Archive of October, 2017

October, 31 2017

Eager Execution: An imperative, define-by-run interface to TensorFlow Posted by Asim Shankar and Wolff Dobson, Google Brain Team Today, we introduce eager execution [...] - Google Research
‘Ask Me Anything’ with Google’s Gary Illyes at SMX East Have questions about Google's stance on organic rankings? On featured snippets? On the mobile-first [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Improving Low Quality Content is Better Than Deleting It Google’s John Mueller has cleared up any confusion around what to do with low quality content. - Search Engine Journal
Google home services ads program rebrands, expanding to 30 cities by end of 2017 The program is now in 17 cities. A new app helps businesses manage leads throughout the day. - Search Engine Land
Oh, no! AdWords can now spend double your budget. Or not… In response to Google's recent announcement that AdWords campaigns can now spend up to twice an [...] - Search Engine Land
Halloween Google doodle tells the story of Jinx, the lonely ghost To celebrate today's trick-or-treating festivities, Google put together a mini-movie about a ghost [...] - Search Engine Land
Quickly Respond to LinkedIn Messages With New Smart Replies LinkedIn is bringing smart replies to its messaging platform in an effort to help keep [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Use Fetch & Submit To Increase Indexing Speed Over two years ago, I reported how you can use fetch and render with the submit to index feature to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Majestic Stops Scraping Google, Google Is Happy Not all SEO tools are black hat scrapers anymore... - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 30 2017

13 outdated SEO tactics that should terrify you In the spirit of Halloween, columnist Jeremy Knauff shares some frighteningly outdated SEO tactics [...] - Search Engine Land
Instagram Lets Users Add a Friend to Live Broadcasts Instagram has made it possible for two accounts to broadcast together at the same time. - Search Engine Journal
Google Halloween Costume Quiz Easter Egg Found in Google Home An Easter egg found in Google Home can help you figure out what your Halloween costume should be [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Does Not Want To Depend On Structured Data & Schema In Future At SMX East, Gary Illyes from Google said that he wants to see Google to get to a place where they [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How Smart Speakers with Screens Are Advancing Search The addition of a screen theoretically re-expands the answer universe beyond Position 0 on a range [...] - Search Engine Journal
SEO, Gerald Weber, aka Gman, Suddenly Passed Away At Age 44 I am sad to report that Gerald Weber, aka Gman, an SEO many of you know, has passed away suddenly [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google is Among the Most Trusted Tech Companies [SURVEY] Compared to other top tech companies, research shows that Google ranks just below Amazon in terms [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Won't Change Search Results Based On Google Domain Names Anymore Google announced that going to a specific Google ccTLD will no longer change how Google shows you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Mobile Search Tests New Design For Did You Mean Paul Shapiro posted on Twitter a screen shot of Google mobile search results showing a new design [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 27 2017

Google searches now correspond to user location instead of domain Users can still change their search settings to select a country service if desired. - Search Engine Land
Local SEO for service-area businesses requires a lot of servicing What does it take to get noticed as a service-area business? Columnist Andrew Shotland explains [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Will No Longer Use Domains to Indicate Country Service Google search will no longer use country code top level domains to indicate where you’re [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: We Won’t Tell You When the Mobile-First Index Has Fully Rolled Out Google’s Gary Illyes stated that it will not be announced when the mobile-first index is done [...] - Search Engine Journal
Mobile-first updates from SMX East What does the mobile-first index mean for you? Contributor Eric Enge summarizes a panel from SMX [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AdWords Introduces Ad Unit for In-Store Products Google has announced plans to introduce local display ads for highlighting in-store products and [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Algorithm & Ranking Update Brewing? Over the past 24-48 hours there has been an uptick in chatter across social media, the SEO [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Beta Launch Should Give Us A Years Worth Of Data Google has been promising more than 90 days worth of data in the Google Search Console, formerly [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Pruning Content Never Should Have Worked For Panda The other day, we reported that Gary Illyes from Google said that pruning content was not safe so I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 26 2017

Google’s mobile-first index has rolled out for some sites & will be implemented very slowly Gary Illyes from Google would not give us any timelines, but the rollout of the mobile-first index [...] - Search Engine Land
Tips to troubleshoot your technical SEO Stumped by a technical SEO issue? Columnist Patrick Stox has some tips and tricks to help you [...] - Search Engine Land
Alphabet (GOOG) third quarter beats estimates: $27.8 billion, revenues up 24% Paid clicks were up 47 percent but CPCs were off 18 percent; TAC was $3.1 billion. - Search Engine Land
All Google Manual Penalties Explained from SMX East Eric Enge shared insights at the "All Google Manual Penalties Explained" session. - Search Engine Land
Google announces new Poynter partnership to train more news fact checkers globally Support of the International Fact-Checking Network will provide tools and training for more fact [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Mobile First Index Is Live For Few Sites & Never Will Stop Rolling Out As you know, I kind of got Google's John Mueller to admit Google began the mobile first index roll [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Mobile First Index Rolls Out On Host Level Per Site One of the questions about the mobile first index from SMX East last night was about how the mobile [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 25 2017

SEO Ranking Factors in 2017: What’s Important and What’s Not What are the most crucial search engine ranking factors these days? Panelists at SMX East discussed [...] - Search Engine Land
Nofollow links are not useless: Earning them Is central to good SEO Some SEOs discount nofollow links, but contributor Pratik Dholakiya argues such an approach could [...] - Search Engine Land
5 ways to sell more this holiday season with Google’s updates to shopping ads Contributor Frederick Vallaeys shares techniques to get the most out of your product listing ads by [...] - Search Engine Land

October, 24 2017

How to use long-tail keywords to build your short-tail rankings Some SEO professionals may advise you not to bother chasing rankings for competitive keyword terms, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google announces new online-to-offline features on the cusp of the holiday shopping season The announcements are aimed at giving brick and mortar retailers greater visibility on Google [...] - Search Engine Land
How to increase B2B traffic by 192% in five months Looking to increase traffic and links to your site? Columnist Andrew Dennis shares the process he [...] - Search Engine Land
New Bing Ads Overview Tab Provides Easier Access to Key Insights Bing Ads has introduced a new overview tab that provides a big picture view of account performance. - Search Engine Journal
Google’s Top Halloween Costume Trends: What are People Searching for This Year? Google has revealed the top Halloween costume trends for 2017, and they may be different from what [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Assistant now offering a wide range of games for kids and families Fun is a competitive battleground in the smart speaker race. - Search Engine Land
A bigger Bing for your buck Bing Ads doesn’t get the credit it deserves. While it’s true that Bing was slower to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google My Business Integrates Booking Partners To Book Appointments & More Google announced that they are rolling out in the Google My Business console a way for some US [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 23 2017

19 technical SEO facts for beginners Want to dip your toes into techncial SEO? Columnist John Lincoln shares some fun tidbits for those [...] - Search Engine Land
Google My Business Pages Can Now Take Direct Bookings Google is rolling out a booking button for Google My Business pages that will allow businesses to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Businesses can now sign up to add booking buttons to their Google local results After many questions, Google finally adds a feature to let you easily add a "book online" [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Enters the Mobile Payment Market With Google Payment Google has announced a mobile payment service, called Google Payment, which is designed to [...] - Search Engine Journal
The nitty-gritty paid search account health check: Part 2 In Part 2 of her two-part series, columnist Amy Bishop continues sharing tips that will help you [...] - Search Engine Land
Don't Break The Google Guidelines Even If Someone Recommends You Do Sometimes I don't get how people can simply ask Google questions about how to spam Google... - Search Engine Roundtable
What are the best free SEO resources online? Whether you are a fresh-faced SEO newbie just starting to learn the ropes, or an SEO veteran who [...] - Search Engine Watch
Announcing OpenFermion: The Open Source Chemistry Package for Quantum Computers Posted by Ryan Babbush and Jarrod McClean, Quantum Software Engineers, Quantum AI Team [...] - Google Research
Stop Messaging Danny Sullivan With Your Google Questions, He Is Not Ready Yet. We all know that Danny Sullivan joined Google in part to help with communication issues with Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Updates SEO Advice for Tabbed Content in Mobile First Google has previously confirmed that for mobile first indexing, having content in tabs is fine. It [...] - The SEM Post
Google Q&A Feature Rolling Out On Desktop? Last week, we reported Google was testing the local question and answer feature on the desktop [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 20 2017

10 ways to generate links with online influencers Columnist Kevin Rowe shares tips on working with online influencers to boost your brand's link [...] - Search Engine Land
A brief history of Google’s most important local search updates How has Google's local search changed throughout the years? Columnist Brian Smith shares a timeline [...] - Search Engine Land
Google expanding Attribution beta to hundreds more advertisers Google's anticipated multi-channel attribution product is rolling out to more advertisers. - Search Engine Land
Say Something Nice About An SEO/SEM As time goes on, it is inevitable that we lose important people in the search industry - that is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Rolling Out Support For Parallel Tracking Google announced they have begun rolling out support for what is called parallel tracking... - Search Engine Roundtable
Danny Sullivan Spills The Beans On Google RankBrain - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Image Thumbnails In Search Results Snippets, Again Google is once again testing image thumbnails in the search results snippets. Well, Google has [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Ads Overview Tab Redesign Bing Ads has revamped their overviews tab for advertisers in the ad platform console. Bing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 20, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Mobile First Indexing Out, Googleâ��s Ranking Fair & Share Something Special Please This week in search, I think Google has really started the process of deploying the Mobile First [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The High Five: this week’s trends have a sweet tooth A celebrity baby on the way, a sidelined NBA player, and ice cream for dessert: here’s a look [...] - Inside Search

October, 19 2017

In Memoriam: Link Building Pioneer Eric Ward Has Died The search industry remembers pioneer Eric Ward, who was known for being THE expert in all things [...] - Search Engine Journal
Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) conquer the competition for shoe retailer Accelerated Mobile Pages aren't just for publishers! Contributor Damian Rollison presents an agency [...] - Search Engine Land
Getting the most out of Google’s new sitelinks Google updated the look of ad extensions back in August. Columnist and Googler Matt Lawson runs [...] - Search Engine Land
Announcing AVA: A Finely Labeled Video Dataset for Human Action Understanding Posted by Chunhui Gu & David Ross, Software Engineers Teaching machines to understand human [...] - Google Research
Google AdWords to roll out ‘parallel tracking’ to speed up mobile landing page delivery Third-party tracking platforms will need to make changes to accommodate the new tracking method. - Search Engine Land
S. Chandrasekhar Google doodle honors astrophysicist who won a Nobel Prize for his study of the stars Chandrasekhar's work led to The Chandrasekhar Limit, explaining how a star's mass will result in a [...] - Search Engine Land
Smarter Attribution for everyone Cross-posted from the Google Analytics blog. In May, we announced Google Attribution , a new [...] - Inside Adwords
When Is Voice Query Data Coming To Google Search Analytics? Four months ago, we reported that Google will be bringing voice query data to Search Analytics [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Search Community Lost The Father Of Link Building, Eric Ward, aka Link Moses Before there was a term called link building, heck, before there was "SEO" - Eric Ward [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's John Mueller Comments On PageRank For Internal Links I am not sure what to make of John Mueller's comments about PageRank related to using the old [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Killer demand gen strategy, Part 1: Personas and creative development When embarking on demand generation channels such as Facebook and Google Display Network, it is [...] - Search Engine Watch
Get visitors to your landing page faster with parallel tracking As technology enables more assistive experiences, consumer's expectations for seamless web [...] - Inside Adwords
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 19, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 18 2017

Google Tag Manager now has a native scroll depth tracking plugin The new feature lets site owners track vertical and horizontal scrolling on their website pages. - Search Engine Land
How blockchain will impact search marketing Maybe you've heard of blockchain, but why should you care? Contributor Tony Edwards describes the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AdWords ‘Days to Conversion’ Shows How Long it Will Take an Ad to Convert A new report in Google AdWords shows how long it will take users to convert after clicking on an ad. - Search Engine Journal
AdWords adds ‘Days to Conversion’ segmentation for sales cycle insights Advertisers can see how long it takes users to convert after clicking on an ad. - Search Engine Land
Google Maps Now Lets Users Explore Planets and Moons Google Maps is branching out into the solar system with an update that lets users explore planets [...] - Search Engine Journal
From big to small: 5 free image compression tools reviewed Want to improve your page load times? Image optimization is a great place to start! Columnist Tom [...] - Search Engine Land
Our ‘Ultimate Guide to Google Penalties’ launches today Google penalty notifications - and how to respond to them - continue to be confounding issues for [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Has Started The Mobile First Indexing, For Some Sites At Least It has been just shy a year since Google first announced their mobile first index initiative, where [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Twitter Introduces New Video Ad Unit for Increasing Website Visits Twitter has introduced Video Website Cards, which allow advertisers to use videos to drive traffic [...] - Search Engine Journal
New Google Maps Feature Upsets Users, Gets Removed Within 24 Hours Google introduced a new feature to Google Maps this week, only to remove it within 24 hours [...] - Search Engine Journal

October, 17 2017

Portrait mode on the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL smartphones Posted by Marc Levoy, Principal Engineer and Yael Pritch, Software Engineer Portrait mode, a [...] - Google Research
Ignoring these 6 SEO strategies could come back to haunt you Sure, they're scary, but sometimes it's worth putting on a brave front. Contributor Sherry Bonelli [...] - Search Engine Land
Dealing with duplicate content Of all of the possible SEO problems to tackle, columnist Ryan Shelley says duplicate content is one [...] - Search Engine Land
Selena Quintanilla Google doodle celebrates Mexican-American musician & beacon for Latinx community Selena was the first female, and youngest, Tejano artist to win a Grammy. - Search Engine Land
Facebook Introduces Stories for Pages, Will Anyone Care? Facebook is making ‘Stories’ available to all pages in a push to increase usage of the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Apocalypse for online search? Here’s how marketers can thrive When Google launched in 1998, the big knock against it was that it would be excruciatingly [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Avoid Changing Images URLs Google's John Mueller reminds webmasters on Twitter that when it comes to images, Google is slow at [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords New Days To Conversion Report Last week, Google quietly announced on Google+ a new feature to help advertisers understand the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 16 2017

How machine learning levels the SERP playing field Contributor Kristopher Jones explains how SEOs should be changing their practices to keep up with [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Posts can now be automated with new API support Google My Business API version 4.0 adds new features, including the ability to manage your Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Facebook Native Videos Receive 530% More Comments [STUDY] A study published by Quintly shows that videos uploaded to Facebook receive 530% more comments than [...] - Search Engine Journal
LinkedIn is Testing Autoplaying Video Ads on Mobile Get ready to start seeing autoplaying video ads in your LinkedIn feed on mobile. - Search Engine Journal
Google Ranking Fair: Where Google Engineers Show Off Future Search Changes So Danny Sullivan has only been at Google as an employee for a minute and already shared something [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Says Change Of Address Tool Unnecessary For HTTPS Migrations Since Google released their HTTPS ranking boost, SEOs and webmasters have been migrating their [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Disabling Right Click & Content Selection Doesn't Impact SEO Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that disabling the right click on your web pages and/or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business API Supports Google Posts Google now lets you automate your Google Posts with the Google My Business API. Google quietly [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 13 2017

Google’s YouTube Ads Upgraded With Location Extensions and Store Visits Measurement Google AdWords has upgraded YouTube ads with location extensions and the ability to measure [...] - Search Engine Journal
How to capture urgent leads with call-only ad extensions Say more with your call-only ad copy! Columnist Allen Finn discusses how you can leverage callout [...] - Search Engine Land
Google now has 50M Local Guides adding content to Google Maps and Search The number of Guides has grown by 10x in just one year. - Search Engine Land
Snapchat’s New Context Cards Make Snaps Searchable Next time you’re curious about what you see in a Snap, new context cards from Snapchat will [...] - Search Engine Journal
The nitty-gritty paid search account health check: Part 1 Whether you're taking on a new account or reviewing one you've already been managing, columnist Amy [...] - Search Engine Land
Target expands voice-commerce relationship with Google to battle Amazon Retailer joins Walmart in climbing aboard the Google Express. - Search Engine Land
Seven SEO trends to watch in 2018 As we reach the fourth quarter of 2017, it's time to start thinking about the year ahead and what [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Date Bylines In Search Results Snippets Penalty Often you will see dates in the search results snippets when blog or news related content shows up [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 12 2017

Quality score in 2017: Should you care? Contributor Jacob Baadsgaard dispels the notion that a great quality score automatically leads to [...] - Search Engine Land
Markets with home service ads: Service-area businesses are coming back to the local results There's good news and there's bad news in the local service-area business space. Contributor Joy [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s New AdWords Experience is Now Available to All Advertisers The new AdWords experience promises to be faster, more intuitive, with a renewed focus on achieving [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google locally focused ads poised to play important holiday season role for brick-and-mortar brands If 2016 trends are any indication, search ads aimed at driving offline traffic are likely to have a [...] - Search Engine Land
Yext begins to verticalize local business listings syndication with ‘Yext for Food’ Moves seek to provide enhanced data with more vertically specific attributes to various consumer [...] - Search Engine Land
The importance of site-wide tagging for accurate conversion measurement Measurement is foundational to digital marketing. Heading into the holidays, it’s more [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Opinion Rewards Comes to iOS: Get Paid for Taking Surveys Google is bringing Opinion Rewards to iOS, which is a program that pays users to take surveys from [...] - Search Engine Journal

October, 11 2017

‘High-quality content’ tips from Google’s own style guides To meet Google's standards for content that deserves a high rank, contributor Brian Ussery suggests [...] - Search Engine Land
AdWords rolls out new interface to all advertisers The new experience touts speed, upgraded visuals, more management tools. - Search Engine Land
TensorFlow Lattice: Flexibility Empowered by Prior Knowledge Posted by Maya Gupta, Research Scientist, Jan Pfeifer, Software Engineer and Seungil You, Software [...] - Google Research
The AdWords 2x budget change: Considering the potential impact There are still many questions about how this sudden change will affect ad delivery and spending. - Search Engine Land
Investors anxious about Google traffic acquisition costs, which regulation could further increase Mobile fees and new regulatory moves could bump Google's revenue costs. - Search Engine Land
Echo and Home will probably have to tell you they’re always listening — in Europe As smart speakers proliferate around the world, some governments will require strong privacy [...] - Search Engine Land

October, 10 2017

The ever-increasing importance of usability and trust in link building Sometimes link builders identifying promising sites think only in terms of metrics. Columnist Julie [...] - Search Engine Land
Placed introduces offline attribution for paid search campaigns An early test delivered 4x return on ad spend when store visits reported. - Search Engine Land
LinkedIn is Working on a Recruiting Tool Called Talent Insights LinkedIn is working on a tool called Talent Insights to help companies make data-backed decisions [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google doodle honors Norwegian explorer and champion skier Fridtjof Nansen On his 156th birthday, Google celebrates the life and contributions of this Norwegian scientist, [...] - Search Engine Land
Facebook’s News Feed to Provide Additional Information About Article Sources To help users make informed decisions about which stories to engage with, Facebook will provide [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Wants Your SEO Questions for a Series of Q&A Videos Google is looking to revive webmaster Q&A videos, and has put out an invitation for anyone to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Amazon SEO: A guide to improving your rankings on Amazon If you are looking for a launching pad for your products that your target audience likes and finds [...] - Search Engine Watch
Giphy CEO: We Own Happy Birthday On Google. Next Day They Get Hit A Fast Company story on October 3rd profiling Giphy, the popular GIF search engine, ended off with [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 9 2017

4 (not so) ordinary conversion elements you may be abusing Contributor Stoney DeGeyter argues that you should optimize with an eye toward conversions and let [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Algorithm & Ranking Update : October 7th - 9th Looks like we had a Google algorithm update over the weekend, starting probably late Friday... - Search Engine Roundtable
Submit your SEO questions to Google for upcoming short Q&A videos Google hasn't produced short-form SEO video answers for three years, but now they're looking to [...] - Search Engine Land
Answer engine JustAnswer now uses bots to route questions to human experts The use of bots to qualify questions or leads, which are then handed off to experts or reps, may be [...] - Search Engine Land
Danny Sullivan Joins Google Today: Will It Help The Search Community? While I was offline, my search mentor, Danny Sullivan announced he has accepted a job offer to work [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Can Now Spend Twice Your Daily Budget Google announced on Google+ that they can now automatically spend twice your average daily budget [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Short Webmaster/SEO Question & Answer Videos Matt Cutts, when at Google, provided these short videos answering one of questions around SEO [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Redesigning Flight Search Ads Pete Meyers posted on Twitter that Google has a new look for the flight search ads results. So I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Find more of your “star” customers with Universal App Campaigns We recently announced that we'll be moving all AdWords app install campaigns to Universal App [...] - Inside Adwords

October, 6 2017

Danny Sullivan joins Google, leaves advisor role at Third Door Media Search industry veteran journalist begins new role at Alphabet's core business division on Monday - Search Engine Land
Local SEO: 7 Google My Business questions asked and answered At first glance, Google's offering for local businesses might appear fairly simple. But questions [...] - Search Engine Land
AdWords Scripts now available in new AdWords interface AdWords Scripts have received some new capabilities in the new AdWords interface. Contributor [...] - Search Engine Land
5 ways to capitalize on Google Tag Manager If you haven't taken advantage of Google Tag Manager, now may be the time to get started. Columnist [...] - Search Engine Land
Google extends olive branch to publishers, lays out new focus on subscriptions The corporate-level commitment to subscription programs comes as executives acknowledge the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google extends olive branch to publishers, lays out new focus on subscriptions The corporate-level commitment to subscription programs comes as executives acknowledge the [...] - Search Engine Land
Local SEO: 7 Google My Business questions asked and answered At first glance, Google's offering for local businesses might appear fairly simple. But questions [...] - Search Engine Land
5 ways to capitalize on Google Tag Manager If you haven't taken advantage of Google Tag Manager, now may be the time to get started. Columnist [...] - Search Engine Land
Danny Sullivan joins Google, leaves advisor role at Third Door Media Search industry veteran journalist begins new role at Alphabet's core business division on October 9 - Search Engine Land
AdWords Scripts now available in new AdWords interface AdWords Scripts have received some new capabilities in the new AdWords interface. Contributor [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Adds Audience Reviews to Movie & TV Show Knowledge Panels Google has made another new addition to the knowledge panels displayed for television shows and [...] - The SEM Post
The High Five: what people are searching this week Here are a few of the week’s top-searched trends, with data from the Google News Lab . Las [...] - Inside Search
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 6, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Even More Really Big Google Chairs - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Crawl Stats Report Includes HTML, Images, PDFs & Even AdBot Crawler Mihai Aperghis asked Google's John Mueller about the Google Search Console crawl stats report [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Grammar Does Not Impact SEO & Search Rankings Just in case you were worried about how well or poorly this site might rank because of the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Says They Are Not Done Announcing Future Algorithms For about almost 14 years now, I've been reported on Google algorithm updates. We've been through [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ignores Symbols For Rankings John Mueller of Google said that Google, for ranking and SEO purposes, ignores all symbols - [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Flexible Sampling, Mobile First Index Tests & Bing On Links This week in search I cover the big monthly Google webmaster report. Google has dropped the first [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 5 2017

Audiences to employ for extra online marketing bang! Which audience lists are you using to amplify your paid search efforts? Columnist Mona Elesseily [...] - Search Engine Land
Google announces AdWords daily budgets can overspend by 2x, automatically While advertisers won't be on the hook for overages, the real question is why are daily budgets [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Not Demoting Importance Of Links For Search Rankings The other day... - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Chases Inspiration with photographer Devesh Tripathi At Bing, we get inspired by people accomplishing great things with our intelligent search, and in [...] - Bing Search
Unwrapping the Secrets of SEO: How Google Interprets Search Queries Almost every search term is an implicit or explicit question. With voice search and mobile [...] - Searchmetrics
Clouds Hanging Inside The Google Office - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google My Business Go-To Guides Google's Marissa Nordahl from the Google My Business team announced in the Google My Business Help [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: No Limit On Hreflang Attributes; Consider Using Sitemaps Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that technically there is no limit to the number of hreflang [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google May Message Webmasters With Mobile First Indexing Issues So we know Google is testing that mobile first index and that the rollout will be done in batches [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Doubles AdWords Budgets and Advertisers are Unhappy Google made a significant change to how AdWords budgets can be used, and advertisers are not the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Are Home Service Ads the death of home-based businesses on Google? Google is expanding their Home Service Ads across more and more cities in the US, and some [...] - Search Engine Land
Use Sitemaps for Sites With Many Hreflang Annotations If you have a large international site that has many hreflang annotations on each page, you might [...] - The SEM Post
Visually understanding your site structure and external link weight impact Looking for insights not easily gleaned through spreadsheets and raw data? Columnist Dave Davies [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 5, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 4 2017

Google test surfaces user data for publishers as part of new Insights Engine Project Several new initiatives are aimed at bringing machine learning into publisher products and offering [...] - Search Engine Land
Google testing blue ‘instant’ AMP label in the search results Google tries going blue with the AMP label, testing the word "instant" over [...] - Search Engine Land
Turn Instagram Posts Into Sales With Shopify Integration Shopify is rolling out its “Shopping on Instagram” feature to thousands more merchants, [...] - Search Engine Journal
Can Google Express help traditional retail level the playing field with Amazon? The enemy of my enemy is my friend for Google and major retail partners. - Search Engine Land
Will chatbots become part of the consumer search experience? Recently, Bing has been experimenting with a chatbot feature directly in search results. Columnist [...] - Search Engine Land
2017 growth hacks: Increase CTR by monitoring competitive offers Are you showcasing your offers in your paid search and shopping ads? Columnist Lori Weiman explains [...] - Search Engine Land
Instagram Stories Can Now Have Interactive Polls Instagram has added a new feature which will let users ask questions and have their audience vote [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Testing Mobile First Index In The Wild Google's John Mueller confirmed yesterday in a hangout at the 15:38 mark that Google is indeed [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Got AMP & Desktop But No Mobile Page? Google Will Index The Desktop Page. Gary Illyes may have been misunderstood or may have misspoke at the Brighton SEO conference a few [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Blue Instant AMP Label In Search Google is testing a new look for the AMP label in the search results. Instead of the typical gray [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Green Spikey Bamboo Chairs - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Another Variation Of Topics Refinements Google is testing another user interface for the topics refinements we saw them testing a few [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Programming Note: Offline For Sukkot I will be offline completely for the holiday of Sukkot/Succos on October 5th and October 6th and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Testing “Instant” Tag for AMP in Search Results Google is testing a new way to let searchers know that AMP results shown are much faster than a [...] - The SEM Post
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 4, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 3 2017

14 ways to get smarter with your content and SEO Contributor Jim Yu uses the SMART framework to prescribe a formula for SEO and content marketing [...] - Search Engine Land
Google releases a variety of Accelerated Mobile Pages Project (AMP) updates: scrolling animations, video analytics, fluid ad support The scope and feature list of the open-source project continue to expand. - Search Engine Land
Google Will Soon Let Anyone Add to Street View Google is going to make it possible for anyone to add to street view with the right hardware. - Search Engine Journal
Word association: Here’s a script for analyzing the phrases that associate with your terms Ever spent hours and days trawling through an AdWords account in an effort to unearth actionable [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Sitelinks Search Box Is Back Last week we reported that the Google sitelinks search box disappeared - well... - Search Engine Roundtable
October 2017 Google Webmaster Report This past month was filled with many many Google algorithm shifts, ranking changes, tools going [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Autocomplete Showing 10 Suggestions Again In July, Google dropped Google Instant Search and with that, the autocomplete suggestions scaled [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 2 2017

Moving to HTTPS? Don’t miss this unique opportunity! Google recently announced that forms on web pages over HTTP will be marked as 'not secure' in [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: First Click Free is over, being replaced by ‘flexible sampling’ Google is rolling out a suite of tools to help news publishers drive more subscription revenue. - Search Engine Land
Google adds structured data for subscription & paywalled content for new flexible sampling program Excited for the new flexible sampling program for Google web search and Google News? Well, make [...] - Search Engine Land
Google is Ending First Click Free, What Does it Mean for Publishers? Google is removing a controversial search feature called First Click Free, which let users view [...] - Search Engine Journal
Enabling more high quality content for users In Google’s mission to organize the world's information, we want to guide Google users to [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google: No Changes On Use Of Image Meta Data In Search Back in 2014, Matt Cutts formerly of Google talked about meta data in images and basically said [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Restricts Addiction Rehab Ads Over Abuse Looking for Google AdWords ads around some of the more popular drug addiction rehabilitation [...] - Search Engine Roundtable