Archive of November, 2017

November, 30 2017

My 12 most important SEO metrics to monitor How do you measure success within your SEO campaigns? Columnist John Lincoln shares the key metrics [...] - Search Engine Land
Law firms spamming Google My Business: Don’t trust your money or your life to them! Many local businesses are guilty of violating Google My Business guidelines to game the system, and [...] - Search Engine Land
Understanding Bias in Peer Review Posted by Andrew Tomkins, Director of Engineering and William D. Heavlin, Statistician, Google [...] - Google Research
Alan Bleiweiss - The Search Community Honors You This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series - feel free to nominate someone over [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
LaterPay offers first paywall platform for AMP pages The German-Swiss payment infrastructure provider allows readers to maintain a running tab of [...] - Search Engine Land
Google book search now includes audiobook results Search results will show books available on audiobook apps. - Search Engine Land
Direct Link To Write A Google Local Review For Your Business Do you want to provide an easy way for your customers to quickly drop a review for your business on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Do Not Use Time To First Byte For Search Rankings Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that time to first byte, as a page speed metric, is not used [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 29 2017

Google adds a donate button directly into search for US-based nonprofits Google says it started with organizations that have opted in via its Google for Nonprofits [...] - Search Engine Land
Gertrude Jekyll Google doodle marks 174th birthday of the famous British horticulturist Google invited British artist Ben Lewis Giles to create the colorful image celebrating Jekyll. - Search Engine Land
Google’s New “Donate” Button Could be a Boon for Nonprofits Google is now letting searchers donate to nonprofit organizations directly from search results. - Search Engine Journal

November, 28 2017

Google Trends now shows data for YouTube search, Google Shopping, News search & Image search Google says it aims to open up more data to show what's being searched around the world. - Search Engine Land
The changing SERP: Understanding and adapting to dynamic search results Search results have become more personalized and dynamic over the years, creating a more [...] - Search Engine Land
Google launches new Google Finance features in search and drops the portfolio feature Check out the new Google Finance, which means many will lose the "portfolio" feature in [...] - Search Engine Land
Auction Insights 3: The final script Columnist Daniel Gilbert shares his updated Auction Insights script, which helps you keep track of [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Will Penalize Your Site For Using Event Markup Incorrectly Google has had enough of people using the event markup in a misleading way and is now sending out a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Ross Dunn - The Search Community Honors You This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series - feel free to nominate someone over [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 27 2017

Looking to get out of the SEO business? Good! The SEO industry is becoming more difficult than ever, and columnist Jeremy Knauff explains why [...] - Search Engine Land
Google to Provide More Real-time Data in Google Trends Google Trends is now going to provide even more real-time data on the popularity of search terms. - Search Engine Journal
Google showing knowledge graph data in local panels Google is merging the local panel and knowledge graph panels into one for some searches related to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google warns webmasters not to use misleading event markup Google can penalize your website if you use event markup in a misleading manner. - Search Engine Land
Google Updates Search Results With New Labels for PDFs and PPTs Google has implemented a subtle, new change to search results across mobile and desktop. - Search Engine Journal
How to hire the right SEO agency Organic search accounts for 51% of the traffic brands receive on average. To capitalize on this [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google: Your Structured Data Should Match Visible Content Google's John Mueller said that if you implement structured data on a page, that structured data [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
A reminder about “event” markup Lately we’ve been receiving feedback from users seeing non-events like coupons or vouchers [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google: Measure Page Speed To When Users Can Interact With Your Page There are a lot of tools out there that measure your page speed, numerous tools from Google and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Engineer Cites Complexities Around AI Algorithms Explaining Themselves Google has been saying for a year or so that they are moving from a mobile first world to an [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Jill Whalen - The Search Community Honors You Jill Whalen, currently 56 years old, was literally one of the pioneers in the SEO industry... - Search Engine Roundtable
Don’t forget! RSVP for the ‘SEO in 2018’ webinar. SEO is constantly changing, and what worked well last year may not work at all now. With new [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Crazy Hats Day On Friday - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 24 2017

Google: Most Websites Rank Without Any Link Building Did you know that most websites listed and ranking on Google rank without building a single [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Coming to terms with fake reviews In the same way that Google considers some forms of SEO to be unacceptable, they and other review [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Anchor Text For Internal Links Do Matter Some asked Google's John Mueller if the anchor text you use for your internal links matter for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Web Search Dashboard Now Ask You To Create Ads Sergey Alakov spotted that the Google My Business web search dashboard that launched a couple [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Pack Tests Showing Knowledge Panel Tabs Google seems to be testing merging the local pack with knowledge panel data into tabs across the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Thoughtful Google Dublin Thanksgiving Cupcakes - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 24, 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: Featured Snippets, Link Building & My Google World Is Upside Down This is the special Thanksgiving SEO video recap where I talk about the changes to the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 23 2017

Thanksgiving Google doodle turkey pardons itself & takes leave from any dinner traditions “Unlike his domesticated brethren," writes Google, "the Turkey in today’s [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Shopping Makes it Easier to Discover, Research, and Compare Products Google Shopping ads have been updated with new features that enhance the discovery, research, and [...] - Search Engine Journal
Thanksgiving 2017 Google Logo, Bing Theme & More Happy Thanksgiving everyone... - Search Engine Roundtable
Searchmetrics Fall Summit 2017 – Recap Once again, Berlin’s Kulturbrauerei (Cultural Brewery) was host to the Searchmetrics Summit, [...] - Searchmetrics

November, 22 2017

My Google World Is Upside Down: Matt Cutts Complains & Danny Sullivan As Google Spokesperson I am telling you, my Google and SEO world is literally upside down right now. So yesterday, at [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
A site migration SEO checklist: Don’t lose traffic Planning a site migration? Columnist Pratik Dholakiya's helpful guide will ensure that you cover [...] - Search Engine Land
How to keep your staging or development site out of the index You generally wouldn't want your staging site appearing in search results, so how can you prevent [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: URL Folder Structure Doesn't Need To Match Content Folder Structure Let's say you have a recipe site and you have recipes by vegetables. If you let people click from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to get the best visibility for your PPC ads in the run-up to Black Friday In the run-up to Black Friday and the holiday shopping season, retailers are competing like crazy [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google: Most Sites, Even Large Ones, Don't Use Parameter Handling In Search Console Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that most sites on the internet do not use the parameter [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
There Was Google Featured Snippets Change Up In Past 30 Days Pete Meyers from Moz was tweeting yesterday about how the featured snippets at the end of October [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Lens Rolling Out To Pixel 2 Devices Pixel 2 users will soon get the new version of Google Lens... - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 22, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Let’s talk turkey: Thanksgiving food trends Set the table and pour yourself a glass. It’s time to talk about your top Thanksgiving [...] - Inside Search

November, 21 2017

Google’s new #SmallThanks Hub automatically creates digital & printed marketing assets for SMBs Using content pulled from Google reviews, businesses with verified Google listings can create [...] - Search Engine Land
When SEO isn’t your SEO problem Even the greatest SEO strategy won't succeed if you can't implement it properly. Columnist Casie [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s all-new, quite counterintuitive guide to ad testing The days of rigid A/B testing are over. Columnist and Googler Matt Lawson talks about how to test [...] - Search Engine Land
Google home page search box now shows you recent searches by default Even former Google search executive Matt Cutts calls this new Google search behavior "super [...] - Search Engine Land
Understanding Medical Conversations Posted by Katherine Chou, Product Manager and Chung-Cheng Chiu, Software Engineer, Google Brain [...] - Google Research
Google AdWords Editor updates to support budget type option for video ads & more A couple months after adding Showcase Ads to AdWords Editor, Google has updated the program to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google beefs up mobile shopping results for the holidays, adds more product info & buying guides Google has also released search trends around Black Friday and Cyber Monday-related search queries. - Search Engine Land
Google to Go After Sites That Use AMPs as Teaser Pages A policy change will require that content on an AMP be comparable to the original content on the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Flights gets a redesign in time for the holiday season The new design for Google Flight search makes it easier to find cheaper flights, says Google. - Search Engine Land
Moving To HTTPS, Transfer Parameter Handling In Google Search Console Just a heads up, if you are migrating your site from HTTP to HTTPS and you have parameter handling [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Updates Blocked Search Results Snippet: No Information Is Available For This Page Google has updated the text they use to communicate to a searcher when the search result snippet [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Content Labels In The Search Results Snippets Earlier this month, we showed how Google was testing a new look for the PDF label in the search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Editor Version 12.2 Adds More Features Google AdWords quietly released an update to the AdWords Editor, they are now at version 12.2 which [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Holiday shoppers are in the driver’s seat — here’s what they’re looking for on Black Friday, and beyond In those spare moments between basting the turkey, assembling gingerbread houses, and planning your [...] - Inside Adwords
A Custom Google Kimono Judo Shirt - Search Engine Roundtable
Google New Design & Features For Google Flight Search Google announced on Twitter they are previewing a new design and feature set for the Google Flights [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 20 2017

Why consistent marketing can pay big results for small industrial manufacturers Sometimes the key to success in SEO and online marketing is just being consistent. In her [...] - Search Engine Land
Is the featured snippet bubble bursting? What's going on with featured snippets? Columnists Brian Patterson and Chris Long share data which [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Adds "Watch Movie" Tab To Knowledge Card Google has added a new tab to the movie knowledge panel/card for how to watch the movie. The tab [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: It Doesn't Hurt If Your Site Ranks With Its IP Address Imagine instead of seeing your web site address, i.e. domain.com listed in the Google search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: No Plan For Structured Data API Google's John Mueller said he is not aware of Google working on or having any plans on working on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google & The Trust Project: Help Identify Trustworthy News In an effort to help with weed out fake news stories and make sure their news results, and core [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 20, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's Android Candy Drone Wins Lightbulb Award - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 18 2017

Pedro Infante Google doodle marks 100th birthday of iconic Mexican singer & actor Born in Mazatlán, Mexico, Infante helped popularize mariachi music around the world. - Search Engine Land

November, 17 2017

Pretty Google Singapore Outdoor Terrace - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: It Doesn't Take Much To Outrank Low Quality Web Sites Sometimes I look at John Mueller's responses on Twitter and think, no no that is too obvious. A [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google To Penalize AMP Pages Showing Partial Teaser Content Google announced they will start taking punitive action against AMP pages that show teaser or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Gary Illyes Of Google: Larry Page Does Not Believe In Manual Actions One thing that Gary Illyes of Google said at SMX East a few weeks ago that did not drive much [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
GS1 Web Markup Has No Ranking Benefit In Google Google has said time and time again that structured data, markup, schema, etc does not help you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Update, AMP Penalties, Disavow Links, Larry Page Hates Manual Actions & Firefox This week we are tracking an ongoing Google algorithm search update that Google wonât comment [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google to Introduce 8 Trust Indicators for Publishers to Add to News Stories Continuing its effort to guide searchers toward credible content, Google has announced plans to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Where to go next with your Google My Business listing So, you've set up your Google My Business listing but still aren't seeing results. What's the next [...] - Search Engine Land
Private blog networks: A great way to get your site penalized Columnist Kevin Rowe explains what private blog networks (PBNs) are, how to identify them, and why [...] - Search Engine Land
The High Five: our searches go on, and on Turkey, “Titanic” and the pope’s new ride were on our minds this week. Here are a [...] - Inside Search
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 17, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEO + UX = Success These days, SEO best practices include consideration for the user experience (UX). Columnist Sherry [...] - Search Engine Land

November, 16 2017

Google aims to make apps for Google Assistant more functional and discoverable It also enables users to start a task on Google Home and complete it on a smartphone. - Search Engine Land
Identifying credible content online, with help from the Trust Project Every day approximately 50,000 web pages filled with information come online—ranging from the [...] - Inside Search
Chinua Achebe Google Logo For Nigerian Novelist 87th Birthday Today on Google's home page is a special Google logo, a Doodle, for the Nigerian novelist Chinua [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Wall Of Mailboxes At Google - Search Engine Roundtable
Here’s how to get executives excited about SEO As an SEO expert at your company – maybe the only SEO expert – you may find yourself [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Maps To Launch Brand New Design Google announced they have redesigned Google Maps and will be rolling it out to users over the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests New Version Of People Also Search For Box Google seems to be testing a small variation of the "people also search for" box in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Messaging Feature Now Shows Wait Times When Google My Business first launched messaging within the platform, they said they would measure [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Mozilla Drops Yahoo For Google As Default Search Provider In Firefox Three years ago, Mozilla dropped Google as the default search provider in their popular web [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google tries to bring more transparency to news content with help from The Trust Project Google will display indicators to help distinguish between quality journalism and false information [...] - Search Engine Land
Report: Smart speaker owners increasingly using them instead of typing or swiping Survey respondents also showed openness to buying assistant devices from Facebook and other [...] - Search Engine Land
Chinua Achebe Google doodle celebrates Nigerian writer & author of ‘Things Fall Apart’ Born in the Igbo town of Ogidi in southeastern Nigeria, Achebe would have been 87 years old today. - Search Engine Land
How to steal the competition’s best keywords: A 3-step guide Why invest so much into keyword research when your competitors have already done the work? [...] - Search Engine Land
Google will require AMP and canonical pages to match as of February 1, 2018 Though AMP isn't a ranking signal, non-compliant pages won't appear in Top Stories or other [...] - Search Engine Land
Engaging users through high quality AMP pages To improve our users' experience with AMP results, we are making changes to how we enforce our [...] - Google Webmaster Central
The final recrawl analysis: A powerful and important last step after implementing large-scale SEO changes You've crawled your client's site, identified the SEO issues and fixed those issues in staging. [...] - Search Engine Land
New AdWords innovations to drive better results for your business Consumers are more curious, more demanding, and more impatient than ever—and even more so [...] - Inside Adwords
Google rolls out AdWords promotion extensions, custom intent audiences & ad variations for testing The new features are all available in the new AdWords interface. - Search Engine Land
Google Maps Improves Location Discovery by Color Coding Point of Interest Google Maps will soon be rolling out an update that will improve location discovery in two distinct [...] - Search Engine Journal
Choosing an enterprise SEO platform With hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, and even millions of pages, sites, social [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 16, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 15 2017

Health Ranking Factors: 5 Winter Traffic Tips for Avoiding Website Flu It’s that time of the year, when the creepy-crawlies hit us with viruses, bugs and winter [...] - Searchmetrics
Make your site's complete jobs information accessible to job seekers In June, we announced a new experience that put the convenience of Search into the hands of job [...] - Google Webmaster Central
New tools to make your job search simpler To help the millions of people who turn to Google to start their job search, we worked with leaders [...] - Inside Search
The Old Urchin Light Up Neon Sign At Google - Search Engine Roundtable
Google News Adds New Referral Source: news.url.google.com Elena from Google posted in the Google News Help forums that they have made an adjustment to their [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console AMP Report For Content Mismatch Errors Bug Fixed Google posted on the Search Console data anomalies page that they fixed a bug with the content [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google On Disavow File: Good For Existing Or Preempting Manual Actions & If You Don't Trust Algorithms Yesterday, Google's John Mueller answered a question around Google's Gary Illyes saying you don't [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Job Search Adds Salary Ranges, Location Filters, Saving Jobs & More Google this morning announced some improvements for job search including the ability to see [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Mid-November Google Algorithm Search Ranking Update Yesterday I saw signs of a spike in webmaster and SEO chatter about ranking changes in Google. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google News adds new referral URL source that publishers should begin tracking Google tells publishers to add news.url.google.com to the Google News referral tracking sources. - Search Engine Land
Firefox Ditches Yahoo for Google as Default Search Provider Google is once again the default search provider for Firefox, marking the end of a three-year [...] - Search Engine Journal
Understanding the interplay of SEO and a 5-star reputation How do online reviews impact search visibility, and what can you do to improve your online [...] - Search Engine Land
Google adds new features to its job listings search tool released earlier this year Salary, location and application details are now included directly in job listing search results. - Search Engine Land
Google’s Job Search Will Now Estimate Salaries For All Job Positions Google is adding some requested features to its job search experience that was introduced earlier [...] - Search Engine Journal
7 Google tips to supercharge your Shopping ads Shopping ads promote your online and local inventory. Columnist and Googler Matt Lawson reveals [...] - Search Engine Land
SLING: A Natural Language Frame Semantic Parser Posted by Michael Ringgaard, Software Engineer and Rahul Gupta, Research Scientist Until [...] - Google Research
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 15, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Maps gets brighter UI, new category icons and more color-coding Changes designed to make it easier to find relevant content and destinations. - Search Engine Land

November, 14 2017

Mozilla drops Yahoo search for Google with new Firefox Quantum browser release After a three year partnership with Yahoo, Mozilla has switched their default search provider for [...] - Search Engine Land
Reviews are the Most Prominent Local SEO Ranking Factor in 2017 Reviews appear to be the most prominent ranking factor in local search, according to a recent study. - Search Engine Journal
Android Winter Ready Statue - Search Engine Roundtable
SEMrush SEO Ranking Factors 2017 Report Cites Factors Google Denies As Ranking Signals SEMrush, the popular SEO toolset company, have released their 2017 study on Google ranking factors, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Hole Punch History: Google Celebrates The 131st Anniversary Of The Hole Puncher Today on the Google home page worldwide is a special Google Doodle, logo, for the 131st anniversary [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
8 game-changing SEO trends that will dominate 2018 With over 200 factors in Google’s algorithm, SEO is a complex science. But it’s not how [...] - Search Engine Land
Editorial Reviews In Google Product Knowledge Cards Vlad Rappoport shared a screen shot on Twitter of Google now showing a spot in the product [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We're Still Making Changes To Penguin & Panda Algorithms Eric Kuan from Google on stage with Gary Illyes and Nathan Johns from Google at PubCon said that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Why Featured Snippets Rankings are Volatile If you are an SEO, chances are pretty good you have managed to score a featured snippet in the [...] - The SEM Post
Hole punch history Google doodle celebrates 131-year-old product of German engineering The doodle celebrates a tool that has remained mostly unchanged since its introduction 131 years [...] - Search Engine Land
Top 17 Organic Search Ranking Factors [STUDY] An updated study from SEMRush reveals what are said to be the top organic search ranking factors in [...] - Search Engine Journal
3 case studies of duplicate content consolidation Columnist Chris Long shares examples of how he addressed duplicate and similar website content to [...] - Search Engine Land
Voice search: Content may be king, but context is queen in the new voice-first world Yext VP of Industry Insights Duane Forrester discusses his new e-book, "How Voice Search [...] - Search Engine Land
3 strategic goals SEO consultants should fulfill Columnist Ryan Shelley discusses the three essential goals any SEO campaign must achieve: [...] - Search Engine Land
This month on Bing: holiday shopping, photo contest, new sports and weather experiences This month on Bing: holiday shopping, photo contest, new sports and weather experiences. - Bing Search
Google Manual Actions: Frequently asked questions and their answers Contributor Kaspar Syzmanski addresses some of the most commonly raised questions and issues [...] - Search Engine Land
Google updates mobile product knowledge panels to show even more info in one spot The real estate-heavy panels on mobile encompass multiple product images, more review sources, [...] - Search Engine Land
SEO in 2018: What’s hot, what’s not? Voice search. AMP pages. Gap analysis. Algorithm updates. Local SEO. SEO is constantly changing, [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 14, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
On-Device Conversational Modeling with TensorFlow Lite Posted by Sujith Ravi, Research Scientist, Google Expander Team Earlier this year, we launched [...] - Google Research
Bing launches 2017 Black Friday ads, expands list of delivery services for package-tracking search feature Bing also announced new weather and sports-related search updates and a photo contest. - Search Engine Land

November, 13 2017

CEO who forged court order to get Google to remove defamation faces prison Contributor Chris Silver Smith tells the lamentable story of a sophisticated reputation attack and [...] - Search Engine Land
3 last-minute Google Shopping tricks to level up your account for the holidays Looking for ways to make your product listing ads stand out this holiday season? Columnist Todd [...] - Search Engine Land
Missouri Attorney General initiates Google antitrust investigation Focus is on consumer data collection practices and alleged "search bias." - Search Engine Land
4 safe search engines for kids If you're a parent, teacher or child development professional looking for an age-appropriate and [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google: GoogleBot Crawls From The US But Can Crawl Locally In Your Region This is just one of those reminders that Google's spider, GoogleBot, mostly crawls from the U.S., [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Disavowing Nofollowed Links Does No Harm Technically, Google does not follow or pass any signals from a link on a page that has a nofollow [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Company Name With An Incorrect Space In Google? I have a company name that people often spell with an incorrect space because it is two different [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Home Services Ads Now Local Services Ads; Expanded Categories Google is changing the name of Google Home Services Ads to Google Home Local Services Ads. At [...] - The SEM Post
Google “User Localization Update”: The Expert View With its “User Localization Update,” local search gains increased relevance when using [...] - Searchmetrics
Googlers In Traditional Polish Dress - Search Engine Roundtable
2017 Google Local Ranking Factors SEO Study Andrew Shotland has published his 2017 local SEO ranking factors study the other day. Andrew said [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Looking To Get Out Of The SEO Business In 2018? There is an interesting thread just getting its legs in the WebmasterWorld forums around the topic [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 13, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 11 2017

Veterans Day Google doodle designed in collaboration with Google’s Veteran employee network The doodle highlights service members from each branch of the military: Marines, Coast Guard, Air [...] - Search Engine Land

November, 10 2017

Fused Video Stabilization on the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL Posted by Chia-Kai Liang, Senior Staff Software Engineer and Fuhao Shi, Android Camera Team One [...] - Google Research
Local ranking factors study finds reviews, organic SEO best practices boost local visibility This is the second year of the LocalSEOGuide ranking factors study, performed in conjunction with [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: If You Don't Have A Manual Action, You Don't Need To Submit A Disavow There is a lot of rumbling going through the SEO community around a statement Gary Illyes of Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Facebook Updates Events App With Restaurants, Bars, and More Facebook’s Events app has received a significant update, which comes with a rebranding and [...] - Search Engine Journal
SEO: Different C-Class IP Addresses "Dramatically" Helps Improve Link Value & Ranking Boost Greg Niland, aka GoodROI, who has been in the SEO community for ages, said on WebmasterWorld that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Semantic Keyword Research and Topic Models I went to the Pubcon 2017 Conference this week in Las Vegas Nevada, and gave a presentation about [...] - SEO by the Sea
Confirmed: Google Drops Addition Links & Information For Info Command A week ago we reported that the info command changed and we were unsure if it was a bug or a change [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Should Google Tell You When Your Site Is In The Mobile First Index? Wouldn't it be nice if Google communicated to you, maybe in Google Search Console, if your site has [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Adding Structured Data Helps Google Understand & Rank Webpages Better At Pubcon yesterday, Gary Illyes from Google focused quite a bit of time on structured data, [...] - The SEM Post
Android Security Android Figurine - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Adding More Structured Data Search Features to Search Results At Pubcon yesterday, Gary Illyes confirmed that Google is planning to implement more search [...] - The SEM Post
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 10, 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, News Publisher Knowledge Cards, Disavowing & WebmasterWorld This week in search, Google said stop worrying about the mobile first index, you wonât be [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The High Five: Just like the movies—breakfast at Tiffany’s and uniting with wizards Grab your holiday beverage and check out this week’s trends, with data from the Google News [...] - Inside Search

November, 9 2017

Four key holiday paid search trends to keep an eye on Columnist Andy Taylor shares data that can help predict trends in the e-commerce and retail space [...] - Search Engine Land
Google to Give Publishers Dedicated Knowledge Panels in Search Results The Knowledge Panel fills the above-the-fold section of search results with information to help [...] - Search Engine Journal
Twitter Doubles Character Limit to 280, Says Longer Tweets Drive More Engagement Twitter has officially doubled its character limit, following a short test which showed longer [...] - Search Engine Journal
Seamless Google Street View Panoramas Posted by Mike Krainin, Software Engineer and Ce Liu, Research Scientist, Machine Perception In [...] - Google Research
Google: Sites Not Ready For Mobile First Indexing Not Being Moved Yet There isn't much new yet with the mobile first index at Google outside of what I reported out of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests PDF & File Type Label In Search Results Snippets Google seems to be testing a file type label in the search results snippets. Sergio Redondo posted [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google My Business Selection Attributes For Business Descriptions Google quietly announced on the new features page that they now support what they call [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Reach more shoppers this holiday season with new innovations from Merchant Center and AdWords The “last minute” is getting later and later for holiday shoppers: with mobile [...] - Inside Adwords

November, 8 2017

Google adds new knowledge panel to provide information about news publishers In an effort to combat fake news and equip searchers with more data about news sources, Google has [...] - Search Engine Land
5 Things We Learned at the Google Webmaster Relations Pubcon Keynote Here are some of the interesting tidbits we learned from Google about disavowing links, featured [...] - Search Engine Journal
Has AI changed the SEO industry for better or worse? Columnist Jayson DeMers explores the impact of Google's shift toward machine learning and discusses [...] - Search Engine Land
Google changes info command search operator, dropping useful links The info search operator is the latest Google search feature to have changed, possibly for the [...] - Search Engine Land
Let it snow new users with Universal App campaigns This holiday season, consumers want to get exactly what they want, instantly and effortlessly. And [...] - Inside Adwords

November, 7 2017

Facebook Introduces Messenger Chat Plugin for Business Websites Facebook has revealed details about version 2.2 of its Messenger platform, which comes with a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Yelp increasingly cracking down on ‘review solicitation’ across the internet The company wants to stop the practice of asking for customer reviews on its site, and third-party [...] - Search Engine Land
Why real human users are the key to the best links for you Overthinking metrics? Julie Joyce explains why real human users are the key to modern-day link [...] - Search Engine Land
Facebook Introduces a Simple Polling Feature With Support for GIFs Facebook has rolled out a new feature to pages and profiles that will allow users to post simple [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Assistant Lets Users Subscribe to Daily Reminders Google Assistant on both iOS and Android has a new feature that lets its users subscribe to daily [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google promises to improve accuracy of tweets shown in search results After misinformation surfaced in the Google search results under the Twitter section for the Texas [...] - Search Engine Land
Google adds wait times to local results in search and maps Hate waiting for your seat in a restaurant? Now Google can tell you the current wait time before [...] - Search Engine Land
What is pad thai? Google’s animated doodle shows what’s in the dish & how to make it Inspired by a doodler's own research into the recipe, the colorful doodle offers a fanciful ride [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AdWords Lets Users Easily Control Data Sets in Data Studio Reports Users can now choose the source accounts for data they want to see in any Data Studio report. - Search Engine Journal
Google to Estimate Wait Times for Local Restaurants Soon Google will be able to estimate wait times and display them in Search and Maps in real-time. - Search Engine Journal
Google: JavaScript Links, If Found, Pass Full Link Signals Google's John Mueller replied to a question around links found in JavaScript saying that once the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 6 2017

Target the right keywords — for Google AND your clients Columnist Greg Gifford illustrates the importance of educating your clients on different types of [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Created a Search Engine for Finding 3D Objects to Use in Apps Google created a new search engine for finding 3D objects to use in apps with virtual and augmented [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google to Expand Home Service Ads to 30 US Cities by End of Year Following a successful run as a pilot program, Google says it will expand Home Services ads to more [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Maps enables creating & sharing lists on desktop version The feature, launched in February on Google Maps mobile versions, is now available on the desktop [...] - Search Engine Land
Tangent: Source-to-Source Debuggable Derivatives Posted by Alex Wiltschko, Research Scientist, Google Brain Team Tangent is a new, free, and [...] - Google Research
Google to Change How Travel Websites Access Airfare Data Google will cut off access to a feed that automates airfare data for third party search engines [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Few Strong Pages > Many Weak Ones Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that fewer strong pages is often better than having many weak [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
GoogleBot Crawls & Renders Tall, With 9000px High Viewport? I saw an interesting tweet from Google's John Mueller the other day, where he said that GoogleBot [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Product Comparison With Highlights Differences Toggle I am sure I've seen flavors of these product comparison search results in Google but the one Grant [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Library - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 3 2017

Google rolling out new curved mobile search results interface Are you seeing a new look for the Google mobile search results page? You are not alone! - Search Engine Land
Google Rolls Out a Fresh Look for Mobile Search Results Google has introduced a fresh look for mobile search results that more closely resembles the [...] - Search Engine Journal
7 tips to ramp up your holiday advertising Search marketers, are you ready for the holiday shopping season? Columnist Mona Elesseily shares [...] - Search Engine Land
US court orders Google not to comply with Canadian court’s order delisting search results The US court agreed with Google that implementation of the Canadian court's ruling would violate US [...] - Search Engine Land
How we hacked the Baidu link submission script for better indexation Baidu's Link Submission Script is a great way to help Baidu index your content, but it can create [...] - Search Engine Land
Google News to deprecate old RSS feed URLs on December 1, 2017 Do you subscribe to Google News RSS feeds? Well, you may have noticed that they appear to be [...] - Search Engine Land
November Google Algorithm Search Results Update? I am seeing signs both within the search community and from the automated tracking tools of an [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 2 2017

Do Google Posts impact ranking? A case study Columnist Joy Hawkins shares the results of a case study to see whether Google Posts can move the [...] - Search Engine Land
Creating a B2B and B2C overlap strategy How should you structure paid search accounts when your targets include both businesses and [...] - Search Engine Land
Organic Search Market Share in Retail Dominated by Macy’s, Not Amazon, in Q3 2017 Heading into the 2017 holiday season Amazon is not leading in organic search market share in the [...] - Search Engine Journal
AutoML for large scale image classification and object detection Posted by Barret Zoph, Vijay Vasudevan, Jonathon Shlens and Quoc Le, Research Scientists, Google [...] - Google Research
Yext announces conversational ‘Knowledge Assistant’ for local data management The company is also adding structured markup for events and events data syndication. - Search Engine Land
What do you need to know about Chinese search engine Sogou? A few days ago, the news emerged that Chinese search engine Sogou is aiming to raise up to $585 [...] - Search Engine Watch
Latest Innovations in TensorFlow Serving Posted by Posted by Chris Olston, Research Scientist, and Noah Fiedel, Software Engineer, [...] - Google Research
‘Tis the season to get customers back in your app This holiday season, millions of people around the world will use mobile apps to shop, travel, and [...] - Inside Adwords

November, 1 2017

The four pillars of an effective SEO strategy Search engine optimization (SEO) can be complex, but columnist Marcus Miller simplifies it by [...] - Search Engine Land
Siri, Safari and Google Search: What does it mean for marketers? Columnist Jim Yu explains how Apple's recent announcements and updates to Siri and Safari have had [...] - Search Engine Land
The SEO ‘do more with less’ cookbook How do you get the most out of your SEO program with limited resources? Columnist Bobby Lyons [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AdWords’ New Showcase Shopping Ads Can Display Collections of Products Google has rolled out a new shopping ad in AdWords just in time for the holiday season. - Search Engine Journal
Instagram’s Superzoom Could be the Next Boomerang Instagram has a new effect for videos that could end up being one of its best features since the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Yext’s Lastest Advancements Will Expand Where Business Information is Published Yext has unveiled three major advancements to its platform, powered by AI and machine learning. - Search Engine Journal