SMX speaker, Frédéric Dubut of Bing, explains why 2020 is the year SEOs need to evaluate their intent research practices to keep up with the latest developments in deep learning and natural language processing. Below is the video transcript: Hi everyone. This is Frédéric Dubut from Bing, here to talk about some of the cool…
DetailsContributor and SMX speaker, Adam Dorfman, thinks the customer feedback ecosystem is going to play an even more important role in the coming year for businesses looking to improve operations and the customer experience. Below is the video transcript: Hi everybody, my name’s Adam Dorfman. I’m a director of product growth at Reputation.com and I’m…
DetailsIn a recent post on the SparkToro blog, Moz founder and search guru Rand Fishkin predicted that 2020 will be the year Google is transformed “from everyone’s search engine to everyone’s competitor.” Fishkin cites Google’s monopoly on web search and the trend toward zero-click searches, then outlines a dizzying range of examples to prove his…
DetailsContributor and SMX speaker, Fili Wiese, explains why it’s important to audit your website in 2020 to help search engine algorithms better understand your content. Below is the video transcript: Hello, my name is Fili. I used to work for Google and now I am at searchbrothers.com. One of the things I want to be…
DetailsIn 2019, Google shook up mobile search results pages with a redesign that introduced black “Ad” labels to text ads and favicons for organic listings. It also caused a stir in notifying some advertisers it would start handling campaign management for them. Automation continued to be a major theme. This year, it was reflected most…
DetailsThe IRS has revised its Free File agreement with online tax return software providers, requiring them to allow their Free File landing pages to be indexed by search engines and backing out of its pledge not to enter the e-file services marketplace, ProPublica reported on Monday. Why we care Strategic use of robots directives can…
DetailsThis is part of our series on in-house SEO in which we dig into the operational challenges and opportunities that managing search engine optimization in-house presents. A shock to most non-SEO teams at large corporations is that they are the ones impacting SEO every day. They are even more surprised to learn that most SEO…
DetailsFor businesses that operate in the physical world, Google My Business (GMB) has become the center of the digital universe. Google is relying increasingly on content in GMB for ranking and less on third party citations and off-page signals than in the past. A lot happened with GMB this year, far too much to summarize…
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