Archive of July, 2016

July, 30 2016

Google Album Archive Picasa Web Albums will be discontinued on August 1st , but you can still access your photos from [...] - Google Operating System
Google Image Labeler Is Back Google Image Labeler used to be a game that helped Google categorize images and improve image [...] - Google Operating System

July, 29 2016

Why Some Don't Believe Google About Redirects Not Diluting PageRank Signals As we reported a couple days ago, Google once again said 3xx redirects do pass full PageRank and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Adds Social Icons To The Local Knowledge Graph Google has added social profiles and icons to the local knowledge graph. This was discovered by [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Eight most interesting search marketing news stories of the week Welcome to our weekly round-up of all the latest news and research from around the world of search [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google May Treat Expired Products Page Redirects As Soft 404s Google's John Mueller said that Google may very well treat pages that no longer let you buy a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Featured Snippets Can Be Localized & They Are Wicked Smart Rob Birgfeld shared on Twitter a featured snippet in Google that answered the query [er wait times] [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Three New Google AdWords Cross-Device Conversions Reports Google announced that AdWords is adding three new cross-device conversion reports including [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 28 2016

New cross-device attribution reports and benchmarks Consider this: 6 in 10 internet users in the US start shopping on one device but continue or finish [...] - Inside Adwords
The Craziest Queries Google Receives Each Month Think you’ve asked Google some crazy questions in you’re life? They’re probably [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Singular & Plural Words Can Be Different Keywords Here is the basic and obvious post of the day but hey, always good to go back to basics every now [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Reddit Will Allow Marketers To Sponsor User Posts Sponsored posts are coming to Reddit. Marketers will soon be able to turn content that has been [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Chrome for iOS Now Supports Accelerated Mobile Pages An update this week to the Google Chrome browser for iOS brings support for Accelerated Mobile [...] - Search Engine Journal
Is Stolen Content Outranking You? Tell Google About It. If a scraper site, a site that steals your content and posts it almost identically on their own [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google App for iOS Updated With Improved Voice Search, Forward Button, + More Google’s flagship app for iOS has been updated with several key new features, one of which [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google FAQs For HTTP To HTTPS Migration For News Publishers In February... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Releases AdWords Editor 11.5 Google typically doesn't announce updates to the AdWords Editor but they did announced version 11.5 [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Facebook’s ‘Good Quarter’: $6.3 Billion In Ad Revenue Facebook’s advertising revenue skyrocketed to $6.2 billion, an amazing 63 percent increase [...] - Search Engine Journal
Removing Links from Disavow to Recover Google Rankings Doing disavows and link removals is always an interesting thing. And too often, sites are too [...] - The SEM Post

July, 27 2016

Google: There is no PageRank dilution when using 301, 302, or 30x redirects anymore Google's Gary Illyes confirms that any 301, 302, 3xx redirect does not lose any PageRank value. - Search Engine Land
Google Drops Donald Trump Out Of Presidential Candidates Search Box If you search in Google for [presidential candidates] you will not find Donald Trump listed. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google removes special presidential candidates box that omitted Trump Why is Google not showing Donald Trump as a candidate for the 2016 US elections in the search [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Update Brewing? Some Early Chatter & Signals. Over the past few days, I've been seeing webmasters complain and cautiously rejoice about shifts in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
AdWords Editor 11.5 supports expanded text ads, mobile app engagement ads, and more We’re introducing several updates to AdWords Editor , available today to all advertisers [...] - Inside Adwords
Google: Any 3xx Redirect Does Not Lose PageRank At All Google's Gary Illyes said on Twitter yesterday that any type of 3xx redirect, a 301, 302, or any [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Again Says Penguin Will Be Rolling Out But Won't Say When Yesterday morning, in a Google Hangout on Google+, John Mueller again addressed a question about [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google brings programmatic to native ads Programmatic, while still the source of much confusion, is a now a huge part of the digital [...] - Search Engine Watch
Twitter Ad Revenue & Engagement Grows, But Demand Drops Twitter’s ad revenue grew 18 percent year-over-year to $535 million in Q2. Ad engagement [...] - Search Engine Journal

July, 26 2016

Available today: three ad innovations for a mobile-first world The shift to mobile is no longer happening, or will happen — the shift to mobile has [...] - Inside Adwords
Good AdWords Updates: Expanded Text Ads, Responsive Ads, & Device Bidding Google officially unleashed three anticipated AdWords updates today that are designed to help [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google AdWords to Eliminate ‘Converted Clicks’ on September 21st A Google AdWords metric that has been around for the past 15 years is being retired on September [...] - Search Engine Journal
17 useful search marketing stats from Merkle’s Q2 2016 report This morning, Merkle released their quarterly Direct Marketing Report, ahead of Google’s own [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Still Showing Emojis In Search Results So I thought Google killed off emojis showing in the search results. I mean... - Search Engine Roundtable
No PageRank Loss for 30x Redirects, Including 301 & 302 Redirects There has been a lot of debate on the issue of 301 versus 302 redirects over the years, [...] - The SEM Post
What the evolution of search can teach marketers about digital transformation For years, search engines have proved themselves as the gateway to the web, an entry point to the [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google AdWords New Machine Learning Based Smart Bidding Everything at Google is going the way of machine learning, not just the search results... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords To Retire "Converted Clicks" On September 21th Google announced that on September 21... - Search Engine Roundtable
Verizon acquires Yahoo’s operating business for $4.8 billion Verizon has agreed to acquire Yahoo's operating business in a $4.8 billion cash deal, sealing the [...] - Search Engine Watch

July, 25 2016

Simplifying conversion measurement: saying goodbye to "Converted clicks" Conversion tracking was introduced to AdWords in 2001 to measure what happened after someone [...] - Inside Adwords
Get more powerful bid automation with new AdWords Smart Bidding Efficient and effective bid management is a foundational component of any successful digital [...] - Inside Adwords
Yahoo Acquired by Verizon for Nearly $4 Billion in Cash In a press release issued this morning, Verizon has announced it will acquire Yahoo for roughly [...] - Search Engine Journal
Verizon To Acquired Yahoo For $4.83 Billion - End Of An Era This comes as no surprise, as you know, Yahoo was looking to sell and over the weekend... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Maps Updated for Android: Wi-Fi Only Mode, Mass Transit Delay Notifications An update to Google Maps is rolling out to select Android users. New features involve a wi-fi only [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: First Build High Quality Content Then Worry About Web Spam Issues So you have a spam issue with your web site and your web site doesn't rank well in Google. What do [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google On "Great Post" Comments; Should You Remove Them Or Keep Them? John Mueller replied on Twitter to someone asking if they should remove comments that pretty much [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Payday Loans Ban Now Goes Into Effect? In may we reported Google AdWords is banning payday loans and other high interest and risky loans [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Four key digital transformation trends you must pay attention to right now Last week ClickZ Intelligence held its webinar on The What, Why and How of Digital Transformation [...] - Search Engine Watch
Sending Visitors Off Site Via Links Won’t Hurt Site’s Google Rankings Ever since Google sent out the manual actions for outbound links, mostly targeting bloggers linking [...] - The SEM Post
Googlers John Mueller & Gary Illyes Playing Pokemon Go - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 22 2016

Data exploration from: An experiment in trying to predict Google rankings Contributor JR Oakes shares a deep dive into 500,000 search results for transactional service [...] - Search Engine Land
5 Big Facebook Live Updates Marketers Need To Know On Facebook Live you can now broadcast for up to four hours, hide reactions and comments in a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google launches imported call conversions If the internet killed the phone call, the smartphone has revived it. - Search Engine Watch
Google: Your Placement Won't Drop If Your Competitor Keeps Reporting You As Spam Google's John Mueller answered a question on Twitter on spam report. The question was what happens [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AMP Ads: A4A Google announced this week they have published the AMP version of how they should handle ads on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Ads With Ad Rejection Exceptions On Ad Group Level Bing announced you can now request ad exceptions on ad rejections on the whole group level... - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google London Black Steel Staircase - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 21 2016

Google Launching Speed Test In Search Results Three weeks ago I reported Google was testing a speed test feature in their search results, like [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google is Soon Rolling Out Imported Call Conversions for AdWords In an effort to bring all conversion sources together in one set of data, Google is introducing [...] - Search Engine Journal
New Ways to Edit and Add Information to Google Maps Today the company has announced new ways that make it even easier to add places to Google Maps or [...] - Search Engine Journal
New Study Finds Links Still Have Real SEO Value Are links still a powerful ranking factor? Here are three key takeaways from a study that examines [...] - Search Engine Journal
Surface your videos when viewers are looking for what to watch with TrueView discovery ads Think about the last YouTube video you watched. How did you find that video? Did a friend send it [...] - Inside Adwords
Google AdWords New Imported Call Conversions Google announced that advertisers can now import their call conversion data into AdWords starting [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Twitter Lets Users Apply For Verified Accounts; Mine Took Hours Twitter announced the other day that they are now allowing anyone to apply to have their accounts [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Huge Google Malaysia Search Box Picture Frame - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 20 2016

New Google ranking study shows links are incredibly important to the ranking algorithm Despite many thinking that links are a declining ranking signal in Google's algorithm, this new [...] - Search Engine Land
An experiment in trying to predict Google rankings In late 2015, JR Oakes and his colleagues undertook an experiment to attempt to predict Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Announcing an Open Source ADC board for BeagleBone Posted by Jason Holt, Software Engineer (Cross-posted on the Google Open Source Blog ) [...] - Google Research
Measure the true value of calls with imported call conversions Mobile click-to-call has made it easier than ever for consumers to connect with businesses over [...] - Inside Adwords
Bing Doing Well: Revenue May Hit $5.3 Billion With 43% Growth Microsoft announced earnings last night and i focused in a bit on their search specific [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords to Automatically Count Cross-Device Conversions Soon, cross-device conversions will be automatically included in the Conversions column in Google [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Releases AMP Case Study But Here Are My Results So yesterday, Google released a case study for the AMP site based on the Washington Post stats. So [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords To Add Cross Device Conversion Column By Default Google announced that starting after August 16, 2016, all new AdWords accounts will include [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 19 2016

Automatically counting cross-device conversions for a more accurate and complete view of performance While consumers are living mobile-first, they’re also moving seamlessly between multiple [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Announces AMP for Ads and Landing Pages Today at Google’s DoubleClick Leadership Summit it was announced that advertisements on AMP [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Maps Showing Fewer Business Listings In Map Results On Friday, I reported about the compression and hyper localization of the google Maps results. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Facebook Event App Optimization Lets Advertisers Target 14 Events A new Facebook mobile ad format lets you target people who have downloaded your app and are more [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google AdWords Admin Alerts & Administrative Owner Access Controls Google announced on Google+ that they added some higher level administrative features for those [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Mobile Site Clinic Tomorrow At 10:30am ET Andrey Lipattsev from Google announced on YouTube and Google+ that they are offering a mobile site [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Price Extensions Google announced a new AdWords ad extension for showing off your prices for your more popular [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 18 2016

Towards an exact (quantum) description of chemistry Posted by Ryan Babbush, Quantum Software Engineer “ ...nature isn't classical, dammit, and [...] - Google Research
Showcase your services and range of products with price extensions Whether it’s weekend baseball tickets or temporary storage space, people want to know what [...] - Inside Adwords
Price Extensions Are Coming to Google’s Mobile Text Ads Google advertisers will soon be able to showcase the prices of their products and services in [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Shows How Many Minutes People Spend At Venues Over the weekend Brian Barwig and @NortheasternExt both notified me on Twitter that Google is now [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Maps Business Verification Via Email Address? Google Maps recently tested the ability to verify your business using video verification but Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Featured Snippets: Bullet vs Table Form @ChrisRussell shared an example of a featured snippet in Google that is in the form of a nicely [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Teaches Searchers How To Register To Vote Google added a new answer in search to help searchers figure out how to register to vote. If you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Releases Search Tools to Simplify the Voter Registration Process With Google’s most recent update, it will provide information directly in the search results [...] - Search Engine Journal
Actual Google Fiber - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Looking for Sites to Review for Next Site Clinic Want to get your website reviewed by Googlers? Google is once again doing a live site clinic, [...] - The SEM Post

July, 15 2016

Google testing new format for Sitelinks, in carousel card form Google keeps on testing, this time with a new carousel look for Sitelinks. - Search Engine Land
Google Local Map Results Getting More Hyperlocal? Over the past couple weeks, I've been seeing sporadic reports from some local SEO experts that the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Q&A: Google, Will You Run Penguin Again? We Never Said We Won't Run It Again. Yesterday I ran a poll asking if you think Google will run Penguin again, most of you think yes, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Testing Card Style Sitelinks John Lincoln @johnelincoln shared a photo with me of a new style for Sitelinks in the mobile [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New EU Antitrust Claims Against Google Over AdSense & AdWords The news broke yesterday morning that the EU is going after Google again for antitrust issues on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
A voice for everyone in 2016 Every election matters and every vote counts. The American democracy relies on everyone’s [...] - Inside Search
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Local Algorithm & Updates, Penguin Status, SEO & AdWords Changes This week in search, we saw changes to the Google local algorithm and results. We also reported on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Dog Pizza For Lunch - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 14 2016

Now You Can Browse Local Store Inventory in Google Search Google has updated its Local Inventory Ads with a feature that allows searchers to browse in-stock [...] - Search Engine Journal
A JSON-LD Schema Generator Tool Now Available Joe Hall was cool enough to make a JSON-LD Schema Generator tool for SEOs. The tool is very easy [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Do You Think Google Will Run Penguin Again? Take Our Poll. It is just about 1 year and 9 months, over 90 weeks, almost 21 months, since Google ran the last [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
European Union Files Third Anti-Trust Charge Against Google The European Union (EU) has thrown yet another antitrust charge at Google, which marks the third [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Update Signs From Trackers But The Community Is Quiet We are living in a weird time - typically when I see the community begin talking about a potential [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Adds Automated Bidding Health Reporting Google announced on the AdWords blog that they have added more reporting to help advertisers stay [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Adds Images & Ambiguity Thumbnails to Autosuggest Bing has added thumbnails to their autosuggest dropdowns. They show for a variety of [...] - The SEM Post
Warm Black & White Google Winter Hat - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 13 2016

More prominent reporting helps you monitor the health of your automated bidding Automated bidding in AdWords is an invaluable tool that helps marketers save time and improve [...] - Inside Adwords
Google May Count Your Annoying Pop Up As Primary Content So we know Google isn't a fan of pop ups on web sites, well, at least the webmaster analysts team [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
5 Ways You Can Suck At Influencer Marketing Like Warner Bros. Influencer marketing can be beneficial when done right. But failing to add a sponsorship disclosure [...] - Search Engine Journal
Twitter Opens Audience API To Brands Twitter has opened Gnip's Audience API to provide more audience data to brands about users who see [...] - Search Engine Journal
News Sites Benefitting From June’s Google Quality Update [STUDY] A study published this week by Roy Hinkis at SimilarWeb digs deep into the data surrounding [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Maps Tests Search Store Local Inventory With Ikea Nicolai Helling posted on Google+ a new shopping and maps feature that Google seems to be testing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 12 2016

Will Pokémon GO become a marketing platform for local businesses? Nintendo's Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality (AR) mobile game, is on fire. - Search Engine Watch
Mobile marketing AMPlification: Content, performance and measurement What's the deal with Accelerated Mobile Pages, and how do they relate to micro-moments? Columnist [...] - Search Engine Land
Making Travel and Shopping Easier for the Seasons Ahead While most of us are busy making the most of the summer sunshine, marketers are already beginning [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Analytics Tests New Design? Antonino Bologna posted on Twitter a screen shot of what looks like a new user interface and design [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
UPDATE: ‘Pokemon Go’ Addresses Concerns With Google Account Access An update to Pokemon Go, available now in the App Store, downgrades the app from having full access [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Assists Travelers With Improved Hotel and Flight Search Google announced a series of updates to search results at a press conference today in New York. The [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google AdWords Tests Percentages Instead Of Stars For Reviews Peter Lavelle from Pure FX informed Search Engine Land that Google AdWords is testing showing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Maps Brings Back Reviews From "A Google User" In 2012, Google did away with anonymous Google Maps reviews from "A Google User" or at [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
No Google Ranking Advantage to Removing Older Content There has been a trend by webmasters to remove older content because many feel that it is a signal [...] - The SEM Post
Google AdWords Emailing Advertiser: Made For Mobile. The other day, Google emailed me on my AdWords account that "35% of people who saw ads for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 11 2016

Caution: ‘Pokemon Go’ Has Full Access to Your Google Account While everyone is hurriedly joining the Pokemon Go craze they may not be aware of what [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Short Articles Won't Penalize Your Site; Think About Users Google's John Mueller covered lots and lots of myths this past Friday in the Google Hangout on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Cuts Back on Incentives for Local Guides Local Guides are being alerted that Google is now cutting back on one of its most generous offers. - Search Engine Journal
Maybe Why Google Dropped Authorship As A Ranking Signal? Now, I do not know if authorship was ever a ranking signal but I assume Google tested it to see if [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Disavow Links File Needs To Be On Canonical Version For Manual Actions John Mueller in the Friday morning's Google Hangout on Google+ said at the 54 minute mark that if [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Why Numbers in Google Search Analytics for Keywords & Clicks Don’t Match Have you ever wondered why Google’s numbers don’t add up in Google Search Analytics? [...] - The SEM Post
Google AdWords Express Advertising Dashboard Broken Several Google AdWords advertisers who leverage the AdWords Express ad system are reporting in a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: There Is No Penalty For Not Linking Out Externally I am not sure where these myths come from... - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 8 2016

Google Search Console bug sends re-verification notifications to users Don't panic says Google, that verification email from Google Search Console was an accident, but it [...] - Search Engine Land
Report: EU responding to Google antitrust search-quality defense with new objections Supplementary statement reportedly being filed to enable European Commission to address Google's [...] - Search Engine Land
Google : No Need To Disavow Links That Are No Longer Relevant To Your Site Google's John Mueller had a lot to say this morning, he said basically, you should only disavow [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Five most interesting search marketing news stories of the week Google is where it’s at this week, with news that HTTPS websites account for a third of [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google: Penguin 4.0 Still Has Not Launched Every day, I get at least one question about the status of the Penguin update. Well, John Mueller [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Bug Reverified Email Bug; Google Says Don't Panic This morning I woke up to dozens of reverification notices from Google Search Console for dozens of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Small Farmers Market Pulls Up To The Google Zurich Office - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Contact Information On A Web Site Is Not An Organic Ranking Signal In a Google Hangout this morning on Google+, Google's John Mueller said at the 43:45 mark that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Confirms AdWords Keyword Planner Includes Organic Traffic There has been some confusion over the last few days over Google’s AdWords Keyword Planner [...] - The SEM Post

July, 7 2016

Google Keyword Planner Estimates Are Based On Ads Not Organic Search There was some confusion about where the Google Keyword Planner tool gets their estimates. Is it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SMX Advanced recap: Advanced Google App Deep Linking How do you get your app content into Google Search results, and what are the benefits of doing so? [...] - Search Engine Land
HTTPS websites account for 30% of all Google search results As of late June, 32.5% of page one Google results now use the https: protocol, according to a new [...] - Search Engine Watch
Eight key improvements from an ecommerce site relaunch Ecommerce site Simply Hammocks relaunched a few months ago, and has so far achieved some impressive [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Expands Google Posts to Organizations and Public Figures Google is continuing the slow rollout of a feature called Google Posts which allows certain [...] - Search Engine Journal
Matt Cutts In Army Tactical Body Armor - Search Engine Roundtable
Tailor your ads with dynamic remarketing - Google Best Practices If you think people make purchase decisions quickly, think again. Today’s consumers visit [...] - Inside Adwords

July, 6 2016

Google tries dropping the estimate number of results in the search results Google is now testing dropping the estimated number of results from the top of the search results. - Search Engine Land
What Advanced SEOs Should Know From The Google Raters Guidelines (SMX Advanced Recap) During this SMX Advanced session, panelists discussed what SEOs need to know about Google's Search [...] - Search Engine Land
More on Tap: Translate, discover and improved Search by image With Now on Tap, Android Marshmallow users can get quick help from Google without having to stop [...] - Inside Search
Google Basics: One URL = One Piece Of Content I often speak to a lot of SEO newbies when I do talks or travel or even via emails and other [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How the future of advertising is in servicing the ‘moment’ Great advertising starts when a brand delivers a service to the consumer – rather than an ad, [...] - Search Engine Watch
Translate Text From Any App With Google Now on Tap In an update to Google Now on Tap for Android Marshmallow users, you can now do more without having [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Breaking Head Section Can Make Hreflang Unrecognizable To Google Google's John Mueller said in a Google Hangout on Google+ last Friday that sometimes when href [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Search Engines Tend To Not Support Pages Dependent On Hashtags John Mueller at Google said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that if your page load is dependent [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Dropping Results Estimate? When you do a search on Google, at the top, under the search box, it normally shows how many [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
July 2016 Google Webmaster Report This past month was actually fairly slow with Google Webmaster big news. The biggest topics we had [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Weird Google Display With Facebook Thumbs Down At GooglePlex - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 5 2016

30% of Search Results are Now HTTPS, According to Moz Study Dr. Pete Meyers of Moz has put together data which suggests Google is slowing but surely [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google AdSense Bug Cancels Massive Number Of Accounts Over the past 24 hours or so, Google seems to have cancelled a massive number of Google AdSense [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Changing Sitemap URL Location Has No Impact On Ranking Or Crawling Google's John Mueller said in a Google Hangout on Google+ last Friday that changing the URL or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Testing A New Home Service Ad Without Location? Pete Meyers posted on Twitter a screen shot of what looks like a new format for the Google home [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Doodle For Juno Probe Reaching Jupiter After Five Years Today on Google.com globally is a special Google logo, aka Doodle, for the Juno probe finally [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Rents Out Great America Park For Googlers - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 5, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 4 2016

eBay goes AMP, sign it might break out past news? eBay adopting AMP for their transactional based site may signal that Google may push out AMP well [...] - Search Engine Land
How Google May Respond to Reverse Engineering of Spam Detection The ultimate goal of any spam detection system is to penalize “spammy” content. ~ [...] - SEO by the Sea
Google Search Console App Crawl Report May Show Drop In Index Count & Errors Google quietly posted on the data anomalies page that there was a "bookkeeping error" on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Five stats that sum up the rise of ad blocking Love them or loathe them, ad blockers aren’t going anywhere soon, forcing publishers to sit [...] - Search Engine Watch
Fourth of July Celebrations From Google, Bing & Dogpile Today is the Fourth of July, America's Independence Day, birthday, and to celebrate, the search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 3 2016

The US is Asking for Help Understanding the Impacts of Artificial Intelligence As we approach the celebration of the 4th of July, I thought it might be interesting to share a [...] - SEO by the Sea

July, 1 2016

eBay Tries AMP: Google Encourages All Web Sites To Try Out AMP Yesterday, eBay announced they are experimenting with AMP pages for their massive auction [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business New Navigation Experience Google has added a new view to edit your business information in the Google My Business login area. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Five most interesting search marketing news stories of the week Look, I’ll level with you, I’ve pretty much just spent the week staring open mouthed at [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google: With Authorship Gone; It Doesn't Mean We Know Who Wrote An Article Last week, we reported that it is safe to remove authorship markup from you site, citing Gary [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Promises To Dynamic Search Ads More Relevant Google announced quietly on Google+ that they are going to be making the Dynamic Search Ads feature [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Could SEOs See Keyword Planner Tool in Google Search Console? In today’s Google Webmaster Office Hours, I asked about the recent change in the Google [...] - The SEM Post
Google Testing Larger Title Headlines in Search Results Google is running a test right now that many SEOs will love. Google is testing a [...] - The SEM Post
Unveiling The Google Android Nougat - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update, RankBrain, Authorship, Keyword Planner & AMP This week in search, I covered a potential Google quality search algorithm update that happened [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 1, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Bing Search API portfolio now available Starting July 1, the new Bing Search API portfolio is available for purchase as a Microsoft Azure [...] - Bing Search