Yesterday the FTC released updated guidelines for the searchengine industry and how it distinguishes between advertising and natural search results. Web research suggests that web pages are normally viewed from left-center to right, with...
Remove all advertising from searchresultpages. Microsoft wants schools to use Bing as the default searchengine. The Bing for Schools program, announced earlier this week, is offering U.S.based schools a tailor-made search experience using Bing.
There are multiple approaches to marking up pages for search engines crawlers. As a result of this promise of higher CTRs and higher rank, many marketers have already marked up their pages or are looking for help in making the business decision on...
Do you have "about" pages on your website? You're competing for searchengine real estate. I think if an app, or a searchengine wanted to deliver mobile-friendly content – the content from the semantic markup that schema provides would be a great...
Your online reputation can impact virtually every aspect of your digital marketing program from the conversion rate on your pages to your click-through rate in paid search. Optimizing key images on your site such as your logos is another great way...
Ecommerce businesses have already begun to differentiate themselves within the searchengine results pages to steal more clicks from the competition. Based on title tags alone, it seems that the first steps of commerce are beginning to take place...
On January 15, 2013, Facebook released Graph Search, which is the social network's first attempt at a serious searchengine. I don't think this is purely an age factor, but just like domains and SEO, I believe Pages can benefit from age too.
Starting last week, Bing began changing up their searchengineresultpages (SERPs). Users who clicked back to a longer, 12-result page executed fewer queries per search session and Bing reduced the click-through rate to SERP pages 2 and 3 by...
Perhaps you'll find that you need to redirect a lot of pages or use robots.txt to exclude content that has no place being seen by the searchengine bots. Do you notice that many of your site’s site searchresultpages are being indexed.
Searchengine optimization (SEO) professionals, web designers, and bloggers read a lot of tips from various experts to stay fresh and up on the current trends in website optimization. SearchEngine Optimization Starter Guide
We show results with warnings for about 0.04% of all searches, meaning about 1 in 2,500 searchresultpages will have a result with a malware warning on it. Making your mobile search faster – Google Inside Search BlogGoogle adds expandable...
We make hundreds of changes to our search algorithms each year, and we employ more than 200 different signals when ranking pages. Mine competitor assets: There are a number of SEO tools on the market that allow users to find the "top pages" on...
Generally, a structured citation has the schema.org mark-up, which allows the searchengine spiders across Google, Bing and Yahoo to read the data. For a video tutorial on merging your Business and Local pages, check out Matthew Hunt's video here.
The online toy retailer boosted searchengine traffic and conversions on product pages that were optimized with search data. BrightEdge research further revealed that for sites like Travelocity, eliminating just two of the types of errors found in...
In 2013, many search results pages change rapidly, even if you keep your location and “personalization” consistent (obviously personalization brings a whole other layer into the discussion, but I’ll save that for SES).
To really make something like this concrete, Justin Freid, director of searchengine marketing at CMI Media, said he would like to see it done in a more competitive industry – ideally with a company that isn't already number one in the market.
Rankings were easier to attain, competition was lower, and it was comparatively easier to optimize for pages that targeted such keywords. In any case, the method of search is becoming more like a conversation with the searchengine.
It’ll show you which pages are shown in the search results, how many times, how many clicks they received, which CTR the result has and the average position. When you login to Google Webmaster Tools with the account associated with your Google...
For example, are you noindexing a bunch of important pages, is the tag malformed, etc? And that improper tagging could be inhibiting your pages from loading correctly, and obviously not tracking properly in your analytics packages.
We recommend advertisers rotate creative every 2 to 3 days.the pressure and reward for brands that create relevant content on their pages [just] went up. Following (pages you follow) More screen real estate and more dynamic ads could spell...