Facebook’s News Reader App, Paper, Launches Today on iOS in the US
Facebook Creative Labs have launched their first ever product, a curated visual news reader app called Paper. If you live in the US and own...
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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.
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Google Places Adds Over 1,000 New Categories For International Business Listings
In an announcement made in a discussion forum thread by Google Business Community Manager, Jade Wang, Google has added a substantial amount of new business...
Save the Date: #SEJMeetup on March 11 @ SMX West!
We’ve scheduled our second ever #SEJMeetup in San Jose, CA to coincide with the SMX West conference. We’ve booked the Mosaic Restaurant & Lounge for Tuesday, March...
Twitter Search Gets Better, More Useful, With New Search Filters
Twitter announced on, of all places, Twitter yesterday that they are bringing new filters to the desktop version of their social network: We’re bringing new...
Matt Cutts Explains Why You Should Not Use Article Directories To Build Links
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about link building in his latest Webmaster Help video where a user writes in to...
Pinterest Makes It Easier to Find Pins with Introduction of ‘Pinterest Interests’
Pinterest is one of the fastest growing and most user friendly social networking sites on the web today, but they’re clearly not satisfied with maintaining...
Google Crushes Yet Another Link Network For Violating Quality Guidelines
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, made an announcement on Twitter early this morning that action has been taken on another link network: Today...
Google Acquires Artificial Intelligence Company DeepMind For a Reported $400 Million
An artificial intelligence company based in London, England called DeepMind has been acquired by Google for a reported sum of $400 million. The deal was...
Mobile Marketing Taking Over: 65% of Marketing Emails Opened on Mobile Devices in the US
It’s official: Americans are ditching desktops and viewing marketing emails on their smartphones and tablets more than ever, according to new research from Movable Ink. The US Consumer Device...
Matt Cutts Explains How Important Social Media Signals Really Are
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about social media signals in his latest Webmaster Help video where a user writes in...
Google Will Now Adjust Search Filters Based On What You’re Looking For
You may have noticed while searching on Google lately that there are now fewer search filtering options available under the ‘More’ drop down menu, as...
Pinterest Beefs Up Search Capabilities With More Efficient Way To Find Recipes
Pinterest announced on their blog yesterday the launch of new features to make it easier, and more efficient, to find recipes based on your individual...
Facebook to Begin Showing Less Text Posts From Business Pages
In an announcement made today on the Facebook Newsroom blog, an update to the News Feed algorithm is being rolled out that will result in...
Pinterest is Testing the Ability to Pin GIFs
Posting GIFs has proven to be wildly popular on sites like Reddit and Tumblr, soon you might be able to pin GIFs to your favorite...
Google Cracking Down On Bad Advertising Practices, Over 350 Million Ads Removed
Google released a report on their AdWords blog today detailing just how vehemently they are cracking down on “bad actors” who are abusing the online...
Facebook Introduces Trending Topics, Here’s How They Differ From Twitter’s
Facebook recently introduced a new feature to the desktop version of their site that’s a lot like Twitter’s trending topics. Simply called “Trending”, it’s a...
Keyword Rich Domain Names Improving Search Rankings is a Myth, According to Bing
Duane Forrester, Sr. Product Manager of Bing, claims it’s a myth that keyword rich domain names improve search engine rankings in a post published yesterday on...
Google Releases Official Google Publisher Plugin For WordPress
Announced this morning on their Webmaster Central blog, Google has released an official Google Publisher Plugin for WordPress. While still in the beta stage, this...
Google Image Search Now Lets You Find Images By Usage Rights
Google Image Search now lets you easily find images based on their usage rights. This option has been available for a few years, but it...
Google Acquires Nest Labs For $3.2 Billion in Cash
Google made its second largest acquisition in company history today with the purchase of Nest Labs, makers of smart thermostats and smart smoke alarms, for...
Buffer Adds Google Analytics Integration and More to ‘Buffer For Business’ Plans
Buffer, a wildly successful social media scheduling platform, recently launched some powerful new features to their fledgling Buffer For Business plan. Buffer For Business is a...
Matt Cutts Explains How To Deal With Minor Duplicate Content Issues
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about duplicate content in his latest webmaster help video where a user writes in to...
Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone Launches Jelly, A Social Q&A Search Engine
Twitter Co-Founder, Biz Stone, recently launched his super-secret project Jelly, available worldwide on Android and iOS as of yesterday. Jelly is “kinda like using a...
Pinterest Acquires VisualGraph, Looks To Improve Visual Search Capabilities
In an effort to make much needed upgrades to its visual search capabilities, Pinterest recently acquired two-man startup VisualGraph. Founder Kevin Jing previously worked on Google’s visual...
Rap Genius Back On First Page Of Google After 10-Day Penalty
After being outed for unnatural link scheme, lyrics site Rap Genius was hit with a manual penalty by Google that buried their pages deep into...
Google Hits Rap Genius With A Spam Penalty Resulting in 80% Traffic Loss
Lyrics site Rap Genius was penalized by Google just before Christmas after being outed for a black-hat link building scheme. Rap Genius was looking for...
Google Has Reduced Authorship Rich Snippets By 15 Percent
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, stated months ago Google Authorship rich snippets would soon see a 15 percent reduction. We reported on this...
Google Launches Tool For Easy URL Removal On Third-Party Sites
As content on the Internet gets modified or sometimes removed altogether, Google wants to help users by providing a tool to have search results updated...
Facebook Begins Testing Auto-Playing News Feed Video Ads
Facebook has announced they will begin testing auto-playing News Feed video ads for a limited number of accounts starting this week. Facebook has been refining their...
Matt Cutts Explains How Duplicate Content Affects Rankings
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about duplicate content in his latest video where a user writes in to ask: How does Google...