Archive of March, 2016

March, 31 2016

Watch Google's Top Ranking Engineer, Paul Haahr, Talk On How Google Works I am not sure if you remember but at SMX West, we covered tons of tidbits coming out of a talk [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How are businesses using Google Posts? Google has recently debuted a new feature giving individuals and organisations a new platform for [...] - Search Engine Watch
Number of SEO Jobs to Decline in 2016 A study released this week reveals the amount of inbound marketing jobs are expected to drop for [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google April Fools' Day 2016 April Fools' Day is an important day for Google because there are a lot of hoaxes and crazy [...] - Google Operating System
Google Testing Removing Reviews From Local Map Results? Typically when you do a search that brings up local results in the web search results, the local [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
What's App Uses Globe Unicode In URL Structure & Google Ranks It Gerk Mulder shared an interesting screen shot on Twitter of Google indexing, ranking and displaying [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Best Practices: A new guide to entering international markets with AdWords It’s possible to connect across the globe in an instant. Expanding your business to new [...] - Inside Adwords

March, 30 2016

Google AMP Listings Feature Live In 12 Countries The Google AMP news carousel is only live in Brazil, Germany, Spain, France, the UK, India, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Adds Share Feature To Knowledge Graph Panel Google now lets you share a knowledge graph panel on social via Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and more. - Search Engine Land
Rev up the car shopping experience with Automotive ads The way people shop for cars has changed. The days of going from dealership to dealership are over. [...] - Inside Adwords
Search for Friends of Friends on Instagram Instagram is opening up its search functionality to allow people to search through other [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google On Image Title Attributes For Ranking We know Google uses alternative text, alt tags... - Search Engine Roundtable
Okay, now Google’s Artificial Intelligence Division is just showing off One day, when you pull out your smartphone to ask Google or Siri a question, instead of returning a [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Image Search Now Allows People to “Save” Images to Desktop Google is expanding on a mobile search feature rolled out in late 2015, whereby searchers could [...] - Search Engine Journal
Who Has AMP Carousel and Who Doesn’t? Google Reveals Countries With AMP in Search Results Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project has now been rolled out to 12 countries in [...] - Search Engine Journal

March, 29 2016

2016 guide to free online SEO training courses All of the SEO knowledge with NONE of the expense. - Search Engine Watch
Signs Of A Google Update; Not Sure If It Is Penguin... I am seeing some early signals within the community that there is a potential Google update being [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Lessons learned while protecting Gmail Posted by Elie Bursztein - anti-abuse & security research, Nicolas Lidzborski - Gmail security [...] - Google Research
Google Analytics Tests Lifetime Value Report Google Analytics has added a new report to some analytics users reports named the Lifetime Value [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Yahoo Taking Bids To Sell All Or Parts Of Company Wall Street Journal reports Yahoo has set a deadline for when all bids need to be submitted to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Cate 5 Logo On Wall - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 28 2016

Redesigning AdWords for marketing in a mobile-first world Since introducing AdWords 15 years ago, we’ve seen a fundamental change in the way people [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Announces AdWords Redesign On Monday morning, via their AdWords blog, Google announced they are beginning a major redesign of [...] - Search Engine Journal
Getting Your Head Around Google’s RankBrain Recently, the Google RankBrain system has started to garner quite the buzz within the SEO [...] - The SEM Post
29 most interesting SEM stats from March 2016 As we leave March behind and look forward to the comparatively warmer weather [...] - Search Engine Watch
Digital transformation: are you asking the right questions? Digital transformation is probably the biggest of those ‘new, shiny things’ to hit the [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google: Don't Worry About Duplicate Content With PDFs & Web Pages I struggled with the title of this post, so please read through it so it all makes sense. In short, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Easily save the images you love...now on desktop At the end of last year, we announced the ability to save images directly from Google’s [...] - Inside Search
High Bounce Rates On Web Sites Don't Necessarily Impact Google Rankings A Cre8asite Forum thread has a discussion about is it bad to have a really high bounce rate on your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google To Complete Major Redesign For AdWords Over Next 12 Months Google announced this morning they are going to be redesigning the AdWords platform over the next [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Multiple Title Tags Doesn't Cause Problems For Us Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that if you have multiple title tags on the same page, it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Twitter Engineer Enjoying Google LA Office - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 27 2016

Google Easter Logo? Nope, But Bing & Ask.com Go With Easter Themes The last time Google has a special Google logo, aka Doodle, for Easter was in 2000, yes, 16 years [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 25 2016

Six tips on measurement from the IAB Programmatic Marketplace Not getting too complicated with metrics is just one important point covered in an IAB conference [...] - Search Engine Watch
Content marketing: nine tips for herding your stakeholder cats As content marketing types, we’ve all been there. After all that ideation and PM and [...] - Search Engine Watch
Former Google Spam Fighter: Machine Learning Already In Spam Algorithms Yesterday we reported that Google is aiming to use machine learning in spam algorithms, to better [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Dynamic Search Ads Now Defaults To Recommended Bid Feature Google announced on Google+ that those who use dynamic search ads in Google AdWords, that the bid [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Here Is Some Google Engineer Sarcasm For You One thing well known about the culture within Google is the heavy level of sarcasm and layers of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Web Spam Algorithms Global But Some Regions Pose More Spam Issues For Google Continuing with our coverage of the Google Q&A via WebPromo that we covered over the past day, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: March 25, 2016 This week in search, Google disclosed what the top three ranking factors are, which are links, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 24 2016

Now we know: Here are Google’s top three search ranking factors Google's Andrey Lipattsev reveals links, content and RankBrain are the top three ranking signals in [...] - Search Engine Land
One Local SEO Got His 60 Clients Penalized In One Night A Google My Business Help thread has a local SEO who is furious with Google that over 60 of his [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: The Top Three Ranking Factors Are Content, Links & RankBrain Surprise, surprise, the top three ranking signals in Google's search ranking algorithm is content, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Finally Confirms the Two Most Important Ranking Factors When Google originally announced RankBrain, they confirmed that it was now the third most important [...] - The SEM Post
Google: Machine Learning For Spam Detection & Search Quality Is Coming Google's Andrey Lipattsev, a Search Quality Senior Strategist, said yesterday at the 42:40 mark in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google vs. Moz On Clicks Influencing Search Ranking The debate on whether Google is telling the truth about click data, i.e. pogosticking, clicking on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Working on iOS Keyboard with Search Functionality Google is reportedly working on a third-party keyboard for iOS which is said to have built-in [...] - Search Engine Journal
Page One Power to Partner With #SEJSummit 2016 We are excited to announce that Page One Power has joined SEJ Summit as our partner in SEJ Summit [...] - Search Engine Journal

March, 23 2016

Airbnb Caught Using Embeddable Links in Widgets to Boost SEO Airbnb was recently caught using embeddable widgets to allegedly enhance its search engine [...] - Search Engine Journal
Machine Learning in the Cloud, with TensorFlow Posted by Slaven Bilac, Software Engineer, Google Research At Google, researchers collaborate [...] - Google Research
Google: SEOs Are Wrong, 302 Redirects Pass PageRank On Twitter @dhinckley said that according to Moz over here, 302 redirects pass zero "link [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Yahoo Reveals Top Search Trends for Spring 2016 Yahoo recently revealed a list of topics that are expected to be searched most this spring. - Search Engine Journal
What is Digital Leadership? I have a difficult task. In order to promote our upcoming two-day digital marketing event called [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Metronome Widget If you search Google for [metronome] on your desktop or mobile device, you will see an interactive [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Space Separated Attributes In Nofollow Still Nofollows The Link Google's John Mueller confirmed on Twitter that having space separated attributes in the nofollow [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 22 2016

Google Testing Images In Search Results Snippets Google seems to be stepping up showing more and more images in the search results, inline with the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
10 Ways Twitter Changed Marketing in the Past 10 Years Twitter recently highlighted 10 ways the company has changed marketing since it launched 10 years [...] - Search Engine Journal
Former Googler: Google's Early March Update Gone Unnoticed Long Enough Last week, we reported on a Google update that we suspected started a week or so before. There was [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Granted Patent on How Self-Driving Cars Might Handle Tailgaters Google’s self driving cars have covered over a million miles of roadway, and recently, one of [...] - SEO by the Sea
Google: Reviews In Original Language On Internationalized Pages Are Acceptable One of the more complicated topics in SEO is internationalization, geo, languages... - Search Engine Roundtable
6 SEO Mistakes Amateur Bloggers Frequently Make The beauty of the internet is that anyone, anywhere, can create a web page about anything. If you [...] - The SEM Post
Green GoogleBot On The Train - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Crawler Now Sends English In Accept-Language Request Header Former Googler, Pierre Far, spotted and posted on Google+ that the Google crawler (GoogleBot) now [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 21 2016

A first look at Plonked, the new search engine for business Earlier this month came the launch of a brand new search engine dedicated to providing in-depth [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Ranking Restaurant Searches by “Best” and “Cheapest” SEOs have been noticing when conducting searches for local places that modifiers like [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Announces Doodle 4 Google Winner Google has announced the winner of the Doodle 4 Google competition for 2016. The winner is 10th [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Revamps Search Advertising Exam For Google Partners Google has quietly updated, or as they put it, "revamped" the Search Advertising exam for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Moz: Google Displaying "People Also Ask" Box More Often To Searchers Google seems to be showing more and more of the "people also ask" feature in the search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdSense Matched Content Ads Rolling Out Google announced they are rolling out Matched Content ads units, which they began testing last [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Doodles Version Of Somewhere Over The Rainbow This is pretty amazing, the samuraiguitarist used various Google Doodles (the ones that make [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Matt Cutts Plays With A Panda In The Denver Airport - Search Engine Roundtable
466453.com Now 404s; Google's Old SMS Search Feature Back, a hundred internet years ago, Google bought 466453.com and then after using it for years as [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 21, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 20 2016

Google's Vernal Equinox Doodle Today is the first day of spring and like every year, Google and the other search engines make a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 19 2016

Twitter CEO Says 140 Characters are Staying, Doesn’t Rule Out Longer Tweets Twitter’s 140 character tweets are not going away, but tweets may still be evolving from how [...] - Search Engine Journal
People Like Twitter’s Algorithmic Timeline, Going to Become the Default Twitter is going through the process of making its algorithmic timeline the new default; meaning [...] - Search Engine Journal

March, 18 2016

Six of the most interesting SEM news stories of the week Welcome to our weekly round-up of all the latest news and research from around the world of search [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google: RankBrain May Adjust Weights Of Existing Search Ranking Signals As you know, we've been living in a RankBrain world for some time in Google. Recently there has [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Testing Extra White Space in Search Results Google is running a limited test with extra white space in the search results, adding significantly [...] - The SEM Post
Google Image Search Launches Colorized Filter Buttons Google has been testing different color filter button icons in the image search results for some [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Opt Out Of Google Feature Snippets With nosnippet Tag Did you know you can opt out of showing up in the featured snippets box... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Can Drill Into Search Quality Raters Results To Learn More At SMX West a few weeks ago, during Paul Haahr's awesome presentation and Q&A... - Search Engine Roundtable
RankBrain is For Understanding Queries, Not for Crawling or Ranking Ever since RankBrain first launched, there has been a lot of confusion over how exactly it impacts [...] - The SEM Post
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: March 18, 2016 This week in search at the Search Engine Roundtable, we covered a possible Google update earlier in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 17 2016

Google ch-ch-ch-changes. How they’re affecting publishers and SEOs Is Google's relationship with publishers and SEOs deteriorating? Columnist Kristine Schachinger [...] - Search Engine Land
Google To Boost The Mobile Friendly Ranking Factors In May Google announced that the mobile friendly ranking algorithm which launched on April 21, 2015 will [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEOs Should Be More Respectful To Google Webmaster Trends Analysts We, including myself, can often come off as giving Googlers a really hard time when it comes to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New? Google Displaying Domain In Some AdWords Ad Titles? Google seems to now show the domain name in the AdWords ad title in the Google search results. I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Bull Abused By SEOs - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 16 2016

Google to boost mobile friendly algorithm this coming May Google announced they are increasing the mobile-friendly update factors but don't expect another [...] - Search Engine Land
Continuing to make the web more mobile friendly Getting good, relevant answers when you search shouldn’t depend on what device you’re [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google to Strengthen its Mobile-Friendly Ranking Signal Google announced its mobile-friendly ranking signal is about to get stronger beginning in May. - Search Engine Journal
Google Increasing Mobile Friendly Ranking Boost in May If you still haven’t made your site mobile friendly yet, you might want to get busy on [...] - The SEM Post
Instagram to Introduce New Algorithm-Based Feed Instagram announced this week that its reverse-chronological feed will soon become and [...] - Search Engine Journal
A Google Update Brewing? Showing Some Signals. Over the past week or so, I have been waiting day by day because I really have this feeling that an [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: No, We Don't Understand Text In Images A question was posed to Google's Gary Illye's on Twitter if Google's crawler and indexer [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: RankBrain Does Not Currently Affect Crawling Google has deployed RankBrain for some time and we know it is confusing so there are many questions [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 15 2016

Introducing the Google Analytics 360 Suite An enterprise-class solution for a multi-screen world Our lives are filled with micro-moments: [...] - Inside Adwords
What your teacher didn’t tell you about optimizing site speed Site speed impacts your search engine ranks, so how can you make improvements? Columnist Brian [...] - Search Engine Land
Google to change smartphone user-agent of Googlebot from iPhone to Android on April 18th Google is updating their smartphone user-agent on April 18, 2016. Make sure to test your web site [...] - Search Engine Land
The campaign trail continues with Google Learning about the candidates and their campaigns is an important part of preparing for the [...] - Inside Search
Google Posts now expands to cricket player cards in search results Business cards, candidate cards, presidential election cards and now cricket player cards are the [...] - Search Engine Land
Updating the smartphone user-agent of Googlebot As technology on the web changes, we periodically update the user-agents we use for Googlebot. Next [...] - Google Webmaster Central
New: Google Analytics 360 Suite If you go to the Google Analytics home page you will see a new section for the enterprise clients [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google to Update Smartphone User-Agent of Googlebot Next month, Google will be changing the smartphone user-agent for Googlebot so its renderer can [...] - Search Engine Journal
Matt Cutts With Gary Illyes At The Google Dance - Search Engine Roundtable
Google to Stream Mobile Games in Search Ads Google is going to let Android users try out mobile games in search ads, allowing them to stream [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: If You’re Reviewing a Free Product, Disclose It If you’re reviewing a product that was gifted to you, Google says that information should be [...] - Search Engine Journal

March, 14 2016

Google Warning: Get A Free Product To Review, Nofollow That Link & Disclose Friday, Google posted a warning on the Webmaster blog that if you get a product to review from a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Confirms They Do Use Site Authority Signals For New Pages Google's John Mueller confirmed in a Google+ hangout last Tuesday that Google does use site wide or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New ad formats and targeting to find, keep and monetize high-quality gamers When mobile users are looking for entertainment they often turn to gaming apps. In 2015, an [...] - Inside Adwords
Rob Kerry on the future of search: 2016 and beyond At the inaugural Ayima Insights digital marketing conference, Ayima co-founder Rob Kerry gave us [...] - Search Engine Watch
Seth Godin on titles, transformation and Trump [video] The countdown to ClickZ Live New York is on and with five weeks to go, our keynote speaker, [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google: Content In aside Tag Treated Similarly To Other Content On Your Page Google's John Mueller confirmed on Twitter that content placed in the <aside> tag is treated [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Guides Can Add Photos In Their Reviews Did you know that starting a few weeks ago, the Google Local Guides unlocked a special feature in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Showing AMP Results Outside of AMP Carousel in Search Results At SMX earlier this month, Dave Besbris, Vice President of Engineering said that they would be [...] - The SEM Post
Google Tokyo View - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 11 2016

Best practices for bloggers reviewing free products they receive from companies As a form of online marketing, some companies today will send bloggers free products to review or [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google tells bloggers to disclose & nofollow links when reviewing gifted products Google issues new best practices to bloggers who receive free products. Is Google about to send [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Why Google Doesn't Go Over Every Ranking Factor For Webmasters This morning in a Google Hangout on Google+, John Mueller said he is decided to skip a bunch of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: A Penguin Site Cannot Be Fixed By Google Manually A question was submitted to the Google+ hangout this morning about a site being penalized by [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Seven of the most interesting SEM news stories of the week Welcome to our weekly round-up of all the latest news and research from around the world of search [...] - Search Engine Watch
Coming Soon: Google Search Console May Split Out Where Your Page Showed In The Search Results Google's John Mueller said in a Google+ hangout this morning at the 5:40 mark that Google may show [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google On Why They Use DMOZ: I Have Absolutely No Clue Sometimes Google will use DMOZ, the old old web directory, in their search results. They may use [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 10 2016

Announcing the 2016 Google PhD Fellows for North America, Europe and the Middle East Posted by Michael Rennaker, Google PhD Fellowships Lead Google created the PhD Fellowship [...] - Google Research
Searchmetrics study shows most apps are not utilizing the Google App Indexing API While most top web sites have apps, only 30% of those Android apps & 19% of those iOS apps have [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Repeats: Don't Remove Authorship Markup From Your Pages Remember when Google killed off authorship in 2014? I am sure you do. But remember when I covered [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Experiments With “Call/Text Google” to Find Local Service Providers Google has been seen testing its latest experimental feature; ads that encourage searchers to call [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google AdWords Testing Scrollable Product Listing Ads Google is testing a new format for the product listing ads, Google AdWords shopping ads... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google News Carousel Gets Category Toggle Google is testing a new format for the news carousel that lets users swipe between categories of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s AMP Pages Now Featured in Twitter’s Moments Tab Twitter has added the ability to display Google’s AMP pages when loading up content in the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Designing for Mobile Micro-Moments Mobile has shaped the way users interact with businesses and brands alike. Nowadays, businesses [...] - Inside Adwords

March, 9 2016

RIP Google PageRank score: A retrospective on how it ruined the web While Google will remove PageRank scores from public view in the coming weeks, the way those scores [...] - Search Engine Land
Google is killing off PageRank from its Toolbar As confirmed by Google's Webmaster Trends Analyst John Mueller, Google is removing PageRank from [...] - Search Engine Watch
Train your own image classifier with Inception in TensorFlow Posted by Jon Shlens, Senior Research Scientist At the end of last year we released code that [...] - Google Research
Google Really Kills Off Toolbar PageRank - Good Riddance On Monday, March 7 2016, Google officially killed off Toolbar PageRank scores to the few browser [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google to Stop Displaying Toolbar PageRank Scores A company spokesperson has confirmed with SEJ that PageRank is officially being shuttered. - Search Engine Journal
Three ways to protect your business from ad-blockers New guidelines from the Federal Trade Commission have many marketers worried about the future of [...] - Search Engine Watch

March, 8 2016

Google Has Confirmed They Are Removing Toolbar PageRank It's official, Google has decided to fully kill off toolbar PageRank from their browser tools. - Search Engine Land
Deep Learning for Robots: Learning from Large-Scale Interaction Posted by Sergey Levine, Research Scientist While we’ve recently seen great strides in [...] - Google Research
An update on the Webmaster Central Blog We’ve got a new URL! You may have noticed the Google Webmaster Central blog has a new [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Removing PageRank From Google Toolbar If you are still one of the Google PageRank devotees, you may have noticed that your Google [...] - The SEM Post
Google's Paul Haahr: We Don't Fully Understand RankBrain At SMX West last week, Google's Paul Haahr, a top engineer involved in core ranking, had a keynote [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Hires Founder of 4chan to Join Google+ Team Google has not given up on its struggling social network, Google+. Its latest effort? Hiring [...] - Search Engine Journal
How SEO and PPC Can Work Together to Maximize ROI SEO and PPC have always been very conflicting ideologies. On one hand, you have a precise [...] - The SEM Post
Google Offers ‘Search by Interest’ Filters For Google Flights Searches With new search filters added to Google Flights, you can search by specific interests. - Search Engine Journal
Google's First Part Of Query Analysis Is Entities Discovery Again, at SMX West last week, Paul Haahr from Google said that when Google launched their knowledge [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Automatic Scheduled Uploads Google announced on Google+ a new automated feature to let you automatically set scheduled uploads [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Learn science in a fun and interactive way with Bing On March 8, a total solar eclipse will be visible in Southeast Asia. The Bing team wants young [...] - Bing Search
Google’s Advice For Building a Mobile-Centric Search Strategy Google’s VP of Americas Marketing, Lisa Gevelber, recently shared her insight on how to build [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Pre-2005 Use To Test Swapping Position 2 & 4 For Years Another tidbit that came out of Google Paul Haahr's SMX West talk was an experiment Google ran [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google International Women's Day 2016 Video Doodle Today on Google's home page worldwide is a special video doodle, logo, for International Women's [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 7 2016

Bing Updates Image Search for Office and Edge The Bing search team works hard to provide access to all of Bing’s great functionality across [...] - Bing Search
Test: Google Local Business Cards With Animated GIFs In Search Results Mike Blumenthal first spotted this new social sharing feature which Greg Sterling named local [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Gives Update On Crawling JavaScript Sites & Progressive Web Apps John Mueller of Google posted a detailed update on how Google currently handles JavaScript sites [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Google Dance Was About Webmaster Relations Last week, Wednesday night during SMX West, Google brought back the Google Dance. It has been [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Analytics Referrer Spam Issue Decreasing? For around a year, Google has had major issues with Google Analytics referrer spam. It has [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
March 2016 Google Webmaster Report This may be one of the largest set of links in my Google monthly recaps ever. Truth is, there [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Increase customer activation and retention with easy app engagement We've all downloaded useful apps with the intention of using them, but with many things fighting [...] - Inside Adwords
Matt Cutts Makes Appearance At The Google Dance - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 6 2016

Search for YouTube Videos By Location With New Third Party Tool Ever wanted to know what people in your local area are publishing to YouTube? Now you can with this [...] - Search Engine Journal
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: March 6, 2016 I am sorry for the delay in posting this, but here is the weekly recap. Google did a possible [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 5 2016

Best Practices for Twitter Polls, According to Twitter Twitter has rounded up what it believes to be a general set of best practices for running [...] - Search Engine Journal

March, 4 2016

Google’s Candidate Cards Being Tested For Businesses? A local business has been spotted using the equivalent of Candidate Cards to add content directly [...] - Search Engine Land
Paul Haahr: Position 10 In Google Gets More Clicks Than Positions 8 Or 9 Paul Haahr, one of the senior folks at Google who work on search rankings, said at SMX West [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's Gary Illyes: I'm Done Estimating Penguin 4.0 Launch Dates Yesterday at SMX West in the How Google Works: A Google Ranking Engineer's Story session Gary [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Six of the most interesting SEM news stories of the week Welcome to our weekly round-up of all the latest news and research from around the world of search [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Is Strongly Embracing AMP Everywhere There Is Content If you can't tell by all the Google AMP articles we've written here, AMP is a big deal at Google. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Adds Bulk Spreadsheets Photo Uploads Google announced that you can now update your Google My Business listings photos directly with the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Google For Animal Sounds Did you know you can search Google for animal sounds... - Search Engine Roundtable
Monica Wright Gets The SMX Hair Style - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Results: Position #10 Gets More Clicks Than 7 & 8 Combined After years of anecdotal evidence and speculation, Google has finally confirmed what many [...] - The SEM Post

March, 3 2016

Google Image Search tests colored filter buttons Google Image Search adds a splash of colors by testing new filter buttons. - Search Engine Land
Need Help With AMP? Google is Rolling Out New International Office Hours Google is continuing its prioritization of AMP adoption with the rollout of new international [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Maps Adds Quick Way To Confirm Unverifed Locations The Google Maps team posted on the what's new page that there is now a new feature to help you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Moz Shows Google Featured Snippets Showing Up 17% More Often Dr. Pete Meyers from Moz reports that the Mozcast feature graph is indeed correct in showing that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Has A Cool Interactive Solar System Map If you search for [solar system] in Bing you get this really fun and cool interactive map. The map [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Image Search Tests Colored Label Filters August 2015 we captured Google testing image button filters in mobile. Since then, Google has been [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 2 2016

Google Takes Action On 65% Of User Generated Spam Reports Google's Juan Felipe Rincon shares statistics on how many manual actions Google receives by users [...] - Search Engine Land
An Update on fast Transit Routing with Transfer Patterns Arno Eigenwillig, Software Engineer on Google Maps Directions What is the best way to get from A [...] - Google Research
AMP NewsLab Office Hours in your language Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) is a global, industry-wide initiative, with publishers large and [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Search Update Sign? Seeing Some Early Signs In the past 24-hours or so... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Reserves News Carousel For AMP Pages Only As you know, Google AMP went live last week and the only significant change is that the AMP [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Varvy Tools: Google Guidelines Testing Tool Patrick Sexton created a free and useful revamp of his tools at Varvy.com. He calls it the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Top 10 Winners in Organic Search Growth Year-Over-Year A study was recently published by SimilarWeb detailing the top 10 sites that grew their organic [...] - Search Engine Journal
Facebook to Favor Live Videos Over Recorded Videos in News Feed Facebook announced it will now begin to place live videos higher up in peoples’ news feeds [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: 65% Of User Generated Spam Reports Are Acted On I covered this last night at Search Engine Land, but I am asked this often. If you submit a spam [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 1 2016

Google Organic Results Showing Phone Number & Phone Icon Ryan Schilling noticed Google showing a phone icon and phone number under some of the organic [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Overloading Google's Fetch & Mobile Testing Tools With Too Many JavaScript & CSS Includes What happens when you have dozens and dozens of JavaScript and CSS includes, some hosting [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Finding your audience with Google display and video ads People constantly move between devices throughout the day — reading breaking news on their [...] - Inside Adwords
Yes, Google Has A Hacked Spam Site Takeover Issue In US Results Also A few weeks ago, I reported about Google investigating a Polish hacker who is stealing webmasters [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Editor 11.3 Now Available Google announced on Google+ the release of the next version of the AdWords Editor, we are now up to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google News Box Returns In Google Finance Results Last week, we reported that the news box was removed from Google Finance results and was replaced [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Snapchat on Par With Facebook When it Comes to Daily Video Views Recode reports Snapchat announced it has has now reached 8 billion video views per day; the same [...] - Search Engine Journal
The Google Guest Badge - Search Engine Roundtable