Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Did you know you can report Google Maps-related spam calls and other violations to Google?Nov 28, 2018 by Barry Schwartz Google local has its share of spam and manipulation issues. There’s […]
Nearly 80 percent of AMP contributors are now third parties.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Report shows YouTube and Google video ranking algorithms differ widely Aug 22, 2018 by Barry Schwartz A new report shows that there’s little correlation between ranking well in YouTube search and […]
Let’s face it, the future isn’t turning out to be what we were promised in decades past. No flying cars, and the closest thing to robot butlers are Siri and Alexa. Don’t get me wrong, they’re handy in their ways: suggesting nearby Thai food or tending to virtual shopping carts as we yell our grocery […]
Facebook is reportedly the source of some of the fake review solicitations.
Subscribers will see articles from their subscribed publications higher in the search results and be logged in to those publications across devices.
Does this doubling down on the mobile framework by adding the new, heavily visual and interactive format signal a more aggressive push toward AMP-only websites?
New, visually rich mobile content format is designed to generate more engagement from users.
The German-Swiss payment infrastructure provider allows readers to maintain a running tab of per-article charges until a threshold is met.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: US court orders Google not to comply with Canadian court’s order delisting search resultsNov 3, 2017 by Greg Sterling The US court agreed with Google that implementation of the Canadian court’s […]
Support of the International Fact-Checking Network will provide tools and training for more fact checkers around the world.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Submit your SEO questions to Google for upcoming short Q&A videosOct 9, 2017 by Barry Schwartz Google hasn’t produced short-form SEO video answers for three years, but now they’re looking to […]
AMP isn’t quite a household acronym yet, but it has big implications for virtually everyone with web access. The Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project, the brainchild of Google announced just two years ago, is already impacting millions of users’ experience. And it’s growing fast. The downside — arguably a temporary one — is that not […]
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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: Report: AMP causing monetization frustration among some news publishersOct 28, 2016 by Greg Sterling Some publishers, such as CNN and The Washington Post, are having good experiences, however. Due to a […]
Some publishers, such as CNN and The Washington Post, are having good experiences, however.
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 Penguin looks mostly at your link source, says GoogleOct 10, 2016 by Barry Schwartz When we asked Google’s Gary Illyes about Penguin, he said SEOs should focus on where their […]
There are now 600 million AMP pages on 700,000 domains.
Looking to get the most SEO value out of your content marketing efforts? Columnist Tamar Weinberg explains how to breathe new life into your content assets.
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 returns special presidential candidates box that previously omitted Donald TrumpJul 27, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Google blames “technical bug.” Sanders continues to show as having Google: There is no PageRank […]
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 expanded text ads are live, and device bidding & responsive ads for native roll outJul 26, 2016 by Ginny Marvin Standard text ads will no longer be accepted as of […]
Viv hopes to effectively supersede Google as "an intelligent interface to everything."
Among the questionable DMCA notices, 4.2% of the takedown requests targeted sites that failed to include any copyright-infringing content.
Google officially launched new live blog schema for publishers to communicate when they are "live blogging" events and topics.
It's been a year since we have seen coverage of a new Google Search Quality Rater’s Guide. Here is what is new.
With the tap of an AdWords ad extension, Google Now will set reminders for users to visit an advertiser's location the next time they are nearby.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: “Baidu Windows 10 Express” Deal Makes Baidu The Search Default For Windows In China Sep 23, 2015 by Danny Sullivan Deal will see special promotion of Windows when people search for […]
Google's John Mueller tries to explain why the Panda 4.2 rollout is happening so slowly over months and months.
Google sent out mass notifications of hreflang issues to webmasters via the Google 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: Google+ Brand Posts Have Been Stripped From Knowledge Graph Cards Brand posts on Google+ will no longer be displayed in the Knowledge Graph cards, instead they’ll be treated like all other […]
Where previous Google Maps hacks were arguably playful, this is ugly.
Thanks to a AdWords test spotted in the wild both organic search marketers and paid advertisers can obsess over mobile friendly tags.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Report: Google To Launch Search Service To Connect Searchers To Home Service Providers BuzzFeed reports Google will launch a new service to connect searchers with local plumbers, electricians, contractors and other […]
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 To Close Freebase, Which Helped Feed Its Knowledge Graph Freebase announces they will close up shop after migrating their data and APIs to Wikidata. How will this impact the 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: Link Building with Content: The Experienced Route to SEO – November 11 Webcast Successful SEO is not “content marketing –vs.– link building”. It’s content marketing with link building. Quality content attracts […]
Bing Ads is partnering with reviews service, Viewpoints, to test out displaying consumer ratings annotations in text ads. Like Google’s version, which pulls from its own survey program, the ratings annotations in the Bing ads feature grades on performance features such as customer service, return policies, pricing, and selection. I haven’t been able to see […]
Bing and Twitter have had a partnership dating back to the ancient days of 2009 and have renewed their deal to feature tweets in the search results every two years since. Now, Bing Ads is testing out an integration to show the number of Twitter followers advertisers have within their ads. The test, first reported […]
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 Starts Showing Full Song Lyrics Right In Search Results While SEOs debate Google’s recent addition of structured data in its search results, Bing is making a similar — and perhaps […]
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 Brings PLAs To Third-Party Sites Like Walmart.com Today, Google announced it is extending its popular product listing ads (PLAs) to retail and e-commerce sites across the Google Search Network. The […]