Danny Sullivan: My new role as advisor for Third Door Media
Search Engine Land continues on strong, with an outstanding team in place.
Danny Sullivan was a journalist and analyst who covered the digital and search marketing space from 1996 through 2017. He was also a cofounder of Third Door Media, which publishes Search Engine Land and MarTech, and produces the SMX: Search Marketing Expo and MarTech events. He retired from journalism and Third Door Media in June 2017. You can learn more about him on his personal site & blog He can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.
Search Engine Land continues on strong, with an outstanding team in place.
Danny Sullivan | Jun 26, 2017 at 12:30 pm ETMobile, direct answers & site speed factors gain greater weight.
Danny Sullivan | Jun 12, 2017 at 1:00 pm ETDespite less traffic, paid subscriber conversion said to be up fourfold.
Danny Sullivan | Jun 5, 2017 at 4:48 pm ETIf the primary purpose of distributing content is to gain links, both authors and publishers risk a Google penalty.
Danny Sullivan | May 25, 2017 at 1:24 pm ETGoogle has no single authority metric but rather uses a bucket of signals to determine authority on a page-by-page basis.
Danny Sullivan | May 3, 2017 at 9:01 am ETGoogle hopes to improve by better surfacing authoritative content and enlisting feedback about suggested searches and Featured Snippets answers.
Danny Sullivan | Apr 25, 2017 at 10:00 am ETInfowars article was used to help illustrate how quality raters might judge content, but raters have no power to censor, ban or penalize pages.
Danny Sullivan | Apr 18, 2017 at 4:09 am ETIs an online claim true or not? Google hopes special callouts for fact-checking articles will help searchers get the right answers or better make their own decisions.
Danny Sullivan | Apr 7, 2017 at 3:05 am ETYour feedback helps us update The Periodic Table Of SEO Success Factors. Please lend us a few minutes and your expertise!
Danny Sullivan | Apr 4, 2017 at 1:45 pm ETUnder fire for months, can Google reverse the drip-drip-drip of criticism as incorrect, absurd or even dangerous results surface to the top?
Danny Sullivan | Apr 3, 2017 at 9:00 am ETProgram opens in US and Brazil. Expansion is a sign Google no longer sees it as just an experiment.
Danny Sullivan | Mar 22, 2017 at 10:00 am ETThe closure marks the final end of a chapter of humans trying to organize the web.
Danny Sullivan | Mar 17, 2017 at 5:05 pm ETAppears to be the first-ever commercialization of Google's home assistant product.
Danny Sullivan | Mar 16, 2017 at 3:21 pm ETUsing data from human "quality raters," Google hopes to teach its algorithms how to better spot offensive and often factually incorrect information.
Danny Sullivan | Mar 14, 2017 at 1:00 pm ETGoogle Assistant is coming widely to Android phones. Here's how to use it and other ways to Google on your smartphone -- even for iPhone users.
Danny Sullivan | Mar 14, 2017 at 9:00 am ETGoogle Assistant is officially available for many Android phones now, but the rollout will take time.
Danny Sullivan | Mar 6, 2017 at 2:07 pm ETObama's planning a coup? Women are evil? Several presidents were in the KKK? Republicans are Nazis? Google can go spectacularly wrong with some of its direct answers.
Danny Sullivan | Mar 5, 2017 at 5:04 pm ETAs of March 14, DMOZ will no longer be available.
Danny Sullivan | Feb 28, 2017 at 5:48 pm ETWSJ move might cause other publishers to remove content from Google's program, if it turns out "Subscription" label doesn't hurt conversions.
Danny Sullivan | Feb 16, 2017 at 1:54 pm ETNew anchor button enables copy-and-paste of URLs directly to publisher sites.
Danny Sullivan | Feb 6, 2017 at 2:00 pm ETSinghal will become a senior vice president of engineering, overseeing Uber's Maps & Marketplace departments.
Danny Sullivan | Jan 20, 2017 at 1:48 pm ETHere comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus ... but where exactly is he? Our guide to Santa trackers helps you locate Jolly St. Nick in a flash.
Danny Sullivan | Dec 24, 2016 at 10:40 pm ETInitial fix merely bumped denial site down, then failed to work consistently. Now the denial site is gone from first page of results.
Danny Sullivan | Dec 24, 2016 at 1:45 am ETChange will be to the header in AMP content, expected in early 2017.
Danny Sullivan | Dec 21, 2016 at 9:01 am ETCriticized for listing a Holocaust-denial site first, Google's results are finally changing -- but probably due to external factors.
Danny Sullivan | Dec 20, 2016 at 2:00 pm ETFacing criticism over "fake news," inappropriate search suggestions and more, the search company is looking for long-term and comprehensive solutions.
Danny Sullivan | Dec 16, 2016 at 8:54 pm ETCortana will be baked into a new smart speaker from Harman Kardon to be released next year, potentially the first of many Cortana-powered devices.
Danny Sullivan | Dec 13, 2016 at 7:23 pm ETWhat's in a name? When it comes to AMP, a URL that's not the publisher's may not smell as sweet.
Danny Sullivan | Dec 13, 2016 at 9:00 am ETGoogle says it wants to prevent fake news from spreading, but the search giant has serious challenges in actually curbing it.
Danny Sullivan | Nov 22, 2016 at 12:53 pm ETIf you've always wanted someone around the house to answer all the questions you have during the course of your day, that someone is a something -- Google Home.
Danny Sullivan | Nov 3, 2016 at 9:00 am ETIt turns out Google's new hands-free voice-based assistant has a way to let users click to the answers it gets from publishers. That's via the companion app.
Danny Sullivan | Nov 3, 2016 at 9:00 am ETHave an issue with your listings in Google? Getting an official answer might be tough. And when that happens to a Google competitor, as it did with ProtonMail, it could come back to harm Google's defense from antitrust charges.
Danny Sullivan | Nov 1, 2016 at 2:59 pm ETWant to know about California’s Proposition 63, a measure to control gun ammunition sales and large magazines, which is on the state ballot this month? Google has the answer. It’s a “deceptive ballot initiative that will criminalize millions of law-abiding Californians.” So much for balanced search results. Google presents that answer at the very top of its […]
Danny Sullivan | Oct 21, 2016 at 2:13 pm ETFor a week, neither campaign used the special program giving them guaranteed listings in Google for their name.
Danny Sullivan | Oct 18, 2016 at 6:57 pm ETHaving won on desktop and mobile, Google now wants to succeed in an entire new area: hands-free search, especially within homes.
Danny Sullivan | Oct 4, 2016 at 1:16 pm ETGoogle search could be on the iOS Search screen with a widget, if it wanted. Why isn't it offering that option to its users?
Danny Sullivan | Sep 16, 2016 at 9:00 am ETCaught by the Penguin anti-spam filter and fixed your site? Here's how long you've been waiting for a chance to be released.
Danny Sullivan | Sep 6, 2016 at 5:35 pm ETSomewhat similar to Apple's Spotlight, the new feature allows you to search your Android phone for content, as opposed to the web.
Danny Sullivan | Aug 30, 2016 at 9:52 pm ETInitially open to five publishers, Google opens the doors to anyone to apply after criticism by Yelp and TripAdvisor.
Danny Sullivan | Aug 12, 2016 at 3:15 pm ETGoogle's using a machine learning technology called RankBrain to help deliver its search results. Here's what's we know about it.
Danny Sullivan | Jun 23, 2016 at 1:01 pm ET