Archive of February, 2018

February, 28 2018

Google Search Update: Featured Snippets for Multi-Intent Queries Google is updating search results with a new type of featured snippet designed for queries that [...] - Search Engine Journal
Multifaceted featured snippets begin rolling out in Google search results Google updates the search results features with an expanded featured snippet targeting broad, [...] - Search Engine Land
Study: 11 voice search ranking factors analyzed Some of the findings confirm and some upend conventional wisdom. - Search Engine Land
Providing more comprehensive results to your questions in Search Many of us come to Search with questions about intricate topics. When we ask about “heat from [...] - Inside Search
BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti Discusses Success on Social Media BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti shares insights on finding success with social media and explains why [...] - Search Engine Journal
Mystified by martech? Introducing the ClickZ Buyers Guide series Search Engine Watch sister site ClickZ has just launched the first report in its new series of [...] - Search Engine Watch
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 28, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Michael Martinez - 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
Dog Racing At Google Italy - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's How Search Works Portal Available In 40 Languages Google's Search Liaison account on Twitter announced they have translated the how search works [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Rand Fishkin Has Now Left Moz, Starts SparkToro We knew this day was coming, he announced he was leaving the company he founded with his mother and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google To Clarify How To Make Lazy Loading Images & Content SEO Friendly Google has said before that they can't see lazy loaded content on mobile but said it is a tricky [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Fetch As Google Tool Renders Hash Bang URLs In 2014, Google's Fetch as Google, the fetch and fender tool in the Google Search Console stopped [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 27 2018

An easy way to see if Google thinks your webpages are keyword relevant Contributor Eric Enge shows us how to determine if a webpage is relevant for the keywords it [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Mobile Speed Scorecard: Compare Your Speed Against Other Sites Google has introduced two new tools aimed at helping webmasters make their sites faster— the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Word Coach, a fun word game in the search results Google added a new feature to help non-English speakers expand their English-language vocabulary. - Search Engine Land
Can you predict what the future holds for your inbound links? Gazing into her crystal link building ball, columnist Julie Joyce says it's hard to tell if your [...] - Search Engine Land
German court: Google has no ‘duty to inspect’ websites for illegal content before displaying The court held that Google can't be held liable before being notified of a 'clearly recognizable [...] - Search Engine Land
Law and reputation firms generate 21% of Right to Be Forgotten delistings, says Google New report from Google digs into three years' worth of data on removal requests and exposes the [...] - Search Engine Land
Analysis of 50 Retailers Reveals 10 Ways to Beat Big Brands Why big brands are losing customers and 10 ways to beat those brands by taking advantage of [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google AdWords Speed Scorecard Estimates Revenue Impact Of Speed Yesterday Google announced their Speed Scorecard, a tool for website owners to measure the impact [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's Noogler Handbook - Search Engine Roundtable
Linda Buquet - 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 Posts Note Of Crawl Stats Report Bug Last week we reported that the crawl stats report seemed to be buggy. Well, Google confirmed the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Word Coach: Does It Help Users Expand Their English Or Google Get Smarter? Almost a week ago... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Third-Party Shopping Engines In Carousel In EU Again Last week we spotted a different interface test for showing third-party shopping search engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
PSA: Google Mobile First Index Will Crawl Desktop Sites As you know, the mobile first index is getting ready to expand in the upcoming weeks and some [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 27, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 26 2018

Google releases Mobile Scorecard & Impact Calculator tools to illustrate importance of mobile page speed One tools shows how a site stacks up against the competition on mobile. The other aims to drive [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Confirms “Edge Cases” When Content Theft Can Cause Negative Effects Google's John Mueller confirmed that there are "edge cases" in which stolen content may [...] - Search Engine Journal
6 smart e-commerce lessons to boost local business With more and more people window shopping on a small screen, contributor Wesley Young shares six [...] - Search Engine Land
Google confirms bug with crawl stats in ‘time spent downloading a page’ Search Console report No need to worry, the Google Search Console crawl stats drop last week was indeed a bug. - Search Engine Land
Keeping your edge sharp with AdWords These are days of plenty for advertisers, with Google rolling out a new AdWords interface, AMP for [...] - Search Engine Land
In response to EU antitrust ruling, Google Shopping now shows ads from competing shopping engines Comparison Shopping Engines are competing with Google for visibility in Google Shopping in the EU. - Search Engine Land
Introducing the mobile Speed Scorecard and Impact Calculator Consumers’ expectations for faster and better digital experiences are on the rise. The mobile [...] - Inside Adwords
Memo to the Modern Marketer: How to Conduct a Content Audit in Five Easy Steps Just as every website needs a redesign over time to look fresh and new, a marketer’s content [...] - Searchmetrics
Dan Shure - 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
Inside The Google Dublin Sky Bridge At Night - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Not Indexing URLs In Your Sitemap? New Sitemaps Won't Help If you have issues with Google indexing specific URLs on your site, Google says putting those URLs [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Caught Selling Bump Stocks Via Google Shopping There has recently been a lot of talk around bump stocks since the Florida shooting, and even well [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Message: Fix Long Page Titles Casey Markee shared a screen shot of his inbox showing how he had repeated notifications from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Keyword Planner Tool Redesigned Over the last week or so, I received many tweets from folks in the industry about a new design [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Link Wheels & Web 2.0 Google Tricks Probably Don't Work John Mueller from Google told one SEO on a Reddit thread that using "web 2.0 tricks" or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 25 2018

Winter Olympics Day 17 Google doodle marks the end of the 2018 games Google has posted a new doodle every day for its Winter Olympics series. - Search Engine Land

February, 23 2018

Facebook Makes its Ad Metrics Easier to Understand Facebook is making its ad metrics clearer by introducing new labels that show how they are [...] - Search Engine Journal
Twitter Will Stop Supporting its Mac App in March 2018 Twitter will soon drop support for its Twitter for Mac desktop app, suggesting Mac users should use [...] - Search Engine Journal
Max Prin - 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 Logo Baked Into Foosball Table - Search Engine Roundtable
Bug? Google Search Console Time Spent Downloading A Page Metric Drops. If you login to your Google Search Console account, click on the "Crawl Stats" section [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Schema & Structured Data Is Here For The Long Run If you follow this site, you will see there is a theme with Google - that theme is that they keep [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Lets You Filter By Differences A new feature added to the new Google Search Console is the ability to filter your performance [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Defends False, Offensive & Fake Search Suggestions As People's Real Searches A couple of days ago, Danny Sullivan, who is now tasked with defending Google, or as he likes to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Notice: Blog Commenting & Twitter Post Changes This is a notice sort of blog post about some changes that have happened regarding commenting on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Assistant to get multiple new languages, distribution and skills The Assistant will soon speak 30 languages and be able to offer mobile carrier customer support. - Search Engine Land
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Ranking Update, Mobile First Index Expands, News Meta Keyword Gone & More This week, we reported about a possible Google algorithm and ranking update in search. Google said [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search outpaced social for referral traffic last year, driving 35% of site visits vs social’s 26% share of visits According to a new referral traffic report from Shareaholic, 2017 was the first time since 2014 [...] - Search Engine Land
Pricesearcher: The biggest search engine you’ve never heard of If you ask Siri to tell you the cost of an iPad near you, she won’t be able to provide you [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google: Structured Data Should Be Unique to Each Page Google’s John Mueller says to avoid copying the same structured data onto multiple pages of a [...] - Search Engine Journal
A Summary of the Google Zürich Algorithms & Optimization Workshop Posted by Silvio Lattanzi, Research Scientist, Google Zürich and Vahab Mirrokni, Research [...] - Google Research
Google Assistant Updated With Routines and Location-based Reminders Google has announced plans update Google Assistant with two new features, more languages, and [...] - Search Engine Journal
3 ways to revitalize your digital marketing program Ever hit a performance plateau? Contributor Elizabeth Laird looks at four ways to jumpstart your [...] - Search Engine Land
YouTube Analytics Demographics Report to Contain Less Data YouTube content creators will soon notice that their YouTube Analytics demographics report contains [...] - Search Engine Journal
The High Five: cheer(s)ing for red wine and women’s hockey When a recent study revealed that red wine can be good for oral hygiene, the searches for “ [...] - Inside Search
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 23, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 22 2018

Facebook Messenger Lets Users Add People to In-Progress Calls A new feature added to Facebook Messenger will allow users to invite other people to calls already [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Is Confused As To Who Is Search Engine Roundtable Go ahead, do a search for [seroundtable] in Google, the domain of this site and you will get a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Jennifer Horowitz - 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: Content Order, Position & Placement Matters Yesterday at PubCon, Gary Illyes from Google said something that got attention by the folks in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Blocked Resources Reporting Bug Google published on their data anomalies page about a new error in the reporting section of the old [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Some Old Features Won't Be In New Google Search Console Just yesterday, 24 hours ago, we reported that John Mueller of Google said that they will be [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Algorithm Update Chatter & Signals February 20th I am starting to see a bit of chatter around the SEO industry about a possible Google algorithm and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Mobile First Index Expanding Within Next Several Weeks Gary Illyes from Google said at PubCon that Google will be rolling in more web sites into the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Captain America At Google? - Search Engine Roundtable
Are Yelp ads worth paying for? How to figure it out Contributor Joy Hawkins isn't sure Yelp ads are better in all cases and provides a detailed case [...] - Search Engine Land
AdWords Keyword Planner update appears to be rolling out in the new interface The latest version features streamlined workflows and reflects the design updates in the new [...] - Search Engine Land
Auditing customer reviews for organic traffic growth without losing speed or attracting penalties Looking for ways to beef up retailer product pages? Contributor Karen Bone points out five common [...] - Search Engine Land
Pulse: Challenges and Takeaways from the Google AMP Conference In case anyone missed the memo, Google has proclaimed that mobile is where it’s at these [...] - Searchmetrics
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 22, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Chrome Will Automatically Clean Up Messy URLs Google’s latest version of Chrome deals with the problem of messy URLs by cleaning them up [...] - Search Engine Journal
John Mueller Offers Surprising News Why Google Crawls Non-Existent Pages Google's John Mueller offers good news for web publishers concerned about why Google crawls 404 and [...] - Search Engine Journal

February, 21 2018

Google to move more sites to mobile-first index in coming weeks Google plans to roll more sites into the mobile-first index in the near future. Are you ready? - Search Engine Land
Google to Move Many More Sites to Mobile-First Index Very Soon Google has confirmed that a significant number of sites will be migrated to the mobile-first index [...] - Search Engine Journal
Making your first AMP Story: Google’s answer to Snapchat and Instagram With Google ready to launch AMP Stories soon, Contributor Paul Shapiro shares how to build your own [...] - Search Engine Land
Law firm that used contest to solicit Google reviews sees all but one disappear Incentivizing reviews individually or 'in bulk' is a bad idea. - Search Engine Land
Google’s growth in online local reviews continues to dominate, but… Contributor Jamie Pitman shows us why we should keep an eye on TripAdvisor and Facebook when trying [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console blocked resources report had processing error You may notice decreased counts of pages with blocked resources in Google Search Console. Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Latest updates to Gboard for Android include a ‘search all media’ feature Reports indicate the latest refresh for the Google-designed keyboard comes with a new interface [...] - Search Engine Land
Introducing BOSS: The Best of SEJ Summit Get the latest tips and trends from incredible speakers at Best of SEJ Summit (BOSS), our new [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 21, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Twitter Cracks Down on Automation and Use of Multiple Accounts Twitter has new rules in place to prevent applications and services from utilizing automation for [...] - Search Engine Journal

February, 20 2018

Google drops support for meta news keywords tag After years of telling publishers to use the news meta keyword tag, Google said they stopped [...] - Search Engine Land
Enterprise SEO and cross-channel performance: Activation and integration A strong website is a lifeline for most companies. Contributor Jim Yu recommends using it to push [...] - Search Engine Land
How to sync your keywords and ad labels with an AdWords Script Columnist Daniel Gilbert shares a free script to help solve labeling issues by copying labels [...] - Search Engine Land
Google No Longer Supports the Meta News Keywords Tag Google has revealed it no longer supports the meta news keywords tag, and hasn’t supported it [...] - Search Engine Journal
Why entities may power the future of location-based data Businesses with physical locations need to strengthen their entities, says Columnist Adam Dorfman [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Ads Editor Updated With Labels for Dynamic Search Ads Bing Ads Editor has been updated with the ability to organize dynamic search ads by adding shared [...] - Search Engine Journal

February, 19 2018

Assessing Cardiovascular Risk Factors with Computer Vision Posted by Lily Peng MD PhD, Product Manager, Google Brain Team Heart attacks, strokes and other [...] - Google Research
International SEO and search trends: How does it all work? Contributor Marcus Miller provides an overview of how to implement an international SEO strategy [...] - Search Engine Land
Facebook Reveals New Tool for Posting Personal Lists Facebook has released a new type of timeline post that allows users to create and publish personal [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Chrome extensions bringing back ‘View Image’ & ‘Search by Image’ buttons in Google Image Search Google killed off some much-loved features in image search. Now here are some Chrome extensions [...] - Search Engine Land
Keyword infringement: Edible Arrangements files $209M trademark suit against Google While use of trademarked keywords has been allowed by courts, this case may be more complicated [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Maps adds mall directory search & browse in local panel Google adds a new tab to the local panel in the search results named "directory." - Search Engine Land
Snapchat Gives Creators Access to Audience Analytics Select creators on Snapchat are getting access to analytics data. This includes insights such as [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google changes request recrawl limits, noting daily limits versus monthly quotas Google has finally disclosed the new recrawl limits by revising the help document over the weekend. - Search Engine Land
Ad-free YouTube Red Coming to 100 More Countries YouTube is looking to expand its subscription service, YouTube Red, to as many as 100 more [...] - Search Engine Journal
Facebook to Roll Out Subscription Tool for Publishers on iOS Facebook has come to an agreement with Apple, allowing the company to launch a subscription tool [...] - Search Engine Journal
Related Questions are Joined by ‘People Also Search For’ Refinements; Now Using a Question Graph I recently bought a lemon tree and wanted to learn how to care for it. I started asking about it at [...] - SEO by the Sea
Canonicals: Sitemap Canonicals Weaker Signal Than Rel=Canonical Using rel=canonicals on webpages has been the default standard for referencing canonicals. [...] - The SEM Post
Mural At The Google Office At Building 45 - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Black Search Results Interface Again For the past many many years... - Search Engine Roundtable
Eric Enge - 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: hreflang Is The Most Complex Aspect Of SEO Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that hreflang "is one of the most complex aspects of SEO [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 16 2018

Google Announces Two Major Changes to Image Search Google announces two disruptive changes to image search. Web publishers applaud the changes as [...] - Search Engine Journal
What people get wrong about keyword cannibalization Columnist Patrick Stox suggests SEOs should reconsider how they think about keyword cannibalization [...] - Search Engine Land
Google “People Also Search” Feature Updated Google updated it's People Also Search For feature. It now moves around and shows up next to the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google says 100+ ad networks support AMP, releases 3rd-party technology support Real-Time Config component enables integrations with other technology partners such as data [...] - Search Engine Land
Invest in a killer PPC campaign by using these smart budget strategies Contributor Jeff Baum discusses how allocating funds and developing smart budgets brings focus to [...] - Search Engine Land
NY federal court decision threatens embedding and linking across the web The judge's decision disregards existing law and if upheld could expose bloggers and publishers to [...] - Search Engine Land
Winter Olympics Google doodle for day 8 of the games marks the Lunar New Year Google's Winter Olympics doodle series will include 17 doodles, with a new animated image for each [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Adds Markup For Telecommuting Positions in Job Postings Google has added a new type of markup which will let publishers indicate that they have a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Federal Election Commission proposal toughens political ads disclosure rules The rule would bring traditional media disclosure requirements to digital ads. - Search Engine Land
Google Decorated With Flowers For Valentine's Day - Search Engine Roundtable
Aaron Bradley - 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 Image Search Removes Features Over Getty Images Legal Spat Remember a few days ago I told you Google was going to make changes to Google Image Search because [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdSense Removes Payments Holds Notice The notice is now gone and these publishers no longer have to verify their physical mailing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Ads Editor Adds Labels For Dynamic Search Ads Bing Ads announced new support for the dynamic search ads within the Bing Ads Editor tool. Dynamic [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Buying Links, Image Search Change & AMP Stories Launches This week, we reported that technically Google was caught buying links without nofollowing them and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 16, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 15 2018

Google Image Search removes View Image button and Search by Image feature After making a deal with Getty Images, Google has revamped some of their image search features and [...] - Search Engine Land
Making website speed and performance part of your SEO routine Monitoring webpage performance is key to avoiding setbacks when algorithms change. Contributor [...] - Search Engine Land
Tracking the ROI of organic search for B2B Contributor Janet Driscoll Miller explains how to calculate the revenue contribution of organic [...] - Search Engine Land
Instagram is Showing Users When a Screenshot of Their Story is Taken Instagram is now letting users know when someone has taken a screenshot or screen recording of [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Maps for iOS catches up with Android version, adds driving directions, transit info & explore nearby A year after bringing real-time information within Google Maps for Android, Google has now released [...] - Search Engine Land
YouTube Has Stricter Penalties for Channels That Spread “Widespread Harm” YouTube has stated it will begin issuing stricter penalties when channels publish videos that could [...] - Search Engine Journal
Everything you need to know about the Google Chrome ad blocker Google launches a new version of its Chrome web browser today (February 15), which will include an [...] - Search Engine Watch
31 Million Domains Have Adopted Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Technology In a look back at the state of AMP, it was revealed there are 31 million domains with AMP pages. - Search Engine Journal
Pinterest Lens one year on: Where is Pinterest’s visual search tool now? It's been a year since Pinterest announced the launch of Lens, its new visual search tool. How has [...] - Search Engine Watch
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 15, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 14 2018

Instapage launches first landing page platform with AMP The company is partnering with Google to lower loading times for mobile landing pages, because each [...] - Search Engine Land
Google announces AMP for Email – delivering Accelerated Mobile Pages experiences to your inbox The new spec is available through the Gmail Developer Preview, with support in Gmail slated for [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Chrome Ad Blocker Guide: Everything You Need to Know Google now has an ad blocker built into Chrome. Here’s everything you need to know about how [...] - Search Engine Journal
A link-building case study: Using brand mentions and competitive linking tactics Columnist Andrew Dennis walks through link-building tactics implemented on a new website, resulting [...] - Search Engine Land
How to build a stronger, more effective PPC team Contributor Frederick Vallaeys believes the PPC professionals with the strongest knowledge of paid [...] - Search Engine Land
Facebook Discusses 4 Parts of their News Feed Algorithm Adam Mosseri, Head of News Feed at Facebook discusses how their algorithm chooses what news sources [...] - Search Engine Journal
Winter Olympics Google doodle gets Valentine’s Day treatment with two dancing grebes On day six of its Winter Olympics series, the doodle team designed a pair of figure-skating grebes [...] - Search Engine Land
Report: 70% Of Google's Page One Search Results Are HTTPS This morning the folks at RankRanger posted on Twitter that over 70% of the page one Google search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Selling Valentines Day Treats At Google - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Blogsearch Ping Going Away, Not That Anyone Used It Google announced on Google+ and John Mueller also added to it that Google is going to shutting down [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Interesting Google Featured Snippet With Headline & Tables We have seen many flavors of featured snippets in the Google search results, but here is an [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 13 2018

How do you optimize content for a voice-first world? Want to know how to optimize your content for voice search? Contributor Sherry Bonelli shares how [...] - Search Engine Land
AMP Stories: the new Accelerated Mobile Pages format from Google Does this doubling down on the mobile framework by adding the new, heavily visual and interactive [...] - Search Engine Land
Google launches new look for ‘people also search for’ search refinements Go to a search result, click on a listing and then click back to the search results page on Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Google is Testing Instagram-like Stories in Search Results Google is testing its own version of stories, a feature popularized by apps like Instagram and [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google gets in on mobile ‘story craze’ with new AMP Stories format New, visually rich mobile content format is designed to generate more engagement from users. - Search Engine Land
Who won the Super Bowl ad game? The spots that generated the most buzz across YouTube, social & search While the Philadelphia Eagles were this year's Super Bowl champs on the field, the overall Super [...] - Search Engine Land
Spotted: Links to competing shopping engines in UK Google Shopping results The new look is in response to the European Commission's antritrust ruling against Google, but it [...] - Search Engine Land
Over 60% of Google Search AMP Clicks Go To Non-News Sites Google has released some new stats about AMP pages and one of the new stats should really make site [...] - The SEM Post

February, 12 2018

Monitoring web migrations: A checklist for moving from one site to another Contributor Aleyda Solis walks through what to monitor during a web migration and explains how to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Engineer Lists 4 Powerful Reasons Why Sites Should Upgrade to HTTPS Google Chrome engineer shares four powerful reasons why sites should migrate to HTTPS. - Search Engine Journal
Google, Getty Images enter a multi-year global licensing partnership The deal effectively ends Getty's European antitrust complaint against Google. - Search Engine Land
The 2018 guide to free SEO training courses online Over the past decade, SEO has been growing into its position as a critical marketing channel for [...] - Search Engine Watch
Introducing the HDR+ Burst Photography Dataset Posted by Sam Hasinoff, Software Engineer, Machine Perception Burst photography is the key idea [...] - Google Research
Bing Testing Stacked Sitelinks in Search Results Bing is running an interesting test for sites with sitelinks. Instead of the usual two [...] - The SEM Post
This month on Bing – shopping deals, Olympics coverage, and more This month on Bing: shopping deals, Olympics coverage, and more. - Bing Search
Memo to the Modern Marketer: How Long Does Content Marketing Take – And Why That’s The Wrong Question Most anyone with experience in content marketing has heard the adage that content marketing is a [...] - Searchmetrics

February, 10 2018

Facebook to Begin Measuring Post Reach Based on Actual Views Facebook is making two updates to Page Insights, one of which will affect the way organic reach is [...] - Search Engine Journal

February, 9 2018

Google Image Search to Make Copyright Disclaimers More Visible Google will be updating its image search results to make copyright disclaimers more prominent. - Search Engine Journal
Winter Games doodle kicks off Google’s Doodle Snow Games Today's doodle is the first doodle of a 17-day series celebrating the Winter Olympics. - Search Engine Land
Bing Webmaster Tools adds social sign-in feature You can now log into your Bing Webmaster Tools account using your Google or Facebook login. - Search Engine Land
Bing Webmaster Tools Now Has a Social Login Option Bing Webmaster Tools has expanded its login capabilities with a social login option. - Search Engine Journal
The High Five: roses are red, violets are blue, five top searches for you Roses are red, Violets are blue. Here are this week's top searches for you: The Dow is down, but a [...] - Inside Search
Pratik Dholakiya: 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 Using Maximize Conversion Bidding May See Unusual Higher Cost Per Clicks Google's community manager, Michelle, in the AdWords forum said there may be "some edge [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's Toilet Paper Key Locks Are Cool - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 9, 2018 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: Bing Answers, Google Snippets, AdWords, Chrome, AMP & Search Console This week I posted the monthly Google webmaster report, catch up quickly there. Google is now [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Did Google Search Console Remove The Request Indexing Quota? Over the past few days, the webmaster and SEO community has been asking why did Google remove the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Sets Deadline for HTTPS and Warns Publishers to Upgrade Soon Google set a deadline for July 2018, when Chrome will begin warning users about insecure web pages. [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google My Business Wants To Know When Did Your Business First Open Tim Colling posted on Google+ and it was also added to the Local Search Forums that Google My [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Chrome To Mark All HTTP Sites Not Secure - No Joke Google announced any web page served over HTTP and not HTTPS will be marked as not secure by Chrome [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 8 2018

Effective July 2018, Google’s Chrome browser will mark non-HTTPS sites as ‘not secure’ After years of pushing for 'secure by default' web sites, Google will identify insecure sites in [...] - Search Engine Land
What 3,000 voice search queries tell us about the ‘Voice Search Revolution’ Do you think voice search is the next "big thing" digital marketers need to watch for? [...] - Search Engine Land
GoDaddy web hosting now integrated with Google My Business Much of the content creation and verification process is automated. - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console request indexing limit removed from interface Google won't comment on why quota details in the fetch tool are no longer displaying. - Search Engine Land
India’s competition regulator fines Google $21.1 million for ‘search bias’ in travel results However, the OneBox and other search practices were cleared by the Committee. - Search Engine Land
Paula Modersohn-Becker Google doodle honors German artist connected to the Modernist art movement The expressionist artist is credited with being the first female to paint a nude self-portrait. - Search Engine Land
Looking through the artificial intelligence mirror: insights and automation We have entered a new era of search where SEO and content marketing have converged. AI technologies [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Chrome to Flag Sites as Not Secure in July 2018 Google has been warning site owners that Google Chrome will begin flagging sites as being [...] - The SEM Post
Google Search Console Notice: Provide A Manifest & High Resolution Favicon Google is sending out new Google Search Console notifications to some webmasters asking them to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing to Feature Multiple Answers for Certain Queries Bing is updating its search results to return multiple featured snippets when the query lends [...] - Search Engine Journal

February, 7 2018

Optimizing for quality score is a best practice, except when it’s not. Here’s why. Contributor Amy Bishop explains that improving quality score shouldn't be a goal in itself, but [...] - Search Engine Land
Google now wants larger images for AMP articles Are you getting Google search traffic from the AMP-based top stories carousel? Make sure your [...] - Search Engine Land
Google begins enforcing certification process for event ticket resellers on AdWords Ticket resellers are now included among the list of restricted advertisers on AdWords and must be [...] - Search Engine Land
Google adds new features & improves navigation for mobile hotel & flight searches Aiming to make travel planning easier on a mobile device, Google is rolling out new tabs that let [...] - Search Engine Land
AdWords Express launches notifications for calls from search ads Advertisers can now rate calls and be notified of missed calls. - Search Engine Land
Six ways Google can keep you up to speed in PyeongChang Tomorrow thousands of athletes will come together in PyeongChang to represent their countries with [...] - Inside Search

February, 6 2018

Google Releases an SEO Tool that Measures 10 SEO Metrics Google announces an SEO module for their Lighthouse Chrome Developers extension. It's very basic [...] - Search Engine Journal
Case study: On-page + off-page SEO working together = success Contributor Eric Enge offers an insightful case study on the positive effects SEO-focused content [...] - Search Engine Land
Technical SEO in the age of semantic search and Google Contributor Ryan Shelley explains that technical SEO is more important than ever -- but for [...] - Search Engine Land
Google officially announces the new Google Search Console is available for everyone The Search Console UX team shares how user feedback played a role in the evolution of the new [...] - Search Engine Land

February, 5 2018

The need for speed: Google dedicates engineering team to accelerate development of WordPress ecosystem Google's partnership with WordPress aims to jump-start the platform's support of the latest web [...] - Search Engine Land
Launching SEO Audit category in Lighthouse Chrome extension We're happy to announce that we are introducing another audit category to the Lighthouse Chrome [...] - Google Webmaster Central
How to create content to support local SEO and rock the rankings Are you looking for ways to increase your organic visibility and rankings in local search [...] - Search Engine Land
Google adds new SEO Audit category to Chrome’s Lighthouse extension The popular auditing tool used by developers and search marketers now enables users to run basic [...] - Search Engine Land
6 AdWords strategies businesses can use to make love, not war on Valentine’s Day Give the gift of Adwords love this Valentine's Day by using these six tactics from Contributor Todd [...] - Search Engine Land
Joost de Valk - 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 Parking Stamp - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Clarifies How Much Structured Data is Enough John Mueller of Google discusses limits to how much structured data Google uses for display [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Showing Content Before It Is Published? Nah... Snippet "In X Hours" Normally when Google shows new content in the search results, it may show in the search result [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Don't Dynamically Change Sitemap File Names Daily Google's John Mueller answered a question I never heard before around dynamically generated sitemap [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console AMP Reporting Error With Major Content Mismatch Google posted on the data anomalies page a new bug with their Google Search Console reporting... - Search Engine Roundtable
February 2018 Google Webmaster Report This past month, Google announced the Page Speed update, a new ranking algorithm designed to lower [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console AMP report error now corrected Users should see updated data this week. - Search Engine Land
Automation, AdWords and Amazon: Ashley Fletcher on the future of paid search Going by the major announcements we’ve already seen in January, 2018 is going to be a big [...] - Search Engine Watch
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 5, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 3 2018

Instagram to Feature Carousel Ads in Stories A new ad unit is coming to Instagram, as advertisers can now feature three pieces of media per [...] - Search Engine Journal
YouTube sees 90% lift in searches for football highlight videos during the last year According to YouTube, sports fans are watching more sports-related videos than ever. - Search Engine Land
Elizabeth Blackwell Google doodle recognizes first woman in the US to earn a medical degree A champion of women’s rights and an abolitionist, Blackwell was born on this date 197 years [...] - Search Engine Land

February, 2 2018

Google My Business Lets Restaurants Add Menus to Listings Google My Business is giving restaurants the ability to add and edit menus directly in their GMB [...] - Search Engine Journal
Millions of Twitter Followers Lost After Crackdown on Fake Accounts Prominent Twitter users have lost over a million followers as a result of federal and state [...] - Search Engine Journal
Together Again: Danny Sullivan & Barry Schwartz (That's Me) At Google NYC - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Issues & Validating Email Notifications As many of you know, Google's new Search Console was redesigned around helping webmasters discover, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Ian Lurie - 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 Lets Restaurants Add & Edit Menus Google announced in the Google My Business Help forums and on Twitter that now restaurants can add [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
PSA: Google Doesn't Use Content On Non-Canonical Pages Google's John Mueller wrote on Twitter "remember that the content on 'non-canonical' versions [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Adds Insight Cards For Impression Shifts & Changes Google quietly announced on Google+ and Twitter that they have added two new insights cards to the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Updates, Featured Snippets, SEO, AdWords & More This week in search I covered some search algorithm rumblings. Google's Danny Sullivan wrote a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Four new search trends in mobile app discovery Consumers are searching for helpful apps and downloading what best meets their needs. Contributor [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Ads Introduces Single Sign-in for Multiple Accounts Bing Ads is introducing a way for advertisers to manage multiple accounts with one email address [...] - Search Engine Journal
The High Five: a peacock and other trends that showed off this week When a woman’s attempt to board a United Airlines flight with her emotional support peacock [...] - Inside Search
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 2, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Instagram Introduces Type Mode for Text-Based Stories Instagram continues to build on its popular stories feature with an update geared toward text-only [...] - Search Engine Journal
Who wins? Google & Bing’s ‘Super Bowl ad’ search results are quite different Searches for 'Super Bowl ads' will surge ahead of Sunday's kickoff. Here's what the engines are [...] - Search Engine Land

February, 1 2018

Restaurant owners can now edit menu listings in Google My Business Create a structured restaurant menu that can display in mobile search listings directly in Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Assistant adds new media capabilities ahead of HomePod release You can now wake up to a favorite playlist and use voice to pick up where you left off with Netflix [...] - Search Engine Land
Carter G. Woodson Google doodle honors scholar who started Black History Month Credited with being the Father of Black History, Dr. Woodson first created an African-American [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Analytics Introduces New ‘Audiences’ Report Google is rolling out a new report in Analytics which analyzes a website’s custom audiences. - Search Engine Journal
Ranking Vs Indexing: The Google SEO Confusion Most SEOs know the difference between ranking and indexing, some even know the difference between [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Do Not Say AMPlify, AMP'd Or AMPed For Google AMP Since Google launched Accelerated Mobile Pages, i.e. AMP, people have been saying their pages are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Ranking In Google By Aligning Content Around Searcher Intent It has been a while since I heard SEOs talk more in the abstract around how Google is understanding [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
What To Do When Your Google Disavow List Is Maxed Out What happens when your disavow file can't fit anymore URLs and you have no more room to add anymore [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Logo For Carter G. Woodson, First African-American Historian Today on Google's home page in the United States for the kick off of Black History Month, Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s Page Speed Algo Independent of Indexing Does Google’s page speed algo, or how slowly a page loads, have any impact in indexing or are [...] - The SEM Post
Google Prepping For Valentines Day - Search Engine Roundtable
Melanie Mitchell - 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
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 1, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable