Gary Illyes posted on Google+ today that he is looking for companies, agencies and webmasters who would be willing to meet with him to talk about how people are managing site’s content and infrastructure. The only downside is that you need to be located in Sydney or Singapore and be available during May. This is […]
Bing Ads Testing Huge 11 Line Ad Units in Bing Search with 7 Annotations
I noticed a huge ad unit appearing in the Bing Search Results today where the Bing Ads advertiser managed to lock out an astounding 11 lines at the top of the search results. The ad appearing for Williams-Sonoma caught my eye because of how many ad annotations (extensions) it had appearing at the same time […]
Google Testing In-Depth Articles Without Header
Google is testing displaying in-depth articles within the search results without showing any header above them. Dr. Pete Meyers from Moz first noticed the change in their Mozcast data, but was unable to replicate the test. However, it is actually a test that is live, as I am seeing it in my search results. Here […]
Google News Will Not Use New Mobile Ranking Signal… Yet
With Google’s new mobile ranking signal coming into effect on April 21st, many people questioned whether Google News rankings would be affected with this new ranking signal, or if it would continue serving up the best news source, regardless of whether it is mobile friendly or not. If you are in Google News but are […]
Facebook Begins Continuous Video Autoplay Testing
If you weren’t happy about Facebook making the change to autoplay videos, you really won’t like this new change. They are testing a new change where the next video in a suggested playlist will automatically start playing if a user doesn’t select the next video to watch. Facebook confirmed to Re/code that it is part […]
Facebook Launches Video Embedding on Third Party Sites
Facebook has finally given users the ability to embed their Facebook videos on third party sites, a major feature they were missing that saw them lagging behind industry leader YouTube. YouTube makes it easy for users to embed YouTube videos on any website, meaning it is easy for people to embed most videos on a […]
Google’s New Mobile Ranking Signal Will Take a Week to Roll Out
With Google’s new mobile ranking signal set to roll out in less than a month, there are plenty of questions surrounding just how long the roll out will be. SEOs are accustom to seeing updated algorithms roll out over several days – or even weeks – particularly large scale ones. But with the mobile ranking […]
Bing’s Change to One Page of Search Results for Long Tail Queries Could Hurt Bing Ads Traffic
Bing has changed how they serve search results for some long tail keyword searches, by simply displaying a single page of search results only, without being able to easily view results beyond the first page. Often, for super long tail queries, the search results do tend to get sketchy when you are a couple of […]
Google’s Mobile Ranking Signal Does Not Affect Desktop Searches
There has been a lot of confusion – and some conspiracy theories – about whether the new mobile ranking signal would have any impact or bearing on desktop search results. Google has reiterated what they have said previously – Google’s upcoming mobile ranking signal, which comes into play on April 21st, will not have any […]
Twitter Bringing Foursquare Location Tagging to Tweets
Better geo-tagging of tweets is coming soon with a partnership between Foursquare and Twitter. Since Foursquare split the check-in functionality of their app to a second app Swarm, Facebook has become a more popular avenue for social media users to check in to locations on mobile devices. And while Twitter had been rumored to be […]