Dawn Anderson followed up on a topic around what is near duplicate content with Google’s Gary Illyes – asking if it is similar to content stitching and quilting. As Dawn suspected, Gary said no…

Posted by randfish I just finished reading Jan Schaumann’s short post on Why Companies Should Pay for Their Employees to Attend Conferences . I liked it

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

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

Earlier this month we shared a preview of the SEO: The Movie by John Lincoln from IgniteVisibility – well, it came out for free, fully, and is available for viewing…

Pinterest is making its image-scanning visual search tool easier to use and more useful for outfit ideas.

Columnist Thomas Stern provides data showing that when used together, SEO and PPC can better achieve desired marketing outcomes such as more qualified traffic and budgetary efficiency. The post How SEO can create budget efficiencies in paid search campaigns appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

To celebrate today’s summer solstice, Google has brought back the animated mouse featured in its spring solstice doodle in March. The post Summer solstice 2017 Google doodle marks the longest day of the year appeared first on Search Engine Land

So after some time testing both hotel pricing labels and local panel highlights, Google seems to have rolled out both features to searchers. Our man Sergey Alakov reported on both going live this week…

After ratings and reviews, search engines had the greatest influence on buying behavior. The post Reviews & other UGC more influential for consumers than search engines & ads [Study] appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.