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Google's former head of web spam Matt Cutts will not be returning to the company this year from the sound of it. He reportedly said on an internet talk show that Google has extende...

Instagram Just Made Some Big Content Discovery Improvements

Instagram just announced two major improvements in an area where it's been severely lacking for its entire existence - discovery. There's a new Explore page with trending tags and...

Bing Sheds Light On Yahoo Click Volume

Last month, Microsoft and Yahoo announced some changes to their ongoing search and ad...

Vine Gets Search Improvements

Twitter seems to be much more interested in giving its users a better search experience these days. It recently launched...

Google Penalizes Site It Invests In

Google has penalized a company that it backs financially in search results, by taking manual action on it for apparently violating its guidelines. Last year, Google launched Go...

Chrome For Android Now Lets You Get Quick Answers

Google announced the launch of a handy new search feature for Chrome for Android, which enables users to perform quick searches from webpages to learn more about the thing's they'r...

Flashlight For Pinterest Will Be An Awesome Search Feature If It Launches

Noted Pinterest marketer Vincent Ng (whom we recently spoke with...

Google Celebrates World Oceans Day With Gorgeous Street View Imagery

Google has managed to capture some truly amazing imagery for Street View over the years, and when I stop and think about how Street View didn't even exist not all that long ago, it...

Google Update Bumped Down Half Of Pages It Threatened To

Google released an algorithm update on April 21 that began taking the mobile-friendliness of a site into account when ranking that site in search results. It’s still just one of ma...

Google Updates Webmasters On Panda and Penguin

At the SMX Advanced conference on Tuesday, Google's Gary Illyes made some comments about what webmasters will be able to expect from Google with regards to its Panda and Penguin up...

New Google Feature Means Businesses Need Apps For Search Marketing

The world of search engine marketing is ever-changing, and it's no secret that mobile continues to take over the desktop. Google has a new feature, even beyond a related ranking si...

Poll: Only 11% Noticed Traffic Changes From Google Update

Another survey has been conducted regarding Google's recent mobile-friendly update, which prior to release, had often been billed as "Mobilegeddon". After its release it quickly be...

Google Talks App Indexing, AdWords & Analytics At Google I/O

Google has been experimenting with app indexing for quite a while, but in recent months it has really cranked up the significance of it. Last week, it took that to even greater hei...

Study: 45% of Businesses Saw Ranking Changes From Mobile-Friendly Update

So was Google's mobile-friendly algorithm update ("Mobilegeddon") overhyped or not? Well, perhaps yes and no. While the initial consensus after the update's launch was that changes...

Mobile Apps Mean More For Search Visibility

If your business doesn't have a mobile app yet, it might be time to change that...for SEO purposes. Now it's an even better idea to have an app available for both Android and iOS u...

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