SEOs are somewhat obsessed with the Google quality raters despite Google saying repeatedly that these consultant do not have direct access to change any of the rankings for any of the sites in their index…

Google’s Gary Illyes on how to prepare for a mobile-first index and ensure your mobile website will rank well. The post A Mobile-First Google with Google’s Gary Illyes [PODCAST] by @brentcsutoras appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

These days there’s no question that great content is a foundational element of any marketing strategy—especially in B2B. In fact, according to Content Marketing Institute’s (CMI) 2017 benchmarking report, 89% of B2B marketers use content marketing to “attract and retain a clearly defined audience—and, ultimately, to drive profitable customer action .” And thanks to yet another insightful report from CMI—the latter objective is our focus today. Last week, CMI and SmartBrief released their How Content Influences the Purchasing Process report, featuring data and insights collected from 1,200 SmartBrief subscribers

Sergey Alakov caught Google testing a new flavor of the searches related to, similar to the people also search for features. Google is constantly tweaking these user interfaces..

Google has just added a hamburger menu, the three horizontal lines, at the top left of the mobile version of the Google home page and all the mobile search results screens. Go to Google.com on your mobile device and you will the menu at the top left of the page…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

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

Google has swapped out the share button on the local panel in the search results for a save button.

Last week, Google announced they had added the Google Slides API as an Advanced API to AdWords scripts.