Search Engine Land » SEO » Moving on from search engine optimization to search optimization In the early 2000s, web search was mostly limited to search engines and online directories available at the time. But we have come a long way since then. Optimizing for search remains important today. But …
Read More »Virtual Environment Optimization (VEO)
Processing…Please wait. Search Engine Land » Channel » Content » Virtual environment optimization (VEO) is coming. Ready for it? Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) will impact the future of marketing. Optimizing for the future of virtual marketing demands a name, which I am calling virtual environment optimization (VEO). …
Read More »The 9 Rules Of Optimization
In SEO, some might consider featured snippets the holy grail of rankings. Featured snippets are a great low hanging fruit opportunity for many websites. By optimizing for the featured snippet, you can propel your site to the top of the search results by only making very small adjustments to your …
Read More »Feedback optimization: A user-first approach to SEO
A user-first approach to SEO In my last post, I shared how UGC (User Generated Content) helped my nonprofit client create authoritative articles that 1.) saved both of us loads of time and 2.) crushed it in search and social. (Update: that same client’s organic blog traffic is now up …
Read More »Advanced tactics for SEO title tag optimization
For many search marketers, title tags are one of the first-learned elements of the SEO’s toolkit. Unfortunately, that leads many to toss off title tag optimization as a beginner’s tactic. During his presentation on Advanced Title Tag Optimization at SMX Next last month, Moz SEO consultant Cyrus Shepard explained …
Read More »Product Feed Optimization
Here’s more reason to use those attributes Google is showing attributes from product feeds in Shopping ads. If you needed more reason to pay attention to all the attributes available for your products in your Google product feed, here’s one: Google is surfacing more attributes from merchants’ product feeds in …
Read More »Google Ads Testing
How to set up a simple Google Ads testing framework for continual campaign optimization Google may have made it easier for marketers to turn a blind eye to text ad testing with automated ad serving, but there are still advantages for those that commit to even a simple cadence of …
Read More »Why the future is all about PASO — personal assistant search optimization
Personal assistants (PAs) aren’t just digital assistants that can be used to perform routine tasks. They’re also the future of SEO. Consider two of the most popular PAs: Siri and Google Assistant. People often use those assistants to retrieve information. And where do you think those PAs get that information …
Read More »Google Shopping feed optimization: Speak your customers’ language and write more compelling product titles
Product Feed optimization is key to any successful Google Shopping campaign. Your product titles are one of the most important factors in whether or not Google will think your ad is relevant to the user’s search query. Not only that, but a good product title will entice more shoppers to …
Read More »SEO in 2017: Mobile optimization as a competitive advantage
In 2016, the inevitable happened, and mobile overtook desktop as the primary device used to access websites. This didn’t come as a huge surprise because, as far back as 2015, Google reported that more searches were conducted on mobile than on any other device category. In many industries, this may be conservative …
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