Posted by MiriamEllis Your local SEO agency needs new clients in 2017. Your department needs to convince management to earmark robust resources for local SEM this year.

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

Advertisers attempting Phishing attacks and pushing counterfeit goods continued to try to evade detection. The post Bing rejected 130M ads in 2016, including 17M tech support scam ads appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Bing Ads blocked 130 million ads and banned 175,000 advertisers last year. That’s according to Bing Ads’ Ad Quality in Review 2016 report

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. The post SearchCap: Local SEO, links via content & more appeared first on Search Engine Land.

Last November, Google said they are experimenting with the mobile-first index but recently told us it isn’t launching any time soon. But now some are seeing the mobile-first index in the Google desktop search results…

Do you think you know how to do SEO effectively in 2017?

Google has many flavors of crawlers from web search to AdWords to AdSense and app crawlers and more. But which are used for URL discovery to be used in web search…

Looking to optimize your business website for local search, but not sure where to start? Columnist Ryan Shelley provides some tips for beginners

Great content doesn’t always translate to great links. Columnist Chris Liversidge explains the problem with this strategy and advocates for a more audience-focused approach