Search Engine Land

JANUARY 4, 2023

In 2010, Google sent out notification to its AdWords advertisers that “your location-specific business phone number will display alongside your destination url in ads that appear on high-end mobile devices. Users will be able to click-to-call your business just as easily as they click to visit your website. Also on this day.

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JANUARY 13, 2023

Welcome AJ Kohn & Ginny Marvin To Search Engine Land, Marketing Land. Marvin joined as a Contributing Writer, focusing primarily on paid advertising topics (she would go on to become Editor-in-Chief from October 2018 to December 2020). Bing Set To Advertise During Golden Globe Awards. Market Share.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 24, 2023

Read all about it in Google Granted Patent For Panda Algorithm and dive deeper into Bill Slawski’s Google’s Panda Granted a Patent on Ranking Search Results and Is Ranking Search Results the Panda Patent? on SEO by the Sea. Video: Hamlet Batista on scaling and automating SEO with code 2020: And a bit about using Python.

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JANUARY 6, 2023

2020: Google was working on fixing a data issue with the URL parameter tool, a legacy tool within Google Search Console that let SEOs communicate to Google insignificant page variations and direct Google to consolidate those URLs. Google tests user comments for live TV shows. StrategiQ launches Spark, an SEO deployment platform.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 9, 2020

The search marketing industry is built to run like a macroeconomy. Search results are resources. . Users are people. . Google is a governmental body, and they work to improve market outcomes through the application of policies (algorithm updates). . What do I mean by that? Websites are businesses. .

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Microsoft Bing managed to steal a tiny bit of Google’s search market share in the last year in the U.S., But make no mistake – Google remains the dominant search engine. Instead, the search market remains essentially at status quo. search market share rose to 7.87%, from 6.35% (+1.52).

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Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Successful SEO professionals know a lot about dealing with uncertainty – such is life when algorithms that make or break performance are kept under lock and key. But Search Generative Experience (SGE) triggers change-related anxiety from even the most seasoned SEOs. Potential shifts in user behavior.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 17, 2023

What about the SEO impact? Google had previously shared some SEO blackout advice. URL changes are not so simple for Google Search. Yoast SEO launches on Shopify. Danny Goodwin joins Search Engine Land. Leveraging Amazon search ads in a time of rapid change. Banned Advertisers Rises Just 8 Percent in 2012.

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

For those in brand marketing or SEO , the answer might be (or should be) Q4 and holiday planning. Although temperatures continue to linger in the upper half of the thermometer, it’s never too early to begin setting your SEO campaigns up for success amid an ever-crowded holiday shopping field.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 2, 2023

We have consistently avoided paid sponsorships, including paying bloggers to promote our products, because these kind of promotions are not transparent or in the best interests of users. Microsoft Advertising launches sweepstakes for advertisers. Get the daily newsletter search marketers rely on.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Google removed App campaign placement data from Ads and AdWords API reports 2022: Google: “We made this change because the data provided didn’t fully represent the complete view of the placements that help developers monitor brand safety for their advertisers.” of AdWords Editor was now available.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 1, 2023

Maryland’s ad tax is here, and advertisers should look to their European counterparts for how to deal with it 2021: Ads from companies (in this case, platforms like Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook) will be taxed at a rate of 2.5% to 10%, depending on their annual global revenue.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 26, 2023

Also on this day Google pledges $340 million in Google Ads credits for SMBs 2020: The credits would become available for eligible active advertisers “in the coming months.” Apple extends Search Ads support to 46 more countries 2019: Apps marketers also got the ability to group multiple regions into one campaign.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Advertisers can now view Google mobile speed scores for more landing pages 2019: Google Ads tweaked its mobile speed score algorithm to reduce the number of ad clicks needed to generate a result. Yahoo Search Index Now Supported By Open-Source Hadoop Architecture 2008: The benefits, among others, were cost savings and scalability.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Noogler: SEO is spam, ads help you rank In 2012, a Googler made headlines when he said “SEO isn’t good for users or the Internet at large,” and “It’s a bug that you could rank highly in Google without buying ads, and Google is trying to fix the bug.” Google didn’t view SEO as spam.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 19, 2024

In global markets, effective SEO extends beyond keywords and backlinks. This article explores the dos and don’ts of SEO localization , guiding you through creating visible, culturally appropriate content that engages diverse audiences. Beyond SEO, it includes UX and UI for a comprehensive search experience.

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

While SEO can be highly effective, it’s not a one-size-fits-all solution for all businesses. SEO might not be the immediate answer to your digital marketing needs. Here’s why SEO may not be the best fit for a business, with alternatives and insights into when it may be a more valuable investment.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Google also revealed that Webmaster Central had more than a million users. Eventually, Google Webmaster Tools would be rebranded as Google Search Console , on May 20, 2015. Microsoft Advertising nearly doubles available markets with 29 more countries 2022: This expansion would increase the platform’s reach by 41 million customers.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 19, 2023

Matt Cutts, The decay and fall of guest blogging for SEO Cutts’ post got hundreds of comments and sparked lots of discussion on social media. He also added “for SEO” to the title of his post. White House Uses SEO To Spread The Word 2015: Neither Google nor Bing were showing direct answers. Yahoo Sees Big 1.6%

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 9, 2023

Also on this day Russia-based advertisers can no longer reach global audiences on Google properties and networks 2022: This policy change took widespread ad suspensions from platforms across the industry into new territory by targeting businesses in Russia. Users could follow news publications/blogs or industries.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

” And clearly, everyone in SEO has heeded all of Google’s advice about not doing link building, which is no longer a thing in SEO. Conductor acquires technical SEO monitoring tool ContentKing 2022: This is the first acquisition made by Conductor. share of the country’s search market.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 2, 2023

Help for Ukraine SEO & PPC specialists seeking work 2022: An SEO entrepreneur has created two resources: one for job seekers and another for employers with vacancies willing to hire Ukrainians. Optimization score comes to Google Ads app 2020: Also, Dark mode.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Video: Jennifer Van Iderstyne on agency types & multimedia SEO 2020: In this installment of Barry Schwartz’s vlog series, he also chatted with Van Iderstyne about content creation in SEO, capitalizing on misalignments in SEO and more. Do Search Engines (Google) “Harm Minority Owned Businesses”?

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 21, 2023

Google Search Liaison Danny Sullivan announced the news via Twitter: If a web page listing is elevated into the featured snippet position, we no longer repeat the listing in the search results. This declutters the results & helps users locate relevant information more easily.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 29, 2023

Jumpshot was made famous within the SEO industry by SparkToro founder Rand Fishkin’s (heavily criticized and widely circulated) zero-click analysis and presentations. Read all about it in With Jumpshot shuttered, where will SEOs get their ‘zero-click’ fix now? of desktop, 17.3% Apple’s big maps makeover now available across U.S.,

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 11, 2023

E-commerce sales jumped this holiday season as search marketers weathered Google updates. 2022: Newly granted users had to wait 7 days before they could manage all the features of the profile. 2022: Newly granted users had to wait 7 days before they could manage all the features of the profile. Yoast SEO 17.9

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 1, 2023

In 2012, Google – a search engine known for fighting against paid links and “thin” content – seemed to be behind a campaign that generated both on behalf of its Chrome browser. A search for [This post is sponsored by Google] returned more than 400 pages, written apparently as part of a Google marketing campaign: Google?

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 15, 2023

Universal Analytics was built for a generation of online measurement that was anchored in the desktop web, independent sessions and more easily observable data from cookies. Bing’s coronavirus tracker filters data, news and video by region 2020: ‘Coronavirus’ results pages became ad-free resource hubs on Bing, Google and other search engines.

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Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 27, 2023

I am the first generative AI chatbot for search marketers. I am trained with Search Engine Land content. Prompt: Create a content marketing and SEO plan for a digital marketing agency. Set clear goals: Determine the specific goals you want to achieve through your content marketing and SEO efforts.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Optimization scores, recommendations and their impact on Google Partner agencies 2020: Google said Partner agencies would continue to have “control and autonomy” as it put more emphasis on auto-generated recommendations. Study: 11 voice search ranking factors analyzed 2018: 63.6% Of course not.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

The New York Times was apparently perplexed by how well jcpenney.com ranked in organic search for practically everything the retailer sold. So they asked someone familiar with SEO to look into it. JCPenney said they knew nothing about the links – and subsequently fired their SEO firm. of all US paid-search clicks.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

But would users want social networking to invade their inbox? The launch was generally greeted with heavy criticism and Buzz would quickly become a privacy nightmare that would hang on for dear life until Google tried its luck again with Google+. 22 Links To Coverage About The SEO Is Bull Debate 2007: Just some of the coverage.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 5, 2023

Matt Cutts confirms Vince, calls it a ‘minor change’ In 2009, Google’s Matt Cutts created a video to answer many questions about a recent “brand push” in the search results that SEOs and webmasters had noticed, starting in late February. What’s The Most Searched Thing On Google?

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

SEO for adult sites is a fiercely competitive space – yet pervasive and unwanted adult-intent traffic remains a big challenge for enterprises, ecommerce sites and marketplaces. When non-adult sites rank for adult searches It’s important to understand that “adult-intent traffic” and “adult content” differ.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Microsoft Advertising rolls out dynamic descriptions for DSAs, which will become the default starting in April 2022: Advertisers in sensitive verticals would remain opted out of this change for existing campaigns. Not just for auto anymore: Google tests giant image search ads in new verticals.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 8, 2023

This was welcome news for advertisers who had been adding the same lists of negative keyword accounts manually or using a script to automate cross-account negative lists. . Conductor launches SEO services marketplace for Searchlight users. Google lets users see their related search history with new card.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Google AMP stories launch In 2018, Google launched a new, visually rich mobile content format designed to generate more engagement from users. Google enables ‘join waitlist’ for restaurants 2019: Clicking on the join waitlist button opened a screen that identifies the current wait time and enabled users to input their party size.

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