Google Search Ranking Shakeups May Be Linked To Mobile Algorithm Update
For the past week site owners have been reporting to see shifts in mobile search rankings, which is believed to be the result of a...
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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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Google’s Desktop Search Share Drops To Lowest Point In 6 Years
In the months following Google’s fallout with Firefox as the browser’s default search engine, the search giant’s share of the desktop search market has been...
Google Improves Crawling and Indexing of Location-Adaptive Pages
Pages can be designed to adapt to a user’s specific location, showing different content to users in different parts of the world. While these types...
Google Agrees To Change Privacy Policy In UK
Google has agreed to change its privacy policy in the UK with respect to how it gathers personal data, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office announced...
Facebook To Show Location-Based Place Tips In Your News Feed
Facebook introduced a brand new feature for its iPhone app today which should help people learn more about the places and attractions they’re visiting. Taking...
Study Reveals Top Performing Retailers On Facebook During 2014 Holiday Season
Disclosure: Searchmetrics is a Search Engine Journal partner, but this coverage has not been sponsored or paid for in any way. A new study by...
Facebook Reaches 1.39B Monthly Active Users, Half A Billion Are Mobile-Only
Facebook announced its Q4 2014 earnings today, revealing that 1.39 billion users now use the social network every month, which marks a 13% year over...
Snapchat To Deliver Bite-Sized Pieces Of News And Entertainment From Media Publishers
Snapchat announced today that it will now be giving media publishers the ability to distribute short, edited clips of news and information. Content distributed via...
Facebook Introduces New Tool To Measure Sales Driven By Ads
It has always been easy to measure how well Facebook ads are performing when it comes to clicks and views, but what about sales? Measuring...
Pinterest Search Gets Smarter, Delivers Results Based on Gender
There’s nothing worse than searching for a new pair of kicks on Pinterest, and having to sift through pins of high heels when you really...
Social Media Makes Up Nearly A Third Of All Referral Traffic, + More Stats
Social software company Shareaholic argues that the shift from search to social is here with the release of a new set of data that reveals...
Matt Cutts Speaks On Lessons Learned From Early Days Of Google: Full Highlights
You may remember a post a couple of weeks ago announcing that Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, would be giving a speech at...
Twitter Teams Up With Bing To Offer Translated Tweets
Twitter announced today it is bringing back project it terminated in 2013, which is the ability for users to view tweets in multiple languages. Now...
Google Campaigns To Get Firefox Users To Change Default Search Provider
Is Google threatened by Yahoo’s recent gains in search market share? A report was released just yesterday detailing how Yahoo is slowing eroding Google’s search...
Twitter To Show Tweets You Missed ‘While You Were Away’
Twitter announced today that its introducing a new feature on everyone’s home timeline where you’ll be shown an overview of popular tweets you may have...
Yahoo Gains 1.6% Search Market Share From Google, According To Latest comScore Data
Yahoo’s desktop search market share has been steadily growing in the months following the company’s deal with Firefox, which saw Yahoo become the browser’s new...
Outtakes from Pubcon Las Vegas 2014 [VIDEO]
While digging through our archive of Pubcon 2014 footage, we found some interesting clips that didn’t make it into the final cut. Please enjoy. #Bloopers #Pubcon #Outtakes
Facebook To Clean Up News Feed Spam By Showing Fewer Hoaxes
Facebook announced today it’s launching an update to its news feed algorithm designed to reduce the appearance of hoaxes. This includes scams, as well as...
Google Is A More Trusted Source Of News Than Traditional Media [REPORT]
For the first time in history, search engines are considered the most trusted source of news an general information, even being trusted over traditional publications...
Google Issues Warnings About Poor Search Rankings For Non-Mobile Sites
Google has been making strides to improve mobile search results to make the SERPS a better place for users searching on smartphones and tablets. One...
Google Officially Stops Sales Of Google Glass
The Google Glass experiment as we know it is coming to a close, as reports surface that the company will no longer be selling the...
Save the Date for #SEJSummit Chicago: April 15, 2015
I am thrilled to announce the date and venue for our third event in the conference series SEJ Summit “3Takeaways”, presented by Searchmetrics. The inaugural one-day conference for enterprise marketers...
Google Releases New Update To Structured Data Site Testing Tool
Structured data can give you that edge you need when it comes to getting content discovered and clicked on in search results, and other Google...
Mark Zuckerberg On The Future Of Social Media, + More From Q&A
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg held another public Q&A yesterday and discussed, among other topics, what he believes the future looks like for social networking. An...
#SEJSummit Santa Monica: More Spots Opened
SEJ Summit Santa Monica is right around the corner and we have exciting news — one hundred additional spots just opened up! Initially we were limited...
Facebook Introduces ‘Work’, A Social Tool For Businessess and Employees
Though we may try to hide it, it’s no secret that we browse Facebook at work. Now the social network wants to make it so...
New Google Translate App, Featuring Instant Voice Translation, Coming to iOS and Android
Just days ago it was reported that Google was working on a fairly major update to its Translate app. It has now been confirmed that...
Google’s Domain Registration Service Now Open To All US Residents
Google’s domain registration service, launched in public beta this past June, is now open to all US residents. When first launched, the service was only...
MTV Increased Mobile Traffic By 92% With A Responsive Redesign [REPORT]
Not every major brand has jumped on the responsive design bandwagon yet — take MTV for example. MTV recently redesigned several of its web properties...
LinkedIn Revamps Its Search Engine For Speed And Relevance
LinkedIn announced its team has been working to reengineer its search engine to help users find what they’re looking for faster. The company claims that...