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.
This is a session recap from Marcus Tober’s presentation on “The Search (R)evolution” from our June 13 San Francisco conference, “SEO, Content Marketing and Analytics:...
In an announcement made today, Facebook is taking a cue from its users and taking two major steps to make ads better. In the first...
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, recently announced at SMX Advanced in Seattle that the third iteration of its Payday loan algorithm would be...
Twitter took its desktop Twitter client, TweetDeck, offline today following what is reported to be a massive security breach. We’ve temporarily taken TweetDeck services down...
Fabrice Canel, Principal Program Manager at Bing, updated the Bing Webmaster Blog this week with six tips for sitemaps, including some advice specifically for large...
In April we reported that Pinterest will be bringing a new feature called Guided Search to its mobile apps, designed to help users find things...
The Guardian reports today that Google is considering letting users know in the search results pages when search results have been removed due to the...
Facebook recently announced on their Facebook For Business blog that they will be rolling out new targeting options for video ads. When creating a campaign...
Last month we reported that Pinterest was starting to roll out their new advertising unit, Promoted Pins. At that time, Pinterest was looking to get...
Google announced on their Webmaster Central blog today that they have released an in-depth guide to Googlebot-friendly site movies. “Few topics confuse and scare webmasters...
Google published some advice on their Webmaster Central blog today on how to fix faulty redirects. Specifically, how to prevent smartphone users from clicking on...
Brian Boland, of the Ads Product Marketing team at Facebook, took to the Facebook For Business blog today to answer the questions many Page owners...
Google recently introduced the ability for those who have created a page in Google+ of a type other than Local business or place to integrate their...
Google recently provided a preview of of some of the tools and features they will be discussing at the 2014 Google Analytics summit. Perhaps the most...
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...
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