Google is testing showing 3 and a half stories in the top stories carousel in search. We’ve seen tons of top stories user interfaces over the years and I believe I’ve seen this as well, but I can’t find if I covered it before. So here it is

Here’s a list of tips, tricks, and best practices to consider when running Google Shopping for the holiday season.

The new report can help you debug issues with breadcrumbs displaying in the search results.

Brad Geddes highlights the importance of ad testing and how to leverage it in order to improve your PPC performance. The post The Importance of Ad Testing with Brad Geddes [PODCAST] appeared first on Search Engine Journal

It was back in 2010 at SXSWi that I was in the blogger lounge networking with other social media savvy content creators and thought leaders like Brian Solis, Chris Heuer, Amber Naslund, Chris Brogan and Rohit Bhargava, when I met a fellow marketer who shared a metal bottle opener as his business card. What a brilliant idea! Package your identity around something useful to trigger conversations.

How to ensure your syndicated partners don’t outrank you in Google.

The other day we reported that we spotted Google testing a cool feature in search that shows you a timeline that shows you what is in a video. Well, Google announced this as video key moments and it works for English videos posted to YouTube and Google will expand it to other providers soon

Google just announced this week a new algorithmic update to not show review markup, review rich results, in the Google search results for specific cases. You can learn more about those new rules over here. And it looks like Google is acting on it.

Go to Google.com and just type into the search box “what” and you will see Google suggest the search phrase what does the antsð¡ð mean. This is no joke, here is a screen shot I took of it myself.