At SMX East; Presenting on Google and the Semantic Web
The Semantic Web is making an even stronger appearance recently at Google than it has in the past. With knowledge panels, carousels listing all kinds of things (and people and places), structured snippets merging query answers with question answers into a single snippet, OneBoxes of many different kinds, and even Hummingbird responding better to longer […]
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Google Organic Click-Through Rates in 2014
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We’ve all been there. Trying to improve our organic rankings so we can get more traffic from the search engines. And every time we do that, we are left with some big questions in our minds:
How much traffic would I actually…
SMX East 2014 Day One Live Blog Coverage
Day one of Search Marketing Expo East is now complete and below is some of the live blog coverage we found throughout the day. #SMX East Liveblog: Making Moments Matter, BruceClay.com #SMX Evening Forum with Danny Sullivan, BruceClay.com #SMX Blog: The…
SearchCap: Google AdWords Automatic Item Updates, Google Smartphone Icons & More
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Introduces Automatic Item Updates For PLAs Up to now, Google has systematically disapproved product listing …
Call Tracking for Local Search: 5 Tips for Optimizing ROI in Today’s Mobile World – October 7 Webcast
Digital Marketing Depot presents “Call Tracking for Local Search: 5 Tips for Optimizing ROI in Today’s Mobile World” on Tuesday October 7 at 1 PM EDT. This webcast covers how local search advertising today requires you to track, score, route, and manage calls the same way you do…
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SPONSOR MESSAGE: Bing Ads Brings Gifts: Holidays by the Numbers
In a joyous season of sales and snow, Bing Ads shows you where the time and money goes… Light up your screen and count the spend during the lucrative holiday retail season. Last year’s holiday retail market was valued at $601.8 Billion. To top it this year, we’ll have to make…
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How to Add A Business Listing to Waze
Today Waze introduced the ability to add “Places” to their mobile application. For any of you who aren’t familiar, Waze is a mobile traffic/mapping application that was bought by Google in the not to distant past. Google owned local application are always on my radar, so here is a quick walk through on how to list […]
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Privacy-Savvy Search Engine DuckDuckGo Blocked in China
Search engine users in China got a rude awakening when they realized last week that DuckDuckGo had been blocked or was temporarily unavailable.
Twitter Takes Another Step Toward ECommerce
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49% of U.K. Consumers Use Organic Search to Find Online Retailers [Study]
Research findings from BloomReach, a company that provides a personalized discovery platform for online retailers, show 49 percent of consumers in the U.K. leverage organic search as the main point of entry to e-commerce shopping sites.
Google Introduces Automatic Item Updates For PLAs
Up to now, Google has systematically disapproved product listing ads when retailers had price or inventory variances between their product feed and the microdata on their sites. Now, to help retailers maintain consistent visibility in PLAs, Google has launched “automatic item updates”…
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Local Heat Maps – Lots of Attention, Not So Much Clicking
Mediative has published results of their recent eye-tracking and click through research performed last spring that included local pack and carousel results: The Evolution of Google Search Results Pages and Their Effects on User Behaviour”. They discuss the local implications in a blog post today. While the study has some methodological issues the results are interesting […]
It’s Not (All) About The Links: Communicating For Outreach
You’ve researched and identified your link building targets, but what’s the best way to speak to them?
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How To Create A 301 Redirect Map
Overhauling your site? Without a 301 redirect map, you risk losing valuable search equity.
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Client Meetings: Separating Fear From Reality
We’ve all been there. You wake up at 5am, take a hot shower, throw on your shiny shoes and your nicest button down, and head into the office as early as possible. Armed with nothing but a slide deck, you prepare yourself to face the inevitable: it’s the day of your first client meeting, and […]
Local Search in 2016: Wearables, Beacons, and Machine Learning
Right now, we are nearing a point whereby the convergence of several related technologies, combined with their improving accessibility (infrastructure and cost) means we are not far away from some big disruptions in local search.
Google Testing Smartphone Friendly Icon In Search Results, Again
Google is once again showing mobile smartphone icons on smartphone friendly search results, while searching on your smartphone. Many searchers are noticing it and Brent Payne sent us a screen shot. Here is what the smartphone icon looks like on an iPho…
24-Hour Breakdown of Searches on Black Friday and Cyber Monday
Bing Ads researchers dug into the data from the holiday shopping period in 2013 in order to help advertisers more accurately target their PPC ads to hit at exactly the right moment and drive more impact with their ad spend.
Matt Cutts Missing Google Search Quality?
Back in July, Matt Cutts shocked the SEO industry by announcing his extended vacation – many thought he’d never come back. He has not come back yet, officially, so it is unclear if he will.
But for one thing, it does seem he misses the search qualit…
Moz: Google Answer Boxes Now Showing Up 60% More Often
If you check out the Mozcast features tool, you may notice that the Answers box tracker shows a huge increase in the Google search results.
This means that according to this tool, Google is now showing answers to queries at the top of the search res…