Search Engine Land

APRIL 23, 2024

Users are looking for the things they’d search for on Google, but staying in the app much longer than they’d stay on Google because of that entertainment factor. As SEO professionals, figuring out how to help brands stand out in this new landscape is key to effectively targeting the younger generation.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The traditional approach to SEO KPIs often falls short of capturing the dynamic nature of user interactions and search patterns. This article proposes a paradigm shift: integrating dynamic, user-centric metrics into established SEO KPI frameworks. Ultimately, this redefines how we measure and interpret SEO success.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 30, 2024

They knew that the vast majority of people who search for something don’t want to wade through listing after listing. Every SEO professional knows this, too. In the search landscape of the future, yes, people will still use the Google interface we know today for things like research and exploration. Is SEO dead?

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

SEOs upset over Google dropping attribution in featured snippets In 2019, SEOs were not happy about a Google featured snippet format that didn’t immediately show the source of the content. Google Panda Two Years Later: The Real Impact Beyond Rankings & SEO Visibility 2013: A look at what happened to some Panda’s losers.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 16, 2024

SEO is turbulent right now. Between tons of algorithm updates and reports of Search Generative Experience (SGE) taking over the SERPs, there’s a lot of uncertainty and anxiety about the path forward. To me, it’s the perfect time to put some under-utilized SEO research initiatives that we know are effective back in the spotlight.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 5, 2024

When you work in an industry like SEO , staying updated on new technologies is crucial. But, not all learning needs to be about link building, content or technical aspects of SEO. With that in mind, here are 10 of the best (in my opinion) non-marketing books that offer great insight and value for any SEO professional.

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Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Image credit: BrightEdge That’s according to new data released by enterprise SEO platform, BrightEdge, and its new experimental tool, BrightEdge Generative Parser. The company shared new data on the most popular Google SGE content formats, warnings being shown in YMYL queries and ways Google is experimenting with product views.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

OpenAI has been developing a web search product, partly powered by Microsoft Bing, a source told The Information. ChatGPT Plus users can also use Browse with Bing to search the web. Microsoft Bing is uses OpenAI’s GPT-4 , customized for search. Could OpenAI challenge Google Search? Why we care. Why we care.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Google’s Mobile Moves Tighten Its Grip On Local 2011: Google was starting to leverage its massive local infrastructure across products. Google Rolls Out Shopper App For iPhone 2011: Shopper allowed users to search for products by voice, with the camera, via barcode scan or by text entry. Honeycomb Puts Android 3.0

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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. . Google is a governmental body, and they work to improve market outcomes through the application of policies (algorithm updates). . As search marketers, we must assume that users on the internet are also rational. .

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 13, 2023

We love this product and team; on strategy and profitable.” ” Google Search Suggestions For Mobile Get Locally Relevant. 2010: As the new Senior Vice President of the Yahoo Search Products team, Seth would manage Yahoo’s Search team and all things related to Yahoo Search. 2011: “Q.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 10, 2024

As we kick off 2024, it’s time to rethink our SEO strategy. Whether you’re aiming for minor tweaks or bigger changes, this checklist will help set your SEO program up for success in the next 12 months. Gain insight into potential strategic moves, new products, markets, audiences and pivots.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Link building has been considered one of the most important SEO strategies for a long time. The more links you could acquire, especially from authoritative sites, the better your search rankings were supposed to be. But SEO has evolved. Key insights: Digital PR for SEO is not link building but an alternative to link building.

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Search Engine Land

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. 2020: The user comments appeared in the search results for queries related to live TV shows.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 21, 2024

Every year brings a ton of change in digital marketing. In each of my 10 years in the industry, I’ve noticed that the beginning of the year can mark a surge in calls for SEO and PPC to work together. From Search Generative Experience (SGE) to Gemini (formerly Bard), the SERP results for both paid and organic are evolving almost daily.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

To effectively reach and engage customers, businesses must adopt a multichannel marketing approach, leveraging various online and offline channels based on customer preferences. However, to ensure a consistent brand experience across these channels, it’s crucial to integrate SEO into the multichannel customer journey.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

SEO has traditionally been viewed as an acquisition channel, focusing on ranking websites to generate more traffic and leads. However, the role of SEO can extend far beyond just acquisition. The role of SEO in user activation By definition, user activation is the moment when a user achieves value.

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The holiday season brings a surge of searches around gifts, events, recipes and more. Savvy marketers can capture this traffic spike with targeted SEO strategies. Things like gift guides are always popular, but if you are working on a website that isn’t product-based, there are still plenty of opportunities. See terms.

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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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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 27, 2023

SEO community mourns Hamlet Batista, advocate for automation in SEO and beloved friend 2021: Those who knew him, admired him, learned from him and loved him, were left reeling from the loss. Moz 2014 Industry Survey Results: Google Webmaster Tools Ranked Top SEO Tool 2014: 68.8% The product is not complete.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Moz upgrades its Domain Authority metric In 2019, SEO tool Moz announced an update to how they measured Domain Authority (DA). Basically, DA is a score, from 0-100, that “predicts how likely a website is to rank in search engine result pages.” And you will often see it in spammy SEO and link building emails.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 1, 2023

Google’s Mueller spent New Year’s helping SEOs tackle hacked content, slow website issues. 2019: John Mueller, a Google webmaster trends analyst, spent a portion of his New Year’s break responding to concerns and questions around Google search-related issues. 2019: 2019 in search: Find your seamlessness by Alexis Sanders.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The relationship between SEO and user experience (UX) is an important consideration in your digital strategy. On one hand, SEO is crucial for getting a website to gain visibility on search engines. On the other hand, neglecting user experience could undermine success even with good SEO.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 8, 2024

But what exactly defines a “quality” SEO service? This checklist outlines key elements to assess and improve the quality of your SEO services. How to deliver quality services to your SEO clients from day one There’s no one way to define quality. Learn to explain complex SEO concepts in simple words.

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

When implementing an SEO strategy, a document roadmap is crucial for several reasons: It serves as your daily guide. It represents what non-SEO professionals perceive as SEO – a practical checklist of tasks. A solid, well-researched strategy is best complemented with an SEO roadmap in Google Sheets or a tool like Jira or Asana.

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

A new website should be an opportunity to improve SEO, conversion rates and digital marketing as a whole. Unfortunately, it can also be an SEO disaster if not carefully managed. This article outlines the main areas you must consider when redesigning a website to ensure you retain (and improve) your SEO.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 6, 2024

One partnership that commonly gets overlooked is between SEO and social media teams – both organic and paid – and how they can collaborate to maximize output, performance, ROI and, most importantly, customer connections. Here are 13 ways SEO and social media teams can work together to produce enhanced results: 1.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 4, 2023

Best Buy to sell search ads under its own in-house media company. 2022: Best Buy Ads started offering paid search ads and sponsored product listings on Best Buy’s website, among other ad offerings. 2018: Search marketers weighed in on their experiences since the change took effect. Many had experienced no issues.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 10, 2023

” Video: Detlef Johnson on SEO for developers 2020: The long-time developer and SEO was working to bring the disciplines together. Google explains how dates within search results snippets work 2019: Google also offered a few best practices for helping it find the right date for that snippet.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 9, 2023

Twitter Shops lets brands showcase 50 products 2022: It was only available to select merchants in the U.S. Google PLAs: Testing scrollable carousel on desktop & numbered rankings for “best” products go live 2016: The desktop carousel test simulated mobile. Others should focus on building good products, too.”

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 4, 2024

However, when done at an enterprise scale, A/B testing poses unique challenges that can inadvertently undermine a site’s SEO performance. This article examines the nuanced relationship between A/B testing and SEO. The synergy of A/B testing and SEO A/B testing is the ultimate optimization tool.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 21, 2024

The decision to hire a new SEO agency brings high hopes for what might be achieved together. Whether it’s your first time or tenth, streamlining the ramp-up period when onboarding a new SEO agency will save you effort in the long run and lay the path to a productive partnership. In these early stages, optimism runs high.

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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. 2022: Shopify merchants could use the app to optimize their products and posts to show in organic, non-shopping results. businesses. by Patrick Stox.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Google Shopping Tops Amazon Product Ads: 32.7% More Cost Effective 2013: In the second half of 2012, Google Shopping sent 120% more traffic to merchants than Amazon Product Ads. SES London 2008 Day Two Recap Mobile Search Still A Close Race 2007: Google had about 4.75 million U.S. million more than Yahoo.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 15, 2023

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. Too Much SEO? Google to boost mobile-friendly algorithm this May 2016: Google said mobile-friendly sites would “not be impacted by this update.”

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 20, 2023

SEOs wanted to better understand what being part of Google’s core algorithm meant. Google updates product structured data for car review snippets 2022: Google added a note to the product structured data help documentation to explain how to specify car markup and still have Product review snippet feature eligibility.

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