Archive of January, 2018

January, 31 2018

Google’s Page Speed Update does not impact indexing In response to questions raised in the community, here's clarification about how indexing is [...] - Search Engine Land
Facebook Bans All Ads for Cryptocurrency Facebook has created a new policy which effectively bans ads for cryptocurrency, as well as other [...] - Search Engine Journal
3 ways humans can do PPC better than machines alone Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic in PPC, but until the machines fully take over day-to-day [...] - Search Engine Land
Instagram Posts Can Now Be Scheduled in Advance Instagram is finally introducing a way for users to schedule posts in advance, but there’s a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Fact Checking Google’s Reintroduction to Featured Snippets Danny Sullivan's article about Featured snippets offers helpful information. But it's what he left [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google EU shopping rivals complain antitrust remedies aren’t working They're demanding more changes, saying their problems have intensified rather than improved since [...] - Search Engine Land
The future of visual search and what it means for SEO companies Thanks to the vast resources at the disposal of companies like Google, visual search is finally [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Flights to Find Cheaper Fares, Give Reason for Delays Google announced three updates to Google Flights that are all centered around keeping searchers [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Gives Details On Featured Snippets & What New Snippets May Come Google's featured snippets have been one of those areas in search that Google has been investing a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 30 2018

A reintroduction to Google’s featured snippets Sometimes when you do a search, you’ll find that there’s a descriptive box at the top [...] - Inside Search
Google publishes comprehensive guide to featured snippets Learn more about how Google’s featured work, the variations and some of the challenges Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Channel your inner explorer to find link-building prospects Columnist Julie Joyce shares tips and tricks for finding link-building prospects - Search Engine Land
Google Explains Why the New Search Console Has Missing Data A recently published Google help document explains why reports are messing in the new Search Console - Search Engine Journal
What to get right before launching a global business Columnist Thomas Stern shares how taking care of business at home helps ensure global success. - Search Engine Land
How to use brand mentions for SEO, or the linkless future of link building Google has used links to determine the authority of websites since its early days: the idea of [...] - Search Engine Land
Facebook’s Local Feed Update – Not Just for News Sites! Facebook's local feed update has erroneously been reported to favor local news sites. Facebook [...] - Search Engine Journal
Post Hyperlocal News Stories to Google With New ‘Bulletin’ App Google is in the initial testing stages of a new app called Bulletin, which allows users to publish [...] - Search Engine Journal

January, 29 2018

Publishers turn to ads, search following Facebook’s News Feed change Media companies are turning to paid distribution and other platforms to insure them against [...] - Search Engine Land
Are you getting credit for all of your organic visits from GMB? Getting credit for all of your Google My Business clicks can be a challenge. Contributor Greg [...] - Search Engine Land
Facebook Announces Plan to Allow Content Creators to Beg for Donations Facebook announces Gaming Creator Pilot Program, a new program to support the live streaming of [...] - Search Engine Journal
Tell Google which report you are really missing in new Google Search Console A new button in the beta Search Console explains why all of the old reports have not been migrated [...] - Search Engine Land
Merkle Q4 2017: Search ad click growth fell, ad spend rose 23% across Google, Bing, Yahoo Bing and Yahoo saw search ad spend jump 32 percent over prior year in Q4 among Merkle's client [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s Mobile Location History If you use Google Maps to navigate from place to place, or if you have agreed to be a local guide [...] - SEO by the Sea
Google Won't Tell You Who Jesus or Muhammad Are Out Of Respect Before the weekend the internet began questioning why Google Home, Google Assistant or Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Bulletin - Testing Hyper Local Stories & News Hyper local news and stories is nothing new, there have been many platforms that tried it out or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Adds Tips to Definition Boxes in Search Results If you search for a word that is spelled similarly to another word that a searcher might confuse it [...] - The SEM Post
Google Shopping: Is the Revamped Comparison Service Fairer to Competitors? In September 2017, Google responded to the European Commission’s allegations of market [...] - Searchmetrics
New Googlers Still Get Pinwheels - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests White Local Knowledge Panel Design Google is testing yet another variation of the local knowledge panel, this one is making the blue [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Simon Heseltine - 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
Google Search Console Team Wants To Know Which Reports You Are Missing Most We have been covering the Google Search Console a lot since the roll out of the new beta version. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Search Liaison Twitter Account From Danny Sullivan Danny Sullivan, now at Google, is Google's Search Liaison and has created a new Twitter account [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 26 2018

Analyst firm: Google Home gains ground on Amazon Echo, now 44M total devices sold A new survey from CIRP argues that Google Home captured about 40 percent of holiday sales. - Search Engine Land
Insights from our 2017 holiday retail survey Retail marketers weighed in on what they did differently this holiday season. - Search Engine Land
Survey: People becoming less inhibited about using voice search in public Texting is the most common use case for voice, and men use voice search more than women, according [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Bulletin: Hyperlocal news, Nextdoor comptetitor or both? Google has already proven it can crowdsource local content at scale through its Local Guides [...] - Search Engine Land
Wilder Penfield Google doodle spotlights neurosurgeon once considered the ‘Greatest Living Canadian’ Penfield's research in brain mapping led to groundbreaking advancements in the treatment of [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AdWords Adds Remarketing Ad Settings & Mute Ads Additions Google announced they are adding two new features to help searchers and users see less ads they [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
David Harry - 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
Google: Vacation Rental Test Does Not Change Google My Business Guidelines Several months ago, we covered how Google was testing vacation rentals in the Google Maps and local [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's Brain Surgery & Neurology Doodle For Wilder Penfield Today on Google's home page is a special brain Google Doodle for the 127th birthday of the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Big Swing Hammock - Search Engine Roundtable
The High Five: what’s cooking in Search this week This week, fans of NBC’s “This is Us” were fired up about a plotline involving [...] - Inside Search
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Console Live, SEO & Google Fight & New AdWords & AdSense Features This week in search, we reported that the Google Search Console beta is now live for everyone. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 26, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 25 2018

Google Questions and Answers: Everything you need to know Looking to take advantage of this new Google My Business feature? Columnist Joy Hawkins explains [...] - Search Engine Land
How Hackers are Hiding Content & Links via PNG Files For nearly 7 years (of my 19 year SEO career) I did “forensic SEO”. From dealing with [...] - The SEM Post
Pummeling users with Google remarketing ads they don’t want to see? Now they can mute those, too Google announced more options for users to control the kinds of ads they see. - Search Engine Land
Instagram Stories Can Now Include GIFs Instagram is making its stories feature even more animated with a new GIF option. - Search Engine Journal
Marin: Search CPCs outpaced spend growth in Q4 2017 Mobile search click costs increased by 25 percent year over year, according to Marin Software's Q4 [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console’s remove URL report might not work for a short period of time Trying to use the Google removal tool URL report? Be aware that Google is upgrading the report and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Lets Users Mute Repetitive Remarketing Ads Google has updated its ads settings to let users mute ads they’ve seen too many times. - Search Engine Journal
Virginia Woolf Google doodle honors iconic author of classics ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ & ‘A Room of One’s Own’ Today's doodle was created by the London-based artist Louise Pomeroy. - Search Engine Land
Google: Translate Your Image Alt Tags As Well Google's John Mueller said that having different languages on the same page "makes it harder [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Don't Use GPS Coordinates Schema In Search Google's John Mueller said in a video hangout a day or so ago that Google doesn't use the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Remove URLs Report In Google Search Console Under Maintenance The remove URL tool report in Google Search Console "might not be available for a short [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Who were the “winners” and “losers” of organic search in 2017? Earlier this week, Searchmetrics published its fourth annual Winners and Losers Report, which [...] - Search Engine Watch
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 25, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 24 2018

Google on Structured Data for Local SEO Google's John Mueller offers a surprising answer to a Webmaster Hangout question about whether a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google dropping Merchant Center feed integrations with BigCommerce, Magento, PrestaShop Google's direct upload support to end March 20, 2018. - Search Engine Land
DuckDuckGo Brings Private Search to Mobile App & Browser Extension DuckDuckGo is bringing its privacy-focused search capabilities to its mobile app, giving users the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Use of Voice Search in Public On the Rise, According to 2018 Study A recent study from Stone Temple shows that people are becoming increasingly more comfortable with [...] - Search Engine Journal
Apple says HomePod is finally coming on February 9, but can it compete? Apple also said that Siri is now used on more than 500 million devices. - Search Engine Land
Why should marketers care about transparency in paid media? The budgets, metrics and processes that surround paid media campaigns are shrouded in obscurity, [...] - Search Engine Watch

January, 23 2018

Searchmetrics wins important victory in patent infringement lawsuit Federal judge invalidates five patents SEO platform provider Brightedge claimed in lawsuit against [...] - Search Engine Land
Will AMP improve your rankings? How to set up an AMP test Wondering if AMP is worth the investment? Columnist Stephanie LeVonne walks through how to set up a [...] - Search Engine Land
How AI can uncover new insights and drive SEO performance Columnist Jim Yu believes that by incorporating the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and deep [...] - Search Engine Land
2018 State of Social Report – Success with Live Video Buffer's State of Social 2018 report shows growth in live videos as a social marketing tool. Read [...] - Search Engine Journal
Akvile DeFazio - 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
Google's John Mueller Detailed SEO Advice To Webmaster Who Merged Four Sites John Mueller of Google is always super active in the forums, on Twitter and in many other areas [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
You Gave Google 30 Million Selfies With The Google Arts & Culture App Everyone over the past week or so has been talking about the selfie feature in the Google Arts [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 22 2018

3 SEO tasks to start 2018 off with a bang Wondering where to focus your efforts this year in order to gain an edge over your competitors? [...] - Search Engine Land
New Google Search Console now live for everyone Go check your Google Search Console now. You probably have access to the long-awaited beta version. - Search Engine Land
Google Adds ‘Similar Sounding Words’ to Dictionary Search Cards Google has quietly rolled out a new addition to dictionary cards in search results. - Search Engine Journal
Sergei Eisenstein Google doodle honors Soviet film director known as the ‘Father of Montage’ Eisenstein's technique of editing film to create fast-paced sequences made him a cinema legend. - Search Engine Land
It’s here! ‘Enterprise SEO Platforms: A Marketer’s Guide’ is all new for 2018. MarTech Today’s “Enterprise SEO Platforms: A Marketer’s Guide” has been [...] - Search Engine Land
Does Google Use Latent Semantic Indexing? There was a park in the town in Virginia where I used to live that had been a railroad track that [...] - SEO by the Sea
Google My Business Videos Uploads Fixed & Instantaneous Over a week ago, Google enabled the ability to upload videos to local listings within Google My [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
It’s 2018. Are your Google Shopping campaigns ready? What a year 2017 was for Google Shopping, right? The real question is, though: How did your [...] - Search Engine Land
Bruce Clay - 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
Sergei Eisenstein, Father Of The Montage, Gets A Google Doodle Today on Google's home page globally is a special Google logo, aka a Doodle, for the father of the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Wall Of Bowling Balls - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Shows Pride Flag For 7 Deadly Sins Search Query Go to Google and search for [7 deadly sins], Google will show you there fancy featured snippet [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Sub Carousels In People Also Search For We have seen many many variations of the [people also search for] feature in Google for several [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 20 2018

Google Targeted Advertising, Part 1 One of the inventors of the newly granted patent I am writing about was behind one of the most [...] - SEO by the Sea

January, 19 2018

The unique selling proposition: A key element for SEO success Columnist Fili Weiss explains what a unique sales proposition (USP) is and why every indexable page [...] - Search Engine Land
Website redesigns: How to retain and improve your SEO Columnist Marcus Miller explains how to make the most of your website redesign so that you not only [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AdWords App Lets Users Add Keywords On the Go An update to the Google AdWords app lets advertisers add, remove, and edit keywords from their [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Implements Stricter Criteria for YouTube Monetization Google is implementing stricter criteria for YouTube users to meet before they’re eligible to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Get 2018 started with an updated multi-channel digital marketing strategy Reaching new customers has become significantly more complex. With new platforms and channels still [...] - Search Engine Watch
Danny Goodwin - 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
Google AdWords App Now Lets You Add/Edit/Delete Keywords Google announced on Google+ and Twitter that now you can add... - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Speed Update, Algorithm Shifts, Search Console Invites & AdSense Earnings This week in search, Google announced an update named the Google Speed Update designed to downgrade [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Big Stuffed Teddy Bears At Google Office - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Light Blue Links Again To Match Mobile Link Color Google is once again testing the light blue link color for the snippet links in the search results. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Website (That No One Uses) Now Shows Google Posts Remember Google launched their third attempt at offering small businesses an easy way to build a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Searches up: Beach Boy gets the grade and other trends from this week Wouldn’t It Be Nice to get an A? Don’t Worry Baby, you’ll always have a chance to [...] - Inside Search
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 19, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 18 2018

Google Speed Update: Google Algorithm Designed To Downgrade Slow Mobile Pages Google announced yesterday a new ranking algorithm designed specifically to downgrade the search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
YouTube sets stricter rules on videos that can carry ads Advertiser brand safety concerns are driving more changes at YouTube. - Search Engine Land
What’s next for technical SEO? As web technologies continue to grow and evolve, interest in technical SEO is growing along with [...] - Search Engine Land
Study: 80% of Google Home results come from snippets But they aren't always the source of answers for Google Home. - Search Engine Land
Google adds keyword functionality to the AdWords app Advertisers can make more on-the-go changes. - Search Engine Land
Survey of 1,000 Small Businesses Reveals Surprising Digital Marketing Trend U.S. Chamber of Commerce survey of 1,000 small businesses reveals surprising Internet marketing [...] - Search Engine Journal
3 AdWords features you’re probably underutilizing Columnist Brett Middleton explores three commonly underused AdWords features that can have a big [...] - Search Engine Land
Google My Business videos not showing up on your local listing? It’s a Google bug No, you probably did not upload your videos incorrectly to Google My Business. Google confirmed a [...] - Search Engine Land
10 Google updates you may have missed Google rarely stands still. In fact, the search giant claims to tweak its search algorithms at [...] - Search Engine Watch
Dawn Anderson - 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
Another Google Expandable Sitelinks Format We've seen many flavors of sitelinks from Google including flavors of expandable sitelinks. Well, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
GoogleBot Grows Taller: Reaches 12,140 Pixels High On Mobile & 9,307 Pixels High On Desktop In August, we reported that Google via the fetch and render tool, can crawl pages with a rendering [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s Mobile Page Speed Update: Everything SEOs Need to Know Google has officially announced that mobile page speed will be a ranking factor. The new [...] - The SEM Post
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 18, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 17 2018

Using page speed in mobile search ranking People want to be able to find answers to their questions as fast as possible — studies [...] - Google Webmaster Central
The Google Speed Update: Page speed will become a ranking factor in mobile search Starting in July 2018, Google will finally use mobile page speed as a ranking in their mobile [...] - Search Engine Land
Google to Use Page Speed as Ranking Signal in Mobile Search Google has announced that, starting July 2018, page speed will become a ranking factor in mobile [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bizarre review schema implementation spotlights gaps between Google’s guidelines & how rich results really work Google has made its review markup guidelines fairly clear and has even issued penalties to sites [...] - Search Engine Land
FAQs on new Google Speed Update: AMP pages, Search Console notifications & desktop only pages A page with AMP but a slow canonical URL will not be impacted by this update, assuming the AMP URL [...] - Search Engine Land
Facebook kills off news: Publishers panic, try to remember how to do SEO On Thursday 11th January, Facebook announced a major change to News Feed that would severely impact [...] - Search Engine Watch
Survey: Smart speaker ownership steals time from smartphones, TV, radio The study suggests there are about 40 million devices in US homes today. - Search Engine Land

January, 16 2018

A New Approach to YouTube Monetization There’s no denying 2017 was a difficult year, with several issues affecting our community and [...] - Inside Adwords
3 ways to kick-start your SEO in 2018 The new year is a great time to take a step back and review your campaigns to see where you can [...] - Search Engine Land
Is Facebook’s New Direction Advertiser Friendly? Facebook changes direction to focus on music content. Will this prove to be more advertiser [...] - Search Engine Journal
Possible Google Algorithm Update January 15th I am starting to see some early chatter within the webmaster and SEO community around a Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Katy Jurado Google doodle marks 94th birthday of film star from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, Jurado won a Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe Award for her role [...] - Search Engine Land

January, 15 2018

Understanding AdWords keyword match types for manufacturers With much of AdWords' help documentation geared towards retailers, it can be confusing for [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Adds AMP Testing Tool to Search Results Google has released its most significant update to the AMP testing tool since 2016. - Search Engine Journal
Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2018 Google doodle honors Dr. King & his dream for a better world The image was designed by guest artist Cannaday Chapman and created in collaboration with the Black [...] - Search Engine Land
Google to fix reverse image search bug "Pages that include matching images" section is not showing image thumbnails as it should. - Search Engine Land
Google Confirms AdSense Earnings Drops, Blames Issue To Crawler Access & Other Changes We have been reporting on the ongoing issues of AdSense publishers complaining about drops in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
High-level search marketing: How to keep your momentum from the holiday season going Businesses tend to have a huge marketing push right before, and often during, the holidays, but [...] - Search Engine Watch
Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2018 With A Google Logo & Bing Theme Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the day America honors the American Baptist minister and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Working On Cryptography? Make Payments Great Again Hat - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Reverse Image Search Matching Images Bug To Be Fixed Last week we reported on a possible bug or change with reverse image search in Google. Well, it is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Larry Markovitz - 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
Google My Business Videos Now Live About 10 days ago we reported some businesses and merchants were seeing video upload features in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Adds “Best Answer” to the Search Results for Q&A Page Results Google has added a new feature to the search results, marking a best answer in the search results [...] - The SEM Post
Google Assistant Update: Set Your Preferred Method of Travel Google Assistant has rolled out an update that allows users to set their preferred method of travel. - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 15, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 13 2018

Zhou Youguang Google doodle honors Chinese linguist known as the ‘Father of Pinyin’ Youguang's work helped bridge multiple Chinese dialects into a written language. - Search Engine Land

January, 12 2018

Facebook Feed Changes – What Businesses Need to Do Next Facebook announced a major change to it's news feed. The update is predicted to negatively affect [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google My Business video uploads now available to business owners Videos can appear on Google Maps and local search listings. - Search Engine Land
4 reports you can pull from Ahrefs that you didn’t know existed Columnist Kevin Rowe points out some handy reports available in Ahrefs for helping to inform your [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Offers Image Search Indexing Tips Google's John Mueller offers clues on how Google indexes images for Google Image Search. How those [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google My Business Now Lets Users Upload Videos Google My Business is bringing videos to the dashboard, allowing businesses to upload videos, and [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Image Search Does Not Index Images From CSS Google's John Mueller said this morning in a webmaster hangout at the 20:55 mark that Google Image [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Facebook Will Show Less Content From Publishers & Brands In News Feed I try hard not to cover Facebook or social media topics here but this is a big one, Facebook [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Google Brain Team — Looking Back on 2017 (Part 2 of 2) Posted by Jeff Dean, Google Senior Fellow, on behalf of the entire Google Brain Team The Google [...] - Google Research
How to Check Your Google Search Console Account for Beta Access If you have a long list of properties in Google Search Console and are anxiously awaiting beta [...] - The SEM Post
Google's Danny Sullivan & Search Engine Land's Michelle Robbins On A Star Trek Cruise - Search Engine Roundtable
JP Sherman - 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
Google Search Result Snippet With Embedded Image Carousel Shobhit Saxena shared with me on Twitter what may be a new feature in the Google search results - [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Is Your Site Still Not Listed In Google News After Bug? If you are not back in the Google News index, chances are, you were not removed due to this bug. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Tweaks, Search Console Rolling, Google News Delisting & Facebook News Feed This week we covered more ongoing tweaks to the Google search algorithms. We also covered the roll [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The High Five: you get a search, you get a search, everybody gets a search! Oprah’s speech had people buzzing, while Jimmy Ma spun to internet fame at the U.S. Figure [...] - Inside Search
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 12, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 11 2018

SEO trends and Google changes to expect in 2018 Columnist Pratik Dholakiya explores current search trends and speculates on where the industry [...] - Search Engine Land
The Google Brain Team — Looking Back on 2017 (Part 1 of 2) Posted by Jeff Dean, Google Senior Fellow, on behalf of the entire Google Brain Team The Google [...] - Google Research
New Google Search Console Reports Have More Filtering Options Google’s new Search Console experience has advanced filtering options that weren’t [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Voice Search Summary Algo Google Assistant uses an algorithm to summarize web pages and speak the result. Would you like to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Casie Gillette - 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
Smart speaker sales grew 103% last year The virtual assistant devices became the fastest selling consumer technology last year, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google PageSpeed Insights Now Measures Real World Speeds Google’s PageSpeed Insights tool has been upgraded to measure how fast a page performs in the [...] - Search Engine Journal
AMP URLs Will Soon Show Full Publisher Addresses AMP URLs will soon drop the ‘google.com/amp’ prefix and show the full address of the [...] - Search Engine Journal
CES 2018: Google ramps up Assistant with smart displays, native podcasts, recipes and news Amazon Echo and its voice assistant, Alexa, might be the current market leaders in voice-activated [...] - Search Engine Watch
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 11, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 10 2018

Google PageSpeed Insights now uses real data from Chrome browser users Google has revamped their pagespeed tool to give more insights into how fast their pages really [...] - Search Engine Land
YouTube SEO 101 In this comprehensive guide to YouTube SEO, columnist Stephan Spencer explains the fundamentals of [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Answers How to Optimize Content for Voice Search In a Webmaster Hangout, Google's John Mueller answers what steps publishers should take to optimize [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google is sunsetting AdWords Review extensions The text ad extension will be removed from AdWords entirely next month. - Search Engine Land
How Google Rates Voice Search Results Google has published a set of guidelines for its quality raters to follow when evaluating voice [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google PageSpeed Insights Tool Now Shows Real User Speed To Your Pages Google announced they have updated the Pagespeed Insights tool to now show real user data from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Looking back at 2018 in search: A time traveler’s year in review What does 2018 have in store for search marketers? Columnist (and time-traveler) Dave Davies pays a [...] - Search Engine Land
Real-world data in PageSpeed Insights PageSpeed Insights provides information about how well a page adheres to a set of best practices. [...] - Google Webmaster Central

January, 9 2018

5 content distribution strategies for 2018 So, you've created tons of content, but you still aren't gaining any traction. What gives? [...] - Search Engine Land
Google to Publishers: Optimize Your Content for Google Assistant Google has been sending notices to publishers with directions for how to make their content more [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google announces solution to longstanding AMP cache URL display problem Later this year, the Google AMP cache will finally display publisher URLs, instead of Google URLs [...] - Search Engine Land
Best practices for qualifying your link opportunities So, you've got a list of potential linking partners, but how do you qualify them? Columnist Ryan [...] - Search Engine Land
Facebook Implements Assigning Private Messaging to Your Team Facebook is testing a new feature that lets you assign a private message to an individual within [...] - Search Engine Journal
Har Gobind Khorana Google doodle celebrates first chemist to construct a synthetic gene Born in Raipur, Pakistan, Dr. Khorana received the Nobel Prize while doing research at the [...] - Search Engine Land
It’s Google Home vs. Amazon Alexa at CES in the battle for the voice ecosystem Google and Amazon both announce new device partnerships; the Google Assistant will be on new [...] - Search Engine Land

January, 8 2018

Introducing the new Search Console A few months ago we released a beta version of a new Search Console experience to a limited [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google to roll out new Search Console features in coming weeks After comprehensive beta user testing, Google begins release of the new Google Search Console [...] - Search Engine Land
New Google Search Console Now Available: More Data, More Features Google has announced that a beta version of the new Search Console will now be available to [...] - Search Engine Journal
What the development of visual search will mean for SEO Columnist Kristopher Jones talks visual search -- its current state, its implications for the [...] - Search Engine Land
Local Search Survey: Average Earnings & Most In-Demand Skills A recent survey of the local search industry found that SEOs earned an average of $61,711 in 2017. - Search Engine Journal
Google accidentally removes news publishers from Google News It is expected that affected publishers will be reinstated by the end of the day. - Search Engine Land
Does Structured Data Markup Indirectly Help Rankings? Google's description of how it uses structured data has changed. Here's how these changes may [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google News Removing Hundreds Of News Publishers If you check out the Google News Help forums you will see many many complaints from news publishers [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google removes addiction treatment ads from UK search results The move follows the September crackdown in the US on referral agents using AdWords. - Search Engine Land
Matt Umbro - 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
Google Search Algorithm Update Tweaks Continue Into January As you know... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Never Index All Known URLs Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that they "never index all known URLs" and calls [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Discounts Hidden Text For Search Rankings But... This morning, Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that Google discounts hidden text for search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Brain Fleece Jacket - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 5 2018

The AdWords 2x budget change: How’s it going? Search marketers weigh in on their experiences since the change took effect in October. - Search Engine Land
Google says Assistant now on more than 400 million devices Sales of Google Home smart speakers are considerably smaller. - Search Engine Land
Unusual Keywords In Google Search Analytics Reports Might Be Knowledge Graph Related Every now and then you hear complaints or questions from SEOs that the reports in the Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdSense Publishers Reporting Ads Not Displaying Again I am now seeing an uptick in complaints from Google AdSense publishers that their ads, their [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Too Many Subfolders Doesn't Hurt Your Search Rankings A webmaster asked Google if having too many subfolders on your site, in your site architecture, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Elisabeth Osmeloski - 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
Google Bathroom Doors With Android Gender Signs - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Voice Guidelines, SEO Tips & AdSense Display Issues This week I published the monthly Google webmaster report, this past December was the busiest [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 5, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New year, new searches: resolutions, "bomb cyclone" and Coachella It’s a new year, and some of this week’s trends (with data from Google News Lab ) are [...] - Inside Search

January, 4 2018

Holiday shoppers increasingly turned to Google Maps in the countdown to Christmas Day Columnist Andy Taylor from Merkle shares data on how consumers engaged with Maps and Local [...] - Search Engine Land
Google My Business dashboard showing video upload section for some business owners Some business owners can now upload videos to their local listings in their Google My Business [...] - Search Engine Land
Search marketing to enjoy ‘late-stage renaissance,’ according to analyst firm Privacy, brand safety and other factors will make paid search even more attractive to marketers [...] - Search Engine Land
Which is the best search engine for finding images? Finding the perfect image can be crucial to grabbing the audience's attention, livening up a page, [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google My Business Adds Videos For Some Businesses Colan Nielsen reports via Local Search Forums that some businesses are now seeing the option to add [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Featured Snippets Showing "According To" Above Some Results If you search Google for [top online marketers] Google will show you a featured snippet that is a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Image Search Can't Find Images From Before April 2008 So apparently if you try to filter out images in Google Image search to show images from April 2008 [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Wil Reynolds - 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
Google AdWords Social Support Team Says Expect Delayed Responses It looks like there are staff and personnel changes happening within the Google AdWords support [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 4, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 3 2018

Report: Google exploring sale of Zagat reviews Might there be an Act 3 for the venerable restaurant guide? - Search Engine Land
Danny Sullivan: I Was Not Hired By Google To Keep Quiet As you know, after Danny Sullivan retired from the search space, he was hired by Google a few [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Mobile Internal Link Structure Doesn't Have To Be The Same Google said back in June that when thinking about the mobile first index that you should try your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
January 2018 Google Webmaster Report December, normally a pretty slow month in the Google organic SEO world, at least in 2017 was super [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Pamela Lund - 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
Google: GoogleBot Doesn't Make Up URLs To Crawl & Index There is this long run theory in the SEO world that Google will sometimes make up URLs with the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 2 2018

18 link resolutions for 2018 Columnist Julie Joyce gives us her list of 18 link resolutions for a wonderful and link-worthy 2018. - Search Engine Land
Do you have a shot at ranking for that phrase? Ranking for a particular search query is no longer as simple as creating a targeted page and [...] - Search Engine Land
Report: Amazon in discussions with consumer brands about ads on Alexa CNBC report says product promotions on Alexa are already being tested. - Search Engine Land
New search quality raters guidelines for Google Assistant and voice search evaluations Google has quality raters specifically for voice search-related search results. These raters look [...] - Search Engine Land
There’s nothing stopping climate change deniers from using Google AdWords The latest case study on ways in which targeting algorithms determine the kinds of ads we see. - Search Engine Land
Artificial intelligence and machine learning: What are the opportunities for search marketers? The explosion of big data has meant that humans simply have too much data to understand and handle [...] - Search Engine Watch
Tracking Down A Google Penalty Over PBNs There is an interesting new thread at the Black Hat World forums around a site that saw its [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Assistant & Voice Search Guidelines Google has announced that they have published their Google Assistant and voice search quality [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Express Shows Massive Promotion In Search Results Ginny Marvin over at Search Engine Land captured Google testing a massive promotion for Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Ross Hudgens - 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
Googlers Dancing - Search Engine Roundtable
Yahoo Search Filled With Search Ads If you visit Yahoo and do a search at their web site, you will see that to get to the organic [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 1 2018

New Year’s Day 2018 Google doodle brings in the new year with a bright sunrise The illustrated image includes the penguins featured in all of Google's holiday doodle series back [...] - Search Engine Land
New Year's Day 2018 From Google, Bing, Dogpile & More Happy New Years Day 2018 everyone! Wishing all my readers and the expanded search community a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable