Archive of October, 2016

October, 31 2016

Saving Magic Cat Academy from catastrophe! Hi, I’m Momo, a student at the illustrious Magic Cat Academy. Heading to class this morning, [...] - Inside Search
Google Sydney Scary Halloween Lobby - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing, Dogpile & Other Halloween Search Home Pages While Google came out with their Halloween Doodle early and it really is an awesome and addictive [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Analytics Missing Traffic Bug For Some Webmasters? Late last week, I saw some webmasters begin to complain about missing traffic data in Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Clarifies When It Is Safe to Remove URLs from Disavow Files When is it safe to remove URLs from a disavow file? Anything to do with links and disavows [...] - The SEM Post
Google: It's Safe To Remove Links From Disavow When The Links Are Removed Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that it is safe to remove links from you disavow file [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Still Figuring Out Issues With The New Mobile Index As you know, Google said the mobile index should be out within months. This mobile index will act [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Wikipedia Is Really Good At Getting Links To Internal Pages Stemming off my story named Google: We Don't Have "Overall Domain Authority" In Our [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Is Amazon the go-to search engine this holiday season? When you’re looking to finish off your holiday shopping list, what search engine do you go [...] - Search Engine Watch
75% of Internet Use Will Be Mobile in 2017 [REPORT] A report published by Reuters states that 75% of Internet use in 2017 will be from mobile devices. - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 31, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 30 2016

Google Halloween Game Doodle Goes Live Early Google has launched their Halloween Doodle, aka Google logo... - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 28 2016

Bing Ads Shared Budgets Bing Ads announced they now have shared budgets in their ad platform. This lets advertisers in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Managed Access Levels To Get Administrative Access In Weeks This is a PSA, Google is going to be upgrading all the managed access levels, i.e. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Customized Google Partners Pillow - 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
Google Tests Another New Layout Google is always testing user interfaces - we cover a lot of them but not all of them. Last week, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Don't Have "Overall Domain Authority" In Our Rankings Last week, we quoted Google's John Mueller as saying Google doesn't have a website authority score. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Interview: can you forecast SEO? Sastry Rachakonda says you can In the world of search engine optimisation, there are a wealth of tools which produce analytics and [...] - Search Engine Watch
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Rankings, SEO, Penalties, HTTPS, AMP, AdWords, Maps & Bing Ads This week in search... - Search Engine Roundtable
Bug: Google Emails AdWords Partners, You've Lost Your Search Ads Specializations Google has sent out emails to many Google Partners last night saying they've lost their AdWords [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google & Bing Reveal the Hottest Halloween Costumes of 2016 Harley Quinn, Star Wars, and Deadpool are among the most searched for costumes this year, search [...] - Search Engine Journal
Report: AMP causing monetization frustration among some news publishers Some publishers, such as CNN and Washington Post, are having good experiences however. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 28, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Visit Bing’s Haunted Graveyard Head to Bing.com to see what eerie sights and sounds await in our haunted graveyard, then continue [...] - Bing Search

October, 27 2016

Moz: 40% Of Google's Top Search Results Are HTTPS, Up From 25% Earlier This Year In January, Moz reported that 25% of the Google search results were HTTPS. Meaning of the top [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Maps Tests Showing Local Businesses Names Florent Abaziou posted screen shots on Twitter of Google Maps showing the local version of the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Manage Your Business Attributes In Google My Business Google My Business posted an update that says you can now manage your business attributes in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Google Halloween Decorations Are Up - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's John Mueller: Image Links & Text Links Are Pretty Different We've covered the topic of having links based on anchor text versus images for many years but I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Expanded Text Ads Now Available to All Advertisers Following a successful trial run of expanded text ads, Bing is now making them available to all [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bulk Edit Attributes for Google My Business Listings A new feature added to Google My Business allows Google users to edit attributes for businesses. - Search Engine Journal
Bing Ads Update: Share Budgets Across Multiple Campaigns Bing has made it easier to set daily budgets for advertising campaigns. Now, Bing Ads advertisers [...] - Search Engine Journal
Twitter Cuts Off Vine Twitter has announced that Vine, which is known for its looping 6-second videos, will be [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 27, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 26 2016

Google comes under fire for its privacy policy change Earlier this year, Google made a change to its privacy policy that is now drawing criticism from [...] - Search Engine Watch
Massively Big Android BBQ - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Has An hreflang Reporting Bug? There seems to be a number of webmasters complaining that the Google Search Console's hreflang [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Fixes Hidden Manual Actions Bug When I went offline (which is hard to do) I got notified (which I didn't see until I came back) [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Support Forum Now Ready For Google Assistant We are all very excited for the Google Assistant and devices that utilize it. Including the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Some Google Search Ranking Update Chatter Over the past couple days I've been seeing some signs of a Google update, most from forum and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Ads reveal the most searched Halloween costumes Halloween in the digital age involves a significant amount of searching until the right costume is [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Fixes Manual Action Issue in Search Console If you have been waiting to file a reconsideration request because the manual action is not showing [...] - The SEM Post
Google’s virtual game changer: Leveraging 360 VR video & image optimization for SEO Contributor Brian Ussery notes that as global search interest in VR skyrockets, Google has quietly [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console Is Now Down - 404 Not Found You are not alone, the Google Search Console is now down - there is a 404 not found error when you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Supercharging Style Transfer Posted by Vincent Dumoulin * , Jonathon Shlens and Manjunath Kudlur, Google Brain Team [...] - Google Research
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 26, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
New SEO Spam Discovered: Hacked Subdirectories on WordPress Sites Sucuri, a company that cleans over 500 hacked sites a day, has discovered a new form of SEO spam [...] - Search Engine Journal
YouTube End Screens Feature Now Available to All YouTube has added a new feature, End Screens, that lets you add a thumbnail overlay to promote your [...] - Search Engine Journal

October, 25 2016

10 SEOs who rock at personal branding It's getting harder and harder to market yourself as an SEO professional. Here are 10 personal SEO [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Popup Store - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Map Toggle Expansion Button In Local Pack Here is a small but interesting change Google is testing for the local pack map in the search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Different Green Color For Snippet URL In Search Results Google seems to be testing a different shade of green for the URLs listed in the search results, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Pre-Elections: Google News Adds Fact Check Label & Schema Support This is news from a week or so ago, but Google added a fact check label to the Google News stories. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
3rd Party Google My Business Guidelines Validator Tool The folks over at Synup created a Google My Business Guidelines checker tool. Now, this is not a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s Manual Actions Not Showing Up In Google Search Console If you are waiting for a manual action to show up in Google Search Console, you might be waiting a [...] - The SEM Post
Hackers & Phishers Using Google’s AMP URLs to Disguise Malicious Links For most web savvy users, checking the URL to ensure that it is a legitimate google.com URL is [...] - The SEM Post
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 25, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 24 2016

Google Testing Sitelinks Icons Sergey Alakov posted screen shots on Twitter of Google testing a new look for sitelinks in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
A Google Bumper Car? - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console AMP Filter Only Shows Top Stories John Mueller of Google made an important distinction on Twitter last week saying that the AMP [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Maps Updates The Search User Interface It looks like Google has updated the search results interface within Google Maps. The most [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Launch Many New Search Changes Towards End Of Quarter Google's John Mueller said in the webmaster hangout from Friday at the 21:52 mark that Google tends [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Showing Featured Snippets for Site: Searches Curious what a featured snippet might look like on your site, but you don’t think you have [...] - The SEM Post
7 Bing Ads Changes That PPC Marketers Need to Know A major redesign of the Bing Ads user interface will change the way you create new campaigns on the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Testing Icons on Mobile Sitelinks Google has a new test where they are showing a variety of icons next to common types of pages that [...] - The SEM Post
How to make longer web forms easier for users Some web forms have to be longer than normal. While an ecommerce site can limit the user entry to [...] - Search Engine Watch
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 24, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 21 2016

Bing Makes it Easier to Find and Stream Radio Stations Bing has partnered with TuneIn to improve the way people can find information about radio stations, [...] - Search Engine Journal
New Google AdWords Extensions Help Manufacturers Drive In-Store Sales Google AdWords now has a location extension designed to help manufacturers drive more in-store [...] - Search Engine Journal
JSON-LD Google’s Preferred Structured Data Markup JSON-LD has grown in popularity with developers over the past couple of years for the preferred [...] - The SEM Post
Google Hot Coffee Cup Sleeve - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Launches Affiliate Location Extensions We saw signs of this coming a couple days ago and now it is official. Google announced on Google+ [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords To Show All Shared Reports Within Account By Default Google announced on Google+ that they are changing the behavior of the reporting section within [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We A Bunch Of Original Source Detection Algorithms Google's John Mueller said in the webmaster hangout this morning at the 2:40 mark that Google has a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Don't Have A Website Authority Signal Or Score Another point Google's John Mueller made in the hangout from earlier this week at the 42:47 mark [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Interstitials, Penguin Droppings, HTTPS, AdWords & More This week I cover more on the Google mobile interstitial ad penalty. I also discuss cases of Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Penguin Update 4.0 – Our Impact Analysis Penguin 3.0 is dead. Long live Penguin 4.0. The latest Google update slays the practice of manual [...] - Searchmetrics
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 21, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 20 2016

Google Surveys 360 Replacing Google Consumer Surveys Google announced yesterday that they are launching Google Surveys 360. It was previously called [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Google Massage Room - Search Engine Roundtable
Google On Sitewide Ranking Scores & How They May Be Used Google's John Mueller spoke about search ranking algorithms that are applied across the site. He [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Advisory Board Google has launched a Google Search Console Advisory Board, where they ask volunteers to join the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: No Need To Disavow Blogroll Or Sitewide Links Google's John Mueller said in the Google hangout this week that there is no need to disavow [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: There Is No Penguin Boost I need to post about Penguin since it has been almost two days since I didn't write about it. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How Google Handles Site Moves When Old Domain Cannot Be Redirected In the last Google webmaster office hours, John Mueller talked about the best practices for site [...] - The SEM Post
Search Bing to find radio stations to stream Bing partners with TuneIn to improve radio-related search results, allowing users to more easily [...] - Bing Search
Facebook Page Call-to-Action Buttons Get Big Update Some big changes are coming to the way call-to-action buttons work on Facebook Pages. Facebook is [...] - Search Engine Journal
SEO & SEM Ranks 9th on LinkedIn’s Top Skills List LinkedIn has revealed its annual list ranking the top skills that will help you land a job in 2017. [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 20, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Knowledge Panels in Site Audits At this years Pubcon 2016, my presentation was about how I had added Knowledge panels, Sitelinks, [...] - SEO by the Sea

October, 19 2016

How Many Users Pinterest Has Now: 150 Million Pinterest has reached a new milestone. The social bookmarking site has revealed that it now has 150 [...] - Search Engine Journal
Quiet Please - Googlers At Work - Android Sign - Search Engine Roundtable
Site Wide & Blogroll Links Are Not Automatically Bad Links for Google With the release of real time Penguin, there have been a lot of questions about link quality and [...] - The SEM Post
Google AdWords Click-To-Message Ads To Roll Out In Weeks In June, Google AdWords began testing click to text ads and then we saw it expanded to the UK - [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Intrusive Interstitials Mobile Penalty Only Looks At Search Click Through The Page At the 12:10 mark in the Google hangout from yesterday, John Mueller said he met with the team [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Leave 301 Redirects in Place at Least a Year, Preferably Longer When you undergo a site move, it is standard to set up 301 redirects from the old domains to the [...] - The SEM Post
Google AdWords Testing Affiliate Location Extensions George Bates shared a screen shot with me on Twitter of a new location extension named [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Keyword Planner Adds Import Keywords From Existing AdWords Campaigns The Google AdWords keyword planner tool added a feature to get forecasts for campaigns or keywords [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Exit Page Interstitials Not Impacted by Google’s Mobile Interstitial Change If you have an exit interstitial – an interstitial that only displays once a user tries to [...] - The SEM Post
Google HTTPS Boost Still Goes To Insecure Pages, If They Are Listed As HTTPS The other day, I interviewed Gary Illyes of Google and he said that the only factor Google looks at [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Year of the Supershopper We all have that friend - the one who somehow knows the latest brands, the season’s must-have [...] - Inside Adwords
Why crawl budget and URL scheduling might impact rankings in website migrations You've down everything right from an SEO standpoint, but your website has still dropped in rankings [...] - Search Engine Land
Reach Ready-to-Buy Customers with Click-to-Message Google Ads Google is introducing click-to-message ads, combining SMS messaging with search ads in an effort to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 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 Releases Valuable Consumer Data Ahead of 2016 Holiday Shopping Season Google has released valuable data on how to win over the new informed generation of shoppers this [...] - Search Engine Journal

October, 18 2016

Pinterest Adds Pin Engagement & Website Retargeting Pinterest has given advertisers new retargeting options. You can now create audiences based on [...] - Search Engine Journal
Click-to-message ads bring a new and easy way to talk to customers If you’re inviting a friend to dinner or asking them about the best hotels in New York City, [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Chipolo Digital Key Rings - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: HTTP2 Doesn't Provide Big Advantage For GoogleBot We still don't know if HTTP2 support has been officially here for GoogleBot but we think GoogleBot [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: AMP Pages Don't Need Sitemap XML Files John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that you do not need to submit a separate XML sitemap file [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
77% Of Webmasters Want Google To Confirm More Algorithm Updates The majority of SEOs and webmasters want Google to confirm more algorithmic updates. At least those [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How Google uses machine learning in their search algorithms Gary Illyes of Google tells us Google may use machine learning to aggregate signals together for [...] - Search Engine Land
Uncover the Truth With Google’s New Fact Check Labeling System Google is making it easier for searchers to find the most credible stories with a new “Fact [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s HTTPS algorithm still only looks at the URL to give ranking boost Believe it or not, insecure web pages can still get the HTTPS ranking boost. - Search Engine Land
Google Adds New AMP Testing Tool If you are still working on getting your pages AMP ready, the AMP related reporting in Google [...] - The SEM Post
Use Bing's Campaign Landscape Before You Vote For the homestretch of the election, our Campaign Landscape tab our elections experience brings you [...] - Bing Search
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 18, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 17 2016

Random Facts About Animals in Google Search Did you know that "male lions defend the pride's territory while females do most of the [...] - Google Operating System
Brett Tabke, WebmasterWorld Founder, Wins Lifetime Achievement US Search Award At Pubcon last week they held the US Search Awards and Brett Tabke... - Search Engine Roundtable
Olympian Tom Daley At Google/YouTube - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Penguin Does Not Discount All Links But Manual Actions Can Does Penguin really discount all links, when it sees too many low quality links detected for a [...] - The SEM Post
Google's Gary Illyes Hints Sites Rankings Dropped With Penguin 4.0 I know, I've been covering Penguin like a crazy clown but we only really covered how some are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Still Use the Disavow Tool for Bad Links During the breakfast keynote at Pubcon this week with Gary Illyes and Eric Enge, one of the [...] - The SEM Post
Google Penguin 4.0 Declines Happening As Well As you know, we are expecting some negativity out of Penguin 4.0 because some links no longer [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
“Can machines think?” What humans need to learn about artificial intelligence Maybe if we can define ‘can humans think?’ in a scientific way that we can all agree [...] - Search Engine Watch
What are Google’s Gary Illyes favorite ranking signals? Gary Illyes from Google loves Penguin, Panda and localization algorithms - those are his favorite [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Machine Learning Will Never Take Over the Whole Search Algorithm Ever since Google announced RankBrain, a machine learning algo, there has been much speculation [...] - The SEM Post
Google on what’s important for 2017: Machine learning, AMP & structured data We asked Google's Gary Illyes what SEOs and webmasters should think about as this year closes. - Search Engine Land
Course Builder now supports scheduling, easier customization and more Posted by Adam Feldman, Product Manager and Pavel Simakov, Technical Lead, Course Builder Team [...] - Google Research
39% of SEOs Tackle Technical SEO First [DATA] After conducting an SEO audit, the next step for a majority of SEOs is to tackle the technical side [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Shopping partners with ecommerce platforms to make selling online easier than ever this holiday season When it comes to attracting customers over the busy holiday season, showcasing your products online [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Flights now shows expected airfare cost increases & filter for hotel discounts During the coming weeks, Google Flights will also roll out email notifications to alert users when [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 17, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 16 2016

Google is Splitting its Search Index, Prioritizing Mobile over Desktop Google is splitting its index of search results into separate versions for mobile and desktop, a [...] - Search Engine Journal

October, 15 2016

Found in Related Searches Google Knowledge Graph has more than one billion entities and more than 70 billion facts [...] - Google Operating System

October, 14 2016

Google Converts Queries Into Questions I noticed an interesting Google Search experiment in the mobile/tablet interface. When searching [...] - Google Operating System
Google's Card for Directions When you search Google for [directions] or [get directions], you get an error message: " No [...] - Google Operating System
Add Home Screen Shortcuts to Google Maps Directions I'm not sure if this is a new feature, but it must be pretty recent. Google Maps for Android lets [...] - Google Operating System
Google AdSense Publisher Portal New Design Going Live Google announced last night that they are rolling out a new design for the AdSense publisher [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Street Ball Court in Los Angeles - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Launches Simplified AMP Testing Tool Google launched a new AMP testing tool yesterday within the Google Search Console. You can access [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google To Launch Mobile Index In Months, Replacing Desktop Index As Secondary Yesterday I reported at Search Engine Land based on Gary Illyes of Google's keynote at PubCon [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Back Button Behavior Triggers People Also Search For Carousel Over the past week or two, I've been getting daily reports from people that going to Google and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Penguin Can Discount All Discount All Your Links, Good Or Bad Shocking news, at least to me, came out yesterday at Pubcon from Gary Illyes talk. The other day, [...] - 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 Mobile Index, Penguin Destruction, Machine Learning & More This week in search, Google said they are launching their mobile only index within months and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Find and Fix Errors in AMP Markup Code With Google’s New Testing Tool Google’s new Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) testing tool gives site owners the opportunity to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 14, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 13 2016

Indoor Swing As Google Office Chair? - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Has Completed Rolling Out Recoveries From All Versions of Penguin Google has lifted the previous demotions from all versions of Penguin in the search results. [...] - The SEM Post
Google Has Completed Rolling Out Recoveries From All Versions of Penguin Google has lifted the previous demotions from all versions of Penguin in the search results. [...] - The SEM Post
Sitelinks Demotion Tool Within Google Search Console Has Been Removed Back in 2011 Google added a feature to Search Console, back then known as Webmaster Tools... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Penguin 4.0 Now Completely Rolled Out Google's Penguin 4.0 algorithm, the real time granular version, is now fully rolled out. We've been [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We're Prepared For SEOs Trying To Manipulate Penguin 4.0 Ever since Google announced Penguin 4.0, SEOs began talking about how they are now more eager to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The new wave of visual search: what it can do, and what might be possible Visual search on the web has been around for some time. - Search Engine Watch
Google's Use Of Machine Learning In Ranking & Spam Algorithms Is Complicated This week we reported that Google's Penguin algorithm doesn't use machine learning. This was based [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google May One Day Count Unlinked Citations For Search Rankings This happens all the time for what I write here or at Search Engine Land - I write something, and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google says Penguin 4.0 roll out now complete If you haven't seen a Google Penguin recovery by now, you may still need to do some link clean up. [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console removes sitelinks demotion feature After 9 years, Google has decided to drop the Sitelinks demotion feature from the Google Search [...] - Search Engine Land
Google to divide its index, giving mobile users better & fresher content Currently, Google has a single index of documents for search. Google's Gary Illyes announced they [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Switching to Mobile First Index from Desktop Index Gary Illyes at Pubcon announced today that Google is switching to a mobile first index. This [...] - The SEM Post
Using AMP? Try our new webpage tester Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) is a great way to make content on your website accessible in an [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google launches new AMP testing tool Check out the new AMP testing tool in the Google Search Console, it combines AMP and structured [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 13, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 12 2016

Google Wants to Help YouTube Creators and Brands Make More Money Together Google has acquired a company called FameBit in an effort to bring in more revenue to the online [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Home Page Ad Reminds People to Register to Vote With voter registration deadlines looming, Google is reminding people to register to vote in the US [...] - Search Engine Journal
Use of virtual reality reaches tipping point The use of virtual reality headsets is reaching a tipping point with increased opportunities for [...] - Search Engine Watch
Get polling place and ballot information quickly and easily Voting matters — and history proves it. In 1839, the Massachusetts gubernatorial election [...] - Inside Search

October, 11 2016

Google: Penguin is Not a Machine Learning Algorithm Ever since the new real time Penguin algorithm was released by Google, there has been speculation [...] - The SEM Post
Want To Stop Your Google AdWords Campaigns? Deleting Your Google Account Won't Help. This is something I never thought of before - what if you have a Google AdWords campaign running [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Dead Sea SEO Mud - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Penguin Doesn't Use Machine Learning Within The Algorithm When Google launched Penguin 4.0 some folks speculated that it was using some sort of machine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Algorithms Labels Links As Penguin, Footer, Disavowed & More - Googlers Can Look Up Link Labels Yesterday, I covered at Search Engine Land an interview I did with Gary Illyes last week where Gary [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Amazon steps into the ring with Spotify and Apple Music, but how much of a battle will they have? The big story in streaming this past week is the anticipated arrival of Amazon’s new [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google: Penguin Looks At The Page Where Your Links Come From (Link Source) Another story I wrote at SEL based on the interview I did with Gary Illyes of Google was that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Closed Tomorrow For Yom Kippur 5777 Tomorrow is Yom Kippur, you can read about it on Wikipedia. In short, it is one, if not, the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: International & Multilingual Links Are Not Seen As Spammy Often I see webmaster basically disavow links simply because they are from a site that is written [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google looking at how to measure brand awareness for search Will Google ever give sites credit for brand name mentions or citations without an actual link? [...] - Search Engine Land
Why Google’s quality updates should be on your algorithmic radar [Part 2]: The connection to low-quality user experience In the second installment of his two-part series on Google's quality updates (aka Phantom updates), [...] - Search Engine Land
10 Reasons Why China Excites and Scares Online Marketers Ni hao China! For years now, Searchmetrics has helped power the engines of commerce with Research [...] - Searchmetrics
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 11, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 10 2016

Google Color Converter Google has a special card that's both a color picker and a color converter. For example, you can [...] - Google Operating System
Google Panda Algorithm Does Adjust Rankings Down Unlike Penguin As you know, with Google Penguin 4.0 the algorithm no longer demotes (downgrades the ranking) of a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Test Tube Pencil Case - Search Engine Roundtable
Google PSA: Noindex Trumps Index Robots Directive Every now and then, a Googler will say something fairly obvious to most SEOs and webmasters, it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Report: Google AdWords Drop Of More Payday Loan Ads Ginny Marvin from Search Engine Land wrote Why are payday loan ads still showing on Google after [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's Algorithms & Signals Don't Forget, They Collect History We've covered the topic of Google remembering stuff for a long long time - yes, they keep an [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
October 2016 Google Webmaster Report The last month was pretty insane with a lot of changes happening at Google, which is partially why [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s biggest ever product announcement: what are the implications for search? New products include a pair of Pixel smartphones, Google Home smart speaker, Daydream VR set, [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google “labels” your links, such as “footer” or Penguin-impacted Google's manual action team has access to look at a page's link labels and may use that to dig [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Penguin looks mostly at your link source, says Google When we asked Google's Gary Illyes about Penguin, he said SEOs should focus on where their links [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 10, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Convert Colors in Google Search Results with RGB to Hex Tool Now you can convert colors from various web-based formats to another using a simple command in [...] - Search Engine Journal
AMP Reaches Major Milestones Since Launching One Year Ago One year later, the AMP project is well on the way towards achieving its goal of uniting people [...] - Search Engine Journal

October, 8 2016

Google Will Shut Down Panoramio Google intended to discontinue Panoramio back in 2014, shortly after Google Maps Views was [...] - Google Operating System
More Related Searches in Mobile Google Search Google's mobile search interface shows a new box with related searches after clicking a result and [...] - Google Operating System

October, 7 2016

Mobile Search on the Rise: Almost Half of All People Search Only on Smartphones [STUDY] A detailed study released by Google reveals roughly 40% of people search only on a smartphone. - Search Engine Journal
AMP is one year old and growing fast, will it ultimately trump responsive design? There are now 600 million AMP pages on 700,000 domains. - Search Engine Land
Penguin 4.0: a link builder’s perspective It’s been two weeks since Penguin 4.0 was officially announced. - Search Engine Watch
Box Of Google Android Lollipops - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Penguin Recoveries Still Rolling Out But Should Be Done Very Soon Google has said the Penguin changes you've been seeing, and many of you are seeing recoveries [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Updated Their Android & iOS Apps Google announced on Google+ that they've updated the AdWords app for Android and iOS this week. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Reconsideration Requests Never Worked For Penguin Or Other Algorithms In the latest Rand Moz weekly video... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: 301 Redirecting All Pages To Home Page Are Seen As Soft 404s I cannot tell you how many times I speak to people about site migrations or mass CMS changes to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords SMS - Click To Text Ads - Reach The UK This past June, we reported some users seeing the new AdWords click to text SMS ad extension on the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Confirms Some Google Search Algos Look at History of Page/Site In today’s Webmaster Office Hours, John Mueller was answering a question related to the [...] - The SEM Post
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 Penguin Recoveries, Buying Links, Google Home & Assistant This week, I cover a lot more on Penguin. First, the recoveries have started and Google confirmed [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Equality of Opportunity in Machine Learning Posted by Moritz Hardt, Research Scientist, Google Brain Team As machine learning technology [...] - Google Research
Twitter & Customer Service: Friends With Benefits Are you responding to your customers' tweets on Twitter? If not, you could be losing out on revenue [...] - Search Engine Journal
YouTube Adds Paid Promotion Alert For Viewers YouTube is giving brands a new way to ensure they are being transparent to viewers about paid [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 7, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Presidential Debate #2: Watch Live on Bing Livestream the second presidential debate on Sunday, October 9, on Bing. - Bing Search

October, 6 2016

Android 7.1: Pixel-Only, For Now Pixel phones will ship with a new Android version: 7.1. It looks like many of the important Nougat [...] - Google Operating System
Google Assistant is No Help When it Comes to Protecting Personal Data Due to the very nature of AI and machine learning, using Google Assistant comes with a trade-off: [...] - Search Engine Journal
WordPress.com Ushers in A Set of Advanced SEO Tools Several SEO tools have been brought to WordPress.com, which will make it easier for users to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Only Add Structured Data Markup to Individual Products not Categories or Lists Do you have structured data for products on your category or pages with lists of items? You [...] - The SEM Post
Donuts On A Google Board - Search Engine Roundtable
Get A Text Link From Apache.org For $5k Per Year, Google Did For $100k Per Year A Google Webmaster Help thread has someone pointing out that Apache, world's most used web server [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Editor v11.6 Adds Universal App Campaigns & More Google announced the latest version of the AdWords Editor, version 11.6. The big updates here [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdSense New Ad Unit Design Launches With Modern Look Google announced on Google+ that they've launched a new ad unit design for their AdSense text and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Displays More Images In Mobile Web Results A few weeks ago we reported that Google was showing many shopping images in the mobile web results. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Changes Display URL Unicode Characters Support Google AdWords announced quietly on Google+ that they are now changing the way how they handle [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
PPC + SEO = match made in marketing heaven Are your SEO and PPC teams working in silos? Columnist Julian Connors discusses several ways SEO [...] - Search Engine Land
Top trends marketers need to know for the holiday season The holiday shopping season is approaching and the marketers have to target consumers in the most [...] - Search Engine Watch
Report: Number of Google organic blue links results drop from 10 to 8.5 Searchmetrics released their 2016 study on universal and extended search results showing some [...] - Search Engine Land
Graph-powered Machine Learning at Google Posted by Sujith Ravi, Staff Research Scientist, Google Research Recently, there have been [...] - Google Research
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 6, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Why Google Can't Sell Expensive Products Google announced its first phone and many people wondered why it's as expensive as an iPhone. Nexus [...] - Google Operating System

October, 5 2016

Google Patents Context Vectors to Improve Search One of the limitations of information on the Web is that it is organized differently at each site [...] - SEO by the Sea
Why the Webmaster Won’t Wink at Wicked Widgets Sun-soaked beaches, cheap hotels and panoramic city views are a staple of online travel sits [...] - Searchmetrics
Infrequent Google Crawling Is a Sign of a Low Quality Site When people are assessing their sites for whether Google sees it as quality or not, crawl frequency [...] - The SEM Post
Google Takes New Links Into Account Almost Immediately How quickly will Google take a brand new link into account once it is crawled by Google? [...] - The SEM Post
Google Logo Made Of Real Nougat - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Didn’t Increase Googlebot Crawling as Result of Penguin Changes Many SEOs have often speculated that there is an increase in crawling on sites due to algorithmic [...] - The SEM Post
Google Advanced Verification For Locksmiths & Plumbers To Reduce Map Spam One of the more spammy areas in Google is the Google Maps results for locksmiths. Google told the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Maps Tests Blue Pins & Gray Map Icon Google is testing showing blue map pins and gray map icons in the search listings. Sergey posted [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Clarifies Use of Disavow Files With Penguin Devaluing Links There has been plenty of debate over the past couple of weeks over the disavow tool and whether [...] - The SEM Post
Listen To How Google Home Quotes Features Snippets Google announced their slew of hardware yesterday and while it is cool and all, the one that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Update Chatter Suggests Penguin Movement Or Algorithm Changes Monday I scheduled a post about webmasters noticing Penguin recoveries after not seeing much of an [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Keep Using Disavow File Even Though Penguin Devalues Links So Google has been confusing us a bit, with good intention, on the disavow file and its use after [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
10 best tools for generating super-hot leads What tools do you have in your toolkit to help you find prospects? LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, an [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Home responding with featured snippets Ever wonder how Google Home will source, aka link to, the web site it pulls the answer for your [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Optimize and Session Quality Score: a brief guide Google announced on its Analytics blog and at SMX East the launch of some intriguing updates to its [...] - Search Engine Watch
AdWords Editor now supports mobile-first innovations, Gmail ad templates, and more The shift to mobile has happened. And as marketers on the frontline, you need tools that help you [...] - Inside Adwords
Learning SEO by Looking at Anomalies Sometimes one of the best ways to learn is to question why you see something that you possibly [...] - SEO by the Sea
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 5, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
No More Nexus Devices After the launch of Google's Pixel phones, many people wondered if the Nexus brand will be retired [...] - Google Operating System

October, 4 2016

How Robots Can Acquire New Skills from Their Shared Experience Posted by Sergey Levine (Google Brain Team), Timothy Lillicrap (DeepMind), Mrinal Kalakrishnan (X) [...] - Google Research
Google Analytics Actively Working On Spam Issue Since 2015, we have been reporting about referrer spam issues within Google Analytics. It got a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Gender Neutral Bathroom Sign: Batman, Jedi, Pirate & Aliens Allowed - Search Engine Roundtable
Could ‘people-powered’ Digle be the future of search? It's search, Jim, but not as we know it. - Search Engine Watch
78% Of SEOs Want An Interstitials Testing Tool From Google A month ago we posted a poll asking you if you think Google should build us a testing tool to see [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Not Concerned With Negative SEO With New Penguin 4.0 One of the rumblings going on since Google announced Penguin 4.0 was that it might be easier to do [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEO outsourcing: what do you need to know? Numerous websites outsource their SEO, but why is this so important? - Search Engine Watch
Three fascinating talks from ClickZ Live: San Francisco [Video] Presenting three of the most popular and interesting talks from our ClickZ Live event in San [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google and Progressive Web Apps: the mobile experience and SEO What's the deal with Progressive Web Apps? Columnist Jim Yu explains this exciting new mobile web [...] - Search Engine Land
Go to Bing to Livestream the Vice Presidential Debate Go to Bing to livestream the Vice Presidential Debate tonight. - Bing Search
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 4, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Home: Release Date, Pricing, and Top Search Features Google Home gives you immediate access to Google Assistant whenever and wherever you need it. Find [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Gets Serious About Hardware Google has a new hardware division and Rick Osterloh, the former Motorola chief, is in charge. [...] - Google Operating System
Google Fights Fraud by Cracking Down on Plumbers and Locksmiths Google is fighting back against fraud with an advanced verification process for plumbers and [...] - Search Engine Journal

October, 3 2016

Yahoo & Google Cookies - Search Engine Roundtable
SEOs Noticing Google Penguin 4.0 Recoveries Now Wednesday Google started pushing out Penguin recoveries that should be rolled out by around now. We [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The three Vs of contact data: verify and validate for value A new report from Informatica is highlighting the importance of clean contact data for marketers. - Search Engine Watch
Google: Directories Often Not The Right Way To Build Links On Friday, Google's John Mueller and Gary Illyes both made stern comments about directory links. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Only 12% Said They Saw Ranking Improvements After Google Penguin 4.0 As you know, Google began rolling out Penguin 4.0 on September 23rd - we've been writing about [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google opens the AMP fire hose Columnist Barb Palser believes that the broad surfacing of AMP content in mobile search will expose [...] - Search Engine Land
How mobile has changed the way we search, based on 10+ years of eye-tracking studies How has the rise of mobile changed the way people view Google SERPs? Contributor Kristi Kellogg [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Showing Blue Pins in Local 3-Pack to Mark Higher Relevancy Google is testing a new colored pin within the map that displays in Google’s local [...] - The SEM Post
Google Testing Grey Icons in Google AdWords Mobile Ads Google is testing new grey colored icons within Google AdWords mobile ads, replacing the usual blue [...] - The SEM Post
Get Google News in One Place: Company Merges 19 Blogs into 1 Unified Blog Google’s official blog, now known as “The Keyword”, combines articles across [...] - Search Engine Journal
Penguin Recoveries Have Been Rolled Out to Search Results Waiting for a Penguin recovery? Check your analytics, as those recoveries from previous [...] - The SEM Post
Google Tests Trending Searches and Instant Answers in Search Bar Google has been spotted testing trending search results and instant answers right in the search bar. - Search Engine Journal
Bing Predicts: eSport’s League of Legend™ winner Passionate about eSports and want to know the latest in eSports news? Bing now provides eSports [...] - Bing Search
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 3, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 2 2016

Programming Note: Rosh Hashanah 5777 Tonight is Rosh Hashanah... - Search Engine Roundtable