Month: July 2017

  • The IAB’s new ad standards address the shift to cross-screen and responsive advertising

    The Interactive Advertising Bureau, the trade group that represents online advertising best practices has released new standards around mobile and web advertising. The standards are important because they help maintain a balance where publishers can generate revenues for their inventory whilst ensuring that users don't get annoyed by ad formats that make them want to download and install ad blockers. Alanna Gombert, the general manager of the IAB Tech Lab,... Read More

  • Is your site ready for Google’s Mobile-First Index?

    According to Google, sites that are prepared for the roll-out of Google’s mobile-first index will be indexed first.  Right now, Google has just one index based on the desktop site. It creates signals based on Googlebot with the desktop user agent. Google then crawls with their mobile Googlebot to gather mobile friendly and other signals – but that doesn't create a new index based on the the mobile site. Currently,... Read More