It was a decent experiment while it lasted. Google has announced that Review extensions will stop showing this month and will be deleted entirely in AdWords accounts in February. An update appears on the support page about the extension. Advertisers that ran Review extensions and want to keep their historical …
Read More »Looking back at 2018 in search: A time traveler’s year in review
Greetings from the future! I’m writing to you from January 2019. Since search is such a dynamic space, with every year bringing unexpected developments, I thought it would be helpful to use my knowledge as a denizen of the future to give you a glimpse into what’s to come in …
Read More »YouTube SEO 101
Based on Alexa traffic rankings, YouTube is the second most visited site on the web, right after Google. Unfortunately, a lot of digital marketers still treat it like any other social media site. But success on YouTube isn’t about posting content, it’s about optimizing your content — just like your …
Read More »SearchCap: New PageSpeed Insights, Google AdWords reviews & the Search Engine Land Awards
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 PageSpeed Insights now uses real data from Chrome browser usersJan 10, 2018 by Barry Schwartz Google has revamped their pagespeed tool to give more insights …
Read More »Har Gobind Khorana Google doodle celebrates first chemist to construct a synthetic gene
Google is marking what would have been Har Gobind Khorana’s 96th birthday with a doodle to celebrate the Nobel Prize winner’s accomplishments in the field of biochemistry. Born in Raipur, Pakistan, on this date in 1922, Dr. Khorana was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 while …
Read More »Best practices for qualifying your link opportunities
Links are an essential part of the internet. In the early days of the web, links were not seen as “ranking signals” but as relevant connections and partnerships between sites. As links have become a dominant part of the search ranking algorithms, many have turned their focus to acquiring as …
Read More »5 content distribution strategies for 2018
I personally feel that the most overused digital marketing phrase is “Content is king.” Yes, content is important. Google loves quality content. Your visitors love content. But writing content for the sake of writing content simply makes no sense. If your marketing department has a mandate that you must write …
Read More »Split testing Google Shopping campaigns
Many retailers and marketers want to review the performance of their Google Shopping campaigns with split testing, whether it’s to establish if a tool will offer more efficiency than manual implementation or to compare two tools against each other. However, the Google Shopping channel lends itself to accurate split testing …
Read More »SearchCap: Alexa & Google Assistant, AMP URLs & link building
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 announces solution to longstanding AMP cache URL display problemJan 8, 2018 by Michelle Robbins Later this year, the Google AMP cache will finally display publisher …
Read More »It’s Google Home vs. Amazon Alexa at CES in the battle for the voice ecosystem
Last week Google announced that the Google Assistant was available on 400 million devices. At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this evening it announced an array new device partnerships. Rival Amazon is also making announcements at CES with a range of device makers. Alexa is being integrated into …
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