Choosing a local search automation vendor can be a complicated and intimidating decision for companies with hundreds or thousands of brick-and-mortar locations. Make a smarter decision when picking a company to team up with by asking these questions.

Yesterday, I broke the news at Search Engine Land that Google has decided to drop the images and circle counts from the authorship snippets in the Google search results.

Google has begun processing and removing the approved submissions done through the right to the Right To Be Forgotten Form. The Right To Be Forgotten is a European Court Of Justice ruling from May 2014 that EU citizens could request that search engines remove links to pages deemed private, even if… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

The copy you use in ads, video scripts, blog posts, and infographics matters. It’s your opportunity to connect with a customer, break through the noise, and create an impression in a customer’s mind. Don’t waste the opportunity with weak words

Last month here at SEJ, we presented the first edition of the “SEOlympics” by sharing our favorite 10 marketing blogs of Australia.

Call it organic marketing, call it inbound marketing or even content marketing – the practice of creating useful information to generate demand and attract an audience of buyers vs. buying ads to push messages out to them is one of the highest impact, low cost approaches to digital marketing a business can take. The practice of optimizing content for better search visibility goes hand in hand with the broader approach of inbound marketing.

Posted by Cyrus-Shepard Google gives, and Google takes away. Even so, it came as a surprise when John Mueller announced Google will soon drop authorship photos from most search results. This one hits particularly hard, as I’m known as the guy who optimized his Google author photo .

This July 16 – 18, SearchMetrics hosts their Visibility_14 conference on search experience optimization. We’re giving away 10 free tickets to SEJ readers! Keep reading to find out how to get your hands on them

A big day for Google Glass, right before Google I/O. Google announced that all new shipped Google Glass devices are being updated to improve with 2GB of RAM

Google has announced on Google+ the release of the Google My Business mobile app for iOS and Android. The mobile app lets you manage your Google Business information, profile, social shares, analytics, even user access and more via the app…