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Digital travel and SEO: how Skyscanner dominates the SERPs

June 7, 2016 1:13 pm The digital journey market has grown quickly during the last decade. Sales in Western Europe totalled $152 billion in 2015, with the worldwide determine greater than $533 billion. Taken from PI Datametric Digital Travel Report, listed here are some stats on digital journey and search engine optimization, as nicely a take a look at the natural search dominance of Skyscanner on this market. What do in

Five of the most interesting search marketing news stories of the week

June 3, 2016 7:05 pm It’s Friday, and time for our weekly spherical-up of the week’s information in search marketing.  Today we now have the costliest AdWords key phrases, a brand new website testing software from Google, and a take a look at whether or not Google elements in anchor textual content in inner hyperlinks. Google’s subsequent cellular replace will think about web page velocity Mobile web pa

What does Meeker’s Internet Trends report tell us about voice search?

June 3, 2016 7:05 pm This week noticed the publication of Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends report, packed full of knowledge and insights into the event of the web and digital know-how throughout the globe. Particularly of curiosity to us right here at Search Engine Watch is a 21-web page part on the evolution of voice and pure language as a computing interface, titled ‘Re-Imagining Voice = A New Paradigm in Human-C

Google launches tool to test your site’s mobile friendliness and speed

June 3, 2016 1:00 pm Announced on the Google Small Business weblog yesterday: a brand new software to check how your website works throughout totally different units.  It appears to be a mixture of the cellular pleasant and web page velocity instruments, although it's helpful to have these exams in a single place. According to Google: On common, individuals verify their telephones greater than one hundred fifty occasions

Six lessons advertisers can learn from local SEO

June 2, 2016 6:42 pm Last month, ClickZ Intelligence revealed its report into ‘The State of Mobile Advertising’, in partnership with Search Optics. Among the report’s findings was the revelation that cellular advertisers are lacking out on hyperlocal alternatives in an enormous method. As our Editor in Chief Graham Charlton noticed within the article linked, “With the close to ubiquity of smartphones, and their ris

Hybrid SEO: bright futures for personal & professional career progression

June 2, 2016 2:59 pm search engine optimization is a difficult and rewarding profession for individuals from various several types of backgrounds. It requires a level of consolation with numbers, as search engine marketing professionals ought to have the ability to take a look at the info coming in and perceive the way to make changes to enhance the success of their marketing campaign. SEOs also needs to perceive methods

Google, for ‘Mobile-first,’ Changes AdWords

June 2, 2016 1:29 pm At its current 2016 Performance Summit, Google’s senior vice chairman of advertisements and commerce, Sridhar Ramaswamy, said, within the keynote handle, “the shift to cellular isn't one thing that's occurring. It has occurred.” He stated that Google has a “entire new imaginative and prescient for AdWords and Analytics” for what's now a “cellular-first world.̶

Google’s next mobile-friendly update will include page speed

June 1, 2016 5:07 pm The velocity of cellular pages isn’t presently used as a rating issue by Google, however that may change with the subsequent cellular pleasant replace.  At the Search Marketing Summit in Sydney right now, and reported by Jennifer Slegg, Google Webmaster Trends Analyst Gary Illyes confirmed that web page velocity can be an element within the subsequent cellular replace. Illyes wouldn’t be p

Does Google look at anchor text in internal links?

May 31, 2016 6:05 pm Internal linking is a key search engine marketing tactic, one which permits web sites to ship clear alerts to Google on the relative significance of varied pages. It additionally works from a consumer expertise perspective, serving to guests discover pages which are related or probably helpful to them. It’s one thing I place nice significance on as an editor, because it’s one a part of sea