Since launching universal search results in 2007, Google has been integrating many more non-traditional search results, adding videos, news stories, sports scores, products, images, maps, and reviews into what was once traditional organic search...
Search engines seek to rank the most relevant results and monitor "search success" through a variety of ways; dwell time, page metrics, signals and many others. In a world of billions of content elements floating around the Internet, search engines...
Today we're making this possible by bringing app activity to Google search results. Google has announced that its desktop and mobile search will now include data gathered from Android app activity. The feature will allow users who search for titles...
To fix this, Cutts advises clicking around your website to make sure you can reach the pages on your site by clicking on regular links, ideally in a text browser (to do this, from Google's search results, click on Google's cache of your page/site...
Become a mentor: Check out the results from this search operator [inurl:edu "current mentors"] That’s nearly 4,000 results, which means a slew of link opportunities. For example, I ran this post a few years ago "The Best Search Marketing Research...
Are you seeing less than 10 results in your Bing search results? They describe the steps as "small" while Bing continues to research if and when they will extend the number of search results. Kohavi suggested this is simply the "first steps" in...
Blog Tag/Category Pages: These pages are a regurgitation of blog teaser content snippets and don't need to be featured in search results. While all the URLs you discover might not be indexed in search engines, this list will show you what you're...
No More Quick View in Google Search – Google Operating SystemGoogle removes the ability to see PDF or Microsoft Office files from the search results. Suppose I have a site that covers fishing overall (A) – Search Engine RoundtableOnly one page...
Leverage audience market data, survey results, and need states to create personas and user stories. At iAcquire we've built the dream off-page solution called iRank which handles all the heavy lifting and allows us to give our clients transparency...
The Share link was later added beside the search results. As we’ve streamlined the results page, we’ve had to remove certain features, such as Instant Previews," according to a Google spokesperson in the Google Search Forum.
Author Information in Search Results By marking up your webpages with microdata, you can provide detailed information to Google and in return your search results can help users recognize when your site is relevant to their search resulting in more...
As we've previously reported, Google has committed to proposed clearer labeling for desktop and mobile search results so users can more easily figure out products that belong to Google. What will Google search results look like in Europe exactly?
Your site visitors may click a display ad, perform an organic search, see a blog post or review or find an affiliate link. Benchmarks of various industries to help you compare your results to that within your industry.
Expanding into other results-oriented categories like content marketing or local search just makes sense. Brands rely on SEOs to keep their design and development partners aligned to business results.
Lastly, with Google authorship taking a strong foothold on rankings and the comments coming from Eric Schmidt about information that is tied to verified profiles ranking higher than "anonymous" content in search results, Google+ and authorship...
While marketers continue to covet U.S.mobile users for their wallet share, many North American local search companies are now pursuing the lucrative UK mobile consumer audience as well. This includes considering varying search patterns, timing, and...
Quora threads rank in search results, especially for long tail queries. For example, a search for Starbucks returns threads related to the overall brand, location- specific brand such as Starbucks UK, products like the Starbucks Card and brand...
In the last 12-18 months, several factors have come together to form what could be described as a digital marketing perfect storm, transforming content into the foundation of both search and social: Search algorithm changes that deemphasized thin...
Both have their merits, as you can see, despite the fact that I have starred a much greater percentage of SEOmoz's posts, Search Engine Watch and Search Engine Land are still much more visible websites within search results:
When a user does a search that Google deems product-related your feed will be scanned for products that match the search query used. Google Shopping's vertical product-specific results were later shifted to include only PLAs – all the old free...
