Which Terms Trigger the New Entertainment Pack
The new carousel replacement, like the carousel, shows for entertainment and recreational searches. This entertainment pack almost always (but not quite always) starts at position one right below any ads. I wanted to see which terms that previously showed the Carousel were now showing the new Entertainment Pack. When the original local Carousel first came […]
Be Intentional about Your Content & SEO Goals or Face Certain Failure – Whiteboard Friday
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We’re seeing more and more companies investing in content marketing, and that’s a great thing. Many of them, however, are putting less thought than they should into the specific goals behind the content they produce. In today’s Whit…
Google Continues Testing Carousel Replacement
Per James Gibbons and Brady Callahan on Twitter, Google is testing another variation of their Carousel Replacement. I was able to see the test in Safari on my Mac but not in Chrome or Firefox. Mileage may vary. It is similar to the display first seen in August but with three differences. One, the display […]
SearchCap: Google Debuts New Hotel Booking Ads, A New Call Analytics Report & Holiday Paid Search Drivers
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 Debuts New Look For Hotel Booking Ads As The Carousel Disappears The grand, awkward Carousel experiment appears to be coming to an end — for local listings…
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Facebook Quietly Debuts New Local Search and Discovery Tool
The social media platform has made its Places Discovery more useful as a local search and discovery tool.
Facebook Quietly Debuts New Local Search and Discovery Tool
The social media platform has made its Places Discovery more useful as a local search and discovery tool.
Google Debuts New Look For Hotel Booking Ads As The Carousel Disappears
The grand, awkward Carousel experiment appears to be coming to an end — for local listings at least. Google is abandoning the Carousel of horizontal listings that appeared at the top of local search results for hotels, restaurants and a few other verticals. With the changes, Google is now…
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Google Drops Local Carousel For Hotels, Restaurants & Other Local Listings
Google is dropping its horizontal Carousel display of local search results in several categories: restaurants, nightlife, entertainment and hotels. It’s being replaced by a 3-pack of organic listings and some new secondary pages. The Local Carousel rolled out in June, 2013 for the PC in the…
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Call Analytics Platforms – New Market Intelligence Report
Our sister site Digital Marketing Depot recently released a new Market Intelligence Report, “Enterprise Call Analytics Platforms 2014.“ Smartphone ubiquity has changed the way consumers communicate with brands. It is also now changing the way brands view the telephone as an inbound…
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SEO and PR Collaboration with BuzzSumo
Search marketing and public relations are quickly becoming an integrated front. Rather than being at-odds with PR and heightening what seems like the “natural rivalry” between SEO and PR, it helps to see how similar each other’s jobs are and how you can benefit one another. Both disciplines focus on earned and owned media and […]
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Google Rolls Out Search App Redesign For Android Lollipop Devices
Google announced today it is rolling out a redesign of its Search App for Android devices running on the Lollipop OS. Along with the “…bold colors, fluid animations and simplified layouts” of the new material design, Google says the updated app allows Nexus 6, Nexus 9 and Galaxy…
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2 Successful Holiday Strategies for Online Retail
Search is crucial, but so is understanding traffic sources and how you can combine the two to lure shoppers to your website.
2 Successful Holiday Strategies for Online Retail
Search is crucial, but so is understanding traffic sources and how you can combine the two to lure shoppers to your website.
More Bulk Editing Capabilities In Bing Ads Web UI Are Now Live
Bing Ads has been rolling out bulk editing capabilities within the web interface over the past few months. Today, more options became available. Bulk bid and destination editing are both relatively new additions, and now advertisers can edit keyword ma…
More Detailed Reporting Rolling Out For AdWords Flexible Bid Strategies
This week, Google is rolling out new reporting updates for AdWords flexible bid strategies such as Target CPA and Enhanced CPC. Bid strategy reporting can be found in the Shared Library. Reporting at the strategy level provides a dashboard view of key performance metrics such as conversions,…
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SEO: The O Is For Outing
As professional SEOs, we have a responsibility to make the web a better place. Contributor Kerry Dean argues that accusing our peers of wrongdoing may not be the best way to do this.
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Google’s Query Language
There’s a “Greenway park” near me, built where a train had previously roamed for over 100 years. The park is narrow and not much wider than the width of railroad cars. It cuts a nice path for local residents to use to walk across town, and it’s a relaxing trail to parks and schools and […]
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SEO and PR Collaboration with BuzzSumo
Search marketing and public relations are quickly becoming an integrated front. Rather than being at-odds with PR and heightening what seems like the “natural rivalry” between SEO and PR, it helps to see how similar each other’s jobs are and …
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Please Take Our Search Engine Land Conference Survey!
Search Engine Land produces conferences, and we’re always looking to improve them. To help, we’re running a survey asking you, our readers, to give us some feedback on what you’d like to see as part of our conferences. Please help! Below is our survey, which should take only a few…
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Panda Audit 101: The Roadmap to Complete Panda Recovery
If you’ve seen a noticeable decrease in your site’s traffic, had your site fail to recover from a Penguin update, or have lots of old pages sitting on your domain, it’s time to consider…