Occasionally, Google hits the keyboard and churns out a new post that explains what goes on behind the scenes. At times, these posts are meant to serve as general introductions to a given topic. In other instances, Google uses its blog to update the industry as to its latest advancements. This is exactly what happened…
Before the holiday shopping season approaches, online retailers should be readying and refreshing content, category and product pages to maximize search visibility as interest surges, and auditing their sites to ensure a smooth user experience. While there may only be a few weeks left before Black Friday, there is still plenty of time to implement…
On Wednesday, September 23 at 1pm EDT, MarTech Today’s, Editorial Director and host of MarTech Live, Kim Davis, will be talking with marketing automation experts about the state of marketing automation, and where it fits in the fast-evolving marketing stack. Kim’s guests will be: Helen Abramova, Marketing Technology Lead, Verizon Justin Sharaf, VP Marketing, Jahia Solutions…
SEO has changed over the last few years. A lot. With advancements to algorithms and the introduction of machine learning to search, SEO has become harder to perfect. So how do you remain (or become) successful today? Here are six enterprise SEO tactics and strategies that work. 1. Boost Rankings of Keywords Within Striking Distance…
We are in the midst of a transformation in local advertising. Google has a new form of trusted answers that are revealed through a unique and compelling sponsored ad unit. The advertisers that participate in this new layer of trust are proudly displayed next to a green, check-mark badge. This designation is quickly becoming the…
SMX is back and taking place online December 8-9. We’re planning a full editorial program focusing on what search marketers need to know now to be successful in the COVID and post-COVID era. Things have changed over the past five months and will continue to do so. With limited ad budgets, every dollar counts and…
Google announced at the start of September it would reduce the visibility of search terms shown in reports for advertisers. Privacy was the reason cited by Google but advertisers quickly called the motives into question and complained about the loss of transparency into a large amount of ad spend. A few well respected PPC influencers…
“No, you don’t get a special bonus from having a keyword like that in your top-level domain,” John Mueller, webmaster trends analyst at Google, said about generic top-level domains such “.jobs” on an episode of AskGoogleWebmasters. Mueller’s explanation harkens back to guidance that was first published in 2015, in which Google explained that, overall, its…
Have you done everything you can think of to optimize your site, but you just can’t seem to crack the top 5 for certain queries? This is a familiar challenge that faces website owners and SEOs alike – a plateau of sorts that can develop into a stagnating cycle of repeating the same thing even…
The game has changed. On average, 15-20% of your URLs are not indexed by Google. This is on top of partial indexing issues for pages that are actually indexed. Partial indexing is when your URL is indexed by Google but some of the content of the page isn’t indexed for numerous reasons. The larger your…