Google is running a new test in Indonesia that will see users served a “lighter” version of your webpages when users are visiting your site from a slow mobile connection. The “field test” will start running in two weeks and will serve those visiting sites on a connection that is 2G or slower. This test […]
Archives for 2015
Keynote: Biasing Your Offer with Irrational Neuromarketing by Tim Ash at HeroConf
Monday at HeroConf held in Portland, Time Ash, CEO of SiteTuners was the afternoon keynote speakers on The Context and the Power of Framing: Biasing Your Offer with Irrational Neuromarketing. “Online marketers are focused on the technology and operational aspects of their daily activities. The goal of my keynote is to focus on emerging research […]
Google Running “Satisfied With These Results?” on Mobile Searches
Google is now running satisfaction surveys for searchers who are searching from a mobile device. Rand Fishkin from Moz spotted the survey in mobile results, remarking it is the first time he has seen it on mobile. It coincides pretty nicely with the Google mobile friendly algo, which should have finished rolling out by now. […]
Google+ Removes Hashtags from Posts
A minor change was made to Google+ with the removal of the hashtags that normally appeared on the top right hand corner of Google+ posts. Ana Hoffman was the first to spot the change. The hashtags were auto-generated by Google based on the content shared. They were never really promoted on Google+ and because they […]
Emojis Showing Up in Google Search Results for Competitive Searches
When emojis were first spotted in the Google desktop search results, we knew it wouldn’t be long before someone would be testing them out. And Expedia seems to be the first one people noticed who is testing this in live search results. Barry Schwartz posted about two emojis Expedia is running, but they are actually […]
How the Top 25 Newspapers are Handling Mobile Traffic
Pew Researched released their State of the News Media 2015 report, and one of the things they highlighted was the fact many newspapers have more mobile visits than they do desktop. For 19 of the top 25 newspaper sites and associated apps in overall traffic, mobile traffic exceeded desktop by at least 10%. For five […]
Your New Advantage on Mobile Search
If you haven’t been hiding in a cave for the past few months you’ll know that April 21st marked the beginning of the rollout of a mobile index by Google. Essentially, instead of creating a mobile algorithm to favor mobile sites they decided to create a whole new index of sites that are mobile-friendly to […]
Facebook No Longer Allows Pages to Add Photo to Link Posts
For many Facebook page owners, if Facebook didn’t use the correct image they wanted for a post on a Page, even if one was correctly tagged for use on Facebook, it was a simple solution to simply upload the correct photo to go along with the link being shared. But Facebook appears to have disabled […]
URL Displayed Returning to Google Webmaster Tools
If you are a webmaster with multiple sites – especially those who tend to have multiple sites in the same or similar industries – it can be easy to forget exactly which site you are looking at when logged into your Google Webmaster Tools account. Google used to display the URL of the site you […]
Google Reminding AdSense Users About Mobile Friendly Algo
Google seems to be expanding their reminders to alert webmasters about the new mobile friendly algo that was launched last week. While we have seen reminders within Google Webmaster Tools, they have added a new alert at the top of the Google AdSense login page to alert any publishers about the mobile friendly algo in […]