Google Goes After The App Interstitial: Protecting Consumers Or Its Own Search Monopoly?

Google recently published a case study suggesting that app download interstitials on mobile are ineffective, leading to high page abandonment rates. But Jeremy Stoppelman of Yelp believes that there might be something more at play. The post Google Goes After The App Interstitial: Protecting…

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SMB Mobile Websites Saw 11 Percent Page View Gain After Mobile Friendly Update

There has been discussion and debate about whether and how much websites were impacted by Google’s Mobile-Friendly algorithm update. I wrote last week about a study that argued non-mobile-friendly sites were disappearing from the top positions in mobile search results. Now comes a study of small…

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Google Panda 4.2 Is Here; Slowly Rolling Out After Waiting Almost 10 Months

Google says a Panda refresh began this weekend, but will take months to fully roll out. The post Google Panda 4.2 Is Here; Slowly Rolling Out After Waiting Almost 10 Months appeared first on Search Engine Land.

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Google Changes Car Insurance Links After SEOs Complain

Google quickly changes their keyword rich anchor text in a recent blog post to avoid controversy in the SEO industry around link spam and link schemes. Will this lead to Google penalizing themselves again? The post Google Changes Car Insurance Links After SEOs Complain appeared first on Search…

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58% Of Local Marketers Will Change Tactics After Pigeon Update

Columnist Myles Anderson shares the results of an InsideLocal survey detailing the impact of Google’s recent local algorithm update, Pigeon. The post 58% Of Local Marketers Will Change Tactics After Pigeon Update appeared first on Search Engine Land.

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SearchCap: Bing Talks Search Share, Matt Cutts On Future With Google & Major Drop In Traffic After Loss Of Snippets

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing: It’s Unlikely That We’ll Take Search Share Away From Google Microsoft’s Director of Search admitted this week that Bing isn’t likely to put a significant…

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After More Than Two Years, Google Finally Releasing New “Pirate Update” To Fight Piracy

In August 2012, to stem accusations that it doesn’t do enough to fight piracy, Google released what’s known as the Pirate Update, a system that penalized sites deemed to be violating copyright laws. Next week, Google is finally going to refresh that system to catch new offenders and…

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After 5 Years In Dispute, Greece Approves Google Maps Street View Images

ABC.com reported yesterday that Google Maps has launched street view images in Greece. According to the story, Greece authorities blocked Google Maps Street Views five years ago because of privacy issues. According to ABC.com: Company officials said the service went live after extensive and…

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