Archive of July, 2021

July, 28 2021

Google Hotel Listings Add Sustainability & Eco Certifications Attributes Google added sustainability and eco certifications to the top of the hotel listing attributes [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Imposes New Surcharges To Cover International Taxes & Fees Google Ads emailed a bunch of advertisers yesterday morning about new surcharges to be added to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 28, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Twitter’s Shop Module pilot adds a product carousel to profiles Shop Modules are rolling out with a handful of brands in the U.S., and only domestic [...] - Marketing Land

July, 27 2021

Are Hyphens in Domain Names OK for Google? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Are keywords in the domain name overrated? Google's John Mueller discusses keywords in domain names [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google passes on 2% “Regulatory Operating Cost” for ads served in India and Italy Google will start applying the surcharge beginning on October 1. - Search Engine Land
Google review snippets bug seems resolved Google seems to have fixed the bug where review snippets were not displaying in Google Search. - Search Engine Land
Google Publishes The Privacy Sandbox Timeline On Friday, Google published a detailed timeline for the rollout of its Privacy Sandbox. Google said [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Olympic Athletes In 3D & AR In Google Search Google now has some of the more well known Olympic athletes in 3D and AR (augmented reality) in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Search With Images From This Search Result Button Bing has a search feature that lets searchers see relevant images from a search result for a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Assume The Google Page Experience Update Replaced The Old Google Speed Update Google has launched numerous search algorithms around speed in the past. The question some folks [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 27, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Link Spam Update Is Here Google said it began rolling out a new algorithm update for Google Search named the link spam [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Advances in TF-Ranking Posted by Michael Bendersky and Xuanhui Wang, Software Engineers, Google Research In December [...] - Google Research
What Google Does With User Feedback via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google goes over what it does with feedback sent in via the 'send feedback' button at the bottom of [...] - Search Engine Journal
GooglePlex Back To Work Signage - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 26 2021

A reminder on qualifying links and our link spam update If you monetize your websites and blogs with affiliate links or sponsored and guest posts, [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Link Spam Algorithm Update Rolling Out on July 26 via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google begins rolling out the “link spam update,” which makes its algorithms more [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search link spam update rolling out now A new spam algorithm is rolling out over the next two weeks aimed at fighting link spam more [...] - Search Engine Land
Mental health trends & how they affect communities of color Editor’s note: July is Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month . [...] - Inside Search
Why Google May Remove a Site’s FAQ Rich Results via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller explains the reasons why Google may remove FAQ rich results displayed by a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads Old Target CPA and Target ROAS Bid Strategies Going Away Soon As Google told us in April, in the next couple of weeks, the the old Target CPA or Target ROAS bid [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google High Heels - Search Engine Roundtable
Unconfirmed Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update July 23rd & 24th We may have had one of those smaller unconfirmed Google Search algorithm and ranking updates over [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Clarifies FAQ Markup Should Be Visible On The Page Even Expandable Sections On Friday, Google updated its FAQ structured data guidelines to provide examples around the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Indenting Search Results From Same Domain Google is testing indenting search results snippets from within the same domain name. So if Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Gary Illyes From Google Mocks Core Web Vitals SEO Work Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter "I don't know who needs to hear this but putting work [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 23 2021

Google Shows Which Ranking Factors Resulted In A Page Ranking Google is rolling out a new feature for the about this result overlay that actually tells searchers [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s three-strikes ad policy isn’t the problem, it’s policy application that worries advertisers Under the new program, incorrectly flagged ads carry greater ramifications, ranging from time spent [...] - Search Engine Land
Google publishes timelines for Privacy Sandbox proposals APIs for each use case are projected to be available for adoption in Q4 2022. - Search Engine Land
Google Review Snippets Missing From Search Results Over the past couple of days, Google stopped showing review snippets, the stars under the search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Applying Advanced Speech Enhancement in Cochlear Implants Posted by Samuel J. Yang, Research Scientist and Dick Lyon, Principal Scientist, Google Research [...] - Google Research
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 23, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google fixing two search bugs; review snippets and soft 404 detection These bugs lead to some pages being removed from the Google search results or the stars being [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Removed A Soft 404 Classifier To Fix Soft 404 Bugs Google's John Mueller said this morning that the Google Search team has removed a classifier it was [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Webmaster-Clarity Series #3: Scroll map – what can it do for you? As part of helping webmasters utilise Clarity tool more efficiently, we are starting a Bing [...] - Bing Webmaster
Old Google Coder Clock - Search Engine Roundtable
Recap Of The Google Search Central Unconference 2021 A few weeks ago marked the second Google Search Central Unconference edition, almost a year after [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Some File Extensions Can Confuse Google Search Technically, when it comes to using file extensions in your URLs, it doesn't really make a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Question Hub Redesign & Features Google Question Hub which has been in beta for years but officially launched earlier this year [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Shows Ranking Factors, Core Updates Impact PAAs, Redirected Signals Can Last Forever & AMP Icons Are Gone Google is rolling out a feature to show in the about this result overlay why the company ranked [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Get quickly caught up to speed on the Summer Games 2020 with Microsoft Bing We’re excited to announce our new experience from Microsoft Bing that helps you get quickly [...] - Bing Search

July, 22 2021

Google now shows why it ranked a specific search result Google now list several of the factors it used to rank a result in the about this result section. - Search Engine Land
Google: Redirects Signals Stick With Destination URL After A Year Gary Illyes of Google posted on Twitter that you should keep a redirect live for a year for Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Multi-task Prediction of Organ Dysfunction in ICUs Posted by Subhrajit Roy, Research Scientist and Diana Mincu, Research Software Engineer, Google [...] - Google Research
Google removes standalone Maximize conversions and Maximize conversion value strategies The tCPA and tROAS options will also go away in the next few weeks, but existing campaigns will [...] - Search Engine Land
Google will pass permanent signals with a redirect after a year If you have a redirect live for a year, you can then remove the redirect and Google will continue [...] - Search Engine Land
Learn more – and get more – from Search When you search for information on Google, you’re probably accustomed to seeing a lot of [...] - Inside Search
How to show the business value of your SEO proposal Because forecasting SEO performance is still a thorny subject in the industry - Search Engine Watch
Stan The Google Dinosaur With RTO Squad Hat - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Posts On Search Operators Limitations Including Google's Retrieval Limits Gary Illyes and Lizzi Harvey published a new Google Search developer help document on an overview [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Provides SEO Best Practices For Deal Pages Alan Kent from the Google Search Relations team posted on the Google blog some new best practices [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Newzdash: 23% Of Google Top Stories URLs Are Not AMP At the beginning of this month I reported that 12% of Google's top stories carousel URLs were not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Shopping Provides New Promotion & Deals Features Google announced a number of new Google Shopping features across both Google Ads and free Merchant [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests The Local Pack With Map Placed On Right Side Google seems to be testing displaying the map on the right side of the local pack. Normally the map [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Get ready for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics with Google and YouTube In a few hours, the best athletes from around the world will come together in Tokyo to compete on [...] - Inside Search
Google: Keep Redirects Live For One Year via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google’s Gary Illyes advises keeping redirects in place for at least one year in order to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s 5 Best Practices For Optimizing Deal Pages via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern After making deal pages free for all ecommerce stores, Google offers six best practices to follow [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Expands ‘About This Result’ With Info On Ranking Factors via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google is expanding the ‘About This Result’ panel with information about what factors [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 22, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 21 2021

Users can now leave more detailed restaurant reviews on Google Details like price range and meal type are useful for potential customers, but will Google use it [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Drops The AMP Label In The Mobile Search Results Google has dropped showing the AMP label or icon in the mobile search results. I personally cannot [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Engage shoppers with deal pages in Google Search Get the most out of the Google Search deals carousel by creating deals pages for more sales [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Doogler Spider & Googler Fly Costume - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Illustrates Causes For Various Organic Traffic Drops Google's Daniel Waisberg did this outstanding post and illustration, he calls sketches, of how [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Maps Launches New Detailed Restaurant Reviews Google announced a bunch of new map features the other day, one of which is allowing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Industry Mourns The Loss Of Bob Gladstein - Intelligent & Humble SEO I can't believe I am writing another post about another soul in the search marketing space passing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
No Results Found Response Can Lead To Soft 404s In Google Search Console Did you know that returning a "results not found" type of page can result in Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Ads Three Strikes And Your Out Policy Google Ads is instituting a new three-strikes and your out policy starting in September 2021. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New ways to find deals and shop on Google When it comes to shopping, people are increasingly looking for ways to save money. In fact, [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Launches Free Deals Listings in Search Results via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google is rolling out a new way for ecommerce stores to list deals in search results, which is [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google announces new deals sections, promotional tools and expanded reporting ahead of the holiday shopping season Promotions uploaded via Google Merchant Center are automatically surfaced to shoppers, regardless [...] - Search Engine Land
Place Exchange completes spinout from OOH publisher Intersection Programmatic OOH gains ground for marketers who value streamlined ad management and reporting. - Marketing Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 21, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 20 2021

Google categorizes what organic search traffic drops look like This is the first time Google illustrated what different types of traffic drops look like. - Search Engine Land
Why GoogleBot Doesn’t Crawl Enough Pages on Some Sites via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller explains the factors that influence how many pages from a site get crawled... [...] - Search Engine Journal
Three strikes, you’re out: Google’s new ad policy violations pilot Google Ads plans to expand the scope of the project after the initial pilot to include more policy [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s 7 Tips For Analyzing a Google Search Traffic Drop via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google gives site owners seven tips for analyzing the main causes of drops in organic search [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bing Webmaster-Clarity Series #2: Rage clicks – what do they tell you about user behavior? As part of helping webmasters utilise Clarity tool more efficiently, we are starting a Bing [...] - Bing Webmaster
Mueller Asked About Lag in Google Search Console Indexing Report via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller explains what looks like a bug in Search Console that reports indexed URLs as [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bing Clarity Rage Clicks Report Helps Improve via @sejournal, @martinibuster Bing explains how rage clicks indicate a poor user experience and how the free Clarity heat map [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Console performance report adds Math Solvers as search appearance filter You can now see how your Math Solvers markup is doing using Google Search Console Performance [...] - Search Engine Land
Google London Magic Turntable Driveway - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Key Moments Videos Support SeekToAction Markup Google now officially supports SeekToAction markup for videos on your site, so that you can use the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Faster Google AdSense Embed Code Google has announced that is launched a new version of its AdSense code that improves ad [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Core Updates Can Impact People Also Ask (PAA) Results Google's John Mueller was asked if a core update can have the people also ask (PAA) results show up [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Math Solvers Rich Results Added To Performance Report Search Appearance Filters Google has added yet another filter options to the Google Search Console performance report. This [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Posts Now Work For Hotels & Hospitality Listings In Google Nevena Ivanova shared a screenshot of her seeing that Google Posts are now working for her [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google drops AMP label in mobile search results After five years of Google showing the AMP lightening bolt icon for AMP pages in the mobile results [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 20, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: No SEO Advantage to Dedicated Hosting via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google’s John Mueller affirms that dedicated web hosting does not have an SEO advantage over [...] - Search Engine Journal
Launch self-managed campaigns that focus on conversions and revenue Learn why Connected TV advertising is the new frontier of B2B marketing. - Marketing Land

July, 19 2021

Google Launches New Way to Optimize Videos For Search via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google has a new way to optimize videos for search results when they’re published on a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Colorful Art Mural - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Support Hours Of Operation Details Google My Business offers support options on their web site and now it may even show you the hours [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Delete The Last 15 Minutes Of Your Google Search History Google announced a new feature to quickly delete the last 15 minutes of your search history. So if [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #129: Richard Nazarewicz On SEO For The Wall Street Journal In part one of my interview with Richard Nazarewicz with spoke more about his career and approach [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tries To Clarify Google News Inclusion But Did It Help? Danny Sullivan of Google published a blog post on Friday named answers to some common questions [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Hotel Search Ads With Images It looks like Google is now testing shows image extensions in the Google Hotel Ads. Lluc B. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google officially launches SeekToAction for key moments for videos in search Previously announced at Google I/O, SeekToAction markup is now out of beta. - Search Engine Land
Google at ICML 2021 Posted by Cat Armato and Jaqui Herman, Program Managers Groups across Google are actively [...] - Google Research
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 19, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 16 2021

Answers to some common questions about appearing in Google News Today, we’re answering some common questions we've heard from publishers to help them better [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Core Update June/July 2021: All the info on Google’s summer updates Google has announced a two-part summer update. Google’s first Core Update for 2021 is on its [...] - Searchmetrics
Google Cofounder, Sergey Brin Learning Robotic Surgery - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Business Listing With Google Phone Number Alias Google is testing, I think again, showing a Google phone number, instead of the actual business's [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Pack Without A Map - Bug Or Test? Have you ever seen Google show a set of local pack results in the web search results but without [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google July Core Update Done, Posts Gone From Knowledge Panels, Microsoft Advertising Video Extensions & More Google has confirmed the July 2021 core update is 'effectively complete' rolling out but what does [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Signal Label Indicates Optimized Targeting Is Enabled Earlier this week, Brett Bodofsky spotted a label in the Google Ads demographics tab that said [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Forum Links Do Not Work For SEO Google's John Mueller again said that dropping links in forums for SEO purposes won't help you rank [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Your Job As An SEO Is Not To Confuse Search Engines As you know, John Mueller of Google has consistently preached out important consistency is when it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google tries to answer publishers questions on visibility concerns in Google News Applying to be in Google News has been turned off for years, causing confusion to new publishers. - Search Engine Land
High Fidelity Image Generation Using Diffusion Models Posted by Jonathan Ho, Research Scientist and Chitwan Saharia, Software Engineer, Google Research, [...] - Google Research
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 16, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Shares 5 Insights Into Appearing in Google News via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google shares five insights that can help site owners better understand how news appears on [...] - Search Engine Journal

July, 15 2021

Google Ads optimized targeting gradually rolling out This could also be an expensive option if your budget is lower, as your initial CPA could fluctuate [...] - Search Engine Land
Speeding Up Reinforcement Learning with a New Physics Simulation Engine Posted by C. Daniel Freeman, Senior Software Engineer and Erik Frey, Staff Software Engineer, [...] - Google Research
Peter The Greeter Is Back At Google & He Lost 70lbs - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Now Links AMP Page Experience Issues to AMP Page Experience Guide A few days ago, Google made a change in the Google Search Console page experience report to direct [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Tests Rounded Corners Design Again In 2017, Google did a ton of testing of deploying rounded corners for its mobile search results [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Big Carousel For More Specific Searches We have seen the "more specific searches" feature now in two different formats, both in a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Posts For Knowledge Panels Being Disabled On July 20, 2021 Google is discontinuing the feature to post in your verified Google knowledge panels starting on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Ignore PDFs For Core Web Vitals & Mobile Friendlessness Google's John Mueller said when it comes to PDFs on your site, you don't have to worry about the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Gaining referrals from Millennials and Gen Z: Thursday’s daily brief Plus, Yelp launches new ad platform. - Marketing Land
A new tool (and some tips) to search safely with Google People around the world turn to Google Search to find information and make important decisions. [...] - Inside Search
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 15, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 14 2021

From Vision to Language: Semi-supervised Learning in Action…at Scale Posted by Thang Luong, Staff Research Scientist, Google Research and Jingcao Hu, Senior Staff [...] - Google Research
What Do You Call A New Doogler? - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Direct Apply Option To Job Posting Schema Google has added a new property to the job posting schema named directApply. directApply is a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Advertising Video Extensions Ads For Bing Search Microsoft announced new video extensions available in Microsoft Advertising as a new ad extension [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Easier To Create Sub-Manager Accounts In Google Ads Google Ads announced that it is now easier to create sub-manager accounts. You can now create these [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Posts for verified knowledge panels going away On July 20, 2021 Google will discontinue Google Posts for knowledge panels. Google My Business [...] - Search Engine Land
Coming Soon: New Google Search Editorial Content Policies For Job Postings In addition to the new direct apply property for job postings, Google also announced that new the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
GoDaddy Stores Now Integrate With Google Product Inventory Google is really pushing its shopping features these days and expect Google to keep pushing. They [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Tools and partnerships to help travel recover and thrive The travel industry is beginning to show promising signs of recovery as parts of the world reopen [...] - Inside Adwords
Direct-to physician marketing, FLoC: Wednesday’s daily brief Plus, email's elements of content - Marketing Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 14, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 13 2021

Google July 2021 Update is Over – What Happened? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's July 2021 Core Update is over and the search marketing community experiences it [...] - Search Engine Journal
An Search Industry Tribute To Dan Bell On 1st July 2021 we learned of the passing of Dan Bell, following a serious accident some weeks [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
In just a few clicks, GoDaddy merchants can show up across Google Shoppers get the most choice when they can easily discover businesses and their unique products. [...] - Inside Adwords
Bing Webmaster-Clarity Series #1: What is a heatmap and what does it tell you? As part of helping webmasters utilise Clarity tool more efficiently, we are starting a Bing [...] - Bing Webmaster
Changes to Infrastructure May Trigger Indexing Drop via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller explains why making major website infrastructure changes may cause Google to [...] - Search Engine Journal
The 2 new factors you should be optimizing in PPC Learn the factors that are more important than ever to optimize for automated PPC. - Marketing Land
Google Iâ��m Feeling Lucky Hall - Search Engine Roundtable
Are SEO Timelines For Ranking & Indexing Issues In Google Search Possible The question is, can SEOs give their clients timelines for when they can expect improvements on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Bing Sharable Direct Answer Did you know that Microsoft Bing lets you share some of the direct answers (or as Google calls it, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google July 2021 Core Update "Effectively Complete" On July 12th Google announced a bit after 1pm ET on July 12th that the July 2021 core update is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Ranking Changes With The Google Core Update I found it interesting that the local tracking tool, BrightLocal's Local RankFlux, showed big [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Wants To Find A Primary Language Per Page Google's John Mueller said that Google Search tries "to find the primary language per [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New GoDaddy integration lets merchants easily show inventory across Google This Google integration means small retailers on GoDaddy will be able to reach an even wider [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console links AMP debugging to AMP page experience guide Google made changes to how to debug some AMP URLs within Search Console. - Search Engine Land
Your Guide to Google E-A-T & SEO [Ebook] via @sejournal, @MrDannyGoodwin Want to create content that will help your Google rankings? Boost your Expertise, [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google adds direct apply markup and new editorial guidelines for job postings The new guidelines include guidance around obstructive text & images, excessive & [...] - Search Engine Land
FLoC and the future of audiences: Understanding the limits and capabilities of FLoC, FLEDGE and TURTLEDOVE Advertisers can continue monitoring FLoC or its new replacement and experiment with it so they're [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Launches New Structured Data For Job Listings via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google is introducing a new structured data markup property for job listings that allow prospects [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google On Whether Sites Should Hide Affiliate Links via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's John Mueller answers a question about affiliate links and whether it's beneficial to hide [...] - Search Engine Journal
Reducing the Computational Cost of Deep Reinforcement Learning Research Posted by Pablo Samuel Castro, Staff Software Engineer, Google Research It is widely accepted [...] - Google Research
Elements of Content: Breaking down MarTech’s Email Marketing Periodic Table From snappy subjects to interactive elements, content is still king in your audience's inbox. - Marketing Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 13, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 12 2021

Google July 2021 core update is finished rolling out After 12-days, Google said the July 2021 core update is done. It rolled out between July 1st and [...] - Search Engine Land
When Revamping a Site Can Negatively Impact Rankings via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller explains the kinds of website changes that could impact search performance [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Affirms the Value of Outreach Link Building via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller expressed approval of asking for links as a link building and promotional [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Answers Question About Relevant Link Exchanges via @sejournal, @martinibuster John Mueller discusses Google's policy on link exchanges and how its algorithm deals with them - Search Engine Journal
Google Kirkland Fire Pit - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Positive Effects Of Page Experience Update After You Get Out Of Poor Area Of CWV Google's John Mueller said that "you'll start to see positive effects once you get out of the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google July 2021 Core Update Spiked Again Around July 9th On Friday, July 9th, it looks like the Google July 2021 core update spiked again. Glenn Gabe asked [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #128: Richard Nazarewicz From AltaVista Servers To SEO Manager At The Wall Street Journal Richard Nazarewicz is the Technical SEO Manager at the Wall Street Journal and I was actually [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Messages Notes When Message Is From Google Posts Last year Google added the ability for users to send a message to a business through a Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Really, Link Exchanges Are Against Our Guidelines I found a question and answer dialog between an SEO and John Mueller of Google on last Friday's [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Treats 308 Redirects As 301 Redirects A few years ago we reported that Google may treat a 308 redirects as a 301 redirect. Then shortly [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New ways to grow your games business sustainably Mobile gaming has been a popular outlet for people to stay entertained while spending more time at [...] - Inside Adwords
Term Frequency and Inverse Document Frequency at Google Learning About SEO and How It Works With Language on Pages A couple of the concepts that you learn [...] - SEO by the Sea
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 12, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 9 2021

Doogler Bandana - Search Engine Roundtable
Some SEOs Disavow The Disavow Tool Google has a disavow tool, a tool that reluctantly launched in 2012 that lets you tell Google which [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Shopping Now Only Requires One Form Of Contact Information Google said that starting in August 2021 it will change its insufficient contact information policy [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Changed How It Handles Soft 404s Detection - Mobile vs Desktop John Mueller said in this morning's video that Google has changed how it handles soft 404 detection [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Again Removing Full URLs and Breadcrumbs From Snippets Google is once again testing just showing the domain name of the search result snippet and not the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: HTTPS Ranking Boost Even With Other Poor Page Experience Signals Darcy Burk asked John Mueller of Google if you still get the HTTPS ranking boost if you have HTTPS, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Customer Support Scams, How Google Ranks, Machine Learning Spam & Bing Multimedia Ads We had a bit of a breather this week with the July 4th weekend and a bit of a slower news week. I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google now does soft 404 detection by device type This can lead to Search Console showing you everything is fine but in reality, some of your desktop [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s Inverted Index of the Web In the post 10 Most Important SEO Patents, Part 5 – Phrase-Based Indexing I wrote about how [...] - SEO by the Sea
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 9, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 8 2021

Google’s John Mueller: Sometimes There’s No SEO Solution via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google’s John Mueller tells a frustrated site owner sometimes there’s no SEO solution [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Offers 5 Content Creation Tips for Success via @sejournal, @martinibuster Tips for creating a sustainable content strategy as suggested by successful content creators - Search Engine Journal
Google Brazil Outdoor LED Colored Stairs - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Sometimes There Is No SEO Solution To Your Ranking Problems Google's John Mueller told one publisher that "it's possible that there's just no SEO [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Tests Related Queries In Sticky Footer On Mobile Google is testing on the mobile Chrome browser a sticky footer that contains the G logo on the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Reminder To Highlight Customer Support Methods On Websites Danny Sullivan of Google did one of his reminder blog posts on the Google blog to highlight on your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Advertising Multimedia Ads In Bing Search Microsoft announced that it has launched new multimedia ads that can appear in the Bing Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Don't Link All Your Pages To All Your Pages Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that while it is not only okay but also expected for many [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEO Strategy – Voice Search and its Impact in 2021 How many times have you said ‘Hey, Google?’ today? Well, you’d not be the only [...] - Searchmetrics
Creative ways to source content ideas from UGC for SEO Uncover unique methods to find relevant topics that go beyond traditional keyword research tools. - Search Engine Land
Google’s Pandu Nayak shares his roadmap for MUM and how it can help the company handle more complex queries “There is no expectation that it will become this question-answering system,” Nayak [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 8, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The new frontier of B2B marketing: Drive measurable results with performance CTV advertising In this webinar, learn how it’s possible to utilize Connected TV as a performance marketing [...] - Marketing Land

July, 7 2021

Google Explains Why A Site May Rank For Unusual Keywords via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's John Mueller explains why a website might show up for keywords that seem unusual or not [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s July 2021 core update rolled out quickly; here is what the data providers saw While the June core update took a while to start rolling out, the July core update hit hard and [...] - Search Engine Land
Highlight your customer support methods in Google Search Customers are often looking for ways to contact businesses, and Google works to show the best [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google: Improving 3rd Party Metrics Won’t Boost Rankings via @sejournal, @martinibuster A member of Google's Search Quality team said he's never seen search rankings impact from improving [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Offers Advice on Top Ranked Spammy Competitors via @sejournal, @martinibuster What to do about top ranked competitors who are breaking all the rules and laughing all the way to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Quality: Hacking the Most Problematic Spam via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google discusses the most problematic kind of spam and how to prevent it - Search Engine Journal
Doogler Dressed Up To Return To Office - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Performance Report Can't Be Seen In Real Life - Here Is Why A very common question I see SEOs and publishers ask is that they see that Google Search Console [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Search Results Turn Gray On Hover Over Page Selector Here is another interesting Microsoft Bing feature in its search results. Hover your mouse cursor [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
LOL: Googlers Playing Phone Tag On Twitter I spotted this funny chain of tweets on Twitter between different Google reps, each tagging a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Don't Worry About Spammy Links From Content Going Viral Imagine that one day I would write a story here and it would go viral, and get an insane amount of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google On Third Party PageRank-Like Metrics Google's John Mueller shared some of his thoughts on third-party metrics that try to replicate [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Easter Egg For 20th Anniversary of Legally Blonde via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the movie Legally Blonde with a new Easter egg and [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 7, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 6 2021

Google Cautions Against Using Too Many Internal Links via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google’s John Mueller explains that using too many internal links on the same page can dilute [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google on how it ranks search results and prevents obvious spam Don't focus on one or two specific signals, make your site overall better says Google. - Search Engine Land
Google on Using Multiple Types of Schema Markup on Same Page via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google’s John Mueller goes over what site owners need to know about using multiple types of [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Juices In Haifa - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Testing Graphical Version Of Explore Further In February, Microsoft Bing started to show explore further recommendations based on what is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
July 2021 Google Webmaster Report The past month in Google SEO and webmaster land was a bit insane... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Machine Learning Takes Care Of Most Obvious Spam On the latest Search Off The Record podcast, John Mueller, Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt had a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How Google Cuts & Ranks Result Sets With Magic Signals In the second part of the Search Off The Record podcast released this morning Gary Illyes from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdSense Anchor Ads Wider Screens Support Google Adsense announced that anchor ads, the AdSense ads that stick to the top or bottom of the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #127: Mad Mango On E-Commerce SEO vs Trade SEO In part two of my talk with the the Mad Mango team; Aaron Uscilla and Robert DeFeo we spoke about [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 6, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 4 2021

Google’s John Mueller Doesn’t See SEO Becoming Obsolete via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google’s John Mueller says he doesn’t think search engines will ever advance to a point [...] - Search Engine Journal

July, 2 2021

Some Photos & Videos Of The Google Store In NYC - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Crawl Budget, GoogleBot, Scheduler & JavaScript I read one of those deep thought lines online from Johan Hulsen on Twitter who asked Gary Illyes of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Page Experience Update Does Not Have A Whitelist List Google's John Mueller said as far as he knows the page experience update does not have any [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Newzdash: 12% Of Google Top Stories URLs Are Not AMP John Shehata shared some data from his Newzdash product showing that the top stories carousel in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Large Google Popular Products With Two Rows On Desktop Google is testing showing two rows of the popular products section on desktop. Brodie Clark shared [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Spammy Links Do Not Cause Soft 404 Errors Google's John Mueller said that spammy links to your site would not be the cause of soft 404 errors [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google July Core Update, Spam Update Part Two, Ranking Changes Two Days Later & MUM Goes Live Google kicked off the July 2021 core update yesterday, right after the spam update. Google ran [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google July 2021 Core Update Is Live - What We Are Seeing Google announced that on July 1, 2021 it began to roll out the July 2021 core update. We knew we [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Sprout Social taps into social commerce with Shopify and Facebook Shops integrations Marketers can manage their customers' shopping experiences through two major social platforms that [...] - Marketing Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 2, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 1 2021

Google July 2021 core update rolling out now This update is the second part of the June 2021 core update. - Search Engine Land
Google July 2021 Core Update Begins Rolling Out via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google is releasing a broad core algorithm update today on July 1, 2021. This is update was [...] - Search Engine Journal
What to Do About Old Low Quality Content via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller answers the question about what to do about old content that is of a very low [...] - Search Engine Journal
The GooglePlex Has Snacks For Employees That Come In Post COVID - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tightens Policies For Financial Services Ads In UK Google announced it will tighten its policies for Financial Services advertisers targeting [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Forums Carousel In Mobile Search Results Google seems to be testing a new flavor of the Question and Answer rich results in the mobile [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
June 30th Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update & Fluctuations Yesterday, June 30th, there may have been an unconfirmed update, just two days after Google ran the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
77% Of SEOs Learned SEO Hands On Last week we saw a poll about where SEOs go for help when they have an SEO problem. This week I see [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Crawled - Currently Not Indexed: A Sign Of A Google Quality Issue? Are pages that are found in the Google Search Console coverage report, under "excluded" [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Your customers are trying to reach you: Thursday’s Daily Brief News from Epsilon, Google and Narrative. - Marketing Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 1, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Webinar: How much of the search market do you really own? Google search expert explains the importance of Share of Search. - Search Engine Land
LeanData and ZoomInfo integrate on lead delivery A partnership aimed at enriching leads en route to the right sales rep. - Marketing Land