SEO basics: What is search intent?
SEO is a way to get more traffic to your website. By ranking high in Google, you attract more people to your site. Eventually, your goal probably is to sell your stuff, or to attract more regular visitors. A nice tactic to get more traffic to your site is optimizing your content for words people use. […]
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2018 With A Google Logo & Bing Theme
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the day America honors the American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement. Google honors Martin Luther King Jr. every year, it is an America…
Larry Markovitz – The Search Community Honors You
This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series – feel free to nominate someone over here.
Larry Markovitz lives in Miami, Florida with his family and is the CEO of Markati Group…
Google Reverse Image Search Matching Images Bug To Be Fixed
Last week we reported on a possible bug or change with reverse image search in Google. Well, it is a bug…
Google Confirms AdSense Earnings Drops, Blames Issue To Crawler Access
We have been reporting on the ongoing issues of AdSense publishers complaining about drops in earnings and ad display issues, resulting in drops in earnings.
Well, finally…
Google My Business Videos Now Live
About 10 days ago we reported some businesses and merchants were seeing video upload features in the Google My Business dashboard. Well, Google’s Allyson Wright announced in a Google My Business Help thread on Friday that this feature is now fully li…
High-level search marketing: How to keep your momentum from the holiday season going
Businesses tend to have a huge marketing push right before, and often during, the holidays, but often times these marketing campaigns fizzle out after the new year. Here’s how you can keep up the momentum on your marketing efforts in 2018.
Zhou Youguang Google doodle honors Chinese linguist known as the ‘Father of Pinyin’
Youguang’s work helped bridge multiple Chinese dialects into a written language.
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Search Engine Land’s Community Corner: Holiday retail results, Search Engine Land Awards and more
I hope you’ve had a great week as the new year truly kicked into gear. Calling all incredible search marketers (psst, that’s you)! Entries for this year’s Search Engine Land Awards are now open! Our fourth annual awards event will be held at SMX Advanced in Seattle this June. With…
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SearchCap: Videos on Google My Business, SEO reports & search pics
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
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JP Sherman – The Search Community Honors You
This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series – feel free to nominate someone over here.
JP Sherman, 45 years old is a native Californian but lives now in the Raleigh…
Google Search Result Snippet With Embedded Image Carousel
Shobhit Saxena shared with me on Twitter what may be a new feature in the Google search results – although, it does not feel 100% new. We’ve seen images in the organic search results snippets, we have even image carousels on mobile and of course…
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Facebook Will Show Less Content From Publishers & Brands In News Feed
I try hard not to cover Facebook or social media topics here but this is a big one, Facebook announced they are going to be updating the news feed algorithm to show more content from your friends and less content from publishers and brand pages…
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Is Your Site Still Not Listed In Google News After Bug?
If you are not back in the Google News index, chances are, you were not removed due to this bug. But if you believe you were, Valerie Streit from Google gave those publishers advice.
Google Image Search Does Not Index Images From CSS
Google’s John Mueller said this morning in a webmaster hangout at the 20:55 mark that Google Image search does not index and rank images from CSS background code…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Tweaks, Search Console Rolling, Google News Delisting & Facebook News Feed
This week we covered more ongoing tweaks to the Google search algorithms. We also covered the roll out of the new Search Console with 16 months of data, new API data also and more…
Google My Business video uploads now available to business owners
Videos can appear on Google Maps and local search listings.
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Google My Business Now Officially Supports Video
Colan Nielson of Sterling Sky spotted the video option in the Google My Business dashboard starting to appear last week. Google has now officially announced that every dashboard now has the feature to see what videos consumers have uploaded and to upload your own. How it works: Videos will appear in the overview tab of … Continue reading Google My Business Now Officially Supports Video →
4 reports you can pull from Ahrefs that you didn’t know existed
Columnist Kevin Rowe points out some handy reports available in Ahrefs for helping to inform your link building, SEO and content strategy. Why not check them out?
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Search in Pics: Google Brain jacket, puppy dog eyes & deprecated GoogleBot
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more. A deprecated GoogleBot: Source: Instagram Google Brain jacket: Source:…
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