Chris Bailey spent a year figuring out which productivity tips actually work. The post This Author Identified Which Productivity Methods Work and Which Don’t #SEJBookClub by @wonderwall7 appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Posted by EricaMcGillivray [Estimated read time: 6 minutes] That’s right! Please join us in congratulating the four community speakers for MozCon 2016 — September 12–14 in Seattle. This year, we received 140 submissions

Google is increasing the number of queries that receive a Google Quick Answer box. The number of results that had an answer box went from just over 20% in December 2014 to more than 30% in May 2016.* Brands that wish to maintain a strong digital presence need to make sure their website is well represented within these rich answers.

Social media is always evolving, so what’s next? That’s the question I was asked in an interview recently.

Posted by Dr-Pete [Estimated read time: 6 minutes] It’s been almost two years (August 2014) since Google announced that HTTPS was a ranking signal . Speculation ran rampant, as usual, with some suggesting there was little or no benefit to switching (and possibly significant risk) while others rushed to sell customers on making the HTTPS switch.

Today is the Fourth of July, America’s Independence Day, birthday, and to celebrate, the search engines have special logos and themes. Google has a Doodle, which you can see above which has a true American theme to it…

Google quietly posted on the data anomalies page that there was a “bookkeeping error” on Google’s end that may result in a drop in the number of pages indexed and number of indexing errors for your apps…

eBay adopting AMP for their transactional based site may signal that Google may push out AMP well beyond article and news oriented content.

In the face of a mobile revolution, we need to reconsider where we’re telling stories and how we tell them. Enter, mobile video advertising

Freedom is an expression that you’ll hear a lot this week as we celebrate America’s independence. Our forefathers had a vision for a country that provided citizens with certain rights and responsibilities for themselves and their neighbors.