Google’s Eric Schmidt In Berlin: “Really, Our Biggest Search Competitor Is Amazon”
The attitudes of European policy makers toward Google seem to have hardened of late. On various regulatory fronts, Google faces vocal critics and well-organized opposition. Google’s Eric Schmidt gave a speech earlier today in Berlin seeking to change some of those hardened hearts and minds….
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Mobile, the Ultimate Shopping Assistant, Says Google
The holiday shopping season has already begun. Who needs an in-store sales assistant when you can have your mobile?!
Influencer Marketing & Authorship for SEO Now – October 21 Webcast
Digital Marketing Depot presents “Influencer Marketing & Authorship for SEO Now” on Tuesday October 21 at 1 PM EDT. Developing relationships with what the search engines call “topical authorities” and becoming one yourself is one of the cornerstones of SEO Now. In this…
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Bing & Google Offering New Search Tools For 2014 Election Season
With the November 4th elections looming ever so near, both Bing and Google have launched search tools to help voters stay informed. From news and analysis, to predictions and voter registration information, each site is doing their part to help voters …
Google Testing “Not Mobile-Friendly” Icons
The tech giant is testing the new icons in its mobile search results.
Right to Be Forgotten: Google Refreshes Stats
Last week, Google updated its Transparency Report to reflect updated data on the requests and actions taken.
Google Nixes Campaign Tagging on GMB Pages
Noticed this doozy from Tony McCreath over at the Google + Local Search Forum this morning. Looks like Google is giving users a redirect notice when they click on the website link that you associate with your Google My Business page if you are using UT…
New Google Feature Would Offer Video Chats With Doctors
According to a report from Engadget.com, Google is trying out a new way to help users diagnose whatever ailments they may be suffering, or, at least, searching. When searching for illness-related symptoms, users would see a “Talk with a doctor now” link within the Google search card….
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Crossing the e-commerce Border in Europe
Bing launched a report, called ‘Crossing Borders’ looking at the State of the European advertsing and search market.
Post from Bas van den Beld on State of Digital
Crossing the e-commerce Border in Europe
Be Ready for 2015! Attend SMX Social Media Marketing – Early Bird Rates Expire Friday
In less than 90 days, 2015 budgeting will be complete, Black Friday will be a distant memory, and new marketing objectives will be the measure of your success. Be ready! Hone your paid, earned, and owned social media marketing skills at SMX Social Medi…
Google Displaying Not Mobile Friendly Icons In Search Results
Earlier this month, we reported Google began testing mobile friendly icons in the mobile search results, again. They did this back in August as well. But now…
Google AdSense Swipe Feature & New Mobile Friendly Format
Google announced a new format for AdSense text ad units, something we reported Google was testing a month and a half ago with paginated AdSense ads.
Google says the new format is “easier for your users to read…
New Google My Business Data Discrepancies
Jade Wang from the Google Maps My Business team announced in the Google Business Help forum that they have a new way of showing data update discrepancies between what the owner (you) submitted versus what other sources have said about your business rec…
Google AdWords Change History Reporting Improvements
Google announced on Google+ that they made two larger changes to the change history features within the AdWords console.
(1) There are now change history columns in the reporting interface, so you can see details about your account changes…
Google Panda 4.1 Weekend Refresh?
A couple weeks ago, Google pushed out a large update to the Google Panda Algorithm, version Panda 4.1.
A weekend later, we saw major traffic shifts in Google, which Google said was likely Panda 4.1 still in the process of rolling out 1.5 weeks later.
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Google now warns users when a website is not mobile friendly, right in the search results
Here is another reason why websites should start looking into developing mobile friendly websites.
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Simple Math To Show Potential Clients Why Local SEO Is Important
Local businesses sometimes have trouble understanding how they’d benefit from SEO. Columnist Greg Gifford shows how you can boil it down to the basics.
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Google Non-Mobile Friendly Icon Being Testing In Mobile Search Results
Google is testing a new icon in the mobile search results that symbolize when a search result links to a page that is not mobile friendly. The icon is a mobile smartphone with a slash through the phone. Here is a picture from @malcolmcoles: This is com…
Quality Assured! How to Create a Universal SEO QA Checklist
Introducing the universal SEO QA checklist, especially designed to be used by anyone on the team from IT to an admin to the SEOs.
Hold Your Horses: The Knowledge Vault Is Just A Research Project For Now
You may have heard buzz about Google’s “Knowledge Vault.” Contributor Eric Enge explains what it is and the real-world implications you should be considering.
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