Facebook announced it will now begin to place live videos higher up in peoples’ news feeds while those videos are live. The post Facebook to Favor Live Videos Over Recorded Videos in News Feed appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Ryan Schilling noticed Google showing a phone icon and phone number under some of the organic mobile search results. He posted a screen shot of it on Twitter

A few weeks ago, I reported about Google investigating a Polish hacker who is stealing webmasters Google traffic by hacking and tricking Google into thinking his domains are the original content…

Google’s Juan Felipe Rincon shares statistics on how many manual actions Google receives by users and how often they act on them. The post Google Takes Action On 65% Of User Generated Spam Reports appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

A study was recently published by SimilarWeb detailing the top 10 sites that grew their organic search traffic in 2015 compared to 2014. Roy Hinkis of SimilarWeb explains the study’s methodology: “To determine the biggest winners in year-over-year search growth we looked at the top 10,000 sites, judged by volume of traffic from organic search in of 2015, and compared this traffic to the same period in 2014.

Posted by angelacherry [Estimated read time: 7 minutes] Much has happened since we last posted about what Twitter can teach us about the US presidential candidates .

Posted by Isla_McKetta [Estimated read time: 15 minutes] Like most of you, I get a lot of email. Here’s a look at all the marketing emails I received in my personal email in one 24-hour period: That’s not even counting the transactional shipping confirmations and informational blog post notifications. Or all the work-related newsletters I have sent to my address at Moz.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

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

Last week, we reported that the news box was removed from Google Finance results and was replaced by an ad box. Well…