GoogleBot typically crawls from the United States, not 100% of the time. In fact, Google recently began crawling on a limited basis from other countries but only to check on local-aware features…

Mary Meeker published her  Internet Trends of 2016   last week and among others, there were very interesting stats regarding the increase of visual content and most importantly, how this affects communication, marketing, broadcasting and ecommerce. There is a new generation coming up after millennials , the so-called Generation Z, which seems to be even more digital aware, comparing to the previous ones, evolving the idea of co mmunication and content consumption, preferring visual content over written text. As millennials are growing older, trends also focus on the next generation and it’s interesting to see how visual content will affect their digital habits over the next years.

Marketing Land’s all-new “B2B Predictive Marketing Analytics Platforms: A Marketer’s Guide” examines the market for B2B marketing analytics software platforms and the considerations involved in implementing this software into your business. This 35-page report is your source for… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

The rules of the SEO game have changed over the years, but columnist Pratik Dholakiya has some solid strategies for increasing search visibility and authority that you can safely use in 2016.

Bing announced you can now submit your news site, like this one, to Bing News at the new Bing News PubHub. When you go to Bing News PubHub, you can fill out the form as I screen shot below, to submit your news site to Bing…

In a presentation at CMA’s Digital Breakfast, StoryScience founder Kohlben Vodden gave some fascinating insights into the science of what makes content shareable . What is a ‘share’?

Columnist Frederick Vallaeys explores the potential impact of some new AdWords features announced at the Google Performance Summit in May 2016 and discusses how to prepare for these changes. The post 10 ways to get ready for the new AdWords appeared first on Search Engine Land.

While social signals may not be directly factored into Google’s ranking algorithm, columnist Dan Bagby explains that social media can still be used to enhance SEO. The post Two tried and true methods to make social media impact SEO appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Software and app portal softonic.com has been on the receiving end of a manual action from Google, meaning the site’s visibility has taken a hit.  As covered by Juan Gonzalez on the Sistrix site , there’s a sharp decline in visibility towards the end of May: The stats show a loss of visibility on various Google sites: Google US (-40%) UK (-33%) Germany (-42%) Italy (-61%) France (-53%) the Netherlands (-31%) Spain (-45%) and more… The major loss in visibility is for Softonics’s biggest directory, /s/ , which accounts for 40% of the entire domains visibility. The full list is here , but suffice to say it contains many of the site’s most popular downloadable assets.

WordPress is by far one of the most preferred CMS platforms on the web. Today we are going to take a look at some of the Best WordPress themes available. The post 11 of the Best Responsive WordPress Themes by @devesh appeared first on Search Engine Journal