Archive of May, 2016

May, 31 2016

Google App for iOS Gets a Speed Boost The Google app for iOS is now faster according to an official announcement from the company. In [...] - Search Engine Journal
The continuing rise of voice search and how you can adapt to it Google’s I/O developer conference brought several huge announcements about Google’s [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google: You Can Ignore Links from Scraper Sites At Google Dance Tokyo, Gary Illyes was asked about scraper sites during the Q&A. He was [...] - The SEM Post
Where Did DoFollow Come From? In mid-January 2005, Google pushed out the nofollow attribute to give webmasters a way to tell [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Adding Site Name to End of Titles for Brand/Site Queries Google is adding the site name to the end of some search queries in the search results, truncated [...] - The SEM Post
Google Showing Promotion Schema In Rich Snippets, Really? Harmit Kamboe posted on Twitter a screen shot of a search result that showed rich snippet content [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Returns Both Mobile Friendly Testing Tools In Search Results I was confused yesterday when I was just checking out the mobile friendly testing tool and I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Does Google Value AJAX Content Less Than Static HTML Content? AJAX is still pretty popular for websites, and at Google Dance Tokyo, Gary Illyes and the [...] - The SEM Post
Google Voice Search Results Can Be Mobile & Desktop A while back, Wolf of SEO, posted on Twitter asking are Google voice search results not impacted by [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google NYC Green Plant Wall For Feng Shui? - Search Engine Roundtable
Why Google Rewrites Title Tags & What SEOs Can Do At last week’s Google Dance Tokyo, during the Q&A, Gary Illyes was asked about Google [...] - The SEM Post

May, 30 2016

Google Now Notification For Indoor Map, Store Inventory, Return Policies & Coupons Google Now is powerful, it is very powerful and the power keeps growing (scary ehh... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Photos Are Missing From Your Listing On Google Tim Coling reported in the Local Search Forums that his client received an email asking them to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Memorial Day: Google Flag & Bing's Stunning Background Today is Memorial Day, a day we remember those who have fought and given their lives to let us in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Other Side Of A Google Webmaster Hangout - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 30, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 27 2016

Google now displays image thumbnails next to search snippets for food related queries Now when you search for food related searches on Google, Google may now show image thumbnails right [...] - Search Engine Land
Speeding up the Google app for iOS users This just in: your Google app for iPhone and iPad is now faster. We’ve cut down loading [...] - Inside Search
Five most interesting search marketing 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 Gives Kayak SEO Help I always love it when big brands go into the Google help forums and ask for help, I love it even [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Now Live: Image Thumbnail In Google Food Search Results Many people, including myself, are now seeing Google showing image thumbnails in the core web [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Local Listings Adds Web Verification Bing Local now allows you to verify your business listing over the web by answering 5 questions [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Screen Shots: Google Trips App Now Being Beta Tested A few days ago, Google sent an email to some of their local guides about testing a new beta version [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Adds Thumbnails to Food Related Wikipedia Results Google has added thumbnails to food related queries for Wikipedia results in the search results. [...] - The SEM Post
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Trillions Of Searches, AdWords Updates, Algorithm Changes & Hiring This week in search, Google had their Google Performance Summit and announced they do trillions of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Penguin Android Figurine - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 26 2016

Google: We May Rank Duplicate Content Across Domains When... I think this is the last item from the Friday Google+ Google hangout that I have to write about, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Dance Tokyo Welcome Address By Gary Illyes Given In Japanese - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Comments Again On External Links & Ranking Benefit This is not a new topic, in 2015 we covered that Google implied external links are not a ranking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Reddit Breaks Up With Imgur, Releases Its Own Image Uploading Tool This week Reddit announced it will be moving away from its integration with Imgur and introduce its [...] - Search Engine Journal
New Google Test: Third Party Reviews in Search Results Google has been spotted conducting another one of its tests in the search results; and this one [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Showing Third Party Reviews in Local Map Results Google is displaying reviews from select third party review sites in their local knowledge panels [...] - The SEM Post

May, 25 2016

Apple building Amazon Echo competitor, will open Siri to third-party apps — [report] The virtual assistant revolution is ushering in the next era of search. - Search Engine Land
New Search Engine Omnity Said to Be “Smarter Than Google” The Washington Post reports that a new search engine called Omnity is on the way, which is targeted [...] - Search Engine Journal
Massive Google AdWords Updates: Bidding Changes, Expanded Text Ads, Mobile, Store Visits & Redesign Yesterday was the Google Performance Summit as we reported yesterday but we didn't report on all [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Adds Hotel Reviews From Other Sources A Google search for hotels brings up hotel results in Google Maps. When you click on a hotel [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Hiring A Webmaster Trends Analysts; You Can Be The Next John Mueller Google is looking to hire a new Webmaster Trends Analysts. Webmaster Trends Analysts are those [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
2016 update to Google Shopping Products Feed Specification Today, we’re announcing updates to the Google Shopping Products Feed Specification . The [...] - Inside Adwords
Study Shows Positive Correlation Between Traffic and Referring Domains A new study conducted by SimilarWeb and Majestic concludes that there is a positive correlation [...] - Search Engine Journal

May, 24 2016

Twitter Removes Names, URLs, and Images from Character Count According to a report from Bloomberg Today, in as few as two weeks, Twitter will no longer count [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads & Analytics Innovations Keynote Welcome to the Google Performance Summit livestream! Tune in at 9AM PT/12PM ET to hear [...] - Inside Adwords
Ads and analytics innovations for a mobile-first world The shift to mobile is no longer a change on the horizon. It’s here. Every year, there are [...] - Inside Adwords
New Length of Titles and Descriptions is Just a Test, Google Says After much speculation as to whether or not the extended length of search snippet titles and [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Sending Unexpected Foreign Traffic To Web Sites? I am receiving reports via email and I am seeing them in the forums, including WebmasterWorld that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Can Review Your Site In The May 31st Webmaster Hangout Google's John Mueller and friends do a ton of what they call "office hours... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Explains The Larger Widths & Spacing In Google Is An Experiment Only There are some people reporting that the larger widths in the Google search results we've been [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Today Google Will Demo The New AdWords Design Google is demoing the new AdWords design today at 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET. It will be live streamed [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 23 2016

Google Search Console now lets you group your sites together with property sets One of the most asked for Google Search Console feature requests is now live, it is called property [...] - Search Engine Land
Tie your sites together with property sets in Search Console Mobile app, mobile website, desktop website -- how do you track their combined visibility in [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Goodbye Content Keywords Report In The Google Search Console Google's John Mueller said in a Google+ Friday morning that Google is likely going to kill off the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Search Analytics Let's You Combine Properties Into Sets Six months ago, we reported that Google was working on letting you combine your Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Testing Shadow Effect On Star For Local Reviews Brian Barwig spotted a subtle test in the Google search results where Google was adding a shaded... - Search Engine Roundtable
Conduct Scientific Research With Google’s New Science Journal App Google announced a new Android app dedicated to conducting scientific research. It is being [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: It's Rare I'd Recommend You Start A New Site After A Penalty We've covered Google giving webmasters advice after being hit by a penalty to start a new web site [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Updates Bulk Upload Addresses Global Format Requirements Last week, Google has updated the address formats used for bulk uploads of your Google local [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Combine Multiple Properties in Google Search Console Tracking multiple properties in Google Search Console used to be cumbersome and tedious to set up. [...] - Search Engine Journal
gBrau, The Custom Beer For Google Munich From Tilmans Biere - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 20 2016

Bing’s Share of the Search Market is Growing Faster than Google’s According to the latest numbers, comScore reports that Bing’s share of the search market grew [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: There Is No Way To Redirect A Penalized Site Safely In a webmaster hangout on Google+ this morning, Google's John Mueller basically said there is no [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
What marketers need to know about Google Assistant and Google Home Voice search is growing, and Google is investing heavily in products that utilize this technology. [...] - Search Engine Land
Google bringing featured snippets & rich results filters to Search Analytics report Here is proof that Google is bringing more filters to the Search Analytics report in the Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Google To Go To Court Over Pure Spam Manual Actions Google issues a ton of manual actions, in fact, last year they issued ~500 per hour alone. But one [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Won’t Kill Hangouts After Launch of Allo This week, Google announced at its I/O developer conference that it is working on a messaging app [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: We're Testing A Real Time Indexing API In the the Google I/O session named Search and the mobile content ecosystem, Google's Richard [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Six most interesting search marketing 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
New Look For Google Search With Card-Based Results Many have been spotting Google testing a new layout for its desktop search results pages by [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Shares AMP Growth Rate & Expands To Recipes & iOS & Android Apps Richard Gingras from Google in his Google I/O session named Search and the mobile content ecosystem [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 19 2016

Google beta testing a real-time indexing API Can Google find content even faster than it does now? Google thinks so, and they are beta testing a [...] - Search Engine Land
Google continues testing new search results interfaces including wider & card styled results Google is constantly testing new search results interfaces. Here are some screen shots of their [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s recent SERP changes and tests: everything you need to know Over the past couple of weeks, Google has been spotted introducing some interesting changes to the [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google appeals French order to censor Right-to-Be-Forgotten links globally Google is taking its case to France's highest administrative court. - Search Engine Land
Of Google's 100 Billion Queries Per Month, Over 10 Billion Are Voice Queries One of the statistics that everyone is talking about from the Google I/O keynote is that Sundar [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
20% of Google’s Mobile Search Queries are Now Voice Queries For many years, Google had been warning webmasters about the importance of going mobile friendly, [...] - The SEM Post

May, 18 2016

Chat Smarter with Allo Posted by Pranav Khaitan, Google Research At Google, we are continuously building products [...] - Google Research
Google adds the ability to see how people find your AMP pages in Google Search Analytics reporting AMP reporting has gone beyond just error reporting in the Google Search Console, and it now shows [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Launches AMP Filter in Search Console Google has launched a new filter under Search Analytics in the Google Search Console today, which [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google now also allows you to search using emoji characters You can now 🔍 using Google to find your favorite emoji results. Maybe you love 🍿 [...] - Search Engine Land
Is Google App Indexing becoming Firebase App Indexing? Today at Google I/O we expect them to announce that Google App Indexing is now part of their [...] - Search Engine Land
"Aw, so cute!": Allo helps you respond to shared photos by Ariel Fuxman, Research Scientist Today, Google announced Allo — our new mobile [...] - Google Research
Google Search Console Add Rich Cards Section The Google Search Console added a new section under the Search Appearance section named "Rich [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
“Content is not a conceit or a vanity project, it makes people money” Content marketing has been one of the industry’s buzz phrases for the last few years, but as [...] - Search Engine Watch

May, 17 2016

Introducing rich cards Rich cards are a new Search result format building on the success of rich snippets. Just like rich [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google launches their new mobile friendly testing tool Google revamped the mobile friendly testing tool after it's initial launch back in November 2014. - Search Engine Land
Google launches rich cards for movies and recipe websites Google upgrades rich snippets, adding a rich cards for movies and recipes web sites. They also [...] - Search Engine Land
A new mobile friendly testing tool Mobile is close to our heart - we love seeing more and more sites make their content available in [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Launches New Mobile Friendly Testing Tool Google has launched a new mobile friendly page testing tool which can be reached from the mobile [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Doesn’t Want You to Read This For many businesses, the process of divvying up paid and organic search marketing dollars often [...] - Searchmetrics
Check Out Google's New Mobile Friendly Testing Tool After it leaking that Google was testing a new mobile friendly testing tool a couple weeks ago, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's Gary Illyes On Crawl Budget, Scheduling & Host Load During the Stone Temple Consulting Q&A with Gary Illyes on YouTube the other week, he spoke [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Official: Google Image Search Gets Shopping Ads It is official, after months of testing ads on Google Images, now Google announced image search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 16 2016

Google Ads Now Being Shown in Image Search Business Insider reports that, for the first time ever, advertisements are on their way to [...] - Search Engine Journal
New ways to be there and be useful for mobile shoppers It comes as little surprise to many of us, but mobile’s share of online retail purchases [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Extends Lengths of Title Tags in Mobile Search Results Coming hot off the heels of last week’s news that Google has increased the widths of title [...] - Search Engine Journal
New ways to be there and be useful for mobile shoppers It comes as little surprise to many of us, but mobile’s share of online retail purchases [...] - Inside Adwords
Google's Advice On DMCA Pirate Algorithm Penalty Back in August 2012 Google released their DMCA algorithm penalty, also known as the Google Pirate [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Mobile Title Tag Lengths for Google Search Results Last week, Google shook things up by increasing the width of the search results, and increasing the [...] - The SEM Post
Google Redesigns Structured Data Testing Tool Google has revamped and redesigned the structured data testing tool. It now looks more friendly [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Purple Ad Label Officially For Map Ads A few weeks ago we reported Google was testing purple ad labels for AdWords. Well, it seems like [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
A Google Manual Actions Bug For Sneaky Mobile Redirect Detected & More There seems to be a serious bug impacted some webmasters, mostly those who were notified of having [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Manual Actions & Reconsideration Request Bug in Google Search Console There is a known bug in Google Search Console that is making it difficult for those with manual [...] - The SEM Post

May, 13 2016

Bug? Google Sitemap index counts drop across Search Console reports Many publishers and webmasters are seeing huge drops in the reported index count in the Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Six most interesting search marketing 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
Is it game over for PRs when it comes to link building? Alex Jones from Hallam Internet shared a new case study around an outbound PR campaign, focused on [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Analytics Vastly Improves Search Console Integration Yesterday, Google revealed deeper integration between Google Analytics and Google Search Console... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Sitemaps Index Count Drops For All There are tons of concerns and complaints on Twitter and on Google Webmaster Help that the index [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 12 2016

Announcing SyntaxNet: The World’s Most Accurate Parser Goes Open Source Posted by Slav Petrov, Senior Staff Research Scientist At Google, we spend a lot of time thinking [...] - Google Research
Significant Change to SERPs: Google Extends Length of Titles and Descriptions Google has made a significant change to its search results pages by extending the length of titles [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s mobile friendly algorithm boost has rolled out The new Google mobile friendly algorithm is out and it is suppose to give an additional ranking [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console metrics now deeply integrated into Google Analytics Google Analytics is replacing the Search Engine Optimization report with the Search Console report [...] - Search Engine Land
New Title & Description Lengths for Google SEO in Search Results If you haven’t given your title and description meta tags some love lately, it might be a [...] - The SEM Post
Deeper Integration of Search Console in Google Analytics (Cross-posted from the Google Analytics Blog .) Google Analytics helps brands optimize their [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Fully Launches The New Mobile Friendly Update A few months ago we reported that Google will be updating their mobile friendly algorithm in May [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Strengthens Its Mobile-Friendly Ranking Signal As of Today This past March it was announced that Google would be strengthening the effect of its mobile [...] - Search Engine Journal
Report: 2 years in, 75 percent of Right to Be Forgotten asks denied by Google More than 50 percent of requests come from Germany and the UK. - Search Engine Land
Everything you always wanted to know about programmatic but were too afraid to ask One of the biggest challenges to programmatic adoption is that people are afraid of it. - Search Engine Watch
Search from Your iPhone’s Keyboard with New Google Gboard Google has released a third-party keyboard for iOS with integrated search functionality. - Search Engine Journal

May, 11 2016

Google Increases Width of Main Search Results Column Google has made a major change to the search results column. In a major redesign of the [...] - The SEM Post
Google Bans Payday Loan Advertising According to Google, ads and websites that promote dangerous payday loan offers will be restricted [...] - Search Engine Journal
Amazon Offers Intriguing Competitor to YouTube for Video Creators Amazon introduced a new service this week called Amazon Video Direct, that allows people to post [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Turns Links Black, How to Get them Back to Blue In an A/B test, Google has changed its blue link titles to black. According to the reactions so [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Dismisses Any Recent Major Algorithm Update Over the past few days or so, the various Google search results tracking tools have been pretty [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Use Google Translate Within Any Android App, Use Offline on iOS For Android users, gone are the days of copying and pasting text on your mobile device into Google [...] - Search Engine Journal

May, 10 2016

Google Search Console updated the Search Analytics report & adds knowledge graph, local & rich snippets Google updated the Search Analytics report in the Search Console, added an update line and [...] - Search Engine Land
Move beyond last click attribution in AdWords People often see many ads across different devices before making a purchase, booking a flight, or [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Search Analytics Report Update: Now Includes Knowledge Panel, Rich Snippets & Local If you login to your Google Search Console account and click on the Search Analytics, you will [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Just A Google Street View Trekker Walking By - Search Engine Roundtable
It's Over A Year & A Half Since The Last Google Penguin Update It is officially well over 18 months, a year and a half since the last official Google Penguin [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 9 2016

Voice search reporting coming To Google Search Console’s Search Analytics report Google may bring voice query reporting to the Google Search Console's Search Analytics report. [...] - Search Engine Land
Google widely testing the title links in black, instead of the traditional blue hyperlink color Google testing going from blue hyperlinks to black hyperlinks and searchers don't seem to be happy [...] - Search Engine Land
Local News Sources Are Being Highlighted in Google News Google is giving local news sources an opportunity to shine in its News section with a new tag [...] - Search Engine Journal
Search marketing in China: the rise of so.com An estimated 507 million Chinese use search engines. This is an enormous marketplace for companies [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Looking To Bring Voice Search & AMP Reporting To Search Console In a Google hangout from Friday on Google+, Google's John Mueller said Google is looking for ways [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Periscope Introduces Search, Makes All Videos Permanent Twitter’s live streaming app Periscope started the week with a series of announcements which [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Now With A Carousel For Reddit Paul Shapiro notified me on Twitter that Google is showing a search carousel under Reddit search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Fixed: Google App Indexing Bug With SDK For iOS Drains Battery In Stand By A Google Webmaster Help thread has reports dating back to March 1st of a bug with the iOS App [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Testing Twitter Carousel In Search Results @rgomezric spotted Bing testing tweets, similar to how Google shows them... - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 8 2016

Google Testing Black Instead Of Blue Links In Search Results Google is testing showing black links in their search results listing pages instead of the typical [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Says 25% of All Searches are Voice Searches A quarter of all searches performed on Bing are now voice searches. - Search Engine Journal
Google's Mother's Day Logo Has Shoes This year, the Google Mother's Day logo goes with shoes. Why... - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 6 2016

5 reasons to keep doing mobile SEO even though ads are everywhere Sure, paid search on mobile has grown. But if you're thinking of cutting your organic search budget [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Fewer Higher Quality Pages Leads To Higher Quality Traffic From Google During the Stone Temple Consulting Q&A with Gary Illyes last night on YouTube, Eric Enge told [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google to Unveil New Adwords Redesign on May 24 Google announced it will be doing a live demo of the redesigned AdWords interface later this month [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google's Gary Illyes: I'm Angry News Sites Don't Link Out, It's Stupid The folks at Stone Temple Consulting did another really nice interview with Google's Gary Illyes [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Quintly Publishes Facebook Reactions Study Quintly recently published a study on Facebook interaction since the launch of Facebook Reactions. [...] - Search Engine Journal
Preventing accidental clicks for a better mobile ads experience We’ve all been there. You’re trying to send an article from your phone to a friend, or [...] - Inside Adwords
Seven most interesting search marketing 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 Honors Sigmund Freud On His 160th Birthday With Relevant Doodle Today on Google.com is a special Google Doodle, a Google logo... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Most Algorithm Updates Go Unnoticed Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter that most algorithm updates done by Google go [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Six fictional search engines we wish existed There are still so many things that we’d love to be able to search for, which are [...] - Search Engine Watch

May, 5 2016

Google featured snippets now with related topics, extending the information in those snippets Google is now showing extended featured snippets for some queries, which should not surprise anyone. - Search Engine Land
Google is Reading Romance Novels to Improve Conversational Search For the past few month’s Google’s AI has been reading nearly 3,000 romance novels in [...] - Search Engine Journal
May 2016 Google Webmaster Report This month was pretty packed with a ton of SEO tips but the big items included many penalties, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Testing Larger Margins & Spaces Between Search Snippets Yesterday, @oozn noticed Google testing wider, larger, bigger margins and spaces between the search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Q&A: The Prince’s Trust’s Rebecca Galambos on digital transformation Rebecca Galambos is senior digital transformation director at the Prince’s Trust, with some [...] - Search Engine Watch

May, 4 2016

Google penalizes mobile sites using sneaky redirects Looks like Google has taken action on mobile sites that trick users into being redirected to an [...] - Search Engine Land
Google updates the AMP report in the Google Search Console Five months after launching the AMP error report in the Google Search Console, Google has updated [...] - Search Engine Land
Google drops price rich snippets from airline pricing web sites Google confirmed they removed the ability for some airline sites, such as Trip Advisor and Expedia, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Penalizes Flight Industry Web Sites By Removing Their Rich Snippets Google's John Mueller confirmed yesterday in a Google Hangout on Google+ that Google took action on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Upgrades AdWords Editor With More App Features Google announced on Google+ that they've released a new version, version 11.4, of the AdWords [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 3 2016

Confirmed: Google Is Testing A New Mobile Friendly Test Yesterday we reported that Google is testing a new mobile friendly testing tool and migrating [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Why are SEOs slow to implement Accelerated Mobile Pages? It’s been just over two months since Google launched Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), its [...] - Search Engine Watch
New Google Test: AdWords Ads Can Result In 15 Point Drop In Organic Click Through Rates There haven't been any big studies on the impact of PPC, AdWords ads... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Webspam Report: Google Manually Penalized 500 Sites Per Hour In 2015 Yesterday, Google shared on the webmaster blog their 2015 webspam repot. They said they served up [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Mother Of Autistic Child To Google: Google Gifted My Child I spend a lot of time here complaining about Google, the search results, their penalties, their [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Actor: Karl Urban In Star Trek Signs: I'm A Doctor, Not An SEO - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Teacher's Day Doodle With Animated Pencils As Teacher & Students On the Google.com home page in the United States you will see an animated Google logo, Doodle, with [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Searchmetrics To Partner With #SEJSummit NYC 2016 Searchmetrics has joined Search Engine Journal as its Platinum Sponsor for SEJ Summit 2016 New York! - Search Engine Journal

May, 2 2016

No Sponsored Content on Facebook Unless You Have a Verified Page You need to have a verified Facebook Page in order to post branded content. - Search Engine Journal
Google sent 4.3 million messages to webmasters and saw 33% increase in clean-up efforts Google said 1.4 million sites of the 4.3 million manual actions in 2015 submitted reconsideration [...] - Search Engine Land
How we fought webspam in 2015 Search is a powerful tool. It helps people to find, share, and access an amazing wealth of content [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google seems to be preparing to migration Search Console to new URLs A year after rebranding Google Webmaster Tools to Google Search Console, they now begin testing [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Migrating Google Search Console URL & New Mobile Friendly Test It looks like Google is migrating Google Search Console from /webmasters to /search-console in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Delivered Over 4 Million Manual Action Penalties Last Year Google highlighted on its Webmaster Central blog today some achievements the company has made in [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Partner Logo Showing On Profile URLs In Search Results? Google may be testing showing the Google Partner logo in the web search results when the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Only Allows Users Into Microsoft Edge Browser Via Cortona Microsoft announced how Cortona, Microsoft Bing's personal voice search assistant, will only work [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Ad Leads To AdWords Phishing Attempt Tejas Kirodiwal notified me via Twitter that he spotted an ad on Google, an AdWords ad... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdSense Ads With Format Errors? There is a thread at WebmasterWorld where an AdSense publisher posted a screen shot of the AdSense [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 1 2016

Research at Google and ICLR 2016 Posted by Dumitru Erhan, Gentleman Scientist This week, San Juan, Puerto Rico hosts the 4th [...] - Google Research
Automatic Translation in Google Search If you search for a word in a foreign language, Google now automatically shows the translation. For [...] - Google Operating System