Archive of July, 2015

July, 31 2015

Google: Panda 4.2 Is Rolling Out Slowly For Technical Reasons Google's John Mueller tries to explain why the Panda 4.2 roll out is happening so slowly over [...] - Search Engine Land
Yahoo Buys Social Commerce Site Polyvore Yahoo announced this afternoon that it was buying social shopping destination Polyvore. [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Tests Emoji Keyboard Not long after becoming the first search engine to allow users to search with emojis, Bing is [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Shoots Down France’s Request for a Global Right to Be Forgotten Google has shot down the request of France’s CNIL to implement ’right to be [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Increases Their Index Capacity; GoogleBot Indexing More URLs Google's Gary Illyes said on Twitter that Google is now able to index more URLs across the web. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Patents Click-Through Feedback on Search Results to Improve Rankings I was excited to see a Google Patent granted this past Thursday, which describes how Google may [...] - SEO by the Sea
Google: We Don't Give Advice On Algorithmic Penalties Google's John Mueller in this mornings Google Hangout said at the 4:37 mark into the video that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Mysteriously Drops The App Interstitial Notice In The Data Anomalies Page I don't get it, why would Google drop content from the Data anomalies in Search Console page... - Search Engine Roundtable
A Renewal Reminder Google has recently sent notifications about some domains that are about to expire. "Your [...] - Google Operating System

July, 30 2015

Google Home Services Ads For Locksmiths, Plumbers Hit San Francisco Market Test enables users to review providers and submit requests to up to three service professionals [...] - Search Engine Land
Report: Spain’s Google Tax A Disaster For Newspapers, Internet Innovation Call it one of the most eggregious examples of unintended consequences. The effort of the Spanish [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Fights France To Prevent Globalization Of The Right-to-Be-Forgotten Google has formally appealed France’s data protection authority’s order that Google to [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Wants You To Search In Emoji With New Emoji Keyboard Can't get enough of those emojis? Bing is testing a virtual emoji keyboard to facilitate your emoji [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Enters Home Services Market With New Ads Test Ads for locksmiths and plumbers are now appearing on some queries in the San Francisco Bay Area. [...] - Marketing Land
Google Speaks Out: Should You Ask For Links? There are many people who think that Google doesn't want you to do link building. Here's why [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: The Panda 4.2 Refresh Is Rolling Out Globally As many of you know, Google confirmed the Google Panda 4.2 refresh last week. But one question we [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Given Right to Appeal in Safari Cookies Case The U.K. Supreme Court has granted permission in part for Google to appeal against a ruling [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google's Ups Its Automatic Text Translation Tool Ante Google is updating its Translate app again to let you instantly understand bar menus in 27 [...] - Search Engine Watch
The Top 5 Ranking Factors for 2015: How Strong is Your Hand? The Searchmetrics Ranking Factors study 2015 for Google.com is finally here! Once again we made the [...] - Searchmetrics
ICSE 2015 and Software Engineering Research at Google Posted by Mohsen Vakilian, Software Engineer The large scale of our software engineering efforts [...] - Google Research
More Related Images in Google Image Search for Mobile Google Image Search has a new mobile interface. When you tap a thumbnail, Google shows the image [...] - Google Operating System

July, 29 2015

How Google Translate squeezes deep learning onto a phone Posted by Otavio Good, Software Engineer, Google Translate Today we announced that the Google [...] - Google Research
Google Updates AdWords Keyword Quality Score Reporting Update does not affect ad auction or ad serving processes. - Search Engine Land
With Windows 10, Bing Ads Anticipates 10 To 15 Percent More Search Volume By September High hopes for Windows 10 to deliver search volume now that Bing and Cortana are built right in. - Search Engine Land
Search Ads on Google Play and new app promo tools roll out to advertisers and developers People turn to their phones billions of times a day for I want-to-know, I want-to-go, I want-to-do, [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Translate App Adds 20 More Languages To The Instant Visual Translation Feature The Google Instant Translation app gets a lot more powerful. - Search Engine Land
Search Ads In Google Play Store Go Live Globally Also announced: "Android first app opens" conversion tracking and impending roll-out of [...] - Marketing Land

July, 28 2015

Google Search Console Warnings Issued For Blocking JavaScript & CSS Google sends mass notifications warning that blocking CSS or Javascript can result in suboptimal [...] - Search Engine Land
Rest your thumbs: Ask Google to send your messages via WhatsApp, Viber and more Between friends, family and work, we send dozens of messages a day. But there’s an easier way [...] - Inside Search
Etsy Boosts Search For Better Content Discovery, User Engagement Etsy has more than 30 million items for sale from more than one million sellers globally. There are [...] - Search Engine Land
Moz Released Their 2015 Online Marketing Industry Survey Moz surveys thousands of SEMs and published the 2015 industry data and stats. Google is one [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Shows A Store’s Busy Times By Crowdsourcing Your Store Visits Google now tells customers when not to go to a store based on long wait times. - Search Engine Land
Bing: The Drop In Organic Referrals Due To Bing’s Search Encryption Roll Out Bing says the drop in organic traffic you see in your analytics might be related to their HTTPS [...] - Search Engine Land
New Google Warning: Googlebot Cannot Access CSS & JS Google is now sending out a rush of new warnings via Google Search Console, formerly Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Now Issues Hotel Price Drop Alerts – But Only For Googlers Google Now is testing a feature to notify users when their hotel reservation price drops. [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s New Manufacturer Center Will Be Used To Improve Ad Relevancy For Product Queries A more complete source of product details offers potential benefits for both retailers and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Sends Mass Warning: “Googlebot Cannot Access Your JavaScript and CSS Files” Google sent out a mass warning via Search Console that “Googlebot cannot access your [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google to Display Busiest Store Hours of Local Businesses Google introduced a new search feature today which will show when local stores are at their busiest. - Search Engine Journal

July, 27 2015

Google To Shut Down Autocomplete API On August 10th Google says goodbye to the Autocomplete API, which may impact your favorite keyword tool. - Search Engine Land
#NoHacked: How to avoid being the target of hackers If you publish anything online, one of your top priorities should be security. Getting hacked can [...] - Google Webmaster Central
12 Biggest Things To Happen In PPC So Far In 2015 New ad formats for mobile users, big tests for PLAs, and a new search deal paves the way to [...] - Search Engine Land
U.S. Desktop Search Rankings Hold Steady; Google Maintains 64% Share Google and Ask each drop a 10th of a percentage point in comScore's monthly rankings of the [...] - Search Engine Land
Introducing more powerful Dynamic Search Ads, built for your business Whether it’s “hotels near me” or “nearby hotels,” people often search [...] - Inside Adwords
Last Call For Search Marketing Stars: Why You Should Enter The Search Engine Land Awards! Get your entries in this week for your SEO and SEM efforts. We want to recognize the best in search [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Drops Google+ As a Requirement for Google Services Google announced Google+ will no longer be a requirement to access Google services. - Search Engine Journal
Google to Stop Unofficial Autocomplete API Google is pulling its unofficial Autocomplete API from August 10, 2015 due to it not providing a [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google: We Won't Index Dynamic Content Behind Tabs The topic of hidden content in tabs is something we've covered a few times. In short... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Image Search Dropping Images From The Index? I've been noticing some webmasters complaining Google has dropped many of their images out of the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Named Places in Google Maps The latest version of the Google Maps app for Android lets you add private names for places . [...] - Google Operating System
YouTube's Updated Notifications YouTube has recently changed the settings for notifications . When you subscribe to a channel, [...] - Google Operating System

July, 26 2015

How You May Be Helping Google Map Indoor Spaces A couple of years ago, Google acquired the startup Behavio. One of the selling points behind [...] - SEO by the Sea

July, 24 2015

Google To Shutter Orphaned Google+ Pages Next Week (July 28) Google is going to “unverify” inactive Google+ local pages. Business pages that have [...] - Search Engine Land
Google to Restrict Access to Autocomplete API on August 10th Google is restricting unauthorized access to its autocomplete API as of August 10th, 2015. - Search Engine Journal
Google Panda 4.2 Rolling Out Now, Affecting 2-3% of Queries Google’s Gary Illyes has confirmed that Google started rolling out Panda update version 4.2 [...] - Search Engine Journal
Is Google Testing a Knowledge Vault Update? Knowledge Vault boxes are popping up in some Google queries, providing searchers with samples of [...] - Search Engine Watch
Update on the Autocomplete API Google Search provides an autocomplete service that attempts to predict a query before a user [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google: Again, Rich Snippets Don't Generally Belong On Home Pages Gary Illyes from Google responded to a Stack Overflow thread on the topic of rich snippets... - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing to Prohibit Multiple Display URL Domains Under the Same Ad Group Bing has made an amendment to its advertising policy to prohibit advertisers from putting multiple [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Hints At Removing App Interstitials Again Google published on the Webmaster Central blog a case study of how Google+ used App Interstitials [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Panda Update 4.2: Are there any results yet? After ten long months since the last Panda update, it seems that Google has begun its roll-out of [...] - Searchmetrics

July, 23 2015

Google+: A case study on App Download Interstitials Many mobile sites use promotional app interstitials to encourage users to download their native [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google: Consider Removing App Download Interstitials From Your Mobile Site Google recommends site owners remove app download interstitials in order to improve the mobile [...] - Search Engine Journal
Thank you Bing users, we are listening to you Back in March we launched a new site called Bing Listens. The site gives our customers a direct [...] - Bing Search

July, 22 2015

Google Panda 4.2 Is Here; Slowly Rolling Out After Waiting Almost 10 Months Google has told us they pushed out a Panda refresh this weekend and it will take months to fully [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Is Now Rolling Out A New Interface For Hotel Finder Google confirms they are rolling out a new Hotel Finder Search interface in the local results this [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Maps Timeline: User Friendly Location History Google keeps a log of where you've travelled in the new Google Maps Timeline feature. - Search Engine Land
Content Marketing: Big Publicized Events Or Continuous Engagement? Brands mainly use two content marketing approaches, each of which has unique advantages and [...] - Search Engine Watch
Best Practices for Click-to-Call for Mobile Search- July 28 Webcast What Paid Search Advertisers Need to Know to Compete in Today's Mobile Climate Please visit [...] - Marketing Land
See the future of video by looking behind you: Introducing 360 degree video ads Video is already the most effective medium for connecting with consumers thanks to the power of [...] - Inside Adwords
Google: HTTPS Acts As A Dealbreaker In A Google Ranking Tie The Google HTTPS ranking algorithm, which launched some time ago, hasn't proven to many webmasters [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Bad HTML Validation Doesn't Hurt Rankings But Can Impact Structured Data Google has said many times that poor or invalid HTML validation doesn't impact rankings. Of course, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: New TLDs Have No Magical SEO Bonus John Mueller at Google must have a pet peeve against the misinformation domain name registrars push [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Predicts takes a world tour of summer sporting events The 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Canada was a rousing success for the United States as the [...] - Bing Search

July, 21 2015

Google Explains How They Handle The New Top Level Domains (TLDs) Google has published the latest on how they handle TLDs, both the new ones, the old ones and the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google's handling of new top level domains With the coming of many new generic top level domains ( gTLDs ), we'd like to give some insight [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Bing Search Traffic Declining? You’re Not Alone, It May Be An Analytics Issue. Did you notice a huge drop in your Bing search traffic? You are not alone. It may be an analytics [...] - Search Engine Land
Report: Nokia’s Sells HERE Maps For $2.7B To BMW, Mercedes, Audi Group According to Bloomberg and CNBC Nokia has found a buyer for its HERE mapping unit. The company had [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: All Domain Extensions Are Weighted The Same Google cleared the air today about how it deals with domain extensions, and confirmed that [...] - Search Engine Journal
TAG, Google Program to Block Invalid Data-Center Traffic Data center traffic is one of many types of nonhuman or illegitimate ad traffic. TAG’s new [...] - Search Engine Watch
Is An Improved Version of Agent Rank Returning to Google? Sometimes, I run across a patent that provides details on things that Google might do, but only [...] - SEO by the Sea
Introducing Manufacturer Center - a tool to help brand manufacturers provide authoritative product information to online shoppers With more than 100 billion searches per month, Google answers a significant number of the [...] - Inside Adwords

July, 20 2015

Sites With Most Search Impressions Are Now HTTPS, Google Says The top ten verified sites in Google Search Console, according to search impressions, are now all [...] - Search Engine Journal

July, 15 2015

Google Is Hiring An SEO To Improve Their Ranking In Google Hey SEOs! Looking for a new place to work? Google is hiring a SEO to help drive more organic [...] - Search Engine Land