You small seo agency may be alive and well today. But what if you want to scale up? How do you play with the big boys?

You’ll have no doubt read about Google’s recent jettisoning of its sidebar ads , in favour of more ads placed at the top of the page. This is going to have a number of effects that search marketers will need to contend with

Yesterday at SMX West, Behshad Behzadi of Google said Google is indeed working on bringing voice search capabilities to shopping…

In the past 24-hours or so, I’ve been seeing some early signs of a possible Google update. It might be impacting a limit number of sites or it might be the start of something…

Posted by rMaynes1 [Estimated read time: 8 minutes] In 2014, Mediative released an eye-tracking study that looked at how Google’s Search Engine Results Page (SERP) has changed over the last decade, and how searcher behavior has adapted as a result. We learned that : Top organic results are no longer always in the top-left corner, so users look elsewhere to find them. Mobile devices have habitually conditioned searchers to scan vertically more than horizontally.

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. The post SearchCap: Google Manual Actions, Conversational Shopping & AdWords Changes appeared first on Search Engine Land.

Patrick Sexton created a free and useful revamp of his tools at Varvy.com.

Google recently removed ads from the right-hand side of its desktop search results.