Search Engine Land

JULY 10, 2024

Further, as far back as 2016 , Google has said that in-content links within the primary area of a page are always treated as more relevant than those in the header, menu, footer and sidebar. Google then renders the page and runs any JavaScript it finds at this time.

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Martech

APRIL 24, 2025

It’ll scrape Reddit threads, old Glassdoor reviews and that tweet you wish you’d deleted in 2016. If you’re not actively telling your brand’s story online, AI will fill in the blanks for better or worse. “Where’s the only place people always tell the truth? The search bar,” Minifie said.

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Hootsuite

JANUARY 31, 2025

I say this as someone who was out on the streets doing Thumbs promo in 2016: it is hilarious that Sabrina Carpenter got a Best New Artist nomination in 2024. This years Grammy nominees for Best New Artist sparked heated debates, particularly over Sabrina Carpenters eligibility for the award.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Ali moved into marketing consulting under the name Schwanke Marketing, then in 2016 launched her current business, Simple Strat. There were sales tools and there were marketing tools; they came together in about 2016 when HubSpot really leaned into their CRM. The people who could pay the check didn’t feel the pain.

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Martech

JUNE 13, 2024

In 2016, for example, Oracle acquired social sharing widget AddThis as a way to add data to its Data Cloud and help inform ad buys. But the company had to halt AddThis usage in Europe in 2019 once GDPR took effect. But the company had to halt AddThis usage in Europe in 2019 once GDPR took effect.

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CopyBlogger

JANUARY 19, 2023

In the lead-up to quitting my nine-to-five back in August 2016, the question of how to become self-employed plagued my. Continue Reading The post How to Become Self-Employed: 5 Key Moves for New Freelancers appeared first on Copyblogger.

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Hubspot Marketing

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Editor's note: This post was originally published in May 2016 and has been updated for comprehensiveness. As you can see, visual storytelling can be used in many ways to get people invested in your brand. Just start with a vision, story, and purpose.

Food 112

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SocialPilot

JULY 16, 2024

Since 2016, Twitter (now X)has also been running its feeds, just like other social media platforms, on an engagement or popularity basis and not on reverse chronology. Why Does Posting at the Right Time Matter?

Analytics 105

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Buffer Marketing

AUGUST 2, 2024

  In 2016, Mastodon , an open-source and decentralized microblogging platform, was launched. Despite initial excitement and a successful crowdfunding campaign, Diaspora struggled to gain mainstream traction. Their platform still exists and currently has around 850,000 users. 

Communications 110

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Jeff Bullas

JANUARY 16, 2023

I couldn’t find any customer testimonials on its website, but it’s been around since 2016 and has 24/7 customer support. FollowersUp has the biggest range of social networks for its services, with niche platforms such as Telegram, Vimeo, Likee, and Snapchat all supported. So if you’re unsure, have a chat to the team and ask some questions.

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Dreamgrow

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

I was a “Review Club” regular back in 2015-2016. Welcome to my AMZ Tracker review. The post AMZ Tracker Review: The Truth in 60 Seconds appeared first on Dreamgrow.

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Hootsuite

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Overall other than a minor drop in 2021 downloads for YouTube Kids have continued to increase since its launch in 2016. YouTube Kids saw 144 million downloads in 2024 YouTube Kids had its best year to date in 2024, seeing 144 million downloads up from 102 million in 2022. 32% of U.S.

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Hootsuite

AUGUST 18, 2020

2016: Machine learning (a.k.a. In 2016, YouTube released a whitepaper that made some waves. Source: Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations , 2016). 2016-2020: Borderline content, demonetization and brand safety. the algorithm). Of course, for all the impressive jargon, this whitepaper wasn’t a tell-all.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 17, 2023

Google Image Search launches colored filter buttons 2016: After testing various combinations, Google launched new filter buttons in the image search results. Bing Ads testing Social Extensions: Link search ads to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr 2016: The ad extension was in beta in the U.S.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

2015-2016: Satisfaction & personalization. In 2016, YouTube released a paper on its algorithm for its recommendation systems. 2016-present: Demonetization & policy updates. In 2012, YouTube announced a new metric “ Time Watched ” to use in their search and Suggested Video algorithm.

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Backlinko

MARCH 13, 2024

billion 2016 1.43 Mobile share accounts for 57.6% of daily internet time among users aged 16 to 64 worldwide. hours per day in 2023. Here’s a table with a number of smartphone users worldwide over time since 2014: Note: Data includes forecasts. Year Smartphone Users Worldwide 2014 1 billion 2015 1.22 billion 2017 1.66 billion 2018 1.94

Communications 118

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Backlinko

JUNE 20, 2024

billion 2016 $215.64 Here’s a table with the number of active Apple devices worldwide since 2016: Year Active Apple Devices Worldwide 2016 1 billion 2020 1.5 Here’s a table with Apple’s annual revenue since 2009: Note: Apple’s fiscal year ends on the last Saturday of September. Year Apple Annual Revenue 2009 $42.91

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Search Engine Roundtable

AUGUST 4, 2022

Google started its mobile-first indexing initiative over 5 years and 8 months ago, in November 2016. But we still have sites that are being migrated over from Google desktop-first indexing to mobile-first indexing in 2022.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 20, 2020

In 2016, Jerry Yang, an early investor in the pioneering AI web design startup Grid, properly summed up what AI web development and design is meant to achieve. Wix ADI: Wix, the website builder service, introduced Wix ADI in 2016. That last part is now seeing Artificial Design Intelligence (ADI) embraced in web design. .

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Hootsuite

JANUARY 15, 2025

Microsoft acquired LinkedIn in 2016, and today, it leads a diversified business with revenues from membership subscriptions, advertising sales, and recruitment solutions under Ryan Roslansky. LinkedIn turns 23 years old in 2025 LinkedIn officially launched on May 5th, 2003, just nine months before Facebook launched at Harvard.

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Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 19, 2023

By 2016, there were over 99,000 attendees at Coachella each weekend — combined to be nearly 10x the attendance of the first event. In 2015 and 2016 H&M partnered with Coachella organizers to launch #HMLovesCoachella, a clothing collection that captures the boho aesthetic the festival is known for.

Fashion 108

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Hubspot Marketing

MARCH 26, 2025

Editor's note: This post was originally published in April 2016 and has been updated for comprehensiveness. The creative process spent before actually filming a video is just as important as the actual content, so dont be afraid to spend a good chunk of time defining your brand strategy.

Video Marketing 106

Video Marketing Entertainment Marketing Marketers 106

Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Google first introduced mobile-first indexing back in November 2016, and by December 2018, half of all sites in Google’s search results were from mobile-first indexing. As a reminder, Google started mobile-first indexing over 6.5 years ago , and eventually, after publishing deadline after deadline, Google removed the deadline.

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SEO 144

Search Engine Roundtable

JULY 6, 2022

As a reminder, back in 2016, Google updated its guidelines for using schema markup on your site with third-party reviews. Google reminded us in 2018 that this is not in accordance with their rich results guidelines. And now, John Mueller of Google reminded us again - he said "You can't mark up 3rd party reviews with structured data.".

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 28, 2023

Adobe: Paid Search Spend Growth Slowed In Q4, Mobile Continued To Eat Into Desktop 2016: Retail advertising spend on mobile Shopping ads nearly doubled year-over-year in Q4. Google spend slowed slightly from Q3.

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Search Engine Roundtable

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Back in 2016, Google Search came out with a way to hear animal sounds in the knowledge panel. Google recently updated the play sound icon or button in Google Search to make it an animated GIF of animals coming out of the play button.

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Hubspot Marketing

AUGUST 25, 2022

Best Website Designs from 2016. Best Website Designs from 2016. Award: Best Activism Website, 2016 Webby Awards. Rainforest Guardians was one of the most immersive nonprofit websites of 2016. Award: Site of the Year (2016), Awwwards. Award: Best Association Website, 2016 Webby Awards. Website Design Ideas.

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Jeff Bullas

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Recently I interviewed Allan Dib on the Jeff Bullas Show Podcast and we discussed the extraordinary success of “The One Page Marketing Plan”, a book he published in 2016 that has over 6,763 ratings. Amazon changed the book market forever with the launch of the Kindle.

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Calvyn Lee Blog

AUGUST 14, 2022

Nothing special until approximately 9 years later, in January 2016, I forget to renew my domain name, hence it drops. Pior to registering this domain, I am learning how to blog at blogger.com, my URL was [link] I am making a couple of dollars from Google Adsense and I decided to get a.com to start a professional website.

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Price Digital Marketing Marketing Marketers 130

Martech

MARCH 17, 2022

From 2016 to 2021, pay TV has lost more than 50 million adult viewers (or 25.5 The study, by Insider Intelligence , expects the total number of pay TV households to drop to 65.1 million, a 4.8% decrease from 2022. That is 49.5% of all U.S. households. This continues the cord cutting trend that’s hit cable very hard. million households).

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Martech

JANUARY 6, 2022

Does anybody remember Taco Bell’s “TacoBot” from way back in 2016?). Yum Brands has also been a groundbreaker in terms of acquiring and developing its own AI and experience technology.

Finance 126

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Internet Marketing Ninjas

MARCH 14, 2022

Paul Haahr, Ranking Engineer at Google, confirmed that at SMX West back in 2016. Using entities and their unique attributes, Google identifies context and manages to meet each user’s search intent. Google is looking at a search query to determine which entity might be in it. Schema helps Google understand entities on your page.

SEO 131

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Sprout Social

MARCH 12, 2024

The dawn of social media activism—from #OccupyWallStreet to #ArabSpring to the 2016 US presidential election—changed people’s expectations of brands. To make it through this year unscathed, brands should consider what audiences actually expect from them, and have a plan in place to protect their brand safety. Will brands sit this one out?

Social Media Marketing 135

Social Media Marketing Gen Z Health Marketing 135

Search Engine Land

JANUARY 13, 2023

2016: Amit Singhal, Google’s senior vice president of search, did almost all of his searches for more than a year on mobile devices. 2016: “It felt like the right time to freshen things up,” said Microsoft spokesperson. 2016: Google documented the attraction with tiny Street View cars as though it were a real place.

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Adams & Knight Marketing

MARCH 23, 2023

” Adams & Knight has now won more than 40 awards for the State of Connecticut’s last 5 tourism campaigns since 2016.

PR 130

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Backlinko

MARCH 13, 2024

42.58% 2015 50.85% 46.42% 2016 53.19% 45.2% Here’s a detailed breakdown of iPhone vs Android market share over time: Note: Data for 2024 is incomplete (as of February). Year iPhone (iOS) Android 2009 34.01% 2.41% 2010 25.48% 8.82% 2011 22.29% 19% 2012 24.04% 27.41% 2013 24.03% 39.21% 2014 23.95% 53.65% 2015 20.2% million.

Branding 123

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Adams & Knight Marketing

APRIL 16, 2023

” Since 2016, Adams & Knight has won more than 40 awards for various travel/tourism marketing campaigns. Every tactic works better when it all works together.” For more information on Adams & Knight’s travel/tourism marketing services and its award-winning work, visit: [link] ###

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