SEO

Running into my tenth year at the helm of an independent performance-focused digital marketing agency, I still — when discussing pain points with prospective clients — see a remarkable number of SEO strategies that are, at best, decoupled from business performance, and, at worst, totally unengaged with wider business performance. Google’s Avinash …

Why do companies large and small invest billions of dollars each year in search engine optimization (SEO) and other search marketing tactics? There is more to the answer than, “Because it just works.” The truth is that there are a number of psychological principles that can explain why search is …

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is joining the Alphabet board of directors, effective last week. Pichai has been at Google since 2004 and CEO since 2015, when the formation of Alphabet was announced. In addition to Pichai, the Alphabet board includes: Larry Page Sergey Brin Eric E. Schmidt L. John Doerr Roger …

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 CEO Sundar Pichai joins Alphabet boardJul 24, 2017 by Greg Sterling During his tenure, Google’s stock has increased from roughly $650 to $995. Got amazing …

Google has confirmed with Search Engine Land that they are running a small experiment where they auto-play videos in the search results page. Jennifer Slegg spotted the test this morning after conducting some test searches using Internet Explorer. The video in the knowledge panel will auto-play if you are in …

Google parent Alphabet announced second-quarter results. Both revenues and earnings per share beat Wall Street consensus estimates. However, the recent EU antitrust fine of $2.7 billion took a toll on net income and earnings. The company reported just over $26 billion in total revenues (up 21 percent), with Google contributing …

Have you ever seen one of those hoarder shows? You know the ones where you get invited into a person’s house only to find stacks of old newspapers and wall-to-wall junk piled all over the home? Scary. But did you know that you may have a similar hoarding problem — …

In the digital marketing world, there is an overabundance of content about content marketing. If you’re marketing a business, the promise of consistent, top-of-funnel organic traffic growth from content marketing is extremely promising! So you digest content about creating content, open your blog subdomain and check the proverbial check boxes …

When question-and-answer network Quora announced earlier this year that its ad platform was coming out of beta, some 300 advertisers were already on the platform. We spoke with several of Quora’s current advertisers about what drew them to the ad platform, their experiences with getting started and what kind of results …

Today’s Google doodle marks what would have been Marshall McLuhan’s 106th birthday. A Canadian philosopher, professor and author, McLuhan was an astute media theorist with a prescient vision of how technology would continue to shape our world. In 1962, McLuhan published “The Gutenberg Galaxy” — a book that popularized the …