Micro-moments and beyond: Understanding and optimizing for consumer intent

Want to reach search engine users in their moments of need? Columnist Thomas Stern explains his process for mapping keywords and content to the customer’s path to purchase.

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It’s scary how many ways SEO can go wrong

In search engine optimization, sometimes even small errors can have a large and costly impact. Columnist Patrick Stox shares his SEO horror stories so that you can be spared this fate.

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A Penguin’s Tale: Responding to the latest update

What should SEOs do to make the best of the new Penguin update? Perhaps not much. Columnist Dave Davies notes that while Penguin 4.0 was indeed significant, things ultimately haven’t changed that much.

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Google’s virtual game changer: Leveraging 360 VR video & image optimization for SEO

Contributor Brian Ussery notes that as global search interest in VR skyrockets, Google has quietly made 360-degree VR videos and images accessible across devices and optimizable for organic search.

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Direct answer fail: Google gives only one side of proposed gun ammo & magazine law

Want to know about California’s Proposition 63, a measure to control gun ammunition sales and large magazines that’s on the ballot within the state this month? Google has the answer. It’s a “deceptive ballot initiative that will criminalize millions of law-abiding…

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Bing’s partnership with TuneIn lets users listen to radio stations directly in search

The Bing-TuneIn partnership will bring more than 10,000 stations directly into Bing’s search results for ‘online radio stations’ query.

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13 uses for keyword research to help you win in the search engines

Google may have shifted its focus from keywords to “entities” in recent years, but columnist Stoney deGeyter reminds us that keyword research is still an important and useful part of the SEO process.

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Why crawl budget and URL scheduling might impact rankings in website migrations

You’ve down everything right from an SEO standpoint, but your website has still dropped in rankings following a site migration. What gives? Contributor Dawn Anderson breaks down how Google determines page importance and allots crawl budget.

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SEO is not dead; it’s just a shape-shifter

Columnist Stephan Spencer talks about how search engine optimization has changed over the years, noting that it’s still very much alive — just vastly different from the way it once was.

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How Trump & Clinton have failed to use free space in Google for US presidential candidates

For a week, neither campaign used the special program giving them guaranteed listings in Google for their name.

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Enterprise SEOs, unite! The SMX East 2016 session recap

What are some of the issues unique to enterprise SEO professionals, and how can you best approach these challenges? Columnist Eric Enge reports on a session from SMX East which covers this topic.

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