Sucuri, a company that cleans over 500 hacked sites a day, has released a statement about new occurrences of a of certain type of SEO spam which involves maliciously installing subdirectories on WordPress websites. The idea behind this black hat scheme is to abuse the server resources and storage by installing spammy sites within a WordPress subdirectory. The spammy sites are usually promoting products, designer sunglasses for example, with the intent for the attacker to make affiliate income.

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. The post SearchCap: Bing Ads expanded text ads, Merkle report & VR appeared first on Search Engine Land

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. The post SearchCap: Bing Ads expanded text ads, Merkle report & VR appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Over the past couple days I’ve been seeing some signs of a Google update, most from forum and social chatter within the community…

Still, mobile spend increased significantly year over year, and Google product listing ads continue to drive growth. The post Merkle: After big increases in mobile inventory last year, paid search growth slows a bit in Q3 appeared first on Search Engine Land.

At Vegas Pubcon 2016, Brent Csutoras, the Chief Social Media Strategist at SEJ, sat down with Aleyda Solis, International SEO Consultant & Founder of Orainti, to discuss the challenges specific to international SEO. The post Tackling International SEO Challenges: An Interview with Aleyda Solis appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Retailers, want to make your text ads stand out? Columnist Jason Puckett explains how you can use big data to improve search ad copy without risking your quality score

You are not alone, the Google Search Console is now down – there is a 404 not found error when you try to access it at google.com/webmasters/tools/.

Mark Traphagen discusses SEO and how authority, relevance, and trust are important factors. The post Mark Traphagen Talks The Three Pillars of SEO by @wonderwall7 appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Contributor Brian Ussery notes that as global search interest in VR skyrockets, Google has quietly made 360-degree VR videos and images accessible across devices and optimizable for organic search. The post Google’s virtual game changer: Leveraging 360 VR video & image optimization for SEO… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article