This week saw the publication of Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends report , packed full of data and insights into the development of the internet and digital technology across the globe. Particularly of interest to us here at Search Engine Watch is a 21-page section on the evolution of voice and natural language as a computing interface, titled ‘ Re-Imagining Voice = A New Paradigm in Human-Computer Interaction ’. It looks at trends in recognition accuracy, voice assistants, voice search and sales of devices like the Amazon Echo to build up an accurate picture of how voice interface has progressed over the past few years, and is likely to progress in the future

If you could create the perfect e-commerce website by combining elements from successful sites, which ones would you choose? Columnist Christian Sculthorp shares his picks.

Conversion tracking can be the bane of a PPC professional’s existence. And that’s because there are so many variables. Every business has a different website and CMS, a different thing they want to track, a different web development team with different proficiencies

SEO has a lot of moving parts — and that can mean a lot of wasted time and effort if we’re not organized. Columnist Ryan Shelley shares his method for simplifying your SEO process by staying focused on results. The post Are we making SEO too complicated

Last week was quite eventful for PPC marketers.

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more.

Facebook has a job listing up to hire a SEO or SEM engineer. I am not sure why it says SEO or SEM, why not SEO & SEM or SEO only or SEM only because the job description seems very SEO oriented. The deal is…

Announced on the Google Small Business blog yesterday is a new tool to test how your site works across different devices.  It seems to be a combination of the mobile friendly and page speed tools, though it is useful to have these tests in one place. According to Google: On average, people check their phones more than 150 times a day,    and more searches occur on mobile phones than computers

While content goals are highly-individualized, there are five content marketing goals that every marketer should keep in mind when producing content. The post The 5 Goals Every Content Marketer Needs to Have to Drive Massive ROI by @IAmAaronAgius appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Formerly known as the South American Fútbol Championship, Copa América is the longest-running continental fútbol competition. The post Copa América 2016 schedule attached to Google doodle marking tournament’s 100th anniversary appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.