Google announced on the AdSense blog that they have a new setting for AdSense publishers to turn on “automated experiments…

This is not a new topic, in 2015 we covered that Google implied external links are not a ranking factor and in 2016 we covered that Google said external links are NOT a ranking factor and then a third-party study said external links ARE a ranking factor…

Posted by randfish Moving your customers down the funnel from awareness to conversion can make for a winding and treacherous road. Until you fully research and understand the buying process inside and out, it’s far too easy to make a misstep. In today’s Whiteboard Friday, Rand steps back to take a higher-level look at the path to customer purchase, recommending workflows and tools to help you forge your own way.

Friday’s Google+ Google hangout, John Mueller said at the 22:40 minute mark that Google feels that the SEO weather tracking tools are not using a statistically relevant sample…

This week Reddit announced it will be moving away from its integration with Imgur and introduce its own image uploading tool. At first the beta feature will only be available to select communities/sub-Reddits.

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

Google has been spotted conducting another one of its tests in the search results; and this one involves third-party review sites Traditionally Google has always shown its own reviews when searching for a location, which either come from Google Maps or Google+. In fact, the search giant has been often criticized for taking visibility away from third-party review sites in favor of its own properties.

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

Survey participants included nearly 600 search and digital marketing professionals, from entry-level to executive. The post SEMPO’s latest salary survey shows search marketer average pay up 16% over 2013 appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

I think this is the last item from the Friday Google+ Google hangout that I have to write about, this one is on duplicate content, copied content from one site to another, which we covered a lot here…