Results from the Local SEO Ranking Factors Study presented at SMX East

Wonder what factors correlate with strong local rankings? Contributor Christine Churchill summarizes the results of a recent local ranking factors study presented at SMX East 2016.

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Search in Pics: Google nougat, donut board, AdWords lollipops & Yahoo cookies

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 AdWords lollipops: Source: Instagram Google donut board: Source:…

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After 4 months & 125M+ pages indexed, where are we with AMP?

Contributor Kristi Kellogg recaps a session from SMX East 2016 in which Google, Condé Nast and Vox Media share successes and challenges with Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP).

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Report: Number of Google organic blue links results drops from 10 to 8.5

Searchmetrics released their 2016 study on universal and extended search results showing some surprising changes in the Google user interface and results.

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The 7 best ad and landing page elements to boost online conversions

How can you modify your ads and landing pages to boost conversions? Columnist Mona Elesseily has some advice.

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PPC + SEO = match made in marketing heaven

Are your SEO and PPC teams working in silos? Columnist Julian Connors discusses several ways SEO and PPC can combine efforts to improve their strategies and drive more conversions.

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Dynamic Ad Extensions: don’t let your sitelinks and callouts get out of date

Keep your ad extensions up-to-date and applied everywhere with the latest AdWords script from columnist Daniel Gilbert at Brainlabs.

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SearchCap: Google My Business advanced verify, AdWords Editor update & Google Home featured snippets

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

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Infographic: 11 amazing hacks that will boost your organic click-through rates

Got great content and rankings, but still not getting clicks from organic search? Columnist Larry Kim shares tips and a fantastic infographic on how to improve your organic CTR.

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Give Google a break: Tackling paid links is harder than you may think

Google is often criticized for how it handles spammy links, but columnist Ian Bowden believes this criticism may be unfair. Here, he takes a look at the challenges Google might face in tackling the ongoing issue of paid links.

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