Learn where SMBs want agencies to step in and help – and why they’re willing to pay agencies more. There’s never been a better time to be an agency. After a rocky 18 months, 80% of small-to-midsize businesses (SMBs) say they’ve recovered from the impacts of COVID-19 – and nearly half (43%) say they plan […]
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The big news in search this week was the announcement of Facebook’s Graph Search. But today, Microsoft is making enhancements to its own “social search” capability. Specifically, Bing is adding more content to its Social Sidebar feature. In a way, this is a reintroduction of Social Sidebar following the news of Facebook’s Graph Search. People […]
Plus, Instagram tests ‘Map Search’ and last-minute holiday shopping SEO tips. Search Engine Land’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s search marketer. If you would like to read this before the rest of the internet does, sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox daily. Good morning, […]
I had a nice interview with Twitter cofounder Biz Stone today on a wide-range of issues. Some I did on video, and I’ll post everything tomorrow when I finish some trimming and editing. But I couldn’t resist putting out this clip now where he advises everyone that in case of an earthquake, seek cover first, […]
New York is joining California in plans to ban the sale of new gasoline vehicles by 2035. As countries and jurisdictions around the world race to combat climate change, vehicle emissions are one of the biggest targets. Electric and hybrid vehicles are already popular alternatives to fossil fuel-powered vehicles, and advances in battery technology are […]
Bing Maps has announced a series of updates to its high-resolution imagery, including expanded coverage, better mapping of ocean floors, cloud filtering and more. The prime features that Bing is touting involve what it calls “top of the world” imagery — those hi-res, top-down images. Improvements there include: Cloud cover filtering: Bing processes its base […]
And, on February 1, 2022, Google Ads will be removing historical query data (collected before September 1, 2020) that no longer meets its privacy thresholds. Beginning today, Google Ads will show advertisers historical data for queries that received impressions but no clicks in the search terms report for Search and Dynamic Search Ads campaigns, the […]
WhatsApp has added a major new feature, making it possible to encrypt chat backups with end-to-end encryption. WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging platforms. While the app has offered end-to-end encryption for years, if a user chose to backup their chats via iCloud or Google Drive, those backups did not have the same […]
Let’s bring developers into the search engine optimization conversation and community so sites are built for efficient indexing from the get-go. Computer programming is making enormous innovative leaps on the web, evolving from crusty old-school AJAX, to jQuery, to reactive views that synchronize app states with single language frameworks. React and Vue are highly optimized for comparing pages loaded […]
Plus, PPC targeting tactics for every stage of the funnel Search Engine Land’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s search marketer. If you would like to read this before the rest of the internet does, sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox daily. Good morning, Marketers, […]