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 Ads Shares Halloween Data For Advertisers: Search, CTR CPC Trends See when to expect click-through rates and costs to peak by product category and more. PhantomALERT: Waze Stole Our Database […]
Google has no comment on why many webmasters have seen their Panda 4.2 gains reversed on August 14.
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 Search Engine Land App Now Live For iOS & Android Download the new Search Engine Land app, plus the Marketing Land sister app for iOS and Android devices now. Google […]
Columns show ad engagements that reflect performance by ad format type in each campaign.
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 iOS App Gets A Refresh With Updates To Bing News & New Bing Interests Feature New version also includes at-a-glance Popular Now content on Apple Watch and easier access to […]
New version also includes at-a-glance Popular Now content on Apple Watch and easier access to Privacy Search Mode.
"Fun facts" or "I'm feeling curious" search returns dynamic answer box at the top of results, along with "Ask another question" option.
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 Finalists For The 2015 Search Engine Land Awards Are… We are thrilled to announce the finalists for the inaugural Search Engine Land Awards. With over 100 compelling entries, we are […]
Make sure to test your mobile pages that have app interstitials on them. They may not rank as well on November 1 if they block a lot of your content.
After four months of having access to the Search Analytics report, Google has removed the legacy Search Queries report from the Search Console.
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 Predictions Tackles The NFL, Likes The Broncos, Colts, Packers & Seahawks Having done pretty well with predictions for basketball, tennis and soccer, Bing turns its prediction engine loose on the […]
Having done pretty well with predictions for basketball, tennis and soccer, Bing turns its prediction engine loose on the upcoming NFL season.
In a formal filing and in a companion blog post by Google SVP and General Counsel Kent Walker, Google has vigorously denied that it has abused its market position in search. Instead, it characterized its actions and UI changes as directed toward quality and improving the user experience. In the blog post entitled “improving quality […]
When a client loses its featured snippet, columnist Glenn Gabe does some competitive analysis to try to determine why. His findings may shed light on what it takes to get a featured snippet in Google search results.
Now, with the new 3-pack local results box, you are way more likely to see them in the number one position.
Google Image Search has added large buttons that let you filter your image searches with a press of a thumb on your mobile phone.
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 Goes After The App Interstitial: Protecting Consumers Or Its Own Search Monopoly? Google recently published a case study suggesting that app download interstitials on mobile are ineffective, leading to high […]
Mobile searchers will often see three text ads instead of two on a small set of queries, but ad real estate on the screen remains relatively unchanged.
It turns out that Bing has its own version of Google “Now on Tap” — and it’s now available for Android devices, ahead of the release of Google’s own upgraded service. This morning, Bing announced that what the company calls “Bing Snapshots” will deliver contextually relevant search information for any app installed on your Android […]
Located at the bottom right corner of a news story, the new "Smart Labels" help users explore connected articles.
Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, posted that Google is sending them less and less traffic, calls this a "long-term issue."
Google's mobile search results has a new design for the sitelinks; they now are expandable to show more options.
Google said if you have a mobile-friendly website only, it should also rank just fine in the desktop Google search 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 iOS App Now Provides Context-Aware Conversational Search Google recently updated its iOS app to bring context-aware searching to any content within search results. It allows searchers to ask additional questions […]
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 […]
Twitter integration into Google's desktop results has been spotted in the wild. Until now, only mobile results had this.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Google has been given extra time (until August 31) to respond to the European Commission’s antitrust charges. The original deadline was August 17, next Monday; however, Google requested additional time. Notwithstanding historical complaints about maps/local and other vertical areas, for the present, the “Statement of Objections” (formal antitrust charges) […]
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There has been discussion and debate about whether and how much websites were affected by Google’s Mobile-Friendly algorithm update. I wrote last week about a study that argued non-mobile-friendly sites were disappearing from the top positions in mobile search results. Now comes a study of small business websites that shows meaningful traffic gains for mobile-friendly […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Major Billing Improvements & Consolidated Billing Arrive On Bing Ads A new suite of Bing Ads billing tools will keep search marketers working on their accounts, not accounting issues. Is CTR […]
Contributor Bartosz Góralewicz shares the results of an experiment he conducted, which suggests that click-through rate (CTR) from search is not a ranking factor.