According to a new study from BrightEdge, 57% of all search traffic is coming from both smartphones and tablets. This change goes along with Google’s decision to move to a mobile-first index, giving mobile friendly sites an advantage at being indexed first. The report also revealed a large disparity between ranking positions depending on if
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Google’s Voice Search Is Now Available To Over One Billion People Worldwide
According to Search Engine Journal, Google’s voice search is now available to over one billion people worldwide. Thanks to this new language rollout, Google has now added 30 new languages to their speech recognition software, bring their total number of languages to 119. This software also has the ability to support the emoji language. The
Bing Now Supports “Fact Checking” ClaimReview Markup
Bing has now added support for ClaimReview markup, following Google’s lead from last year. Google first supported the ClaimReview markup feature nine months ago. This markup was created to fact-check various claims made on web pages. Now that Bing has added this markup, they have created a new Bing ClaimReview section which shares information about
Google Says Sticky Footers Are Okay
This week, Gary Illyes, a Google Webmaster, shared that Google didn’t punish sites that used sticky footers. Illyes revealed this news via a response to a question asked on Twitter. Illyes tweeted back to the user that Google doesn’t demote sites that employ the use of sticky footers. The purpose of a sticky footer is
Google Is Testing Autoplay Videos In Search Results
Taking a page from Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter, Google is now testing automatically playing videos in their search results. According to Google, this autoplay test will not be rolled out to all users and does not include all movie trailers and tv shows. For Google users able to replicate the test, an autoplay video will
