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 Launches Custom Voice Actions For Third Party Apps Voice Actions will allow users to not only launch but explore content in apps. For Task Completion, Cortana Now Integrates More Deeply […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Moz Open Site Explorer Adds Spam Analysis For Risky Links Popular SEO tool software company, Moz, launched a spam analysis feature within their link analysis toolset. 10 Practical Tips For Using […]
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 Suggesting Firefox Users Change Their Search Engine & Home Page Yahoo won the deal to be the default search engine in Firefox in November; now after losing some search share, […]
Google's new local ranking algorithm that launched in the US earlier this year has rolled out to the UK, Canada and Australia.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Despite Documented Performance Lift Brands Still Confounded By Local Search Remarkably there are still marketers out there that don’t “get” local search or why marketing campaigns should be localized. There are […]
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 Now Lets You Search By Emoji Want to search for something using popular emoji characters? Microsoft’s Bing search engine now supports this. Bing announced the news in a post today, […]
Moz has announced the release of their annual local ranking factors study. The study shows that for the most part, the signals and factors according to their large panel of experts, has not changed much year over year. David Mihm from Moz said the biggest takeaways he noticed were: (1) Behavioral signals such as click […]
Local businesses sometimes have trouble understanding how they'd benefit from SEO. Columnist Greg Gifford shows how you can boil it down to the basics.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: U.S. Search Award Winners Announced The second-annual U.S. Search Awards were handed out last night during Pubcon Las Vegas. The awards were presented to agencies and individuals for outstanding achievements in […]
Day three of Search Marketing Expo East is now complete and below is some of the live blog coverage we found throughout the day. #SMX Liveblog Googler Talks HTTPS + Insights from SEO VIPs, BruceClay.com #SMX Liveblog: Conversion Rate Rock Stars, BruceClay.com #SMX Liveblog: Google Says Penguin May Come Next Week, BruceClay.com #SMX Liveblog: Pigeon, […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Mobile Search Spend Share In UK And Australia Outpaces US Mobile spend and click share in three of the most mature paid search markets – the U.S., UK and Australia – […]
Search engine optimization professionals were caught off-guard back in June when Google’s John Mueller announced that the search giant would be “simplifying” the way authorship is displayed in search results. This simplification involved the removal of profile photos and circle counts from the search listings of pages with authorship enabled. We all know the author […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: For More Accurate Shipping Rates In Google Shopping, Merchant Center Gets Shipping Configuration Tool Google launched new features today to help merchants customize the shipping rates that display in Google Shopping. […]
If the changes going on in local search are giving you a headache, you’re not alone. For example, Google’s Pigeon update is a newly released algorithm to provide more useful, relevant and accurate local search results that are tied more closely to traditional web search ranking signals. The core changes are behind the scenes, but […]
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 Launches Google News Publisher Center Google announced on the Google News blog a new portal for Google News publishers to use to help manage their news sites within Google News. […]
Our annual Search Marketing Expo – SMX East is less than two months away, and it’s shaping up to be an exceptional show. We’ve developed a ton of new content for the conference to keep you current with the latest tactics, tools and techniques. What’s New In SEO A better question is “what isn’t new?” […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Why Traditional Call Tracking Is No Longer Relevant – August 12th Webcast Digital Marketing Depot presents “Why Traditional Call Tracking Is No Longer Relevant: Emerging Trends for Call Tracking in 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: Experts Weigh In On Google’s “Pigeon” Update Aimed At Improving Local Search Results Last week, Google made new search waves when it rolled out updates to its local search algorithm. The […]
Last week, Google made new search waves when it rolled out updates to its local search algorithm. The “Pigeon” update (the name Search Engine Land gave it in absence of an official name from Google) aims to deliver improved local search results, with enhanced distance and location ranking parameters. According to Google, the new 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: UK House Of Lords Condemns Right To Be Forgotten The House of Lords in the UK has little power in government or policy making except at the margins. Similarly, the British […]
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 Pigeon Update Solves Yelp Problem, Boosts Local Directories As the analysis continues on yesterday’s Google local search algorithm changes — that we’re calling the Pigeon update — one thing appears […]
As the analysis continues on yesterday’s Google local search algorithm changes — that we’re calling the Pigeon update — one thing appears to be clear: Local directory sites are getting better visibility in Google’s search results. More specifically, it looks like Google has fixed its “Yelp problem” and is now showing Yelp pages at the […]
Last night, Google released a pretty significant local search algorithm update. Google told us there was no internal name for the update, but now that we see that it was fairly significant, we decided to give it a name: Pigeon. Pigeon is the name we decided on because this is a local search update and […]
Google has released a new algorithm to provide a more useful, relevant and accurate local search results that are tied more closely to traditional web search ranking signals. The changes will be visible within the Google Maps search results and Google Web search results. Note: We’ve named this update the Pigeon update. The core changes […]