The conscientious searcher: how useful is Ecosia in a world dominated by Google?
Many forget there is an environmental cost to Googling. Could eco-friendly search engines, such as Ecosia, offer a valuable and green alternative?
How to understand searcher intent and use it to boost SEO rankings
Understanding the intent behind the keywords you target simplifies the entire SEO process, says contributor Marcus Miller. Here is a look at how to understand and categorize keywords based on intent.
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Search in Pics: Camp Google, pride logo & going down the slide
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Addressing site quality – why building great content isn’t enough
Over the last couple of years, there’s been a real focus on improving the search experience through quality-focused algorithm updates. Google’s making it harder for sites with a high ratio of low quality indexable pages to perform well organically. If your site has thin, low quality, low relevance pages, performance will inevitably suffer – now […]
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Google Search Decorations For Gay Pride Month
If you go to Google and search for keywords such as [gay], [pride month], [homosexual], [lgbt] and other variations of those keywords, you will get the Gay Pride Month decorations in the Google search results…
Google My Business Agency Dashboard Now Live
As I reported at Search Engine Land, the expected new Google My Business Agency Dashboard is now live for those marketing agencies that need to manage their client’s local listings. No longer are you limited to a 100 listings to manage…
Google News Confirms Killing Off Several Publisher Features
Lisa Wang from the Google News team posted in the Google News Help forums last night that they are deprecating a bunch of publisher specific features within Google News. Some we already reported…
Google Search Console Meta Descriptions HTML Improvements May Go Away
With all the debate around the changes to how Google displays snippets in the search results in May…
Google Local Edits May Ask If You Are An Employee Or Customer
Sergey Alakov spotted something, I honestly thought I’ve seen before but I can’t find that I covered it, that when you make an edit as a normal user to a local panel on Google, Google is asking if you are a customer or employee of that business that y…
Dr. Virginia Apgar Gets A Google Logo For Her Apgar Score
Today on Google’s home page is a special Google logo, Doodle, for the woman who invented the first test you were ever given in this world – the Apgar score…
Risk-Averse Link Building – Whiteboard Friday
Posted by rjonesx.Building links is an incredibly common request of agencies and consultants, and some ways to go about it are far more advisable than others. Whether you’re likely to be asked for this work or you’re looking to hire someone for it, it’…
Google to Offer Combined Content (Paid and Organic) Search Results
Google Introduces Combined Content Results When Google patents talk about paid search, they refer to those paid results as “content” rather than as advertisements. A recent patent from Google (Combining Content with Search Results) tells us about how Google might identify when organic search results might be about specific entities, such as brands. It may […]
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Google Tests Video Carousels In Desktop Search Results Again
Once again, Google is testing video carousels in desktop search – we saw it a bit over a year ago…
Google Posts Adds Product & Offer Options
Google quietly announced on Twitter that they added two new Google Posts types within Google My Business. Now you can post about products and/or offers including the what’s new and event posts…
Google Site Command Searches Return Definitions & Knowledge Panels
Do a site command search and add either a normal query after it or another search operator after it…
Google: Sometimes We Pick Up Wrong Dates & Display Them Wrong In The Snippets
Google’s John Mueller addressed the ongoing issues and complaints about how Google displays dates in the search results snippets and how sometimes, maybe more often than anyone wants, the dates in the snippets are wrong…
SearchCap: JavaScript powered websites, Google axes political ads & Amazon consumer survey
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
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Priorities for diagnosing JavaScript-powered websites
Contributor Maria Cieslak digs into JavaScript and some of the chaos associated with it and compiles a detailed checklist you can use as a starting point for deeper analysis.
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Google axes political ads in Washington state, LinkedIn does it globally
New campaign finance rules require near real-time disclosure of data.
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Retail Seasonality: How Drinking Holidays Can Increase Conversions
It’s no surprise that seasonality and holidays have an effect on a brand’s marketing tactics. E-commerce businesses run specials online, brands create Christmas-themed campaigns for holiday lovers.
What about the holidays that are commonly recognized as “drinking holidays?” Think Superbowl Sunday, Fourth of July, Cinco de Mayo and even Halloween.…
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