Siri. Microsoft Cortana. Google Now. One after the other, these voice operated personal assistants came onto the scene riding a wave of popularity that has risen since 2010 when Siri was first launched. Recent studies carried out by NorthStar Research have discovered that 55% of teenagers and 41% of adults use voice search more than […]
You can’t celebrate Local Search Day without a local search panel. This years Rocks Digital brings together the best and brightest in local search, SEO, mobile and voice search! The moderator, Bernadette Coleman, the CEO of Advice Local is known around the web as the Queen of Local SEO and she brings it this year.
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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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Have an idea for a physical product? Find out how our next guest used podcasting and email marketing to turn her product idea into a successful reality. In this episode, we learn how Addy Saucedo of The Podcast Planner created and launched a physical product that solved a true market need for her audience. Addy
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Alexander Supertramp / Shutterstock.com Voice search, the topic that is on the virtual tip of every marketer’s tongue, currently accounts for one out of every five Google mobile searches — and that number is expected to grow over time as digital assistants and smart home devices become more commonplace. For the modern-day SEO, the shift from manual
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Voice is the next frontier, so understanding how to optimize your website’s content for voice searches is essential. In this video, I’ll cover an overview of voice search and how it should fit into your overall SEO strategy. I’ll give you three tips for ranking for conversational queries, including: creating content that answers the 5 W’s,
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On Wednesday, June 28, at 9 a.m., Future Ex-President Donald Trump was watching TV when he should have paid attention to – take your pick: the environment, jobs, health care, Putin and the upcoming G20 summit, the Middle East, North Korea, to name a few top-shelf issues. Instead, he washed down his breakfast with
Amazon’s Alexa Skills Kit is a collection of self-service APIs and tools that make it easier to create voice-driven capabilities for Alexa. Three years ago, in “Voice Commerce Ready for Prime Time?,” I presented the pros and cons of voice-activated transactions. Since then, voice commerce has grown significantly, with the adoption of voice-based assistants, such
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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The popularity of voice-activated smart assistants is gaining traction, especially with Apple hopping on the bandwagon with its Siri speaker due to be released soon. This is why businesses should include voice search in their online marketing campaign, rather than focus solely on text-based searches. In fact, voice search marketing is described as the new
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