Google AdWords PLAs Automatic Item Updates
Google announced a new feature to help reduce the number of ad disprovals due to there being price mismatches between your PLAs feed and what is displayed on your web page.
This is called “automatic item updates” and can be enabled if you have impleme…
Google Wants Ideas For Live Webmaster Hangouts Topics
Google is now frequently conducting live webmaster hangouts with normally one Googler and then nine other webmasters on the Google Webmaster Google+ page.
Google’s John Mueller does a ton of them and he said he is ready to schedule a bunch more but wa…
Google Smartphone Icons Now Testing Again
Back in August 2012 we saw Google testing smartphone icons in the search results and then they went away. Google seems to be testing that again.
Artem Russakovskii from Android Police spotted it in the wild, as have others…
Google’s Online Order Shipment Comes With Search Algorithm Help Request
Thomas Steiner, a PhD Customer Solutions Engineer for Google in Hamburg, Germany placed an order online at Lieferello for some cold beverages and in his order shipment box he found this colorful letter. In a sense, they bribed Thomas with an extra fre…
SEO Is No One-Trick Pony
What exactly is SEO? It’s certainly not any “one thing,” but instead a combination of many factors that lead to a successful SEO strategy.
SMX East 2014 Day One Live Blog Coverage
Day one of Search Marketing Expo East is now complete and below is some of the live blog coverage we found throughout the day. #SMX East Liveblog: Making Moments Matter, BruceClay.com #SMX Evening Forum with Danny Sullivan, BruceClay.com #SMX Blog: The…
SearchCap: Google AdWords Automatic Item Updates, Google Smartphone Icons & More
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 Introduces Automatic Item Updates For PLAs Up to now, Google has systematically disapproved product listing …
Call Tracking for Local Search: 5 Tips for Optimizing ROI in Today’s Mobile World – October 7 Webcast
Digital Marketing Depot presents “Call Tracking for Local Search: 5 Tips for Optimizing ROI in Today’s Mobile World” on Tuesday October 7 at 1 PM EDT. This webcast covers how local search advertising today requires you to track, score, route, and manage calls the same way you do…
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SPONSOR MESSAGE: Bing Ads Brings Gifts: Holidays by the Numbers
In a joyous season of sales and snow, Bing Ads shows you where the time and money goes… Light up your screen and count the spend during the lucrative holiday retail season. Last year’s holiday retail market was valued at $601.8 Billion. To top it this year, we’ll have to make…
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Privacy-Savvy Search Engine DuckDuckGo Blocked in China
Search engine users in China got a rude awakening when they realized last week that DuckDuckGo had been blocked or was temporarily unavailable.
49% of U.K. Consumers Use Organic Search to Find Online Retailers [Study]
Research findings from BloomReach, a company that provides a personalized discovery platform for online retailers, show 49 percent of consumers in the U.K. leverage organic search as the main point of entry to e-commerce shopping sites.
Google Introduces Automatic Item Updates For PLAs
Up to now, Google has systematically disapproved product listing ads when retailers had price or inventory variances between their product feed and the microdata on their sites. Now, to help retailers maintain consistent visibility in PLAs, Google has launched “automatic item updates”…
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It’s Not (All) About The Links: Communicating For Outreach
You’ve researched and identified your link building targets, but what’s the best way to speak to them?
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How To Create A 301 Redirect Map
Overhauling your site? Without a 301 redirect map, you risk losing valuable search equity.
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Google Testing Smartphone Friendly Icon In Search Results, Again
Google is once again showing mobile smartphone icons on smartphone friendly search results, while searching on your smartphone. Many searchers are noticing it and Brent Payne sent us a screen shot. Here is what the smartphone icon looks like on an iPho…
24-Hour Breakdown of Searches on Black Friday and Cyber Monday
Bing Ads researchers dug into the data from the holiday shopping period in 2013 in order to help advertisers more accurately target their PPC ads to hit at exactly the right moment and drive more impact with their ad spend.
Matt Cutts Missing Google Search Quality?
Back in July, Matt Cutts shocked the SEO industry by announcing his extended vacation – many thought he’d never come back. He has not come back yet, officially, so it is unclear if he will.
But for one thing, it does seem he misses the search qualit…
Moz: Google Answer Boxes Now Showing Up 60% More Often
If you check out the Mozcast features tool, you may notice that the Answers box tracker shows a huge increase in the Google search results.
This means that according to this tool, Google is now showing answers to queries at the top of the search res…
Google’s New Mobile Display & Video Ads
Google announced their next steps in what they think will improve display ads across desktop and mobile platforms.
In the next few months, Google will begin rolling out “several mobile display ad formats and tools across the Google Display Network…
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Google: There Isn’t A Magical SEO Advantage By Switching To HTTPS
Google’s John Mueller said in a video hangout 22 minutes and 21 seconds in that there is no magical SEO advantage when switching from HTTP to HTTPS.
But didn’t Google tell us that HTTPS is a ranking signal…