mobile search
Is Microsoft Blocking Google Search On New Lumia Phones?
According to a story appearing in The Verge yesterday, Microsoft is not allowing users to set Google as the default search engine for mobile web...
VIDEO + SLIDESHOW: The Coming Paradigm Shift in Mobile Marketing
Thanks to the proliferation of mobile devices, the necessary ingredients for a complete paradigm shift are in place: decreasing cost of wireless...
Survey: Mobile Dominates Vacation Search Queries
Local SEO provider Placeable, which competes with a range of companies in the increasingly crowded national-local segment, has released new...
Google To Warn Searchers When A Mobile URL Redirects To The Homepage
Don’t annoy mobile searchers. That’s the message behind a new warning that Google is showing in mobile search results on...
How To Run Single-Device Only Enhanced Campaigns. It Can Be Done!
When I speak about Enhanced Campaigns, I invariably get an audience question like this: “How can I create single-device campaigns? I know...
Secret Contracts Keep Google In Control Of Mobile Search Argues Lawsuit
A would be class action lawsuit was filed last week against Google in Federal Court in California. The action seeks to resurrect some of the...
Boost Your Campaigns By Becoming An Expert Search “Forecaster”
In the Greater Seattle area, you never know what spring weather will bring — cloudy at 8 a.m., sunny at noon, pouring down rain at 5. I...
Google Sees Deeper App Content As Key To Mobile Usage
Google is the dominant mobile search engine with nearly 90 percent of the market in the US and an even greater share internationally. The...
Where Yahoo Might Again Compete In Search: Mobile
Kara Swisher on Friday broke the news that Yahoo was working on two internal (no longer) secret initiatives to get Yahoo back into organic and...
There’s No SEO Without Mobile SEO
It’s 2014, which means we are officially one year away from the year that Kelsey Group predicted mobile search will eclipse desktop...
Lessons From An Accidental Tourist On The Inter-Webs
I live in a double bubble when it comes to my perceptions of how “America” uses the Internet. The first bubble I live in is Silicon...
Survey: Majority Use Mobile Search, Find It “Harder Than PC”
In the cross-platform, post-PC era, the big question the search industry faces is whether and how PC search behaviors are extending into mobile....
SEO Changed Forever In 2013. How To Adjust And Thrive In 2014
If there’s ever been any question that SEO marketers need to put user needs first, 2013 was the year the search engines made it clear....
The Brave New World of SEO: Beyond Websites
We hear it regularly — the death knell tolling for SEO. In the past several years, we’ve been bombarded by a barrage of change in...
4 Paid Search Strategies For Converting On-The-Go Customers
Consumers are increasingly engaging with businesses while they’re on the go. In fact, of the 94 percent of smartphone owners searching for...
Yelp Triples The Search Filters On Its iOS App
Yelp quietly made a pretty big expansion of its search capabilities on iOS within the past week. The company’s latest iOS app update...
Google’s Cutts: Page Speed Ranking Factor Not More Important On Mobile Search
In a recent video answer, Google’s head of search spam Matt Cutts said that page speed is not any more important in terms of a ranking...
Used To Searching For Content? Now, Content Searches For You
When it comes to search, we are accustomed to queries that are initiated client-side and not server-side. But, Google Now and similar services...
Two Local & Voice Search Improvements In Latest Google Glass Update
Two search-related improvements made their way into the latest Google Glass software update. Google announced the XE7 software update last week,...
Google’s Mobile “Quick View” Trial Appears To Be Over
Google appears to have quietly put an end to a long-running trial that added a “quick view” option next to mobile (smartphone only)...