Search Engine Land’s Community Corner: Dixon Jones retiring from Majestic, UK Search Awards winners & how to speak at SMX

This week’s roundup of news, announcements and events happening throughout the search marketing industry includes: Industry veteran and Majestic SEO CMO Dixon Jones announced he’ll be retiring from Majestic in November 2018, and will move into Global Brand Ambassador role at Majestic until that time. He’s been a key member of the search community since…

Persuading People: The Journey, Episode 9

Shares 281 The Journey, a Social Media Examiner production, is an episodic video documentary that shows you what really happens inside a growing business. [embedded content] Watch The Journey: Episode 9 The Journey, a Social Media Examiner production. Episode 9 of The Journey follows Michael Stelzner, founder of Social Media Examiner, as he continues to…

Visual Personal Branding: How to Build a Loyal Following With Images

Shares 721 Want to create a strong connection with your followers? Wondering how to capture photos that authentically tell your brand’s story? To explore how to develop your visual personal brand on Instagram and beyond, I interview Jenna Kutcher. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is an on-demand talk radio show from…

How the Google Pigeon Update Changed Local Search Results by @searchmastergen

Editor’s note: This post is part of an ongoing series looking back at the history of Google algorithm updates. Enjoy! One of Google’s biggest-impact algorithm updates was implemented for the sake of local search results, and local businesses typically saw the effects of the update in their website’s analytics data. Google users certainly saw the impact,…

SearchCap: Yahoo sues Mozilla, Google Lens review & celebs help Google

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: Gain a deeper understanding of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder on Google, Google Blog All…

Influencer Marketing: New Research for Video Creators

Shares 516 Are you a video creator looking to get into influencer marketing? Wondering whether creating sponsored video content is a viable moneymaking option? In this article, you’ll discover insights from new research that reveal how influencer marketing has grown in the last year and how other video creators are planning to pursue relationships with…

Google Lens an impressive start for ‘visual search’

Google Lens has gone live or is about to on Pixel phones in the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, India and Singapore (in English). Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been using it extensively and have had mostly positive results — though not always. Currently, Lens can read text (e.g., business cards), identify buildings…