Google helps musicians keep a beat with metronome tool directly in search
Google’s metronome default rate is 120 beats per minute, but the full range goes from 40 to 208 BPMs.
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MarTech All Access passes are sold out, but you can still attend! Learn how.
In one week, join other professionals in tackling issues at the intersection of marketing and technology at MarTech: The Marketing Tech Conference. All Access conference passes are SOLD OUT — but it’s not too late for you to attend. You can still register for an Expo Pass by March 20 and pay…
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SearchCap: Bing search APIs, Google candidate searches, Google Analytics 360 & 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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Google Search Analytics Let’s You Save Dynamic Date Range URLs For Reports
Google’s Zineb Ait Bahajji shared on Google+ a change in how Google generates the URLs for the Search Analytics date range based reports in the Google Search Console. Now if you ask for the last 7 days or last X days…
New: Google Analytics 360 Suite
If you go to the Google Analytics home page you will see a new section for the enterprise clients that says Google Analytics 360 Suite. It seems Google has replace there Analytics Premium platform and is replacing it with Google Analytics 360 Suite……
Google Opens Trial Run Ads To Search Ads With App Streaming
Google announced new ad formats and targeting options yesterday. The biggest item was expanding trial run ads to search ads.
That means you can use app streaming feature for ads in search…
Google’s Gary Illyes On RankBrain Replacing Links & Other Ranking Factors
So the folks at Distilled wrote a piece “Google to Announce that Links are no Longer a Major Ranking Factor…
Google 2016 candidate searches now include campaign funding details & search trends
Since launching candidate cards earlier this year, Google continues to expand its 2016 election-related search results.
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New ‘Uber tab’ added to Google Maps
Google adds ride-sharing tab to maps to enable more options, faster-time to destination.
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Bing previews new Bing Search APIs
Bing adds tons of features to their Bing Search APIs, which now are REST APIs.
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Forecasting the Impact of Local Business Cards
There’s a new feature Google is experimenting with that will allow local businesses to post images right into SERPs.
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Google AdWords average conversion rates by industry [study]
When you evaluate your Google AdWords performance and conversion rates, what are you comparing against?
Are You Doing Local Answer SEO?
My furnace died today. I went to Google and queried “replace furnace”. Here’s what I got: Click to Enlarge If you are focused on just ranking #1 for “HVAC”, I am never going to get to your lead funnel. Well played HomeAdvisor. Well played.
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Updating the smartphone user-agent of Googlebot
As technology on the web changes, we periodically update the user-agents we use for Googlebot. Next month, we will be updating the smartphone user-agent of Googlebot:
| Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.96 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) (Googlebot smartphone user-agent starting from April 18, 2016) |
Today, we use the following smartphone user-agent for Googlebot:
| Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 8_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Mobile/12F70 Safari/600.1.4 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) (Current Googlebot smartphone user-agent) |
We’re updating the user-agent string so that our renderer can better understand pages that use newer web technologies. Our renderer evolves over time and the user-agent string indicates that that it is becoming more similar to Chrome than Safari. To make sure your site can be viewed properly by a wide range of users and browsers, we recommend using feature detection and progressive enhancement.
Our evaluation suggests that this user-agent change should have no effect on 99% of sites. The most common reason a site might be affected is if it specifically looks for a particular Googlebot user-agent string. User-agent sniffing for Googlebot is not recommended and is considered to be a form of cloaking. Googlebot should be treated like any other browser.
If you believe your site may be affected by this update, we recommend checking your site with the Fetch and Render Tool in Search Console (which has been updated with the new user-agent string) or by changing the user-agent string in Developer Tools in your browser (for example, via Chrome Device Mode). If you have any questions, we’re always happy to answer them in our Webmaster help forums.
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7 proactive ways to jump-start your SEO before a site launch
About to launch a new website? You may think you can’t do SEO until the site is live, but columnist John Lincoln reminds us that there are many steps you can take beforehand to ensure a smooth site launch.
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Google to change smartphone user-agent of Googlebot from iPhone to Android on April 18th
Google is updating their smartphone user-agent on April 18, 2016. Make sure to test your web site to ensure it will allow Googlebot in.
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Seven ways publishers have reacted to ad blockers
There is a growing concern among publishers regarding the rise of ad blockers from users who prefer to enjoy an ad-free experience, as this translates to a significant loss of revenue for them.
What your teacher didn’t tell you about optimizing site speed
Site speed impacts your search engine ranks, so how can you make improvements? Columnist Brian Harnish details a few ways to decrease page load time for your top-performing pages.
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Google Analytics launches 360 Suite, promises a better view of the “complete customer journey”
Following the ‘micro-moment’ trend that Google has named and popularised for itself, Google has launched a suite of tools for its premium Analytics users, which promise to help better take advantage of customer behaviour “in the moment.”
Google Posts now expands to cricket player cards in search results
Business cards, candidate cards, presidential election cards and now cricket player cards are the latest supported in Google Posts.
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