Why you cannot ignore practitioner listings on Google My Business (case study)
You may have a strong Google My Business listing, but what happens when individual practitioners at your location have their own listings? Columnist Joy Hawkins shares a case study detailing what happened when one such practitioner left her practice to…
Google expansion of Local Inventory Ad product search now live in Maps and Knowledge Panels
The new feature, announced in May, allows users to search for product availability at specific stores from the search and Map listings of participating advertisers.
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How a dedicated IP address and SSL certificate affects your search engine rankings
To get better search engine rankings or land on the first page results on Google in 2016, site speed and HTTPS were listed among the ranking factors.
Google to roll out updates and new formats for mobile shopping and travel planning
Mobile will play its biggest role ever in 2016 and as Google reveals: mobile travel and shopping searches are already up nearly 30% year-over-year.
Mobile marketing AMPlification: Content, performance and measurement
What’s the deal with Accelerated Mobile Pages, and how do they relate to micro-moments? Columnist Jim Yu discusses the connection and explains what brands need to know to stay ahead of the curve.
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Rotating ad copy: What traffic are you missing out on?
Want to see where your ad tests are finished, and what traffic you’re losing by letting them run on? Columnist Daniel Gilbert of Brainlabs has a script for that.
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Google rolling out major change to PLAs for broad product queries, among other Shopping updates
Instead of showing individual products, new Showcase Shopping ads let users peruse product collections from both local and online merchants.
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How to find copyright free images with Google Image Search and other resources
Whether maintaining a blog or a beloved long-running website, you will have likely run into problems with accidentally using copyrighted images.
Google testing ratings percentage instead of yellow ratings stars in text ads
Attention-grabbing yellow is replaced with a light gray font.
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3 common mistakes made in do-it-yourself PPC
Trying to manage your business’s paid search advertising on your own? Columnist Pauline Jakober outlines some common pitfalls to avoid.
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What’s new with markup & structured data
Contributor Eric Enge recaps a session from SMX Advanced on structured data markup in its many forms.
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Five most interesting search marketing news stories of the week
Welcome to our weekly round-up of all the latest news and research from around the world of search marketing and beyond.
SMX Advanced recap: Advanced Google App Deep Linking
How do you get your app content into Google Search results, and what are the benefits of doing so? Contributor Eric Enge summarizes an SMX Advanced panel on deep linking and app indexing.
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HTTPS websites account for 30% of all Google search results
As of late June, 32.5% of page one Google results now use the https: protocol, according to a new study from Moz.
What Advanced SEOs Should Know From The Google Raters Guidelines (SMX Advanced Recap)
During this SMX Advanced session, panelists discussed what SEOs need to know about Google’s Search Quality Rating Guidelines, created for the human beings who double-check that the Google algorithm is performing as designed. Columnist Joy Hawkins recap…
Do you really know how much you’re bidding?
Columnist Frederick Vallaeys shares a handy AdWords script that generates a spreadsheet of your base bids with the actual min and max possible values based on your various bid modifiers.
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How paid and organic SEO results overlap in 2016
For the first time ever, mobile searches on Google exceeded desktop. To account for this massive shift, Google has made some of the most drastic changes to search results in years.
The 10+ biggest things to happen in PPC so far in 2016
Big text ad changes, a revival of device bidding, and LinkedIn possibilities are among the announcements that hold big implications for search marketers.
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The ABC of Google Quick Answers
The number of results that had an answer box went from just over 20% in December 2014 to more than 30% in May 2016Google is increasing the number of queries that receive a Google Quick Answer box. The number of results that had an answer box went from just over 20% in December 2014 to more than 30% in May 2016.
Five most interesting search marketing news stories of the week
Look, I’ll level with you, I’ve pretty much just spent the week staring open mouthed at the internet while one more UK political crisis collapses into the next. You probably have too.