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Initially launching in India and other regions where Google had content gaps, Google is now testing this in the US. Back in 2018, Google began testing a way for searchers to submit questions to Google manually. It launched in Google India in 2019 as Question Hub, a way for...

To get the most out of your content writers, you need to set them on the right track from the start. How to develop guidelines and reduce the required editing time. “How do I find good writers?” “My writers are inconsistent.” “How do I know if a writer ‘gets’ SEO?” As someo...

Every advertiser measures success based on key performance indicators (KPIs) that they deem relevant. Columnist Andy Taylor asks, What do your chosen KPIs say about your priorities? There are plenty of options for particular metrics to drive paid search programs toward, but not...

Bing Ads analyzed where people click when a brand ad shows and doesn’t on brand search results pages. Bing ads has released more research on the much-debated topic of whether advertisers should bid on their brand terms in paid search. Following up on a study published last...

6 events, actionable tactics, affordable for all marketers December 21, 2020 (Edgartown, MA): Search Marketing Expo – SMX – the world’s largest search engine marketing conference series, announced it’s 2021 North American schedule, which features six topic-specific events. All...

Elon Musk has revealed that he tried to set up a meeting with Tim Cook to sell Tesla to Apple during the Tesla 3’s “darkest days.” Apple has been making headlines with its Project Titan, its effort to disrupt the automotive industry. Project Titan has alternately been described...

How Google treats company navigational brand searches and the impact they can have on consumer perceptions. This deep dive started with a thread a few weeks ago about Google’s selection of People Also Ask (PAA) results and the potential impact it has on brands. In this article, I...

As Google+ goes into its second week of life, how’s the service doing? I could quote some numbers. I will, below! But I wanted to do a personal take contrasting it against another social site that I find essential. Not Facebook. Twitter. Me & Facebook Yes, I have a personal...

Although a relatively undocumented spam method, you should report it to Google and then disavow the links through webmaster support tools. You know what Google Alerts are, right? Well, there are some spammy results showing up in Google Alerts and people are starting to think it...

Columnist Christi Olson outlines exciting developments that bring image search and shopping together to enhance the search experience for users. A little over a year ago, I published an article on the importance of data feeds as influencers of future search: Structured data feeds...