Mobile will play its biggest role ever in 2016 and as Google reveals: mobile travel and shopping searches are already up nearly 30% year-over-year. To help with this rise in demand, Google announced yesterday in a blog-post possibly timed to steal some Prime Day thunder, that it will soon begin rolling out new mobile-centric features for PLAs, holiday booking filters, its YouTube’s TrueView shopping feature and a new Showcase Shopping ad format. That’s a lot of new info to wade through, but it’s all designed to help prepare marketers and mobile users for the October – December holiday season, which you’re all thinking about now right

From its beginnings as a disappearing photo app to adding interactive—often hilarious—filter options and storytelling capabilities, Snapchat has come a long way in it’s nearly 5 years of existence. In fact, the social media platform has seen tremendous user growth, boasting 150 million daily active users, which is more than Twitter, according to Bloomberg

Access to a keyword tool is important. Here are 10 alternatives to Google’s Keyword Planner for finding keyword ideas and search volume predictions. The post 10 Alternatives to Google’s Keyword Planner by @5le appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

It looks like Bing is holding an Agency Awards event on September 15th in New York City. Bing launched the domain bingagencyawards2016.com and yesterday posted on Twitter the introduction to the event…

Antonino Bologna posted on Twitter a screen shot of what looks like a new user interface and design for Google Analytics.

In 2012, Google did away with anonymous Google Maps reviews from “A Google User” or at least they did with some bugs here and there but for the most part, you did not see reviews from anonymous users…

Posted by MiriamEllis The Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Image courtesy of Mike Behnken on Flickr

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

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

An update to Pokemon Go, available now in the App Store, downgrades the app from having full access to your Google account to having just the bare minimum access.