Archive of November, 2016

November, 30 2016

Google Testing New Feature for Messaging Businesses From Search Results A select number of site owners are being invited to test a new feature that allows searchers to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Increasing the size limit of Sitemaps file to address evolving webmaster needs For years, the sitemaps protocol defined at www.sitemaps.org stated that each sitemap file (or [...] - Bing Webmaster
Yelp Users Can Now Check-in With Yelfies Yelp has launched three new features that lets users check-in with a photo, changes the way [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google & Bing increase the file size limit of Sitemaps files While the 50,000 URL limit has not changed, your Sitemaps file size can now be up to 50MB. - Search Engine Land
Google & Bing Increase Size of Sitemap Files to 50MB Bing has announced a change to the sitemap file size limit, increasing it from 10MB to 50MB. [...] - The SEM Post
Google Updates Site Move Recommendations for Webmasters Google has updated their site move recommendations for those who are moving sites to new domains, [...] - The SEM Post
An update on Google's feature-phone crawling & indexing Limited mobile devices, " feature-phones ", require a special form of markup or a [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google & Bing Increase File Size Limit Of Sitemap File By 400% Both Google and Bing announced that they have increased the file size limit of your sitemap files [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Jagdish Chandra Bose Google Logo Jagdish Chandra Bose today has a Google Doodle, Google logo, on Google.com. Jagdish Chandra Bose's [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Bike Trailer In Indonesia - Search Engine Roundtable
Google drops their feature phone crawler & error report in Search Console Google has officially dropped full support for feature-phone web sites. - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console Removed Feature Phone URL Error Report Google has dropped the "featured phone" filter in the URL error report section within [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Now Google Search Console's Update Indicator Line Is Clickable Yay, I just checked and the Google Search Console "update" line indicator found in many [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Removes The Content Keywords Report After months at hinting at removing the content keywords report from the Google Search Console, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Knowledge Panel With Video Carousel Google is now showing videos in the knowledge graph panel on mobile. Here is a picture from Sergey [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Testing New Card Style News in Desktop Search Results Google is testing a new card style of news results in the regular Google search results on [...] - The SEM Post
Marketers now turn to social for product launches When it comes time to launch a new product, the majority of marketers in the US, the UK, and [...] - Search Engine Watch
Answering Featured Snippets Timely, Using Sentence Compression on News A couple of Augusts ago, I went to a Semantic Business and Technology conference where the head of [...] - SEO by the Sea
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 30, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 29 2016

Mobile Shopping Searches Continue to Surge During Black Friday [DATA] Google has revealed the latest data on the impact of mobile shopping searches during Black Friday. - Search Engine Journal
Quickly Connect With Local Businesses Via Bing’s New Chat Options Bing has introduced a feature to local business search results that allows searchers to chat [...] - Search Engine Journal
3D Papercraft Google Globe - Search Engine Roundtable
Technical SEO checklist: 7 essential tips to implement now for 2017 In 2016, there’s been a lot of speculation on the value of technical SEO. It was called [...] - Search Engine Land
Louisa May Alcott Google Logo Today on the Google home page is a special Google logo or Doodle for the 184th birthday of Louisa [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Testing New Version of “Back to Top” at Bottom of Search Results Google is testing another variation of “back to top” in the mobile search results, to [...] - The SEM Post
Google AdWords Phone Support Number Went Down Google is like any other company, they have bugs - bugs with search buts with their tools, bugs [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Keep Site Speed Below 2-3 Seconds Google's John Mueller actually gave a legit number, which he normally doesn't do, around site [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Testing Alert to Inform Searchers That AMP Means Fast Google is testing a way to help searchers understand what exactly an AMP result is. They are [...] - The SEM Post
Google Tests Basic "Back To Top" Button On Mobile Google is testing another form of their back to top button from early this month. The new version [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google My Business Settings For Business Notifications Google quietly added a new features to Google My Business Settings at business.google.com/settings [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Removing “Content Keywords” from Search Console Google will be removing the “Content Keywords” section from Google Search Console, [...] - The SEM Post
Saying goodbye to Content Keywords In the early days - back when Search Console was still called Webmaster Tools - the content [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google drops the Content Keywords feature from Google Search Console It is official, after hinting at removing the Google content keywords report from Google Search [...] - Search Engine Land
Deep Learning for Detection of Diabetic Eye Disease Posted by Lily Peng MD PhD, Product Manager and Varun Gulshan PhD, Research Engineer Diabetic [...] - Google Research
Google Kills Off Content Keywords in Search Console Google has removed the Content Keywords report from Search Console, a feature which was once the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s machine learning now writes featured snippets descriptions Google recently launched sentence compression algorithms to help surface the best answers for your [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Starts Showcasing ‘Videos From the Web’ in Knowledge Panels A new and unannounced feature has been spotted in Google search results which highlights popular [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 29, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s Featured Snippets on Desktop Now Written By Artificial Intelligence Google’s featured snippets on desktop will now be rendered completely through artificial [...] - Search Engine Journal

November, 28 2016

Shoppers Gobble Up In-Store Black Friday Deals On Mobile As another Black Friday weekend wraps, we saw supershoppers continue to turn to their devices for [...] - Inside Adwords
Google My Business Chat With Customers Test Google is now testing a new feature in the Google My Business area that lets customers initiate a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Testing New Local Finder With Better Graphics Google is testing a new look for the local finder, one that is way more graphical. This was [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Goggles - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdSense Publishers React To Fake News Ban I am sure you have all heard about the news around Facebook, Google and others cracking down on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Changes "Submit To Index" To "Request Indexing" Google has changed the Search Console feature from "submit to index" to "request [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tweaking Top Stories Algorithm To Filter Out Fake News? It looks like Google is or has worked on tweaking the top stories algorithm to filter out fake news [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Rewrites Titles & Adds Headlines for Some Featured Snippets Sometimes Google has a perfect featured snippet for a query, but the page’s title [...] - The SEM Post
Ranking Events in Google Search Results This summer, Google was granted a patent that describes how the search engine might rank events [...] - SEO by the Sea
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 28, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 25 2016

Bing to Begin Displaying Holiday Hours for Local Businesses Bing will be displaying holiday hours in real time for all holidays going forward. - Search Engine Journal
Five most interesting search news stories of the week Welcome to our weekly round-up of all the latest news and research from the world of search [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Happy Black Friday Cake - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AMP Search Results Snippet Banner - Lightning-Fast Experience Jon Hogg posted on Twitter a screen shot of Google once again promoting AMP in the search results. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google On The Hunt For Spammy Exact Match Domains (EMDs) Google's Gary Illyes said this morning that he is "hunting" for spammy EMDs, exact match [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Shabbat Observers & The Google Interstitials Mobile Penalty As you all know, on January 10, 2017, Google is releasing their intrusive interstitial mobile [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google EMD Hunt, ProtonMail Bug, AMP, Wix & Shabbat This week in search, I covered that Google may be prepping for their next EMD, exact match domain... - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 25, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 24 2016

Inclusive marketing: the need to remove binary data Last week Metro Bank became the first financial institution to offer a gender neutral option for [...] - Search Engine Watch
Thanksgiving 2016 Google Logo & Bing Turkey Design Theme Happy Thanksgiving to all you Americans out there - it is one of my favorite holidays... - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 23 2016

Orderly Google Cupcakes - Search Engine Roundtable
Suggest Topics For Google Webmaster Hangouts Google's John Mueller posted on Twitter asking folks to post topic ideas for the webmaster hangouts [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AMP Hotel Listing Carousel Live In Mobile Results The folks who track the structured data results spotted a new AMP carousel in mobile for hotel [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Expands App Indexing For Personal Content To All Android Developers In late August, Google announced limited support for app search for person content... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Admits A Bug In Search Hurt Gmail's Competitor ProtonMail? Many of your probably read the Search Risk - How Google Almost Killed ProtonMail story from a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Promises More Mobile First Index Webmaster Recommendations As you know, Google announced the slow roll out of their mobile-first index and I covered it in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 23, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Bing to Find Holiday Hours for Local Businesses Don’t show up to find the doors locked this season. Bing displays holiday hours for retail [...] - Bing Search

November, 22 2016

How Consumers Will Shop—and What They’ll Buy—This Holiday Season Smartphones have become consumers’ trusted shopping companions. Mobile shopping searches [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Branded Leather Bound Luggage Tag - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Popular Times For Venues Shows Real Time Data You thought back a year and a half ago when Google released popular times for venues and stores, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Adds Distance & Store Visit Performance Reports Google announced on Google+ that they are adding more reports to help you figure out the store [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Adds Live Busy Status to Local Businesses in Search Results Google will now show how busy a business in in the local business knowledge panel within the Google [...] - The SEM Post
Bing Lets You Save Shopping, Images Or Video Search Results For Later Bing now lets you save your searches for later, specifically searches done for images, videos or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Rich Cards For Local Restaurants & Online Courses Google announced last night that they now support rich cards for local restaurants and online [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Releases Data on What Consumers are Shopping for This Holiday Season [INFOGRAPHIC] With Black Friday coming up at the end of this week, there’s no more opportune time to reveal [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google LocalBusiness Schema Now Requires Image & priceRange Fields Google is tweaking the structured data stuff like mad, just see how many articles I've written [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google AdWords Reports Help Smart Marketers Increase Store Visits Online marketing for a physical store is a challenge that Google hopes to make easier with the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s Rich Cards Expand to Restaurants and Online Courses Google’s Rich Cards have expanded to now include local restaurants and online courses. - Search Engine Journal
Google Maps to Show Live Views of Locations During Peak Hours Google Maps is adding a real-time look at locations during their busiest times of the day. - Search Engine Journal
Zero-Shot Translation with Google’s Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System Posted by Mike Schuster (Google Brain Team), Melvin Johnson (Google Translate) and Nikhil Thorat [...] - Google Research
Put a bow on your holiday app marketing with new innovations to find high-value users The holiday season is upon us, and millions of people around the world are looking forward to [...] - Inside Adwords
‘Tis the season, so make sure you have the AdWords app What an exciting time of the year. Supershoppers are out in full force, and your AdWords [...] - Inside Adwords
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 22, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google News Recommendations and the Google Knowledge Base I’ve seen posts from SEO by the Sea show up in search results with an “In the [...] - SEO by the Sea

November, 21 2016

Know before you go, with Google ‘Tis the season for gift-giving, delicious dinners, and spending time with family and [...] - Inside Search
Test: Google AdWords New Promotion Extension Coupon Codes Pete Meyers shared on Twitter a Google AdWords snippet filled with tons of goodies. But one of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Update Reversed November 10th Update On November 18th It seems we may have had a Google algorithm update yet again over the weekend. You can actually [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 21, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Rich Cards expands to more verticals At Google I/O in May, we launched Rich Cards for Movies and Recipes, creating a new way for site [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Rich Cards expand to local restaurants and online courses Google updated their structured data documents to support new rich cards and their suggestions [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Cache Date Not Indicative Of GoogleBot Crawl Rate John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that the date of the cache displayed in Google is not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Writing On The Google Wall - Search Engine Roundtable
How marketing will change when 5G and VR collide 5G networks are expected to start rolling out this coming year and will likely be standard in 2018. - Search Engine Watch
Google Local Pack Testing Showing Query Above Map Over the past week or so two different people shared with me on Twitter that Google is showing the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Wix Challenges SEOs To Outrank Them For SEO Hero The folks at Wix have had some hiccups with Google over the years, which made their brand known as [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 18 2016

Google Search Console Adds New AMP Reports in Search Analytics Ever since Google launched AMP in the “ten blue links” of the Google search results, [...] - The SEM Post
Google Returns Sitelinks to the Search Results Earlier this month, Google removed sitelinks from individual search results, meaning sites lost the [...] - The SEM Post
Google's Gary Illyes Now On A T-Shirt - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Ads Expands Their Bing Partner Program Bing announced this week that they have expanded their Bing Ads Partner program. Bing said [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
James Welch, Writer Of Fools Crow, Gets A Google Logo Today on Google.com is a special Google logo, Doodle, for writer James Welch. Today would be his [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Knowledge Panel Adds Like & Dislike Buttons Now if you search for movies or TV shows, the Google knowledge panel will have thumbs up and thumbs [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Revamps Article Structured Data Documentation For AMP Google has completely revamped the documentation for article structured data in their developer [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Maps Reviews Now With Photo Or Video Uploads Now when you leave a review using Google Maps or Google Local results, you can add a photo or video [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update, Snippets Bug, AI, AMP, AdSense & AdWords This week in search I covered the November 10th Google update that Google has not fully confirmed [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Five most important search marketing news stories of the week This week, both LinkedIn and Facebook are beefing up their paid social offerings in different ways, [...] - Search Engine Watch
Serve up the perfect message this holiday season Right now supershoppers are online, looking for great holiday gifts to give their family and [...] - Inside Adwords
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 18, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 17 2016

The future of advertising is mobile The days of desktop dominance are over. - Search Engine Watch
The SEO Bobbleheads - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google AdSense Interface Now The Default Interface About a month ago, we reported that the new Google Adsense interface was rolling out but back then, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New: Google Search Analytics Report Filter Between Rich Result & Normal Results The Google Search Console team added a new feature to the Search Analytics report, under the Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Restaurant Lists Rich Cards Markup Aaron Bradley posted on Google+ a new beta feature around structured markup Google is now testing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Recipes Markup Guidelines Now Says Use AMP HTML Another one spotted by Aaron Bradley and posted on Google+ was that Google updated the guidelines [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: AMP & Desktop But No Mobile, Mobile-First Index Picks Desktop Version Google's Maile Ohye and then confirmed by Gary Illyes of Google said that if you have a desktop [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google may pick desktop over AMP page for the mobile-first index Google's mobile-first index may pick to index your desktop version over AMP, when there is no [...] - Search Engine Land
Product reviewing: how to utilise digital influencers Credible and reliable endorsements are now, more so than ever, vital to a brand's success. - Search Engine Watch
Google AMP reporting in Search Console Analytics report gets more granular Google's Search Analytics report will now show you how your AMP pages are performing in the rich [...] - Search Engine Land
When a Website Has Only Desktop + AMP, Google Will Index Desktop Site In instances where a website has only a desktop version and an AMP version, Google will index the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Here’s When Your Favorite TV Shows Are On Next Google has introduced a new feature to its search results which will display upcoming air times for [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Fixes Date Bug From Embedded YouTube Videos Google has fixed the date issue that caused many sites to show wrong publish dates directly in the [...] - The SEM Post
New on Pinterest: Autoplay Videos, Tried It Pins Pinterest is testing a new type of Promoted Video that begins playing as soon as Pinterest users [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 17, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search and Save for Later With New Bing Update Bing aims to solve the problem of information overload with a new save-for-later feature called My [...] - Search Engine Journal

November, 16 2016

Google Search Bug Shows Wrong Publish Date, Causes Ranking Drops for Some There is a bug affecting Google’s search results pages causing the wrong publish date to be [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google AdSense Ads No Longer Allowed on Fake News Sites Google is implementing a change to its AdSense publisher policies which will prevent fake news [...] - Search Engine Journal
Mobile-First: How You Can Prepare for Google’s New Index Google has announced nothing less than the end of an era: Until now, a URL’s desktop version [...] - Searchmetrics
PSA: Don't Email Matt Cutts About Paid Links; He Knows Googlers Just a heads up, pretty obvious one, do not email Matt Cutts, the man who pretty much set up search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tel Aviv View - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Machine Learning Can Be Used To Make New Ranking Signals Out Of Old Ones A month ago, I interview Gary Illyes at Marketing Land and covered this bit at Search Engine Land [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: You Can Use Different Markup Formats For Structured Data When implementing schema and structured markup, there are multiple formats you can use, such as [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Nothing To Announce For November 10th Search Algorithm Update On Monday, we reported about the ongoing chatter around a potential Google search algorithm update [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Hummingbird Is Not Specifically For Spam In September 2013, Google announced Hummingbird the new revised engine that powers Google's search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Indexes Desktop Page for Mobile First Index, When AMP Only Mobile Friendly Version There has been some confusion about how Google’s mobile first indexing change would be [...] - The SEM Post
Introducing a smarter and more beautiful Google Play Newsstand Since 2013, Google Play Newsstand has provided a single destination on your phone or tablet for [...] - Inside Search
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 16, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Ads Tests Dynamic Search Ads Bing Ads is testing Dynamic Search Ads in the U.S. Dynamic search ads let you create ads for [...] - Search Engine Journal
Find and save for later on Bing One of the great things about search is that you have the world of information at your fingertips. [...] - Bing Search
Twitter Lets Users Block Keywords, Hashtags, Conversations Twitter had updated its mute feature to allow users stop getting notifications for tweets that [...] - Search Engine Journal

November, 15 2016

How to minimise the interaction cost of your web forms Completing a web form online takes time and effort. This effort can be minimised by structuring the [...] - Search Engine Watch
The View From Google Jakarta, Indonesia - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdSense & Facebook Ban Their Ads on Fake News Google AdSense announced yesterday that it would no longer allow fake news sites to monetize their [...] - The SEM Post
Google: Make Sure Your AMP Pages Have Your Primary Content If... In a mobile-first index, Google has warned us that our primary content should be on the mobile [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Now Showing Upcoming TV Shows In Search Back in April, Google announced they are bringing TV show search to the search results but then the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Showing Wrong Article Publish Dates When YouTube Videos Embedded Google has an interesting date bug issue right now in the search results – when there is an [...] - The SEM Post
Google snippets bug shows old dates based on YouTube embeds This Google bug shows a date that is older than your blog post in the search results snippet. This [...] - Search Engine Land
Official: Google AdWords Carousel Swipable Price Extensions We saw this coming months ago - Google is bringing the swipable carousel cards to the AdWords [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdSense Spam Spoofing Impressions & Earnings Reports? There is a thread at the Google AdSense Help forums have recent complaints about third-party sites [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Nine mobile trends to help you stand out in 2017 and beyond The way we ask for information is changing. The way we optimise must change too. - Search Engine Watch
Google: We're Moving Search To An Artificial Intellegenc First World Maile Ohye, a Developer Programs Tech Lead at âGoogle who is very involved with the search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
5 steps to optimizing your site for Google’s mobile-first index Now that Google is officially testing a mobile-first index, columnist Ryan Shelley believes it's [...] - Search Engine Land
Web giants Google and Facebook seek to cut off revenues from fake news sites These ad policy changes don't guarantee fake news won't continue showing up in the Facebook News [...] - Search Engine Land
9 Things You Need to Know About Bing Native Ads Bing Ads is testing a new type of ad called Bing Native Ads. These ads appear on an "intent [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 15, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Fake News Sites Banned From Facebook Ad Network Facebook has updated its advertising guidelines in order to prevent fake news sites from generating [...] - Search Engine Journal
A Google Search Update Appears to Have Occurred on November 10th [DATA] On November 10th, an update to Google search appears to have occurred, according to reports on the [...] - Search Engine Journal

November, 14 2016

Are you asking for too much information on web forms? Long web forms can deter customers, and one way to reduce the workload is to remove unnecessary [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Paris Hosts Wonder Woman - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Insulin Logo For Frederick Banting Birthday On Google's home page today, pretty much globally around the world, is a Doodle, special Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Snippet Date Wrong In Search Results For Many Over the past few days, a bug has creeped into the Google search results where the date shown in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Adds 100 Trillion Pages To Their Index; Now At 130 Trillion Pages Google has updated their How Search Works page changing the number of pages Google has indexed from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Tests New User Interface As you all know, Google is constantly testing new user interfaces but this one is a bit more [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Was There A Google Search Update On November 10th? On Thursday, November 10th, I saw some random chatter in the ongoing WebmasterWorld thread about [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s search index hits over 130 trillion pages and documents In less than four years, Google's search index has grown by over 100 trillion new pages. - Search Engine Land
Enhance! RAISR Sharp Images with Machine Learning Posted by Peyman Milanfar, Research Scientist Everyday the web is used to share and store [...] - Google Research
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 14, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Unveils New Look for AdWords Price Extensions Google AdWords' price extensions will now appear in search results as swipeable cards. - Search Engine Journal
Bing to Launch Native Search Ads in the Beginning of 2017 Bing Ads has plans to roll out a native search advertising platform early next year. - Search Engine Journal
New in Instagram Stories: Boomerang, Mentions & Links Instagram is adding three new features to Stories – a mini-video format called Boomerang, the [...] - Search Engine Journal

November, 12 2016

Bing Ads Introduces App Install Ads in Pilot Program for US Advertisers Bing Ads has introduced app install ads in a pilot program for all US advertisers. - Search Engine Journal

November, 11 2016

2016 Veterans Day Logos & Themes From Google, Bing & Dogpile Today is Veterans Day and to honor and remember what America's veterans have done for the country, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Meeting Reception Area? - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Crawl Data Report For Apps Now Updated Every Few Days Vs. Daily Google has quietly posted on their data anomalies page that they have changed how often they update [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google People Also Ask Feature Dynamically Loading More Queries We've been covering many many interfaces for the "people also ask" feature in the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Needs External Links For Quality Search Results Back in 2014, Matt Cutts of Google said if they drop links, the search results get bad. Meaning, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Mobile First Index, Search Console Changes & SEO Topics This week we covered the big news around Google going with a mobile-first index and discussed a ton [...] - 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 the world of search [...] - Search Engine Watch
Snapchat Adds World Lenses Snapchat's newest update for iOS and Android includes several new features, including augmented [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 11, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Memorialized Account Bug is “Killing” People on Facebook There was quite a shock Friday afternoon as many people checked their Facebook profiles, only to [...] - Search Engine Journal

November, 10 2016

Wait, The Google Index Status Report Update Was Not A Bug? The other day, we reported there was an unknown update to the Index Status report in the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Singapore Office New Opening - Search Engine Roundtable
Insurers starting to get to grips with online conversion and complex forms Insurers went online a long time ago, but one of the major challenges has been creating an online [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Search Console Performing Infrastructure Updates, Some Reports May Be Delayed The data anomalies page has announced that the Google Search Console is "performing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's SEO Friendly Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) Recommendations Google has published a blog post on how to build crawlable Progressive Web Apps (PWAs). Google has [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Ignore The HTML lang Attribute Google's John Mueller confirmed that they completely ignore the HTML lang attribute for determining [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Testing New AMP News Carousel Design? Google may be testing a new look for the top news carousel, which is powered by AMP content only. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Google Search Console is undergoing infrastructure updates Due to the infrastructure updates, some of the Google Search Console reports may be wrong or buggy. - Search Engine Land
How young marketers can impact digital strategies There is a changing approach in marketing strategy as millennials become part of small to medium [...] - Search Engine Watch
Bing Search Will Not Do Mobile First Search Index Some have been wondering if Bing would follow in Google’s footsteps and do a Mobile First [...] - The SEM Post
Open Source Visualization of GPS Displacements for Earthquake Cycle Physics Posted by Jimbo Wilson, Software Engineer, Google Big Picture Team and Brendan Meade, Professor, [...] - Google Research
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 10, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 9 2016

Google To Force 30-Day Penalty Status For Repeat Offenders Of Safe Browsing Google announced last night that they are enforcing their safe browsing violations to protect their [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Earphones - Search Engine Roundtable
Building Indexable Progressive Web Apps Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are taking advantage of new technologies to bring the best of mobile [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Kills Off Google Map Maker By Adding Some Features To Google Maps Google has killed off their Google Map Maker product and has told people the features have [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Confirmed: Google Removed The Knowledge Graph Snippet Overlay Last week we reported that Google dropped the knowledge graph snippets overlays. Well, last night [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Did You See The Google Analytics Vote For Trump Analytics Spam Over the past few days, before the election, many webmasters were complaining that in their [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google to fix bug where small sitelinks don’t show up in the search results Google said they fixed the bug where small sitelinks were not showing up in the search results. - Search Engine Land
Okay Google "Who Won" & Google Says "Donald Trump" This is too cool, ask Google on mobile, desktop or voice, [who won] and you won't get the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
FAQ: All about the Google mobile-first index Here's everything we know about the Google mobile-first index. - Search Engine Land
Google publishes best practices for search engine friendly Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) Google publishes their first recommendations for making PWAs indexable in Google. - Search Engine Land
As Trump racked up Electoral College votes, searches about moving to Canada spiked Briefly overwhelmed by traffic from the US, the Canadian immigration website was also down last [...] - Search Engine Land
How marketing leaders can create a digital mindset in their organisations So you want to be a marketing organisation that’s truly digital? - Search Engine Watch
How Google Symptom Search will affect the healthcare industry Google’s Symptom Search is revolutionizing the patient path to treatment, and doctors should [...] - Search Engine Watch
Celebrating TensorFlow’s First Year Posted by Zak Stone, Product Manager for TensorFlow, on behalf of the TensorFlow team [...] - Google Research
How to Get Progressive Web Apps Indexed in Google Search Google has released its official set of best practices for making Progressive Web Apps indexable. - Search Engine Journal
Google is Cracking Down on Repeat Offenders of Safe Browsing Google is cracking down on an activity where certain site owners are maliciously breaking [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google to Retire Map Maker, Migrate Features to Google Maps Google has announced plans to retire its standalone Map Maker product in March 2017. - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 9, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 8 2016

Google Says it is Now OK to Put Content Behind Tabs In today’s mobile-first world, content hidden behind tabs for user experience purposes will [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google to Surface Election Day 2016 Results As Soon As Polls Close Google wants to be your source for up-to-the-minute coverage of election results for the 2016 US [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google, Bing & Others Want You To Vote With These Election Logos & Themes Um, if you didn't know, today is the day Americans can vote for a new President. I know, crazy - [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Get Milk At The Google Market - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Index Status Report Update Is Currently Unknown If you go to the Google Search Console and go to the "Index Status" report under the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Editor Improved For Location Editing The Google My Business features page say Google updated the Google My Business editor yesterday. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Drops Small Sitelinks From Search Snipperts Google seems to have significantly dropped the number of sitelinks that show up in the search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Does Not Promote Or Demote Based On Top Level Domain In the past 24 hours, both Google's John Mueller and Gary Illyes answered questions around top [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
No Changes to Mobile Friendly Criteria or Ranking Boost With Mobile First Indexing Google is keeping the mobile friendly ranking boost, which rewards mobile friendly sites with a [...] - The SEM Post
SEO Agency SEO Hocasi Confirms Penalized in Google One of the larger SEO agencies in Turkey has confirmed that their main site has stopped ranking for [...] - The SEM Post
SEO Agency SEO Hocasi Confirms Google Penalty One of the larger SEO agencies in Turkey has confirmed that their main site has stopped ranking for [...] - The SEM Post
App Discovery With Google Play, Part 1: Understanding Topics Posted by Malay Haldar, Matt MacMahon, Neha Jha and Raj Arasu, Software Engineers Every month, [...] - Google Research
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 8, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google officially drops the Knowledge Graph snippet overlays over low usage After 2.5 years, Google has dropped the search snippet feature. - Search Engine Land
Get Real-time Election Day Results with Bing A year of campaigning candidates, debates and a whirlwind of news stories all comes to a head today [...] - Bing Search
Google Safe Browsing “Repeat Offenders” will get a 30-day time-out Do you continue to violate Google's safe browsing policies? Well, Google is about to get stricter [...] - Search Engine Land

November, 7 2016

Google and YouTube can help keep you informed on Election Day It’s Election Day Eve, the day before before millions of people across the U.S. will head to [...] - Inside Search
Not Likely to See Impact of Google’s Mobile First Indexing Test Yet When Google announced the mobile first indexing change, and revealed that they are now beginning to [...] - The SEM Post
A Google Cocktail - Search Engine Roundtable
Clinton vs Trump 2016: SEO and Content Performance in the US Presidential Election Campaign The 2016 Race for the White House is nearing an end. From the first caucuses in Iowa in February, [...] - Searchmetrics
Google Closes Google Showtimes Google has shut down the Google Showtimes service, which was available at google.com/movies for a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How Google’s Mobile First Handles Content Behind Tabs & Accordions When it comes to desktop pages, Google has long demoted content that is “hidden” behind [...] - The SEM Post
Google: Content Within Tabs & Hidden For User Experience Will Have Full Weight Google has told us for years that content hidden in tabs... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Domain Registration Length Not An SEO Factor We've covered Google saying that they do not use domain registration length as a ranking factor [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: AMP Pages Aren't Used For Search Snippets Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that Google uses the canonical page for the search results [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Launches Mobile-First Index Experiment: Here Is Everything We Know About It. As most of you already know, Google announced Friday afternoon that they are going live with their [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to create an effective digital marketing strategy A digital marketing strategy is important for every business seeking further growth, but how can [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google to add Presidential, Senatorial & Congressional election results directly in search YouTube will also air live coverage of the elections starting at 7:00 p.m. EST on November 8. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 7, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Removes Sitelinks from Bottom of Most Search Results Listings Hot on the heels of Google removing Notable Online from the desktop search results, Google has also [...] - The SEM Post

November, 5 2016

Google’s Mobile-First Indexing Begins Now Google is making the first step toward mobile-first indexing, a story we reported on last month, by [...] - Search Engine Journal

November, 4 2016

Here’s to more HTTPS on the web! Cross-posted from the Google Security Blog . Security has always been critical to the web, but [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Zurich Low Ceiling Indoor Basketball Court - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Clunky "Back To Top" Button In Mobile Search Results Sergey Alakov, who finds all this crazy Google UI tests... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Logo Highlights The Top Walter Cronkite Journalist Moments Today on Google.com in the United States of America is a special animated Google logo, Doodle, for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: The Sitelinks Demotion Tool Didn't Work For 6 Months Prior To Removal As we reported a few weeks ago, Google removed the Sitelinks demotion tool from the Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
You Can Disable Your Google AdWords Automated Ad Extensions Cassie from Google said in the Google AdWords Help forums that you can now disable automated ad [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Displaying Rich Snippets Doesn't Mean All Algorithms Think Your Site Is Quality It is true, a site can lose their rich snippets over quality issues or never get the rich snippets [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google tests a “back to top” button in the mobile search interface Check out this new Google user interface test where Google shows a button to jump the mobile [...] - Search Engine Land
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 Snippets, Mobile Index, Site Quality, Yandex & AdWords This week in search, I posted the monthly Google webmaster report for you all to catch up with. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Understanding FTC guidelines for influencer marketing The FTC is cracking down on brands that aren’t following the rules and regulations for [...] - Search Engine Watch
More Details on Google’s Mobile First Indexing Change for Search Results Google has released more details on their upcoming Mobile First indexing change that will see the [...] - The SEM Post
Google begins mobile-first indexing, using mobile content for all search rankings While called an 'experiment,' it’s actually the first move in Google's planned shift to [...] - Search Engine Land
Mobile-first Indexing Today, most people are searching on Google using a mobile device. However, our ranking systems [...] - Google Webmaster Central
6 YouTube Tools to Clean Up Your Comments Section YouTube is rolling out some new features that are designed to improve engagement in your comments [...] - Search Engine Journal
Instagram Makes it Easier for Users to Shop & Buy Instagram is about to roll out a pair of new shopping features to make it easier for its 500 [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 4, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 3 2016

10 most shared Christmas ads of all time, shockingly not *too* dominated by John Lewis Look, it’s November. There’s no getting around the fact that for the next 52 days [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Space Rocket Capsule? - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Fixes Search Console Bug With Robots.txt Tester Tool Yesterday, I received numerous reports that the robots.txt tester tool in the Google Search Console [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Webmasters React To Google's 200 Rankings Factors Claim While Googlers Look On For the past several days, I've been watching this thread at WebmasterWorld with a great title [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Crawl Requests Doesn't Hurt Rankings; Faster Crawl Doesn't Improve Rankings Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that requesting Google to crawl your pages doesn't negatively [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Yandex Palekh Algorithm Catches The Long Tail With Machine Learning Yesterday, Yandex announced that they launched something similar to the Google RankBrain - well, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Testing Dark Green URLs in Search Results Google is testing yet another variation of green in the URL of the search results. They are [...] - The SEM Post
Google Removes Notable Online Drop Down Feature in Search Results Google has removed their Notable Online feature from the search results. Notable Online would [...] - The SEM Post
November 2016 Google Webmaster Report Here is the monthly Google webmaster report, if you missed last month, you will want to catch up [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Drops The Knowledge Graph Snippet Overlay It looks like the feature where you can see a miniature knowledge graph overall for individual [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Introducing the AdWords Marketing Goals Website As marketers, you’re always looking for more effective ways to achieve business goals - from [...] - Inside Adwords
Entities in the Google Knowledge Graph Search API for Google The Google Knowledge Graph Search API on a query for Google shows the following Entities and [...] - SEO by the Sea
Facebook’s Q3 Results: 5 Things You Need to Know Facebook continues to grow its advertising revenue and attract new users. Here are five things [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 3, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
GS1 Web Vocabulary Schema Workshops in California I noticed a blog post published yesterday, November 2, 2016, and it looked helpful: Use JSON-LD to [...] - SEO by the Sea

November, 2 2016

Twitter Introduces Welcome Messages, Quick Replies Twitter now lets brands use chatbots to help provide better customer service more quickly with a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Burger & Fries Plate - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Marking Up With Both JSON-LD & Microdata Not a Risk Most site owners have a preferred markup type when it comes to structured data, or perhaps it is [...] - The SEM Post
Google Page Layout Algorithm Penalty Is Updated Automatically The page layout algorithms/penalty that penalizes sites with too many ads distracting users from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Day Of The Dead Google Tissue Paper Cutouts Logo Today on Google.com in the US, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Portugal and many of those regions, is a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Algorithms Do Not Give WordPress Preferential Treatment There are some rumors in the industry that Google's algorithms have a positive bias towards [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's Voice Search Surprises Their Own Engineers Another nice little tidbit from yesterday's Google webmaster hangout was towards the end at the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Penguin 4.0 Rollback & Reversals? Some Think So. As you know, Google finally pushed out Penguin 4.0 in late September and the recoveries and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to deal with attribution fraud While ad fraud has become part of every marketer’s vocabulary, attribution fraud - the [...] - Search Engine Watch
Opinion: Google is biased toward reputation-damaging content Why does reputation-damaging content seem to appear so quickly in Google’s search results? [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 2, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Forms Can Now Be Embedded in AMP Pages The Accelerated Mobile Pages project announced it has launched support for forms in AMP HTML. - Search Engine Journal

November, 1 2016

AMP Adds Support for AMP Forms via amp-form Extension One of the most requested features for AMP is the ability to add forms in order to capture leads, [...] - The SEM Post
Google Maps Tests See Web Results Link In Local Results Our maps sleuth spotted yet another test with Google Maps, Sergey Alakov posted on Twitter Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEOs Dress Up As Google Algorithms On Halloween - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Add Two Verification Methods As A Failsafe A Google Webmaster Help thread has Google's John Mueller recommending to one webmaster that it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Maps Issue Didn't Show Store Hours For Some Businesses A Google My Business Help thread has a business complaining that their store hours are not coming [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Sends Out Survey About Google Search Console? As many of you know, Bing has their own Bing Webmaster Tools - they call it webmaster tools... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Pack: Three Red Pins & One Blue Pin We've seen the blue pins in the Google Maps results before but now Google is able to display three [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to get started with online reputation management Online reputation is important for every business and social media has only escalated the need. But [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Pulling Featured Snippets From Second Page of Search Results We often hear about Google pulling featured snippets from somewhere in the top ten of the search [...] - The SEM Post
The Top Inquiries on BIng after each Debate What were the most frequently asked questions on Bing following the debates? - Bing Search
Mobile Internet Usage Surpasses Desktop for First Time Ever Worldwide In October 2016, mobile and tablet devices accounted for 51.3% of internet usage in October [...] - Search Engine Journal
Research suggestions at your fingertips with Explore in Docs Posted by Kishore Papineni, Research Scientist, Google Research NY Enabling easy access to vast [...] - Google Research
8 ways SEO has changed in the past 10 years How has the search landscape changed over the last decade? Columnist Jayson DeMers explores the [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Reveals Top Searches After Each Presidential Debate What are the most asked questions after the conclusion of a presidential debate? Bing took a unique [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google creates its own antitrust woes with poor communication over search listings Have an issue with your listings in Google? Getting an official answer might be tough. And when [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 1, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable