Archive of September, 2015

September, 30 2015

Google Adds Additional Ranking Boost For Using App Indexing API Google announced a new ranking boost for App Indexing, as well as a new iOS indexing protocol and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console Changes URL Removal Language To “Temporarily Hide” Google clarifies the URL removal tool through new language in the Google Search Console. - Search Engine Land
Google News Publishers No Longer Require Three-Digit Numbers In URLs After years of Google News requiring URLs to contain 3-digits, Google has finally dropped that [...] - Search Engine Land
Enhancing the Google Display Network with new innovations Consumers have higher expectations than ever because of mobile — they want everything right, [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Changes The “First Click Free” Program Based On Publisher Feedback Google's First Click Free program drops user access requirements from 5 to 3 free clicks. - Search Engine Land
At Nexus Hardware Event Google Shows Now on Tap And Expanded Voice Actions Yesterday Google held its Nexus and Android hardware release party. Most of the attention and [...] - Search Engine Land
Why Some Might Think Google Is Hostile To The Daily Show Does Google dislike The Daily Show? Why is it showing a negative description of the popular late [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: We Are Still Experimenting With Mobile Only Index Gary Illyes from Google put down a pretty interesting tweet on Twitter saying that Google is still [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google News No Longer Requires 3 Digits In Your URLs For as long as I can remember, Google News publishers needed to have 3 digits in their URLs in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 29 2015

First Click Free update Around ten years ago when we introduced a policy called “First Click Free,” it was hard [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google: Shy Away From Repeating The Same Words On The Same Page Too Often In a Google+ hangout from Friday, Google's John Mueller addressed a common thing you see on some [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Today at IAB Mixx: a preview of new capabilities coming to YouTube advertising Over the past 10 years of YouTube, video viewership has come a long way. In fact, according to new [...] - Inside Adwords
Answer Boxes, Trigger Terms and Enriched Search Results A few years ago, I wrote the following about post about Google’s OneBox Patent Application I [...] - SEO by the Sea
Google: Using A Google Service Doesn't Help You Stay Penalty Free Google's John Mueller addressed a myth in a Google+ hangout saying that just because you are on a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Similar Web Sites In Same Search Console Account Is Okay In a Google+ hangout from Friday, Google's John Mueller said that for agencies to have hundreds of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Predicts goes 11-5 in Week 3, predicts upsets by Dallas, Pittsburgh and Miami in Week 4 Each week, Bing Predicts chooses the winners of every professional football game. Every Tuesday for [...] - Bing Search

September, 28 2015

Google: There Isn't An SEO Advantage To Linking Externally It has always been thought that Google has a ranking factor (small maybe) based on who you link to. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing predicts the most popular fall TV shows and releases new entertainment experiences Autumn has arrived and we’re ringing in the season with a new round of Bing Predicts for fall [...] - Bing Search

September, 27 2015

Google To Let Advertisers Upload And Target Email Lists In AdWords With Customer Match Advertisers will be able to upload email lists to target customers and similar audiences with ads [...] - Marketing Land
Google Announces Customer Match: Upload Email Lists For Search, Gmail, YouTube Ad Targeting Customer Match marks the first time advertisers will be able to set bids and create specific ads [...] - Search Engine Land
Google brings you closer to your customers in the moments that matter Mobile has changed the game for both consumers and brands. Consumer expectations for immediacy and [...] - Inside Adwords

September, 25 2015

Desktop Search: Google May Have Peaked Last Year According To comScore Late this afternoon comScore released its monthly report on US desktop search market share. Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Questions On PageRank Flow Through Nofollows Are Worth Ignoring Two days ago I wrote Google May Have Changed How PageRank Flows With Nofollow Links. It basically [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 24 2015

Google voice search: faster and more accurate Posted by Haşim Sak, Andrew Senior, Kanishka Rao, Françoise Beaufays and Johan [...] - Google Research
Local Search Ranking Factors 2015 The 2015 Local Search Ranking Factors report is out and it’s a must read for anyone in the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Voice Search In Google App Now 300 Milliseconds Faster Google makes voice search feel "blazingly fast" and improves voice accuracy within the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Betas Dropping Manual Actions Automatically For Hacked Sites Google may automatically reverse a hacked site manual action in the Google Search Console when they [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Fights Keyword Stuffed Business Names Using a Surprisingness Value A Google patent granted this week targets map spammers, who submit information about businesses to [...] - SEO by the Sea
Google Tests Automating The Removal Of Manual Actions For Hacked Sites Google announced a ton of reminders around their handling of hacked sites within the Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Voice Search Now Faster and More Accurate Google’s voice search is running on a whole new engine that’s able to recognize and [...] - Search Engine Journal

September, 23 2015

Study: Despite Wikipedia’s Visibility Decline In Google, It Still Shows Up More Often Than Google Properties A new study from Stone Temple Consulting validates previous studies showing Wikipedia's Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Helping hacked sites with reconsideration requests Thus far in 2015 we have seen a 180% increase in the number of sites getting hacked and a 300% [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Bing Search Tips for Microsoft Office 2016 Microsoft Office 2016 is now available, and along with it comes a number of useful Bing search [...] - Search Engine Journal

September, 22 2015

Google Loses Appeal By AdWords Advertisers In Suit Over Ads On Error Pages Ruling overturns lower court denial of class-action status for advertisers, paving the way for [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Expands Commission-Based Hotel Ads Program Book on Google ads now available on desktop in the US. - Search Engine Land
A Beginner’s Guide to Deep Neural Networks Posted by Natalie Hammel and Lorraine Yurshansky, creators of Nat & Lo’s 20% Project [...] - Google Research
Google Hotel Ads makes it easier for more hotels to participate Over the past several months we’ve made improvements to hotel search across Google, to help [...] - Inside Adwords
Google May Have Changed How PageRank Flows With Nofollow Links Back in 2009, Matt Cutts from Google wrote on PageRank sculpting saying: So what happens when you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing brings some of its magic to help you achieve even more with Office 2016 Bing brings information directly to users where and when they need it across a growing number of [...] - Bing Search

September, 21 2015

Right To Be Forgotten: French Argue They Have Authority To Regulate Google Globally Setting up a potential international “conflict of laws” dispute, France’s privacy [...] - Search Engine Land
France Rejects Google's 'Right to Be Forgotten' Appeal Having appealed France's "right to be forgotten" ruling, Google was rejected on the [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Loses Appeal, Forced to Expand Right to Be Forgotten Worldwide Google will be forced to expand the European “right to be forgotten” ruling worldwide. - Search Engine Journal
Google Removes Facebook Rich Snippets From Search Results It seems that Google may have dropped the rich snippets, the review stars... - Search Engine Roundtable
Former Googler: Google's Warning To Repeated Violators Was "Unnecessary" Last Friday, Google posted a warning to repeated violators of the Google Webmaster Guidelines that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 18 2015

Google Says Repeated Violations Of Their Webmaster Guidelines Will Lead To Further Action Do you spam Google over and over again? Google may decide to serve you harsher penalties and [...] - Search Engine Land
How Google Now, Siri & Cortana Predict What You Want It's like magic when your digital assistant has an answer before you think to search. Here's how [...] - Search Engine Land
Repeated violations of Webmaster Guidelines In order to protect the quality of our search results, we take automated and manual actions against [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Repeated Spammers to Get Harsher Penalties From Google Though Google hasn't explicitly said how repeated spam violators will be punished, the company said [...] - Search Engine Watch
6 Essential Research Studies That Marketers Shouldn’t Miss This analysis of data from six research studies represents the current scope of the digital [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Warns Against Repeat Violations of Webmaster Guidelines Google is taking issue with site owners who repeatedly violate Google’s Webmaster Guidelines. - Search Engine Journal
Google: We Still Only Have A Desktop Index, No Mobile Index Google's Gary Illyes said on Twitter that Google still only has one index... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: If You Repeatedly Spam, You Will See Harder Penalty Actions Google published a blog post this morning named Repeated violations of Webmaster Guidelines [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 17 2015

Celebrate Constitution Day with Google Trying to remember how that famous phrase “We the People…” ends? Scratching your [...] - Inside Search
Creating Synergy Between Social Media And Search Search and social don't have to live in separate silos. Columnist Paul Shapiro discusses how your [...] - Marketing Land
Study: Position One In Search May Get Less Clicks Than Position Two With Rich Snippets Rich snippets can provide a 26% lift in clicks on the second search listing says a Blue Nile [...] - Search Engine Land
Inside the Mind of the Small Business Owner Due to the accessibility of digital marketing resources, many small business owners become self [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google+ Links and Reviews Dropped From Google Search Results Google+ links and reviews are no longer being included in search results, even in searches for [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bing Shuts Down ‘Link Explorer’ Section of Webmaster Tools Bing has announced that, as of October 1st, the company is shutting down Link Explorer. - Search Engine Journal
Digital PR on Steroids: How to Guarantee Campaign Success Building brand awareness with long-term value in organic search requires a strong digital PR [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Sues SEO Firm For Making False Partnership Claims In Illegal Robocalls After demanding the false claims and robocalls stop more than a year ago, Google brings legal [...] - Marketing Land
Jumpshot Elite Launches To Provide Competitive Search Query And Conversion Data Marketers can pull up data on other websites to see historic or recent search query and conversion [...] - Marketing Land
Information sharing for more efficient network utilization and management Andreas Terzis, Software Engineer As Internet traffic has grown and changed, Google and other [...] - Google Research

September, 16 2015

Google Files Suit Against SEO Firm Accused Of Robocalling, Launches Complaint Center For Users The company finally takes defensive action against illegal robocallers that prey on small [...] - Search Engine Land
Google to Sue Search Marketing Firm Over Deceptive Robocalls Google is set to initiate its first ever lawsuit against a search marketing firm. - Search Engine Journal
Bing To Retire Link Explorer Tool Within Bing Webmaster Tools On October 1, 2015 After Bing launched Link Explorer to replace Yahoo Site Explorer, they have now decided to shut it [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Found Guilty of Stifling Russian Competition Per an anti-trust complaint filed by Yandex, Google has been found guilty of preloading Android [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Search Queries Report Goes Offline Today Zineb Ait Bahajji from Google announced on Google+ that the legacy Google Search Queries report [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 15 2015

Google’s Gary Illyes: HTTPS May Break Ties Between Two Equal Search Results In a video hangout Monday with Bruce Clay, Google's Gary Illyes discussed the HTTPS ranking boost [...] - Search Engine Land
Could Siri-Enabled Apple TV Reduce 'Second Screen' Viewing? That probably won't happen, according to industry experts. However, integrating Siri into TV will [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google forwarding numbers arrive in Canada The ability to call a business is often critical in helping potential customers complete a [...] - Inside Adwords
Google: Internal Article Links To Your E-Commerce Products Is Not Over Optimization The concern over linking has not died down at all in recent months. A recent question submitted to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's Crawler Only Submit Forms When It Can't Find Your Content Google's spider, GoogleBot, has really been getting clever over the years. Crawling JavaScript, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Thumbtack Risking A New Google Link Penalty? Back in June, Google seemed to have penalized Thumbtack for links and then quickly reversed the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Use Bing to “track” an astronaut across Mars Space travel and adventure return to the big screen this October in one of fall’s most [...] - Bing Search

September, 14 2015

Google Guilty in Russia of Abusing Position as Market Leader. Google has been found guilty by Russian competition regulators of “abusing” its [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Keep Your 301 Redirects Active For Over A Year Google's John Mueller said in the Google+ Hangout from last Friday that he'd recommend you keep [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 11 2015

Google May Add Structured Markup & Data To Ranking Algorithm Google hints that one day, Google may decide to use structured data in their ranking algorithm. [...] - Search Engine Land
The Google My Business App Gets An Update Check out the updated Google My Business App for Android, iOS version coming soon. - Search Engine Land
Google: Structured Markup May Become A Ranking Factor I was shocked a bit to hear this, since Google has said time and time again that rich snippets and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Baidu Upgrades Mobile Virtual Assistant With Local Commerce Services Baidu has upgraded its mobile virtual assistant to incorporate voice-powered local transactions. [...] - Search Engine Land
Google and Twitter Reportedly Working Together on a Content Delivery Platform Google and Twitter are working together on their own ‘instant articles’ solution. - Search Engine Journal
Google One Line Sitelinks Return Back in 2009, Google began trying out one line sitelinks but it was rare to see them. Often when [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Correlation vs. causality and the Ranking Factors infographic This year we introduced a brave new type of infographic in our annual Ranking Factors Study. We are [...] - Searchmetrics

September, 10 2015

11 Delicious and Fluffy Android 6.0 Marshmallow Features After months of speculation, Google finally announced on August 17 Android M’s it’s [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Identical Pages vs Equivalent Pages When Using Canonicals The topic of when you are allowed to redirect or use a canonical from page A to page B is always an [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
When News Publishers Nofollow Links To You, When You're The Source It is incredibly common for larger news publications to do three of the following things: (1) [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 9 2015

Yandex, Russia’s Largest Search Engine, Penalizes Hundreds Of Sites Buying Links While Google has been quite on the link penalty side, Yandex - the largest Russian search engine - [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Ads Launches Keyword Planner Tool In All US Accounts They updated keyword research tool also offers bid and budget estimating. - Search Engine Land
Google Adjusted How They Show Index Count Estimates Bad timing: Google's Index Status report had a bug that showed a drop in index counts around the [...] - Search Engine Land
Crowdsourcing a Text-to-Speech voice for low resource languages (episode 1) Posted by Linne Ha, Senior Program Manager, Google Research for Low Resource Languages Building a [...] - Google Research
Google: I'd Avoid Using NoIndex In Robots.txt File @maxxeight said you can avoid using the disallow directive if you are using a noindex within your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
For Ashley Madison Users, What’s Next? Reputation Apocalypse, Phase 2 The massive Ashley Madison leak exposed the personal information of millions. Columnist Chris [...] - Marketing Land
When Google Started Answering Factual Queries The Web is filled with factual information, and Search on the web has been going through changes to [...] - SEO by the Sea
Google Search Analytics Report Maxes Out At 999 Keywords So now that new Search Analytics report is what you get when you go to the Google Search Console, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Index Status Report Drop Was A Bug But We Also Made Adjustments In late August, we reported about a large drop in the Index Status report within the Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 8 2015

Why Did Google Choose ABC.XYZ for the Alphabet Domain Name? What is in a domain name? Rather than using one of its many top level domain options, Google took a [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google: Web Pages vs Web Posts Are The Same For Indexing I never saw this question and to most of you, you'd probably think it is a waste of time, but the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 4 2015

What Happened To The Google Panda 4.2 Update? Did It Make A U-Turn? Google has no comment on why many webmasters are seeing their Panda 4.2 gains reversed on August [...] - Search Engine Land
PhantomALERT: Waze Stole Our Database And Sold It To Google For $1 Billion Traffic violation-avoidance app maker PhantomALERT has sued Waze/Google for copyright violations [...] - Search Engine Land
Microsoft Pushes Its Edge Browser When People Search On Bing For “Chrome” Or “Firefox” Tactic of using search for self-promotion is common, but it court hurt Microsoft's case that Google [...] - Marketing Land
Google Drive Bonus Storage Is Expiring 2 years ago, Google offered 10 GB of free storage for installing the Quickoffice app for Android [...] - Google Operating System
Google Photos and Free Storage There's something I don't understand about the new Google Photos. The settings page lets you [...] - Google Operating System
More About Google's New Visual Identity Google Design's site has an interesting article about Google's new identity. Google's designers [...] - Google Operating System

September, 3 2015

Google To Double The Number Of Health Conditions In Search Results Google expands their medical conditions database and enables you to print out these conditions to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Launches Stand-Alone Street View App For iOS And Android Google’s Street View has been somewhat challenged in the transition to a mobile-centric [...] - Marketing Land
Google Launches a Dedicated Street View App Google has launched a dedicated Street View app, available on iOS and Android. - Search Engine Journal
Now Google can help with updated health information In early August, New York City saw an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease, a very rare and sometimes [...] - Inside Search
This Guy Tried To Document 260+ Google Ranking Factors Google has said time and time again that they have over 200 ranking signals within their search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google to Provide Instant Information on Over 900 Health Conditions Google has added support for health conditions, now providing instant information on over 900 [...] - Search Engine Journal
Templates, Insights and Dictation in Google Docs Google's standalone web apps for Docs , Sheets and Slides now show a list of templates [...] - Google Operating System
Google Search Console Index Status Drop Now Returns But... A week ago we reported a significant drop in index counts within the Google Search Console Index [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing’s predictions helps NASCAR fans in the Chase Grid Battle Start your engines, NASCAR fans, for this year’s Chase Grid® Battle Powered by Bing. This [...] - Bing Search

September, 2 2015

Google Brings YouTube TrueView Campaigns Into The AdWords Fold Video campaigns can now be managed right within the main AdWords interface alongside search, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Maps “Explore” Adds Curated Recommendations, New Features Google is adding more content, filters and personalization to the “Explore” feature in [...] - Search Engine Land
The power of video meets the capabilities of AdWords – all TrueView campaigns now in AdWords You know how you have to go to a special section within AdWords to create and manage your TrueView [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Integrates Search and Dictation into Docs Google has added some nifty updates to Docs including search, dictation, and new templates, all of [...] - Search Engine Watch
Bing rocks two new tools for the everyday musician Every summer Microsoft hosts a group of highly talented interns from all over the globe. These [...] - Bing Search
New reporting columns for multi-channel advertisers In April, we introduced improvements that help multi-channel advertisers more easily manage [...] - Inside Adwords

September, 1 2015

5 Essential Hybrid Digital Marketing Skills to Develop Now In spite of the transient nature of this ever-evolving and converging field, here are five skills [...] - Search Engine Watch
Mobile-friendly web pages using app banners When it comes to search on mobile devices, users should get the most relevant answers, no matter if [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google: App Interstitials That Hide Signficant Amount Of Content Will Not Rank Well In Mobile Search Results Make sure to test your mobile pages that have app interstitials on them. They may not rank as well [...] - Search Engine Land
Visual updates to Search and Now cards Today, people use Google very differently from just a few years ago—we’re now as likely [...] - Inside Search
Google Declares War On App Install Problem It Helped Create Google will penalize sites that use big ads to convert mobile users to install apps. But the same [...] - Marketing Land
Google to Penalize Sites That Prompt You to Download Their App Google as announced that, as of November 1st, sites with intrusive app download interstitials will [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Drops The Old Search Queries Report From Google Search Console After four months of having access to the Search Analytics report, Google has removed the legacy [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Adds More Height To Their Search Box No, it is not your imagination. Google's search box did get taller! - Search Engine Land
Google Has a New Look and We Really Like It The search giant has rolled out a new Google logo, moving from a serif font to a sans-serif font. [...] - Search Engine Watch
Native Gmail ads arrive in AdWords for all advertisers Email is a big part of our everyday routines as a go-to place for staying in touch with family, [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Search Queries Report Removed For Some Webmasters Google seems to be slowly removing the Search Queries report from the Search Console... - Search Engine Roundtable