Tag Archives: Search

Everything You Need to Know About Search Engine Optimization

Cas Johnson-Villalobos — June 26, 2019 — June 26, 2019 Search engine optimization, or SEO, gets so much attention – and for good reason. It sets successful blogs and websites apart from unsuccessful ones. For businesses, getting traffic via search engines is imperative to marketing: it drives sales and brand awareness. If you’re new to … Continue reading Everything You Need to Know About Search Engine Optimization →

Lyrics Site Uses Watermarks To Prove Google Lifts Its Content For Search Results

Lyrics Site Uses Watermarks To Prove Google Lifts Its Content For Search Results by Laurie Sullivan  @lauriesullivan, June 18, 2019 Google said it’s investigating why the lyrics of some songs originating from Genius served up in search results without creator rights permission, after the lyrics site embedded patterns in its formatting to prove the search … Continue reading Lyrics Site Uses Watermarks To Prove Google Lifts Its Content For Search Results →

Video Transcription Opens New Doors For Search Marketers

Video Transcription Opens New Doors For Search Marketers by Laurie Sullivan  @lauriesullivan, June 13, 2019 Trint, the brainchild of Emmy-winning reporter and former foreign correspondent Jeff Kofman, launched a video player on Thursday that allows engines such as Google and Bing to index the audio to text content in search results. “You have a huge … Continue reading Video Transcription Opens New Doors For Search Marketers →

Search Traffic Data Yields Insights On Brands, Retailers That Failed At Ecommerce

Search Traffic Data Yields Insights On Brands, Retailers That Failed At Ecommerce by Laurie Sullivan  @lauriesullivan, Yesterday Search traffic data yields insights on why some brands and retailers just couldn’t survive last year. Walmart, for example, announced this week that it would absorb the remaining assets of Jet.com, which it bought for $3.3 billion three … Continue reading Search Traffic Data Yields Insights On Brands, Retailers That Failed At Ecommerce →

1-800 Contacts Takes Fight Over Search Ads To Appellate Court

1-800 Contacts Takes Fight Over Search Ads To Appellate Court by Wendy Davis  @wendyndavis, June 12, 2019 Contact lens retailer 1-800 Contacts is blasting a “short-sighted” Federal Trade Commission decision that the company’s efforts to police the use of its trademark in search advertising violated antitrust law. “The Commission’s process for assigning antitrust liability was … Continue reading 1-800 Contacts Takes Fight Over Search Ads To Appellate Court →

SEO for Voice Search

Kris Spisak — June 9, 2019 Follow @MidloWeb — June 9, 2019 Do you remember the bold projection that by 2020, 84% of internet traffic would be video? Here’s a more recent prediction gaining the headlines: half of all internet searches will be voice searches by 2020. Yes, it’s true that video continues to trend … Continue reading SEO for Voice Search →