Visual content performs better because the average consumer absorbs more of what they see than what they read.

I recently wrote about how to statistically model any given set of search results, which I hope gives marketing professionals a glimpse into how rapidly the SEO industry is currently changing in 2015. In that article, I had mentioned that the search engine model should be able to “self-calibrate”, or take its algorithms and weightings of those algorithms, and correlate the modeled data against real-world data from public search engines, to find a precise search engine modeling of any environment. But taking thousands of parameters and trying to find the best combination of those that can curve fit search engine […] The post Using Artificial Intelligence to Solve #SEO by @scott_stouffer appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Yesterday I reported on how dozens and dozens of webmasters noticed Google labeled their sites with the this site may be hacked label in the search results. It seems way too unusual for so many new webmasters to be complaining about it…

Nicole Hess caught Google testing using a line separator in the search results between organic results. She posted a screen shot on Twitter and it does look legit…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

Google announced they are adding carousel based search results at the snippet level.

A new ad type will give mobile-centric marketers the ability to set up phone call conversion only campaigns. The post New ‘Call-Only’ Ad Types Arrives In Google AdWords To Make Mobile Easier appeared first on Search Engine Land

This week in search, I cover how Google said you should avoid doing any link building. Some SEOs are waiting patiently…