Over the weekend, a rumor surfaced that the Trump Administration might nationalize the United States’ burgeoning 5G network. A plan laying out such options was reportedly presented at the White House. Allowing wireless providers to create their own wireless 5G network was argued to cost more and take longer than …

Photo: Twenty20 If you’re looking into starting the ketogenic diet, it doesn’t take much research before you encounter the dreaded “keto flu.” Symptoms, such as fatigue, headaches and nausea, can be enough to knock even the most dedicated dieter off the wagon. But before you give this low-carb, high-fat diet …

Enterococci are hardy microbes that thrive in the gastrointestinal tracts of nearly all land animals, including our own, and generally cause no harm. So the discovery of a botulinum neurotoxin-like toxin in a strain of Enterococcus called E. faecium is raising scientific eyebrows. Enterococci. Image credit: Francois Lebreton, MEEI. Dubbed …

As search engine optimization specialists (SEOs), we all have one goal: to increase organic traffic for our clients. We optimize signals to increase the relevancy of our clients’ (or our own) sites so more people find them and check them out. But what if some of the traffic (or even …

If you log into the new Google Search console and click on any of your verified profiles at the top right, you may see a new button in the interface named “coming soon.” That button takes you to this help document that first describes why some of the reports in …

Chris Tolles should be freaking out right now. As CEO of news aggregation site Topix, his is one of the media companies that would seemingly be most affected by Facebook’s recent News Feed algorithm change, which is expected to throttle the traffic the social network sends to publishers’ sites. According …

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Customer loyalty is often overlooked in local search. The thinking is that people are searching for new places to shop or for things they don’t know about already. If they were a regular or loyal customer, they wouldn’t need to search. But that’s not entirely true. Due to the  “Google …

Overall, in Q4 2017, search ad click volume growth slowed by 9 percent as the average cost per click (CPC) increased 14 percent. Spend rose 24 percent year over year. Engagement and conversion performance from search ads improved, however, and clicks from phones accounted for 50 percent of all clicks for …

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 Q4 2017: Search ad click growth fell, ad spend rose 23% across Google, Bing, YahooJan 29, 2018 by Ginny Marvin Bing and Yahoo saw search …