Topic: Yoast SEO

SearchCap: Fake news, Google date bug & Bing Partners

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. […]

SearchCap: Vote says Google, link truths and more

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 […]

SearchCap: Google communication, search ad growth & SEO

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Search ads in 1H generated $16.3 billion or 50 percent of total digital revenueNov 1, 2016 by Greg Sterling Mobile was the driver of overall growth, with mobile search ad revenue […]

SearchCap: Bing Ads expanded text ads, Merkle report & VR

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Merkle: After big increases in mobile inventory last year, paid search growth slows a bit in Q3Oct 26, 2016 by Ginny Marvin Still, mobile spend increased significantly year over year, and […]

SearchCap: Google Penguin done, Sitelinks demotion & new mobile index

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Within months, Google to divide its index, giving mobile users better & fresher contentOct 13, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Currently, Google has a single index of documents for search. Google’s Gary […]

SearchCap: Google iOS app, broken AMP & Apple 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 iOS search app adds Touch ID for reentering your private searchesSep 27, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Google’s iOS search app can unlock your incognito mode private searches using Touch ID. […]

SearchCap: Google Penguin live, Bing Ads Editor shopping & El Santo

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 Penguin, says it now runs in real time within the core search algorithmSep 23, 2016 by Barry Schwartz The latest announced release, Penguin 4.0, will also be the last, […]

SearchCap: AdWords call tracking, SEO failures, & SERP tools

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Setting up AdWords website call conversion tracking just got a bit easierSep 22, 2016 by Ginny Marvin Track calls from the phone number on your website with a couple of pieces […]

SearchCap: Google AdWords experiments, Google profiles & more

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. […]

SearchCap: Google web reviews, security reports & Penguin update

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. […]

SearchCap: Google forecasting, SEO analytics & RFPs

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 […]

SearchCap: Google search games, AMP experiments & more

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 […]

SearchCap: Google Search Console emails, EU antitrust expanded & more

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 Search Console bug sends re-verification notifications to usersJul 8, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Don’t panic, says Google — That verification email from Google Search Console was an accident, but it […]

SearchCap: eBay AMP, Bing trivia & Google Doodles

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: 13 link opportunities to pursue now Jul 5, 2016 by Andrew Dennis Need some great link-building ideas? Columnist Andrew Dennis has them for you — with examples from major brands to […]

SearchCap: Google & Hillary Clinton, SEO URLs & AdWords explained

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: Autocomplete does not favor any candidate or causeJun 10, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Google public relations and Matt Cutts come out to call the allegations that Google altered their search […]

SearchCap: SEO e-commerce, Google shopping & more

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Can you manage your inventory with Google Shopping?Jun 3, 2016 by Andreas Reiffen Contributor Andreas Reiffen shares how some companies are calculating yield values in order to better manage their inventory […]

SearchCap: Voice search SEO, SEMPO survey & more

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: SEMPO’s latest salary survey shows search marketer average pay up 16% over 2013May 26, 2016 by Amy Gesenhues Survey participants included nearly 600 search and digital marketing professionals, from entry level […]

SearchCap: Apple Siri Echo, paid search ROI & more

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Refine your content marketing tactics to benefit from enhanced search engine displayMay 25, 2016 by Thomas Stern Columnist Thomas Stern discusses how content marketing performance can fall short if SERP features […]

SearchCap: Google Maps controls, shopping ads & more

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 now with keyboard based navigation controls Apr 28, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Pan, zoom and find businesses on Google Maps without touching your mouse. How to help your sales […]