Google is stepping up its hotel and flight search features on mobile, aiming to make it easier to plan travel no matter the size of the screen being used. Starting today, a number of new features will begin rolling out across Google’s mobile travel search experience. According to the announcement, the updates include better price-filtering…
Google is continuing to enhance the travel search experience, adding the ability to book hotels from search results. This comes just a week after Google upgraded the flight booking experience with delay predictions and cheaper fares. In addition to letting users complete bookings right from Google, hotel searches will also let users filter prices in…
I encounter many people who believe the basic blocking and tackling of search engine optimization (SEO) execution is losing its value, but I find doing this basic hard work still works incredibly well. In today’s post, I’m going to share a case study of a travel site whose business plan incorporates a straightforward approach to…
Amazon calls them “hidden keywords” in their documentation, but I’ve heard them called many things, including search terms, Amazon keywords, product keywords, and backend keywords. I’ve also heard varying methods for determining what those words should be, what they shouldn’t be, and how to generate them for use. But one thing that I’ve consistently heard…
If you’ve visited any local pharmacy recently, you have a pretty good idea of what holiday is coming up. Yup, that one with the hearts, chocolates, flowers and teddy bears. It’s not Christmas or New Year’s, but Valentine’s Day is a huge opportunity for all businesses, not just flower delivery and giant teddy bear manufacturers.…
One of the most popular questions that I see being asked in Facebook SEO groups and on Quora is this: “What is the best course for learning SEO?” With so many “gurus” promising to make you an “SEO rockstar,” it’s easy to understand the confusion. The good news is this: anyone can learn to become…
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Today’s Google doodle marks the 197th birthday of the British-born physician Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman in the US to earn a medical degree. After moving to the states from Bristol, England, Blackwell worked as a teacher. Her propensity to take a stand against social norms — and fight for what was right — was…
In advance of this weekend’s Super Bowl LII game, YouTube has pulled together data around how people are watching — and searching for — sports-related video content on the site, and a few of the growth stats are quite remarkable. There has been a 90 percent increase in searches for “football highlight” videos during the…
A new ad unit is coming to Instagram stories, as advertisers can now feature up to three pieces of media per stories ad. Stories ads will display multiple pieces of media in a carousel-style format, similar to stories you would see posted by any of your Instagram contacts. Users can tap through, swipe back and…