Posted by kristihines If you’re a local business owner, you’ve likely heard that you should submit your business to local business directories like Yelp, Merchant Circle, Yellow Pages, and similar networks in order to help boost your local search visibility on Google. It sounds easy at first: you think you’ll just go to a few websites, enter your contact information, and you’ll be set. Because all you really want to do is get some links to your website from these profiles

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…

Google search has the power to rig the 2016 election, or at least that’s what researchers believe. The post Google Search Could Influence Election Results, According to Researchers by @mattsouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. The post SearchCap: Google Goes After The App Interstitial, Duke Kahanamoku Google Logo & ComScore Report appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

SEJ news and updates about the latest in Wikipedia traffic, comparison of Bing vs Google, plus popular posts over the past week. The post SEJ Wrap-Up: Wikipedia’s Google Traffic Tanks, Bing vs. Google – How Different are They

As we’ve reported twice before, the Google News sitemap index count is inaccurate and has been for a long time…

Choosing the right KPIs for an e-commerce store can be tough because you have so many moving parts and so much data to analyze. Learn how to simplify here. The post How to Choose the Right KPIs for Your E-Commerce Store by @seocompanymiami appeared first on Search Engine Journal

On Wednesday, August 19th SEJ ThinkTank was joined by two members of the Page One Power team, Cody Cahill and Nicholas Chimonas, for an informative presentation about how to find and build valuable links to your content.

Google recently published a case study suggesting that app download interstitials on mobile are ineffective, leading to high page abandonment rates. But Jeremy Stoppelman of Yelp believes that there might be something more at play.

On Friday, Google announced on Twitter that they have expanded from showing tweets on mobile to also showing them on desktop after about a month of testing them…