We have observed that search engines have reduced the font size of some text labels to identify top ads and other advertising and often locate these labels in the top right-hand corner of the shaded area or “ad block,” as is the case with top ads.
Each theme and plugin hosted at the directory has its own support area. It's easy enough to search for "[theme name] WordPress theme download free" and find what you want, but that zip file could have been forked by anyone.
With the rise of smartphones and mapping apps we're living in the era of local search and discovery. Good reviews, content, and engagement on search engine local pages (Google+) Google's Knowledge Graph - showing information directly on the search...
Site appears to be cloaking (displaying different content to human users than is shown to search engines) or redirecting users to a different page than Google saw. This is an especially tough one as the hacked area may be completely invisible to...
Here, you can see the positioning of the Bing Boards area, located in the second column of the search results page between related searches and the side ads. Continuing to experiment with ways to change and improve the search experience, Bing has...
While Yext offers its own set of products in the area of listings management, Localworks is specifically targeted to reach Yahoo's base of more than 1 million small business subscribers, according to Virginia Hines, senior product manager at Yahoo.
Over the last 12 months we have witnessed a content marketing explosion and a rapid evolution in search and social media marketing techniques. Marketers now leverage the power of schema.org mark ups in a cost effective way to drive higher CTRs and...
Most brands do not have huge teams of people working on email; rather, it's usually two or three people in a company and they're are also managing search, social, the website, etc. Jenkins went on to say that reducing costs is one area where...
With the relaunch of Maps, and to a lesser extent the handfuls of SERP updates Google has been testing, I want to suggest that Google is straying from being solely a place to search – they're evolving into an area you can explore.
I'm writing a post about egobait for link building for Search Engine Watch and am trying to get some ideas for how to do this for specific verticals. The feature article talks about mortgages and foreclosures in the San Francisco area and offers...
The Search Queries area gives you both traffic and keyword information. Within the "Search Queries" area, you'll have the opportunity to see the "top pages. The Search Queries section is broken down into five main indicators:
This is a problem in and of itself, but an area often overlooked by both big and small businesses alike is that of owning their brands' street/nicknames online. While online marketing is still a major tool for bringing new customers into your sales...
You may be doing everything correct in multilingual search – from translating your content properly to localizing your keywords and putting proper canonical tags on the pages – and still find out that you can’t seem to sell anything online in...
Search and social have long been touted as the dynamic duo in marketing, but data from Monetate's Ecommerce Quarterly report shows email is the biggest driver of conversions in Q1 2013. In analyzing more than 500 million shopping experiences...
But when a tablet user accesses their device to search for information, browse, research, etc.have location in mind – 45 percent of which is within a five mile radius of their current location. One-third of tablet users do indeed look for...
One major change is users can now click on any area of a map, and Google will respond by showing you information about what is in the area that you could be interested in, such as restaurants, businesses, and hotels.
Cutts mentioned that this is a problematic search, and there are others like it, so they are tackling it a couple of different ways. Here are nine search and SEO changes webmasters will likely see – although, as always, Cutts warns nothing is set...
Compound anchors: These are combinations of anchors (e.g.blue widgets from Search Engine Watch", which combines money and brand anchors). If everyone else has a lot of great deep links and you have none, that would be an area to work on for the...
If you search for an event in your area and you have Facebook friends who are talking about attending, you can not only find that out easily with the Social Sidebar, but you can also join in the conversation without ever leaving the search...
Optimizing your Yelp listing is equivalent to optimizing your website for search engines such as Google. Extra: Yelp also offers social features for users to help them find their friends on Yelp and see what they have been reviewing and what they...
