New edition of SEO success factors reinforces the importance of content
A theme that resounded in the SEO community during SMX Advanced in Seattle was that Google wants relevant, differentiated content above all else. At SMX Advanced in Seattle on June 4, the 2019 edition of the Periodic Table of SEO Success Factors was officially unveiled. The Periodic Table, first launched in 2011, is updated every […]
Cell-Based Meat: Real Meat Without Slaughtering Animals
“This is real meat directly from animal cells,” says Memphis Meats CEO Uma Valeti. “People who love meat for thousands of years immediately recognize this as meat. In fact, cell-based meat is called the holy grail of the food industry. This is meat and when people taste it that’s when the magic happens. If someone […]
Disney Takes a Playbook Out of Digitally Native Companies
“All of a sudden people are realizing that Disney is going to take the advantages that they have, content that nobody else has, moats that give them actual real leverage in the negotiations, and then they’re going to actually take a playbook out of these more digitally native companies,” says Sean Ammirati of Birchmere Ventures. […]
AI-Powered Sequencing Technology Is The Future In Medical Diagnostics
“This is next-generation sequencing,” says CareDx CEO Peter Maag. “It’s really the future in Diagnostics. We are applying this technology to match an organ with the recipient on a very granular level. We do that in organ transplantation, in bone marrow transplantation, and in transplantation overall. Now in the post-transplant area, we can actually detect […]
Disruption Caused By Technology Certainly Is a Big Issue, Says Disney CEO
“When I think about what is going on in our businesses and our world today disruption caused by technology certainly is a big issue,” said Disney CEO Bob Iger while sitting within the new Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland. “It’s one that I don’t necessarily get anxious about but one that I spend a […]
Bing now supports batch mode for submitting URLs to Bing
You can now use a single Bing API request to submit up to 500 URLs, instead of making 500 individual API requests. Bing announced it has added support to submit URLs to the search engine in batch mode. That means instead of making an API request for each URL you submit to Bing, you can batch […]
Here’s the content Google aims to keep out of featured snippets
If you want to show in Google’s featured snippets, be sure you’re clear on the content policies for them. Recently, Google’s practices around which sites and types of content it may include in featured snippets have raised censorship concerns and talk of blacklists in some circles. We asked Google to clarify its policies around the […]
Combination of 5G and Wi-Fi 6 is Incredible, Says Boingo CEO
“5G is not really hype, it’s here and it will emerge over time,” says Boingo CEO Mike Finley. “I think it’s going to come faster than 4G did. You have all the U.S. operators engaged and you have operators all over the world that are launching and want to launch 5G products. At Boingo, we’ll […]
Experts tout voice search as study ties answers to top 3 organic results
SEMrush research unveiled at SMX Advanced suggests the key to voice performance is high SERP placement, site speed, content readability and high-quality backlinks. SEATTLE — A new study has found 80% of the answers delivered by Google’s voice assistant came from the three top results in search engine results pages. Even more, 60% of the […]
Every Digital Transformation Begins and Ends With the Customer, Says Salesforce CEO
“Every company is going through a massive digital customer transformation,” says Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. “When you see this transformation happening it’s just incredible to watch. I mean this is as big as Y2K was for the tech industry. Every company is going through it. Every one of these major transformations is exactly that, it […]