Business Operations & Logistics Why Local Businesses Should Pay Extra Attention to Google Maps Want to score more web traffic and in-person visits? Better start promoting your business on Maps. By Andrew Medal
Business Operations & Logistics 10 Ways to Improve Your Chances for Featured Snippets By John Rampton
Building a Business 4 Ways to Boost Ranking For Your Own Branded Terms All that's required to push your company name to the coveted top rank on search is working at it steadily. By John Rampton
Tech How Shutterstock Is Training Its System to Help You Find Better Photos The image service has rolled out new tools based on its research into deep learning. By Nina Zipkin
Building a Business 4 Ways to Conduct an Awesome Talent Search Is your persistence in finding the 'perfect' candidate dragging you down? By Heather R. Huhman
Business News New Search Engine Allows You to Find ‘The Simpsons’ Screenshot You Desire You don't win friends with salad, but you can probably make plenty of new ones by becoming a Simpsons meme machine with Frinkiac. By Devindra Hardawar
Building a Business Report: Google Is Building a ‘Smart’ Mobile-Messaging App to Rival Facebook Messenger The service will reportedly enable people to text each other and use chatbots to search, yes, you guessed it, Google. By Kim Lachance Shandrow
Building a Business 9 Ways Small Businesses Can Be Big on Google With diligent attention to the tricks of the online business trade, smaller businesses can climb to that coveted first spot on the search page. By John Rampton
Tech Pinterest Just Rolled Out a Nifty Visual Search Feature The tool allows users to refine searches through images. By Nina Zipkin
Building a Business Google Is Starting to Penalize Mobile Sites That Do This It's no longer considered mobile-friendly to have pop-up ads before you reach content, which can impact advertisers and publishers. By Jonathan Chew
Online Presence 6 Steps to Improve Your Personal Brand on Google Google is the source of truth for your personal brand. Make sure it's the truth you want. By Jason Parks
Building a Business 4 Ways to Successfully Link Build to Increase Website Traffic The way SEOs look at link building has changed dramatically in the last few years to focus on both search visibility and target audience. By Vivek Patel
Building a Business Google Refuses French Request to Apply ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Globally The majority of searches made from Europe are done through local versions of Google, the company argues. By Reuters
Building a Business Low-Cost Patent Search Options for Inventors on a Budget Inventors routinely believe they were the first to think of their great idea. They are not routinely correct. By Kedma Ough
Building a Business The Holy Grail of Startup Marketing: Search, Social and Content You need to be active on all three fronts to drive traffic to your website and increase sales. By Rahul Varshneya
Building a Business Amazon Must Face Trademark Lawsuit Over Search Results A watchmaker says the online retailer's search results can cause confusion for potential customers. By Reuters
Building a Business Paging Cindy, If She Exists. (And Why It’s Important If She Doesn’t.) The Internet has flattened the world, but also is fraught with danger. Luckily, the Web has tools to protect yourself and your business. By Issamar Ginzberg
Tech Traveling in Europe? A New Search Engine Wants to Show You Every Transportation Option. A startup goes the extra mile to help travelers in Europe plan routes. By Brittany Shoot
Building a Business Get Ready for ‘Buy’ Buttons in Google Search Results Google might become Amazon's next biggest rival, according to a report. By Jason Fell
Online Presence Taking Aim at Google, Facebook Builds a Mobile Search Engine Users will be able to search for links to share natively on Facebook as opposed to rummaging elsewhere on the web. By Geoff Weiss
Building a Business EU Says Google Cheated in Shopping Searches In another antitrust investigation, the search giant is accused of distorting Internet search results to favor its shopping service. By Reuters
Online Presence How to Use LinkedIn Search to Find the Best Job Candidates Find the candidates you want quickly via LinkedIn's Search and Advanced Search tools. By Ted Prodromou
Business Operations & Logistics How to Make the Most of the Week Left Until Google’s Next Search Algorithm Update It's not too late to begin adapting to the expected switch in focus to mobile, but it is getting close. By Brett Relander
Tech Traditional Search is Dying as Sales Organizations Make Way for ‘Context’ Now's the time your organization should adopt the contextual-search trend that's already big in the consumer market. By Doug Winter
Building a Business April 21 Is Your Last Chance for Mobile Optimization Before ‘Mobilegeddon’ The search giant is currently working on a major algorithm change that will revolutionize the way mobile friendliness is determined.
Online Presence How to Get to the Top of LinkedIn’s Search Results Let this LinkedIn expert show you the one thing you can do to dramatically improve your ranking on LinkedIn search. By Ted Prodromou
Building a Business 6 Tricks to Optimize Your Site for Search Engines and Real People Follow this expert advice for designing web pages that attract eyeballs without turning off the search engines. By Mitch Meyerson
Tech I’ve Seen the New Face of Search, and It Ain’t Google With mobile quickly overtaking the web, the classic search box may soon be replaced by the text message. By Alex Iskold