Matt G. Southern, Senior News Writer, has been with Search Engine Journal since 2013. With a bachelor’s degree in communications, Matt specializes in gathering details, checking facts, and making complex subjects easy to understand. In addition to writing articles, Matt oversees strategy development for SEJ’s news department.
VentureBeat reports that LinkedIn is experimenting with location-based features similar to those offered Foursquare. This information comes courtesy of LinkedIn designers Mauroof Ahmed and Moses...
Twitter announced on Friday that changes are coming to their direct messages are sent and stored across the network. Twitter’s support account made the announcement via...
Today, Facebook announced the addition of a new feature that will allow users to save items found while browsing Facebook for later viewing. Every day,...
Marketers and website owners rejoiced yesterday as an official Google Analytics app was finally released for the iPhone, two years after the app was released...
Today, Pinterest announced an update to its category pages. Each category page now has a whole new selection of related interests to browse through. You...
Today, Imgur began rolling out an update for its search tool that’s poised to take Imgur from being just a site to upload and share...
A robots.txt file is key component of your website’s SEO, but sometimes these files do more harm than good. For example, your robots.txt file may be...
Google admits that when they launched Google+ over three years ago there were a lot of restrictions on what name could be used on your...
Groupon recently published a study showing that 60% of what Google Analytics defines as “direct traffic” is actually organic traffic. The study was conducted by...
When a user lands on a site that requires technology that is not supported by their device, the results can be frustrating. That’s why, effective...
LinkedIn recently launched a new app for iOS called Connected, which is designed to encourage users to more frequently reach out to others within their...
Google is now soliciting feedback on their implementation of EU’s Right To Be Forgotten ruling through a new Advisory Council. In an effort to obtain...
Twitter recently released a report sharing some key insights into how millennials prefer to engage on Twitter. In addition, the report also provides data-backed tips...
WordPress recently announced that the first beta version of WordPress 4.0 is now available. WordPress prefaces its announcement with a word of caution that the...
Google made the decision late last month to remove authorship photos from search results. This led to speculation that the decision was made as a...
TechCrunch broke the news today that a Yelp internal document was recently leaked online claiming Google is promoting its own content at the expense of users....
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The second annual US Search Awards is taking place at Treasure Island on Wednesday 8 October 2014 during Pubcon Las Vegas. The awards ceremony recognizes...
An announcement was made yesterday on Google+ that a new Google Maps update has been rolled out for desktop users that lets you click and...
PPC software company, WordStream, announced today that they have raised $12 million in led by Baird Capital of Chicago. “This is the biggest fundraising round...
Yesterday, an announcement was made on Google+ that AdWords Editor version 10.5 is now available. The latest version allows users to download product groups, upload and...
Cnet reports that Google wants to challenge Amazon’s dominance in the e-commerce market by expanding the resources of its Google Shopping Express service. Shopping Express...
Facebook reports that roughly 7 out of every 10 people in the world use devices less sophisticated than a smartphone to access the Internet, like a...
Web security firm, Sucuri, found a critical vulnerability in a WordPress plug-in that has over 1.7 million downloads. The vulnerability allows potential attackers to take...
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, announced today that he will be going on leave for several months. Matt cited the need to spend...
Have you ever wondered how many times a Vine video has been viewed? Now you will see loop counts on videos to indicate how many times...
A new tool designed to show the author authority of content creators was recently launched by ClearVoice. The new tool is a no-cost, web-based platform...
An announcement was made today that Google has acquired Songza, a music streaming service that specializes in predicting the songs users want to hear. The...
It was announced today that Google intends to shut down its very first social network, Orkut. As of September 30, 2014, Orkut will no longer...
Today, Twitter announced that they’re going to begin offering mobile app promotion to all advertisers after seeing strong results during a beta test earlier this...
