A comprehensive guide on using Google Trends for keyword research

Google Trends can be a powerful tool for digital marketers. The 11 best ways you can use Google Trends to find relevant, trending, and related keywords that boost traffic.

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The future of Google and what it means for search

Croud’s Organic Strategy Director looks discusses the future of Google, right from Google’s antitrust lawsuit to Apple as a future rival, and more. 

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Guide: How to effectively incorporate customer journey mapping into your marketing strategy

A comprehensive customer journey mapping guide that helps you understand the role of digital transformation and customer experience in your company’s success.

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UX matters for search: Here are two reasons why

Your search engine marketing success hinges upon your site’s UX. Two elements of UX that are particularly relevant to SEO.

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Conversation mapping: The new rules to win in search and content marketing

How do we create a content strategy that aligns with search growth, consistently? A 2000 word answer to that single, overriding question for content.

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Google Activity Cards: Inviting users to be better connected with their past search activity

Google activity cards, released Jan 9, are the next step in the company’s journey toward making the SERPs even more intuitive, tailored, and useful.

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Keyword stuffing is terrible for your SEO. Here’s what to do instead

Once-upon-a-time, keyword stuffing was a relatively successful SEO strategy. However, today stuffing a keyword into your content too many times can actually knock the stuffing out of your search rankings, or even cause your content to be removed from search listings entirely. Kim Kosaka explains.

Video and search: YouTube, Google, the alternatives and the future

When it comes to being visible online, video content is increasingly proving its worth as a way to grab attention and – crucially – to engage meaningfully with internet users. Luke Richards takes a look at the rise of video, alternatives to YouTube, social and what it all means for search marketers.

Rise in voice search for local businesses brings new opportunities and challenges

Voice search is growing exponentially, and when something becomes this prominent it behoves the major search engines to make changes to the ways they work to make these experiences more fluid and enjoyable for the end user. Jamie Pitman reviews consumers’ current use of voice search with regard to local search and how you can optimize for future growth

Google’s ‘More Results’ button: a search marketer’s POV

Google is continually making its SERPs richer, more feature-led, and increasingly intuitive on desktop, but how the SERPs are being displayed across mobile devices deserves special attention from marketers. It’s a space that presents its own challenges and opportunities, writes Luke Richards.