RankRanger: Google Featured Snippets Expand To More European Search Results
A month ago, Pete Meyers from Moz asked if featured snippets are on other Google search results outside of the US. Gary Illyes from Google responded on Twitter saying he believes it is only available in about 10 additional locales…
Five of the most interesting SEM 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.
Analysing Twitter Feature Results in Google SERPs
Over the past couple of days I’ve spent some time looking at what makes a Twitter featured result turn up in Google’s results. Along the way we’ve discovered some interesting things that seem to play a part, if you’re looking to get your account featured in a specific Google search query. The main takeaways were […]
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Friday Infographic: Speed up your website!
Speed, it’s one of the things that are highly underestimated when it comes to websites. And something many (including ourselves) struggle with. What to do?
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SearchCap: Google mobile-friendly warning, Bing HackerRank & 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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Microsoft partners with HackerRank to deliver executable code in Bing search
Bing’s group engineering manager for UX features and shared tools calls the new feature a Rosetta-stone model for programming languages.
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Microsoft partners with HackerRank to deliver executable code in Bing search
Bing’s group engineering manager for UX features and shared tools calls the new feature a Rosetta-stone model for programming languages.
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Google My Business iOS app now lets business owners manage holiday & special hours
Google has updated the iOS version of their Google My Business app to let you set holiday hours, but the app seems to have frozen for me.
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Searchmetrics now shows where your app appears in App Packs
Also new: rankings for app ads, unique keywords on a page, and the release of the Visibility Guard to protect against errors affecting ranking
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Former Googler On Why Do Some Google Manual Actions Seem Automated
Often we will see Google issue out mass manual actions for link schemes or other webmaster guideline violations. We see it often when Google slaps a big link network or something of that nature…
Why user testing is the most important part of mobile development
The sooner you find out your what is wrong with your *brilliant* concept, the easier, quicker, cheaper (and less embarrassing) it is to put it right or – if it is a total flop – go back to the drawing board.
Keyword research: a key element of SEO & content marketing
Many business owners see SEO and content marketing as separate, but columnist Trond Lyngbø argues that solid keyword research can and should be used to inform content marketing strategy.
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Five tips for low-risk Google Display Network testing
So you’re a small or medium-sized business (SMB) and you’ve already hit a cap on how far you can go with search engine marketing and remarketing.
What they don’t tell you about SEO
Even today, many business owners still believe that SEO is easy: just create some high-quality, optimized content, then sit back and wait for all the traffic. But there’s more to it than than, and columnist Matthew Barby explains what you should REALLY…
Google Search Console now sending PageSpeed update notifications
If you are running an outdated PageSpeed install from Google, Google will let you know via the Google Search Console notification center.
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The importance of typography
For a blog, it’s of great importance that people can read the texts of your post properly. Reading from screens is hard, so make sure you don’t make it any harder than it already is. In this post, we’ll give tips on how to improve the typography of your blog. Typography and readability The readability […]
Google warns site owners their site is not mobile-friendly in mobile search results
A month before the Google mobile-friendly algorithm boost, Google starts issuing new warnings to site owners.
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The Joy of Micro UX: 18 delightful examples
What is micro-UX? Micro-UX refers to the tiny interactions with a website or app that are designed to delight the user, by … read more
Google Sitar Logo For Pandit Ravi Shankar
Today on Google’s home page is another special Doodle, Google logo, for the 96th birthday of Pandit Ravi Shankar. The Doodle shows a Sitar, a plucked stringed instrument used mainly in Hindustani music and Indian classical music…
Google Sending Recommended PageSpeed Update Available Notifications
Google is sending out new Google Search Console notifications for pagespeed related topics. The notification being sent out reads “Google has detected that your site is currently running PageSpeed