ADVERTISEMENT If you had told me nine years ago that 250 million people would be scrolling through images on a site called Pinterest, I might have mistaken you for someone who was trying a little too hard to maintain your “early adopter” status. Yet, what was once a simple photo-sharing site, is now driving 33%…

We’re thrilled to announce that Danny Sullivan — yes, the Danny Sullivan — will be keynoting SMX Advanced 2020! This will be Danny’s first time returning to the SMX stage since joining Google in October 2017. In his keynote, Danny will share details about his transition from writing about Google to working at Google as…

Google has added Siri Shortcuts for its search, Gmail, Drive and YouTube apps on iOS, the company announced Thursday. Users can take actions within the corresponding Google app through Siri by saying trigger phrases, such as “search with Google.” Source: Google. Why we care Making Google apps more accessible on iOS devices may attract or…

“Something is very broken,” is the sentiment being expressed today by some local SEOs who are seeing their Google Posts rejected. The primary culprit appears to be pictures that don’t conform to Google’s image guidelines. Widespread issue. The Google My Business Help forum and Local Search Forum are abuzz with many SEO complaints. Some SEOs,…

Google Ads is notifying advertisers that standard Shopping campaigns will soon be able to reach Gmail users. In an email sent out to Google Ads advertisers, the company says Shopping ads will be eligible to appear on Gmail starting on the week of March 4, 2020. This includes both Product Shopping ads and Showcase Shopping…

In the early goings of Amazon’s advertising platform, most advertisers looked to it as another source of ad inventory that should be focused on direct response. This is in large part due to Sponsored Products typically being the first format brands wade into, and that format produced a whopping 13% conversion rate for the median…

Google is increasingly ranking content based on relevance signals derived from algorithms designed to help them better understand search queries and webpages. We are in a post-keyword ranking era. Researching keywords still matter. But the way Google ranks websites, it’s largely not about matching words in a search query to words on a webpage. This…

One of the biggest challenges an SEO faces is one of focus. We live in a world of data with disparate tools that do various things well, and others, not so well. We have data coming out of our eyeballs, but how to refine large data to something meaningful. In this post, I mix new…