I thought with the introduction and adoption of responsive design, we wouldn’t be doing any more custom formats for mobile pages — but I guess I was wrong. The web is complicated enough, and we don’t need another code base to maintain, causing more problems for more websites. AMP is fairly …
Read More »SMX East agenda is now live! Check out the SEO & SEM sessions in store for you.
Feed your obsession for SEO SEM with actionable and proven tactics by attending Search Engine Land’s SMX East, October 24-26 in New York City. The agenda is packed with 50+ sessions and led by search marketing experts in paid search advertising, search engine optimization, conversion and analytics, social media and much more. Here’s a quick look …
Read More »12 things to know to succeed with Google Posts
Google has been cranking out the updates this year for Local Search, and the latest thing to hit the SMB market is Google Posts. This new feature allows you to publish your events, products and services directly to Google Search (in the Knowledge Panel) and Maps. Here’s an example of what …
Read More »7 features you’ll only find in the new AdWords Next interface
Even though the new AdWords Next UI doesn’t quite have feature parity with the current AdWords yet, it actually offers some exclusive features. They can be hard to identify without some hunting, so we’ve gathered them here in one place. The new interface has been steadily rolling out to more advertisers over the …
Read More »SearchCap: Google job FAQ, Search Console data issue & voice purchases
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 says it lost 20 days of data of new Google Search Console usersJul 12, 2017 by Barry Schwartz Did you recently sign up for Google …
Read More »Google begins rolling out messaging feature within Google My Business
Google appears to be rolling out a messaging feature to Google My Business customers. Both Mike Blumenthal and @AnthonyCGuzman posted that they and their customers are starting to notice the feature within Google My Business. This is a feature Google began testing in November of last year. Google has confirmed …
Read More »Google image search now shows videos and recipes
Google is now showing both videos and recipe data within the image search results. This is something Google was testing earlier this year and now seems to have deployed it on mobile search. Aaron Bradley posted on Google+ that this seems to be derived from newly supported schema around your …
Read More »Consumers over bots: Why site crawlers don’t hold all the answers
Advances in technology have driven efficiency in SEO, where site crawlers such as Botify, DeepCrawl and ScreamingFrog have flourished. These tools are an essential part of the SEO toolbox and are great at uncovering and visualizing technical issues such as broken links, 404 errors and invalid canonical tags. They are …
Read More »Google says it lost 20 days of data of new Google Search Console users
Google has updated its data anomalies page to document that there was data loss within the Google Search Console tool for new users who signed up between June 21 and July 10, 2017. Those webmasters and SEOs who signed up to the Google Search Console and verified properties will not …
Read More »Eiko Ishioka Google doodle pays homage to the Japanese artist & costume designer
The haunting images that make up today’s Google doodle are a tribute to Japanese artist Eiko Ishioka on what would have been her 79th birthday. Recognized for her work creating Oscar-winning costume designs for movies like 1992’s “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” — or the costumes and set designs she created for …
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