Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. The post SearchCap: Google quality drop, Google search tags & a doodle appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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Google has always downplayed the importance of priority and chance frequency in the XML sitemap files. They have told webmasters to not worry about it and even said they ignore other fields like the lastmod date. That being said…

A new Google experiment updates the search results snippets to show tags related to the page. But these tags don’t seem to do much of anything

SMS message marketing, or text message marketing, is becoming increasingly popular, and for good reason. Texts are opened more frequently than emails! The post 6 Tips for Success in SMS Marketing by @seocompanymiami appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Khan designed Chicago’s 100-story John Hancock Center and the Willis Tower (formerly known as the Sears Tower), once the world’s tallest building. The post Fazlur Rahman Khan doodle honors architect behind Chicago’s famous skyscrapers appeared first on Search Engine Land

Columnist Eric Enge recaps a session from SMX West detailing fresh ideas for how search engine optimization (SEO) and social media marketing can work together to produce results.

When I reported on the Fred update that hit on March 8th and came up with my analysis, I said several times – there were sites that 100% saw a dive in their Google…

Under fire for months, can Google reverse the drip-drip-drip of criticism as incorrect, absurd or even dangerous results surface to the top? The post A deep look at Google’s biggest-ever search quality crisis appeared first on Search Engine Land

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