Learn the basics of Google Ads bidding and tips for moving from manual to automated bidding.

With over 59% of websites using WordPress as a CMS, optimizing them to load quickly is a good idea. Contributor Dave Davies walks through key steps and shows how to optimize a WordPress site for Google PageSpeed. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Discover tactics that can help influence Amazon’s search engine algorithm in your favor. The post Amazon’s Search Engine Ranking Algorithm: What Marketers Need to Know by @lorenbaker appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

The SEO industry is mourning the loss of yet another well loved personality in our industry – Michael Streko. He passed away over the weekend at an age way too young.

Google has rolled out a new local hotel search feature that shows you how well a specific hotel scores based on the location of the hotel. Google ranks the hotel score based on how near it is to transit, airports, sights and more.

Google has added “your past visits” to the local knowledge panel. If you visited the location, Google might tell you when that visit was.

Posted by Jeff_Baker In January of 2018 Brafton began a massive organic keyword targeting campaign, amounting to over 90,000 words of blog content being published. Did it work? Well, yeah.

Google has added a new tab to local search knowledge panels which assigns a grade to hotels based on location. The post Google Local Search Grades Hotels Based on Location by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Pinterest is making max width promoted videos available to all advertisers following a successful beta test. Max width promoted videos are around four times the size of standard Pinterest videos, spanning the entire two-column grid. Pinterest began testing these wide-format video ads back in June with a limited number of advertisers.

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…