Google has released 3D Globe Mode on Google Maps desktop.

Want to be a marketing influencer? Learn how to use extreme productivity to grow, influence, and beat competitors. The post How Influencers Outperform Competitors Through Extreme Productivity by @WebDevEtc appeared first on Search Engine Journal

With page speed playing an active role in how a web page ranks, contributor Maria Cieslak details how SEOs can maintain high rankings and happy users by optimizing fast performance factors.

Google is now recommending publishers add datePublished and dateModified to non-AMP Article pages. This may mean that Google might show non-AMP articles more in the top stories section?

Google offers guidance that Quality Raters Guidelines is key to ranking better in Broad Core Update. The post Google Says Raters Guidelines is Key to Update by @martinibuster appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Industry Group Finds Consumers Love ‘Rewarded’ Ads: Marketers, Less So A new collaborative study by the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), OpenX, and MediaMath looks at view-and-reward advertising, rewarded opt-in ad types, and what they may mean for digital marketers going forward.

This translated into more than 120 additional repair orders per month or about 360 new customers during the quarter.

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After we reported Google was testing a new hotel search results design and layout last week – Google is back at it with yet another design layout. This new layout is a 4 pack, two cards side by side.

Google confirmed the August 1st search algorithm update calling it a “broad core update.” Google won’t give specific advice on what to change to recover if you were hit. So I am taking a survey to try to collect enough data to find a pattern here