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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....
A Serious Talk About The Unified Search Marketing Code of Ethics
Editor Note: This “pro” post is part of a two-part series about the proposed Search Marketing Code of Ethics, as presented by SEMPO at SearchCongress.org....
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...
How To Retrieve ‘Not Provided’ Keyword Data: An Interview With Bruce Clay
A big thanks to our Pubcon 2014 sponsor, LinkResearchTools, your off-page SEO toolkit. Link Detox: Recover – Protect – Build. At Pubcon 2014 in Las...
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...
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...
Expect Further Rankings Fluctuations As Penguin 3.0 Continues To Roll Out, Perhaps Indefinitely
There has been much discussion about Penguin 3.0 over the past several days, as site owners have reported fluctuations in rankings that are believed to...
10 Ways to Optimize a Website For Bing
Mozilla Firefox recently made some news by announcing that it was ending its decade long relationship with Google as its default search engine. Instead, Mozilla...
4 Reasons Why Amazon and Facebook Are Gaining on Google
In 1998, PC Magazine wrote: “Google! is a Stanford University project designed to find the most relevant Web pages (those with the most inbound links)...
Firefox 34 Released Today With Improved Search Bar, Yahoo As Default Search Engine
Mozilla released Firefox 34 today and with it came several notable updates, namely an improved search bar and the first appearance of Yahoo as the...
Microsoft To Replace Clip Art With Bing Images In Office Software
Clip art, those delightful images reminiscent of the 90s, are set to become a thing of the past as Microsoft announced today they’re doing away...
Who Placed that Ad? Yahoo Experiments with No Display URL in PPC Ads
While search marketing has certainly seen its share of change over the last decade and half, there have always been some things that remain constant....
The Vote Is In: European Parliament Is In Favor Of Breaking Up Google
Earlier this week I reported on a story about European Parliament wanting to break up, or “unbundle”, Google search from the rest of its services....
Google Pirate: What It Means for Web Content
It’s expensive going to the movies these days. With movie tickets costing around $10 per ticket for late night shows, and theaters charging top dollar...
Looming Decision By Apple Could Have Significant Impact On Search Market
It’s being speculated that Apple may be trying to distance itself from Google by dropping the company’s search engine as the default option within the...
Doing It Dave’s Way: 6 #Marketing Lessons From The Founder of Wendy’s #SEJBookClub
Want to see what other books we’ve covered? Read our other reviews in the SEJ Book Club archive. For the November edition of #SEJBookClub, we...
Google Helps Retailers Get Ready For Black Friday With Insights Into The Hottest Products
With Black Friday being just days away, Google has released a new set of mobile features to its Google Shopping platform, as well as some...
Google Enhances User Security With Release Of Devices And Activity Dashboard
In today’s multi-device world there’s no doubt that you have accessed your Google account on a number of different devices, maybe some you don’t even...
European Parliament To Call For Separation Of Google Search From Other Services
According to a report released today, the European Parliament is reportedly calling for Google separate search from the rest of its service offerings. The motion...
After 10 Years Firefox Abandons Google As Default Search Engine, Partners With Yahoo As US Default
Citing a new search strategy of “promoting choice and innovation”, Firefox’ parent company Mozilla has announced a strategic partnership that will see Yahoo become the...
A Thorough Data Analysis of Google’s Pirate Filter
Last week, Google began releasing its Pirate update; a penalty against what it called “notorious” piracy sites violating copyright laws. The first “Pirate” filter rolled...
Google Launches Mobile-Friendly Site Testing Tool
Today Google announced the launch of a mobile-friendly test tool to see if your website passes Google’s criteria for what it consider to be a...
Is Google Penalizing Websites With Disallowed Pages?
Recently, I had a client come to me with a very interesting Google penalty. They had made a few changes to their site, nothing major,...
The Fascinating Way Google Is Recruiting New Talent
If you’re a coder who aspires to work for Google, don’t worry about going to them — they’ll come to you. Using none other than...
Google To Lease Moffet Airfield From NASA With Plans To Open A Public Educational Facility
NASA’s Moffet Airfield is, among other things, the home and launch pad of private jets owned by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. After...
Google Authorship Is Dead, Author Rank Is Not: A Interview With Casey Markee
A big thanks to our Pubcon 2014 sponsor, LinkResearchTools, your off-page SEO toolkit. Link Detox: Recover – Protect – Build. At Pubcon 2014 in Las...
Google News Continues To Drive More Traffic Than Facebook
For those who have written off Google traffic in favor of social media referrals, you’re going to want to check out this article from Digiday....
Apple Starts Crawling Web – Is Apple Launching a Search Engine in 2015?
Web development consultant Jan Moesen alerted the Twitterverse last week about the fact that Apple is running a web crawler, written in the programming language...