Archive of August, 2016

August, 31 2016

A new way to search for content in your apps We use apps to call friends, send messages or listen to music. But sometimes, it’s hard to [...] - Inside Search
Google Sorbet - Search Engine Roundtable
The Google Mobile Friendly Label Is Now Officially Gone As you expected, Google was going to drop the mobile friendly label. Well, as of this morning, the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Android Now Allows For Apps Search For Personal Content Late yesterday, Google announced "in app" search for App Indexing on Android. It allows [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Version Of The Google Merchant Center Live Google announced a newly designed Google Merchant Center. The new design also brings in more [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Structured Data Tool Supports Schema v3.1 Just a couple weeks ago we reported that Google will soon support Schema version 3.1 with their [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google AdWords Account-Level Sitelinks Google quietly announced on Google+ a new version of sitelinks named account level sitelinks. What [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Live Coverage Carousel Pilot; Is This The Real Time Index? Aaron Bradley spotted and posted on Google+ that Google has opened up a pilot for the search live [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s Pilot for Real Time Indexing of Breaking News Now Available Want to push breaking news live directly to Google’s search results? Google is now [...] - The SEM Post
Google’s mobile friendly label has now been removed from the search results Google officially says goodbye to their mobile friendly label this morning. The mobile friendly [...] - Search Engine Land
Google introduces the “Search live coverage carousel” for real time indexing & search results Is this the real time Google indexing API? Google is now piloting the search live coverage [...] - Search Engine Land
Latest Search Market Share Numbers: Google Search Down on Desktop, Up Overall Google’s share of the US desktop search market is not just stagnating, it is now on the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Latest Search Market Share Numbers: Google Search Up Across All Devices Google’s share of the US desktop search market is not just stagnating, it is now on the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Local citations are dead; long live local citations! Local citations are often thought to be the bread and butter of local SEO, but are we placing too [...] - Search Engine Land
Improving Inception and Image Classification in TensorFlow Posted by Alex Alemi, Software Engineer Earlier this week, we announced the latest release of [...] - Google Research
Pinterest Rolls Out 3 Big Retargeting Changes Pinterest is introducing engagement retargeting to let you target users who have engaged with your [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 31, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Within Apps on Your Android Phone With ‘In Apps’ Search Google has now made it possible to search within apps on Android phones. - Search Engine Journal
Facebook Warns Advertisers: Speed Up Your Mobile Site! Your mobile page load time will soon impact whether people will see your Facebook ads. To help [...] - Search Engine Journal
Search Live Coverage Carousel Comes to Google With Real-Time Indexing Participating in the project will allow publishers to expedite the process of having their content [...] - Search Engine Journal

August, 30 2016

Google Tests Bringing Back Old Yellow AdWord Label? Ruban notified me on Twitter that he is now seeing the yellow ad label back in the Google search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
John Krasinski From The Office Visits Google - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's John Mueller: Requiring A Followed Link For API Access Is A Paid Link John Mueller of Google was asked if requiring API users to give the API source a followed link is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Deceased Leaving Negative Google Reviews? William Rock posted in the Google My Business Help forums evidence that shows that deceased people [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Should Google's Interstitial Mobile Penalty Hit AdSense's Vignette Ads Google announced their mobile interstitial penalty and a lot of discussion has been brewing about [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Introducing the new Google Merchant Center Retailers have long been using Merchant Center to connect their product data to Google -- letting [...] - Inside Adwords
TF-Slim: A high level library to define complex models in TensorFlow Posted by Nathan Silberman and Sergio Guadarrama, Google Research Earlier this year, we [...] - Google Research
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 30, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
New Updates for Google+ Rolling Out to All Users Google is rolling out a redesign and several brand new features to Google+. - Search Engine Journal

August, 29 2016

Google Deck Of Cards - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Intrusive Interstitials Mobile Penalty Is At The Page Level Only The big news from last week was the new Google penalty coming January 10... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Panda Roll Outs Continue But Not All Take 10 Months To Cycle It has been some time since we mentioned anything related to Google Panda and John Mueller answered [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Testing Roboto Fonts In Search Again Over a year ago, Google was caught testing roboto font in the search results snippets. Well... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google updates local reviews schema guidelines Now only reviews "directly produced by your site" can have local reviews markup according [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Updates Reviews Markup Guidelines Disallowing Marking Up 3rd Party Reviews Mike Blumenthal posted on Twitter that Google has updated the local reviews guidelines for marking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Local Pack Design Now Live A couple weeks ago we reported that Google was testing a new local pack design. Well, it seems [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s New Mobile Interstitial & Popup Change Applies at Page Level If you were wondering how Google would apply the new interstitial / popup changes to pages, Gary [...] - The SEM Post
Why do big US companies take mobile less seriously than Chinese companies? If you want to know how seriously any public company takes mobile, then take a look at the [...] - Search Engine Watch
Facebook Removes Trending Topic Descriptions Facebook has removed descriptions from its Trending stories section. The announcement comes months [...] - Search Engine Journal
With Panda in stealth mode, why Google’s quality updates should be on your algorithmic radar [Part 1] What are Google's quality updates (aka Phantom updates), and how can you recover? In part one of a [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 29, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 28 2016

Apple Augmented Reality Improved with Acquisition of Project Tango Collaborator Flyby Media What does this acquisition of Flyby Media mean for Apple’s Efforts in developing Augmented [...] - SEO by the Sea

August, 26 2016

Play Solitaire and Tic Tac Toe in Google Search Google Search now comes with 2 games you can play right from your desktop or mobile browser: [...] - Google Operating System
Why Did Google Added Solitaire & Tic-Tac-Toe To Search Results? Yesterday Google announced they added two popular games directly to the search results. You can [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google New York Office Celebrates 10 Years - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Enables Accept OR Discard Updates For Individual Fields Google quietly posted on the release notes for Google My Business that you can now accept or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: No Plans To Build A Mobile Interstitials Testing Tool As you know, Google announced a new penalty coming at the beginning of the 2017 year for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Doesn't Rank Expanded Text Ads Better Than Standard Text Ads As you know, Google AdWords started rolling out expanded text ads last month. But Google said the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Index Status Report Coming Back To Life Earlier this week, we reported that the Google index status report was broken and not updating for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Mobile Interstitial Penalty, AdSense Ad Limit, Bing Expanded Ads & Games This week I cover the new upcoming Google intrusive mobile interstitial penalty that is coming [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Five most interesting search marketing news stories of the week Welcome to our weekly round-up of all the latest news and research from the worlds of search, [...] - Search Engine Watch
Find Freelance Work With LinkedIn ProFinder LinkedIn is opening ProFinder, a service that connects companies to freelancers, to everyone in the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 26, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 25 2016

AMP Now Supports A/B Testing If you have been wanting to do some A/B testing on your AMPlified page performances, AMP is now [...] - The SEM Post
Google Fun: John Mueller Hacks Gary Illyes Keyboard - Search Engine Roundtable
Poll: Should Google Build A Pass/Fail Mobile Interstitials Testing Tool? Google announced they will be penalizing sites that have intrusive interstitials on mobile. But [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
US National Parks Google Logo Celebrates 100 Years Today on the Google home page is a video Google Doodle, aka logo... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Titles In Snippets Gone Awry Over the past few weeks, I've been hearing rumblings across the community about the Google search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Yelp's Stoppelman Really Not Happy About Google's Interstitials Penalty Pretty much everyone who does a search in Google on their mobile device and clicks on a Yelp [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search is a Jack of all trades Today we’re dealing two new hands from the Google Search deck: solitaire and tic-tac-toe. Now [...] - Inside Search
Play Solitaire and Tic-Tac-Toe Directly in Google’s Search Results Google has rolled out a new feature to its search results which allows users to play games just by [...] - Search Engine Journal
How to Get the New Twitter Message Button Embedding the new Message button on your website allows anyone who visits your website to simply [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Allo Reviews Coming in Ahead of Official Release Google’s forthcoming messaging app, Allo, already has a nearly-perfect rating and it [...] - Search Engine Journal
Why Heaving Bosoms Help You Win Online “Oh Lucas, you’re such a tease,” Lady Colebrook replied. Helena had a [...] - Searchmetrics
Here’s YouTube Secret Plan to Get More Social YouTube wants to get more social with Backstage, which will include new features like photos, [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 25, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 24 2016

Google Pool Table Sticks & Cue - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Ads Opens Expanded Text Ads To All Customers As you know, Bing Ads announced back in June they are going to go with expanded text ads. Well now [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: 410 Response Codes Don't Generally Cause Indexing Issues Google has said time and time again that 404s are normal, they don't cause penalties or indexing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Home Services Ad Testing Carousel Layout On Mobile In September, Google added home services ads to the AdWords offerings. Since then, the design has [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google To Drop Mobile Friendly Label But Not The Ranking Factor Google announced yesterday that they are dropping the mobile friendly label from the mobile search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Google Intrusive Interstitials Mobile Penalty Coming January 10, 2017 As I reported yesterday on Search Engine Land, Google announced they are launching a new search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to use Facebook Ads to find and recruit new employees How are you recruiting new employees? - Search Engine Watch
Text summarization with TensorFlow Posted by Peter Liu, Software Engineer, Google Brain Team Every day, people rely on a wide [...] - Google Research
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 24, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Removes AdSense Ad Limit Policy: Reasons Behind the Change Google recently refreshed its AdSense ad limit policy, removing the restriction it once had on the [...] - Search Engine Journal

August, 23 2016

Hidden Google Command: Search “**” For a List of Local Business Websites Users have discovered that searching for "**" (without quotation marks) pulls up a list [...] - Search Engine Journal
One-third of UK internet users have taken a ‘digital detox’ The 2016 Communications Market Report from Ofcom has shed some fresh light on the latest [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Support Rel Canonical For PDFs The other week we reported that Google doesn't support real canonical for image search. But [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Googlers Tesla License Plate: +1 LGTM - Search Engine Roundtable
HireMoz.com Web Portal Showcases Some Of Those Who Were Laid Off By Moz Moz did massive cuts last week, where 28% of their staff, or over 60 people... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Keeps On Testing Card Style Layout Back in May, we reported Google testing a card style layout for their search results. We reported [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Doesn't Follow Links In SVGs Although Google began crawling and indexing SVGs back in 2010, Google does not follow any links [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google ** To Find Local Web Sites In Google? A Reddit thread has one person who spotted that if you search for [**] in Google, Google will [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdSense Drops Ad Limit Per Page Policy Over the past 12 hours, I received a few emails and notifications from AdSense publishers that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Voice UI and intelligent assistants: trends to watch out for next Earlier this year, a report from Consumer Intelligence Research partners (CIRP) pegged the sales of [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google warns it will crack down on “intrusive interstitials” in January Google will reinforce its emphasis on the mobile search experience with a new penalty affecting [...] - Search Engine Land
Google dropping “Mobile-friendly” label from search results Google says the change is designed to declutter its search results. - Search Engine Land
Helping users easily access content on mobile In Google Search, our goal is to help users quickly find the best answers to their questions, [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google to Devalue Sites with Pop-Ups & Interstitials in Mobile Search Results Google is finally making the leap to target sites that are giving searchers a poor user experience [...] - The SEM Post
Google Dropping Mobile Friendly Tag; 85% Mobile Search Results are Mobile Friendly Google will be dropping the familiar “Mobile-friendly” tag from all mobile friendly [...] - The SEM Post
Google Granted Design Patent on Camera Bracelet This design patent shows off a camera mounted on a bracelet. It doesn’t tell us anything [...] - SEO by the Sea
Google to Devalue Pages With Intrusive Pop-Ups in Mobile Search Google announced it will begin to devalue pages with intrusive pop-ups (otherwise known as [...] - Search Engine Journal
Say Goodbye to the ‘Mobile-Friendly’ Label in Google Search With 85% of indexed pages now being mobile-friendly, Google is removing the 'mobile-friendly' label [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 23, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 22 2016

Google AdWords Campaign Groups; Track Goals Across Campaigns Google AdWords is testing a new feature named "campaign groups." Campaign groups let you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console's Index Status Report In Is Broken Gary Illyes from Google has confirmed on Twitter that the index status report within the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Just An Ordinary Google Folding Table - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Call-Only Ads Automatically Showing Business Name In Headline Josh Leibner posted on Twitter that the Google AdWords call only ads is now automatically pulling [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Once Again; Google Testing Image Thumbnails In Mobile Search Results Google seems to be testing, once again, image thumbnails in the web search results when on mobile. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Only Seeing One Organic Listing In Google; Likely A Bug. Every now and then, I see someone complain that Google is evil because they are only showing one [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google says the Google index status in the Search Console report is broken Google may not be showing you an accurate count of your indexed pages in the Google Search Console [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 22, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 21 2016

Google Expands ‘Post Directly to Search Results’ Feature to More Small Businesses Google is giving more small business the ability to post short messages directly to the front page [...] - Search Engine Journal
Meet Splash: A Search Engine That Lets You Search By Colors or Sketches Photography website 500px has launched a new type of search engine, called Splash, that allows [...] - Search Engine Journal

August, 19 2016

Those Laid Off At Moz Gather To Work On Resumes & Find New Jobs - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Explains Why They Made Changes To Keyword Planner Earlier this week I reported that the Google keyword planner tool has restricted access to the tool [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Beta Opportunties Tab: Account Health Score For Search Google AdWords has this opportunities tab that shows advertisers suggestions on how to improve [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Device Bid Adjustments Hitting AdWords Advertisers Now I know we covered about three weeks ago that AdWords device bid adjustments from Google was [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Rand Fishkin Tells Us When & How To Interpret Google's Statements Much of what I cover here are the statements made by Google. Some in the community have issues [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Five most important 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
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Keyword Planner Restrictions, AMP Tests Live, Moz Layoffs & More This week in search, I covered the significant changes to the Google keyword planner tool and how [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
5 Things to Know About Pinterest Promoted Videos Pinterest has launched a new type of video advertising called Promoted Video Ads. The new ads are [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google testing image thumbnails in mobile search results again Google brings back an old test, whereby showing images in the mobile web search results. What do [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 19, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Business Cards or Posts about to roll out to ‘thousands’ of SMBs Search feature will soon be broadly accessible to local businesses and their agencies. - Search Engine Land

August, 18 2016

Moz Fires 28% Of Staff Including The Community Team To Realign With Search Many of us have really good friends and colleagues at Moz. In fact, I've known Rand Fishkin since [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Moz Dropping Followerwonk & Moz Content, Refocusing on SEO Products Software company Moz is dropping its social media and content marketing tools in an effort to [...] - Search Engine Journal
This Googlers Jokes About The HTTPS Ranking Signal Roberto Bayardo, a research scientist at Google, who works specifically on computational [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Confirms They Are Rolling Out The New AdWords User Interface To Users Last week we reported folks were seeing the new AdWords interface in the wild. Well it is not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Trends Updates Design & Features Earlier This Month Earlier this month both @johndefeo and @Honhaar posted on Twitter that Google Trends updated their [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Enables Campaign Drafts & Experiments For Display Ads In November 2015, Google beta tested what eventually went live in February known as campaign drafts [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Buddhists Draw Sand Mandala At Google Office - Search Engine Roundtable
Top 10 Questions Asked on Bing this Summer Games Curious what others are learning? Check out the top ten most popular questions asked since the [...] - Bing Search
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 18, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 17 2016

Google AdWords Ad Preview Tool Lets You Share This Result Google added a new feature to the Google AdWords ad preview tool that lets you share the result [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
“Links to Your Site” Data Restored in Google Search Console A reporting glitch in Google Search Console affecting 'links to your site' data appears to have [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Rel Canonical Not Supported For Images Here is a quicky, just in case you didn't know. Google doesn't support the rel=canonical tag for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Popular 404 to 301 WordPress Plugin Injecting Cloaked Spam Links for Search Engines If you use the WordPress 404 to 301 plugin, you will want to remove it, or at the very least update [...] - The SEM Post
Google Schedules Last Few Webmaster Hangouts Using Google Hangouts As you all know, I am a big fan of the Google webmaster hangouts mostly done by John Mueller. We [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Not Provided Count Hits Over 96% Since Google's HSTS Switch Earlier this month, Google went HSTS with Google.com, which means it is hard to get to a non-HTTPS [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Ads Upgraded URLs Now Supported Bing Ads announced they now have added support for "upgraded URLs." Upgraded URLs lets [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Mike Grehan Gets A Micro Moment Google Poster - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 17, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 16 2016

Google showing the site owner AMP implementation error warnings in search results AMP error notifications now are showing in the core search results, but only if you are the site's [...] - Search Engine Land
Your vote counts As the U.S. prepares to head to the polls, we’re making it easier than ever for everyone to [...] - Inside Search
WordPress Version 4.6 Now Available, Featuring a Broken Link Checker + More WordPress 4.6 comes with performance improvements as well as some useful new features. Here’s [...] - Search Engine Journal
Meeting the Demands of a Faster Mobile-Based Web Apple has a new patent aimed at accelerating mobile Web pages. We’ve heard that from others [...] - SEO by the Sea
Google AdWords Returning Null Quality Scores Starting September 12 In an effort to provide more transparent Quality Score reporting, Google AdWords will begin to [...] - Search Engine Journal
United Airlines Employee May Have A Role In Matt Cutts Helping Webmasters With Google The last company I would have thought been any type of influence on Matt Cutts wanting to spend [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Q&A: ESPforMe’s Scott Rummler on how the future of search may all be in your mind What do you imagine is the future of search? - Search Engine Watch
Twitter #Stickers Can Now Become Ads For Brands Twitter is opening #Stickers to brands. People can add these Promoted #Stickers, which are designed [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bing Ads Introduces Upgraded URLs, Now Available to All Advertisers Bing Ads announced it is rolling out Upgraded URLs to all advertisers; an easier and more efficient [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Local Pack Tests New Design Sergey Alakov posted screen shots on Twitter of Google testing a new design for the local pack. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Showing AMP Errors In Desktop Search Results To Site Owner Jon Henshaw posted a screen shot of Google showing him and only him a message in the desktop search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: MCC AdWords Accounts Not Safe From New Keyword Planner Restrictions As you know, Google AdWords is restricting the keyword data found within the keyword planner tool [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 15 2016

Google Keyword Planner Removes Valuable Data For Potential Advertisers Remember last Tuesday we reported that Google Keyword Planner Showing Data Ranges For Advertisers [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Did Google Boosts HTTPS Ranking Signal? Nope But More HTTPS Results In Top Ten. Both RankRanger and Mozcast are showing a nice uptick in the number of HTTPS results in the top [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s Keyword Planner Tool Providing Limited Data to Low Spending Advertisers Google has made an update to its AdWords Keyword Planner tool which will benefit big spending [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google AdWords Reduces Keyword Planner Data to Low Budget & Non-Advertiser Accounts Last week, we were first to report that Google AdWords was restricting data for the AdWords Keyword [...] - The SEM Post
Google To Support Schema.org Version 3.1 In the Google+ hangout from Friday morning at the 28:45 mark into the video, John Mueller said [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Quality Scores Reports To Show Null Values Google quietly announced on Google+ that starting September 12, 2016 the Google AdWords report may [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Testing AMP For Web Pages In Live Results As you know, Google said they will be expanding AMP beyond news stories but also into all types of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 12 2016

Google: You'll Almost Never Restore Your Rankings To Previous State After Penalty Google's John Mueller said in a Google+ hangout this morning at the 8:09 mark that after you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Promote your local businesses reviews with schema.org markup Since the launch of critic reviews last year, we have been focused on supporting more types of [...] - Google Webmaster Central
3 New Facebook Video Metrics Offer Audience & Engagement Insights Facebook is introducing three new metrics to help you better understand how your videos are [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Adds JSON-LD Breadcrumbs Support John Mueller of Google confirmed this morning on Twitter that Google now supports JSON-LD [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Five most important 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
Facebook Wants To Show You Really Informative Stories Facebook's new ranking signal aims to deliver stories to your news feed by predicting which stories [...] - Search Engine Journal
Pinterest Now Sells Ads Based on Impressions Pinterest advertisers can now buy ads based on how much they want to pay for impressions. In [...] - Search Engine Journal
Quiz: Can you decipher these 25 marketing and business buzzwords? Action these learnings while going forward, my most synergised thought-leader... - Search Engine Watch
Facebook Adds Guide, Heatmap For 360 Videos Facebook has rolled out a pair of new tools to help publishers who are using 360 videos: guided [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Sitemaps Don't Help With Rich Snippets In the Google+ hangout this morning a typical question around why isn't Google showing rich [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 11 2016

Why links are still the core authority signal in Google’s algorithm Link metrics have been the foundation of Google’s ranking algorithm since the beginning, but [...] - Search Engine Land
Matt Cutts, Google’s Former Head of Web Spam, Explains Why He Left Google for USDS Matt Cutts, Google's former head of web spam, take to Quora to explain why he left Google to work [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Console reporting glitch shows no links for some webmasters No need to panic, the link report in the Google Search Console seems to have a few kinks that [...] - Search Engine Land
Bug: Google Search Console Links to Your Site Shows No Data Available There seems to be a bug with the Google Search Console's Links To Your Site report where many are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: No Problem Having Downloadable PDFs That Match Your Web Content This isn't a new topic, we covered PDFs and duplicate content before, but this morning John Mueller [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 10 2016

Google Confirms It Will Penalize BlogDash For Link Schemes It is rare to see Google publicly say they are going to or have penalized a specific company or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s Chrome Browser to Block Flash Starting in September In September Google will release Chrome 53, which will be designed to block Flash. - Search Engine Journal
Google’s Virtual Assistant to Deliver More Personalized Results Google Now, the virtual assistant that lives inside Android phones and the Google Search app, is [...] - Search Engine Journal
Facebook Makes Life Harder For Ad Blockers Facebook has revealed a change that will make ad blocking software less effective and will give [...] - Search Engine Journal

August, 9 2016

Google Search Console sending AMP notifications to encourage adoption Google is proactively pushing AMP through the Google Search Console message center. - Search Engine Land
Google AdWords Begins Restricting Keyword Planner Data for Non-Advertisers Google AdWords has once again begun restricting access to the AdWords Keyword Planner tool for [...] - The SEM Post
New Google My Business Insights Show How You’re Being Found Google has rolled out enhanced insights for Google My Business pages which provide greater detail [...] - Search Engine Journal
Yelp and TripAdvisor Lash Out at Google Over Recent Change to Restaurant Searches Yelp has filed another grievance, so to speak, against Google over a recent change to search [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Trends Explore tool gets a facelift Google Trends Explore tool launches a new interface this week, but is it much better? - Search Engine Watch
SEO Tip: Don't Ask Google For Advice When You're Breaking The Webmaster Guidelines I cover one of these every several months, where a webmaster is knowingly breaking the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEEOO Glasses - SEO Glasses For Better Rankings - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Testing New Review Stars Format Google seems to be testing a new reviews stars format and user interface on mobile devices. The [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Maps Updates: Wi-Fi Only Mode, Save to SD Card, + More A series of updates were rolled out to Google Maps for Android this week, including a Wi-fi only [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Console: Preview AMP Presence Message As we reported last week, Google began sending notifications via Google Search Console to non-news [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 8 2016

Meet Parsey’s Cousins: Syntax for 40 languages, plus new SyntaxNet capabilities Posted by Chris Alberti, Dave Orr & Slav Petrov, Google Natural Language Understanding Team [...] - Google Research
Google: 300 Redirect Passes PageRank But 301s Help With Canonicalization A couple weeks ago we reported that Google said that all flavors of 30x redirects pass PageRank [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Links From Adult Sites Are Not Spammy Or Problematic John Mueller from Google said on Twitter that links from adult or pornographic sites are not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Updates User Interface For Editing Business Details Google My Business, the place businesses can go to update their business details as they are listed [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Pack Ad Seen For The First Time Since June, we've been waiting to see the first in the wild example of a Google Local pack ad. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Analytics Data Bug Extended: July 29th - August 5th On August 1st, we reported there was a bug with the Google Search Console data in the Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Predicts eSports: Dota 2’s The International 2016 Bing Predicts is expanding into eSports predictions, starting with one of the biggest tournaments [...] - Bing Search

August, 7 2016

ACL 2016 & Research at Google Posted by Slav Petrov, Research Scientist This week, Berlin hosts the 2016 Annual Meeting of the [...] - Google Research

August, 5 2016

Facebook Live is Testing Mid-Roll Ads Facebook live is currently testing mid-roll ads in live newsfeeds. These ads mark the first time [...] - Search Engine Journal
Twitter Unlocks Conversational Ads For All Advertisers Twitter has opened Conversational Ads to all advertisers and introduced a new ad type that lets [...] - Search Engine Journal
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: We Don't Have Different GoogleBot User Agents For Crawling JavaScript John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that the GoogleBot user agents do not change based on the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Sending Search Console Notifications To Create AMP Pages As you know, AMP is expanding to core mobile search results in Google. And now... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Adds Restaurant Reviews From Experts Google announced yesterday that now when you do a search for restaurants, Google will show you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 4 2016

10 Social Media Don’ts For Businesses During The Olympics Unless your business is an Olympics sponsor, make sure to avoid the following when posting updates [...] - Search Engine Journal
Olá Gboard: new languages, personal keyboards and more In May, we introduced Gboard , a new iPhone app that lets you search and send information, GIFs, [...] - Inside Search
Never miss a “must-try” with Google Search Picture this: you’re in New York City for 24 hours. Making the most of your visit may seem [...] - Inside Search
5 Things To Know About Facebook’s New Page Layout Facebook Pages have a brand new look. The new desktop Facebook page layout design includes a new [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: How They Treat Subdomains vs Subdirectories In 2016 The SEO debate on using subdomains and subdirectories is one of those things that will never die. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Analytics Public Demo Account Available To All Google announced yesterday that they are giving anyone and everyone with a Google account access to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Actively Encouraging Site Owners to Create AMP Pages Google is encouraging site owners via Search Console to create AMP versions of their content. - Search Engine Journal
Preparing for SEO in 2017: yes it’s that time already It might be hard to believe, but we will soon be entering the fourth quarter of 2016 and it will be [...] - Search Engine Watch
Voice: the future of next-gen search – expert predictions Recently, SEMrush had a roundtable discussion on voice search with three industry experts: Will [...] - Search Engine Watch
Facebook Warns: Stop With the Clickbait Headlines If you're in the business of writing misleading headlines in order to get clicks on crappy content, [...] - Search Engine Journal

August, 3 2016

Google My Business drops ability to edit business description field Your Google local profile description field can now only be edited on Google+. You can no longer [...] - Search Engine Land
AMP pages no longer need structured data to be valid in Google Search Console Google has downgraded the structured data issues from errors to information notes in the AMP error [...] - Search Engine Land
Learn from Experts in the AdWords Community The AdWords Community exists to help advertisers like you improve performance and share best [...] - Inside Adwords
Computational Thinking for All Students Posted by Maggie Johnson, Director of Education and University Relations, Google (Crossposted on [...] - Google Research
Google Defines What Counts as Impressions, Positions, and Clicks A Google help document has been released, defining exactly what counts as impressions, positions, [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google AdWords Finally Drops Payday Loan & High Interest Loan Ads Back in May, Google announced they would ban payday loan and high interest loan ads from coming up [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google To Expand AMP To Main Mobile Search Results; Is That A Good Thing? Yesterday Google announced their plans to expand AMP, accelerated mobile pages, from the top news [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 2 2016

AMP your content - A Preview of AMP'ed results in Search It's 2016 and it's hard to believe that browsing the web on a mobile phone can still feel so slow [...] - Google Webmaster Central
New Google help document defines Search Analytics impressions, position, and clicks No more arguing about what Google means by positions in the Google Search Analytics report. Google [...] - Search Engine Land
AMPs to be Surfaced Via Blue Links in Google’s Organic Search Today, Google is unveiling an early preview of expanded AMP support across the entire search [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Algorithm Update? A Reversal Of Last Weeks Update? This morning there was a large surge in webmaster chatter around fluctuations and changes in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Breaking: Everything You Need to Know About Google’s #AMP [Updated] AMP is an initiative by Google to improve the mobile experience. By stripping down webpages to just [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google's Gary Illyes: Yes, PageRank Still Matters As you know, in March, Google officially turned off toolbar PageRank for displaying, well, it went [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Instagram Stories Lets Users Create Vanishing Slideshows Instagram has a new feature called Stories, which lets its 500 million users create slideshows of [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Defines Search Analytics Impressions, Position & Clicks Google has posted a help document named What are impressions, position... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Adds More Details To Product Status Tab Report Google quietly announced on Google+ that they are "adding more" to the product status tab [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 1 2016

Let Google be your guide to Rio de Janeiro The modern Olympic Games have been a defining moment for athletes and fans alike dating back to [...] - Inside Search
Google Has a Solution for People Who Obsessively Google Themselves Who hasn't Googled themselves at least once or twice, but there are some who do it over and over [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Maps for iOS Now Supports Multiple Location Trip Planning An exact month after adding multiple trips to Google Maps on Android, the feature has now come to [...] - Search Engine Journal
How to increase customer engagement with mobile wallets One method of connecting with users on mobile which most brands likely wouldn’t consider is [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Recommends Updating Links After Moving Domains But No Critical Loss Earlier last week, in a Google Hangout on Google+ at the 23:30 mark, John Mueller said Google does [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Why We Sell Ads, Not Search Results Former Googler, Murat Yatagan, shared on Twitter a document I don't think I've seen before and I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Bug Sets All Traffic As Desktop In Devices Google posted there is a bug/error with the Google Search Console's Search Analytics report that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
What’s so great about digital marketing anyway? Do you work in digital marketing and do you love it? Are you new to the industry and feeling [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Adds “Stay in the Loop” Email Alerts in Search Results Everyone has done vanity searches for their own name, especially those whose name is connected with [...] - The SEM Post
Google.com Begins HTTP Strict Transport Security Migration (HSTS) Google announced Friday they are going HSTS, HTTP Strict Transport Security, for Google.com. That [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Yahoo Search Tests New User Interface Yahoo is testing a new search interface. The new interface moves the Yahoo logo from the left side [...] - Search Engine Roundtable