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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google adds trending searches and instant answers to iOS appSep 1, 2017 by Greg Sterling Google adds previously introduced Android search capabilities to iOS app. Critical …

About a week ago, Scott Hendison reported that the Google My Business insights tools were not reporting accurately with the photos section of your listings. Google Insights within Google My Business shows analytics around your Google My Business local listings in Google Search and Google Maps. A week ago, the …

The question of whether or not to utilize microsites is an interesting topic of discussion for SEO. On the one hand, microsites allow organizations to segment information and focus a site clearly on one topic. For instance, it’s not uncommon for an organization or association that hosts conferences to have …

Previously, we discussed how to find good PPC candidates for your particular company, but now it’s time to evaluate those candidates. It comes down to this: You’ve held dozens of interviews with candidates almost impossible to tell apart. They all have similar credentials. They’ve worked in the right industry or …

Each year, Google rolls out several new features ahead of the holidays for retail advertisers. This year’s updates have started coming out. The company introduced a new metric and new reporting for Shopping campaign advertisers — only in the new AdWords interface. The new metric, called absolute top impression share, reports …

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google local pack tests displaying website mentions matching your queryAug 30, 2017 by Barry Schwartz Google local results is aware of the content on the local …

In what is sure to be a model for other publishers, last week Google and Vogue magazine announced a partnership that offers “behind the scenes” audio content from selected Vogue magazine interviews. Most of these are monologues from the writers about their subjects. By asking Google Home to “talk to …

Last week, Google declared that the “near me” search query and other “geo-modifiers” (e.g., ZIP code, city name) were, if not dead, then certainly not worth spending your valuable SEO time worrying too much about: In September 2015, we shared that “near me” or “nearby” searches on Google had grown 2X …

Earlier today, at German consumer electronics and appliances show IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung) in Berlin, Google announced that the Google Assistant will be coming to new smart speakers and home appliances. With the move Google is more aggressively competing with Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Cortana for third party hardware and software …

It’s the end of the month, so chances are you’re spending a lot of time thinking about PPC budgets. Will you spend the full amount you allocated for the month and do so without going over budget? It’s pretty amazing that simple questions like this have to take so much …