
Voice search and SEO: Why B2B marketers need to pay attention now
Voice search is commonly discussed in the context of local and B2C SEO, but it’s being used for more than just getting directions to...

Google’s job listings search is now open to all job search sites & developers
It’s now official: Job listings are coming to Google’s search results in a much more prominent way. And the company is now offering a...

4 reasons your PPC programs can fail
None of us set out to have our PPC programs fail. But sometimes they do, despite our best intentions. Why do these programs fail? There...

LiveRamp adds people-based search targeting to IdentityLink
Let’s say you’re a Honda auto dealer in Boston, and you want to target some of your previous and current customers with a new sale of...

New Quality Score metrics: What matters most, and how to improve your ads
As you are no doubt aware, Google recently added additional reporting and transparency to the Quality Score (QS) metric that’s...

YouTube location extensions, in-store sales measurement now available
Alexey Boldin / Shutterstock.com This morning, at Google Marketing Next in San Francisco, the company is making a number of ads and...

The anatomy of ad copy relevance: The new Google standard
Recently, enterprise-focused Google representatives have been encouraging a metric called “Relevance,” which is believed to be one of the...

Google’s rocky road: Fake news, extremist videos & bad search results [Podcast]
Google is having a rough year. Extremist and hyperpartisan videos have made the term “brand safety” mainstream, as major advertisers...

Google’s ‘Project Owl’ — a three-pronged attack on fake news & problema
Google knows it has a search quality problem. It’s been plagued since November with concerns about fake news, disturbing answers and...

Local search update: ‘Best’ filter invading the local pack
Google seems to be making moves to use the quality of small businesses — as determined by user ratings and reviews — as a ranking factor....

Watch this retail space: 2017 retail prediction
Google has dominated consumer search for nearly 20 years. While this dominance continues today, there is one area of search where it is...

SMX West: Solving SEO Issues in Google’s Post-Update World
How do we deal with huge and sudden changes in organic search traffic now that Google no longer posts major updates to its algorithms?...

A deep look at Google’s biggest-ever search quality crisis
The past few months have been bad for Google’s search reputation. Long considered the “gold standard” in search, Google has seen its...

Google site search is on the way out. Now what?
GongTo / Shutterstock.com Spring has sprung, and Google has started off the season with some spring cleaning of its service lineup....

Google Posts now gives museums, movies, musicians & sports groups dedicated space in search
Museums, musicians, movies, sports teams and sports leagues are now being given a special area for their content to appear in Google’s...

Google launches new effort to flag upsetting or offensive content in search
Google is undertaking a new effort to better identify content that is potentially upsetting or offensive to searchers. It hopes this...

Google’s “One True Answer” problem — when featured snippets go bad
Here we are again. Google’s in hot water because of what I call its “One True Answer” feature, where it especially highlights one search...

Links to AMP content are showing up outside of search results
The Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) standard was designed to bring the fast-loading, clean experience of native apps to the open web. With...

Has machine learning created a new model for SEO ranking?
The way Google ranks pages in its search results today is much different from the way it ranked them two years ago. Why? In early 2015,...
























