Google introduces three new travel products for hotels

Hotels looking to book new travelers and capitalize on this summer’s travel frenzy will soon discover a much easier way to manage and change their rates. What’s new. Earlier this week Google announced three new features to actively open the onboarding process for hotels wanting to list their rates or provide booking links through Google.  Update…

New Twitter ‘Search Subscribe’ feature coming soon?

You may soon have a new way to get push notifications from Twitter whenever someone’s tweets match a search query that you specify.  The Twitter feature is called “Search Subscribe.” Twitter has not confirmed if or when the feature will roll out to users. It was first spotted by Dylan Rousse, an Android developer, in…

Webinar: An easy-to-use, actionable ABM framework (finally!)

ABM is more than just another marketing channel to add to your mix. It’s a complete go-to-market strategy that requires new processes, better collaboration, and more accountability. But don’t let that intimidate you. We’re here to help you get started and create a clear path for iteration and scalability. Register today for “Take a Crawl,…

Instagram and Amber Alert team up to put breaking information into your scroll

Amber Alert, the nationwide alert service for missing children, will now put breaking emergency information directly into your Instagram scroll — a collaboration between the social media app and several children’s safety organizations in honor of Global Missing Children’s Day. The alert, which is an acronym for “America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response,” was first instituted…

Google drops support for job training structured data

Google has dropped support for job training structured data and rich results in Google Search. Google said based on its initial tests, the search company “found that it wasn’t useful for the ecosystem at scale.” Not useful. Google posted about this saying “We initially tested this markup with a group of site owners, and ultimately…

3 content marketing strategies to support SEO success

“When we think about [SEO] success, we often think about ranking on the first page of Google,” said Jon Lightfoot, founder and CEO of Strategic SEO Solutions, in a recent webinar. “But beyond ranking [at the top], there’s something more [important], which is ranking for the right keywords.” Ranking for the topics your target audience…

9 ways to become an SEO problem-solver

SEO is a big thing. Yes, it is made up of a lot of small things. Some connected, some not. We’d all love to stay on track, on plan and have everything go smoothly. But the reality is that, at some point, something won’t perform as expected or a resource won’t come through. That’s why,…

More FAQ rich results being displayed in Google Search

Google Search seems to be displaying more FAQ rich results in its search results over the past few days. Both RankRanger’s tracking tool and some SEOs are noticing this increase in the number of times a site is showing FAQ rich results. What are rich result FAQs. Web pages that have a list of frequently asked…