How does AMPs, disclosure guidelines, and 4 packs impact or affect you and your company? The post 3 Recent Google Updates: What You Should Know by @rollerblader appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Let’s get to the crux of the matter. It never fails to make me smile when people misuse the term ‘semantic search’, so really… what is semantic web search? A simple definition of semantic search We often talk of semantic search as if it’s something new

Google’s Local Business Cards could have significant impact on local search. Here’s what we know so far. The post Google’s Local Business Cards and the Possible Impact on Search appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google’s Andrey Lipattsev reveals links, content and RankBrain are the top three ranking signals in Google’s search algorithm. The post Now we know: Here are Google’s top three search ranking factors appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

If your site’s SEO has been struggling in the backwater for a long time, I suggest you take a weekend to give these backlinks techniques a try. The post How to Safely Earn Four Backlinks This Weekend by @neilpatel appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

We’ve already heard that RankBrain , Google’s artificial intelligence system, is the “third most important signal contributing to the result of a search query” and it seems like we may have confirmation on the top two factors as well. During a live Q&A from WebPromo with Andrey Lipattsev, the Search Quality Senior Strategist at Google Ireland, SEO expert Ammon Johns suggested to Lipattsev that, knowing what we know about RankBrain, it would surely be beneficial to everyone if we also knew what the other two signals were. And surprisingly, Andrey Lipattsev, obliges… “It’s content and links pointing to your site.” There you go

Thanks to the rise of the Internet, today’s consumers are much more self-directed in their buying journey. With so much information at their fingertips, they’re taking the research reigns and using the information they discover to make their purchasing decisions. In fact, research shows that B2B buyers conduct an average of 12 searches before ever going to a brand’s site

On Twitter @dhinckley said that according to Moz over here, 302 redirects pass zero “link juice,” also known as PageRank. John Mueller said that is not true…

Google is reportedly working on a third-party keyboard for iOS which is said to have built-in search functionality. The post Google Working on iOS Keyboard with Search Functionality appeared first on Search Engine Journal