How does Yelp’s review solicitation penalty work?
Contributor Joy Hawkins provides an overview of how Yelp’s review solicitation penalty works and explains why you should not ask for reviews.
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New Google Search Console adds filter for Web Light search appearance
For the first time, Google is showing webmasters how many of their visitors access their sites in Google search via the Web Light version for slower connections.
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Google makes some clarifications related to mobile-first indexing
Confused about the Google mobile-first indexing change? Google just posted several clarifications.
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Google kicks off the World Cup 2018 with this special logo
Google has produced numerous logos for the World Cup.
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Google’s ‘More Results’ button: a search marketer’s POV
Google is continually making its SERPs richer, more feature-led, and increasingly intuitive on desktop, but how the SERPs are being displayed across mobile devices deserves special attention from marketers. It’s a space that presents its own challenges and opportunities, writes Luke Richards.
Mike B Around the InterWebs
From GetFiveStars, a new post about two business that are suing because of reviews (always a fascinating topic to me): Reviews & Lawsuits – You Can Win for Losing and You Can Lose for Winning From LocalU, my weekly conversation with Mary Bowling: Important Links from Last Week in Local – June 11 From … Continue reading Mike B Around the InterWebs →
Yoast’s WordCamp Europe sale: Taco’s personal favorites
At the moment, members of team Yoast are enjoying WordCamp Europe in Belgrade, and we want to celebrate that awesome event together with all of you! Which is why we’re having a sale during WordCamp Europe: you can now save 10% on any Yoast product or Academy course! And there is even a 15% discount on […]
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SearchCap: Search Engine Land awards, Facebook gets serious about local & more
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
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Update: Google Search Console Crawl Stats Back
About a week ago, we told you about a bug with Google Search Console where the crawl stats were delayed a bit. Well, it is now 3 weeks, 21 days, since the crawl stats has been updated.
Update: 10 minutes after I posted this…
Google AdWords New Shopping Features
Yesterday at SMX Advanced Google announced new shopping features. One was actually one we covered on Monday that was not yet announced yet local panel what’s in store results…
Local SEO Agencies Not Happy With New Google Agency Dashboard
Last week, Google launched the new Google My Business Agency Dashboard which promised to offer local SEO agencies a way to “manage multiple listings faster, simpler and more intuitively.” But no, from what I hear, it is super buggy and not ready for p…
New Bing AMP Viewer & JSON-LD In Bing Webmaster Tools
As I reported at Search Engine Land – Bing announced at SMX Advanced two big things. First, Bing AMP Viewer is coming this summer to the mobile search results. Second…
Google Doesn’t Decode MD5 Hash URLs For Keywords
I love seeing Google SEO related questions I’ve never seen before and this one, I never saw before. Does Google decode md5 hash values in URLs to extract hidden keywords within them for image search or web search. The answer is no but I am sure that …
SEW Interview: Clark Boyd on visual search
Visual search is still quite an abstract concept for most of us, but it is already impacting our marketing and SEO strategies in a huge way. We sat down with Clark Boyd to pick his brains on the developments and how he recommends approaching them.
Caroline’s Corner: My blog planning habits
If there’s one thing I’m known for among my colleagues, it’s for my obsession with notebooks and planners. I have not one, but a total of three planners in my bag. Three, ladies and gentlemen. Is this insane? Yes, it is. Is it too much? No, you can never have too many planners. And oh […]
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The 2018 Search Engine Land Award winners: The full roster of this year’s search rock stars & superheroes
The SEO and SEM community recognized the industry’s top performers last night during the SMX Advanced Conference in Seattle.
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The Rise of Voice — What the increase in voice assistants and AI means for business
How do you evolve your marketing in a voice-first world?
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Reducing the time it takes to write meta descriptions for large websites
The process of writing meta descriptions will likely be improved using machine learning techniques, but in the meantime, contributor Paul Shapiro shares ways to semi-automate writing meta descriptions.
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Finally! The 800 million ways Facebook gets serious about local business
Contributor Adam Dorfman explains how to capitalize on the one-two punch of Facebook advertising and organic engagement through Marketplace, your own page and Facebook’s own advertising products.
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Guest Posting in 2018 – Does It Still Work?
Are you struggling to create linkable guest blogs as part of your SEO strategy in 2018? In this post, Alex Jones from Hallam identifies five successful characteristics of a guest blog that have helped generate over 140 backlinks from February to April 2018 by our earned media team.
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