For years, Google stood by the stance that there was little competitors could do to a website to negatively affect its search engine rankings. That said, webmasters who might not follow SEO news closely, or who haven’t had their sites impacted by...
While in that case, they were marked as advertorial content, the links to Interflora with keyword rich links to give them the maximum benefit of those links for search engine rankings. Even with the Interflora penalty, more webmasters have been...
Bing News has introduced an interesting feature – a visual carousel when users search for newsworthy people. When you search for a specific person in Bing News, you will be presented with an image carousel linking to relevant news stories and pages...
WDYL search engine News Branwen cites the shutdown of Google Reader as a sobering realization that people rely on products that “exist only at Google's sufferance. Search Image Search Before you get too cozy with a new Google product, you may want...
Here's a quick recap of search and social marketing news and tips from the past week. Suppose I have a site that covers fishing overall (A) – Search Engine RoundtableOnly one page penalized due to 12 megabytes of spam from 21,169 comments.
You may be reading this because, like me, you usually spend a few minutes each day making sure you've trawled the main SEO news publications for new, useful thought pieces on organic search, analytics, or other aspects of online marketing.
All this and much more in our quick recap of search and social marketing news and tips from the past week. Windows 8 App Refresh – Bing Search BlogBing News app is now customizable, offers offline reading, and supports RSS; Bing Maps now has...
Looking at Facebook usage specifically, it's staggeringly huge (20 percent of all pageviews are on Facebook): percent of users' time spent on News Feed million photos uploaded daily billion Likes every day million pages with 10+ Likes million...
According to "two people briefed on the agreement," the agreement means that Google must clearly label search results for its own services such as Google News or Google+, but it won't involve any changes to Google's search algorithm.
Here's a quick recap of search and social marketing news and tips from the past week. SSL Web Sites Don't Get Ranking Boost In Google – Search Engine RoundtableThere are no ranking advantages or disadvantages of having HTTPs websites, says Google's...
You can’t truly have a successful search engine optimization (SEO) program without evaluating your performance over time and knowing how potential technical issues can affect your website from a crawling, indexing and user experience perspective.
Much like in 2012, the April Fools' Day pranks arrived early from Google – and it brought the shocking news that YouTube is shutting down to prepare to pick the Best Video ever. Google isn't the only search engine checking in with April Fools' antics.
Online News Rooms Grow Up, Go Social, Get Optimized Lisa Buyer says that while most brands report having an online newsroom as part of the company website, only 14 percent of press releases were optimized for search and recent surveys indicate...
The Washington Post, Fox News and Time pages also have mixed results. We’re constantly updating and refining the Bing search experience," a Microsoft spokesperson told Search Engine Watch. Rather, they seem to highlight the search term.
If you try a search for “elephants” there is nearly always news on this SERP but depending on how recently they have been in a big story. Granted, there are great tools that can help you view Google and Bing side-by-side, or otherwise capture high...
A lot has changed in the search engine optimization (SEO) industry during the past year. You want your content to be the editorial content that makes the news. Social signals: Are people sharing your content via social channels?
Search Engine Watch (SEW) asked Joel Lunenfeld (JL) four questions about his upcoming keynote. SEW: It seems that Twitter is where news breaks today. However the importance of trusted news sources quickly overtakes the witness Tweets.
And that includes making sure you aren’t throwing the search engine bots for a loop (which happens often). The great news is that this is typically a quick fix. If not, broken links can lead to a poor user experience while also inhibiting the...
Both design and content directly impacts the ability of the website pages to appear in search engine results, which can greatly enhance visibility to target audiences. The answer could be in the form of news, email sign-ups, unique visits...
As promised, Facebook’s news feed is evolving to feature larger photos and multiple feeds that are designed to reduce clutter. In addition to the main news feed, Facebook is letting you browse updates by:
