Archive of February, 2017

February, 28 2017

Google Assistant Coming to All Android Phones Running 6.0 and Above Google has revealed plans to release Google Assistant, the company's AI-based voice assistant, to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Closing down for a day Even in today's "always-on" world, sometimes businesses want to take a break. There are [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Logo For Abdul Sattar Edhi, The Penniless Philanthropist Today on Google's home page is a special Google logo, Doodle, for Abdul Sattar Edhi. Abdul Sattar [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Golden Android Figurine - Search Engine Roundtable
Natural News Is Back In Google After Penalty Is Revoked Looks like NaturalNews.com is back in Google. A site command returns 440,000+ pages including the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Emojis In Google Search Console Search Analytics Report As you know, emojis are back in the Google search results for emoji relevant queries. But we also [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Disrespectful Towards Presidents Wit Trump Picture A searcher is asking Google in a Google Web Search Help thread to change the picture they use for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Adding Sitelinks Search Box Schema for Site Search in Google Search Results For some sites Google will show an added feature in the search results – a sitelinks search [...] - The SEM Post
Google: How to Optimize Podcasts for SEO Podcast optimization for ranking in the Google search results isn’t a topic that comes up [...] - The SEM Post
Former Google's Amit Singhal Sexual Harassment Allegation Shock The SEO Community Kara Swisher broke the news yesterday that the former head of search at Google, Amit Singhal... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google recommendations on how to handle day-long site closures for search rankings Need to turn off your web site for a period of time but worried your Google rankings will drop? [...] - Search Engine Land
After rare confirmation from Google on site penalty, Natural News is back in Google’s index HealthNews.com confirms being reincluded in the Google index after being deindexed last week. - Search Engine Land
Abdul Sattar Edhi Google doodle celebrates Pakistani humanitarian who founded Edhi Foundation Today would have been 89th birthday of the philanthropist and humanitarian who spent his life [...] - Search Engine Land
Link free or die Why are we so afraid of links? Columnist Julie Joyce goes through several of our biggest fears and [...] - Search Engine Land
Sharing is caring: Click share and post-holiday shopping success Click share is a crucial metric that can help you improve Shopping campaigns. Columnist and Googler [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 28, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 27 2017

Google Mugs & Swag Galore - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Assistant Now Rolling Out To More Android Phones When the Google Assistant launched, it was primarily only available on the Google Pixel phones and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Web Directories Don't Generally Help With Rankings Google's John Mueller said that generally, web directories do not help with SEO or rankings. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Optimizing Images for Google SEO How much does Google understand about images you add to webpages? Does Google still need all [...] - The SEM Post
Google Test Card Style Local Finder In Maps Results Mike Blumenthal spotted Google testing a new format for the local finder results in the map [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing UK Adds Hospital & GP Search Feature With NHS Bing UK now lets you search for nearby hospitals or GPs, general practitioners... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Panda Takes Into Account Site Quality Including Site Architecture Google's John Mueller said in a video hangout on Friday at the 8:54 mark that Google's Panda [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google local finder tests cards with horizontal scroll for map search results Google loves the swipe left and right motion, they are now testing it on the Google Maps local [...] - Search Engine Land
Need to get with Google My Business support? Use Twitter! While phone support may no longer be accessible if you need help with Google My Business, columnist [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Manufacturer Center opens self-sign up, letting even more manufacturers elevate their brands online Many brands and manufacturers rely on individual retailers to showcase and sell their products; [...] - Inside Adwords
5 ways you can improve your new business’s visibility on Google Maps Columnist Wesley Young compares the online presence of several new businesses to find out what [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Assistant to roll out across newer smartphones The virtual assistant capability will soon be available on smartphones running Android 6.0 and 7.0. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 27, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 26 2017

Google Allo Chat App and Virtual Assistant Coming to Desktop Google’s messaging app Allo, along with its built-in virtual assistant, is coming to desktop. - Search Engine Journal
44% of SEOs Serve Many Different Industries [POLL] Are you an SEO agency or consultant looking to serve a few more verticals to grow your business? [...] - Search Engine Journal

February, 25 2017

Google Site Search to Shutter on April 1, 2017 — Here Are Some Alternatives Google will cease sales of its Google Site Search product on April 1, 2017. Current customers will [...] - Search Engine Journal
Ida Lewis Google Doodle marks 175th birthday of ‘America’s Bravest Woman’ As Rhode Island's most famous lighthouse keeper, Lewis saved a number of lives from drowning, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Account for 7% of Traffic to US Publishers Adobe Analytics reveals AMPs account for 7% of traffic to top US publishers. This data is accurate [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Responds to Users Being Unexpectedly Signed Out of Their Accounts Google has issued a public response to assure users their accounts have not been compromised. - Search Engine Journal
Google’s iOS App Returning Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMPs) in Search Results Google’s flagship app for iOS can finally surface AMPs in search results. - Search Engine Journal

February, 24 2017

Google Upgrades Gboard for iPhone with Voice Typing, New Emoji, and More Gboard, Google's alternative mobile keyboard, has been updated on iPhone with support for voice [...] - Search Engine Journal
New Google Cooking Cards Spotted in Google Now New cards have been spotted in Google Now which display recipe suggestions based on search history [...] - Search Engine Journal
New Google My Business Guidelines State Virtual Offices Not Allowed for Service-Area Businesses According to new Google My Business (GMB) guidelines, it is not acceptable for a service-area [...] - Search Engine Journal
HTTPS Pages on Front Page of Google Could Reach 50% by June 2017 HTTPs pages on the front page of Google search results could reach 50% by late May/early June 2017. - Search Engine Journal
Google Building Blocks - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Reminder: Linking To High Authority Web Sites Do Not Help With SEO Google has said for years that linking out has no impact on your rankings and SEO. So here is a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Gboard Adds Voice Typing - A Huge Missing Feature When Gboard, Google's iOS keyboard, launched, I was really excited and switched to it. Overall the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Account Bug Breaks Sign Ins, Google Wifi & Other Services Yesterday, something bad happened with the Google Accounts system. It isn't clear exactly what went [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Don't Guest Blog For Links, Use Your Own Site In 2014, Google declared guest blogging for links dead and has penalized guest blog networks time [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
No, Google Didn't Remove NaturalNews.com Because Of Fake News People asking me on Twitter about why NaturalNews.com was deindexed by Google. People are saying it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Image & Phantom Update, AdWords Ad Label & Maile Ohye This week in search, Google confirmed that a user interface change for Google Images may make it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Five most interesting search marketing news stories of the week Welcome to our weekly round-up of all the latest news and research from the world of search [...] - Search Engine Watch
Links to AMP content are showing up outside of search results With several popular distribution apps now linking to Accelerated Mobile Page (AMP) content, [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Predicts the Daytona 500 See who Bing predicts to win the Daytona 500! Also check out the latest standings, schedule, and [...] - Bing Search
How to Make Information Architecture & SEO Work Together Here's what happens to your SEO efforts when your IA sucks, some common SEO IA mistakes, and [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 24, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 23 2017

Get ready for the biggest night in Hollywood This Sunday, the biggest names in Hollywood hit the red carpet for the 89 th Academy Awards. Head [...] - Bing Search
Exoplanet Discovery: Google Posts Special Logo Google's home page has a rare late day Doodle, special logo, this one is for the NASA's Spitzer [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Exoplanet discovery Google doodle salutes the 7 Earth-like planets found by NASA Designed by doodler Nate Swinehart, the animated image is now posted on all Google homepages around [...] - Search Engine Land
Gboard for iPhone gets an upgrade In May 2016, you first met Gboard, our app that let you search and send information, GIFs, [...] - Inside Search
Gboard adds new languages, voice typing, new emojis & Doodles Google has upgraded their iOS keyboard extension to support voice dialing and 15 more languages. - Search Engine Land
Google Skateboard Art - Search Engine Roundtable
DuckDuckGo & Other Search Providers Respond To Google Site Search Closure Google announced the other day they are closing their Site Search product, which is a paid internal [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Removing HTTP URL Via Search Console Removes Other Versions Too John Mueller from Google said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that if you remove the HTTP version [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Warns About Using Contests For Links Google's John Mueller reluctantly explained in a live webmaster video this week on YouTube at the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: New Ad Label Doesn't Confuse Searchers As you know, yesterday, Google began rolling out the new green outlined ad label for the AdWords [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
A review of free PPC reporting solutions from Google Columnist Frederick Vallaeys tried out Data Studio to see where it shines and where it might fall [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Research Awards 2016 Posted by Maggie Johnson, Director of Education and University Relations, Google We’ve just [...] - Google Research
Google Switches All AdWords Ad Tags to Outline Style in Search Results Google has officially swapped out their regular green “Ad” tag in the search results to [...] - The SEM Post
Four U.S. Presidents in the KKK? Google’s latest problem with featured answers Technically called a “featured snippet,” Google lists four U.S. presidents as Klan [...] - Search Engine Land
Natural News was not banned from Google over fake news A Google webmaster violation is the reason this web site was penalized by Google, not because the [...] - Search Engine Land
SearchCap: Google penalty, the KKK & Gboard Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places [...] - Search Engine Land
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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 23, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to Repurpose Your Content Like a Champion Tired of coming up with new content ideas? Just replicate your successes! Here's how to repurpose [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Releases Tool to Help Filter Out Hurtful Comments Online Google has released a new API for publishers which uses machine learning to filter out hurtful [...] - Search Engine Journal

February, 22 2017

Headset “Removal” for Virtual and Mixed Reality Posted by Vivek Kwatra, Research Scientist and Christian Frueh, Avneesh Sud, Software Engineers [...] - Google Research
How Much Do Marketing Consultants & Agencies Charge? [DATA] Are you looking to hire a marketing agency or consultant but unsure what your budget should be? Are [...] - Search Engine Journal
Maile Ohye Leaves Google After ~12 Years Maile Ohye quietly announced on Google+ that she is leaving Google... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Cloud Umbrella - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Rolling Out New Green Outlined Ad Label? Google may be rolling out a new AdWords ad label now, the one we spotted a month ago, the green [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google To Discontinue Google Site Search Google is discontinuing their their Google Site Search product, which is the paid version of using [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Guidelines Updated For Service-Area & Virtual Offices Google has updated their Google My Business guidelines specifically to clarify how a business [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Stop Using URL Fragments Google wants you to stop using URL fragments for your content. Google's John Mueller said this on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Maile Ohye has left Google The latest Google employee departure is Maile Ohye, someone the SEO community has grown to love [...] - Search Engine Land
Updated Google My Business guidelines disallows virtual offices as service-area businesses Recently updated Google guidelines clarifies how virtual offices are handled for Google My Business [...] - Search Engine Land
7 ways small retailers can compete with retail giants using Google Shopping Think you’re too small to benefit from Google Shopping campaigns? Think again! Columnist [...] - Search Engine Land
Has machine learning created a new model for SEO ranking? When Google introduced RankBrain into its ranking algorithm, many wondered how that might impact [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Showing AMP Carousels for Local Review Sites It appears that Google is now showing AMP carousels for local review sites in the Google search [...] - The SEM Post
Google brings emoji back to the SERPs 😍🙌💯 Google has revealed that emoji will once again show up in search results snippets, reversing a [...] - Search Engine Watch
Preprocessing for Machine Learning with tf.Transform Posted by Kester Tong, David Soergel, and Gus Katsiapis, Software Engineers When applying machine [...] - Google Research
Official: Google’s green outlined “Ad” label replacing solid green version The new label for search text ads is now rolling out globally. - Search Engine Land
5 Things That Will Help Your Content Go Viral Planning for virality is nearly impossible, but there are five tactics you can use that will help [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 22, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Malie Ohye Bids Farewell to Google Maile Ohye, former Developer Programs Tech Lead at Google, and repeat guest at SEJ Summit, has bid [...] - Search Engine Journal

February, 21 2017

Google and Bing to Demote Pirate Websites in UK Search Results As a follow-up on what we reported last week, Google and Bing have come to a voluntary agreement [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Cigar Box Guitar - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests New Format For Related Searches Several folks are tweeting about a new user interface Google is testing for related searches. We [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Black Hat Forums Argue About Value Of PBNs A thread at Black Hat World, a public black hat forum, is having a discussion about the value of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
February 7th May Have Been A Google Phantom Update As you know, we were by far the first to break the news on the February 7th Google update that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Typically Help In Forums Only When We Have To Gary Illyes from Google, a webmaster trends analysts whose job is to help webmasters with [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Six stats on the importance of trust in influencer marketing Consumers are inundated with media competing for their attention, and consumers’ trust for [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google AMP Recipe Carousels Live in Search Results If you have a recipe site and aren’t already testing out AMP, you might want to consider [...] - The SEM Post
Hyperlocal marketing will soar in 2017: 5 tips to stay on top As mobile continues to grow, consumers are conducting more searches with hyperlocal intent -- and [...] - Search Engine Land
Keeping an eye (or three) on your AdWords competitors Columnist Daniel Gilbert of Brainlabs unleashes another AdWords script -- this time helping you [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 21, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Unwrapping the Secrets of SEO: “What Should I Write About?” “What should I write about?” Anyone asking this question might often have two [...] - Searchmetrics
Google to sunset Google Site Search product, recommends ad-supported Custom Search Engine Google is telling their Site Search customers they have to find a new internal search engine [...] - Search Engine Land

February, 20 2017

Google Airplane Seat Covers - Search Engine Roundtable
Google & Bing To Step Up Demoting Piracy From UK Search Results News is out that Google and Bing have made a deal with the Intellectual Property Office and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Pack Shows: "Near You X Minutes Ago" Sergey Alakov, the local pack watch man, has spotted more changes with the local pack and posted [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Celebrates President's Day But Not Google If you visit Google's home page, you will see the ordinary Google logo - not a Doodle for the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How Long Does It Take To Clean Up A Hacked Site Mess In Google Search Console? When a site gets hacked it can cause lots of problems for the site owner. Of course, the ranking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Confirmed: Google Image Search Update Impacts Traffic Data Last week, we reported that webmasters and SEOs saw huge declines in Google image search traffic [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google says no algorithm changes in new deal to demote pirated content in UK search results Google and Microsoft Bing agree to reduce pirated content from their search results in an agreement [...] - Search Engine Land
52% Spend Over $250 Each Month on Digital Marketing Tools [POLL] Thinking of investing on digital marketing tools or software to up your game? Unsure how much your [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 20, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
YouTube Is Killing an Ad Format Everyone Hates Unskippable 30-second video ads will fade to black for good on YouTube in 2018. YouTube has [...] - Search Engine Journal

February, 19 2017

Gmail Blocks JavaScript Attachments If you try to send a JavaScript attachment using Gmail or if you want to download a .js attachment, [...] - Google Operating System

February, 17 2017

Google Sleep Cots - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Carousel: Here Are The Best SEO Companies Google recently began showing list carousels even for top lists and such... - Search Engine Roundtable
Fun Video: Find Matt Cutts To Fix The Broken Links As you may remember, Wix is running an SEO her contest where a new site that ranks for the term [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
45% Of Google's Top Search Results Are HTTPS Dr. Pete from Moz posted on Twitter that he projects that by June 2017, 50% of the top search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Labels Sites As Not Mobile Friendly That Are Mobile Friendly That issue where Google was labeling pages as not mobile friendly when they are is still maybe an [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google iOS app gets new local search filters, more AMP support & Gboard access The latest update is part of version 23.0 for the Google iOS app. - Search Engine Land
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Image Traffic, Mobile Friendly Bug, Emojis & SEO This week in search, I come back to the February 7th Google algorithm update and show how big it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Five most interesting search marketing news stories of the week This week, Pinterest's acquisition of Google's former image search lead, Randy Keller, as Head of [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Showing Animated GIFs in Search Results via Google+ Want another way to get your content noticed in the search results? It might be a reason to [...] - The SEM Post
How to write PPC text ads in 2017’s sophisticated environment There are now so many ways to customize your search ads that optimization can seem complex. [...] - Search Engine Land
Google temporarily disables not mobile-friendly label in search results due to bug A bug has forced Google to remove the mobile friendly label from the search results. Google is [...] - Search Engine Land
Google brings back emojis in the search results snippets for relevant queries Google has brought back displaying emojis in the search results when the query thinks it is [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 17, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 16 2017

Google to Implement Anti-Piracy Code in Search Results by June 1st Google, along with other search companies, are close to finalizing an agreement to implement an [...] - Search Engine Journal
Creative Commons Launches New Search Engine for Finding Free, Legal Images Creative Commons has launched the beta version of a new search engine which is designed to make it [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bing Valentine's Day Heart Balloon Gift - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Give SEOs 4-12 Months To See Positive Ranking Benefits Yesterday I reported that Maile Ohye of Google posted a how to hire an SEO video... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Displaying More Product Shopping Ads? I don't follow the user interface for Google AdWords shopping, product listing ads, too closely but [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Not Planning Big Penguin Algo Changes in the Short Term Gary Illyes from Google was speaking at the Friends of Search conference today and he made some [...] - The SEM Post
Google’s New Top Entity Carousels Not Ranked by Search Algo Many searches have been triggering new brand / entity carousels in the search results [...] - The SEM Post
Google: We Review Spam Reports Within Hours Or Days We know Google humans review web spam reports and machines don't do that... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Schema Support Coming For Jobs, Carousels & More Aaron Bradly, one of the hawks of schema and markup, noticed Google showing early access to schema [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s Mobile First Search Index Moving Towards Launch Ever since Google first announced their Mobile First indexing change, which has the potential to [...] - The SEM Post
Google: Capitalizing Words In URL Doesn't Help Convey Emotions Believe it or not, we actually covered the topic of capital letters in URLs and how Google treats [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Missed link-building opportunities: Reclaiming broken links Link building is an investment, so don't let your efforts go to waste! Columnist Janet Driscoll [...] - Search Engine Land
Google is showing multiple ad extension types in a single swipeable carousel In a new experiment, swipeable cards feature sitelinks, callouts, ratings and more in a mobile text [...] - Search Engine Land
5 Interesting Snapchat Trends Brands Need to Know Here are five interesting marketing trends from a new Snaplytics report, which analyzed 271,000 [...] - Search Engine Journal
Can Pinterest crack (and monetise) visual search? Pinterest made a clear declaration of intent last week with the announcement that Li Fan, [...] - Search Engine Watch
Can we machine-learn Google’s machine-learning algorithm? As Google becomes increasingly sophisticated in its methods for scoring and ranking web pages, it's [...] - Search Engine Land
The CS Capacity Program - New Tools and SIGCSE 2017 Posted by Chris Stephenson, Head of Computer Science Education Strategy The CS Capacity program [...] - Google Research
Google rolls out 2013 Image Search design to more countries, webmasters complain of traffic loss Did you notice a steep decline in your traffic from Google Image Search? You are not alone, it was [...] - Search Engine Land
Wall Street Journal pulls some content out of Google’s “First Click Free” program WSJ move might cause other publishers to remove content from Google's program, if it turns out [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 16, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 15 2017

Google Waffle Logo Signage - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Video: How To Hire An SEO Google has released a video named how to hire an SEO and Maile Ohye, a Googler part of the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Emojis Return To The Google Search Results Snippets Back in 2015, Google promised to drop emojis from the search results and they did for the most part [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Image Search Traffic Drops Outside The US A WebmasterWorld thread has SEOs and webmasters upset about a recent drop in traffic from Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Read Your Content Out Loud, If It Sounds Strange, It Might Not Rank Well Google's Gary Illyes is still on the DYK tweet theme but this last one is a good one to highlight. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Manipulating Browser Back Button Doesn't Impact Search Rankings Google's John Mueller said in the recent webmaster hangout at the 11:55 mark that those who [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google releases new video on how to hire an SEO consultant Thinking of hiring an SEO firm or consultant? Watch this video from Google's Maile Ohye on what [...] - Search Engine Land
What we can learn from the latest trends in voice search Voice search is already a fast-rising trend in the search industry, and its latest developments [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Phantom V Update: There and Back Again?! Here we go again! For those who’ve missed it, the last few weeks have been a bit rocky for [...] - Searchmetrics
Google: SEOs Need 4 Months to a Year for SEO Changes & Ranking Improvement Google released a “How to Hire an SEO” video this week, and one of the things mentioned [...] - The SEM Post
Did you know...Google Search now has easy-to-find fun facts? Did you know a cat can’t chew big pieces of food because their jaw can’t move [...] - Inside Search
Google’s latest search feature serves up fun facts about animals, plants, fruits & vegetables Adding the words 'fun facts' to queries for animals, plants, fruits or vegetables will surface list [...] - Search Engine Land
Announcing TensorFlow 1.0 Posted by Amy McDonald Sandjideh, Technical Program Manager, TensorFlow In just its first year , [...] - Google Research
OK Google, Give Me Some Fun Facts About Animals and Nature Google introduced a new search feature designed to instantly deliver fun facts about plants, [...] - Search Engine Journal
An updated YouTube-8M, a video understanding challenge, and a CVPR workshop. Oh my! Posted by Paul Natsev, Software Engineer Last September, we released the YouTube-8M dataset , [...] - Google Research
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 15, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Asked to Remove Over a Million Websites for Copyright Infringement Google’s latest transparency report reveals the number of domains the search giant has been [...] - Search Engine Journal

February, 14 2017

Google’s New ‘People Also Ask’ Suggestions Allow for Deeper Exploration of Topics Google is making 'People also ask' suggestions smarter with dynamically loading suggestions. - Search Engine Journal
Exclude Irrelevant Audiences from Bing Ads Remarketing Campaigns Bing Ads has introduced the ability to exclude irrelevant audiences from remarketing advertising [...] - Search Engine Journal
DuckDuckGo Has Plans to Be More Than Just a Search Engine DuckDuckGo has plans to extend its privacy solutions throughout the web. - Search Engine Journal
Google India Valentine's Day Decorations - Search Engine Roundtable
Ammon Johns, SEO Legend & Community Fixture, GoFundMe For those who have been in the SEO industry and involved in the community for any period of time, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Featured Snippets Now Always With People Also Ask? It appears that whenever a featured snippet comes up in the Google search results that it is now [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Updates Crawl Status/Errors Report For Apps Google has made a data update to the Google Search Console report specifically for mobile apps... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: No Comment On The Google Search Ranking Update As you know, we reported about the February 7th Google update and that it seems pretty big. So I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's Gary Illyes Did You Know SEO Tweets Over the past week or so, Gary Illyes from Google has been sharing some tips and what he is calling [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How can you successfully set up an efficient business blog on a very tight budget? Setting up online presence for your business can be overwhelming. So much to plan and so much to [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google featured snippets now often followed by the “people also ask” box The "People also ask" gets more frequent and prominent placement in Google. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 14, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Facebook Turns on Video Sound in News Feed Facebook is changing the way you watch videos on your smartphone. Most significantly: videos in the [...] - Search Engine Journal

February, 13 2017

Woo your pango-love with Google’s latest Doodle game Editor’s note: Pangolins are the most poached and trafficked mammal in the world. We hope [...] - Inside Search
What Is A Pangolin - Google Valentine's Day Logo Today on Google's home page is a series of Google logo Doodle games... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Indoor Clouds - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Launches Dynamic Loading People Also Ask Last November we reported Google was testing a dynamic loading people also ask feature. Well... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Fast Track Indexing Vs. Normal Indexing Google's John Mueller in a video hangout last Friday at the 1:04 mark into the video addressed the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Analytics Starts Rolling Out New User Interface Last week, I personally saw my Google Analytics user interface flip from the old user interface to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
February 7th Google Algorithm Update Was Big Last week, I reported about a Google update that touched down on Tuesday, February 7th. Well... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s people also ask search feature officially gains dynamic loading Google's people also ask feature has gained a new way for searchers to explore topics in the [...] - Search Engine Land
What is influencer marketing, and why should it be part of your digital strategy? If I tell you I have the secret formula for any entrepreneur to succeed, you may not believe me. [...] - Search Engine Watch
What is a pangolin? Google Valentine’s Day doodle series & pangolin game come to desktop After launching its first Valentine's Day doodle two days ago on mobile, Google is now sharing the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Maps new feature lets users create lists of saved places that can be shared & accessed offline Users can keep track of saved places and share lists with others via text, email and popular [...] - Search Engine Land
7 tips for small manufacturers thinking about using AdWords New to AdWords? Feeling intimidated? In this helpful how-to, columnist Dianna Huff explains how to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: No comment on possibility of a Feb. 7 algorithm update Did your rankings in Google get better or worse over the past week? Many webmasters and SEOs are [...] - Search Engine Land
Ranking Local Businesses Based Upon Quality Measures including Travel Time Can the amount of travel time someone might take to get to a place be a good indication of the [...] - SEO by the Sea
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 13, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Maps Update: Create and Share Lists of Favorite Places In an update to the Google Maps app for iOS and Android, you can now create lists of your favorite [...] - Search Engine Journal

February, 12 2017

Google May Check to See if People Go to Geographic Locations Google May Recommend Google was granted a patent this week to enable them to check whether people are following [...] - SEO by the Sea

February, 11 2017

Pinterest hires head of Google senior image search engineer Randy Keller Hire comes at a time when Pinterest is ramping up "visual discovery" tools. - Search Engine Land
What is a pangolin? 1st of Google’s Valentine’s Day doodles is mobile game spotlighting endangered animal Day one of Google's Valentine's Day doodle series launched on mobile only and includes a game [...] - Search Engine Land

February, 10 2017

Google Hamburger Bean Bag Chair - Search Engine Roundtable
US Court Sides With Google Over Penalizing Web Sites For Spam & Guidelines Violations Eric Goldman reports that a United States District Court sided with Google over a lawsuit issued by [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We're Still Using PageRank After 18 Years Several months ago, Gary Illyes from Google said Google still uses PageRank and this morning, for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Method To Report Autocomplete Suggestions Google has said they are testing a way to report offensive autocomplete suggestions. You know, the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Launches Hotel Rich Cards A few months ago, Google launched AMP based hotel listings via carousel in the mobile search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update, Mobile Bugs, Search Console & AdWords This week in search, I posted my monthly Google webmaster report, check it out. Google may have [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Searchmetrics e-commerce ranking factors study says easy e-commerce sites rank higher in Google Want to know what makes an e-commerce site rank well in Google? This study explores those ranking [...] - Search Engine Land
Five most interesting search news stories of the week This week, we've got the latest on a strange glitch appearing in Google's mobile search, a new beta [...] - Search Engine Watch
The impact (and lack thereof) of Google’s mobile popup algorithm Back in August 2016, Google warned that it would be releasing an algorithm to crack down on [...] - Search Engine Land
Here’s how Google’s own ads impact bids & pricing in AdWords auctions Google takes steps to minimize the impact of its ads on CPCs, but advertisers pay as if Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Could RankScience Replace Your SEO Team? According to TechCrunch, YC-backed startup RankScience has the potential to put “hundreds of [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Data Studio beefs up AdWords MCC integration A new "Manager Accounts" option lets MCC account holders select individual sub-accounts [...] - Search Engine Land
How’s the Weather? Find Out With Bing’s Advanced Weather Answers Just in time for the winter snowfall, Bing has rolled out two new features to give searchers more [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bing Predicts the GRAMMY Awards This Sunday, February 12, music fans will huddle around their TVs and phones to see who will take [...] - Bing Search
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 10, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Florida court: Google permitted to delist sites regarded as spam under First Amendment The e-ventures Worldwide, LLC vs. Google case should have been dismissed earlier. - Search Engine Land

February, 9 2017

Google Roosters - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Retiring Converted Clicks In March In July, we reported that converted clicks is retiring on September 21, 2016 but Google extended [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Don't Email Gary Illyes For Google Search Support Gary Illyes from Google, one of the webmaster trends analysts that is incredibly helpful to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Lists Top Websites In Carousel User Interface Last week we reported on a new user interface rollout by Google showing a top carousel filter to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Data Studio Integrates With Google Search Console Google announced on the Google Analytics blog that Google Data Studio, Google's free toolset to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Ten Things eCommerce Sites Need to Know to Rank on Google in 2017 No, they’re not just resting. Universal ranking factors are dead. Google’s algorithm [...] - Searchmetrics
What’s been going on with Google’s mobile indexing? Back in October, Google announced the impending rollout of a mobile-first search index which has [...] - Search Engine Watch
AdWords Converted Clicks sunsets for good in March The old metric will vanish completely as Conversions measurement fully takes over. - Search Engine Land
Google Doesn’t Expect Full Navigation in Mobile First Pages When it comes to creating great mobile websites for users, a lot of times things need to be paired [...] - The SEM Post
Cool tricks to explore Google’s Knowledge Graph results, featuring Donald Trump Whether you want to gain some insight into how Google's Knowledge Graph works or just want to prank [...] - Search Engine Land
Local SEO in 2017: 5 simple ways to dominate local search New to local search? Wondering where to start? Columnist Sherry Bonelli offers five tactics to help [...] - Search Engine Land
Survey: Alexa the most frequently used assistant, Cortana seen as most accurate Nearly 60 percent used voice because it was faster or easier than typing. - Search Engine Land
On-Device Machine Intelligence Posted by Sujith Ravi, Staff Research Scientist, Google Research To build the cutting-edge [...] - Google Research
Update: Brands saw bigger search lifts from releasing ads early online than actual Super Bowl ads Game day ads drove incremental lifts in branded search for CPG, almost none for B2B brands, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google is testing a new way to report offensive Autocomplete suggestions Feedback tool is currently in limited testing, but company hopes to launch it worldwide soon. - Search Engine Land
Introducing Visually Rich and Highly Informative Weather Answers Winter is an especially critical time for checking weather reports, and even more important if [...] - Bing Search
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 9, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Data: Google monthly search volume dwarfs rivals because of mobile advantage Google likely has 30+ billion queries per month across platforms. - Search Engine Land

February, 8 2017

Google Vintage Office With Horse Statue - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords MCC Account Can Manage 85,000 Client Accounts Many of you have MCC (my client center) Google AdWords accounts that let you group in your client [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Bug Shows Desktop URLs In Mobile Results Yesterday, I posted fake news around the potential of Google testing the mobile-first index in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
One Review Gets You Stars In The Google Local Pack Typically, Google will not show star reviews in your local listing in the Google search results [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: HTTPS URLs Likely Canonical In Their Duplicate Content Clustering Algorithm This is probably an obvious and logical statement but Gary Illyes of Google felt the need to post [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Algorithm Update February 7th We just had some Google algorithm update a week ago potentially targeting spammy links I believe. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
What were Google’s biggest search algorithm updates of 2016? While we’re still piecing together lessons from last year's wins and losses, here is a visual [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Doesn’t Crawl to See What is On 404 Pages; No SEO Benefit When you have a 404, regardless of whether it is a default 404 or a custom 404, Google [...] - The SEM Post
YouTube Gives Creators Live Streaming, Super Chat YouTube is launching mobile live streaming and a tool to earn money from those live streams – [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Data Studio now connects to Search Console Build more flexible reports and combine Search Console data with other data sources. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 8, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 7 2017

Google Sends Outdated WordPress Alerts to Site Owners WordPress updated to WordPress 4.7.2 a week and a half ago and many site owners have already [...] - The SEM Post
Unwrapping the Secrets of SEO: Exploring New Frontiers in Search In the world of search engine optimization, one cardinal rule is to never rest on past successes. [...] - Searchmetrics
Google In Wall Offices - Search Engine Roundtable
51% Haven’t Felt the Effects of Google’s Mobile Interstitials Penalty [POLL] Has your site been affected since Google's roll out of its mobile interstitials penalty? We've got [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Console Alerts For Recommended Wordpress & Joomla Updates Available Yesterday, Google Search Console sent batches of alerts and notifications to webmasters operating [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AMP Makes It Easier To Discover & Share The Canonical URL The big Google news yesterday was around the AMP team announcing that you can now easily discover, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Maps App Adds One Tap For Real Time Traffic & Destinations Google updated the Android version of the Google Maps app to add one tap to your favorite [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Says AdsBot Not Used For Web Search URL Discovery Google has many flavors of crawlers from web search to AdWords to AdSense and app crawlers and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Mobile First Index Seen In The Wild? Last November, Google said they are experimenting with the mobile-first index but recently told us [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Seven tools to help you run multichannel digital marketing campaigns Faced with a constant deluge of information and brand messaging, it has become a necessity for [...] - Search Engine Watch
Flowers, Chocolate and Data: Valentine’s Day Takes Many Forms “Will you be my Valentine?” The heart may want what it wants, but how we choose to [...] - Searchmetrics
Introducing Google Cloud Search: Bringing the power of Google Search to G Suite customers Every day, people around the globe rely on the power of Google Search to access the world’s [...] - Inside Search
Announcing TensorFlow Fold: Deep Learning With Dynamic Computation Graphs Posted by Moshe Looks, Marcello Herreshoff and DeLesley Hutchins, Software Engineers In much of [...] - Google Research
Bing Ads Blocked 130 Million Bad Ads Last Year Bing Ads blocked 130 million ads and banned 175,000 advertisers last year. That's according to Bing [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 7, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 6 2017

Google: URL/Site Moves Are A Pain No one likes the process of moving... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Won't Tell Webmasters Which Links They Do Not Count For Spam Reasons As many of your know, the Google link report in Google Search Console, the links to your site [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Google India Family Clothing Store - Search Engine Roundtable
Moz Skeptical Over Accuracy Of Google Search Console Reports Russ Jones from Moz wrote a detailed piece named Google Search Console Reliability: Webmaster Tools [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Matt Cutts Hearts His Google+ Followers A couple weeks after Matt Cutts announced his official resignation from Google he posted [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
February 2017 Google Webmaster Report It was not a slow month when it comes to Google webmaster topics. We saw an unconfirmed Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Testing New Call Only Style Ad Google is testing a new variation of their call only ads, ads which are meant for searchers to [...] - The SEM Post
Google Maps updates Android app with real-time traffic info, nearby places & bus schedules Starting today, swiping up from the bottom of the Google Maps app home screen on Android displays a [...] - Search Engine Land
84 Lumber and Avocados of Mexico among Super Bowl advertisers that stood out in paid search Both advertisers opted to drive users to their own sites instead of YouTube. - Search Engine Land
Advancing Research on Video Understanding with the YouTube-BoundingBoxes Dataset Posted by Esteban Real, Vincent Vanhoucke, Jonathon Shlens, Google Brain team and Stefano [...] - Google Research
Google makes it easier to see and share publishers’ real URLs from AMP pages New anchor button enables copy-and-paste of URLs directly to publisher sites. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 6, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 3 2017

The Asian Conical Hat Google Meeting Room Theme - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local 3-Pack Drops Organic Listing for Local Ad Google My Business is testing a bold new change. Google is now testing their local 3-pack to [...] - The SEM Post
Google Japan Algorithm Update Lowers Ranking Of Low Quality Sites We cover many Google algorithm updates here but not all the international ones. A big one hit [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Knowledge Panel Tests Showing Phone Number Sergey Alakov who watches the local space almost like no other, spotted a small but interesting [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s Other Googlebots Don’t Affect Google Search Gary Illyes from Google posted a couple of tweets on Twitter about Google’s use of [...] - The SEM Post
Google Local Panel Business Owner Promotions Box Mike Blumenthal posted on Twitter that Google is showing a new feature for at least one business in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Algorithm Update Targets PBNs & Links, Penguin Tweak? For the past 48 hours, I've been hearing some rumbles around Google algorithm updates and sites [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Makes Low Quality Content Algo Change in Japan Google has made a change to their search algo in Japan to lower the rankings of low quality sites [...] - The SEM Post
Google Adds Category Filters to Organic Search Google is testing a new category filtering carousel for some search queries. And while the [...] - The SEM Post
Google Adds Search Filters Via Carousels For Some Queries Google has added a new feature that lets searchers filter down the search results by category using [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update Hits, Mobile-Friendly Test API, AMP, Local & AdWords This week was fairly slow until today, when we reported on an algorithm update that seems to have [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google adds a new carousel to let you expand the search results Google has added a new method for expanding your search results with a carousel across the top. - Search Engine Land
Unconfirmed Google algorithm update may be better at discounting links and spam Did Google update their Penguin algorithm? Did Google block private blog network links? Something [...] - Search Engine Land
When should advertisers consider pausing Google Local Inventory Ads? Retailers that sell online and in-store need to balance where to send users in their paid search [...] - Search Engine Land
Four most interesting search marketing news stories of the week This week, Instagram Stories is draining the life from the very Snapchat feature that inspired it; [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Introduces a Social Where Next Suggestion Patent Google was granted a patent this week on offering recommendations for places to go for members of [...] - SEO by the Sea
6 Surprising Stats from the Snapchat IPO Filing Snap, parent company of Snapchat, is going public. Here are six statistics from Snapchat's IPO [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 3, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Using Machine Learning to predict parking difficulty Posted by James Cook, Yechen Li, Software Engineers and Ravi Kumar, Research Scientist " [...] - Google Research

February, 2 2017

The Google Somalia Office Or Not - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Adds Preview Button To Structured Data Testing Tool For Some Types Google has quietly added a "preview" button to the Google Structured Data Testing Tool [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Shows Adds Temporary Closed Status Mike Blumenthal spotted a new status for businesses in the Google Local panel. Instead of open or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Googlers Express Dislike Towards Read More Button To Expand Content Google's John Mueller and Gary Illyes, spokespeople for Google, have expressed their extreme [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Adds “Watch Live” Link to Sports Scores Box in Search Results If you are a sports fan, you have probably seen sports score results in the top of Google search [...] - The SEM Post
Google To Host Live Q&A On Hacked & Compromised Site Help Today At 11am ET Google just updated their hacked site resource guide and now, today at 11am ET... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Promoting The New AdWords Interface To More Advertisers In March of last year, Google announced the new AdWords interface and then in August we saw it live [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Sends New Round of Outdated Plugin Warnings Google has been sending out a new round of Google Search Console warnings for site owners using [...] - The SEM Post
What can we learn from the winners and losers of organic search in 2016? Who were the winners and losers of organic search in 2016? - Search Engine Watch
Recipe search in the Google app is your new MVP If you’re huddling your team together for the big game this Sunday, chances are you’re [...] - Inside Search
Moz Local now provides data from Google My Business The new info allows businesses to directly check what actions customers are taking after Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Google local knowledge panel testing promotion box Google is testing a new Google local knowledge panel layout with owners promotions. - Search Engine Land
Facebook Search Now Recognizes Objects in Photos Facebook's image search system can detect and segment objects, scenes, animals, places, and clothes [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 2, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 1 2017

New Google AdWords IF Functions Allow for Greater Ad Customization Google AdWords has introduced new IF functions to search ads which allow ad text to be customized [...] - Search Engine Journal
Wipe Your Shoes On Those Google Floor Mats - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Adds Previews to Structured Data Testing Tool Google’s updated Structured Data Testing Tool now offers previews when you submit a URL or [...] - The SEM Post
Google: Folder Level & Hierarchy Not That Important For Google Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that the "hierarchy in URL elements isn't that important [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
A Google Intrusive Interstitials Mobile Penalty False Positive A site named Just Miniatures in the UK seemed to have been hit by the Google mobile interstitial [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Doodle For Edmonia Lewis For National Freedom Day Today on the Google home page is a Doodle, special Google logo, with Edmonia Lewis on it. There is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Now Testing Ads Added By AdWords Well, Google has done it, they've automated the process of creating new ad variations for your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Testing Local Carousels With 50 Listings This is quite an interesting test from Bing. They are testing a new carousel style for some [...] - The SEM Post
Google: No Plans Or Desire To Remove The Site Command On the heels of the link operator being killed off by Google, some SEOs are worried that Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Edmonia Lewis Google doodle honors 19th century artist behind “The Death of Cleopatra” sculpture Google recognizes Lewis as the first female of African American and Native American descent to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Testing Card Style Product Listing Ads Google is testing out the card style format on their Product Listing Ads now on desktop. This [...] - The SEM Post
Brand TLDs vs .com: why the world’s biggest brands are making the switch to their own web extension New Top-Level Domains (TLDs) have become more popular in the last couple of years, so here’s [...] - Search Engine Watch
Pinterest Expands Search Ads Offering Pinterest is making its paid search product – which includes keyword and shopping campaigns, [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google wins ‘right to be forgotten’ case in Japanese high court Court rules that search results are a form of speech entitled to protection. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 1, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s Ads Added by AdWords Test: 7 Things to Know Here are seven things search marketers need to know about Google's Ads Added by AdWords test, plus [...] - Search Engine Journal
Duane Forrester Joins Yext as VP of Industry Insights Duane Forrester, formally of Bing and Bruce Clay Inc., joins Yext. - Search Engine Journal