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.
Stop Believing Google Search Console’s Sitemap Indexation Report
We often get asked why Google is not indexing the URLs in a client site’s XML sitemaps. There are plenty of reasons why Google may be ignoring these sitemaps. For example: Sitemap URLs don’t work URLs in the sitemaps redirect/don’t work/timeout, etc URLs in the sitemaps are not linked in the UI or are generally […]
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Google says Dynamic Search Ad targeting will soon get better
Query matching set to improve over several months.
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What the heck is going on with Google Keyword Planner?
Technical glitches and close variants (sometimes) come to Keyword Planner
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Dr. Pete’s Guide to Changing Google SERPs at SMX Advanced
I had the opportunity to cover Dr. Pete’s talk at SMX Advanced for Search Engine Land (Andrew isn’t the only one who can repost his content). But seriously, I think the talk was really important for people in all aspects of the SEO space. It’s easy to get carried away with doom and gloom when it comes […]
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SMX Advanced recap: Dr. Pete’s Guide To The Changing Google SERPs
How have the SERPs changed in recent years, and what’s on the horizon? Contributor Dan Leibson summarizes Dr. Pete Meyers’ presentation from SMX Advanced 2016.
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Why you may need to be aware of booby traps when hiring a new SEO
The online marketing world can be somewhat of a wild west in many regards, with SEO at the center of the chaos.
Leverage the power of IBM Watson in your AdWords campaigns
Columnist Russell Savage shows how you can integrate information from IBM Watson’s API into your AdWords scripts to get keyword information from webpages.
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