How can you tell if your site is ready for Google’s mobile-first index? It’s a big update that Google’s currently testing and rolling out as we speak. In this post, I’ll go over Google’s new Speed Test tool which shows how your site stacks up compared to others in your industry for mobile, and gives you suggestions on […]
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In the last couple weeks, we’ve seen a legislative and legal shift in tides for both Google and Facebook in a number of their biggest markets, see the perspectives and forum member commentary below. Members also discuss a upward trend of bot traffic and new “muting” capability on twitter. July 12 “Battle for the Net”
This month, Third Door Media’s Michelle Robbins takes over as SVP of content and marketing technology, overseeing editorial direction as Editor in Chief of the three industry publications and aligning the content strategy with programming at Third Door Media’s event series, Search Marketing Expo and The MarTech Conference. Robbins succeeds Search Engine Land founder Danny
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This week’s ‘Skim: Snapchat adds key new business-friendly features in a bid to keep Instagram at bay, also makes On-Demand Geofilters easy; Facebook successfully completes drone test meant to bring Internet access to rural populations, and it launches new transparency metrics to increase brands’ trust; boosting traffic the right way with Instagram Story Ads; how
On this episode of the Dot Com Lifestyle Vlog, I give you an update on the renovations being done to my new home. The old floor tiles has been taken out and all the bathrooms have been demoed. It’s a big mess right now, but in a month it will look like a show home.
422737 / Pixabay Every website owner that is seriously invested in their online property and presence should be aware of the ranking factors Google uses for SEO. As of this writing, Google has updated their algorithm in ways that have caused major changes in ranking. In fact, many sites are still adjusting their strategies. As
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As part of their ongoing effort to reduce the reach and impact of fake and misleading content on their platform, Facebook has announced a new News Feed algorithm update which will limit the reach of content shared by profiles which regularly post a heap of links in quick succession. As explained by Facebook: “Our research
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This week’s biggest news was Google being fined 2.42bn euros by the European Commission after it ruled the company had abused its power by promoting its own shopping comparison service at the top of search results. Below we highlight the most indepth discussion of the news you’ll be able to find online. In other news,
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A day after the alleged major update, I thought it would make sense to highlight where we are at in the cycle. Yesterday Google suggested their fear messaging caused 4.7% of webmasters to move over to mobile friendly design since the update was originally announced a few months ago. The 4.7% of the websites Google
Limited mobile devices, “feature-phones“, require a special form of markup or a transcoder for web content. Most websites don’t provide feature-phone-compatible content in WAP/WML any more. Given these developments, we’ve made changes in how we crawl feature-phone content (note: these changes don’t affect smartphone content): 1. We’ve retired the feature-phone Googlebot We won’t be using
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