The TMO Blog

Accelerated Mobile Pages Are Rolling Out Across Google

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Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) have been rumored to rollout in late February for some time, and it appears they are finally starting to appear. The AMP listings are being spotted in mobile search results, but it seems they are not…
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Google Has The Slowest Loading Mobile Home Page In Its Market

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Google has been vocal lately about encouraging webmasters to improve the loading speed of their websites, especially on mobile devices. It has made loading speed one of its many ranking signals and is rolling out Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)…
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Say Goodbye: Google Drops Ads In Right Hand Column

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Google has officially confirmed the end of ads in the right hand column of its search pages, except for two notable exceptions. As of February 19th, Google is phasing out ads on the right side of its desktop search results. Instead, all ads…
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Facebook Brings New Look, Important New Stats To Video Metrics

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Facebook is overhauling its Video Metrics section of Page Insights with several new improvements and features to improve how it allows users to track video engagement. To start with, the company is completely redesigning the entire interface…
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Instagram Rolls Out View Counts For Video

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It has been almost three years since Instagram stretched its legs and expanded to video, but in all this time it has been missing a crucial feature – view counts. While the other giants in social video like YouTube, Facebook, and Vine have…
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Google To Drop Flash From Google Display Network Ads

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Adobe Flash is all but dead and Google is putting the final nails in the coffin by dropping support for Flash-based ads in favor of ads coded in HTML5. This isn’t happening immediately, but Google announced its intention to move to HTML5…
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Twitter Announces New “Improved Timeline”

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Twitter is calling its latest new feature an improvement to their timeline, but many users disagree. The new Improved is an algorithm-based feature which uses data collected from a user’s previous activity on Twitter to show them the tweets…
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Google Is Urging Business Owners To Update Their Knowledge Graph Listings

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Have your checked your business’s Knowledge Graph information lately? If you haven’t, you may be hearing from Google the next time you perform a search. Recently, Dan Leveille discovered that Google is proactively reaching out to searchers…
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Mobile Wins Super Bowl 50 When It Comes To Search

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Online searchers are increasingly turning to mobile devices during the biggest trending moments, and this year’s super bowl makes that clearer than ever. According to Google, 82 percent of all TV ad-driven searches during the Super Bowl came…
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