Mike Grehan, one of the most respected figures in the industry, released an article today named Who needs SEMPO?. I found this by way of Andy Beal’s blog, where Andy does an excellent job of summarizing the article. I’ll pull out some quotes…
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Microsoft Pay Streamlines Online Payment in Outlook
Microsoft is integrating its digital wallet service into Outlook, as announced during Build 2018 on Monday. Called Microsoft Pay, users can soon make payments on invoices and bills through emails without leaving Outlook and switching to another app or service. All it…
2018 Will See Continued Decline in Facebook Use Among Teens
Is Facebook losing its cool factor? That seems to be the sad truth as the social media giant lost around 2.8 million young users last year. eMarketer’s 2017 forecast stated that for the first time ever, Facebook would see a…
Google Testing Mobile First Index In The Wild
Google’s John Mueller confirmed yesterday in a hangout at the 15:38 mark that Google is indeed testing the mobile first index in the live search results. He did not explain what percentage of searchers are seeing these live test results but I have to…
MSN ContentAds are Now Live to All Advertisers
A Search Engine Watch Forums post by Discovery alerts the community to the official launch of MSN ContentAds, which occurred yesterday. Every advertiser has now been pulled into the service. As Barry mentioned earlier, you must opt out manually. To do so, Discovery…
Google’s Keyword Tool Now Showing Search Volume Numbers
Google has added a new feature to the external keyword tool, they have added approximate search volume numbers. For example, I conducted a search for SEO and the results returned showed columns for “Approx Search Volume: June” and “Approx Avg Search…
SEMPO Launches Members Only Forum
Please expect a lot of chatter over at SEW forums at the thread I started named SEMPO Launches Members Only Forum. This is what I wrote: No official announcement yet, but I logged into my SEMPO account and found a link…
Facebook’s first transparency report shows majority of offending content removed before being reported
Facebook shares information about content that didn’t pass its Community Standards rules and how many times it took action. Facebook has released its first-ever transparency report, outlining the amount of content it has identified as breaking Community Standard rules between October…
Google Search Needs A/B Testing Guidelines
For years we’ve been covering questions around how to deal with A/B testing and Google indexing/crawling. Is it cloaking? Can it mess up your indexing? Will it hurt your rankings? All valid questions when you show multiple variations of your…
Yahoo To Turn Off Site Explorer
Horrible news for many SEOs who have come to rely on Yahoo Site Explorer as a free, comprehensive and search engine backed competitive analysis link tool. Sad news for me, being that Yahoo keeps failing on search. But we know.…