s Honinbo Shusaku Doodle On Google UK On D-Day, Offers Apology The Telegraph reports Google has taken down a Google Doodle, aka Google Logo, from Google UK and […]
European Commissioner for Justice Viviane Reding was quoted in a BBC interview saying that the Right to Be Forgotten (RTBF) will be relatively easy for Google to administer. She asserted that, compared to the millions of copyright removal requests Google deals with, the thousands of RTBF requests are a “small thing.” Google also manages government removal requests on a […]
MetaFilter is a news and discussion site dating back to the early years of the web. Founded in 1999, it’s attracting attention this week after coming forward about how a Google penalty has severely harmed its business, to the degree of having to let staff go. It serves as a poster child of problems with […]
The floodgates have opened. According to a Reuters story, following Tuesday’s European Court ruling establishing a Europe-wide “right to be forgotten” (RTF), Google is preparing for an anticipated “flood” of removal requests across the 28 country jurisdiction. The ruling provided a right to individuals to request (and ultimately compel) removal of unflattering or undesired information about […]
Majestic SEO, a popular link research tool, announced a new feature where they are now categorizing their index, which is made up of over 700 billion web pages, into about 1,000 different categories. Majestic is then using the categorization to add a new metric, they are calling “Topical Trust Flow.” This new score is their […]
Google made it clear earlier this year that those doing guest posts “for SEO purposes” might be subject to penalties. But the latest chapter in its war on guest posts feels a bit crazy: an entire site put into Google’s penalty box because of a single guest post that Google didn’t like. Your Entire Site […]
It’s been big news recently about major brands and Google penalties, and the floodgates feel open on people spotting even more brands possibly hit out there. Some new crackdown by Google? No. It’s the rise of hyperactive attention in this area, and that’s turning into a problem. Hence this open letter, on how we’re planning […]
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’s Matt Cutts On Being A Spam Fighter: Looking For Patterns & Always New Spam Efforts Google’s head of search spam Matt Cutts posted a longer video today answering what it […]
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 Shopping Adds New Consumer Features Ahead Of The Holidays Google is continuing to tweak the Google Shopping experience ahead of the holidays. With its sights set on Amazon, this week, […]
Google is celebrating the 50th birthday of the BBC’s Doctor Who series early, with a global release of a Doctor Who-themed Google logo and game on its homepage today. The actual anniversary of the show is tomorrow, November 23, but Google has already started rolling out the tribute logo and video game on a number […]
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’s Cutts: Auto-Generated Content & Search Results In Our Index Violate Our Guidelines In a recent video from Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, Matt discussed a pretty obvious spam […]
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 May Be Updating Their Algorithm But They Won’t Confirm It Today, September 4th, and last week, August 21st, there were huge spikes in chatter amongst the SEO and webmasters about […]
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: Links In Press Releases Should Use Nofollow Like Paid Links Friday we broke the news that Google updated their link schemes webmaster guidelines. Now that the dust has settled, I […]