Archive of April, 2016

April, 30 2016

Import Chrome Bookmarks Into Google Save If you install the " Save to Google " extension for Chrome, you can now import your [...] - Google Operating System

April, 29 2016

DeepMind moves to TensorFlow Posted by Koray Kavukcuoglu, Research Scientist, Google DeepMind At DeepMind , we conduct [...] - Google Research
Take a Trip With Google Using Its New Travel App Google is currently beta testing a new travel app, called Google Trips, which is designed to be a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Celebrates 10 Milestones During 10 Years of Google Translate Google Translate is now 10 years old. When it first launched it supported only two languages and [...] - Search Engine Journal
Dennis Publishing’s Paul Lomax on adblocking and ‘anti-ad zealots’ The growth of adblocker usage is one of the major problems affecting publishers today, as it has [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Adds New “Instant Content” Feature in Search Results Google has launched a new feature into beta where Google will publish content directly within their [...] - The SEM Post
Now Control Google Maps With Your Keyboard Google announced on Google+ that you can now control and navigate around Google Maps with your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Fixed Muffled Voice On iOS Google Search App Google released an update for the iOS search app that resolves the issue with a muffled and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Console, Community Power & AdWords Extended Ads Truth is, I recorded this video yesterday because I am completely offline today. First up... - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 28 2016

11 extraordinary uses of Augmented Reality (AR) Jess Butcher, the director and co-founder of augmented reality app Blippar, is speaking at our [...] - Search Engine Watch
Biz Stone’s ‘Jelly’ App Relaunches As a New Search Engine Twitter founder Biz Stone first launched launched Jelly in January 2014 as a social Q&A search [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Predicts Company’s Future in Founder’s Letter Google CEO Sundar Pichai delivered his first ever letter to shareholders today, where he predicted [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Prompts Users To Set Home & Work Address On Some Searches When you use your mobile phone on iOS or Android, Google and Apple both try to get you to set your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Unskippable Six Second Ads Coming to YouTube Google is rolling out a new ad format for YouTube which will be short and unskippable. Google is [...] - Search Engine Journal
Gary Illyes: We're Google Spokespersons - It's Our Job I find it funny that I often here people saying on Twitter and other places that Gary Illyes, John [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Merchant Center Adds Feed Rules; A Tool To Manage Your Data Feeds Google AdWords announced a new tool to help Google Shopping merchants manage their merchant center [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 27 2016

Copyright bully Getty Images complains to EU that Google coerced it into image search Company says high-res image search results have harmed traffic and revenues. - Search Engine Land
New Test: Google AdWords Expanded Text Ads Ginny Marvin posted at Search Engine Land a screen shot she found of the new Google AdWords [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
17 fascinating stats about beacons and location marketing We've pulled together as many stats relating to beacons as we could possibly find, many of which [...] - Search Engine Watch
10 secret ingredients of a 10x marketer What attributes make for a brilliant marketer? - Search Engine Watch
New Merchant Center Feed Rules helps you submit your product data into Google Shopping feed format Finding the right customers on Google Shopping starts with your Merchant Center product feed: it [...] - Inside Adwords
Google: Community Through Comments Help A Lot With Ranking Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter that having a thriving community helps with rankings. He [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Testing Very Light Blue Links In Search Results As you all know, Google is constantly testing user interface changes in their search results. Here [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Why Blog Comments Are Great for Google SEO There has been a significant backlash against comments in the past couple of years, with many sites [...] - The SEM Post
Getty Images Joins EU in Antitrust Complaint Against Google It has been a turmultuous week for Google when it comes to dealing with legal issues. First, the [...] - Search Engine Journal

April, 26 2016

Built for mobile: Bumper ads drive incremental reach and frequency, particularly on smartphones Recent research has shown that half of 18-49 year olds turn to their mobile device first to watch [...] - Inside Adwords
Google brings back in-depth articles to search results after 17-day outage Google seems to have fixed what appeared to be a bug with their search results interface, where [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console now let’s you unsubscribe from some email notifications Finally, after much feedback from webmasters, they can now unsubscribe and mute email notifications [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s Reasonable Surfer Patent Updated Systems and methods consistent with the principles of the invention may provide a reasonable surfer [...] - SEO by the Sea
Google In-Depth Articles Now Coming Back Earlier this month, Google's In Depth articles search features mysteriously dropped out. I emailed [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Positions 1 and 4 Show Most Potential [STUDY] A study led by Adobe Media Optimizer finds that paid search ads that end up in the 4th position [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Image Search Sponsored Ads In Mobile This isn't really new, Google has been testing ads and sponsored results in images for many many [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google and Microsoft End Fued Over Android Google has gained one new antitrust investigation and had another one withdrawn all in the span of [...] - Search Engine Journal

April, 25 2016

Smarter digital assistants and the future of search The dream of an ultimate personal assistant isn’t a farfetched sci-fi fantasy like the [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google: We Don't Have A Bandwidth Ranking Signal Google's Paul Haahr, one of the most knowledge people around the Google ranking signals... - Search Engine Roundtable
No Google Penguin 4.0 On World Penguin Day Today is officially World Penguin Day, I am not joking, see worldpenguinday.com. So of course... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Testing Purple Ad Label Ross from Paid Insights informed me on Twitter that he is now seeing the ad label from Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Old Inside Street Views On Google Maps Are Not Easy To Remove I recently found two threads in the Google Maps Help forums asking about how one can delete their [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdSense Now Supports Filipino Language Google announced this morning on Google+ that Google AdSense now supports Filipino [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
European Google Shop - Search Engine Roundtable
Bolder YouTube Player YouTube's desktop player looks different. There are new icons, text is bolder, menus are much [...] - Google Operating System

April, 24 2016

Google Play Music Still Requires Flash I uninstalled Flash Player on my computer, now that most sites no longer need it. Adobe's Flash [...] - Google Operating System

April, 22 2016

Google: The Next Penguin Update May Be The Last Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter yesterday that this may be the last Penguin update. He said [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Only 23% of SEOs Currently Implementing AMP, 50% Believe it Will Affect Rankings In an exclusive study conducted by SEO PowerSuite, some revealing findings were uncovered as to how [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Don't Worry Too Much About Page Speed I see so many SEOs always cite the page speed of a site when it comes to why a site may not rank [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Facebook’s News Feed Algorithm Now Factors in Viewing Time Facebook is going beyond the basic signals of liking, commenting, and sharing to now factor in [...] - Search Engine Journal
3 DIY SEO Action Items for a $0 Budget SEO is a marathon, not a sprint. It takes a methodical, slow-and-steady approach to achieve [...] - The SEM Post
Earth Day Logos From Google, Bing & Others Today is Earth Day and Google, Bing, Ask.com, Dogpile and others have special logos and themes up [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Austin Version Of The Google Bike - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 21 2016

Google's Purple Rain Doodle For Prince Music If you visit Google's home page on Google.com USA, you will see a purple Google logo that is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google To AdWords Advertisers: Google Maps Is Now Part Of Core Search Google sent an email to many of their AdWords advertisers yesterday telling them changes are coming [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Shift London: Are you ready to join the #Digirevolution? What makes a digital influencer? Is it follower numbers? The ability to find and create great [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Search Will Soon Be Your New TV Guide TV listings will soon be shown in Google search, an announcement made this week at the National [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google TV Search Adds Search By Show To Find Channels Or App Google announced they are adding to their TV search capabilities by adding which channels and apps [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Highlights AMP Pages in Google News Google News will soon be highlighting the content of the thousands of publishers that have embraced [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Analytics iOS App Gets New Look, Better Sharing, Customized Reports & More The Google Analytics app has been updated for iOS to version 3.0, and 3.0 comes with many changes. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google News Now AMP Ready The Google News blog announced Google News is now amplified, meaning... - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 20 2016

Listen to podcasts in the Google App on Android Earlier this week, we announced that podcasts are available in Google Play Music. As we said, [...] - Inside Search
Building the future of TV, with you This blog is cross-posted on DoubleClick and Cloud Platform. The television industry is in the [...] - Inside Search
Chrome Extension for Google Keep It looks there's an internal competition inside Google for creating Chrome extensions that save [...] - Google Operating System
23 up-to-date stats and facts about Instagram you need to know Today we embark on our fourth weekly #ClickZChat, where the good people of SEW and ClickZ take to [...] - Search Engine Watch
Search and Listen to Podcasts on the Google App on Android This week Google rolled out the ability to listen and subscribe to podcasts to Google Play Music. [...] - Search Engine Journal

April, 19 2016

Forecast says SEO-related spending will be worth $80 billion by 2020 Report from Borrell Associates argues "marketing services" spending in US is much larger [...] - Search Engine Land
Helping webmasters re-secure their sites (Cross-posted from the Google Security Blog .) Every week, over 10 million users encounter [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Nick Wilsdon on Enterprise SEO and Customer Acquisition [podcast] Welcome to the latest episode of the ClickZ Digital Marketing Podcast. In this week’s [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google PageRank Officially Shuts its Doors to the Public Google has officially shut down toolbar PageRank to the general public. - Search Engine Journal
Insights on digital leadership & transformation from last week’s #ClickZChat This week we took to Twitter to ask our followers how inspired leadership can drive transformation [...] - Search Engine Watch
Sites Registered In Google Search Console Are Much More Likely To Fix Compromised Sites Google published on the Google research blog an interesting stat. If you register your site with [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Showing how YouTube ads drive sales for CPG brands with Oracle Data Cloud Measuring the impact of online video is something of a passion for us at Google. It’s been [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Testing Trending In Search Auto-Complete This is an interesting one, Google is always testing features and it seems I missed this back in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s New Search Card Will Help Track Your Online Orders A new Google search card allows searchers to track packages directly within the search results [...] - Search Engine Journal
Want AMP Pages In Google? Disable New Relic New Relic is a software service that helps you manage your cloud environment, I use it here for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Maps Testing Local Finder Ads Seems Google is now testing ads in the Google Maps local finder search results. There are several [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 18 2016

Google Toolbar PageRank officially goes dark A month or so after Google told us they will be removing the one-to-ten PageRank scores from their [...] - Search Engine Land
Satisfaction a Future Ranking Signal in Google Search Results? Do you search through Google on your phone? How do you know whether or not Google is watching you [...] - SEO by the Sea
Google Fully Turns Off Feed To Toolbar PageRank As we reported early last month, Google began officially killing off toolbar PageRank. It started [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Manufacturer Center helps brands find and convert new customers Google provides consumers around the world with the answers they need to find, review, and buy the [...] - Inside Adwords
SEOs Experiment To Make Titles Stand Out In Google @pizzaseoEN posted on Twitter a UTF-8 experiment done by @dusoft around making your title tags [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's John Mueller Addresses Zombie Traffic Phenomenon Last week we covered our continued coverage of the Google Zombie traffic only because there seemed [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Officially Turns Off All Public PageRank If you were grasping onto the last visible signs of PageRank after Google officially announced the [...] - The SEM Post
Google: Pages Move Around In Shards Very Slowly Most SEOs know that Google's database structure for storing content in their index is in shards. A [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Keywords Label Field Now In Google AdWords Report Editor Jon Diorio, a Google AdWords Product Manager, shared on Google+ that they have added the keywords [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Google Expense Bag - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 15 2016

Mashable reports Google is testing tending topics in auto-complete search results A new Google experiment was captured by Mashable's Samantha Murphy Kelly showing Google showing [...] - Search Engine Land
Googe: When Penguin Begins Rolling Out, We Will Post An Announcement All this chatter about when Google will launch Penguin, will we know? Who will tell us... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Footer Content Is Not Penalized But Not Seen As Primary Content We've covered footer and boilerplate content a lot here but Google's John Mueller brought it up [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
EU Calls For Search Engines to Be More Transparent About Ads The European Union is calling for search engines like Google and Bing to be more upfront about [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: You Can Be Negatively Impacted By One Algorithm & Positively Impacted By Another So let's say your site was hit by Google Penguin 3.0 almost 18 months ago and you feel you are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Adjusts the Impact of Ad Rank Formats Google has done away with the archaic and confusing formula for displaying ad extensions with the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Local Pack Gets Search Filters For Map Results It seems Google is now showing, at least I think it is new, search filters in the local pack you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Sees Green With Updated Ad Tag Colors If you have been seeing more green lately with respect to Google AdWords, and we don’t just [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Console API Gets Some Enhancements Google's John Mueller announced on Google+ that they made a few updates to the Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 14 2016

HTTP to HTTPS: An SEO’s guide to securing a website Despite the numerous benefits of switching to HTTPS, many SEOs and website owners have not done so. [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search to Display Gas Prices in Local Pack Gas prices are starting to show up in the local three pack as well as in the local finder and the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Analytics Rolling Out Several New Features Google Analytics announced on Google+ that they have begun rolling out new features to their users. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Does Index & Rank Images Title Attribute Tags A couple weeks ago, we reported that Google implied they do not index image title attributes. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Calendar Can Now Assist With Planning Personal Goals An update to Calendar will see that Google’s scheduling software is now able to help you plan [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Showing Green Ad Label To Some Users Google seems to be broadly testing changing the yellow ad label to a green colored ad label. I am [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Do Not Replace Mobile / Responsive Sites With AMP At the SEJ Summit Wednesday, Maile Ohye spoke quite a bit about AMP and the benefits of using [...] - The SEM Post
Tips for Saving to Google If you're using the Save to Google Chrome extension, here are a few tips: 1. Select [...] - Google Operating System

April, 13 2016

Announcing TensorFlow 0.8 – now with distributed computing support! Posted by Derek Murray, Software Engineer Google uses machine learning across a wide range of its [...] - Google Research
Save to Google It looks the Google Save site is not restricted to bookmarking image search results. The [...] - Google Operating System
WordPress Version 4.5 Now Available: Here’s What’s New WordPress version 4.5 is now available, it is designed with editing improvements in mind which [...] - Search Engine Journal

April, 12 2016

No More Deceptive Download Buttons (Cross-posted from the Google Security Blog .) In November , we announced that Safe Browsing [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google adds Featured Snippets to 10 new European locales Google expands featured snippets in 10 new European locales, expanding it to over 20 different [...] - Search Engine Land
Google now blocks searchers from sites with deceptive download buttons Google is now serving a big red warning to searchers before they go to a web site with deceptive [...] - Search Engine Land
All of Google’s CS Education Programs and Tools in One Place Posted by Chris Stephenson, Head of Computer Science Education Programs Interest in computer [...] - Google Research
Bing Just Became a Powerful New Tool for Developers Developers searching for quick snippets of code my find themselves turning to Bing more frequently [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Slaps Mass Manual Actions For Outbound Links Over Free Product Reviews As we reported yesterday, Google slapped mass penalties for outbound links over the weekend. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Would Google Launch Penguin 4.0 With Gary Illyes & John Mueller On Vacation? Despite telling John Mueller of Google that I wouldn't cover this, I now have to cover it... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Log File Analysis Is So Underrated I remember the days of prepping before client meetings by scouring through tons of log files to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Event When Former Googlers Reports Spam, It Takes A Long Time To Be Removed Last week, I spotted former Googler Natalie Glance, who worked at Google as an Engineering Manager [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 11 2016

Google Penalizes Sites For Unnatural Outbound Linking On Saturday Check your Google Search Console message center, Google sent out outbound link penalties over the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Issues Mass Unnatural Outbound Links Penalties Over Weekend Google has issued a large number of unnatural links penalties over the weekend... - Search Engine Roundtable
Unnatural Outbound Link Manual Actions from Google Many bloggers were hit with “Unnatural Outbound Links” manual actions late Friday [...] - The SEM Post
Mississippi attorney general’s “conspiracy to censor the internet” back on as appeals court rules against Google Google had alleged the Motion Picture Association was using Mississippi attorney general's as a [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Completely Drops In-Depth Articles I am not sure if this is a bug or not but Dr. Pete Meyers from Moz reported on his Mozcast features [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Mixing Mobile Friendly Types (i.e. Responsive, Dynamic Serving & Seperate URLs) On One Site Is Fine Google's John Mueller said in a live Google hangout on Google+ at the 13:05 minute mark that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Large Number of EasyRecipe Plugin Users Hit With Manual Action Do you own a recipe site and received a spammy rich snippet manual action on your site in the past [...] - The SEM Post
Google Submitted A Fix To Apple Over Google My Business App Bug Last week we reported that Google's update for the Google My Business iOS app caused a serious bug [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Zurich Door Painted Street Signs - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Guides App Add Name Bug Slows Local Reviews The Local Guides, Google's most trusted and frequent users of the Google Maps/local business [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 10 2016

Facebook Changes its Policies on Branded Content Facebook has updated its policies on how branded content is handled on the network, - Search Engine Journal

April, 8 2016

Five 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's John Mueller On How They Handle 301, 301, 307 & Other Redirects Google's John Mueller promised a couple weeks ago that he would dig deeper and document how Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Facebook Improves Live Video Search Facebook has improved the search and discovery process for live videos, days after announcing a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Reddit Releases First Ever Self-Made iOS and Android Apps Reddit finally has its own self-produced mobile app for the iOS and Android platforms. - Search Engine Journal
Google Removes My Business iOS App From App Store After Serious Bug Yesterday, Google pushed out an update to the iOS version of the Google My Business app. But as I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's New Nearby Ad Format Looks Like Free Results It looks like Google has released a new format for the local ads. When you search for [oil change] [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
RankRanger: Google Featured Snippets Expand To More European Search Results A month ago, Pete Meyers from Moz asked if featured snippets are on other Google search results [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How Page Speed as a Google Ranking Factor Works There is always this push by SEOs to get the highest possible page speed score to get the most [...] - The SEM Post
Google: We Tests By Redirecting A Small Percentage Of Traffic, Not Setting Up Test Sites In a live Google hangout with John Mueller this morning on Google+, John said that Google doesn't [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 7 2016

Google warns site owner their site is not mobile friendly in mobile search results A month before the Google mobile friendly algorithm boost, Google starts issuing new warnings to [...] - Search Engine Land
Searchmetrics now shows where your app appears in App Packs Also new: rankings for app ads, unique keywords on a page, and the release of the Visibility Guard [...] - Search Engine Land
Selecting Entities on Sites and Performing Tasks On Them Through Google Visitors to a website may want to perform certain actions related to Entities (specific places or [...] - SEO by the Sea
Google Showing Site Owner; Your Page Is Not Mobile-Friendly In Search Results Jennifer Slegg noticed on one of her older sites that Google is showing a notification directly in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Former Googler On Why Do Some Google Manual Actions Seem Automated Often we will see Google issue out mass manual actions for link schemes or other webmaster [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Sending Recommended PageSpeed Update Available Notifications Google is sending out new Google Search Console notifications for pagespeed related topics. The [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Shopping Adds Product Status & Effective Max CPC Reports Google announced they added two new Google AdWords reports specific to managing your shopping [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 6 2016

Genomic Data Processing on Google Cloud Platform Posted by Dr. Stacey Gabriel, Director of the Genomics Platform at the Broad Institute of MIT and [...] - Google Research
Is Google Testing The Penguin 4.0 Algorithm? I think we are on the verge of seeing Penguin 4.0 launch soon at Google - I think we are just about [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Ways to Create Live Video on Facebook, and Track Viewership Facebook has launched new features for live videos designed to get more people in on the action. - Search Engine Journal
WebPromo’s Q&A with Google’s Andrey Lipattsev [transcript] We've partnered with WebPromo to bring you a transcript of their entire one-hour long Google [...] - Search Engine Watch
Kik Launches Bot Store: “Bots are the New Websites” Kik is officially the first messenger app out of the gate with its own bot store, which the company [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Alt Tags Should Be In The Language Of The Content Of The Page (Localized Alt Tags) John Mueller of Google answered a question in StackExchange on localization of content. In short, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
No products left out with new Shopping product insights With winter sales coming to an end and spring finally upon us, now is the perfect time to clean the [...] - Inside Adwords
Twitter to Stream NFL Thursday Night Football This Fall A total of 10 games will be live streamed on Twitter for free throughout the 2016 NFL regular [...] - Search Engine Journal

April, 5 2016

Google tests displaying review snippets in the local 3-pack Google now may show a single review in the 3-pack. This was caught being tested in the wild. - Search Engine Land
When is a search engine not a search engine? When it’s Google, says the EU Does the new definition actually mean anything for the search engine industry? I highly doubt it. [...] - Search Engine Watch
April 2016 Google Webmaster Report This past month we still didn't get that Penguin update but we are still crossing our fingers. We [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New: Google Review Snippets In Local Pack Pete Meyers posted on Twitter a new test Google is conducting in the local pack. Google is showing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 4 2016

Google Updates The Search Quality Rating Guidelines Google has updated their search quality raters guidelines document on March 28, 2016 reducing it [...] - Search Engine Land
Google is Not a Search Engine, According to European Union According to legislation adopted by the European Union, Google is not considered to be a search [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Working On Fixing Search Analytics Bug In The Search Console The Google Search Analytics report is missing a day of data but Google is on it and a fix should be [...] - Search Engine Land
Updated Google Quality Rater Guidelines: No More Supplementary Content, Emphasis on E-A-T Here we go again! With this version we see some interesting changes. Most noticeably is the [...] - The SEM Post
Google Search, Now With Animal Noises Google has quietly rolled out a new feature to search which demonstrates various animal noises when [...] - Search Engine Journal
Columbia University researchers claim 28% of Google’s URL takedown requests are invalid Among the questionable DMCA notices, 4.2% of the takedown requests targeted sites that failed to [...] - Search Engine Land
Leave Reviews on Google Without a Google+ Account Google has loosened its restrictions on who can leave reviews, which could lead to more reviews for [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Updated Quality Raters Guidelines Last Week Google has updated the quality raters guidelines PDF on March 28, 2016. The full version of the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Animal Sounds Google has a special card for animal sounds. Search for [ cat sound ], [ what sound does a zebra [...] - Google Operating System
Have we reached peak content? Insights and issues highlighted by #ClickZChat Do you believe that we’ve reached (or are heading for) peak content? The point when there is [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Changes Local Reviews - Removes Google+ Page & Simplifies Adding Reviews There was a lot I wanted to cover on Friday but was afraid some of that news would get looked over [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 3 2016

Google Search Analytics Report Missing A Day Of Data In Search Console Google Search Console seems to have a gap in data, literally a gap. If you go to the Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 1 2016

Google Documents Google My Business Local Ranking Factors Google's document on ranking in the local search results has been expanded to include factors like [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Reveals New Local Ranking Signals Google has updated its document on local ranking signals to include more traditional ranking [...] - Search Engine Journal
How artificial intelligence can be used for marketing This week sees the launch of our Marketer's Guide to Artificial Intelligence report, which takes a [...] - Search Engine Watch
Longer Videos Coming to Instagram, What it Means for Marketers Instagram has announced it will be extending the standard 15-second length for videos to a full 60 [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Expands Local Ranking Help Document Yesterday, so this doesn't seem like an April Fools prank, Google posted in their features updates [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
I'm Done With SEO Coverage - I Had Enough Of You I am just done with it all. I am sick of it. I spent 12.5 years of my life writing about the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Open Office Design Gets Toilets In Conference Rooms - Search Engine Roundtable
Five 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