Questions remain if number one in the SERPs means a featured snippet or a typical organic result. Rank Ranger’s Mordy Oberstein breaks down what’s been happening recently. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Past winners of our coveted Agency of the Year awards — awarded for both SEM and SEO specialties — have included Metric Theory, Rise Interactive, Wolfgang Digital and Wpromote. Make 2020 the year you and your team are awarded the highest honor in search.

Move is ominous for all companies “aggregating and anonymizing” user behavioral data for third party sale. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

So domains are the most important part of the URL, eh? Well, here is Google Chrome testing hiding the Google search URL from displaying and instead just showing the query you entered into Google

Trust in marketing —how to build it and how to wield it for good—needs to be top of mind for every modern marketer. Why

Here are a few interesting Google patents that recently have been granted.

Early looks at the new campaign type and native ad formats that have had little fanfare since launching in beta last year. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

A senior writer at Forbes, shared some data on Twitter showing that Forbes.com has seen a huge and very concerning drop in traffic from Google organic search. He said traffic is “down circa 10x” starting January 27th at 11pm ET.

Updates to Microsoft Advertising include a broad rollout of responsive search ads, clearer performance reporting, and expanded text ads changes. The post Microsoft Advertising Updates: Responsive Search Ads, Improved Reports, & More via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Google’s John Mueller said it doesn’t hurt you to used mixed languages in your URLs but it might confuse users who look at your URLs. John was asked on Twitter “Mixing language in url path” is it bad