Google is sending email notifications via Search Console to alert site owners about spikes in search traffic for specific pages. “Your page is trending up,” the email reads, followed by a number indicating the page’s average daily clicks over the past few days. To illustrate the significance of that number, Google’s email alert will note […]
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ElasticComputeFarm / Pixabay Four years ago, we reported that Americans would spend a forecasted $600 billion during the 2014 holiday season. In 2018, that number has skyrocketed to a massive $1.1 trillion, according to data from Deloitte, which is more than a quarter of annual retail sales. Of course, greater retail sales inevitably lead to
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Mediamodifier / Pixabay We are living in an age of uncertainty. There’s more volatility in our politics, economics, and increasingly, our climate. For brands, this translates into sudden support spikes. In 2016, Con Edison weathered the impact of Storm Jonas upon New York City. Intuit, maker of TurboTax, saw its own tsunami of questions rising
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Here’s the understatement of the year: March was not a good month for Facebook. The Cambridge Analytica scandal and ensuing #DeleteFacebook wave and stock plummet has a lot of people questioning the future of Zuckerberg and Co., and with good reason. Not only is Facebook stock down over 15 percent (year to date), but also
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I recently started helping a site that was negatively impacted by the May 17 algorithm update. The site had been surfing the gray area of quality for a long time, surging with some quality updates, and sometimes dropping. So I started digging in via a crawl analysis and audit of the site. Once I started
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Barry Schwartz Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land’s News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on social media at @rustybrick, +BarrySchwartz and Facebook. For more background information on Barry, see his full bio and
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