In April 2019, Google was experimenting with a new local SERP that highlighted alternative directory sources for the same query. At the time, we saw an example in the wild for Germany. Now, an updated version of the SERP featuring branded directory buttons appears to be live in the UK, Belgium, Spain, Greece, and France…
SAN JOSE – With more advertisers and bigger budgets crowding onto Facebook and Instagram, acquisition costs are climbing. Advertisers can make their social ad dollars go further by re-thinking campaign fundamentals. “You need to make sure you’re scaling your available inventory for click-through rates, mirroring your audience, and being dynamic,” 3Q Digital’s Senior Strategy Development manager…
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Google’s done it again. Not content with making exact match keywords anything but exact, they’ve extended “same meaning” close variants to phrase and broad match modifier keywords. Not only are plurals, stemmings, misspellings and changes to word order all fair game for your keywords, now implied words and synonyms in search terms will also trigger…
Google’s John Mueller advises against creating too many pages in multiple lanaguages, unless it’s absolutely necessary. This advice was provided on Reddit in response to a thread in r/TechSEO where someone was looking for help with hreflang. ”I have an international site that I’m managing for a client that has pages being indexed for different…
Once upon a time, Twitter’s whole thing was that people were supposed to keep their messages short and to the point. The site’s newest update seemingly goes against that philosophy. On Wednesday, Twitter rolled out a tiny little feature that will make it easier for you to thread your tweets together. Tweet threading is a…
Google has launched a new structured data element for image license metadata that allows Google Images to show a licensable image label in the search results. The CEPIC, the European picture agency, wrote about this on its blog saying “We are happy to share now that Google Images is releasing a metadata framework through Schema.org…
Bing is in the initial stages of rolling out a modernized version of Bing Webmaster Tools. Releasing first to a select set of users this week, the new Bing Webmaster Tools will be available to all users by the first week of March. In an announcement, the company says the refresh of Bing Webmaster Tools…
I’m biased toward any meme that’s ever involved Wishbone, but this meme about having range actually has the range, too. Range — and, more importantly, whether you have it — has been part of internet lingo for a while. Its latest appearance is in a Twitter meme, where people share four separate, very different screenshots…
Bing announced Wednesday at SMX West that it will release the first phase of a refreshed and improved Bing Webmaster Tools in the first week of March. The new toolset promises to offer a faster, cleaner, more responsive and even more actionable set of features for SEOs and Webmasters. New Features. Bing is not just…