Google parent Alphabet is buying fitness tracker and smartwatch maker Fitbit in a deal that values the company at $2.1 billion. Android Wear devices have not kept up with the Apple Watch, which dominates the wearables market (along with AirPods). Catching Apple Watch. In its recent earnings release, Apple announced that its “Wearables, Home and…
In September 2010, the Department of Justice released the Americans with Disabilities Act Standards for Accessible Design. This became the standard for accessibility of goods and services offered on the web by entities. Website owners who did not comply positioned themselves to not have great user experience for people with disabilities. Some have even faced…
Podcast: Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | For episode 170 of The Search Engine Journal Show, I had the opportunity to interview Garrett Mehrguth, CEO at Directive, enterprise search marketing agency. Mehrguth talks about the importance of focusing on your brand being discoverable for SEO and challenges some of the traditional sales funnel models. Why…
Frédéric Dubut and Fili Wiese speaking at SMX Advanced in Seattle in June. This session was so popular they will be teaming up again to talk about the latest news with Bing and Google penalties and algorithms at SMX East in New York on Nov. 13. Frédéric Dubut (lead of the spam team at Bing)…
It’s no secret that the game and business of SEO is changing fast. Those staying attached to the old SEO mindset that more links win and keyword volume is everything will fail. You can no longer rely on Google or popular website blogs to tell us how to optimize a website well. Thinking SEO is…
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Typically, when I talk about video campaigns in Google Ads, I talk about TrueView in-stream ads. These are the pre-roll ads that play before or during the video a user actually intended on watching. While I recommend these ads to almost anyone interested in running ads on YouTube, TrueView video discovery ads could be a…
Social Media Marketing Industry Report In our 11th annual social media study (46 pages, 60+ charts) of 4800+ marketers, you’ll discover which social networks marketers most plan on using, organic social activities, paid social media plans, and much more! Get this free report and never miss another great article from Social Media Examiner.
A member of the search marketing community tweeted his surprise that Google ranked a paywalled web page in the featured snippets. Google’s official description of featured snippets precludes content that cannot be clicked through to be read. But other documentation states that paywalled content is acceptable for Google Search as well as Google News. In…
Content marketing and analytics provider Parse.ly has rolled out the first generally-available release of Parse.ly Conversions. The solution seeks to help marketers address content attribution challenges of conversion reporting. It allows users to select different attribution models for assigning credit to content. The release also includes features such as labels that can be applied to…