Google seems to be having issues showing new and fresh content from web sites and publishers. This seems to be impacting both large and small publishers, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, CNN and even this site, Search Engine Land. Confirmed. At 6:18pm ET, Google has confirmed there is an issue posting on…
ADVERTISEMENT LinkedIn is introducing new features designed to help companies stay better engaged with their employees. These updates will help keep employees informed so they can share the latest content from the company they work for. LinkedIn is also rolling out new tools to help companies optimize their pages. Here’s a rundown of all the…
Google has released a sound recording application for its newly released Pixel 4 smartphone. Simply called Recorder, the app recognizes speech and uses artificial intelligence to produce a written transcription of the recording. Users can search for words and phrases as well as other sounds such as music and applause in recordings. The new Recorder…
Smart Shopping campaigns are Google’s machine learning-driven campaigns for product ads. They automatically optimize ad delivery across Google’s properties. As a newer campaign type, there have been settings and reporting limitations that have kept many advertisers on the sidelines. Until very recently, advertisers could not control location targeting. What changed. Smart Shopping campaigns used to…
When used creatively, XPaths can help improve the efficiency of auditing large websites. Consider this another tool in your SEO toolbelt. There are endless types of information you can unlock with XPaths, which can be used in any category of online business. Some popular ways to audit large sites with XPaths include: In this guide,…
Adding email to your holiday marketing mix is a must. Email continues to generate the highest ROI of all digital channels, with some sources reporting averages as high as $44 for every dollar spent. But competition for consumers’ attention in the inbox is fierce year-round, and never more so than over the holidays. With the…
Over the almost 16-years of covering search, specifically what Googlers have said in terms of SEO and ranking topics, I have seen my share of contradictory statements. Google’s ranking algorithms are complex, and the way one Googler explains something might sound contradictory to how another Googler talks about it. In reality, they are typically talking…
It was 10 years ago, Jeff Bezos famously quipped that “advertising is the price you pay for having an unremarkable product.” As it relates to Amazon today, that logic holds as much water as any of these fine-looking sieves found on Amazon itself. In 2019, the retail site is largely a “pay to play” platform…
Between the eggnog, the turkey, and fruitcake cookies, you may be prepping to get stuffed full of holiday goodies and holiday spirit. But is your content calendar just as stuffed full of holiday-ready content ideas? Without proper planning, your business’s holiday marketing may be about as effective as a lump of coal. It’s never too…
Do you remember the phone book? I know… it’s practically an ancient artifact. But it was useful, in its time. Not only could you close your eyes, open to a random page, and blindly point at a number to prank call (not that I would know anything about that), but you could also flip to the…