Fahad HOct 14, 20162 min readWith holiday 2016 approaching, retailers need a mobile wallet strategy ASAPMost retailers are gearing up for holiday sales, and that means many will be seeking to drive mobile app downloads. Most of them will...
Fahad HOct 12, 20161 min readAfter 4 months & 125M+ pages indexed, where are we with AMP?From left to right: Googler Adam Greenberg, Condé Nast’s John Shehata, Vox Media’s Elite Truong, and Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan....
Fahad HOct 11, 20161 min readWill the end of Samsung’s Galaxy Note boost sales of Google’s Pixel?In what appears to be an unprecedented move in the industry, Samsung has halted production of its troubled Galaxy Note 7. The device was...
Fahad HOct 6, 20162 min readReport: on average day, nearly 40 percent of searchers use only smartphonesouh_desire / Shutterstock.com Google released new “cross device” research that provides more evidence of what we already know: a...
Fahad HOct 5, 20161 min readGoogle and Progressive Web Apps: the mobile experience and SEOKashin / Shutterstock.com As mobile usage increases and companies develop mobile-friendly sites to ensure the optimal user experience,...
Fahad HOct 5, 20167 min readWhat you need to know about the state of mobile advertising10 Mobile Statistics Marketers Will Love,” I called out the explosive growth of mobile usage. Of particular note is the fact that there...
Fahad HOct 4, 20161 min readHow mobile has changed the way we search, based on 10+ years of eye-tracking studiesChris Pinkerton, the vice president of business development at Mediative, has been tracking the ways viewers look at the Google search...
Fahad HOct 4, 20161 min readGoogle opens the AMP fire hoseGoogle’s expansion of Accelerated Mobile Pages across mobile search results is underway, gradually turning the trickle of AMP traffic to...
Fahad HOct 4, 20161 min readGoogle debuts new Pixel phone, Google Home & Google AssistantGoogle unveiled its new Google Pixel phone today and began taking orders for its previously announced Google Home hands-free home...
Fahad HOct 3, 20161 min readWith Google Home looming, Amazon launches 100+ spots in new Alexa ad campaignAmazon is making a push to sell more of its Alexa-enabled devices with “Alexa Moments,” a new ad campaign that launched today and will...
Fahad HSep 23, 20162 min readReport: Apple may be six months from launching an Echo-like Siri assistantA second report, from Bloomberg, says that Apple is developing an Amazon Echo-like stand alone virtual assistant based on Siri. That...
Fahad HSep 22, 20163 min readIs mobile SEO obsolete?first started writing for Search Engine Land, President Barack Obama was just starting his first term in office, Lady Gaga was showing...
Fahad HSep 22, 20161 min readAccelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) burst into Google search resultsGoogle told us in August that Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) would be entering the main mobile search results. That happened earlier this...
Fahad HSep 21, 20163 min readAllo: Google again moves deck chairs on its sinking Titanic in the messaging warsHey! Google has a new messaging app out today called Allo. Pity I can’t send you a text message about it. Allo can’t handle that, not...
Fahad HSep 21, 20162 min readAllo: chat with a big helping of Google searchDuring the Google I/O developer event earlier this summer, the company announced its “smart messaging app,” Allo. At the time it sounded...
Fahad HSep 19, 20162 min readGoogle Trips: Google’s first potentially breakthrough travel toolGoogle bought travel software company ITA in 2010 promising to bring travel searchers next-generation travel tools and experiences. Then...
Fahad HSep 17, 20162 min readCan the app-retention crisis be addressed with personalized notifications?A new comScore mobile report reflects that almost 60 percent of digital media time is now spent in apps (tablet, smartphone). That makes...
Fahad HSep 14, 20162 min readGoogle updates Universal App Campaign targeting, touts 3 billion app installs from adsKashin / Shutterstock.com A sort of V2 of Google’s Universal App Campaigns — one campaign that can reach users across the Google...
Fahad HSep 9, 20164 min readGoogle’s AMP Viewer: the Tinder UX for content?Users swipe through content from multiple publishers in Google’s Top Stories AMP viewer. By now most publishers should be aware of...
Fahad HSep 7, 20162 min readApple introduces jackless iPhone 7 with improved camera, and waterproof WatchPeople are focused on the fact that there’s no headphone jack on the new iPhone. But while that’s grabbing attention, Apple introduced a...
