Archive of March, 2017

March, 31 2017

39 questions with Google at SMX West Ever wanted to hear answers to your SEO questions straight from the mouths of Googlers? Columnist [...] - Search Engine Land
Paid search analytics: What treasures are hiding in your data? Setting up paid search analytics may be straightforward, but columnist Jacob Baadsgaard shows that [...] - Search Engine Land
The newest addition to the marketing mix’s Ps: Proximity Columnist Brian Smith explains the impact of proximity on local searches and provides advice for [...] - Search Engine Land
55% Say AI Will Take Over SEO in Next 10 Years [SURVEY] Famous futurist Elon Musk said artificial intelligence will eventually replace most jobs and that [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Chrome SSL certificate proposal could affect millions of websites Millions of websites that use SSL certificates issued by Symantec and affiliated resellers could [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google iPhone App Updated With New 3D Touch Controls Google has released an update for its iOS app which takes further advantage of 3D touch controls. [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bing Ads Will Stop Supporting Monthly Budgets as of April 30 Bing has announced it will stop supporting monthly budgets for all Bing Ads entry points by April [...] - Search Engine Journal
Twitter Unveils a New Look for Replies Whenever you reply to an individual or a group of Twitter users, the user names of those people [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Tests Breadcrumbs At Top Of Search Results Snippets Yet another Google user interface test to add to our list. Google is testing placing the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 30 2017

Baidu becomes Google’s biggest ally in mobile page speed Chinese search engine Baidu will soon support Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) in its search results, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AdWords Rolls Out 3 Important Upgrades to Dynamic Search Ads Google AdWords has introduced three improvements to Dynamic Search Ads (DSA), which are said to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Maps ad traffic steadily growing Columnist Andy Taylor of Merkle shares data on the growth of ad traffic from Google Maps, including [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Implementing New Innovations for Measuring Store Visits Google has announced a series of new innovations which will improve how the search giant measures [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Warns YouTube Creators: Ad Revenue May Fluctuate Over Next Few Weeks As you know, Google promised to make ad controls for advertisers as advertisers continue to leave [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 29 2017

Why Google’s SEO advice is NOT (always) in your best interest Google often provides useful information to the SEO community, but columnist Nate Dame argues that [...] - Search Engine Land
Fred’s losers: Sistrix analysis says ad-heavy, thin-content sites hit worst Here is our first report from an SEO data provider that analyzes 300 domains after the Google Fred [...] - Search Engine Land
Google says it has now tracked 4 billion store visits from ads The company says thousands more advertisers will gain access to store visits data as a result of [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Again, We Don't Use Facebook Likes In Rankings Back, just about six years ago, Google told us Facebook likes don't influence Google rankings and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google quietly expands rich cards worldwide Less than a year since Google first introduced rich cards in the US, they're now expanding the [...] - Search Engine Land
2016 State of Search report: Paid search dominates, but social ads are catching up SEMPO's survey results show social advertising was the fastest-growing segment among digital [...] - Search Engine Land

March, 28 2017

Dynamic Search Ads are now more effective than ever Dynamic Search Ads (DSA) help you reach people who are searching for your products and [...] - Inside Adwords
AdWords Dynamic Search Ads gain page feeds, will soon support expanded text ads Page feeds are designed to give advertisers more control over which URLs to associate with a DSA [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Opens Up Google Posts to Sports Teams, Museums, and More Google has opened up Google Posts, the ability to post content directly to search results, to more [...] - Search Engine Journal
Study: PPC cannot accurately identify winning organic titles Contributor Brian Wood from Wayfair.com shares data which suggests that title tags that perform [...] - Search Engine Land
YouTube Videos Losing to Facebook Native Videos A new study finds that brands use Facebook native videos 3x more often than YouTube videos. [...] - Search Engine Journal
Compare 13 leading SEO software platform vendors With hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, and even millions of pages, sites, and keywords to [...] - Search Engine Land
4 major barriers to being linkable Columnist Julie Joyce explores some of the most common issues that interfere with naturally [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: No Links To A URL? Then We Won't Find It. Google's John Mueller posted a reply on Twitter saying that if there are no links to a specific [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Twitter to Offer Paid Version of Tweetdeck? Twitter is considering offering a paid version of Tweetdeck. The premium version would be geared [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search App for iOS gains Gboard, trending widget & 3D Touch An update to the iOS Google Search app gives you more features and bug fixes. - Search Engine Land
Bing Ads Editor Allows Migration from Standard Text Ads to Expanded Text Ads Bing Ads Editor is making it easier to migrate from standard text ads to Expanded Text Ads with the [...] - Search Engine Journal

March, 27 2017

Google Fred Algorithm Confirmed & Cites Overall Quality Issues As you know, we finally received real confirmation this past Friday on the March 7th/8th update [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Preparing for local reach in a ‘post-rank’ world: Get your data in line How might voice search impact local businesses? Columnist Megan Hannay shares her predictions and [...] - Search Engine Land
SMX West: What Google’s exact match changes mean for AdWords advertisers [Podcast] In our latest Marketing Land Live, listen in to clips from the "flash session" at SMX [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Analytics bug drops some image search traffic from reports No need to panic: There is a reporting bug in the Google Search Console Search Analytics report. [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Publicly Calls Out Company For Selling Links Normally, Google isn't so public about their shaming of those who go against their webmaster [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Adding Over 200 More Headlines to News & Weather App Google is keeping up with the demand for more news by adding over 200 more stories to the home [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Machine Learning Won't Take Over The Google Algorithm Last week, during the AMA with Google at SMX West, Google's Gary Illyes said he doesn't see machine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We've Never Denied An Algorithm Update That Happened Gary Illyes from Google said on Friday, right after officially confirming the Fred update that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 26 2017

How to Differentiate Fake News from Real News in Social Media Being able to define and differentiate between fake news and reputable news is becoming more and [...] - Search Engine Journal

March, 25 2017

Google My Business is Now Automating Ownership Conflict Resolution Google has launched a new feature which gives business owners the ability to streamline the process [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Rolls Out Mobile Shortcuts for Faster Access to Information Google has brought tappable shortcuts to mobile search, as well as its iOS and Android app, which [...] - Search Engine Journal

March, 24 2017

Google May Have Confirmed The Fred Algorithm Update Yesterday, during the AMA with Google session at SMX West... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Loses Major Advertisers After Ads Appear Next to Extremist Content Google is losing hundreds of millions in advertising dollars after several major US brands pulled [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google to Give Advertisers More Control Over Where Their Ads Appear Google has started implementing improvements to its ad policies, ramping up its enforcement of [...] - Search Engine Journal
Advertisers Continue To Drop Google Ads Even After Google Makes Changes The other day, I reported that Google added ad placement controls for advertisers to help prevent [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Larger Product Listing Shopping Ads Google is testing larger images for their product listing ads, shopping ads, in the Google search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 23 2017

Google’s mobile-first index is (still) months away At SMX West, Google's Gary Illyes said the company is still experimenting with its mobile-first [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Our search leads won’t let us talk about the Fred update Gary Illyes from Google said the techniques Fred went after specifically are mentioned in their [...] - Search Engine Land
How AI will shape the future of search Artificial intelligence is changing the way users access information online. Columnist Justin Freid [...] - Search Engine Land
An answer box experiment (my journey into known and unknown factors) Many SEOs have sought to obtain placement within a featured snippet or answer box in the search [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Mobile First Index: Page Speed Included as a Ranking Factor During yesterday’s Mobile First session at SMX, Gary Illyes from Google discussed page speed [...] - The SEM Post
Adding Sound Effect Information to YouTube Captions Posted by Sourish Chaudhuri, Software Engineer, Sound Understanding The effect of audio on our [...] - Google Research
Google Mobile First Index Will Launch When Results Are "Quality Neutral" Yesterday, at SMX West during the mobile-first index panel... - Search Engine Roundtable
Biometrics and neuroscience: The future of digital analytics? Advertising has always been about emotions. Emotions lead to actions and, as such, influencing [...] - Search Engine Watch

March, 22 2017

Google for Brazil: Building a more inclusive internet for everyone, everywhere Google for Brazil: Building a more inclusive internet for everyone, everywhere Brazilians love the [...] - Inside Search
Google site search is on the way out. Now what? With Google sunsetting its site search product, many companies are wondering where to turn for this [...] - Search Engine Land
Are technical and content audits still relevant? SEO audits are very useful in identifying website issues and areas for improvement, but columnist [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Posts now gives museums, movies, musicians & sports groups dedicated space in search Program opens in US and Brazil. Expansion is a sign Google no longer sees it as just an experiment. - Search Engine Land
3 steps to overcoming site issues that impact performance Consumers and search engines alike have high expectations for websites, so unchecked problems and [...] - Search Engine Land
52% Say Majority of Their Business Marketing Activity Is Digital [DATA] Thinking of putting more effort into your digital marketing activities? Wondering what area of [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Phantom Updates Are Core Algorithm Update Google has been very quiet about what SEOs have been calling the "Phantom update." The [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 21 2017

Seriously, Google, can you just make exact match exact? In the wake of Google's announced changes to exact match, contributor Daniel Gilbert offers a [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s new tappable shortcuts eliminate the need to search on mobile Rolling out today on Google's search app and mobile site, the shortcuts offer quick answers on [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AdWords to Roll Out Rewording and Reordering for Exact Match Keywords Within the coming months, Google intends to expand close variant matching with rewording and [...] - Search Engine Journal
New shortcuts in Search help keep you in the know These days, you expect information at your fingertips. Starting today, we’re making it easier [...] - Inside Search
Google: 84% of Webmasters Who Apply for Reconsideration After Site Hacks are Successful Google released its annual review of hacked sites as part of its #NoHacked campaign, revealing the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Why and how entities are shaping location marketing What are entities, and how are they impacting local search marketing? Columnist Adam Dorfman [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Display Ads to Show Location Extensions for Local Businesses Google has begun automatically appending location extensions to eligible Google Display Network ads. - Search Engine Journal
Live Blog: The Google Assistant keynote conversation at SMX West Google's Jason Douglas shares what marketers and developers need to know about Actions on Google. - Search Engine Land
Google is Dedicated to Stopping Ads from Showing Alongside Controversial Content Google vows it will do a better job at preventing display ads from appearing against controversial [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bing to Further Remove Restrictions on the Use of Trademarks as Keywords On March 27, Bing Ads will remove the restrictions it has on using trademarks as keywords in global [...] - Search Engine Journal

March, 20 2017

What happens when Google pushes into branding and messaging? As Google elbows its way further into PPC branding, columnist Pauline Jakober discusses the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Hacked sites increased 32% in 2016 Google is encouraging webmasters and site owners to verify their sites in Google Search Console to [...] - Search Engine Land
Distill: Supporting Clarity in Machine Learning Posted by Shan Carter, Software Engineer and Chris Olah, Research Scientist, Google Brain Team [...] - Google Research
#NoHacked: A year in review We hope your year started out safe and secure! We wanted to share with you a summary of our 2016 [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google thaws (a little) on defamation cases Would-be-legal remedies for online reputation issues are still up in the air, explains contributor [...] - Search Engine Land
Spring equinox 2017 Google doodle marks 1st day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere Today's animated doodle ushering in spring shows a mouse at work, completing its spring cleaning [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Rolls Out Ads to Google Home, Then Promptly Removes Them Google introduced audio ads to Google Home, which were promptly removed after public outcry. - Search Engine Journal
Google AdWords Upsets Advertisers By Expanding Meaning Of Close Variants Late Friday afternoon, Google announced they are changing the behavior of how close variants works [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 17 2017

Google to further dilute exact match in AdWords; will ignore word order & function words Not just for plurals anymore, close variants will extend to include word ordering and function [...] - Search Engine Land
DMOZ has officially closed after nearly 19 years of humans trying to organize the web The closure marks the final end of a chapter of humans trying to organize the web. - Search Engine Land
Close variants now connects more people with what they’re looking for From running shoes to cheap hotels to credit cards, and everything in between, people are searching [...] - Inside Adwords
Google receives search warrant for identities of everyone who searched crime victim’s name If this overly broad warrant were duplicated in other jurisdictions, local law enforcement might [...] - Search Engine Land
Three foolproof steps to excellent AdWords ads With billions of paid search ads delivered each day, it's imperative to create appealing ad [...] - Search Engine Land
Advice for AMP-curious publishers Columnist Barb Palser offers a framework to help publishers assess the potential benefits of [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: 404s Are Not A Signal Of Low Quality For years and years, Google has been trying to communicate that 404s, page not found results, are a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
St. Patrick’s Day Google doodle gives center stage to Ireland’s Skellig Michael Located off the coast of County Kerry, Ireland, the island has been categorized as a World Heritage [...] - Search Engine Land
YouTube Discontinues Annotations Editor The YouTube Annotations Editor is being discontinued. As of May 2 you will no longer be able to add [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Again, Site Command Not Going Away 6 weeks ago we covered that the site command is sticking around despite other Google operators [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 16 2017

Announcing Guetzli: A New Open Source JPEG Encoder Posted by Robert Obryk and Jyrki Alakuijala, Software Engineers, Google Research Europe [...] - Google Research
Google Home gets ‘Beauty & The Beast’ promo but Google says it’s not an ad Appears to be the first-ever commercialization of Google's home assistant product. - Search Engine Land
Google launches location extension display ads for local businesses Some other display ads may be converted automatically to the new format when users are nearby. - Search Engine Land
Mapping keywords to the buyer journey in SEO Many marketers find keyword research difficult, but it doesn't have to be! Columnist Janet Driscoll [...] - Search Engine Land
So You Want to be a Content Marketer? You Better Know SEO! According to the latest research, demand for SEO jobs is at an all-time high — but it’s [...] - Search Engine Journal
Founder Larry Kim Leaves WordStream to Build a New Startup Larry Kim, founder of PPC software company WordStream, is leaving the company he’s been [...] - Search Engine Journal
Survey: Small Businesses Want $100 SEO A new survey says an astonishing 46 percent of small businesses allocate 0 percent of their [...] - Search Engine Journal
Easy visualizations of PageRank and Page Groups with Gephi Contributor Patrick Stox walks us through how to use a cluster analysis tool to visualize websites [...] - Search Engine Land

March, 15 2017

Google: You Can Rank For Medium Competitive Keywords Without Links We've seen Googlers say time and time again that you can rank without links because Google will [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
An Upgrade to SyntaxNet, New Models and a Parsing Competition Posted by David Weiss and Slav Petrov, Research Scientists At Google, we continuously improve the [...] - Google Research
National retailers: Stop ignoring local SEO National retailers’ digital divisions often think of their websites as e-commerce sites first [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s Share of Search Ad Market Projected to Grow to 80% by 2019 According to research firm eMarketer, Google is projected to hold 80% of the search ad market by [...] - Search Engine Journal
Here’s a script to help manage bids by keyword match type. Columnist Frederick Vallaeys explains the concept of "stacked bidding" and provides an [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Algorithms Now Target Offensive, Upsetting, Inaccurate & Hateful Results Yesterday, Google released a new quality raters guidelines PDF document that was specifically [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 14 2017

Google launches new effort to flag upsetting or offensive content in search Using data from human "quality raters," Google hopes to teach its algorithms how to [...] - Search Engine Land
Did Google’s Fred update hit low-value content sites that focus on revenue, not users? Google won't comment about the "Fred update," but based on our own analysis, many [...] - Search Engine Land
10 AdWords ad copy testing ideas you can use right now Wondering where to begin with ad copy testing? Columnist Jason Puckett shares some ideas to get you [...] - Search Engine Land
Report: Google earns 78% of $36.7B US search ad revenues, soon to be 80% Amazon and Yelp expected to see biggest search revenue growth rates in US. - Search Engine Land
Google Increases Efforts to Filter Out Offensive, Upsetting, and Inaccurate Content Google has updated its search quality evaluator guidelines with a section directing quality raters [...] - Search Engine Journal
Selling the value of link building to management You know that link building is necessary to achieve the results you want, but how do you sell the [...] - Search Engine Land
Your guide to using Google Assistant and the Google search app on Android & iPhone Google Assistant is coming widely to Android phones. Here's how to use it and other ways to Google [...] - Search Engine Land
SEO Sends A Message To Google Via Robots.txt Rishi Lakhani posted on Twitter a link to an awesome robots.txt file he wrote at [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Mocks PBNs, Suggests They Don't Work Gary Illyes and John Mueller from Google both mock a tweet about PBNs, private blog networks. The [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 13 2017

Google Fred Update Targets Ad Heavy, Low Value Content Sites The Google Fred Update which we first spotted rolling out early morning on March 8th seems to be [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Seasonal SEO: Identifying your merriest times of the year Are you tuned in to the seasonal trends that impact your website traffic? If not, check out [...] - Search Engine Land
Google to fix missing data from Search Console analytics report soon No need to panic over the Google Search Analytics report's confirmed bug. You did not lose a whole [...] - Search Engine Land
Manufacturing FAQs: The workhorse of content and search marketing Columnist Dianna Huff explains the benefits of FAQ pages, from improved search rankings to paid [...] - Search Engine Land
31% Spend Over $1000 Monthly on SEO Tools [POLL] Thinking of investing in SEO tools or software to get that much-needed boost? Unsure how much you [...] - Search Engine Journal
Holi Festival Google doodle brings Hindu celebrations from India & Nepal to the world Marking the beginning of Spring, Google says the "Festival of Colors" is a chance to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Releases Uptime, an App for Watching YouTube Videos With Others Uptime, a collaborative YouTube viewing app developed by Google’s Area 120 incubator, has [...] - Search Engine Journal
Duh! Linking To Wikipedia Won't Get You Penalized By Google. Sometimes I wonder where some of these rumors come from. Someone actually asked Google's John [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bug: Google Search Analytics Report Missing A Day Of Data Again The SEO community seems pretty upset that if you go into your Google Search Analytics report within [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Chrome Extensions: A vehicle for Amazon and Pinterest to compete with Google? As Google’s index goes mobile-first, consumers get to grips with voice search, and technology [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Search Console Low Quality Page Report Not Happening Wouldn't it be nice if Google told you which pages on your site are low quality and then you had an [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 12 2017

WebMD’s new Alexa health skill should go to pharmacy school The company's Alexa skill didn't understand drug names. Google Home performed much better. - Search Engine Land

March, 10 2017

Google: Web Site Comments Show Signals Of Site Health Gary Illyes from Google posted on Twitter one of his did you know pieces saying did you know that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEO To Google: How Can I Find The Googler Who Banned Me?! In a Google webmaster hangout, John Mueller this morning read a question submitted by an SEO that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Quick Access in Drive: Using Machine Learning to Save You Time Posted by Sandeep Tata, Software Engineer, Google Research At Google, we research cutting-edge [...] - Google Research
Five most interesting search marketing news stories of the week This week, Google's emoji conquest of the SERP is advancing on AdWords titles, Snapchat influencers [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google AdWords Doesn't Allow Emojis But Advertisers Keep Using Them The other week, we reported that Google was showing emojis in the AdWords results. Well, Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 9 2017

New unconfirmed Google ‘Fred’ update shakes the SEO world The webmaster and SEO community, along with the automated Google tracking tools, all show strong [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Fred Update: Big Google Algorithm Update Links Related As you know, yesterday I posted about the big Google algorithm ranking update and it seems to be [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Mobile page speed is important, but not (yet) for SEO Columnist Bryson Meunier suggests that mobile page speed, while good for conversions and customer [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s John Mueller Reminds: “We Make Changes Almost Every Day” Google's Webmaster Trends Analyst John Mueller reminds everyone "we make changes almost every [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Keywords In URLs Are An Overrated SEO Factor Almost a year ago today, Google's John Mueller told SEOs again that keywords in the URL is a small [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google adds emoji & GIF suggestions, translations & more to GBoard for Android The latest updates give Android users access to emoji and GIF suggestions as they type and the [...] - Search Engine Land
New Features For Google AdWords To Click-To-Call Ads Google announced on their blog that they are making several updates to Google AdWords click-to-call [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Should Google Penalize Sites With Auto-Play Video Ads? As many of you know, I want Google to do a no date penalty but I doubt that will happen. Although, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's John Mueller Defends Publishers Who Don't Want To Link Out Gary Illyes said back in the day that it makes him angry when publishers don't link out to their [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 8 2017

Large Google Algorithm Ranking Update: Black Hat Related? There appears to be a large Google ranking or algorithm update happening right now in the core [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
A technical argument for quality content What defines quality content, and how can its value be quantified? Columnist Dave Davies reviews [...] - Search Engine Land
Google rolls out AdWords account-level call extensions, among other call updates Business names in call-only ads, more detailed reporting and an expansion of automated call [...] - Search Engine Land
International Women’s Day Google doodle spotlights women who made their mark on history In addition to today's doodle honoring women, Google's home page also includes a link to its [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Page Render Tool Coming To Search Console So we have the fetch and render tool in Google Search Console but it seems like Google is building [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
WordPress for Google Docs Lets Multiple Users Collaborate on Content in Real-Time A new add-on for Google Docs allows multiple content creators to write, edit, and collaborate in [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google App Showing Trending News Cards on iOS and Android The Google App for both iOS and Android has begun displaying “Trending News” cards [...] - Search Engine Journal

March, 7 2017

Why you need to get back to SEO basics You can be well-versed on all the latest SEO trends, but columnist Ryan Shelley notes that you need [...] - Search Engine Land
3 free AdWords testing tools to adopt today Columnist Todd Saunders discusses the importance of data-fueled decision-making with regard to ad [...] - Search Engine Land
AMP — Accelerated Mobile Pages — rolling out to 1 billion more people in Asia Baidu, Sogou and Yahoo Japan adopting the mobile framework. - Search Engine Land
Google Survey On The Site: Search Operator Google posted on Twitter a survey asking webmasters why they use the site: search operator. If [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Making WhiteHouse.Gov Great Again: How Trump Webmasters Failed Website relaunches and migrations are complex and risky SEO operations. If not done correctly, [...] - Searchmetrics
Flickr’s new ‘similarity search’ feature makes it easier to find visually similar photos Flickr says its new search option uses advanced technology to surface similar photos without much [...] - Search Engine Land
Does Google Drops Featured Snippets Over Typos? Britney Muller from Moz, no relation to John Mueller from Google, posted on Twitter several weeks [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Block Google & Delist Your Web Site In Google By Accident? Many Have Done So! Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Stack Overflow, posted on Twitter the other day that he once checked in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 6 2017

How we hijacked Google’s SEO guide search rankings Contributor Dan Sharp shares an experiment in which his company was able to hijack rankings -- from [...] - Search Engine Land
How to use Google Tag Manager to show your clients results Columnist Sherry Bonelli provides an overview of Google Tag Manager, including how get started with [...] - Search Engine Land
Google is shrinking AdWords’ view-through conversion window default The conversion window will default to one day at the end of March. - Search Engine Land
Google ‘related picks’ now showing under some top stories carousels Google looks to show you more AMP top stories by adding a query expansion feature in the mobile [...] - Search Engine Land
Facebook Adds Disputed Alert to Fight Fake News Facebook's tool to combat fake news is here. The social network is adding a red warning sign [...] - Search Engine Journal
Where is Komodo National Park? Google doodle marks the park’s 37th anniversary Designed by Google doodlers from the art, engineering and production staff, the doodle doubles as [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s Related Questions Patent or ‘People Also Ask’ Questions When you search at Google, the answers you receive sometimes now include additional questions, that [...] - SEO by the Sea
Google Webmaster Notifications For AMP Viewer URLs With Incorrect Hostnames Google is sending out a new notifications via the Google Search Console when the AMP viewer search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 5 2017

Google’s “One True Answer” problem — when featured snippets go bad Obama's planning a coup? Women are evil? Several presidents were in the KKK? Republicans are Nazis? [...] - Search Engine Land

March, 3 2017

Assisting Pathologists in Detecting Cancer with Deep Learning Posted by Martin Stumpe, Technical Lead, and Lily Peng, Product Manager A pathologist’s [...] - Google Research
UPDATED: A visual history of Google ad labeling in search results A look back at how Google has treated ads in search results from blue shading to the latest version [...] - Search Engine Land
How to monitor Google Knowledge Graph changes and performance Detailed and accurate Knowledge Graph results are sought after by brands, businesses and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Assistant might take weeks to reach your Android phone Google Assistant is officially available for my Android phones this week, but the rollout will take [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AdWords Price Extensions to be Shown on All Devices It has been confirmed that Google AdWords price extensions are now eligible to be shown on all [...] - Search Engine Journal
March 2017 Google Webmaster Report This past month, we had a fairly significant Google algorithm ranking update on February 7th which [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Brings One-Tap Google Assistant Access to its Allo Chat App In the latest version of Google Allo users can call upon Google Assistant with a single tap. - Search Engine Journal
Bing Ads Editor Now Available for Mac Users Bing is honoring what is said to be its most requested Bing Ads feature with the release of Bing [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Killed Off Their WordPress AdSense Plugin Google has officially deprecated their AdSense plugin for WordPress this month. It is no longer [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 2 2017

AdWords Expanded Text Ads could get even longer with second description line test A new test doubles the number of characters available in text ad descriptions. - Search Engine Land
Using AMP? A known bug is probably screwing up your Google Analytics Issue can cause visitors to be overcounted, single sessions to be divided into separate ones, and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s location tracking is better now than ever before Columnist Andy Taylor notes that Google has improved its ability to track search traffic at the ZIP [...] - Search Engine Land
Google makes it easier to search for programming languages answers Google can now handle queries containing sequences of 2-3 special characters. - Search Engine Land
Twitter Adds New Filters to Mute Content, Notifications Twitter has introduced some new features that will let you filter out more notifications and [...] - Search Engine Journal
Emojis In Google AdWords Titles Thomas shared a screen shot with me on Twitter of emojis showing up in the Google AdWords ads on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Japan's Matrix Like Sleep Capsules - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Ads Editor For Mac Available Globally In June of last year, Bing Ads released the Bing Ads editor for Mac but didn't do a full global [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Top Stories & Google News Are Independent Features Google's John Mueller posted on Twitter something many of you probably know... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: More Pages About Topic X Versus Y Won't Hurt Your Google Rankings For Y Former Google search quality representative Murat Yatagan asked an SEO question to current Googler [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdMob Asks Why Publishers Aren't Using Interstitials I received an email the other day from AdMob, the company Google acquired that powers ads within [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Comparing keyword research APIs: SEMrush vs Ahrefs vs Serpstat and more Many tools provide access to their APIs, aiming to facilitate routine work for specialists. APIs [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google: How Bounce Rate Increases With Longer Mobile Load Times Google released some new stats related to mobile page speed and how it impacts bounce rate as the [...] - The SEM Post
Improvements to searching for special characters in programming languages For those seeking answers to technical queries, Google just upped its search game. Now for queries [...] - Inside Search
Search Results in China – Baidu’s Big Players Every country has its own national food – and every country has its own national SERPs, [...] - Searchmetrics

March, 1 2017

Google: How to Properly Close a Site For a Day These tips outline the correct way to temporarily shut down a site without affecting its search [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Assistant Can Now Tell You About Slang, Beer, and Men’s Fashion Google Assistant has been updated with a slang dictionary, a beer guide, and men's fashion advice. - Search Engine Journal
Yoast SEO Version 4.4 Now Available: Here’s What’s New Yoast SEO, a WordPress plugin with over 3 million installs, has received updates to both its free [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: New Industry Benchmarks for Mobile Page Speed Google has released a new report illustrating the latest industry benchmarks for mobile page speed. [...] - Search Engine Journal
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Google Official Tips On Closing A Site For Days (For Maybe Shabbat) We've talked a lot about sites that close down once a week or more for religious purposes, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
After 18 Years, DMOZ, The Web Directory, Is Closing Down DMOZ, one of the oldest and most trusted web directories announced on their home page yesterday [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Price Extensions Now On All Devices Including Desktop When Google launched price extensions for AdWords last year, it was just for mobile devices. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
AdWords Price Extensions now live on all devices Show prices for types of products and services in text ad extensions on desktop as well as mobile. - Search Engine Land
Screen Shot: Reduce Load Time & Increase Google Crawl Budget We've been talking a lot about Google crawl budget recently but here is a tweet that Google's John [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Report: Google Answers, Knowledge Cards & Live Results Reach 50% Of Google's Results RankRanger, an SEO platform, reported yesterday via Twitter that their SERP features tracking tool [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
“Level up” your gaming business with new innovations for apps Mobile games mean more than just fun. They mean business. Big business. According to App Annie, [...] - Inside Adwords
Google AMP Drives 7% of Top Publisher’s Traffic Ever since Google launched AMP, as their answer to a lightweight and fast way for searchers to view [...] - The SEM Post
Do you know what a mobile crawl of your site looks like? Columnist Eric Enge discusses the implications of Google's impending "mobile-first" [...] - Search Engine Land
Facebook Reactions Now More Important Than Likes Facebook's algorithm is now rewarding posts that get more Reactions – whether it's Love, [...] - Search Engine Journal
Make no mistake: content errors harm your brand and SEO How to optimize for audience trust. Plus, four tips for dealing with mistakes that can kill your [...] - Search Engine Watch
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 1, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable