Posted by BritneyMuller Earlier this week, I hosted a webinar all about featured snippets

The post Digital Marketing News: Snapchat Growth Booms, Facebook Usage Falls, B2B Buyers Seek Greater Loyalty, Podcast Ads Succeed appeared first on Online Marketing Blog – TopRank® .

Ad revenue growth accelerated in the third quarter. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Google BERT currently affects 10% of all U.S. English queries and featured snippets in 24 countries. This is what it means for SEO

Google is rolling out what it says is the biggest step forward for search in the past 5 years. The post Google Applies New BERT Model to Search Rankings, Affecting 1-in-10 Queries via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Back in July Google fixed a bug with recipe rich results but that bug may be resurfacing according to Lisa Bryan, a food blogger. She said starting around October 15th her site, and others, started to see the images of their recipes disappear from Google’s search results.

BERT will impact 1 in 10 of all search queries. This is the biggest change in search since Google released RankBrain. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Google’s John Mueller said merging one site into another is not the same thing as a site moving from one domain to another. You should not use the change of address tool when doing a site merge, it should only be used when moving a site fully to a new domain.

Posted by BritneyMuller Machine learning is only growing in importance for anyone working in the digital world, but it can often feel like an inaccessible subject.