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 beefs up Moz Local with new features, distribution and automationNov 17, 2016 by Greg Sterling With new activity alerts, GMB sync and reputation management, the expanded Moz Local is intended […]
Google's Search Analytics report will now show you how your AMP pages are performing in the rich cards section versus the core mobile results.
Google's mobile-first index may index your desktop version over AMP when there is no mobile version of your website.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Registration for MarTech San Francisco is open!Nov 16, 2016 by Scott Brinker MarTech San Francisco is back and better than before, with twice the number of sessions, speakers and exhibitors! With […]
Get the showtimes for your favorite television shows on Google with the new "On TV soon" box.
Over the past couple of years, Google has shown a strong focus on user experience on mobile devices. They have developed their algorithms to address customer experience and usability and to encourage organizations to meet certain standards. For instance, Mobilegeddon looked not only at the responsiveness of a mobile site, but how truly mobile-friendly a […]
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 Partner Program expands to agencies and technology partners, rolling out to more marketsNov 15, 2016 by Ginny Marvin Customers that meet certain engagement criteria can become eligible for program benefits. […]
These ad policy changes don't guarantee fake news won't continue showing up in the Facebook News Feed or Google search results.
This Google bug shows a date that is older than your blog post in the search results snippet. This doesn't seem to impact rankings directly.
Native advertising is fast becoming a powerful digital marketing strategy, as traditional display and banner ads become less and less effective. With internet users increasingly ignoring overt sales tactics, average click-through rates (CTRs) for display ads have fallen over time to 0.17 percent, according to Google. In contrast, native ads enjoy much higher CTR 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: Microsoft execs share plans for making Bing ‘pervasive’; say search is about to become very differentNov 14, 2016 by Ginny Marvin At an event in Redmond, Microsoft shared its vision of […]
Price extensions are also rolling out for more languages and currencies.
Want to get inside the minds of potential customers for your local business? Columnist Sherry Bonelli shares insights from BrightLocal's annual Local Consumer Review Survey.
Today marks the 125th birthday of the Canadian medical scientist and physician whose work earned him a Nobel Prize.
In less than four years, Google's search knowledge of pages have grown by more than 100 trillion new pages.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Meet a Landy Award winner: For its work with Scotts Miracle Gro, Acronym wins Best Overall Enterprise SEM InitiativeNov 11, 2016 by Greg Finn This year’s Best Overall Enterprise SEM Initiative […]
The result for Littlewoods Ireland: the most successful Christmas campaign ever
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more. Google cocktail: Source: Instagram Market Google: Source: Instagram Google headphones: Source: Instagram Grand opening of the […]
Designed by doodlers Olivia Huynh and USCM veteran Diana Tran, the doodle leads to a search for "Veterans Day" and includes a sharing icon.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: The Google Search Console is undergoing infrastructure updatesNov 10, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Due to the infrastructure updates, some of the Google Search Console reports may be wrong or buggy. Boost […]
Due to the infrastructure updates, some of the Google Search Console reports may be wrong or buggy.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: FAQ: All about the Google mobile-first indexNov 9, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Here’s everything we know about the Google mobile-first index. As Trump racked up Electoral College votes, searches about moving […]
On product queries, product listing ads are dominating over text ads.
Here's everything to know about the Google mobile-first index.
Briefly overwhelmed by traffic from the US, the Canadian immigration website was also down last night.
Google publishes their first recommendations for making PWAs indexable in Google.
Google says they now have fixed the bug.
In our last post, we looked at how to measure the true performance of your content, both on-site and off-site, through the tracking of engagement. Today, we want to discuss how to improve the discoverability of your off-site content in search, so it can be found in the first place. When marketers think of […]
Do you continue to violate Google's safe browsing policies? Well, Google is about to get stricter on you.
Company says that new process, using Google Maps app and Google Search, will expedite publication of changes and additions.
After 2 1/2 years, Google has dropped the search snippet feature.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: 9 hard truths about linksNov 8, 2016 by Julie Joyce Link building is difficult, and columnist Julie Joyce reminds us that there are no risk-free, fool-proof tactics within this discipline. Where […]
Like Sunday's and yesterday's doodles, the animated image leads to a "where do I vote" query and surfaces an interactive tool to find polling locations.
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 e-commerce success: SEO > aestheticsNov 7, 2016 by Julian Connors For those in the online retail space, columnist Julian Connors shares his advice for making your e-commerce website SEO-friendly. Google […]
YouTube will also air live coverage of the elections starting at 7:00 p.m. ET on November 8.
Testing an expansion of Shopping Ads on YouTube.
Samsung said it will be making more AI acquisitions as it plays catch-up with Google and others.
The US 2016 Election Day reminder doodle surfaces Google's voter registration tool that helps searchers find local polling locations.
With so many business structure possibilities, it can be particularly complicated to consolidate content across departments, especially if it’s created in isolation. Internal structure can therefore dictate content efficiency, and decentralized structures can, in turn, spawn duplicate, overlapping or conflicting content. What is cannibalization? Cannibalization is a term coined by the digital community to refer […]
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 begins mobile-first indexing, using mobile content for all search rankingsNov 4, 2016 by Barry Schwartz While called an ‘experiment,’ it’s actually the first move in Google’s planned shift to looking […]