The words Artificial Intelligence can bring to mind far-fetched, sci-fi ideas and a society where robots have replaced humans. Well, this idea may not be too far off given Google’s  recent innovations. Google recently released Magenta, a computer based system that has the ability to create pieces of music

Featured snippets increase your traffic and click-through-rate. How can you craft content that improves your chances of earning a featured snippet? The post 7 Ways to Improve Your Chances for Featured Snippets by @Ryan1SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal

“There is no black magic to successfully attracting customers via the web.” – Rand Fishkin, Wizard of Moz For digital marketers, this quote rings all too true.

In 2015, Google announced that for the first time ever, it was seeing more searches taking place worldwide on mobile devices than on desktop. The steady and unerring shift towards mobile over the past few years has meant that online retailers now need to think about ‘m-commerce’ as well as ecommerce.

At SMX Advanced yesterday, Google announced that ads are coming to the local pack. That means one of the three local results in the local pack will be an ad and local SEOs need to make sure their clients show up in the top two local results…

Google announced that Google Analytics is now getting some of the messaging features from Google Search Console. This one is about hacked site alerts…

Authorship is now officially and completely dead. Gary Illyes from Google said authorship is not used at all at Google anymore

Back in early November, Google’s John Mueller implied you may be more likely to get featured snippets if you use structured markup on those pages. Then shortly after, Gary Illyes from Google said Google does not use structured markup for featured snippets..

Posted by jocameron [Estimated read time: 15 minutes] Welcome to the fifth installment of our educational Next Level series! Last time, we led you on a journey to perform a heroic site audit . This time around we’re diving into the subject of long tail keywords, equipping you with all the tools you’ll need to uncover buried treasure. One of the biggest obstacles to driving forward your business online is being able to rank well for keywords that people are searching for

Day one of SMX Advanced concludes with the traditional Google keynote conversation covering the biggest issues in SEO. The post Live Blog: AMA with Google Search keynote conversation at #SMXAdvanced appeared first on Search Engine Land.