Over the past few days, I’ve been seeing webmasters complain and cautiously rejoice about shifts in their traffic from Google and some of the search results fluctuations…

Why was Google not showing Donald Trump as a 2016 presidential candidate in the search results? The post Google returns special presidential candidates box that previously omitted Trump [Updated] appeared first on Search Engine Land

The three-line ‘hamburger’ menu icon receives a lot of vitriol.

In the final installment of his three-part series on how to conduct a thorough SEO audit, columnist Dave Davies talks about assessing off-site factors and addressing the issues found therein. The post The definitive SEO audit part 3 of 3: Off-site appeared first on Search Engine Land

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Not just facing a site redesign but a full replatform? Columnist Clay Cazier presents the features most important to ensure your new site can support today’s SEO best practices

If you search in Google for [presidential candidates] you will not find Donald Trump listed. Instead you will find Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders..

Programmatic , while still the source of much confusion, is a now a huge part of the digital advertising ecosystem. In fact, according to eMarketer, this year, two-thirds of digital display ad spend in the United States will be programmatic. Because of the demand for programmatic, popular online services  like Spotify are embracing programmatic ad offerings, and companies are now working to extend programmatic concepts to traditional offline channels, like direct mail

Google’s Gary Illyes confirms that any 301, 302, 3xx redirect does not lose any PageRank value. The post Google: There is no PageRank dilution when using 301, 302, or 30x redirects anymore appeared first on Search Engine Land.

Here’s a look at how Facebook is asserting its dominance in livestreaming, how other players are countering – and what this means for brands and marketers. The post Why Facebook is the 800-Pound Gorilla of Livestreaming appeared first on Search Engine Journal .