Danny Sullivan
Founding Editor, Marketing Land & Search Engine Land
Newport Beach, CA, United States
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Past articles by Danny:
Danny Sullivan: My new role as advisor for Third Door Media
Search Engine Land continues on strong, with an outstanding team in place. → Read More
The Periodic Table of SEO Success Factors: 2017 edition now released
Mobile, direct answers & site speed factors gain greater weight. → Read More
Wall Street Journal's Google traffic drops 44% after pulling out of First Click Free
Despite less traffic, paid subscriber conversion said to be up fourfold. → Read More
Google warns against misusing links in syndication & large-scale article campaigns
If the primary purpose of distributing content is to gain links, both authors and publishers risk a Google penalty. → Read More
Live blog: Google Marketing Next opening keynote
Google's annual event for advertisers is expected to have a variety of product announcements. → Read More
Live Blog: Google talks AR & VR at Google I/O 2017
What's new with augmented and virtual reality with Google? Our live blog has the news. → Read More
Live Blog: Google I/O 2017 Opening Keynote
News about Google Assistant, Google Home, Android and more is expected. → Read More
Up close with Facebook's Frame Studio
Facebook Frames are easy to make and share with a brand's followers. But restrictions on logos and trademark usage are an issue. → Read More
How Google assesses the 'authority' of web pages
Google has no single authority metric but rather uses a bucket of signals to determine authority on a page-by-page basis. → Read More
Google’s ‘Project Owl’ — a three-pronged attack on fake news & problematic content
Google hopes to improve by better surfacing authoritative content and enlisting feedback about suggested searches and Featured Snippets answers. → Read More
Live blog: Facebook #F8 second day opening keynote
Today's opening talks will likely go deep and technical into Facebook's augmented reality moves. → Read More
Live blog: Facebook’s F8 opening keynote
The latest news on Facebook's coming product roadmap, from its annual developers conference. → Read More
Google did not ban Infowars; did rescind quality example using an Infowars article
Infowars article used as example to guide quality raters on judging content, but raters have no power to censor, ban or penalize content. → Read More
Google expands fact checking effort to all searches worldwide
Is some 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. → Read More
A deep look at Google's biggest-ever search quality crisis
Under fire for months, can Google reverse the drip-drip-drip of criticism as incorrect, absurd or even dangerous results surface to the top? → Read More
Snapchat makes it possible to search for Stories by keywords
The change should make it easier for people to discover more content on Snapchat, leading perhaps to more time spent in the app. → Read More
Google Posts now gives museums, movies, musicians & sports groups dedicated space in search
Program opens in US and Brazil. Expansion is a sign Google no longer sees it as just an experiment. → Read More
DMOZ has officially closed after nearly 19 years of humans trying to organize the web
The closure marks the final end of a chapter of humans trying to organize the web. → Read More
Google Home gets 'Beauty & The Beast' promo but Google says it's not an ad
Ask Google Home what your day is like today, and it will remind you that Disney's Beauty and the Beast is opening today. Google says this isn't an ad. But → Read More
Google launches new effort to flag upsetting or offensive content in search
Using data from human "quality raters," Google hopes to teach its algorithms how to better spot offensive and often factually incorrect information. → Read More