Google Mobile’s Flash Warnings Now Rolling Out To More Languages
In July, Google began labeling the mobile search results that had results from Flash enabled sites with mobile warnings. The warning cautioned mobile users from clicking to the site, by showing a notice that reads “Uses Flash. May not work on your device. Try anyway | Learn more.”…
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When Big Brands Fail With Local SEO
Large, multi-location are poised for local search success, yet it often eludes them. Contributor Jared Del Prete provides some solutions to common roadblocks.
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Google Webmaster Tools Adds Mobile Usability Errors
This should come to you as no surprise… Google has added a new Google Webmaster Tools report for showing webmasters mobile usability issues that they pick up…
Google News Publisher Center Rolls Out In More Countries
In August, Google announced a new feature for Google News Publishers named Google News Publisher Center. Initially, it was only available for US English publishers…
Bing Supports Emoji Search But So Does Yahoo & DuckDuckGo
Bing announced they support searching using Emoji characters, which is incredibly useful (sarcasm) but very cool. It reminds me when SEOs were using Emoji characters to try to boost CTR in the mobile search results…
HTTPS Sites Now Work With Google Trusted Store Badge
A week ago, we reported that HTTPS sites can’t work with the Google Trusted Store program because the badge is not HTTPS enabled.
Well…
Google Issues Global Warning Of Flash Sites In Mobile Results
In July, Google began showing flash warnings to mobile users in the US English search results. That was supposedly expanded globally earlier this month, when Google’s Pierre Far announced this on his personal Google+ page…
Mobile Usability Reports Come To Google Webmaster Tools
Google announced a new feature available in Google Webmaster Tools this morning for tracking your mobile usability issues. The new report is named the Mobile Usability report and it is available at google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-usability within Go…
How to Get Tons of Great Data From Google AdWords Instantly
The Home screen is an under-utilized element of your AdWords account. Here’s how to reorganize in order to get to your data efficiently.
Tracking mobile usability in Webmaster Tools
Webmaster Level: intermediate
Mobile is growing at a fantastic pace – in usage, not just in screen size. To keep you informed of issues mobile users might be seeing across your website, we’ve added the Mobile Usability feature to Webmaster Tools.
The new feature shows mobile usability issues we’ve identified across your website, complete with graphs over time so that you see the progress that you’ve made.
A mobile-friendly site is one that you can easily read & use on a smartphone, by only having to scroll up or down. Swiping left/right to search for content, zooming to read text and use UI elements, or not being able to see the content at all make a site harder to use for users on mobile phones. To help, the Mobile Usability reports show the following issues: Flash content, missing viewport (a critical meta-tag for mobile pages), tiny fonts, fixed-width viewports, content not sized to viewport, and clickable links/buttons too close to each other.
We strongly recommend you take a look at these issues in Webmaster Tools, and think about how they might be resolved; sometimes it’s just a matter of tweaking your site’s template! More information on how to make a great mobile-friendly website can be found in our Web Fundamentals website (with more information to come soon).
If you have any questions, feel free to join us in our webmaster help forums (on your phone too)!
Posted by John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst, Zurich
Interview with Lisa Williams: Read. A lot.
State of Digtal spoke to Lisa Williams, Digital marketing strategist, speaker and author about digital education.
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Interview with Lisa Williams: Read. A lot.
It’s Time to Treat Content as Part of the User Experience
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Forget content marketing, SEO content, and whatever else as you know them. We need to fundamentally change our approach to content.
It’s not an add-on or a separate thing. It’s an inseparable part of the user experience. Let’s act…
SearchCap: Remove The Sitelinks Search Box, Renaming Google AdWords Columns & Google Analytics Treemaps
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Using The New Treemaps Report In Google Analytics To Find AdWords Nirvana Google Analytics’ new Treemaps report allows for lightning-fast analysis….
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TODAY >> Bill Hartzer is on Reddit AMA (Ask me anything)
Have questions about SEO or domainers? Ask Bill on Reddit at http://www.reddit.com/r/bigseo/comments/2kkljp/im_bill_hartzer_seo_strategist_domainer_ama/
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Win a Trip for 2 to SMX Social in Las Vegas
Test your social marketing IQ- Take the SMX Biggest Social Geek quiz. Answer the most questions correctly in the shortest amount of time and you could win a trip for 2 to SMX Social in Las Vegas plus your choice of an iPad Mini, PlayStation 4, or Xbox One. At SMX Social, you’ll learn proven…
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Page One Power, the world’s finest link building firm, is offering you 5 FREE HOURS per unit of link building service when you either begin a new campaign or add to your existing service package. Our highly-educated, in-house writers, researchers and outreach specialists are the best in the…
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Google expands Knowledge Graph to include video games
Google has expanded its Knowledge Graph to include video games.
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seoClarity: In Mobile World, Search Result Placement Is Critical to Clicks
Search engine optimization – and where a website appears in search results – can have a significant impact on click-through rate (CTR), especially for mobile search.
Bing Allows Consumers to Use Emojis as Search Term
To allow users to search the same way they communicate, Bing upgraded its search engine to recognize emojis.
Yext – List your email everywhere
We recently embarked on a clean up campaign across the internet for a client that had serious NAP issues. We used a corporate email address that forwarded to me. Somewhere along that line whether by hook or by crook or an errant check box, Yext picked up our email address. And started spamming me. 7 days, 5 emails […]