Archive of May, 2021

May, 8 2021

Google on Partial and Total Site Deindexing via @sejournal, @martinibuster John Mueller discusses different ways Google removes websites from the search index - Search Engine Journal

May, 7 2021

The real-world impact of keyword stuffing in Google My Business Many businesses are rebranding completely to skirt Google's guidelines. But when everyone does it, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Internationalized Sites Even With Same English Content Not Duplicate Content Let's say you have multiple international sites, ccTLDs, with your business registered with a .com [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Content Submission API Beta Is Now Available Microsoft announced last night that the Bing Content Submission API is now in beta and open to be [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Artificially Creating Author Names For Some Search Snippets Lily Ray shared on Twitter some examples of Google making up artificial author names to attach to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Tests Super Wide Image Results Box Google is testing a incredibly wide image results box in its web search results interface. So [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 6 2021

Microsoft Bing opens Content Submission API as beta This now only helps expedite indexing but also bypassing crawling, reducing server resources [...] - Search Engine Land
Why killing your content marketing makes the most sense “Kill your darlings”, yes, I said it! It may sound crazy but will be one of the wisest [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Talks Hypothetically About Speed As A Ranking Factor - It's Small Google's John Mueller, Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt released their latests "search off the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
When it comes to mental health, what are we searching for? You know that exhaustion you’re feeling — the one that no amount of espresso shots or [...] - Inside Search
Google Local Services Ads Bug May Have Changed Your Bid Mode Google has a bug with its Local Service Ads program where it may change your bid mode from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Confirms Your Content Be Indexed But Not On All Data Centers Google's John Mueller confirmed something most of us know, that your site and/or pages can be [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Your eleventh-hour SEO intel on Google’s Core Web Vital metrics With page experience a definite search ranking signal moving forward, improving web performance and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google My Business Contact Us Form Select Business Drop Down Google added a business selection drop down feature to the Google My Business contact us form. So [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Wheelchair Accessibility Attributes A week or so ago, Google added to Google My Business the ability to add attributes to your business [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Changing A Bit Of Content Based On IP Address; Google Likely Won't Penalize You Technically, if you change your content based on the IPs or user agents visiting that piece of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 5 2021

Google: We Do Not Penalize Sites For Using Google Analytics A competitor to Google Analytics named Simple Analytics wrote on its blog "Google penalizes [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Adding Images To Your Pages Won't Make You Rank Higher Google's John Mueller was asked if adding images to your web pages, if that will help you rank [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Rachel Maddow Of MSNBC Calls Out Google For Hiding Search Ads But She Likely Has Malware Rachel Maddow Of MSNBC posted on Twitter that she is switching from Google Search because Google is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 4 2021

Google Announces it Uses Spam Fighting AI via @sejournal, @martinibuster Artificial Intelligence offers "unprecedented potential to revolutionize" spam fighting. [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Embedded Links in Featured Snippets is a Bug via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google confirms that embedded links within Featured Snippets is a bug and not a test. - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Console Stops Reporting On Scroll To Text Google has stopped displaying the scroll-to-text data in the reporting within Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Most SEOs Use DNS Or HTML Verification In Google Search Console Google offers numerous ways to verify your website with Google Search Console. Jackson Lo asked on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Rel External, Noopener & Noreferrer Do Not Impact Your SEO Google's John Mueller confirmed that using a rel=external, rel=noopener and/or a rel=noreferrer [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
May 2021 Google Webmaster Report Last month in the Google webmaster, SEO and search world was pretty busy to say the least. We had [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Verizon To Sell Yahoo & AOL For $5 Billion After Buying Each For ~$5 Billion In 2015 Verizon bought AOL for about $4.4 billion while AOL was under Tim Armstrong's leadership. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Do Wide and Deep Networks Learn the Same Things? Posted by Thao Nguyen, AI Resident, Google Research A common practice to improve a neural [...] - Google Research
Taiwan Burger At Google - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 3 2021

Google Ranking Algorithm Update; Is It Product Reviews Related? Starting around Friday, April 30th but really spiking a lot on Saturday, May 1st, we are seeing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Adds Links To Featured Snippets Leading Back To Google Search Results Google is adding links to featured snippets that when clicked on send the searcher to a new set of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google at ICLR 2021 Posted by Jaqui Herman, Research Specialist and Tim Herrmann, Program Manager The 9th [...] - Google Research
Google Advice On How To Optimize Images While Not Hurting Image Search Rankings Google's John Mueller posted a great thread on Twitter about considerations around how to make your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Local SEOs Not Seeing Unusual Google Local Ranking Fluctuations Over the past week, actually, starting since Friday, April 23rd, the BrightLocal tracking tool has [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Trending Searches In Google Discover Google seems to be testing trending searches in the Google Discover feed. Jason Mandragona, the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Customer Match Now Has Real-Time Match Rates Google announced that is is now making the Customer Match feature in Google Ads. Now the Customer [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 3, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
YouTube Red Slide - Search Engine Roundtable