SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 26, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: 5 Trusted Accounts Every Local SEO Should Have As local...
View ArticleRich Snippets: The Now-You-See-Them-Now-You-Don’t Phenomenon by @rbenci
At recent search engine marketing conferences in Chicago and New York (#SESCHI #SMXEast), Google’s Hummingbird announcement was the hot topic, generating endless buzz from industry experts and...
View Article10 Years Covering The Search Industry
Ten years ago today was my first post on the Search Engine Roundtable and I have not stopped since. I’ve been writing about search, SEO, Google, Bing, Yahoo and search engines that have come and gone...
View ArticleThe Test Begins: Do Google Shopping & Other Shopping Search Engines Give You...
It sounds pretty damning. Two recent surveys suggest that Google Shopping isn’t leading searchers to the best prices on products. But the surveys weren’t well documented, nor did they include...
View ArticleGoogle Is Testing Embedded Images In Search Results Snippets by @mattsouthern
SEJ reader Samuel Edwards, from Tenthwave Digital, gave us a heads up about something he recently spotted while doing a Google search. Google appears to be testing embedded images in the snippets of...
View ArticleDid Google Just Drop the Shoe on Authorship Spam?
If you’ve been following the news, you know that last October Matt Cutts announced at Pubcon to expect a 15% reduction in the amount of rich snippets and authorship results. The anticipated move was...
View ArticleConfirmed: Google Reduces Authorship Rich Snippets In Search Results
The head of search spam at Google, Matt Cutts, has confirmed with us that Google has applied a 15% reduction in the amount of rich snippets displayed in the search results. Matt Cutts announced at...
View ArticleSearchCap: The Day In Search, December 19, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google’s Latest Transparency Report Shows Rise In Content...
View ArticleGoogle Has Reduced Authorship Rich Snippets By 15 Percent by @mattsouthern
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, stated months ago Google Authorship rich snippets would soon see a 15 percent reduction. We reported on this back in October while covering Matt’s keynote at...
View ArticleMission ImposSERPble 2: User Intent and Click Through Rates
It’s been quite a while since I first read (and bookmarked) Slingshot SEO’s YouMoz blog post, Mission ImposSERPble: Establishing Click-through Rates, which showcased their study examining organic...
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