“This allows businesses to get their intuitive/institutional knowledge into the machine learning to optimize more accurately.” Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Calling SEO writers! When you prioritize the needs of your audience in your content, you’ll please your readers and rank in Google. Here’s your how-to

Research on millions of sessions and page views identified what traffic channels bring more sales and engagement The post New Research Shows How to Win in Local Search appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Not paying attention to inventory management can create problems for Amazon sellers and digital marketers.

Plus, blank images in Top stories and new features in the YouTube results page.

Google’s top stories carousel is not loading all the images for those articles. It seems like a bug is causing some of the images to not show up as of early this morning.

Facebook published a report which offers a first-ever look at what content gets the most views in peoples’ news feeds. The post Facebook’s First-Ever Report On Most Viewed Content appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Google seems to be testing a new way of showing reviews in the local listing for some businesses. Brandon Schmidt spotted Google showing not just the number of reviews with the review summary in stars, but where Google labels if the reviews are “from the web” or from “independent sites.”

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…