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Google’s latest search update gives art lovers a deeper dive into the masterpieces

Google's Search team worked with its Arts and Culture team to improve art-related searches and create a new Street View feature for art museums. The post Google’s latest search update gives art lovers a deeper dive into the masterpieces appeared first on Search Engine Land . from Channel: SEO – Search Engine Land http://selnd.com/2qBu8rF via SEO In Mumbai

How to use SEO to influence B2B buyers at every stage of the buyer’s journey

Columnist Nate Dame notes that these days, B2B purchasers are performing as much as 90% of the buyer's journey on their own. Are they consistently finding your brand along their journeys? The post How to use SEO to influence B2B buyers at every stage of the buyer’s journey appeared first on Search Engine Land . from Channel: SEO – Search Engine Land http://selnd.com/2qAxPxM via SEO In Mumbai

The battleground of entities & reviews

How might Google utilize reviews to improve their understanding of entities -- and produce more personalized search results? Columnist Dave Davies explores current trends and makes predictions about where the future is headed. The post The battleground of entities & reviews appeared first on Search Engine Land . from Channel: SEO – Search Engine Land http://selnd.com/2smcNPN via SEO In Mumbai

Optimizing AngularJS Single-Page Applications for Googlebot Crawlers

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Posted by jrridley It’s almost certain that you’ve encountered AngularJS on the web somewhere, even if you weren’t aware of it at the time. Here’s a list of just a few sites using Angular: Upwork.com Freelancer.com Udemy.com Youtube.com Any of those look familiar? If so, it’s because AngularJS is taking over the Internet. There’s a good reason for that: Angular- and other React-style frameworks make for a better user and developer experience on a site. For background, AngularJS and ReactJS are part of a web design movement called single-page applications, or SPAs . While a traditional website loads each individual page as the user navigates the site, including calls to the server and cache, loading resources, and rendering the page, SPAs cut out much of the back-end activity by loading the entire site when a user first lands on a page. Instead of loading a new page each time you click on a link, the site dynamically updates a single HTML page as the user interacts with the site

Another study shows how featured snippets steal significant traffic from the top organic result

When a featured snippet is present, CTR for the first organic result falls below 20 percent. The post Another study shows how featured snippets steal significant traffic from the top organic result appeared first on Search Engine Land . from Channel: SEO – Search Engine Land http://selnd.com/2rjEfAC via SEO In Mumbai

Google adds ‘Personal’ search filter, then drops it

Google tests a personalized version of their search results for signed-in Google users. Did you see it? The post Google adds ‘Personal’ search filter, then drops it appeared first on Search Engine Land . from Channel: SEO – Search Engine Land http://selnd.com/2r7vwkE via SEO In Mumbai

No, Paid Search Audiences Won’t Replace Keywords

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Posted by PPCKirk I have been chewing on a keyword vs. audience targeting post for roughly two years now. In that time we have seen audience targeting grow in popularity (as expected) and depth. “Popularity” is somewhat of an understatement here. I would go so far as to say that I've heard it lauded in messianic-like “thy kingdom come, thy will be done” reverential awe by some paid search marketers. as if paid search were lacking a heartbeat before the life-giving audience targeting had arrived and 1-2-3-clear’ed it into relevance. However, I would argue that despite audience targeting’s popularity (and understandable success), we have also seen the revelation of some weaknesses as well. It turns out it’s not quite the heroic, rescue-the-captives targeting method paid searchers had hoped it would be. The purpose of this post is to argue against the notion that audience targeting can replace the keyword in paid search. Now, before we get into the throes of keyword philosophy,

Evidence of the Surprising State of JavaScript Indexing

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Posted by willcritchlow Back when I started in this industry, it was standard advice to tell our clients that the search engines couldn’t execute JavaScript (JS), and anything that relied on JS would be effectively invisible and never appear in the index. Over the years, that has changed gradually, from early work-arounds (such as the horrible escaped fragment approach my colleague Rob wrote about back in 2010) to the actual execution of JS in the indexing pipeline that we see today, at least at Google. In this article, I want to explore some things we've seen about JS indexing behavior in the wild and in controlled tests and share some tentative conclusions I've drawn about how it must be working. A brief introduction to JS indexing At its most basic, the idea behind JavaScript-enabled indexing is to get closer to the search engine seeing the page as the user sees it. Most users browse with JavaScript enabled, and many sites either fail without it or are severely limited

Initial Interest Confusion rears its ugly head once more in trademark infringement case

Columnist Chris Silver Smith details recent trademark infringement cases in which site search results pages caused legal issues for retailer sites. E-commerce businesses should take notice! The post Initial Interest Confusion rears its ugly head once more in trademark infringement case appeared first on Search Engine Land . from Channel: SEO – Search Engine Land http://selnd.com/2r4AFZ4 via SEO In Mumbai

Should SEOs Care About Internal Links? - Whiteboard Friday

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Posted by randfish Internal links are one of those essential SEO items you have to get right to avoid getting them really wrong. Rand shares 18 tips to help inform your strategy, going into detail about their attributes, internal vs. external links, ideal link structures, and much, much more in this edition of Whiteboard Friday. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high-resolution version in a new tab! Video Transcription Howdy, Moz fans, and welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Friday. This week we're going to chat a little bit about internal links and internal link structures. Now, it is not the most exciting thing in the SEO world, but it's something that you have to get right and getting it wrong can actually cause lots of problems. Attributes of internal links So let's start by talking about some of the things that are true about internal links. Internal links, when I say that phrase, what I mean is a link that exists on a website, let's say

Google warns against misusing links in syndication & large-scale article campaigns

If the primary purpose of distributing content is to gain links, both authors and publishers risk a Google penalty. The post Google warns against misusing links in syndication & large-scale article campaigns appeared first on Search Engine Land . from Channel: SEO – Search Engine Land http://selnd.com/2qTGcmH via SEO In Mumbai

It's Here: The Finalized MozCon 2017 Agenda

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Posted by ronell-smith That sound you hear is the coming together of MozCon 2017. [You can hear that, right? It's not just me.] With less than two months to go, most of the nuts and bolts of the event have been fastened together to create what looks to be one of the strongest MozCons in history. Yeah, that's saying a lot, but once you've perused the speakers' lineup, we're sure you'll agree. MozCon has a rich tradition of bringing together the best and brightest minds in digital marketing, creating a place for individuals across the globe to learn from top-notch speakers, network, share ideas, and learn about the tools, services, and tactics they can put to use in their work and their business. As a bonus, attendees also get to enjoy lots of snacks, coffee and lots and lots of bacon. Also, this year we'll offer pre-MozCon SEO workshops on Sunday, July 16. Keep reading for more info. You will, however, need a ticket to attend the event, so you might w