Archive of September, 2016

September, 30 2016

Webmaster Forums Top AMP Questions It has been busy here at Google Webmaster Central over the last few weeks, covering a lot of [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google: Redirects Are Not An SEO Thing, So Stop Fussing Google's John Mueller posted a fun message on Twitter the other day. He said that he feels [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
GoogleBot Attend AngularConnect Conference - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Displays Green White Check Mark Emoji In Search Results The last time we reported Google displaying emojis in the search results was in July 2016 - they [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: You Can Expect More Algorithm & Ranking Changes Google's Gary Illyes said on Tuesday on Twitter that you, meaning webmasters and SEOs, "can [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's I'm Feeling Lucky Button Stops Working Forums such as Google Web Search Help and Reddit spotted that the I'm Feeling Lucky button on the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Six most important 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 Keyword Planner Restrictions Due To "Bad Actors" The Keyword Planner restrictions Google set into place a couple months ago were not to just block [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Helping prospective students make decisions about their future Just in time for college application season, new in-depth search results now help surface relevant [...] - Inside Search
Getting college information into the hands of those who need it, when they need it - Inside Search
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Penguin 4.0 Recoveries, AMP over Apps, Local & AdWords This week in search I covered a lot more around the Google Penguin 4.0 launch. The impact five [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The natural evolution of digital for brands: becoming more human With the rise of digital personal assistants in recent years like Cortana and Siri, and intelligent [...] - Search Engine Watch
Authority & link building with real-time Penguin Google recently released Penguin 4.0, and the Penguin filter now updates in real time. Columnist [...] - Search Engine Land
Introducing the Open Images Dataset Posted by Ivan Krasin and Tom Duerig, Software Engineers In the last few years, advances in [...] - Google Research
Mobile Google Tests Trending Searches Bing has a cool feature: just click the search box and you get a list of trending searches. Google [...] - Google Operating System
The Keyword: Google's New Unified Blog Google has a new blog that merges 19 of its most popular blogs, including the Official Google Blog, [...] - Google Operating System
Google Calendar Events in Google Maps The latest version of the Google Maps app for Android adds more integration with Google Calendar . [...] - Google Operating System
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 30, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 29 2016

Google: Penguin Recoveries Rolling Out Now Over Next Few Days Google's Gary Illyes said that the part of the Penguin 4.0 algorithm where sites impacted by [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google says Penguin recoveries have started to roll out now Have you been waiting two or more years to recover from your Penguin penalty? Google said the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Continues to Rev Up Remarketing With Latest AdWords Innovations Google continues to make remarketing an even more powerful tool for advertisers with the release [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bing Enhances the Copyright Infringement Claims Process with New, Easy-to-Use Dashboard Lack of communication is a leading cause of divorce. Communication is vital, and sharing the status [...] - Bing Webmaster
Parts Of Google Penguin 4.0 Rolled Out Prior To 9/23 Many, including myself, are obsessed with when Penguin 4.0, the real time version, started to roll [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google DJs For Premier Partners Party In Amsterdam - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: App Indexing Ranking Boost Still Valid Regardless Of AMP Last week we broke some very important news, that AMP pages will trump app deep link results in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Pack Testing Nearby Large City Sergey Alakov shared a screen shot on Twitter the other day and of the local pack describing that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Penguin Doesn't Really Need Disavow Files - Devalues vs Demotes Tuesday I reported that Google said nothing changed with when you should use the disavow file when [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Has Started Removing Penalties From Previous Penguin Updates Google’s Gary Illyes has confirmed Penguin recoveries are happening now, and will be finished [...] - Search Engine Journal
The myth of the duplicate content penalty There is a lot of confusion surrounding how Google handles duplicate content, but columnist Patrick [...] - Search Engine Land
Just 36% of people entering the tech industry are women The technology industry is lagging behind many other sectors when it comes to the proportion of [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Maps Maximizes Voice Search Capabilities in Latest Update Google Maps has updated its mobile app with new voice search capabilities. - Search Engine Journal
Image Compression with Neural Networks Posted by Nick Johnston and David Minnen, Software Engineers Data compression is used nearly [...] - Google Research
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 29, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 28 2016

Google AdWords Sitelinks New Linear Format Google seems to have launched a new user interface and layout for the AdWords Sitelinks. Instead of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google 18th Birthday Cake - Search Engine Roundtable
Penguin 4.0: what does it mean for SEO practitioners? As you’re no doubt aware, Google finally rolled out its Google 4.0 algorithm update at the [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google My Business API Version 3.1 Live Google has launched version 3.1 of the Google My Business API... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google iOS App Touch ID To Reenter Incognito Mode Searches Google new iOS search app now lets you search privately using incognito mode but the cool part is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Adds Recommendations For Working With Local SEOs The Google My Business help section added a new page for working with third parties - it aims at [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: AMP will override app deep links for the foreseeable future Even if your user downloads your app, which has app indexing deployed, Google will show them the [...] - Search Engine Land
Gary Illyes: Google Penguin 4.0 Was One Of Our Nicest Launches Did you know how proud Google is with the Penguin 4.0, real time, launch? Very proud. Gary Illyes [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search audience ad innovations see strong momentum Consumer expectations for immediacy and relevance are higher than ever, and successful brands are [...] - Inside Adwords
The four pillars of the future of SEO What does the future of search engine optimization have in store for us? Columnist Pratik Dholakiya [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Penguin doesn’t penalize for bad links – or does it? You technically no longer need to use the disavow file to help fix your Google Penguin issues - [...] - Search Engine Land
Announcing YouTube-8M: A Large and Diverse Labeled Video Dataset for Video Understanding Research Posted by Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan and Paul Natsev, Software Engineers Many recent [...] - Google Research
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 28, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s iOS App Now Has Incognito Mode, + More in Latest Update Google's iOS app now has an incognito mode for private searching and web browsing. - Search Engine Journal

September, 27 2016

A Google Pumpkin - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's 18th Birthday Doodle: When Is Google's Birthday Google has a fun Doodle, aka Google logo, for their 18th birthday today. It is a global Doodle, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
No, Google Won't Send Manual Actions Notices For Penguin Penalties I am sorry, I don't understand why people think that with the real time Penguin algorithm out now [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Yes, Disavow Link File Helps With Penguin With the Google Penguin 4.0 launch many old questions are resurfacing around the algorithm and how [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Penguin 4.0 Update Impact Seems Minimal Everyone is asking me, did anyone see a recovery from the September 23, 2016 launch date of Penguin [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google May Have Rolled Out Penguin 4.0 Before Its Launch Date As you know, Google announced the launch of Penguin 4.0, the real time Penguin algorithm, on Friday [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Testing “Near City” in Local 3-Pack Google is testing a new style of their local 3-pack, this one to show businesses that are near a [...] - The SEM Post
Google Testing New Schema Markup for ‘Science Datasets’ Google is testing a new type of Schema markup designed for scientific data to be more easily [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google AdWords Introduces Cross-Device Remarketing Cross-device remarketing for AdWords can help you target the same ads to the same users as they [...] - Search Engine Journal
A Neural Network for Machine Translation, at Production Scale Posted by Quoc V. Le & Mike Schuster, Research Scientists, Google Brain Team Ten years ago, [...] - Google Research
Google Showing AMP Results On Desktop Results Looks like there is a bug with Google's implementation of AMP. Google is now showing AMP icons and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The latest updates and improvements for the Google app for iOS Earlier this year, we announced that your Google app for iOS got faster. Now buckle up, because [...] - Inside Search
Learn and Explore with Bing Bing has released a new set of educational experiences that cover a wide range of topics: from [...] - Bing Search
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 27, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 26 2016

New digital innovations to close the loop for advertisers Mobile phones have created new ways for consumers to engage with brands, often blurring the [...] - Inside Adwords
A YouTube Cake - Search Engine Roundtable
No Changes to Link Related Manual Actions with Penguin Real Time Launch Google will continue to send manual actions related to spammy links. This has not changed now [...] - The SEM Post
Google Quietly Adds Science Datasets Structured Data & Schema Support Looks like Google added a new data type to the structured data options for search, this one is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Logo Tells You How To Register To Vote On Google's home page in the US is a special logo not for the Penguin launch but rather for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Use Google Disavow Like Before, No Changes With Real Time Penguin The new launch of Google Penguin on Friday does not change how site owners should be using the [...] - The SEM Post
Google Tests Hotel Booking Ads At Top Instead Of Right Side Craig Harkins posted a screen shot on Twitter of Google testing placing the hotel booking feature [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Maps Local Pack & Map Listings Testing Light Blue Color Just about a month ago Google launched a newish look for the local pack but now it seems Google is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Is Google Penguin 4.0 Fully Rolled Out? One of the bigger questions folks are asking since Google launched Penguin 4.0 on Friday was if it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google adds new schema named “Science Datasets” for marking up scientific or government data A new Google pilot program now allows publishers to describe CSV and other tabular datasets for [...] - Search Engine Land
Case study: JavaScript blocking Google’s view of hreflang Contributor Sam Gipson troubleshoots issues with a client's hreflang implementation, testing to see [...] - Search Engine Land
#IRegistered to vote. Have you? ¡Hola! Desplazarse hacia abajo para leer este mensaje en español -Ed. On the eve of [...] - Inside Search
Use Bing to Livestream Presidential Debates and Register to Vote The U.S. presidential election kicks into high gear tonight as the nation watches Clinton and Trump [...] - Bing Search
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 26, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Seven ways to future-proof your digital strategy Nurcin Erdogan Loeffler, head of strategy and innovation, Vizeum China, outlines the seven ways [...] - Search Engine Watch

September, 24 2016

Local Search Advantage: SEO, Linkbuilding, Voice Search, Mobile Wallets & More SMX East workshop on Monday takes a deep dive into all things local search. - Search Engine Land

September, 23 2016

Google El Santo Mask Logo Today on Google.com is a special Google Doodle, Google logo, for Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta (El [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Musical Artist, Elle Exxe On Google NYC's Rooftop - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Call Conversion Tracking Now Easier Google posted on Google+ that there is a new and easier way to implement call conversion tracking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: You Don't Have To Rush Into Progression Web Apps (PWA) PWAs, progressive web apps, is a Google protocol that helps make richer mobile web pages that act [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Take Google's Survey On Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Google posted on Google+ and Twitter a request to webmasters to complete a survey on accelerated [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Penguin is Now a Real-Time Component of Google’s Core Algorithm Penguin is now running in real-time as a part of Google’s core algorithm. The update goes [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google updates Penguin, says now runs in real-time within the core search algorithm The latest announced release, Penguin 4.0, will also be the last, given its new real-time nature. - Search Engine Land
Penguin is now part of our core algorithm Google's algorithms rely on more than 200 unique signals or "clues" that make it possible [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Penguin 4.0, The Real Time Penguin Algorithm Is Live Google has officially confirmed on the Google webmaster blog that they've began rolling out the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Launches Real-Time Penguin 4.0: All The Changes & Details Google has officially launched Penguin 4.0 This new version of Penguin is the long awaited [...] - The SEM Post
Penguin 4.0 is finally here, Google confirms After a couple of years waiting, and various algorithm fluctuations described as 'normal [...] - Search Engine Watch
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Penguin 4.0 Live, AMP In Core Results & App Indexing Stumbles Big news this morning, Google officially confirmed that Penguin 4.0, the real time version of that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Six most important 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
Bing App joins the AMP open-source effort From the start, the Bing App ( voted #5 of top 100 iPhone apps of 2016 by PC Magazine ) has been [...] - Bing Search
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 23, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 22 2016

Google Chrome Magic Sphere - Search Engine Roundtable
Autumnal Equinox & Fall Designs From Google, Bing, Dogpile & More Today is the first day of fall for those in the northern hemisphere and the Doodle looks wicked [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Showing Flights & Hotel Costs For Vacation Searches Search for [caribbean vacations] or similar queries... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Shadows With The Card Style Layout We keep on covering the card style layout but I wanted to share a variation of that layout with [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
12 companies hit with a Google manual penalty Just in case you're ever tempted to try a few black-hat practices to manipulate your search [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Testing Penguin In The Wild? Some Think So. I am reluctant to write something about this because the chatter in the SEO community is all over [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Testing Individual Hotel Booking Block at Top of Search Results Google is testing a new format for hotel searchers. Instead of listing the booking deals in [...] - The SEM Post
Google Displaying Vacation Prices on Front Page of Search Results Google is now displaying vacation prices on the first page of its search results. - Search Engine Journal
Google Allo Keeps Messages Indefinitely, Raising Privacy Concerns Google Allo, the company’s smart messaging app, may be a cause for concern when it comes to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Entering the Era of Agile Content Creation Driven by Deep Learning Creating new content, developing a new idea or pouring resources into a new product is [...] - Searchmetrics
Show and Tell: image captioning open sourced in TensorFlow Posted by Chris Shallue, Software Engineer, Google Brain Team In 2014, research scientists on the [...] - Google Research
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 22, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 21 2016

8 tips to AMPlify your clients Here is our list of the top 8 things to consider when helping your clients AMPlify their websites [...] - Google Webmaster Central
AMP Results Now Live in Google’s Organic Search Results Have you made your content AMP ready yet? Google has officially turned on AMP results in the [...] - The SEM Post
Google AdWords Certification Bug Says Valid Through December 31, 1969 Many Google AdWords professionals who are taking the AdWords exam to become certified as a Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Confirms: Google AMP Results Now Rolling Out Monday night, we did a late night story, which is rare, sharing that Google AMP is now in the core [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Sleep Cot - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Testing Local 3-Pack Near Bottom of Search Results Page Many are used to seeing Google’s local 3-pack appearing near the top of the search results [...] - The SEM Post
Google Search Console AMP Error Report Update After Scanning Change Google posted in the data anomalies page for Search Console under the Accelerated Mobile Pages [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AMP Trumps App Indexing In Google Mobile Search Results Another update to the data anomalies page this morning was for the Search Analytics report section [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Launches Allo With Google Assistant Preview Late last night, Google announced Allo, their mobile message app for iOS and Android. I am not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AMP error report in Search Console scans for errors differently now You may see more or less AMP errors in your Google Search Console report. No need to worry, it was [...] - Search Engine Land
Google will show AMP URLs before App deep link URLs in mobile results Your readers download your mobile app? Well, Google won't be sending them to those deep links if [...] - Search Engine Land
Recovering From Accidental Site Removal via Google Search Console Remove URL Tool On a somewhat regular basis, site owners report in the Google Webmaster Help Forums about using the [...] - The SEM Post
Google Allo Available to Download on iOS and Android Google Allo, the search giant’s much anticipated messaging app, is available to download on [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 21, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
8 Tips from Google on How to AMP up Your Content With AMP pages now being indexed in Google’s regular set of search results, the pressure is [...] - Search Engine Journal

September, 20 2016

Google AMP In Core Mobile Results Fully Live? In early August we reported Google is bringing AMP pages to the core mobile search results. Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
What’s New in Universal Search: 2016 Edition Evolution over successive generations isn’t always noticeable. Not so in the world of Google. [...] - Searchmetrics
Google's New Preview Book To Book Knowledge Cards Google has added a new feature to the books knowledge card, the option to preview the book in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Doodle Postcards - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Trips Feels Like The Perfect Travel Companion Yesterday, Google announced Google Trips, a new iOS and Android app that lets you plan your trip [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Google Interstitials Mobile Penalty May Impact Popups On Scroll About a month ago, Google announced the new mobile interstitial penalty, which will be coming to a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Site Not Mobile Friendly? Google Offers Mobile Friendly Version of Page in Chrome If you visit a page that isn’t mobile friendly, Google Chrome will now offer users the option [...] - The SEM Post
Google Chrome: Make Page Mobile Friendly Button Joy Hawkins posted a screen shot on Twitter of mobile Chrome giving her the option of making a web [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Are You Seeing Huge Traffic Surges From Google AMP Since Thursday? I've been hearing some chatter here and there around some sites that have deployed AMP, accelerated [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Are your emails personal enough? When it comes to email content, we know that data is key to ensuring messages are relevant and [...] - Search Engine Watch
What’s next for Adblock Plus and its Acceptable Ads Platform? Adblock Plus made a major announcement last week that it would create its own RTB platform and get [...] - Search Engine Watch
The 280-Year-Old Algorithm Inside Google Trips Posted by Bogdan Arsintescu, Software Engineer & Sreenivas Gollapudi, Kostas Kollias, Tamas [...] - Google Research
AMP — Accelerated Mobile Pages — begin global rollout in Google mobile search results Google reiterated that the move does not include a rankings change. - Search Engine Land
Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMPs) Now Indexed in Organic Search Results Google is officially rolling out AMP pages in organic search results around the world - Search Engine Journal
Search Results are officially AMP’d Along with many others in the open source Accelerated Mobile Pages Project , we’ve been [...] - Inside Search
Twitter Rolls Out Big Changes To 140-Character Limit Twitter it rolling out some big changes to loosen its 140-character limits. Images, GIFs, videos, [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 20, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 19 2016

How to best evaluate issues with your Accelerated Mobile Pages As you #AMPlify your site with Accelerated Mobile Pages , it’s important to keep an eye [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Drugs - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Maps: Circle Pin Instead Of Marker Pin I am not sure if this is new or happens on some queries but Besian Sopa posted on Twitter a screen [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Extends Null Quality Scores To October 10th Last month we reported Google AdWords would begin showing null values for the AdWords quality [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Disqus Comments Now Support AMP If you have been reluctant to switch over to AMP because of the loss of comments on your pages, you [...] - The SEM Post
Google On Penguin 4.0: We Don't Have Any Dates To Announce Google's Gary Illyes did say they do have launch a date for Penguin 4.0 but John Mueller said this [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Poll: Should Google Comment About More Google Algorithm Updates & Changes? As you all know, we've been busy covering many of the Google ranking shifts over the past few weeks [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Coalition for Better Ads to make digital ads great again A new organization, The Coalition for Better Ads, has been launched to "leverage consumer [...] - Search Engine Watch
How to Validate and Debug Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMPs) Only ‘valid’ AMP pages are eligible to show in Google’s search results, which is [...] - Search Engine Journal
The 2016 Google Earth Engine User Summit: Turning pixels into insights Posted by Chris Herwig, Program Manager, Google Earth Engine " We are trying new methods [of [...] - Google Research
Nine ways brands can improve emotional connections with customers It’s not easy to convince a customer nowadays to trust your company over another, but the [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Continues to Display Quality Score Data Until October 10 Google has pushed the date back to October 10th. That’s the new date when Google will be [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 19, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 16 2016

How can Google Search Console help you AMPlify your site? If you have recently implemented Accelerated Mobile Pages on your site, it’s a great time [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Warns Shopify Users: AdWords Conversions May Be Double Counted Cassie from Google posted in the Google AdWords Help forums that those that use Shopify for their [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Ads Agency Awards Event - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Mobile Showing Image Thumbnails In Some Search Result Snippets In August, we caught Google testing showing image thumbnails in mobile search results. Well... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests A Whiter Desktop Search Experience Google is constantly testing user interfaces, we cover some but not all of them. This one was [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google To Update Their JavaScript Recommendations & Guidelines Google's John Mueller said in a Webmaster Hangout ten days ago (yea, I've been saving this one) on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Shifts, Penguin, Schema, AdWords, Maps & More This week in search, we saw even more signals of a massive Google update, both seem not to be [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google downplays the Google algorithm ranking update this week as “normal fluctuations” Was there a major Google algorithm change this week? Many webmasters believe so. - Search Engine Land
Five most important 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
Twitter Launches 3 New Customer Service Tools Twitter's new features include the ability to tell customers if you provide support and when you [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 16, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 15 2016

Bing news update: three latest developments It’s been a Google heavy month and we’re only halfway through September – what [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Baby Bib - Search Engine Roundtable
The Google Keyword Planner Bug Fixed, Again We've been covering more keyword planner bugs here within the Google AdWords system that Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Lowers Image Search Box In Web Search Mozcast posted on Twitter that Google seems to have lowered the image search box that shows up for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google May Show Local Pack & Map At Bottom Of Web Listings Daniel Thomason posted in the Local Search Forums a screen shot of Google showing a local pack with [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Seven influencer marketing strategies that work As influencer marketing grows in popularity, we’re also seeing it become increasingly [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google's First Set Of Webmaster Hangouts Using YouTube Live We knew this was coming, Google is transitioning their webmaster hangouts from Google+ Hangouts to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Algorithm Update Chatter On Fire Something is going on and it is getting bigger and bigger as time goes on. On September 2nd we [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Adblock Plus gets into the ad business with launch of RTB platform Adblock Plus, one of the most popular ad blocking add-ons for browsers, is getting into the ad [...] - Search Engine Watch
Huge Drop in Image Results Block in Google Search Results Google has dropped image results from a large percentage of Google search results on Tuesday, which [...] - The SEM Post
Google Adding More Thumbnails to Organic Search Results Listings Google has made some changes to make mobile search results much more visual. Google announced [...] - The SEM Post
Google AdWords Upgrades App Campaigns & TrueView Ads Google introduced two ad innovations that are designed to help people find more of what they want [...] - Search Engine Journal
Now You Can Move a Google Analytics Property Between Accounts It’s now possible to move a Google Analytics property, or Analytics 360 property, between [...] - Search Engine Journal
Check Out this Fall’s New TV Shows, Movies & More Search Bing for a comprehensive set of carousels for this Fall’s TV series, movies and books, [...] - Bing Search
Is Google showing fewer image boxes in its search results? You are now 50% less likely to see the image box show up in your Google search results page. Is it [...] - Search Engine Land
Research from VLDB 2016: Improved Friend Suggestion using Ego-Net Analysis Posted by Alessandro Epasto, Research Scientist, Google Research NY On September 5 - 9, New [...] - Google Research
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 15, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 14 2016

New Original Message UI in Gmail Gmail has a new interface for displaying the raw version of a message. If you click the arrow icon [...] - Google Operating System
Google Webmaster Central Interested in Accelerated Mobile Pages but not sure how to get started? AMPlifying your site for [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Destinations, Now for Desktop Google launched the " plan a trip " feature for mobile phones back in March and now it's [...] - Google Operating System
Google delivers new app and video ad innovations for the mobile-first world When I started at Google 13 years ago, I was an ad tech engineer building products based on the [...] - Inside Adwords
Google announces two mobile-first product innovations at DMEXCO Sridhar Ramaswamy, Google’s SVP of Ads & Commerce made two major product announcements [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Crossroads Sign - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords To Kill Off Campaign Experiments In February, Google launched campaign drafts and experiments for AdWords and then also pushed it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Extends Expanded Text Ads Deadline To January 31, 2017 Google announced they have given AdWords advertisers more time to convert over from the standard [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New: Google Schema For Courses Google has added a new search based schema markup to the developer documents. This one is a search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Ads App Now Supports Bulk Campaign Editing Bing announced on the Bing Ads blog that the new Bing Ads mobile app now supports the ability to do [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
AdBlock Plus Selling Ads to Display in Place of Blocked Ads AdBlock Plus, the most popular tool to block ads on websites, is now selling their own ads through [...] - The SEM Post
Google Does Have A Launch Date For Penguin 4.0 In about one month it will be a full two years since the last official Google Penguin update, aka [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Trip Planning Comes to Google Maps on Desktop Google has now launched trip planning for desktop devices. Until now, Maps on desktop provided [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google AdWords Requirements for Detailed Keyword Planner Data A few days ago, Google AdWords shut off detailed Keyword Planner data from all AdWords accounts [...] - The SEM Post
Google Extends Deadlines for Expanded Text Ads Originally, there was a deadline of October 26 where standard text ads could no longer be used. [...] - Search Engine Journal
Start sketching what you see for the future If it ain’t Baroque , don’t fix it: your favorite art contest is back! Today [...] - Inside Search
Bing Ads Adds Structured Snippet Extensions Bing Ads is rolling out a couple new features. Structured Snippets is now rolling out in the U.S., [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 14, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
T Minus 54 Days Until the Election: Introducing the Google Trends Elections Hub! With only 54 days until Americans head to the polls, interest in the U.S. presidential election is [...] - Inside Search

September, 13 2016

Google Purse - Search Engine Roundtable
Another Big Google Keyword Planner Bug Requiring Active Campaigns? Many of those trying to access the Google AdWords Keyword Planner Tool this morning are being [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Doodle Celebrates Yma Sumac, Peruvian Soprano Today on the Google home page is a Doodle, a special Google logo, for Yma Sumac. She was a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console API Gives Access To Property Sets In May, Google Search Console announced property sets, which lets you combine several properties [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Adds Multiple Account Access & Management Google AdWords has added a feature that lets you sign in with one account and quickly switch [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Even More Google Algorithm & Ranking Update Chatter A week ago Friday, September 2nd, we reported on a Google algorithm update, which turned out to be [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Computational Thinking from a Dispositions Perspective Posted by Chris Stephenson, Head of Computer Science Education Programs at Google, and Joyce [...] - Google Research
Google AdWords Now Allows One Email for Multiple Accounts Gone are the days when you would need to have one email address per account. Now you can connect up [...] - Search Engine Journal
Buy Now Button Comes To Facebook Messenger Facebook has announced a couple new ways for brands and businesses to send customers to, and [...] - Search Engine Journal
Expanded text ads: more time to test and iterate Earlier this year, we introduced expanded text ads so advertisers can provide more information [...] - Inside Adwords
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 13, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Is Facebook Live Coming Soon to Desktop? Facebook Live broadcasting has been limited to smartphones, but that could be changing soon. Is the [...] - Search Engine Journal

September, 12 2016

What is AMP? Users today expect mobile websites to load super fast. The reality is that it can often take [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Expectant Mother Parking - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Promises AMP Pages "Expanded Exposure" In Mobile Search Results In a blog post this morning on the Google Webmaster Blog, Google decided to define "What is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Removes Detailed Keyword Planner Data From All Non-Advertisers Google has continued their removal of detailed data from search marketers. Now, all legacy [...] - The SEM Post
Google Tests "Helpful" Button In Google Reviews Google is testing a "helpful?" button in the Google reviews listings. When you go to a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Review Snippets With The Reviewers Name Google is showing the reviewers name on some of the rich snippet reviews. One good example is when [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Maps Now Hiding Addresses From Listings When you do a search in Google Maps for a local business, let's say [dentist nyc] or something like [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Keyword Planner Modifying Your Keywords If you try the Google Keyword Planner tool today you might run into a surprise where the tool is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google to Surface AMP Pages in Organic Results Later This Year AMP pages will soon appear in the regular set of organic search listings, when previously they [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 10, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
1.75 Billion Websites Removed from Google Search Results 1.75 billion websites have been removed from Google’s index due to copyright requests. - Search Engine Journal

September, 10 2016

Are You Using Google’s New Automated Assistant? In the Google Analytics Blog on September 2, was an article that site owners shouldn’t miss. [...] - SEO by the Sea

September, 9 2016

Five most important 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 Logo Crane Lifting Hooks - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Reviews From The Web Now Live On Local Knowledge Panels On Wednesday Google announced that they are bringing "reviews from the web" to the local [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: The Increase In Crawl Errors Are Nothing To Worry About; Just Hungry Crawlers Over the past week or so, some webmasters have been reporting an increase in crawl errors. It is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Shop The Look Ads Google announced this week a new kind of AdWords shopping ad format called "Shop the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: More Traffic Doesn't Mean You Need More Links John Mueller of Google answered a question in the Google Hangout on Google+ saying a site that is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Update Feedback, Widget Links Penalty & More SEO Topics This week in search, we talked about some non statements from Google on that weekend update. Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Six ways you can watch your competitors watching you You watch your competitors, they watch you, so let’s see what they're looking at. - Search Engine Watch
Road to Rio: Our Summer At Bing When we received that message from our soon-to-be mentor, Kelly Freed, we couldn’t believe [...] - Bing Search
Facebook Lookalike Audiences Goes Global Facebook has announced an update to Lookalike Audiences that should make it easier for advertisers [...] - Search Engine Journal
More Intelligent Autocomplete: Academic and Move Search Have you ever tried to remember the title of paper you read in an academic journal? You know the [...] - Bing Search
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 9, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Conversion Tracking Finally Comes to LinkedIn Finally, conversion tracking has come to LinkedIn. You can now track how many of your sponsored [...] - Search Engine Journal
Ready For The AdWords Quality Score Changes Next Week? With an impending change in Quality Score from Google due on September 12, here's an updated [...] - Search Engine Journal

September, 8 2016

A reminder about widget links Google has long taken a strong stance against links that manipulate a site’s PageRank . [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Is Code to Text Ratio a Google Ranking Factor? During yesterday’s Crawling and Indexing Q&A with Google, the question was raised about [...] - The SEM Post
Google Warns About Followed Links in Widgets Again Google has posted a reminder for site owners to not use widgets that have a followed link within [...] - The SEM Post
Google Featured Snippets With Query Modifier Pete Meyers spotted and posted on Twitter another flavor of the featured snippets... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Already Preparing For Their 18th Birthday - Search Engine Roundtable
Increased Googlebot Crawling Not a Sign of Google Update or Manual Action In yesterday’s Google Q&A with John Mueller and Andrey Lipattsev, I asked a question [...] - The SEM Post
Google Analytics Working On Real Time Reporting Fix; Here Is A Workaround Yesterday we reported that Google Analytics real time reporting feature was not working for many [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Search Analytics Report Fix Monday we reported that the Google Search Console's Search Analytics report bugged out at the worst [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Engine Strategies, Industries First Conference Shuts Down Sad news for the industry broke yesterday, although there is no official word from the owners of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google To Penalize Widget Links Tactics Google announced early this morning that they are reminding webmasters to not try to use widget [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Testing Bolder AMP Logo In Search Results Google is testing displaying a darker and bolder AMP logo in the mobile search results. Typically [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Which is the king of mobile: China or US? Where is the biggest opportunity? When the enormity of the population is taken into account, how does China compare with the US on [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google reminds webmasters that widget links are against their webmaster guidelines Don't be surprised if a new wave of unnatural link penalties are sent out via the Google Search [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Knowledge Panels Now Include Reviews from the Web Reviews from the web are being added to Google’s Knowledge Panels in search results; this [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Unnatural Widget Links Violate Webmaster Guidelines Google has taken it upon itself to reiterate the policy on widget links, specifically warning [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Updates Security Issues Report in Search Console Google’s Security Issues report in Search Console has, for over 9 years, been a valuable tool [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 8, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
European court says linking to illegal content is copyright infringement The facts of the present case were egregious but the law created by the court is bad for the [...] - Search Engine Land

September, 7 2016

More Safe Browsing Help for Webmasters (Crossposted from the Google Security Blog .) For more than nine years , Safe Browsing has [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Logo For Start Of Paralympics Today the Paralympics has started and Google has a special logo... - Search Engine Roundtable
White Pipe Based Google Lobby Desk & Signage - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Analytics Real Time Not Working For Some Since last night, some have been sporadically complaining that the Google Analytics Real Time [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We're Working On The Penguin Launch Announcement We must be close if Google is actively working on their announcement for when Penguin 4.0 goes [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Site Command Should Show Rich Snippets If Implemented Correctly One of the more common technical SEO questions I see is why isn't Google showing rich snippets for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Adds Campaign Groups & Performance Targets Google announced on the AdWords blog two new features to help you track your AdWords performance, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Showcase your site’s reviews in Search Today, we’re introducing Reviews from the web to local Knowledge Panels, to accompany our [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Ad and Analytics Blocking: It’s More Complicated Than You Think Content blocking has been a feature of the internet for a long time. Usage, and industry chatter, [...] - The SEM Post
Check If Page Quality is Preventing Rich Snippets from Showing in Search Results When a site owner implements structured data for rich snippet features in the search results, and [...] - The SEM Post
Fine-tuning the layout of search ads on Google Play Google Play reaches more than a billion people on Android devices in over 190 countries — [...] - Inside Adwords
Get your first down with Bing’s football and fantasy predictions Professional football is finally back and, as in previous seasons, and the Bing Predicts team has [...] - Bing Search
Announcing the First Annual Global PhD Fellowship Summit and the 2016 Google PhD Fellows Posted by Michael Rennaker, Program Manager, University Relations In 2009, Google created the [...] - Google Research
Gearing up for the holidays: how big brands plan to reach shoppers this year Mobile has forever changed the way people shop. A shopper's smartphone is there for them anytime, [...] - Inside Adwords
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 7, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 6 2016

Google Search Console Search Analytics Report Stopped Updating This morning, Google posted a new update to the data anomalies page for the Search Analytics report [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Brazil Green Pickup Truck Fruit Bar - Search Engine Roundtable
Google To Test Webmaster Hangouts Over YouTube Live With Slides Q&A As you know, Google scheduled their last few hangouts using Google+ Hangouts and now... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Penalized One Of Turkey's Largests TV Networks, Acunn Media Ilya Teker, an SEO Director iProspect, informed me on Twitter that one of the largest television [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
In Rare Interview Matt Cutts Talks About Hist Challenges At Google It has been rare for Matt Cutts, the former search spam guardian at Google, who went on a leave a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: The Weekend Update Was Not Penguin 4.0 Google's John Mueller said a few minutes ago on YouTube Live around 5 minutes into the video that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google said Friday’s update was not due to the Penguin algorithm Google's John Mueller told us to cross off Penguin from the list of explanations for the Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Shop the Look on Google Ninety percent of smartphone users say they aren’t absolutely sure of the specific brand they [...] - Inside Adwords
Reproducible Science: Cancer Researchers Embrace Containers in the Cloud Posted by Dr. Kyle Ellrott, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Dr. Josh Stuart, University of [...] - Google Research
Google Update May Have Occurred Last Week, Not Penguin Related Did Google update its algorithm last week? Google’s John Mueller recently addressed that [...] - Search Engine Journal
Track your goals with campaign groups and performance targets AdWords provides powerful tools to help advertisers grow their business. For example, if [...] - Inside Adwords
Buy and Sell Clothing Directly in Google’s Search Results A new advertising experience is now available to AdWords advertisers. Shop the look makes it [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 6, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 5 2016

Bing Ads Balloons For 20% UK Market Share - Search Engine Roundtable
Local SEOs Feel Google My Business May Be Killing Off Phone Support A Local Search Forums thread has some Local SEO experts nervous and anxious about Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Finally Publishes A Labor Day Logo/Doodle I don't think in Google's history, at least that I can remember, has Google ever posted a Doodle, a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Maps Showing Two Packs Again? Jennifer Sleg reported a case or two of Google showing a two-pack of local results as compared to a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
No Confirmation From Google On The Friday Google Update Friday, we reported about a Google update or signs of a pretty interesting Google update. As the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
September 2016 Google Webmaster Report It is that time of the month, here is our monthly Google webmaster report, where I summarize the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 5, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 2 2016

Googler's "Such Wow" License Plate - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Stops Accepting Grantspro Applications, Premium Level AdWords Ad Grants As many of you know, Google has an ad grant program where non profits can apply and qualify for up [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Upset About Keyword Planner Changes? Use Forecasting Tool A few weeks ago, Google restricted some users from obtaining full data from the Google Keyword [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Pack Results Algorithm & Ranking Update Looks like we got a big update going on, this one in the Google local pack results. The local SEO [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Adds Ability To Add/Remove Owners & Managers Google quietly added the ability to add multiple owners to individual locations or business [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Early Signs Of A Google Core Search Algorithm Update It has been almost a month since we reported Google ranking changes, which is rare and it looks [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Five most important 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
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Web & Local Algorithm Updates, Real Time Index & AdWords Changes This week in search got off to a slow start but ended with a bang. We are seeing early signs of a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Best tweets and takeaways from ClickZ Live and Shift San Francisco Yesterday was the first day of ClickZ Live and Shift San Francisco, an event which attracted more [...] - Search Engine Watch
Twitter Adds Pre-Roll Ads, Periscope Monetization Twitter is expanding video content monetization with pre-roll ads for video creators and a new way [...] - Search Engine Journal
Is a big Google search update happening? Chatter thinks so. The SEO community is vigorously talking about two Google updates, one with the core web search [...] - Search Engine Land
Frustrated by Lack of Google Keyword Planner Data? Try the Forecasting Tool Google’s suggested solution for extracting more data from Keyword Planner is to try using the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Add Multiple Owners to Manage a Google My Business Listing Owners of a listing can now invite others to manage the listing with them without having to share [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 2, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 1 2016

Account-Level Sitelinks Rolling Out to All AdWords Advertisers Google has made it possible to add sitelinks to ads at the account level. - Search Engine Journal
Digital Democracy: how well does Jeremy Corbyn’s manifesto bring social media and socialism together? This week, Jeremy Corbyn took to Facebook Live to announce the launch of The Digital Democracy [...] - Search Engine Watch
New Google My Business New Access Map View Google My Business quietly pushed out a new feature named "access map view." It is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Ads Prize Box - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Report Editor Adds Additional Data Points Google announced on Google+ that they added some data availability to the AdWords report editor. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Analytics Bug Showing Not Set In AdWords Reporting? Many many folks who use Google Analytics to track their Google AdWords campaigns are reporting that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Spam & Paid Links Reports Are Reviewed Manually By Googlers John Mueller responded to a question on Twitter this morning says all paid link spam reports are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Updates Feed Rules For Merchant Center Google announced in the Google AdWords Help forums that they have updated the Feed Rules to give [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Get a front row seat to Fashion Week with Google Search Fall fashion season is here — from New York to London, Milan and Paris, the big trends are [...] - Inside Search
Google Testing Mobile Local Knowledge Panel on Desktop Google is testing a new style of the local knowledge panel on desktop, which is actually the mobile [...] - The SEM Post
Three ways an SEO is like a financial planner and how this affects agency proposals I read an interesting statement this week, one that resonated and made sense in all the right ways. [...] - Search Engine Watch
Report: Snapchat to Add Behavioral Targeting Behavioral targeting is coming to Snapchat. That means advertisers will soon be able to target [...] - Search Engine Journal
YouTube is Disabling Monetization on Non-Advertiser-Friendly Videos YouTube is now notifying publishers directly when removing monetization from videos that are not [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 1, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable