How to optimize for voice search

Inspired by a recent presentation at SMX West, columnist Sherry Bonelli discusses why small businesses and local search marketers need to be thinking about voice search.

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The future of local discovery

Columnist Brian Smith discusses some of the recent developments and technology that will impact local search, both in the short term and the long term.

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Search in Pics: Bing body painting, Google airplane seat room & hallway race track

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more. Google meeting room that looks like an airplane: Source: Instagram Bing body…

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IAB: Paid search was 48 percent of total digital spend in 2016

Spending declined on the desktop but grew by nearly $6 billion overall because of mobile.

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Advertisers get claim notices for Google’s $22.5M settlement over ads on parked domains

The settlement stems from a case that dates back to 2008 about Google ads showing on error pages and parked domains.

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Keyword tiering: A systematic way to juggle your AdWords priorities

Columnist Jacob Baadsgaard explains how assigning paid search keywords into different tiers based on performance allows search marketers to quickly make adjustments that can have a huge impact on their business.

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Simple tips to get your app indexed, ranked & installed

Got an app you’d like to promote? Columnist John Lincoln provides some basic tips for helping your app to appear in Google’s “app pack” search results.

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Take a deep dive on search and social. Attend a workshop at SMX Advanced.

SMX Advanced pre-conference workshops are conducted by the world’s leading subject matter experts in SEO, SEM, social and digital. All workshops will be held on Monday, June 12 at the Bell Harbor Convention Center in Seattle. You’ll pick one workshop for a full day of actionable tactics you can use…

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