The head of search spam at Google, Matt Cutts, has confirmed with us that Google has applied a 15% reduction in the amount of rich snippets displayed in the search results. See on searchengineland.com

Come on, be honest with yourself. Is your website really giving your visitors an optimized, intuitive experience? Or are you still serving mobile visitors a site that was designed for desktop? See on mashable.com

The increased use of mobile by consumers is having a highly significant impact on a variety of digital marketing efforts, say company marketers responding to a study See on http://www.marketingcharts.com

At SMX East this past October, I gave a presentation titled, “Putting the SEO Power of Google+ to Work.” The centerpiece of that presentation was a first peek at a study I’d conducted that seemed to confirm my hypothesis that…

Superbowl is always a showcase of the state of marketing. This year’s Superbowl was dominated by social media war rooms all trying to replicate last year’s Oreo moment. During the Superbowl power outage in 2013, Oreo tweeted “Power out? No…

You might have great content to share with your site visitors, but if you don’t help them find it, then it might as well not be there. This article is going to help you plan your site layout, architecture, navigation,…

The #Emerging-Markets sell off can last for six months or a year – http://t.co/gBTE00mPv3 See on us4.campaign-archive1.com

This time round we’ve had the boom and the denial – and we’re halfway to grudging acceptance. Look out for panic next We’ve been here before. Twenty years ag… See on talk.ee

Bank for International Settlements says there had been a “massive expansion” in borrowing on global bond markets by banks and companies in developing countries (Telegraph: “#Emerging markets more vulnerable than ever to Fed tightening, warns BIS” … See on http://www.telegraph.co.uk

Washington Post The ultimate patent troll is going to trial against Google and Motorola The Verge Started by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold in 2000 and initially funded by a who’s who of tech companies including Google, it touts a…