You’ve probably had thoughts of entrepreneurship at some point — just like almost everyone else out there working in a digital or search engine marketing (SEM) agency. “I could do this at my own agency.” Those were the exact thoughts I had coming out of college. I had been interviewing at a couple of different…
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’s antitrust infringement continues ‘unabated’, Google Shopping competitors tell European CommissionMar 1, 2018 by Ginny MarvinFour months in, 19 rivals say too little has changed. You’ll love what the SMX Advanced…
Creating a sitemap is an important part of optimizing any website. Not only do sitemaps provide search engines with a blueprint of how your website is laid out, but they can also include valuable metadata such as: How often each page is updated. When they were last changed. How important pages are in relation to…
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Recent Headlines From Marketing Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing: Search News From Around The Web: Use Inspect Element To Test Title Tag Length, codeseo.io 3 Underground Tools to…
Facebook’s new algorithm change has affected a Facebook page called LittleThings that was popular for it’s viral content. It is reported that the business owners claimed their traffic decreased by 75%. It remains to be seen how many other businesses that depend on Facebook will begin to wither as the toll from the algorithm takes effect.…
Google has introduced two new tools aimed at helping webmasters make their sites faster— the Speed Scorecard and Impact Calculator. Speed Scorecard Compare your mobile page speed against other companies with Google’s Speed Scorecard tool. It’s capable of analyzing the speed of thousands of sites from 12 different countries. Using the Speed Scorecard is as…
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: German court: Google has no ‘duty to inspect’ websites for illegal content before displayingFeb 27, 2018 by Greg Sterling The court held that Google can’t be held liable before being notified…
Google has added a new feature named Google Word Coach to the Google dictionary and translate boxes within web search for non-English searchers. When you do a search that triggers a dictionary or translate box, Google may show you this Word Coach that helps you “expand English-language vocabulary in a fun and engaging way,” a…
A web publisher submitted a question centering on whether duplicate articles, presumably stolen content, can have a negative effect on a website. There is a lot of anecdotal evidence that stolen content can negatively affect a sites rankings. Google’s John Mueller confirmed in a webmaster hangout that there are “edge” cases that do in fact…
Today marks the closing ceremonies of this year’s Winter Olympics and Google’s final Snow Games doodle. During the last 17 days, the Google doodle team of artists, engineers, production staff and sound designers has created an animated image for each day of the competitions. “Now that we’re at the tail-end of the Games, and the…