Archive of December, 2016

December, 30 2016

Here Is Google's New Years Eve Day Logo For 2016 Tomorrow, December 31st is New Years eve... - Search Engine Roundtable
Here Is Sri Google Paradise In India - Search Engine Roundtable
How To Request A Special Crawl Rate From Google A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster that needs help controlling how GoogleBot crawls [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google 2017 SEO Advice: Make Sure You Optimize For Mobile Like You Do For Desktop In Google's last hangout of the year, I asked John Mueller of Google what advice does he want to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Some May See A Drop In Google Link Counts In Search Console Have you noticed a change in your link count within the Google Search Console Links To Your Site [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Paradigm shift: Has Google suspended defamation removals? Columnist Chris Silver Smith takes a look at what could be a recent policy shift in Google's [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s New Year’s Eve logo for 2016 Here is the New Year's Eve Doodle from Google all decked out in jumpy balloons. - Search Engine Land

December, 29 2016

Google's New Mobile UI for Recipe Search Just in time for New Year's dinner, Google has a new mobile interface for recipe search. I searched [...] - Google Operating System
YouTube Notifications in the Navigation Bar YouTube has recently started to experiment with replacing Google+ notifications in the navigation [...] - Google Operating System
Google Dresses Up Their Staircase For Christmas - Search Engine Roundtable
Google South Africa Teases A Gift Leading To A Broken Link If you go to Google's South Africa home page at google.co.za and you see the gift box jumping under [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Doodle For Charles Macintosh Chemist 250th Birthday Today on Google's home page is a special Google Doodle, Google Logo, for Charles Macintosh. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Algorithm Update During Holiday Break? Doubt It. I am seeing some chatter over the past few days of traffic and algorithm shifts within Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Recipe Search Results Mobile User Interface Google Operating System blog spotted a new look and design for the recipe results on Google mobile [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Google Mobile First Index Won't Measure Page Speed Remember the hangout that I covered yesterday where Google's John Mueller said that really slow [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google launches a new look for recipes in the mobile search results Google launched a new way to find new recipes for your New Years feast. The new recipe results are [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 29, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 28 2016

Google: Keep The Default CMS Robots.txt Setting Google's John Mueller said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that it makes most sense to keep the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: CDNs Are Safe & Shouldn't Hurt Your Rankings In the past, Google has taken extreme action by banning all sites on an specific host and even on a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Slow Pages Might Be Labeled As Not Mobile Friendly In the hangout from yesterday with Google's John Mueller he said something I never knew before... - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 28, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Has 5 of the Top 10 Apps in 2016, According to Nielsen Rankings [REPORT] Google claimed 5 spots in the list of top 10 downloaded apps of 2016 in latest Nielsen report. - Search Engine Journal
Google Assistant vs. Siri: Which is the Best Smartphone AI? [INFOGRAPHIC] Google Assistant vs. Siri - is one smartphone AI better than the other? We'll leave that for you to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Misinforming Webmasters That Their Page Is Not Mobile Friendly In April, Google began showing a warning label in the search results to the owner of the web site [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Wine Gift - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 27 2016

SEO's 8 Bit Menorah - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Site Removal Tool Won't Speed Up Site Migrations It seems counterintuitive to me to use a site removal feature in the Google Search Console when [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Mobile First Index Is Not Yet Live With all the Google shuffles recently in December, as I covered in the Google updates category, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Have No Web Site Page Quota & Do Not Throttle Traffic Yesterday I covered a thread at WebmasterWorld asking if Does Google Limit Traffic To Your Web [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How To Join The Last Google Webmaster Hangout Of The Year As you all know, I do try to join as many Google webmaster hangouts as possible live. But I always [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Notifications: Nonsecure Collection Of Passwords In Chrome Google is now sending mass messages via the Google Search Console about making sure your login box [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 27, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Watch Out for Malicious Images in Google My Business Listings There is a new negative SEO tactic going around which involves photos being maliciously inserted [...] - Search Engine Journal
HTTPS Required for Collecting Sensitive Information in Chrome as of January 2017 Google has cautioned site owners that, at the end of January 2017, Chrome will mark sites without [...] - Search Engine Journal

December, 26 2016

John Mueller Of Google Helping Webmasters On Christmas Day Again Some people give charity, some people go to a soup kitchen, some people spend more time with family [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Santa At Google - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests New Mobile Search Results Interface? Looks like Google is testing yet another Google user interface for the mobile search results. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Google Throttle: Does Google Limit Traffic To Your Web Site? The topic of Google throttling traffic to a web site has been around since 2008 or earlier... - Search Engine Roundtable
Is It Safer To Spam Google Search During The Holidays & New Years? If you follow Google like I do, you'd notice that it is like a ghost town there. Almost everyone [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 26, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 24 2016

Track Santa This Christmas Eve With Apps from Google and NORAD, or with Google Assistant Google and NORAD have the apps you need to track Santa this Christmas Eve. - Search Engine Journal
Santa Tracker: ready for take-off For the last 23 days the residents of the North Pole have been working day and night to help [...] - Inside Search

December, 23 2016

Listen Now: Introducing Live Audio on Facebook Facebook continues to enhance its Live experience. After the recent announcement of Live 360 [...] - Search Engine Journal
New in Instagram Stories: Stickers and Hands-Free Video Recording Instagram has just released two new features for Stories. The ephemeral photo and video sharing [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Gnomes - Search Engine Roundtable
Google 'Tis The Season! Holiday Doodles For Cold & Warm Locations Google has started their series of holiday logos for the 2016 holiday season. Christmas and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Reiterates There Is No Penalty For Not Linking Out In May 2016, Gary Illyes from Google said he is angry with sites that don't link out - he called it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Similar New URLs Won't Pick Up Old URLs Signals I honestly never heard of this but Google's John Mueller told someone that they do not need to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Holocaust Denial, Featured Snippets, Bing Webmaster Tools & Search Console Updates This week in search I covered the controversy around Googleâs Holocaust denial results and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Four most important search marketing news stories of the week This week, we look at a new feature by Instagram that models itself on Facebook; moves by Google to [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Display Network to Begin Serving Ads With No Targeting As of January 18 Google recently announced changes to how it will be targeting ads starting on January 18, 2017. - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 23, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 22 2016

Google Search Console Update: Critical & Non-Critical AMP Errors Google Search Console’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) report will now differentiate between [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Featured Snippets Now Displayed On More Queries It seems Google is showing more featured snippets for more queries than they have even done before. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Office With Socks On The Wall - Search Engine Roundtable
You Can Beta Test New Versions Of The YouTube App Marissa from Google posted in the YouTube Help forums that if you want to beta test new versions of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Video: Google's Webmaster Hangout On AMPs & PWAs Are you considering going AMP? Are you confused about PWAs and if you should consider that route... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Asks SEOs To Describe Themselves In A Word So Gary Illyes from Google posted a request on Twitter last week, asking his followers to give a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
We’ve Put Comments Out of Their Misery We have decided to remove commenting from Search Engine Journal, effective today. - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 22, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 21 2016

The Google Bar - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console AMP Reports Differentiate Between Critical & Non-Critical Issues Google launched a small update for the AMP reports in the Google Search Console yesterday where [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
First Day Of Winter Logos From Google, Dogpile, Bing & Others Today is the first day of Winter and with it being under 20 degrees here in New York, it does feel [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Changes Search Console Report "Update" Line To "Note" I cannot tell you how many times people emailed me or pinged me on social when they saw the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Actively Working On Adding A Year Of Search Analytics Data To Search Console Since 2013 we've been hearing Google may extend the search analytics query data from 90 days of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Updated Their Algorithm For "Did The Holocaust Happen?" Controversy? Over the past week or so, Google has been getting some heat around various anti semitic and racist [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 21, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
2016 Important SEO Patents from Google A couple of days ago, Gianluca Fiorelli published a thoughtful look at the Search Industry in past [...] - SEO by the Sea
New Search Engine Hoaxy Tracks the Spread of Fake News A brand new search engine called Hoaxy, which aims to track the spread of fake news, is now [...] - Search Engine Journal

December, 20 2016

Google Shopping Display URL Emoji Spotted Search marketers try anything to get their search listings to stand out and one put an emoji Santa [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tea Packets - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Adds Color Pickers to Search Results How often have you had to use a program or third party extension to check or choose a color? [...] - The SEM Post
Is Google AdWords Testing Underlining Display URLs? Ronnie Jones shared a screen shot on Twitter of the Google search results, specifically the AdWords [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Will Treat Religious Interstitials As Legal Or Policy Interstitials As you all know, on January 10, 2017 the Google mobile intrusive interstitial penalty is coming and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: There Is No One Recipe For Search Rankings Success Google's John Mueller spelled it out in a single post on Twitter that there is no one single recipe [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Calls Out Sites With Taboola Or Outbrain Links Nathan Johns, a relatively quiet search quality analysts in the Google Search department posted on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AMP reports now differentiate between critical and non-critical errors Google Search Console has upgraded the AMP error report to show which errors are causing your AMP [...] - Search Engine Land
Big 2017 Social Media Marketing Trends You Need to Know Here's what 26 of the top marketing experts say will be the biggest trends you need to know in [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 20, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 19 2016

Instagram Now Has 600 Million Users Yes, you read that right: Instagram now has 600 million users. In the six months since the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google's Larry Page With Donald Trump - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Three Pack Filters Google has been testing filters in the for some time now and now it seems to be available on the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console AMP & Rich Card Reports May Have Updated The data anomalies page where Google documents the changes to Google Search Console says that last [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Wikipedia Is Ranked By Google Like Any Other Web Site Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter that Google ranks Wikipedia just like it ranks any other [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Gives HTTP/2 GoogleBot Clearance November 2015, Google said they would let us know if it is safe to go HTTP/2 with your web servers [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Updates for Both AMP & Rich Cards Google has made some changes to both AMP and Rich Cards that will affect how Google is reporting [...] - The SEM Post
How Google Handles New HTTPS Pages With Mixed Content Warnings If you have been thinking of switching over to HTTPS but haven’t wanted to deal with fixing [...] - The SEM Post
Switching to HTTPS? Leave HTTP Site Up to Run Parallel While Fixing Problems If you know you will have some technical issues to clean up when you switch to HTTPS, John Mueller [...] - The SEM Post
Bing Webmaster Tools New Look Bing has updated the Bing Webmaster Tools design as of a couple days ago. The new design isn't [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
What exactly is a marketing cloud, and do you need one? The term ‘marketing cloud’ has gained significant traction in the last few years as [...] - Search Engine Watch
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 19, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing’s Top Searches of 2016 Bing reveals it's top searches of 2016. Included in the report are the top tech trends, top web [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Contributor Program to Shut Down in January 2017 Those involved in the Google Contributor program are receiving emails stating the service is [...] - Search Engine Journal
A New Search Results Evaluation Model from Google Search Results (SERPS) are no longer about showing pages that are ordered by rankings for a query [...] - SEO by the Sea

December, 16 2016

December 15th Google Search Algorithm Update Signals Looks like on Thursday, December 15th there was a Google search algorithm shift. We have some [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Maps Promoted Places Gives Branded Pins & More To Brands Google announced Promoted Places in Google Maps... - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Holiday Sweater & Scarf - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Reviews Markup Guidelines Now Disallows Profanity & Vulgar Language Google's review markup guidelines now prohibit including profanity and/or vulgar language in your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Moving Header Tags Around Won't Change Search Rankings John Mueller of Google said this morning in a hangout on YouTube at the 5:40 mark into the video [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Insights For Google Maps Photos Google My Business is now showing a new metric in the insights section of your Google My Business [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
AMP Comes to Google Image Search But Not Images in Regular Results If your images are on AMP pages, Google will now show the AMP URL, along with the icon, in the [...] - The SEM Post
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update, AMP Images, Schema Reviews & SEO This week, besides for me feeling pretty lousy, was busy. We had a potential Google update [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google reviews schema guidelines now prohibit vulgar or profane language Make sure your reviews don't contain profane or vulgar language, if they do, Google can remove your [...] - Search Engine Land
Five most interesting search marketing news stories of the week This week, Google has been spotted testing a new user ratings feature in film and television search [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Warns Against Automated Queries, What Does This Mean for Third-Party Tools? Google’s Gary Illyes issued a reminder this week that sending automated searches to Google is [...] - Search Engine Journal
New Google My Business Insights: Compare Photo Views Against Competitors As of December 15, insights are now available for photos in Google My Business. - Search Engine Journal
Gboard, now available for Android Starting today, Google Keyboard on Android is getting a new name — and so much more. Gboard [...] - Inside Search
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 16, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing 2016 End Of Year Looking back at the billions of searches conducted through Bing this year reveals many powerful [...] - Bing Search

December, 15 2016

#GoLive Now: Twitter Launches Live Video It's a week full of video launches! After Instagram's debut of live video in the U.S. and the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Here Are Google’s Top Searches of 2016 Google has released its annual year in review of the top trending searches and stories of 2016. - Search Engine Journal
AMP Comes To Google Image Search Google is now showing AMP results in Google Image Search. Will Barnes notified me of this on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Google Igloo - Search Engine Roundtable
Do Google AMP Rich Cards Have Drastically Lower CTR? I've been covering Google AMP like crazy here because Google keeps escalating the importance of it. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Ads Expanded Text Ads Editing On Mobile Bing Ads announced that with the new expanded text ads gaining in popularity, that advertisers can [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google To Sunset Google Earth API & Google Earth 4 On January 11, 2017 Google posted in the Google Maps Help forums that on January 11, 2017 they will be discontinuing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Nofollow Attribute May Help With Crawl Budgets For Large Sites While we wait for Google to educate us more on how crawl budget works at Google, more and more [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
AMP results now showing in Google Image Search AMP is now showing up in the mobile Google Image search results. - Search Engine Land
Engage holiday shoppers with Promoted Places in Google Maps During the busy holiday season, on-the-go shoppers are using their smartphones to find the perfect [...] - Inside Adwords
Get moving with the new Motion Stills Posted by Matthias Grundmann and Ken Conley, Machine Perception Last June, we released Motion [...] - Google Research
What the heck is machine learning, and why should I care? Understanding the impact of machine learning will be crucial to adjusting our search marketing [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 15, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Expanded Text Ads Can Now Be Edited on Mobile Bing is rapidly expanding the use of expanded text ads with an update to the Bing Ads mobile app. - Search Engine Journal

December, 14 2016

Google’s Top Search Ranking Factors of 2016, According to Searchmetrics Study Searchmetrics has released their annual study of Google’s top search ranking factors. - Search Engine Journal
Google Offering Expedited Google My Business Verification for a Limited Time For a limited time Google is allowing businesses to fast track Google My Business verification. - Search Engine Journal
Facebook Introduces Live 360 Videos Facebook has announced the addition of 360 video to the Facebook Live experience. Facebook's 360 [...] - Search Engine Journal
The Year in Search: 2016 It’s that time of year — when we look back at the last 12 months and reflect on the [...] - Inside Search
Google: The First Expedition To The South Pole Doodle Today on the Google home page in many countries, no the US (although initially it was set to launch [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Waymo: New Name For Google's Self Driving Car - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Warns: Automated Queries On Google Is Against The Terms Of Service Everyone knows that tools that scrap and do automated queries are against Google's terms of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Image Search Now To Use Product Schema Markup Aaron Bradley posted on Google+ that the product schema page has added that it can be used not just [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Tests Capitalizing First Letter In Display URL? Gordon Campbell posted images on Twitter of Google testing making the first letter of the display [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Do Take Action On Rich Snippet Spam Google hosted a special hangout with John Mueller and a colleague from the Dublin office who works [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Workplace by Facebook: a reality check There’s been an excessive amount of one-sided conversation around Workplace by Facebook [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google’s Top Searches in 2016: Pokémon Go & iPhone 7 outrank Donald Trump, Prince & Powerball The site released a variety of its top search trends - ranking everything from top searches overall [...] - Search Engine Land
Google now showing product schema rich snippets in image search results Google Image Search now supports product schema markup in the mobile image search results. - Search Engine Land
Automated Queries From SEO Tools Against Google TOS Gary Illyes from Google has another reminder that using tools or services that send automatic [...] - The SEM Post
App Discovery With Google Play, Part 2: Personalized Recommendations with Related Apps Posted by Ananth Balashankar & Levent Koc, Software Engineers, and Norberto Guimaraes, Product [...] - Google Research
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 14, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 13 2016

Instagram’s Live Video Rolls Out to All U.S. Users Instagram has made its live video feature available to its U.S. users. Instagram's live video [...] - Search Engine Journal
Why We’re Killing Searchmetrics Ranking Factors (Hint: Google Made Us) We are gathered here to formally acknowledge that Universal Ranking Factors are dead. The new kings [...] - Searchmetrics
Google Maypole Dancers At Holiday Party - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Offering Expedited Verification Until Thursday If you have a business that is based in the United States or Canada and it isn't verified on Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Sitemaps Should Contain URLs Of Pages You Want Indexed, Not Variations Google's John Mueller said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that you should only include the URLs [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: There Is No Google Sandbox Google's Gary Illyes replied on Twitter to an SEO saying there is no Google Sandbox... - Search Engine Roundtable
Gboard Finally Comes To Android As Google Keyboard Google has finally brought the Gboard which came to iOS six-months ago... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Only Site Owner Can See If They Have A Penalty; Not Third-Party Tools Google's John Mueller said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that any of those third-party Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Reminder: There Is No Google Sandbox Affecting New Sites Google has reminded site owners once again that there is no Google sandbox. The question came up on [...] - The SEM Post
Booking fitness classes just got a whole lot easier After a holiday season full of delightful indulging, millions of people make an optimistic New [...] - Inside Search
Searchmetrics Google ranking factors study says content gaining while links losing in importance Google search ranking factors study is now out, it measured the top 20 search results for 10,000 [...] - Search Engine Land
Video campaign management gets easier with AdWords Scripts If you were wishing for an easier way to manage your video ad campaigns in AdWords this holiday [...] - Inside Adwords
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 13, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 12 2016

Enhancing property sets to cover more reports in Search Console Since initially announcing property sets earlier this year, one of the most popular requests has [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Search Console Property Sets Now With More Reports Back in May of this year, Google Search Console added a feature to combine properties into sets so [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Singapore Lobby Holiday Winter Theme - Search Engine Roundtable
Google On Measuring Speed: Page Speed Insights & Plain Old Response Time Gary Illyes from Google was asked on Twitter how SEOs and webmasters should measure their page [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Now Lets Business Owners Control Their Menu Links In Local Results Google has quietly announced on the features page that businesses can now "add your menu to a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console expands reports for property sets Google's property set feature in the Google Search Console just got way more useful. - Search Engine Land
Google Expands Features of Property Sets in Search Console When Google launched Property Sets in Google Search Console, while webmasters were happy to see [...] - The SEM Post
Google Expands Property Sets to More Reports in Search Console Google has heard the requests, and is now rolling out property sets to more reports in Search [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 12, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Begins Including Facebook Posts in Business Knowledge Panels The next time you search for a business on the desktop version of Bing you may see some new social [...] - Search Engine Journal

December, 11 2016

Google Acquires Eye Tracking Startup Eyefluence and its Technology Google Glasses aren’t the only Heads up Display that Google will likely use or demonstrate. [...] - SEO by the Sea

December, 9 2016

Google Shopping Carousel Adds Category Filters Google seems to be rolling out a new carousel feature set for shopping ads. This was covered by [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bad Luck? Google Has Open Umbrellas Inside Their Office. - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Home & Assistant Now Allow Developers To Build Voice Commands Take note SEOs, with Google going more and more towards voice queries, i.e. Google Assistant on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Adds Audience Lists At Campaign Level Google announced you can now apply audience lists to the campaign level now. Previously, you were [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Location Extensions Bringing Back Stars In Ads Joy Hawkins posted on Twitter that she saw stars in the location extensions part of a Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Presentation On Internationalization & Search Google's John Mueller had an early hangout this morning on the topic of internationalization and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Trust, New Design, News, Charity Links & Holidays This week, I posted the mostly Google webmaster report. Google launched a new desktop search user [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Adds Facebook Posts to Brand & Business Knowledge Panels Bing has begun showing the latest Facebook posts in the knowledge panels in the search [...] - The SEM Post
Google Adds Query Refinement Carousel for Some Search Queries Google is making it easier for searchers to refine their queries on mobile. They have added a [...] - The SEM Post
Google Adds “Test Your Site With Google” to Google Homepage Google is testing a new prompt on their homepage, alerting searchers that they can test their sites [...] - The SEM Post
Five most interesting search marketing news stories of the week This week, we've got a special on stories about advertising and mobile, with a look at mobile ad [...] - Search Engine Watch
2 Step Verification - The ‘key’ to account security Passwords have historically been the gateway to accounts; however we’ve shown that some of [...] - Inside Adwords
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 9, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Now Allows Advertisers to Apply Audience Lists at Campaign Level Google announced this week that it is now allowing advertisers to apply audience lists at a [...] - Search Engine Journal

December, 8 2016

Google Translate's 5000 Character Limit For some reason, Google Translate now has a limit of 5000 characters per translation. There's [...] - Google Operating System
Google Tests Movie Ratings Google's knowledge graph card tests a feature that lets you like or dislike movies and TV shows. [...] - Google Operating System
Now You Can Search Google by Tweeting Emoji At It Among the number of languages Google understands, you can now add emoji to the list. - Search Engine Journal
Yahoo’s Top Searches of 2016 Revealed, Google Doesn’t Make Top 10 Companies Yahoo has revealed its top searches throughout 2016 in a detailed year in review. - Search Engine Journal
Google Partner Gifts : Do Cool Things That Matter - Search Engine Roundtable
Upcoming & Recent Google Webmaster Topical Hangouts A couple weeks ago, Google asked about topics for their upcoming Google hangouts. Google's John [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Replaces "In The News" With "Top Stories" Back in 2014, Google's in the news box started showing non-Google News sites. But over time, I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Maps Blue Pins Are For Locations You Searched Near; For Example... For a while, we've been wondering what the different colors for the map pins represent. We have [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Crawl Budget Works Differently Than You Think Google's John Mueller in a hangout from earlier this week said that one of the myths he hears a lot [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Google By Tweeting Emojis To @google Google announced on Twitter that you can tweet to it at @google with emojis and get back local [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Save time by applying audience lists at the campaign level Reaching your most valuable and engaged customers at the moment they’re ready to act is [...] - Inside Adwords
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 8, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 7 2016

Google App Redesigned: One Section for Personal Interests, One for Upcoming Info Google has released an update to its mobile app which sees the cards reorganized into one section [...] - Search Engine Journal
WordPress 4.7 Now Available: Here’s What’s New With the new year being just around the corner, WordPress has revealed the new default theme for [...] - Search Engine Journal
Open sourcing the Embedding Projector: a tool for visualizing high dimensional data Posted by Daniel Smilkov and the Big Picture group Recent advances in Machine Learning (ML) have [...] - Google Research
Google's Indoor Row Boat With Rubber Ducks - Search Engine Roundtable
Live: Google 2016 Holiday Decorations For Hanukkah, Christmas & Kwanzaa Yesterday, as first reported by Alex Chitu, Google has posted their annual holiday decorations in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Switches to New UI Style & Font Worldwide Google has made the switch to a brand new UI style for all users. The new style, which has [...] - The SEM Post
Google AdWords Editor V11.7 Adds Location Extensions, Bumper Ads & More Google has quietly updated their AdWords Editor to version 11.7. There was no announcement yet but [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Working On Enabling Webmasters To Disable AMP All our discussion has been around Google AMP is how to enable it, how to benefit from it and the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Adds New Books Schema Markup With Buy E-Book Links Google has added a new schema markup type for books in their developer center. Aaron Bradley [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: You Can Trust Our Webmaster Communication Back in early 2014, we published a poll showing only 10% of webmasters think Google doesn't like to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google To Remove AMP Bars When Scrolling & Easier Canonical Sharing When viewing an article on AMP, Google will add an additional bar at the top of the AMP page [...] - The SEM Post
Publish Recipes? Google Just Changed the Image Size Requirements in Schema If you publish recipes on your website, you will want to pay attention to this change. Google [...] - The SEM Post
Three major developments that will shape multi-channel marketing in 2017 As we close out the year, what are some of the major developments that are likely to shape [...] - Search Engine Watch
Recent changes to organic sitelinks cause major drops in impressions in Google Search Console Google released sitelink updates that caused impression and average position drops in Google Search [...] - Search Engine Land
Keep the lights on to reach more shoppers this January Last week we covered how mobile has changed shopping behavior during Black Friday weekend. But [...] - Inside Adwords
Google replaces “in the news” box with “top stories” on desktop Google has replaced the "in the news" title with "top stories" on desktop to [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 7, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 6 2016

New Interface for Google Search Google's desktop search pages have a new interface for navigating between search results. The [...] - Google Operating System
Google's Holiday Decorations When you search Google for [ Christmas ], [ Hanukkah ], [ Kwanzaa ], [ Festivus ] or other related [...] - Google Operating System
Beware: New Types of Referral Spam & How to Filter Them Out Recently a new type of referral spam called language spam has sprouted up. Here's more about it and [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bing Transforms Its Homepage into a Digital Advent Calendar for December Bing is getting into the holiday spirit by transforming its home page into a digital advent [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Updates Us On YouTube's Trending Algorithm Yesterday... - Search Engine Roundtable
A Google Carpet Square - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Returns Porn For Sexy Black Mom But Not For Sexy White Mom There is a massive thread in the Google Web Search Help forums that started about a week ago with [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AMP URLs to Get New Non-Google.com URLs Google will begin showing the AMP cache URLs as coming from https://cdn.amproject.org instead of [...] - The SEM Post
Google: Giving Charity & Donations In Exchange For A Link, Is A Paid Link Google's John Mueller replied on Twitter about a story on Medium named Making Charity Donations in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Does Try To Reach Out Directly To Webmasters In Trouble Google's John Mueller posted on Twitter A PSA that you should make sure your website contact forms [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
December 2016 Google Webmaster Report It was a busy month with lots of nuggets, the biggest news was Google's beginning of their mobile [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Soliciting Their Own Movie Review Ratings in Search Results Google has added “Like” and “Dislike” buttons to movie knowledge panels in [...] - The SEM Post
SEO trends to prepare for in 2017 What's on the horizon for search engine optimization (SEO) practitioners in the coming year? [...] - Search Engine Land
Google app update: making it easier to keep up with the things you need to know With constant news updates, changing schedules, and traffic delays, staying on top of everything [...] - Inside Search
Google confirms testing movie and TV show ratings with like and dislike buttons Google is now asking searchers to rate movies and TV shows. Google confirmed this is a live [...] - Search Engine Land
Google begins rolling out a new desktop search user interface Check out the new desktop search interface rolling out to a Google near you. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 6, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 5 2016

NIPS 2016 & Research at Google Posted by Doug Eck, Research Scientist, Google Brain Team This week, Barcelona hosts the 30 th [...] - Google Research
Google Adds “Buy e-Book” Options to Book Knowledge Panels Google has launched new “buy e-books online” feature in the Google knowledge panel for [...] - The SEM Post
Official Google Sandbox At YouTube - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Recipes In Search: Found In Related Search Seems like Google is trying out a new search feature for recipe search results. Wendy Kirwan [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Going HTTPS vs Switching URL Structures Are Different An interesting question came up during the Google webmaster hangout on YouTube Live this past [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Testing Another News Card Styles in Desktop Search Results Google is testing yet another card style in the Google desktop results for their “Top [...] - The SEM Post
Google Rolling Out New Desktop Search Interface? It looks like Google is starting to roll out the new desktop search interface we saw them testing a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Maps Drops Outlining Local City Boundaries The folks in the Google Maps Help forums and Local Search Forums are not happy that Google is no [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Editor Is Not Available For Chromebook If you want to use the Google AdWords editor, currently, it is only available for Windows computers [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s New Card Style News Drops Local 3-Pack Lower in Search Results Google is testing a new card style layout in the search results. But those screenshots [...] - The SEM Post
Have Google and Facebook become unwitting tools of extremism? Google and Facebook are committed to "facts" and "progress" but The Guardian [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 5, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 2 2016

WordPress is Doubling Down on HTTPS in 2017 In 2017, WordPress will start introducing features which require websites have HTTPS available. - Search Engine Journal
Google AdWords Customer Match With Easier Email Address List Maintenance Google announced that you can now easily add new emails... - Search Engine Roundtable
Why? Google Indoor Swing Set - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Canonical Tags Don't Save *Much* Crawl Budget So we just covered that meta noindex doesn't save crawl budget with Google and that question and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The META NOINDEX Tag Doesn't Save Your Google Crawl Budget This is a pretty obvious SEO question for most of you - but hey - Google's John Mueller confirmed [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Mazal Tov - 13 Years Covering The Search Industry It's like I am celebrating my bar mitzvah again, well, I kind of am because this site is now [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Sentence Compression, Top Stories Fake News Algorithm & Search Console Updates Today is the 13th year anniversary of this site and me covering the search industry. Today I talk [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Five most important search marketing news stories of the week Content marketing for 2017; why social media is the preferred channel for product launches; and how [...] - Search Engine Watch
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 2, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Celebrates the Spirit of Giving this December Starting December 1, the Bing homepage transforms into a delight-delivery device: each day of [...] - Bing Search

December, 1 2016

Google Retires the “Feature-Phone” Search Crawler Google is retiring a version of Googlebot that was designed specifically for crawling content on [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google and Bing Increase Sitemap File Size Limit to 50 MB Google and Bing are increasing the limit of sitemap file sizes from the standard 10 MB to 50 MB. - Search Engine Journal
Google Docs Explore: Search Engine Optimization Is Related To Weasels This is a fun one, maybe... If you go to Google Docs, type "search engine optimization" [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tel Aviv's Mega Bite Restaurant's Rabanut Kosher Certificate - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Machine Learning Sentence Compression Algorithms Powers Features Snippets The other day, I covered at Search Engine Land a Wired article named Google's hand-fed AI now gives [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Support Telling Businesses To Submit Reconsideration Requests? This is a weird one - according to Tim Capper in the Local Business Forums, official support [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Mobile Friendly Test Tool Allows You To Submit Pages To Google's Index Google has added the ability to submit a page to Google's index directly from the new version of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Site Move Recommendations Updated: Big Vs. Small Sites It has been a few years since we covered Google updating their site move recommendations document [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Pinterest Business Pages Get a Big Update Pinterest is unveiling a new look to business pages. The big update gives businesses a new way to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Connect with your most valuable customers over the holidays with Customer Match Consumer expectations are higher than ever before. And thanks to mobile, your customers are [...] - Inside Adwords
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 1, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable