Lily Ray on why shortcuts rarely win in SEO or AI search
From buying links to AI search, Lily Ray shares why lasting visibility comes from E-E-A-T, real expertise and earning recommendations.
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This day in search marketing history: March 14
Learn what happened on this day in search marketing history – including developments in SEO, PPC, search and digital marketing.
How to update content and dates for SEO in 2023
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This day in search marketing history: January 11
Google's mobile intrusive interstitials penalty, plus: AdWords eases negative keyword management, Search Plus pushing Google+ and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 5
Google AdWords introduces click-to-call ads, plus: IndexNow WordPress plugin, AdWords 2x budget change, search being solved and more.
SearchCap: Matt Cutts On Links, Spiderman Drops Bing & DuckDuckGo’s New Design
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: DuckDuckGo Releases New Beta Site With Redesigned Look & Added Features DuckDuckGo. the search engine known for protecting the privacy of its users, announced a new “reimagined and redesigned” beta site […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 27, 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: SMX West Rates Increase Saturday – Register Now, Save $200! Early Bird rates for Search Engine Land’s SMX West conference expire Saturday. Register now and get three days of exceptional content […]
Penguin 5, With The Penguin 2.1 Spam-Filtering Algorithm, Is Now Live
The fifth confirmed release of Google’s “Penguin” spam fighting algorithm is live. That makes it Penguin 5 by our count. But since this Penguin update is using a slightly improved version of Google’s “Penguin 2” second-generation technology, Google itself is calling it “Penguin 2.1.” Don’t worry. We’ll explain the numbering nonsense below, as well as […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 3, 2013
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 AdWords Integration For Analytics Changes Campaign Name Reporting Google has announced a new AdWords integration for Google Analytics that starts rolling out today. The biggest immediate change is that campaign […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 24, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Yandex Launches Experimental “Wonder” Voice Social Search App For The US Yandex, the company behind the leading search engine in Russia with a presence in Turkey, has taken a radically different […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 17, 2013
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 Hijacking Semantic Markup/Structured Data? In 2012, I started a series, How The Major Search And Social Engines Are Using The Semantic Web, which took us to a point in […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 11, 2013
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 Brings Back Flickr/Creative Commons Filtering To Image Search An image search feature that’s often used by bloggers and other content producers has found its way back to Yahoo Image Search. […]
Why Asking StumbleUpon To Remove Your Links Is Dumb
Turns out, StumbleUpon is getting regular requests each week from people asking for it to remove links to their sites, people who are worried that being linked to from a popular and long-standing social media sharing site is somehow hurting them with Google. The linksanity sadly continues. Every since Google stepped up its attack on […]
Bing On The Top Search Trends For 2012: Kardashian, Bieber & Gangnam Style
Oh baby, baby, baby oh… Sorry Biebs, you better believe you just got Kanye’d off the top searched celeb spot by Kim Kardashian. Ouch. But if you were her boyfriend… oh never mind. Let’s get on to the good stuff that Bing announced earlier this evening, the big list of 2012 Bing Trends. Bing’s biggest list […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 23, 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: Bing’s Voice Search On Xbox Now Searches The Web, Too Microsoft is expanding Bing’s capabilities in the living room with news today that Xbox users can search the web via their […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 25, 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: Eric Schmidt Floats Idea Of A Yahoo-Google Search Partnership Apple, Google and mapping apps weren’t the only thing that Eric Schmidt spoke about today in Tokyo. Forbes is reporting that Schmidt […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 13, 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: Making The Case For Adding Keyword Segmentation To Your SEO Repertoire Last month in The Forgotten SEO Strategy: Targeting Striking Distance Keywords we talked about how search professionals could approach their […]
Google Launches Knowledge Graph To Provide Answers, Not Just Links
Hinted at for months, Google formally launched its “Knowledge Graph” today. The new technology is being used to provide popular facts about people, places and things alongside Google’s traditional results. It also allows Google to move toward a new way of searching not for pages that match query terms but for “entities” or concepts that […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 13, 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: In Depth: Search Gear For The Titanic Centennial April 15th marks the 100th Anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, and there will be no shortage of news coverage (or hype) […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 3, 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: 5 Common Tracking Problems: How To Troubleshoot & Fix Them I spend a lot of time trying to figure out exactly what is wrong with some clients’ analytics installs. Unlike types […]
StumbleUpon Responds To Concerns About Links & Iframing
On Wednesday, Feb 1, 2012, we published an article discussing some changes StumbleUpon made during their recent redesign which removed source links from their content pages and forced all users to view content from the site through an iframed toolbar, which they could not close if they were logged in. One of the things I have […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 1, 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: French Court Fines Google $660,000 Because Google Maps Is Free Google faces a $660,000 fine after a French court ruling that the company is abusing its dominant position in mapping by […]
StumbleUpon Kills Direct Links, iFrames Everything
Story Update: February 3, 2012 – StumbleUpon Responds To Concerns About Links & Iframing StumbleUpon, who happens to be one of the more popular and successful social media sites with over 20 million users (doubling from 10 million in about a year and a half), recently launched one of the biggest redesigns I can remember… basically […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 27, 2011
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 Most ‘Liked’ Search & Social Posts Of 2011 The social media experts who write for this column week in and week out don’t just talk – they walk the walk […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 6, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: SMX West Super Early Bird Rates Expire Soon – Register Now, Save $400 February 28 – March 1 in San Jose, CA Attend SMX West and get expert insights and real-world-proven […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 30, 2011
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 “Save To Foursquare” Button Reaches Into The Real World Publishers and developers: are you ready for another button (or buttons I should say)? Joining the Facebook, Twitter, +1 and StumbleUpon […]
New “Save To Foursquare” Button Reaches Into The Real World
Publishers and developers: are you ready for another button (or buttons I should say)? Joining the Facebook, Twitter, +1 and StumbleUpon button family are new “save to Foursquare” and “follow Foursquare” buttons. Users who click “save to Foursquare” (next to local content) will have that place added to their To-Do Lists. Publishers that have started […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 15, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Third Party Page Managment Comes To Google+ Google+ pages for brands & businesses were announced last week, and Google has been busy rolling out supporting features. Yesterday, Google began displaying select […]
Link Building Tool Review: SEO Book
For many search marketers, SEO Book is a legend. Founded by (another legend) Aaron Wall in 2003, SEO Book now includes Aaron’s wife Giovanna Villanueva, Peter Da Vanzo, and Eric Covino. Membership works out to around $10 a day ($300 a month) and includes over 100 custom training modules, a private forum, exclusive members-only tools, and […]
Trapit Aims To Be Your Search “Personal Assistant”
Somewhere between the “precision of search and the serendipity of social media” lies Trapit. Trapit is a “personal discovery engine” based on the same underlying technology that forms the core of Apple’s Siri virtual assistant. From the outside, however, it looks something like a cross between StumbleUpon and Flipboard or Zite. Co-founders Gary Griffiths and Hank […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 26, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Cats & Dogs Living Together: Bing Promotes Firefox If you ever wanted proof that Microsoft has learned that for Bing to succeed, it needs to spread its wings beyond Microsoft, look […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 21, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Want Better Google Analytics Data? Learn To Tag Your Campaigns! One of the most important hurdles to tackle before analyzing data is collecting clean and correct data. There are many ways […]
StumbleUpon Adds ‘Interest Optimization’ To Paid Discovery
Paid Discovery campaigns on StumbleUpon will be getting smarter as of today. StumbleUpon has announced the addition of something called “interest optimization” that will help advertisers reach relevant audiences. Previously advertisers had the option to choose categories manually, or set up automatic campaigns (where StumbleUpon would choose set categories for you.) With ‘interest optimization’ campaigns won’t […]
Why You Can’t Compare Google+ User Figures To Facebook & Twitter
Google announced that Google+ has 40 million users today. Woo-hoo! That’s nearly half what Twitter claims, right? And while it’s below Facebook’s 800 million, Google’s getting there, right? Wrong. The number simply can’t be compared to Facebook and Twitter. Active Users Vs. Sign-Ups Let’s start with Facebook. At various points, Facebook has given out a […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 13, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Larry Page: Google+ Now Has 40 Million Users As part of Google’s earnings announced today, CEO Larry Page announced that Google’s social network, Google+, now has 40 million members. That puts […]
Larry Page: Google+ Now Has 40 Million Users
As part of Google’s earnings announced today, CEO Larry Page announced that Google’s social network, Google+, now has 40 million members. That puts it still well behind Facebook’s 800 million, closer to Twitter’s 100 million, but doesn’t seem to count “active” users. Page said in the earnings release: “We had a great quarter,” said Larry […]
StumbleUpon: 20 Million Stumblers & Counting
Social search and discovery site StumbleUpon has announced a new milestone: The site recently surpassed 20 million users. The company’s announcement is filled with some interesting stats that show its growth since launching as a Firefox add-on back in 2002: StumbleUpon now serves as many “stumbles” in one hour as it did during its first […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 24, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: America’s Fastest Growing Search Marketing Companies Each year, Inc. Magazine releases its Inc. 500/5000 list of the fastest growing companies in America. We’re proud to announce that Search Engine Land’s parent […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 17, 2011
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 & Bing (Still) Handle Underscores & Dashes Differently It’s one of the longest-running SEO questions around, and still something many of us get asked by clients, readers, conference attendees and […]
The Ultimate Guide To “LinkedIn Today” & How To Optimize Your Presence On It
In March, LinkedIn launched LinkedIn Today, which was dubbed as a news source from your connections and peers in the industry. It has quickly grown to drive massive amounts of traffic to popular content. This service works by aggregating news from industries, connections and sources that you follow, then displaying stories in a visually appealing […]