Matt G. Southern, Senior News Writer, has been with Search Engine Journal since 2013. With a bachelor’s degree in communications, Matt specializes in gathering details, checking facts, and making complex subjects easy to understand. In addition to writing articles, Matt oversees strategy development for SEJ’s news department.
According to the 3rd Annual U.S. Mobile Path-to-Purchase Study findings released today by xAd, mobile is now dominating the consumer purchase decision process. But what’s surprising...
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about inbound links in his latest Webmaster Help video where a user writes in to...
If you have the All-In-One SEO Pack WordPress plugin installed, your website may be at risk of being compromised if it’s not updated. A update was released...
This week, Twitter launched an interactive guide designed to help small businesses make better use of its social network. The guide is tailored towards beginners...
Last week a landmark privacy decision was made by the European Union Court of Justice that grants EU citizens the “right to be forgotten.” The...
YouTube announced the released of a new tool today that assesses the level of video quality that your Internet service provider is capable of streamin YouTube videos....
How diverse is Google’s workplace? Well, Google will be the first to tell you that it’s not where it wants to be in terms of...
Even though Twitter continues to add new users, its year over year growth is dropping according to a new report from eMarketer. According to eMarketer’s...
Google announced on their Webmaster Central blog today that they have recently updated their Fetch As Google tool, which now gives users the ability to...
If you create videos as part of your content marketing strategy, you’ll be happy to know that YouTube is about to launch a new app...
Google reported on their Webmaster Central Blog today that they will be launching a new tool in the next few days to help users better...
Since Panda 4.0 was rolled out early this week, there have been reports about which websites saw the greatest drop in rankings. According to the...
Today, Facebook announced some changes to their default privacy settings for new users, as well as a new privacy checkup tool for current users. Facebook...
LinkedIn released a report today, stating that their research proves there is an opportunity for businesses to leverage the buying power of professionals on the...
The past 24 hours have been a wild time for those who either work in, or follow the field of SEO. Google confirmed the rollout...
Google announced today on their official blog that they are adding two new features to Google+ for desktop and mobile. The new features, called Stories...
According to re/code, Twitter may be making another move into the music industry as they are reportedly considering a deal to buy SoundCloud. SoundCloud is...
Google announced via their Webmaster Central blog today that they have recently updated PageSpeed Insights with mobile-specific recommendations to help site owners make their page...
News broke over the weekend that Facebook is working on video messaging app that will be a direct competitor to the wildly popular app Snapchat....
Google co-founder, Larry Page, issued his annual founders’ letter yesterday reflecting on the state of Google and advancements they’ve made in 2013. Here are some...
Jade Wang, Community Manager for Google Places, announced via Google+ yesterday that new social features and multi-admin functionality will be coming to the Google Places bulk...
The latest post on the Pinterest blog takes a close look at what the post popular categories are for each day of the week. So,...
Bing’s Senior Product Manager, Duane Forrester, published a post on the Bing Webmaster Blog today vouching for the importance of Schema markup. For those unfamiliar,...
Google has recently updated it’s iOS search app to version 4.0, and with it comes several new, useful features. Users who are familiar with using Siri...
Today, Twitter announced that they will be introducing a new feature for its iPhone and Android apps, as well as Twitter.com, that will allow users to...
Today, Pinterest announced they have officially begun a small rollout of the ad units they will be using to monetize their steadily growing social network....
Duane Forrester, Bing’s Senior Product Manager, took to the Bing Webmaster Blog today to give his analysis on 10 of the most common SEO myths....
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a press release this week stating that Snapchat has agreed to settle charges that it deceived users with false...
Today, Facebook announced the launch of a new tool, called audience insights, that Page owners can use to learn more about who their target audience...
Twitter announced this week that advertisers now have the option to target Promoted Tweets and Promoted Accounts in the preferred language of the audience they...
