Bing introduces penalty for ‘inorganic site structure’ violations
Bing announced new spam penalties for questionable tactics which will continue to help fight unscrupulous practices. More
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Bing introduces penalty for ‘inorganic site structure’ violations
Bing announced new spam penalties for questionable tactics which will continue to help fight unscrupulous practices. More

Global Smartphone Sales Rebound
In a much anticipated report, it seems that phone sales have started to rebound after many months of decreased sales. Flat sales are the first

GDPR beyond compliance need: a value-adding tool for SMEs
Although businesses were understandably concerned, it seems that the introduction of GDPR has not had an overtly negative effect on companies. Read more

TripAdvisor acquisition aims to compete with Google on restaurant listings
TripAdvisor has been expanding its restaurant services and distribution capabilities. Now, SinglePlatform will find a better product and cultural fit at TripAdvisor than at ConstantContact

GDPR fines were meant to rock the data privacy world. They haven’t
GDPR was global news when it launched. It’s still on people’s minds, but more so because of the possibility of fines. Read more

Spotzer wins big at the European Business Awards 2019
Spotzer won the top prize in the Customer and Market Engagement at the European Business Awards 2019. The company competed with over 150,000 business from

Welcome BERT: Google’s latest search algorithm to better understand natural language
Google’s first major change to its search system will affect the results for queries.

The reason why your Google local ranking changed in November
The aptly named “Nov. 2019 Local Search Update” is related to Google “making use of neural matching as part of the process of generating local

Featured snippets display on desktop 13% more often than mobile, study finds
The results of a study revealed a higher percentage of featured snippets on desktops as opposed to mobile devices. Read more

Record fines for GDPR violations
Overall, since the new GDPR regulations came into play in May 2018, European data protection authorities have received more than 90,000 data breach notifications. More

Microsoft opens responsive search ads beta to all advertisers
All advertisers can now start testing responsive search ads in their Microsoft Advertising accounts. With responsive search ads (RSAs), first introduced by Google last year,

Contract for the Web unveiled for companies, governments
The inventor of the web has launched a global action plan to save the web from political manipulation, fake news, privacy violations and more things
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