Archive of November, 2015

November, 30 2015

Easily get back to the images you’ve found on Google The perfect image of your next big adventure, knitting project or style-changing haircut is bound [...] - Inside Search
Google Is Testing A Car Loan Calculator Quick Answer Box Google is testing a car loan tool. Will we soon see new ads where Google helps you buy or finance [...] - Search Engine Land

November, 28 2015

2015 UK Search Awards Winners Announced at Fifth Annual Ceremony in London A prestigious night in search marketing concluded with a first class ceremony at the UK Search [...] - Search Engine Journal

November, 27 2015

Why Everyone Should Be Moving To HTTP/2 A Google spokesperson recently revealed that GoogleBot will soon support HTTP/2. Columnist Patrick [...] - Search Engine Land
Manual Action Link Penalties After Penguin Goes Real Time If you have wondered whether there would still be manual action link penalties once Penguin moves [...] - The SEM Post

November, 25 2015

How Trust & Unique Identification Impact Semantic Search Is your content trustworthy, and does that matter? Columnist Barbara Starr explores how Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Will Google Start Reading Text in Images on the Web Soon? Googlebot Doesn’t Read Pictures of Text During Web Crawls When I was an Administrator at [...] - SEO by the Sea
Google's Gary Illyes: I Don't Actively Work On The Penguin Algorithm As we anxiously await the next Google Penguin algorithm release, more and more questions are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Why Wikipedia Went Secure & Why All Websites Should Do The Same It has been no secret that Google has been pushing hard to see more websites go secure, complete [...] - The SEM Post

November, 24 2015

Google: The Next Penguin Update With Be A Huge Change, Real-Time As many of you know, we are expecting a Google Penguin update by the end of this year and that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to win on Black Friday: insights into store traffic trends This holiday season, shoppers will turn to their most important shopping assistant — their [...] - Inside Adwords
Google's Deals Alerts Google's mobile search site shows some ads that promote a new notification service. Google's own [...] - Google Operating System
Big Offline Google Maps I don't know about you, but my Google Maps for Android has just enabled the new offline features . [...] - Google Operating System
Google Star Wars Experience Google has a new site for Star Wars fans . You can join the dark side or the light side and [...] - Google Operating System
Show Zoom Slider in Google Maps Are you missing the zoom controls from the old Google Maps interface for the desktop? Mouse over [...] - Google Operating System
Google Search Console Crawl Stats For Time Spent Downloading A Page Is Measured By The HTTP Request Adam Bradley asked Google's John Mueller on Google+ how does Google measure the "time spent [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Travel Guide Snippets in Knowledge Graph Cards Google's Knowledge Graph cards include a lot of information from Wikipedia. Google usually shows a [...] - Google Operating System
Bing Predicts goes 9-5 in Week 11, now 102-58 for the year Week 11 Results: Bing Predicts was 9-5 in Week 11, missing Dallas’s first win since September [...] - Bing Search

November, 23 2015

Google To Penalize Sites Using Deceptive Mobile Traffic Networks Google tells us they are actively working on detecting and penalizing sneaky mobile traffic [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Received More Than 65 Million URL Takedown Requests In The Past Month The current number of weekly URL copyright removal requests is nearly double what it was this time [...] - Search Engine Land
Introducing Google Compare for U.S. mortgages Buying a home is a major financial decision -- so when it comes to getting a mortgage, people want [...] - Inside Adwords
Google's John Mueller: Expert Product Descriptions Not Critical For Rankings? The big holiday shopping season is here and with that... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Site Command May Return Featured Snippets Eric Enge posted a screen shot on Google+ of Google displaying featured snippets for queries that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Appy holidays: ‘Tis the season of downloads, make sure your app is part of this seasons’ activities The holiday season is around the corner and it’s a time of opportunity for app marketers [...] - Inside Adwords
Google To Target Deceptive Mobile Affiliate Traffic Networks In a Google Hangout with Google's Andrey Lipattsev, a Search Quality Senior Strategist, last week, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Analytics Data Caught Up But App Analytics Has Not As you know, early last week Google's Search Analytics data got stuck but by this weekend, it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Avoid Post-Turkey Crowds and Shop YouTube’s Awesome Stuff Week Gift Grab Watchtime for product review videos on YouTube has grown more than 20% in just the past month as [...] - Inside Adwords
Microsoft helps you search for the perfect gifts and save money this holiday season Make your list and check it twice because the biggest shopping weekend of the year is just a few [...] - Bing Search

November, 20 2015

SEO For Featured Snippets Leads To Big Gains Columnist Ben Goodsell explains what Google's featured snippets are and shows how obtaining one can [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Publishes The Full Version Of The Search Quality Rating Guidelines For the first time ever, Google has released the full and complete version of the Search Quality [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s five key success factors for effective teams There’s more to building a team than simply assembling a bunch of the smartest people you can [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Does Use User Metrics For App Rankings But Not Web Rankings Yesterday, I wrote a story on how Google ranks app content at Search Engine Land. You have to read [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Officially Releases Search Quality Rating Guidelines Google has officially released their Quality Rating Guidelines, the same guidelines I analyzed [...] - The SEM Post
Bing Predicts this year’s American Music Award winners This Sunday, November 22, millions of music fans will watch the 43rd Annual American Music Awards, [...] - Bing Search
New Book & Play Themed Carousels in Google Knowledge Panels Google has added some new features to the Google Search results in both the knowledge panel and the [...] - The SEM Post

November, 19 2015

Google Releases The Full Version Of Their Search Quality Rating Guidelines For the first time, Google has release the full version of their search quality raters guidelines [...] - Search Engine Land
Updating Our Search Quality Rating Guidelines Developing algorithmic changes to search involves a process of experimentation . Part of that [...] - Google Webmaster Central
How Google May Rank Apps & App-Only Content Google App Indexing API is a key SEO factor for Google to rank and determine the importance of the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Now Rank Apps Without Web Content & Can Stream Apps Without Installing Them Google announced incredibly important news not just for SEOs but for the future of their index and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEO is Not Part of Website Development? Really? After taking a website for a quick pre-launch spin before its designers moved it off the [...] - The SEM Post
Google Launches Red Live Label & Live Blogs Schema Makrup Remember in early October we reported seeing red live labels in the Google search results... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Helps You Shop Between Holiday Cooking and Tree Trimming This fall, shopping-related searches on mobile surpassed desktop, signaling a shift from shopping [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Search Analytics Will Be Fixed By End of Week After a brief period of updating, Search Analytics in Google Search Console is once again delayed. [...] - The SEM Post
App-Only Content Now Appearing in Google Search Results Google has stepped up promoting app content in the search results by now adding the ability to show [...] - The SEM Post

November, 18 2015

New ways to find (and stream) app content in Google Search When Google got started, Search meant sitting at your desktop and finding the best information on [...] - Inside Search
Google Launches Live Label In Carousel For Live Blog Publishers Google officially launched new live blog schema for publishers to communicate when they are [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Expands App Indexing To Find & Stream App-Only Content Google is now experimenting with nine Android apps to surface their app only content in the mobile [...] - Search Engine Land
Introducing an entirely new Bing app for iPhone: Find and Do faster. Today we are delighted to announce the new Bing app that re-thinks search on your iPhone. We [...] - Bing Search
Google Wants To Let You Modify Your Knowledge Panel Earlier we reported that Google may add statistics and data around answers Google syndicates from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Data Should Be Resolved By End Of Week As you know, Google has had some issues with keeping their data up to date in the Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 17 2015

The Google Display Network ups its commitment to viewability For years, brand advertisers have been looking for ways to ensure their online ads are seen. This [...] - Inside Adwords
Google: Structured Data Not Currently Used For Featured Snippets Earlier this month, we reported Google's John Mueller saying that schema helps with featured [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's Matt Cutts Sadden By Some Of Moz's Rand Fishkin SEO Advice Rand Fishkin, founder of Moz, is much loved by many in the SEM space, and with that, disliked by [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's Latest Search Quality Raters Handbook - October 2015 Edition Jennifer Slegg got her hands on the latest version of the Search Quality Raters handbook and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Search Analytics Data Stuck Again This should come as no surprise, but the Google Search Console Search Analytics feature is now [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google May Release Documentation Getting Featured Snippets While there are plenty of SEO tricks to try and get featured snippets in the Google search results, [...] - The SEM Post
AMP – Accelerated Mobile Pages Will Be Pushed Aggressively in 2016 2015 saw Google pushing mobile aggressively, and to a slightly lesser extent, HTTPS. At State [...] - The SEM Post
How Many URLs & Duplicates Google Knows About During the State of Search keynote yesterday in Dallas, Texas, Gary Illyes shared a pretty [...] - The SEM Post
Structured Data Markup Does Not Influence Featured Snippets… Yet Many SEOs have been busy reverse engineering featured snippets to increase their odds of getting [...] - The SEM Post
Gary Illyes’ Recommendations for Getting Featured Snippets During Gary Illyes’ keynote at State of Search in Dallas, he talked quite a bit about [...] - The SEM Post
Google Wants to Allow Site Owners to Update Knowledge Panels Good news if you have ever suffered from having incorrect information show up in a Google Knowledge [...] - The SEM Post

November, 16 2015

The Google app now understands you a little better—complex questions welcome Language feels so natural to us that we can often take it for granted—we forget the years it [...] - Inside Search
Google’s Natural Language Search Gets Smarter Google is now smarter at understanding queries that contain handling superlatives, times and more [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Quality Raters Handbook Updated With Mobile Guidelines, Local Queries & Know Queries It's been a year since we have seen coverage of a new Google Search Quality Rater’s Guide, [...] - Search Engine Land
Capture more holiday traffic with click share for Google Shopping More shoppers are turning to online shopping with each holiday season, increasing the opportunity [...] - Inside Adwords
Latest Google Search Quality Rater’s Guide: Mobile Rewrite We have another Google Quality Rater’s Guidelines & Handbook, and this one is mere weeks [...] - The SEM Post
Google John Mueller: Top SEO Advice "Be Consistent" John Mueller from Google was quoted as saying at SMX Milan last week that his number one piece of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Drive sales and app downloads with video this holiday season The holiday shopping season is upon us once again, and advertisers are at the ready to make sure [...] - Inside Adwords
Google: No Comment On Rumors Of Killing Penguin & Many Link Signals Late last week, Robert Ramirez posted on the Bruce Clay blog huge speculation around Google killing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's Gary Illyes: Penguin Won't Be Released Unfinished As many of you know, many are waiting patiently on Google's next Penguin release. We know it is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 13 2015

Can You Now Trust Google To Crawl Ajax Sites? On October 14, Google announced it no longer recommends the Ajax crawling scheme they published in [...] - Search Engine Land
YouTube Music YouTube launched specialized mobile apps for kids, gamers and now for music lovers. YouTube Music [...] - Google Operating System
Chrome Beta for iOS In addition to the stable channel, there are 3 other Chrome channels you can use to check the [...] - Google Operating System
Bing Launches Mobile Friendly & Blocked Resources Testing Tool While Bing has been showing when sites are mobile friendly, they haven’t had a tool for [...] - The SEM Post
Bing makes MSN even more rewarding Bing Rewards members frequently tell us they love earning credits just for searching the web with [...] - Bing Search

November, 12 2015

Share Google Analytics data and remarketing lists more efficiently using manager accounts (MCC) From monitoring account performance at scale to making cross-account campaign changes, manager [...] - Inside Adwords
Google: Don't Follow Big Sites SEO, They Often Get It Wrong John Mueller from Google replied to a question in the Stack Exchange forums about following up [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Announcing the Bing Mobile Friendliness Test Tool Earlier this year, we shared our approach to mobile-friendly search and ranking and talked about [...] - Bing Webmaster

November, 11 2015

Google Sending Messages To Webmasters For SSL/TLS Certificate Not Matching Google starts notifying webmasters of broken SSL/TLS certificates, will this lead to a stricter [...] - Search Engine Land
JustWatch Claims Google’s Anti-Piracy Efforts Haven’t Hurt Streaming Sites Google's Piracy Update has worked well removing torrent sites but not so well with illegal [...] - Search Engine Land
Overstock's Stock Drops After Earnings Drop Due To Google Ranking Change I broke this story at Search Engine Land yesterday but now the community is picking it up and I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Search Analytics Data Now Catching Up As reported earlier this week, Google's Search Console data was delayed, well, the reports are now [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Search Console Notifications For SSL/TLS Mismatch Errors Google is now sending out new Google Search Console messages for SSL/TLS certificate does not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's Timer and Stopwatch Card Google's timer card added a new feature: stopwatch. You can search for [ stopwatch ] or search for [...] - Google Operating System
Google Begins Sending Warnings for SSL Certificate Issues Google is now sending out warning letters to webmasters when they have an issue with the secure [...] - The SEM Post
Google Search Analytics Updating Once Again The Search Analytics in Google Search Console is slowly updating once again. Search Analytics [...] - The SEM Post

November, 10 2015

New: Google Search Console Fetch & Render Shows Severity Of Blocked Resources Google added a new feature to the blocked resources report in the fetch and render tool within the [...] - Search Engine Land
Overstock Blames Change To Google Search Rankings For Hurting Its Growth Overstock.com admitted to being hit by Google's algorithmic change from May 2015, their stock took [...] - Search Engine Land
Google About Me It looks like Google works on a replacement for Google+ profiles. About Me is a new site that [...] - Google Operating System
Google Search Console Fetch & Render Shows Severity Of Blocked Resources This is neat, now Google will show you how bad it is when you block specific content, assets or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Disavow File Has A 2MB File Size Limit The Google disavow file has a 100,000 URL and 2MB file size limit. I am not sure if this is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Full-Featured Offline Google Maps Google Maps has a really cool mobile app for Android and iOS, but most of its features aren't [...] - Google Operating System
Google Now Shows Severity Rating for Blocked Resources in GSC John Mueller has announced on Google+ that they have added a great new feature to Google Search [...] - The SEM Post
Google Looking for App Developers for Research Study If you are an app developer – and don’t mind signing a non-disclosure agreement – [...] - The SEM Post
Google Bolding Answers to Some Organic Search Result Queries Google appears to be testing some changes in their search results by bolding the specific [...] - The SEM Post

November, 9 2015

TensorFlow - Google’s latest machine learning system, open sourced for everyone Posted by Jeff Dean, Senior Google Fellow, and Rajat Monga, Technical Lead Deep Learning has had [...] - Google Research
TC Summit 2015: Celebrating our Webmaster Top Contributors! Two weeks ago, we were extremely lucky to host the 2015 edition of the Top Contributor Summit ( [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Recalculating PageRank A Google patent was granted on October 20th, 2015 titled Producing a ranking for pages using [...] - SEO by the Sea
New tools and insights to optimize your Shopping campaigns this holiday Last month, we shared our 2015 holiday trends on how shoppers are preparing to shop early and [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Search Console Data Delayed, Yet Again I've been patiently waiting to share data since launching our app with app indexing but the data [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Google Scholarly Articles Results Don't Need Schema Markup Google's Eric Kuan said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that to show up for Google Scholarly [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
EU Wants Site Owners Liable for Linking to Copyright Infringed Content A new leaked document shows a very scary route the EU wants to take with links on the web, one that [...] - The SEM Post
RankBrain, AI, and the Evolving Anatomy of Google Google has created a buzz in the online community by revealing that part of its search algorithm [...] - Searchmetrics
Search Analytics Data in Google Search Console Not Updating If you have been wondering why you aren’t seeing any updated Search Analytics data in Google [...] - The SEM Post
Google News Offers App Download Links to “Editor’s Picks” News Sites Google has now pushed live a new feature in Google News where they offer the latest headlines from [...] - The SEM Post

November, 6 2015

Google Launches New Search Results Interface For Tablets Google Search quietly launches a new interface for tablet users. The design and layout is [...] - Search Engine Land
Tips For Getting A New Google AdWords Account Off On The Right Foot Starting a brand new AdWords account? Check out columnist Michelle Cruz's handy checklist for [...] - Search Engine Land
Adolphe Sax Google Doodle Commemorates Musician & Instrument Maker On His 201st Birthday The saxophone was one of many instruments designed by the Belgium-born nineteenth century [...] - Search Engine Land
Search In Pics: YouTube Paper Rocket Ship, Baymax At Google & Matt Cutts As USB Drive In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the Web, showing [...] - Search Engine Land
Google On When 301 Redirects Are Not Enough: The Moz Example Earlier this week, we showcased an example of an SEO issue that Moz was having. Now John Mueller of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Crawl Frequency & Ranking Higher Are Not Directly Related Google's John Mueller said in a Google+ hangout this morning that there isn't a direct relationship [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: HTTP2 Support For GoogleBot Coming Soon, Maybe By End Of Year Google's John Mueller announced in a Google+ hangout that GoogleBot will soon be able to crawl web [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Are there SEO Implications for Using Pre-Made Templates? Many SEOs tend to shy away from site templates, either free or paid ones, due to the many SEO [...] - The SEM Post
Can Webpages Crawled Infrequently Still Rank Well? If you have a website that doesn’t change or update content frequently, you may have noticed [...] - The SEM Post

November, 5 2015

10 Things People Want To Know About AdWords, Direct From Google Last month, AdWords product managers fielded questions in front of a live audience at SMX East. [...] - Search Engine Land
BrightLocal Opens Its 2015 Local SEO Industry Survey The poll aims to gain a better understanding of the local SEO community, offering insight into [...] - Search Engine Land
Moving Your Office Without Losing Rankings: The Local Business Owner’s Guide Is your business moving to a new location? If so, check out columnist Joy Hawkins' guide to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Testing AdWords Loan Referral Program With Lending Club A small number of AdWords advertisers have received offers for loans funded by the peer-to-peer [...] - Search Engine Land
Programmatic Advertising & How It Can Drive Your PPC Forward Search marketers, are you taking advantage of display data? Columnist Jeff Baum explains how [...] - Search Engine Land
Three reasons why the search industry needs a shake up Google might be the biggest and richest company around, but its dominance means that the online [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google: We Are Planning On Extending Historical Google Search Console Search Analytics Data Back in 2003 Google said they would work on giving us up to one-year worth of data (up from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google PSA: Placing Content In JavaScript Array May Cause Indexing Issues... Google's Gary Illyes issued a PSA (public service announcement) on Twitter last night that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Files Patent for Drone Delivery Platform If you’ve been keeping an eye on the news, you may have seen a Reuters article about Google [...] - SEO by the Sea
Google News Card Here's a quick way to find the latest news stories when using a mobile device. Just search Google [...] - Google Operating System
Google Updates Search Interface For Tablets It looks like Google updated the search interface for tablets and switched to the mobile UI. The [...] - Google Operating System

November, 4 2015

Google Maps App Lets Users Add A New Business To The Map Google integrates Google Map Maker directly into the Google Maps iOS App. This allows any user to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Is Testing Split View Language Interface To manage searchers who speak multiple languages fluently, Google is testing a language split view [...] - Search Engine Land
[Live Webcast] Why Agencies Need Marketing Automation to Succeed It’s clear in today’s market that traditional media companies need to adapt to the [...] - Search Engine Land
Moz Needs SEO Help & Goes To Google Forums For It I love it when I spot big brands go into the Google support forums seeking SEO help, but it is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Don't Build Apps Just For Ranking Boost The first ever Google mobile friendly ranking boost launched before April 21, 2015, it was launched [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
November 2015 Google Webmaster Report What a busy month we had in October with Google core SEO topics, from RankBrain being announced to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
YouTube Fixed Their Canonical URLs Resolving Major SEO Issues A couple weeks ago, we covered how YouTube's canonicals sent a reverse message when compared to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Featured Snippet for Resumes from LinkedIn Google is displaying data from LinkedIn in a format in their search results, as a featured snippet, [...] - The SEM Post

November, 3 2015

Computer, respond to this email. Posted by Greg Corrado * , Senior Research Scientist Machine Intelligence for You What I love [...] - Google Research
Google’s App Interstitial Giant Ad Penalty Is Now Live Yesterday, Google release an update to their mobile friendly algorithm, penalizing sites using [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Want Featured Snippets, Try Using Schema Markup In a Google+ hangout with John Mueller from a week or so ago, the first question asked was how can [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Pages With App Interstitials Now Lose Mobile Friendly Ranking Boost Google has officially begun making pages that serve app interstitials to users coming from the [...] - The SEM Post
The Pitfalls of a One-Man Web Marketing Band Imagine for a second you’re at a concert of your favorite musical band. The curtain comes up, [...] - The SEM Post
Google Expands Holiday Hours to All Google My Business Listings Google is launching a brand new feature to all local businesses, a feature we first saw being [...] - The SEM Post
Bing Predicts goes 13-1 in Week 8, now 80-39 for the year Each week Bing Predicts picks the winners of every professional football game. By every Wednesday, [...] - Bing Search

November, 2 2015

Google: Penguin 4.2 Should Be Real-Time & Continuous At SMX Israel, in the keynote session with Gary Illyes from Google... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Working On "Sets" To Consolidate Google Search Console Profiles Google is working on a way to consolidate verified profiles within the Google Search Console. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Vote On The Google Search Console Feature You Want Michael Fink, the Google Search Console Product Manager, gave a 40 minute presentation yesterday at [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Testing Huge 7-Line Snippets in Search Results Google appears to be testing some search results showing up to 7 lines of description text in the [...] - The SEM Post
Google Testing New Store Hours AdWords Extension for Local Businesses Google is testing a brand new AdWords ad extension, this one an expandable extension that displays [...] - The SEM Post
A New Source For Featured Snippets: YouTube If you have been unsuccessful getting a featured snippet for some of the how/why queries in your [...] - The SEM Post