School may have just got out for some, but that doesn’t mean search marketers can take a break. According to data coming from PM Digital’s fourth annual “Back To School Trend Report,” the back-to-school marketing season is in full swing.

Yandex has made the move to encrypted search. The Russian search engine has begun encrypting 100 percent of searches done through Yandex, meaning webmasters with traffic from Yandex, will now see “(not set)” or “(not provided)” in their analytics.

Google is touting a new study this week that concludes “Search Ads Lift Brand Awareness.” What the study should be titled, though, is “The Top Search Ad Lifts Brand Awareness”. This was a meta-study in which several studies were conducted by Google and Ipsos MediaCT across a…

Twitter, Vine, Instagram, SlideShare, YouTube, Google+, Facebook, and other social networks allow users to embed public social media content across the web. These embeds of status updates, videos, presentations, and photos give brands, businesses, and publishers an opportunity to source, share, and curate content in new ways that incorporate audience participation and extend the reach of the social content to new platforms. Here are seven techniques for embedding social media content across your blog or website: 1

Now, if you search for your favorite local restaurant, bar, business and the like on Google; Google may show you a phone number in the knowledge graph top box that is clickable.

As I covered this morning at Search Engine Land – Will Google & Bing Penalize Microsoft Over Their Sponsored Post Campaign For Internet Explorer? I suspect they will have to

As you ease into your ergo chair, or settle in astride your giant yoga ball behind your computer, you face another day. Another day of gathering data, auditing web pages, digging into keyword reports, meetings with engineering, design, marketing and others. Today will most likely resemble yesterday for the most part.

Within the current search landscape, most search engine optimisation campaigns have become increasingly content-led. The majority of the campaigns that I work on revolve largely around the production and placement of high quality content on top-tier sites. This approach to search engine…

SearchMetrics released a study on the penetration of Universal Search results in the Google search results. By Universal Search we mean the way Google “blends” results from “vertical” search engines like Google Images, Google Videos, Google Maps or Google News into its web search listings. The…

If you’re working hard on cleaning up a site that’s been hit by Google Penguin, don’t despair! While Penguin recovery is possible, it is difficult. Here are five reasons why your site isn’t recovering rankings in the search results.