Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Dec 4, 2017 by Amy Gesenhues
This year’s Google Santa Tracker comes with coding games, an elf filter in the Android app and daily updates delivered via an Advent-styled calendar.
Dec 4, 2017 by Barry Schwartz
Googlebot will render the #! URL directly, making it unnecessary for the website owner to provide a rendered version of the page.
Dec 4, 2017 by Greg Gifford
SEO reports are often really useful… for SEO professionals. Columnist Greg Gifford asserts that if you want to truly prove the value of your services to your clients, you have to tie your reports directly to their bottom line.
Dec 4, 2017 by Wesley Young
From location data to SEO, columnist Wesley Young of the Local Search Association provides his top 10 list of local search lessons learned in 2017.
Dec 4, 2017 by Amy Gesenhues
The Google doodle team partnered with the Google Blockly team and MIT researchers to create “Coding with Carrots,” its first-ever coding-game doodle.
Dec 4, 2017 by Barry Schwartz
Check out this new feature Google is testing in the knowledge cards. It looks like a timeline of notable events.
Dec 4, 2017 by Sponsored Content: [24]7.ai
In today’s world, digital media is so pervasive that it’s no longer considered unique; it’s a way of life. Virtually everyone has a smartphone, and most individuals and households have multiple smart devices, including tablets, phones and computers. This prevalence, coupled with the rise of Big Data, digital marketing tools and social media, has given […]
Dec 1, 2017 by Michelle Robbins
New feature to highlight the search marketing community launches today with this week’s group of SEOs honored by their colleagues at Search Engine Roundtable.
Dec 1, 2017 by Ginny Marvin
A new API, more countries and knowledge panel visibility give brands more incentive to use Google’s product data management tool.
Dec 4, 2017 by Digital Marketing Depot
Email marketing is an oldie but goodie, and it just keeps getting better with marketing automation. Agencies love email marketing, since it performs well at a low cost. SharpSpring gathered insights from 130 agencies to find out: how agencies evaluate platforms. what an agency’s objectives are when implementing a platform. ways agencies use marketing automation […]