The company launched a user survey to gather feedback on dehumanizing language, but will it help deliver a safer platform for marketers? Twitter has launched a user survey asking for feedback on its policies defining dehumanizing language before it makes Read More
Page speed has been a ranking factor for desktop searches since April 2010, but it was never officially a ranking factor for mobile searches (despite what we’ve all suspected for a long time). Not until July 2018, that is, when Read More
You shouldn’t panic if you see weirdness in the Google Cache. Still, it’s worth investigating in case an odd display is a sign of a bigger problem. I regularly browse the SEO communities on Google Webmaster Forum, Reddit and Twitter, Read More
Greg Jarboe reports Yahoo has added images and videos to the top of some of the Yahoo News search results. For example a search on apple options returns both image news results and video news results at the top of Read More
Virtual assistants and chatbots are opening up a whole new world for marketers, and voice search is just the beginning. Within the search marketing space, there has been a lot of talk about voice search. Many are projecting voice search Read More
How does using social media benefit your efforts with SEO? Back in 2008, Search Engine Watch published the article ‘Social Media and SEO – Friends with Benefits‘, and I’d highly recommend reading it back now for a stark reminder of Read More
The past month or so has been filled with controversy not from outside of the SEM industry, but rather within. SEMPO has been the talk of the forums. You can see from my first entry on the SEMPO scandal, and Read More
Spark AR, the newly rebranded Facebook Camera Effects Platform, is now accepting applications from developers to be part of the closed beta program. Facebook just renamed its Camera Effects Platform as Spark AR and announced it is expanding the platform Read More
Can’t access your Google Search Console properties? Do not worry, you are not alone. Google Search Console, which is normally accessible at https://search.google.com/search-console is currently not loading. The page returns a 503 server error. This is currently a widespread error. Read More
Just like Google did back in July, Bing announced they have dropped their public submission tool. A way to submit any URL to the Bing index anonymously has been removed. It doesn’t come with any surprise, I suspect. As I Read More
