Facebook Video Views Are Up 94% In The US, 75% Worldwide
Video on Facebook is growing at an alarmingly rapid pace. Last year alone video views on the world’s leading social network grew by 94% in...
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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.
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Reddit Makes A Couple Of Premium Features Available To All Users
Two popular features that Reddit Gold users enjoy will now be available to all users, VentureBeat reports. All Reddit users will now receive a notification...
Matt Cutts Update: Head Of Web Spam To Speak About Early Days At Google
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of web spam, has remained relatively low key since taking his leave of absence. Cutts is back in the headlines this...
The Best New Features Of Google AdWords Editor Version 11
Google’s AdWords Editor 11 is said to be the biggest update since the tool first launched in 2006. With such an extensive update new features...
Google Received 75% More Link Takedown Requests From Copyright Holders Last Year
TorrentFreak took the liberty of processing all of Google’s weekly transparency reports from last year to find that the company fielded more link takedown requests...
Facebook Acquires Top Voice Recognition Startup, Speech Commands Coming?
Wit.ai, a Y combinator startup founded 18 months ago, has been acquired by Facebook with the intent for the company to help the social network...
Google’s Top 3 Tech Trends For 2015, And What They Mean For Marketers
Google released a list of the top 3 tech trends marketers should watch in 2015, which are predictions based on information about consumer intentions gather...
Pinterest To Roll Out Promoted Pins To All US Users Starting January 1, 2015
After a successful beta launch of Promoted Pins, first introduced eight months ago, Pinterest has announced its decision to give all users the ability to...
Facebook Introduces New Video-Centric Features For Business Pages
Facebook has recently been spotted testing a new design and a handful of new features aimed to enhance the user experience of business pages when...
Save the Date for #SEJSummit Dallas: March 31, 2015
I am thrilled to announce the next date and venue for SEJ Summit: 3 Takeaways, Hosted by Searchmetrics. Our second invite-only, one-day conference for enterprise marketers will be...
LinkedIn Reveals Top 25 Skills Of 2014, SEO In The Top 5
LinkedIn recently revealed the top 25 hottest skills of 2014, which was determined after analyzing data in over 330 million LinkedIn member profiles to determine...
More Speakers For #SEJSummit Santa Monica! (Part 2)
The SEJ team has been working diligently behind the scenes to assemble A-list speakers for 2015’s first SEJ Summit Hosted By Searchmetrics, to take place on February 24...
Bing Rehires Duane Forrester Less Than Two Months After Being Laid Off
Not even two months after being laid off, Duane Forrester has announced he’s back at his old position with Bing as the senior project manager...
Google’s Local Search Algorithm Is Rolling Out To UK, Canada, And Australia
Earlier this summer Google introduced an algorithm specifically designed to improve local search results. At first it was only rolled out in the US, but...
Here Are the Speakers For #SEJSummit Santa Monica! (Part 1)
The SEJ team has been hard at work behind the scenes to secure the best speakers for 2015’s first SEJ Summit, hosted by Searchmetrics, to...
WordPress 4.1 is Now Available: Here’s What’s New
WordPress announced the release of version 4.1 of it’s software today, which is now available to either download or update directly from your WordPress dashboard....
Google Blocks Thousands Of WordPress Sites Following Malware Attack
Security firm Sucuri reports that Google has blacklisted over 11,000 malware-infected WordPress domains, and over 100,000 sites in total have been affected by a new...
Traffic To News Sites Down After Being Forced Out Of Google News in Spain
If you’ve ever wondered how important Google News is when it comes to driving traffic, I’d like to draw your attention to what’s going on...
Google Adds New Features To Keep Up With What’s Trending In Search and On YouTube
Want to know what’s trending in Google search? What about the hottest videos on YouTube at this moment? Now it’s easier than ever to find...
Google Reportedly Working On A ‘Buy Now’ Button To Compete With Amazon
The latest in an ongoing battle between Amazon and Google sees the Wall Street Journal reporting that Google is preparing to take on Amazon with its...
There Is (Still) No Ranking Advantage To Using New Top-Level Domains
Google’s John Mueller felt the need to reiterate the fact that new top-level domains (TLDs) still do not provide any ranking benefit in search results....
Hands-On With YouTube’s New Animated GIF Creator
It seems that everyone but Facebook is jumping on the animated GIF bandwagon these days, with YouTube having recently released its own GIF creator to...
Google Isn’t Spying On You, Says Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt
Criticism against the search giant for allegedly spying on its users isn’t going unheard, as Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt reportedly shot back in defense...
Facebook Launches Call-To-Action Buttons For Business Pages
Facebook is on a roll right now when it comes to introducing useful new tools for business pages. In case you missed it, yesterday the...
Google Brings Its Android Features And Material Design to iOS
Google announced today that its bringing to the Google Search iOS app the latest features and design that recently came to Android with the launch...
Facebook Introduces Organic Post Targeting, Along With Other New Tools For Pages
In an effort to help publishers better connect with their audience on Facebook, the company announced today a new set of tools and and improvements...
Instagram Is Now Larger Than Twitter With 300 Million Monthly Active Users
Instagram announced a new milestone today — less than a year after hitting the 200 million monthly active user mark the photo and video sharing...
Bing Reveals What It Looks For In Content Quality When Ranking Web Pages
In a blog post published this week by Bing’s Senior Program Manager, Michael Basilyan, we learned how Bing’s algorithms assess content quality when ranking web...
Online Advertising To Grow By 15% Over Next Two Years, Driven By Mobile And Display
A report released this week by ZenithOptimedia reveals projections for global ad spend in 2015, with online advertising said to be the fastest growing medium...
Bing Makes Local Search More Intuitive With Google-Like Quick Answers
The local search features we’ve grown accustomed to using on Google are now making their way over to Bing, the company revealed in an announcement...