Archive of October, 2015

October, 30 2015

Bing Shopping Campaigns Get Several Pre-Holiday Updates Mobile inventory, used and refurbished product ads support, and more are now available. - Search Engine Land
Google: iOS Apps Now Showing In Mobile Safari Searches In Google Earlier this month, Google announced that the mobile search results done in Google on your iOS [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: iOS Apps Don't Get App Indexing API Ranking Boost Today is all about App Indexing day where we will only cover topics on Google App Indexing. Why... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Has Internal Search Commands For App Content (i.e. site: cache: etc) Mariya said that Google does have internal commands for filtering app content in search, like you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Supports Multilingual Apps With App Indexing Today is all about App Indexing day where we will only cover topics on Google App Indexing. Why... - Search Engine Roundtable
How to measure translation quality in your user interfaces Posted by Javier Bargas-Avila, User Experience Research at Google Worldwide, there are about 200 [...] - Google Research

October, 29 2015

Google’s Next Penguin Update Should Be Within The Next Two Months Google's new real-time Penguin algorithm, version 4.0, will likely be released by the end of this [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Warns Webmasters Again, Do Not Use Sneaky Mobile-Based Redirects After warning webmasters in early 2014 about mobile sneaky redirects, Google now says they will [...] - Search Engine Land
Detect and get rid of unwanted sneaky mobile redirects In many cases, it is OK to show slightly different content on different devices. For example, [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google: "Not Set" In Google Analytics SEO Report Isn't A Bug Earlier this month, we reported an outcry by a large number of SEOs who noticed Google Analytics [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Don't Make A Dyanmically Generated robots.txt John Mueller from Google said in a Stack Exchange thread that although it is good practice to make [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google to Merge Android With Chrome OS Wall Street Journal reports that Google works on integrating Chrome OS into Android and will [...] - Google Operating System
Google: We've Shown Some Old Messages To New Verified Users For A While A couple days ago, I reported that SEOs were reporting seeing old messages in newly verified Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 28 2015

Google AdWords Turns 15: A Look Back At The Origins Of A $60 Billion Business AdWords launched with 350 advertisers in 2000. Today, more than 1 million advertisers generate tens [...] - Search Engine Land
The Wayback Machine Gets Grant To Rebuild & Add Keyword Search The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine will be rebuilding the service from the ground up. - Search Engine Land
SEMPO State Of The Industry Report 2015 Results Check out the latest data on the search marketing industry from SEMPO. - Search Engine Land
Happy 15th Birthday, AdWords! AdWords arrived in October 2000 to connect businesses, large and small, with consumers who were [...] - Inside Adwords
New Google Calendar URL Daniel Fletcher, a reader of this blog, noticed that Google Calendar's URL changed from [...] - Google Operating System
YouTube Red Launched As promised, YouTube Red was launched today in the US. If you use the mobile apps for Android and [...] - Google Operating System

October, 27 2015

FAQ: All About The New Google RankBrain Algorithm Google's using a machine learning technology called RankBrain to help deliver its search results. [...] - Search Engine Land
AdWords Cross-Device Conversions Now Rolled Into Conversions Column, Available For Bid Strategies AdWords brings cross-device conversions into the fold, no longer separating it from single-device [...] - Search Engine Land
7 Years of Google Chrome A lot has changed since Google launched Chrome back in September 2008. Chrome's popularity has been [...] - Google Operating System
RankBrain: How Google Is Using Artificial Intelligence To Rank Web Pages AI has officially made it's way into Google's search algorithm, here's what you should know. [...] - Marketing Land
Google: We See Links In Text But Do Not Pass PageRank Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that Google will see links on a page that are not hyperlinks, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Make every conversion count: cross-device data now included in the Conversions column and integrated with automated bidding People turn to multiple devices throughout the day to shop, communicate and stay entertained. From [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Revamping Google Search Console App Content Mismatch Data A Google Webmaster Help thread has a webmaster who has deployed App Indexing and is upset because [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Newer Is Not Always Better With all this talk about Android and software updates, I realized that one of the biggest Android [...] - Google Operating System
RankBrain Helps Google Understand Queries Google's search engine hasn't always been very smart. In its early years, Google only tried to find [...] - Google Operating System
Bing Predicts goes 10-4 in Week 7, now 67-38 for the year Each week Bing Predicts picks the winners of every professional football game. By every [...] - Bing Search

October, 26 2015

Meet RankBrain: The Artificial Intelligence That’s Now Processing Google Search Results A machine-learning AI is handling a large fraction of Google's search queries. - Search Engine Land
Google Shopping best practice videos to help you reach more shoppers for the holidays As the holiday season approaches, your to-do list can seem never-ending. On top of the festivities [...] - Inside Adwords
Score The Most Savings At SMX West By Registering Now! Search Marketing Expo – SMX West, the conference of choice for search marketing [...] - Marketing Land
Google: Use Canonicals To Be Safe With URL Shorteners A Webmaster asked on Twitter if let Google know about a URL shortener... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console 404s For Many Webmasters There are many reports in the Google Webmaster Help forum and on social media, like Twitter of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
YouTube's Canonical Tags Sends Reverse Message From 301 Redirect Former Googler, Pedro Dias, posted on Twitter that YouTube, which is by default now over HTTPS... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Displaying Old Messages To New Verified Users I believe that the Google Search Console would not show you the older messages in the Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Cortana and Bing help get you in the Halloween spirit Halloween is creeping up. Whether you need a terrifying costume for your dog, tips for carving the [...] - Bing Search

October, 23 2015

Milestone: Bing Now Profitable As Windows 10 Success Boosts Usage Amid the flurry of earnings released yesterday Microsoft announced a significant milestone: Bing is [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: 40% Of Searches Return App-Indexed Results In Top Five Google's new CEO, Sundar Pichai, answered questions in last nights Google's earnings report and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
What's Up With The Google Zombie Traffic Not to be confused with what I am calling the Google Halloween Zombie Update - many webmasters at [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Penguin Still Not Ready For Primetime We are expecting the next Penguin release to be real time and continuous and I suspected it would [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 22 2015

Google Update Their Ranking Algorithms? Some Webmasters Believe So. All the signals are pointing to a significant Google update over the past week, here is what we [...] - Search Engine Land
Piracy Groups Want Google To Remove The Whole Site After Valid DMCA Filings Google writes a letter to the United States Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator opposing [...] - Search Engine Land
Move over Google Author Rank, Make way for Google Authoritative Rank An authoritative user is a user of one or more computer-implemented services (e.g., a social [...] - SEO by the Sea
Google Photos Stats Google has some stats about Google Photos , the online photo sharing service released 5 [...] - Google Operating System
Google's Play Android started as an open platform that brought together many competing companies. iPhone's launch [...] - Google Operating System

October, 21 2015

Duane Forrester, Bing’s Webmaster Outreach, Announces He Is Leaving Microsoft After being fired and then rehired from Bing all within a year, Microsoft's Duane Forrester [...] - Search Engine Land
Yahoo Says It Has Its Own Algorithm For Mobile Search Results Yahoo's Marissa Mayer says they have their own mobile search algorithm which helps them provide a [...] - Search Engine Land
IAB: First Half 2015 Ad Revenues $27.5 Billion, Search Captures 50 Percent Today the IAB (and PriceWaterhouseCoopers) released its half yearly Internet Advertising Revenue [...] - Search Engine Land
Travel’s New Digital Funnel – How Consumer Buying Continues to Evolve How travelers are changing the way they search, shop and buy. Please visit Marketing Land for the [...] - Marketing Land
FAQ: What We Know About The Yahoo-Google Search Deal — So Far Consummating a long flirtation, Yahoo said yesterday that it had reached a search deal with Google. [...] - Marketing Land
Seize holiday shopping moments with new tools and insights This holiday season, shoppers are acting more quickly and more purposefully than ever before, with [...] - Inside Adwords
YouTube Red Do you remember Music Key, YouTube's subscription service that allowed you watch ad-free music [...] - Google Operating System

October, 20 2015

Yahoo & Google Together Again In New Search Deal Three year deal to put Google's results and ads into some of Yahoo's search results needs US [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Brings RLSA To AdWords Shopping Ads With Shopping Remarketing Lists Tailor bids to past customers and visitors when they search for products on Google. - Search Engine Land
Google Now Offers A Beta Version Of The Google Search App Google is offering a beta version of their Google Search app where you can test experimental [...] - Search Engine Land
2015 Holiday Trends - Shopping Moments Are Replacing Shopping Marathons If the idea of shopping on your phone while waiting for your morning coffee sounds familiar, [...] - Inside Adwords
Google: Preferred Domain Setting Not Needed When Redirects Are In Place Google Search Console has a featured where you can specify your preferred domain but you don't need [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
What are people shopping for near your stores — and across America? Today we're launching the beta of our new Shopping Insights tool, another step towards helping [...] - Inside Adwords
Google: Fetch As Google Partial Notice Can Be Ignored If You See Your Site The Fetch as Google feature in the Google Search Console rocks, it shows you how GoogleBot sees [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Predicts goes 9-5 in Week 6, now 57-34 for the year Each week Bing Predicts picks the winners of every professional football game. By every Wednesday, [...] - Bing Search

October, 19 2015

Google Releases Waze Version 4.0 For iOS Users; Android Coming Soon Version 4.0 of Waze brings a new cleaner design, easier navigation, reporting, sharing and more to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console: Upload Your APKs For Fetch As Google For App-Indexing Like I keep saying, App Indexing with Google and iOS (Apple) is a big deal. Google recently [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Polyglot Googlebot: Google Use Different URLs For Translated Pages We know that using Google translate to auto-translate content can be a form of spam. It also [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 16 2015

Google Knowledge Graph Adds “Other Recordings Of This Song” Google now shows other artists who covered popular songs in the Knowledge Graph. - Search Engine Land
Ending Decade Of Litigation Court OKs Google Book Scanning As “Fair Use” A three-judge panel for the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals has definitively ruled that [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: We May Make Your 302 Temporary Redirects As 301 Permanent Redirects Google's John Mueller in a Google+ hangout this morning said at the 22:15 mark into the video that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Numbers In URLs Don't Matter For Rankings Google's John Mueller said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that having numbers in a URL doesn't [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Your Site Can Have Both Manual Actions & Algorithmic Penalties This is probably obvious to any reader here and I believe Google has said this in the past, but [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 15 2015

Google May Have Penalized Another Underground Link Network Did Google just penalized the SAPE link network again? Many "black hat" SEOs are [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Analytics Search Console Queries Report Now Hiding Query Data The only Google report that shows webmasters their keyword data is now showing "not set." [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Ads Remarketing Now Available For Search And Shopping Campaigns Retarget to past site visitors when users search on Bing or Yahoo. - Search Engine Land
Google: Duplicate Content Issues & Panda Issues Are Two Different Things Sites impacted by Google's Panda algorithm have content issues - low quality content issues. But [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
After Months Of Warnings; Google Kills Their AJAX Crawling Scheme Last night, Google announced they are deprecating their AJAX crawling proposal from2009. This does [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Over 1,000 Keywords Now In Google Search Analytics Report? For Some. A month ago, we reported that you get a max of 999 keywords listed in your Search Analytics report [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Chrome Notifications in Google's Navigation Bar It looks like the Google Notifications section is not only for Google+ and Google Photos. Daniel [...] - Google Operating System
Google Shows Other Recordings of a Song When you're searching Google for a song that has multiple cover versions, Google shows a new [...] - Google Operating System
Google Families? Google's password manager available at passwords.google.com has an interesting list of URLs in [...] - Google Operating System

October, 14 2015

Wix Web Sites Dropping From Google's Search Results Wix, the popular low cost web site builder tool, seems to be having issues with their web sites [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Working On Fixing Problem With Wix Web Sites Not Showing Up In Search Results Recently, Wix web pages have been dropping out of the Google index. Google said they are working [...] - Search Engine Land
Deprecating our AJAX crawling scheme tl;dr: We are no longer recommending the AJAX crawling proposal we made back in 2009 . In [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Has Deprecated Their AJAX Crawling Scheme After several months of hinting, Google has finally confirmed they have discontinued their AJAX [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: When Migrating To HTTPS, You Need To Move Your Disavow File When you migrate your web site from HTTP to HTTPS with the sole reason of gaining the HTTPS Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Reaching users across Search, Play, YouTube and the Google Display Network with Universal App Campaigns — an easy way to promote your Android app A couple of weeks ago we announced the global availability of Universal App Campaigns , a powerful [...] - Inside Adwords
Two new Translate features coming your way We’re all about breaking language barriers, whatever language you speak or device you use. So [...] - Inside Search
Bing makes it easier to find recipes Food brings people together, whether it’s to celebrate a holiday, gather around the TV for a [...] - Bing Search
Bing Predicts goes 10-4 in Week 5, now 48-29 for the year Each week Bing Predicts picks the winners of every professional football game. Every Wednesday, for [...] - Bing Search

October, 13 2015

Google: Search Console To Get More Accurate, Faster & Useful Reports I am nervous I am going to get myself in trouble, but Jennifer Slegg's tweets are pretty accurate [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: What Do You Think The Content Keywords Search Console Report Is? Google's John Mueller posted on Google+ a survey asking webmasters and site owners to explain what [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 12 2015

Google Launches New Maps Search Results Interface Google has quietly launched a new maps search results interface. What do you think of it? - Search Engine Land
Google To Show iOS App Content In Index By End Of October A couple weeks ago, we covered how Google has a new app indexing ranking factor that will boost [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Single Or Double Quotes Both Work The Same I've been writing about search topics here for almost 12 years and every day... - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 11 2015

How Google May Use Schema Vocabulary to Reduce Duplicate Content in Search Results One of the challenges of optimizing an ecommerce site that has lots of filtering and sorting [...] - SEO by the Sea

October, 10 2015

Yahoo Small Business Turns Over Local Listings Management To Yext Following in the footsteps of MapQuest last year, Yahoo Small Business is outsourcing local [...] - Search Engine Land

October, 9 2015

Google Tests New Red Live Label In Search Results To Label Real-Time Breaking Content Google is at it again, testing a new red label in the search results to show off "live" [...] - Search Engine Land
US Paid Search Ad Spend Growth Slows To 12%, In Part Due To A Still-Nascent Yahoo Gemini Seasonality and advertisers' reluctance to put budgets toward Gemini due to limited capabilities [...] - Search Engine Land
Mobile Domination: More Google Searches Across The Globe Now Occur On Mobile Than Desktop Of all the worldwide search queries occurring right now on Google, mobile now makes up more than [...] - Marketing Land
Google: When You Block Thin Content Use Noindex Over 404s Yesterday, at PubCon, Gary Illyes from Google spoke. I was not there but I followed much of the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Evolution of Search I just returned from a few days in Las Vegas and the Pubcon Conference. I had the chance to see [...] - SEO by the Sea

October, 8 2015

Pinterest Aims Internationally With Localized Search Update Company is serving customized search results for French, German, Portuguese and Japanese users. - Search Engine Land
Elite SEM maintains perfect record at U.S. Search Awards Elite SEM was the big winner in Vegas, having won the "best large agency" award for the [...] - Search Engine Watch
Improving YouTube video thumbnails with deep neural nets Posted by Weilong Yang and Min-hsuan Tsai, Video Content Analysis team and the YouTube Creator team [...] - Google Research
German Newspaper Publisher Trying Bring Failed “Google Tax” To All Of Europe Disruptive technologies are often met with lobbying efforts to block them by vested interests [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Ads Announces Syndication Deal With AdMarketplace, Gumtree.com Deals expand reach for Bing Ads advertisers in search results on US and UK digital properties. - Search Engine Land
Google: We Don't Recommend You Remove Content To Fix Panda Issues Typically, when a site has been suffering with Panda ranking issues in Google, an SEO would look at [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
One Hour From Google On Duplicate Content On Tuesday, Google's John Mueller had a video hangout just on the topic of duplicate content. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing adds more tools for developers From artists to engineers, the Bing team is building a diverse tool-set for creators of all types. [...] - Bing Search

October, 7 2015

Try It Now: Google Search For Accelerated Mobile Pages To See Content On Your Phone Faster Here's how to start using Google's AMP-enabled search now. - Search Engine Land
New: Use Location In Ad Customizers To Auto-Tailor Ads Based On Where Users Are Use location data to highlight special promotions, inventory availability, shipping speeds and more [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Confirms They'd Use Rel=Author If More People Were Using It At SMX East, Gary Illyes from Google told us to not remove author markup that Google may decide to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: It's Correct That Panda Is Manually Being Pushed Slowly At Intervals - Really? I don't always say this but I think Google misspoke here. Gary Illyes responded to a question from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 6 2015

Russian Regulators Give Google November 18 Deadline To Change Android Contracts The Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation (FAS) told Google it has until November [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: New Algorithm Changes “Aggressively Targeting Hacked Spam,” May Impact 5% Of Queries Company says searchers may see some search results pages that have fewer than the typical ~10 [...] - Search Engine Land
An update on how we tackle hacked spam Recently we have started rolling out a series of algorithmic changes that aim to tackle hacked spam [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google’s New Assortment Report Shows Retailers Which Products They’re Missing Out On The new report, located in Google Merchant Center, shows you the most popular items that aren't [...] - Search Engine Land
Personalization Helps Amazon Prevail It's no secret that Amazon is the retail sector's biggest disruptor. As to why that is, BloomReach [...] - Search Engine Watch
Yahoo Gemini Adds Retargeting For Site Visitors And App Users Custom audience targeting is now available for search and native advertising campaigns. Please [...] - Marketing Land
Google: It's Not A Good Idea To Build Web Sites On Public Data I don't want to rain on anyone's parade but I wanted to share a quote from Gary Illyes of Google, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Translate text within apps thanks to the latest Android update We face communication barriers every day. Switching back and forth between apps and screens to [...] - Inside Search

October, 5 2015

Bing Ads Editor Gets An Update With More Horsepower Faster processing speed for accounts of all sizes promised with BAE version 10.9. - Search Engine Land
Google: Scrapers Only Outrank Sites That Have Other Search Quality Issues Hearing from webmasters who complain that someone stole their content and the site that stole their [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Got a Nexus phone? Look out for Now on Tap It’s Friday night and your friend just texted: “Hey, want to go see The Martian this [...] - Inside Search
Shopping Assortment Report in Merchant Center gives retailers insight into demand for popular products they don’t stock We know that retailers are always interested in new opportunities to meet online customer demand -- [...] - Inside Adwords
October 2015 Google Webmaster Report September was an interesting month because we had a nice number of ranking fluctuations in Google, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 2 2015

Bing Ads Updates UET Conversion Tracking: Clearer Set-Up, More Features The update makes for a more intuitive implementation. Current Universal Event Tracking users should [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Don't Remove Your Authorship Markup; We May Use It In The Future Probably the most shocking statement that came from a Googler at SMX East was what Gary Illyes said [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to Use Google's New Customer Match Feature The latest advancement in personalization, Google's new Custom Match feature will increase ad [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google: When Disavowing IP Addresses, It Won't Disavow The Domains On That IP Yesterday at SMX East, during a presentation on a link audit panel... - Search Engine Roundtable
Site Structure Optimization with Searchmetrics Suite – Part 1: the Optimum Setup With Site Structure Optimization (SSO) we provide users of the Searchmetrics Suite with an overview [...] - Searchmetrics

October, 1 2015

3 Things You Should Definitely Do at a Digital Marketing Conference Pubcon's annual digital marketing convention presents an opportunity to network with and learn from [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Confirms The Real Time Penguin Algorithm Is Coming Soon The next Penguin refresh will be happening pretty soon and should be a real-time algorithm. - Search Engine Land
Google: Leave Your Authorship Markup On Your Page Google may use authorship markup in the future, even after killing it off over a year ago. - Search Engine Land
Google Panda 4.2 Is Still Rolling Out Google has confirmed that the Panda 4.2 update that started rolling out 2.5 months ago is still [...] - Search Engine Land
Apple Devices Driving More Search Than Android In US — [comScore] This week at SMX East I moderated a session called The New Search Landscape, which asked what the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google My Business Portal Gets A Facelift & Design Update Google streamlines the Google My Business dashboard making it easier for businesses to get the [...] - Search Engine Land
Search Marketing’s Best Honored At Inaugural Landy Awards Nebo Agency and iProspect each collect two awards from among a dozen SEO and SEM categories. [...] - Marketing Land
Google Remove URL Language Now Reads "Temporarily Hide" Google has made a small but important change to the Google Search Console "Remove URL" [...] - Search Engine Roundtable