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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: What is Google Data Studio and how can you use it?Sep 19, 2016 by Sherry Bonelli Currently in beta, Google Data Studio allows you to create branded reports with data visualizations […]
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 downplays the Google algorithm ranking update this week as “normal fluctuations”Sep 16, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Was there a major Google algorithm change this week? Many webmasters believe so. Google […]
Was there a major Google algorithm change this week? Many webmasters believe so.
Google is now showing images in the mobile search results for product-like queries. Do you like the new mobile search snippets?
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Is Google showing fewer image boxes in its search results?Sep 15, 2016 by Barry Schwartz You are now 50% less likely to see the image box show up in your Google […]
You are now 50% less likely to see the image box show up in your Google search results page. Is it a bug or a feature?
Google says election-related searches for this election cycle are up 240% over 2012.
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 bumps Expanded Text Ad deadline to January 31, 2017Sep 13, 2016 by Ginny Marvin Issues a set of dos and dont’s for testing expanding text ads. Bing Ads launches Structured […]
Columnist Christi Olson describes the changing face of search engine results pages and how new technology and functionality is benefiting both searchers and advertisers.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: New: Access up to 5 AdWords accounts with one loginSep 13, 2016 by Ginny Marvin Also, no need to confirm user access invitations anymore. Seeing Google Keyword Planner down? You’re not […]
In two weeks, SEOs and SEMs will gather at largest search marketing conference on the East Coast: SMX East. SMX East will be held in New York City, September 27-29. Don’t miss your chance to get the latest SEO and SEM tactics and connect with other search marketers. Here’s what you’ll get: Tactics you can […]
No marketer needs to be told the value of data in informing and measuring the success of a campaign, but search trend data, in particular, can seem overwhelming, especially if content and SEO departments aren’t always joined up or organized efficiently enough to build a solid strategy from a large scope of data. Search data […]
Columnist Eric Enge explains how investing in long-term marketing initiatives can give you a huge advantage over your competition.
Many users with active campaigns are unable to access Keyword Planner.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: AdWords Campaign Experiments (aka ACE) to sunset in favor of Drafts & ExperimentsSep 12, 2016 by Ginny Marvin Retirement of the legacy testing tool will begin the week of October 17. […]
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 improves autocomplete suggestions for academic papers & movie titlesSep 9, 2016 by Amy Gesenhues Bing says autocomplete suggestions for movies will analyze a user’s natural language and intent to deliver […]
Bing says autocomplete suggestions for movies will analyze a user's natural language and intent to deliver the most likely interpretations.
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. Bing Ads balloons for 20% UK marketshare: Source: Twitter Google Brazil green pickup truck fruit bar: […]
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 reminds webmasters that widget links are against their webmaster guidelinesSep 8, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Don’t be surprised if a new wave of unnatural link penalties are sent out via […]
Don't be surprised if a new wave of unnatural link penalties are sent out via the Google Search Console for widget links.
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 ‘Reviews from the web’ to critic reviews in local search resultsSep 7, 2016 by Greg Sterling To be considered for inclusion, sites will need to use review snippet markup. […]
Caught by the Penguin anti-spam filter and fixed your site? Here's how long you've been waiting for a chance to be released.
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: Friday’s update was not due to the Penguin algorithmSep 6, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Google’s John Mueller told us to cross off Penguin from the list of explanations for the […]
Google's John Mueller told us to cross off Penguin from the list of explanations for the Google update from this past Friday.
Seeing a shift in Google's local results? It's not just you. Columnist Joy Hawkins documents what appears to be a recent refresh to Google's local ranking filter.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Is a big Google search update happening? Chatter thinks so.Sep 2, 2016 by Barry Schwartz The SEO community is vigorously talking about two Google updates, one with the core web search […]
The SEO community is vigorously talking about two Google updates, one with the core web search results and one with the local pack 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: Google’s premium-level Ad Grants program no longer accepting applicationsSep 1, 2016 by Ginny Marvin The Grantspro program offers non-profits up to $10,000 per month in search advertising grants. Want better data […]
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 introduces the ‘search live coverage carousel’ for real-time indexing & search results Aug 31, 2016 by Barry SchwartzIs this the real time Google indexing API? Google is now piloting the […]
Google officially says goodbye to their mobile-friendly label this morning. The mobile-friendly label no longer shows up in the search results.
Mobile searches now constitute between 50% and 60% of queries in the US market.
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 debuts a brand new look for Merchant CenterAug 30, 2016 by Ginny Marvin A much needed face lift also includes some new features. Mastering Online-to-Offline Marketing: New Digital Strategies for […]
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 updates local reviews schema guidelinesAug 29, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Now only reviews “directly produced by your site” can have local reviews markup, according to Google. With Panda in stealth […]
What are Google's quality updates (aka Phantom updates), and how can you recover? In part one of a two-part series on Phantom, columnist Glenn Gabe explains the history and possible mechanics of these algorithm updates.
Now only reviews "directly produced by your site" can have local reviews markup, according to 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: Bing search app for iOS & Android gets new music, video & map featuresAug 26, 2016 by Amy Gesenhues Bing’s making it easier to find song titles, as well as add […]
Bing's making it easier to find song titles, as well as add Netflix and Amazon movie titles to your watchlist on mobile.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: AMP now supports A/B testing and other experimentsAug 25, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Check out the new amp-experiments component that lets you easily test different variations of your AMP pages. Google […]
The acquisition adds organic search optimization to ScribbleLive’s growing content marketing arsenal of algorithms and other tools.