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Next on Live with Search Engine Land: What’s New With The Bing Webmaster Guidelines On Friday, July 31, Search Engine Land contributing editor, Barry Schwartz, will talk directly with some of the individuals responsible for the updates made to Bing Webmaster Guidelines last month. Bing first published its webmaster guidelines in …

Google adds new mortgage feature box to search Google has launched a new feature in the mobile search results for searches related to mortgages. This is not just the mortgage calculator feature it has had since 2015, but a feature box that shows a lot more information around mortgages. What …

  Google has removed the prominent Twitter carousel of tweets from the Google search result pages after many prominent Twitter accounts were hacked yesterday. If you missed the Twitter hack news, you can read about it on Techmeme. But this news resulted in Google removing Twitter carousel boxes completely from …

Google opens image extension beta, adds countdowns to responsive search ads In May, Google announced it would sunset gallery ads and move forward with image extensions . On Wednesday, the company officially launched an image beta. It has also added dynamic countdown functionality to responsive search ads. Image extensions in …

How technology is changing what it means to be an effective (search) marketer The demands and expectations of marketers continue to evolve, and increasingly, they “will be a hybrid of marketers, technologists and data analysts,” says Stephen McDonagh, director of digital growth marketing at 1-800 Flowers, Inc. He discussed how …

Microsoft launches a free Search and Social campaign management platform for SMBs Microsoft’s Digital Marketing Center. Microsoft’s Digital Marketing Center is moving past pilot stage, the company announced Wednesday. The platform is designed to help small and medium-sized businesses manage digital campaigns across multiple networks from one interface. Digital Marketing …

Are brand crashers driving up your paid search CPCs? In paid search, your most effective and affordable strategy should be to leverage your brand. Your online brand space is where you should be most confident at securing transactional web traffic associated with your products or services. Your brand terms, experience, …

A new personalized search-discovery-social mashup   To the extent that tech pundits continue to compare Google’s new Keen search and social discovery site to Pinterest, and users also think of it that way, it’s probably destined to fail. Google famously doesn’t promote and ultimately shutters most of these “experiments.” Need …

Google to allow removal of counterfeit goods from search results Google is now allowing users to report counterfeit goods within the organic/free Google search results for removal. This works similar to the DMCA process, where you can request removal of stolen copyrighted content from Google’s search results. What are counterfeit …

Google Search Console performance report gets recipe filters Google has added new filter options to the performance reports within Google Search Console. If you use recipe markup, Google may give you the ability to filter your performance report within the “search appearance” options. Where are these filters? You can access …