Archive of January, 2017

January, 31 2017

Google to Improve AMP Ads Through Partnerships with Cloudflare and TripleLift AdAge reports that Google has partnered with Cloudflare and TripleLift to deliver instant loading [...] - Search Engine Journal
Cozy Up or Break Up: Why Marketers Must Embrace Location-Aware Trends What’s the three most important aspects of a property? Location, location and – you [...] - Searchmetrics
Google Campus Protests Hit 2 Million Googlers #GooglersUnite - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Tell Us About Your HTTPS Migrations Again Gary Illyes from Google wants to hear feedback on success, failure or other issues during your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Releases New Content For Hacked Site Support Google's Nathan Johns announced on Twitter that Google has released "new support content [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Introducing the Mobile-Friendly Test API With so many users on mobile devices, having a mobile-friendly web is important to us all. The [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Gary Illyes: Report Companies Impersonating Google Gary Illyes from Google was listening in on a conversation about folks calling me asking if I was [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Updates IF Functions & Default Values Google quietly announced on Google+ that they made some changes to the IF functions and default [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Mobile-Friendly Test API Google has announced they finally released the mobile-friendly test API, something webmasters have [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google mobile-friendly testing tool now has API access Developers can now build their own tools around the mobile-friendly testing tool to see if pages [...] - Search Engine Land
New Design to Google Local Inventory Ads in Local Pack Google began showing local inventory ads earlier this month and it has already gone through a [...] - The SEM Post
AdWords IF functions roll out for ad customization as Standard Text Ads sunset IF functions arrive to let advertisers customize ads based on device and retargeting list [...] - Search Engine Land
The PPC industry would not exist under Trump’s immigration policy Following a recent executive order suspending US admissions for citizens of seven Muslim-majority [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Testing 4 AdWords Ads at Bottom of Search Results; Some Ads Shown Twice Google is testing some significant changes to how AdWords ads are displayed in the Google search [...] - The SEM Post
How machine learning impacts the need for quality content As Google continues to invest in machine learning technology to help it better understand and parse [...] - Search Engine Land
Google launches Ads Added by AdWords pilot: what we know so far In the new test, ads based on existing ad and landing page content are added to ad groups by Google. - Search Engine Land
Discover the new AdWords experience In 2016 we introduced a new AdWords experience and even shared an early look at it in action. [...] - Inside Adwords
New AdWords interface alpha is rolling out to more advertisers As Google continues to build out the new UI, more advertisers are getting access. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 31, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Facebook Is Changing How it Ranks Stories in 2 Ways Facebook is changing the way it ranks stories in the News Feed. The social network is adding a new [...] - Search Engine Journal

January, 30 2017

Advice Given to an Aspiring 14 Year-Old Entrepreneur Wanting to Learn SEO I received an email this afternoon from a young man who is interested in a career in SEO, and he [...] - SEO by the Sea
Google AdWords Testing Outlined Ads Tag in Search Results Google AdWords is testing another version of the “Ads” tag that shows in the search [...] - The SEM Post
Google's Sergey Brin At Airport Protests This Weekend - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Doodle For Fred Korematsu, American Activist Against Internment Of Japanese Americans Google has a special and timely Google Doodle on the Google home page in the United States region [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Becoming More Aggressive With “People Also Search” in Local Results Site owners have become used to Google suggesting other businesses when viewing the local results [...] - The SEM Post
Google Image Search Bug Didn't Allow Enlarging Images There was a massive bug with Google Image search for the past four days that prevented searchers [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests More Carousel Features In Local Card As you saw from last week, Google tested showing the local pack in a carousel interface. Now, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google News Removes Shareable Sections Back in 2011, Google News launched badges and sharable sections - an idea I was not too fond of - [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tips On How To Block User Generated Spam Google posted a blog post on Friday named protect your site from user generated spam. It wasn't a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AMP In Google News More Than Doubles, Hits 70% Of Results The folks at RankRanger reports that Google News on mobile is now showing close AMP in the US [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Fred Korematsu Google doodle honors Japanese internment camp survivor & civil rights activist Born in Oakland, California, Korematsu was imprisoned at the Central Utah War Relocation Center at [...] - Search Engine Land
Branch unveils AMP Deepviews, so content in uninstalled apps can be previewed from search results The new solution shows app-based content in Google as fast-loading and preferred AMP pages, if the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AMP results in Google News more than doubles Want your content to be found by mobile users in Google News? Well, it seems like you need to have [...] - Search Engine Land
App Discovery With Google Play, Part 3: Machine Learning to Fight Spam and Abuse at Scale Posted by Hsu-Chieh Lee, Xing Chen, Software Engineers, and Qian An, Analyst In Part 1 and [...] - Google Research
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 30, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 27 2017

Google Maps for iOS Shows How Busy a Location is in Real-Time Google Maps has updated its iOS app with a real-time look at busy a location right now. - Search Engine Journal
Google Maps on Android Now Shows How Difficult it is to Find Parking Google has released an update for the Maps app on Android with the unique ability to display [...] - Search Engine Journal
Six most interesting search marketing news stories of the week Welcome to our weekly round-up of all the latest news and research from the world of search [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Lockers - Search Engine Roundtable
The Google Dance Returns For 2017 At SMX West Last year, after years and years of the Google Dance going on a hiatus, Gary Illyes and Nathan [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Ad Disapproval Notice Bug Google has confirmed in a Google AdWords Help forum thread that there is a bug with some [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Try To Launch All Our Algorithms Globally Now Back in the day, Google use to launch specific algorithms in different regions. Like with Panda, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Also Testing Orange Ad Label Google this week has been busy testing new colors for the ad label. Last year they went from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Horizontal Scrollable Local Pack Ads Google seems to be testing yet another format for the local pack ads. @SilverbackStrat shared a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Protect your site from user generated spam As a website owner, you might have come across some auto-generated content in comments sections or [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Update, Layout & AdWords Tests, SEO & More This week we covered a possible Google algorithm update. We also saw the Google Search Console [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Tick-tock: expert findings, testing tips & resources for Expanded Text Ads success after Jan. 31 deadline If you've been holding off or haven't found the promise of higher CTRs with ETAs, yet, you're not [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AdWords Testing Non-Carousel PLAs in Mobile Search Results We are used to seeing Google AdWords showing mobile Product Listing Ads that are in carousel [...] - The SEM Post
How to check which URLs have been indexed without upsetting Google: A follow-up How can we determine which of our site pages aren't indexed without running afoul of Google's [...] - Search Engine Land
Facebook Has a New Way to Rank Videos in the News Feed Attention, marketers: if you want your brand's videos to appear in the News Feed of Facebook users, [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 27, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 26 2017

Google Search Query Refinements Patent Updated In 2006, I wrote a post A Look at Google Midpage Query Refinements (Go ahead and read it; this post [...] - SEO by the Sea
New Google Philippines Office - Search Engine Roundtable
Bessie Coleman, First Female African American Pilot Very Own Google Doodle Today on the Google home page in the United States is a special logo, aka Doodle, for Bessie [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Google Spinner In Search If you do a search in Google for [spinner]... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdSense Stats & Earnings Reports Currently Broken Today If you login to your Google AdSense account this morning, at least right now, you will see you have [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Warnings For Infrastructure Updates If you login to your Google Search Console account and view many of the reports in there... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Disabled 1.7 Billion Ads & Kicked Out 200 Publishers In 2016 Google released their bad ad report for 2016, telling us they "took down 1.7 billion ads that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bessie Coleman Google doodle celebrates 125th birthday of the 1st African-American female aviator Coleman earned the nickname "Queen Bessie" during her career as an exhibition pilot. - Search Engine Land
Google Adds “Help Improve Accuracy” Box to Some Local Listings Google has added a new feature to some local panels, requesting user feedback to help keep [...] - The SEM Post
Google “spinner” Easter Egg returns interactive spinning wheel at top of results Do a search for the word "spinner" and you'll get an interactive spinning wheel that lets [...] - Search Engine Land
Do organic keyword rankings matter anymore? With all the ways search engine results pages have evolved over the years, columnist Julian Connors [...] - Search Engine Land
A new guide to driving sales with Gmail Ads Consider this: Gmail reaches over 1 billion users globally 1 . By using Gmail ads , you can reach [...] - Inside Adwords
The essential guide to pharma SEM Columnist Justin Freid explains the basics of getting your PPC campaigns up and running in the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Maps will tell you how hard it will be to find parking Now you can plan enough time not just for driving to your destination but also the time it takes to [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 26, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 25 2017

Google Image Search Shows Colorful Suggestions Google Image Search has a different way to display suggestions: it now shows a long list of [...] - Google Operating System
Google Rolls Out Real-World Test of Android Instant Apps in Search Results Google is finally starting to roll out a real-world test of Android Instant Apps in mobile search [...] - Search Engine Journal
Automatically Sync Google AdWords Campaigns With Bing Ads Advertisers can now schedule Google AdWords campaigns to be imported to Bing Ads on a recurring [...] - Search Engine Journal
Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative acquires AI-powered search engine Meta The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative has made its first acquisition – of an AI-powered search [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google’s Mobile Interstitial Demotion Updates When Page Recrawled Google launched their mobile interstitial and popup demotion earlier this month which would see [...] - The SEM Post
Yasuhiro Helmet At Google - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: The Site Command Not Ranked In Any Defined Order Google's John Mueller addressed a question we covered a couple times in the past. How does Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Is Google AdWords Testing Black AdWords Ad Label Now? Yesterday we reported Google was testing a green outlined ad label. This was a change from the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Asking Searchers About Their Trips Dharmi Gohil shared a screen shot with me on Twitter of a new type of feedback box in the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Ads Automatic Imports With Google AdWords Live Bing Ads announced a new feature that lets you automatically import your Google AdWords data into [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
PopUp Size Allowed With Google’s Mobile Interstitial Demotion When Google launched the mobile interstitial and popup demotion, where pages that utilize either an [...] - The SEM Post
Google: AMP Not Ranking Factor But If AMP Page Is Canonical, It Will Be Used For Site Quality John Mueller addressed two different questions around AMP in the past 24 hours or so. The first, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s 2016 “Bad Ads Report”: 1.7 billion ads removed, including fake news ads The company says efforts to crack down on pay day loan ads, ads that look like system errors and [...] - Search Engine Land
How we fought bad ads, sites and scammers in 2016 A free and open web is a vital resource for people and businesses around the world. And ads play a [...] - Inside Adwords
Google My Business revamps photo management for Google Maps listings Google aims to make it easier for business owners to manage their photos within Google My Business. - Search Engine Land
SEO priorities for the new year It's easy to get caught up in the day-to-day of your SEO campaigns, but columnist David Freeman [...] - Search Engine Land
5 Big Content Marketing Strategy Trends to Know This Year Want your content to succeed this year? Then you need a strategy. Here are five big trends shaping [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Bans 200 Ad Publishers for Promoting Fake News [REPORT] In total, Google removed over 1.7 billion ads and took action on over 75,000 sites in 2016. - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 25, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
3 Changes Coming to Facebook Trending Stories Facebook today announced three new updates that will alter the way its Trending topics section [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Under Fire for Using “Super Profiles” to Serve Targeted Ads Google is facing scrutiny for its decision to combine multiple sources of data to deliver more [...] - Search Engine Journal

January, 24 2017

Two Former Google Executives Now Working for Uber, Including Search Veteran Amit Singhal Uber’s latest pick-up includes two former high-level Google executives — Amit Singhal, [...] - Search Engine Journal
Plush Google Smartphone Holders - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Will Be Transparent About Substantial Penguin Changes Since Google finally released the real time Penguin update last year, there hasn’t been any [...] - The SEM Post
Google Testing Green Outlined AdWords Ad Label As you know, last year, Google switched the AdWords ad label from yellow to green - well, maybe [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We're Done With Big Numbered Penguin Releases & Updates Gary Illyes from Google posted on Twitter that Google is now done with numbered Penguin releases. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
No More Numbered Updates for Google Penguin Since Google released the new real time Penguin, it has gone from “wait for the next Penguin [...] - The SEM Post
Google AdWords Call Reporting Now In India & South Africa Google announced both on Google+ and Google AdWords Help forums that advertisers in India and South [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Maps Labels Today's Events On The Map Google Maps seems to now be labeling upcoming events in your local area with a "today" [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Update Brewing? Chatter & Tools Point To Algorithm Update Over the past 24-hours, the ongoing WebmasterWorld thread has seen an uptick in chatter around [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Ads launches Automated Imports to sync campaigns from AdWords Advertisers can now set their imported Google campaigns to automatically update on an ongoing basis. - Search Engine Land
Spotted: New Google ad label test with green outline on white background The new look was seen in the UK on desktop. - Search Engine Land
Want to see if the same search query is appearing in different ad groups? Columnist Daniel Gilbert of Brainlabs has the perfect script to help you stay in control of your [...] - Search Engine Land
More than 30 million “voice-first” devices in US homes by year end — [report] Amazon Echo and Google Home devices have significant implications for marketers. - Search Engine Land
Facilitating the discovery of public datasets Posted by Natasha Noy, Google Research and Dan Brickley, Open Source Programs Office There are [...] - Google Research
Merkle: Google Q4 search growth aided by changes other than ETAs Overall paid search growth remained steady in Q4. Separate device bidding was among the drivers of [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 24, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 23 2017

Google Logo Honors Ed Roberts, The Activist Today on the Google home page in the United States is a special Google Doodle, logo, for Ed [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Indoor Auto Rickshaw - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Adds Book Previews Now On Mobile Search Google has brought their book search book preview feature from desktop to mobile search... - Search Engine Roundtable
Amit Singhal, The Man Who Built Google Search, Joins Uber Amit Singhal, who retired from Google less than a year ago to pursue philanthropic efforts to help [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Testing Box Layout Design Again Google has been testing since 2013 but has done so more often in 2016. Now, in 2017, it looks like [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Country & Language Selector Popups Impacted by Google’s Mobile Interstitial Change Earlier this month, Google made a change which sees the use of popups and interstitials on mobile [...] - The SEM Post
Ed Roberts activist Google Doodle honors leader of the disability rights movement As an early leader of disability rights, Roberts co-founded World Institute on Disability, the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Hotel Search Results With Pricing Trends & Top Rated Data Sergey Alakov posted a couple new search features by Google in the local results on Twitter. The [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google mobile search adds book previews You can now read book previews directly on your smartphone from Google search. - Search Engine Land
SEM continuity: The ROI-boosting digital marketing concept you’ve never heard of What is continuity, and how does it apply to our work as search marketers? Contributors Jeff Eckman [...] - Search Engine Land
Attention search marketers: ALL keywords are branded keywords! Columnist Larry Kim explains how brand affinity impacts both paid and organic search performance -- [...] - Search Engine Land
Ads for Google Products Featured in Top Position in 91% of Searches [STUDY] Revealing data from a Wall Street Journal study suggests Google is advertising its own products at [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 23, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google is Making YouTube More Advertiser-Friendly While revealing over 50% of YouTube views now occur on mobile device, Google has announced a series [...] - Search Engine Journal

January, 20 2017

Qwant, a French Search Engine, Thinks it Can Take on Google — Here’s Why French search engine Qwant has ambitious plans to one day beat Google at its own game. - Search Engine Journal
Fabric Team Takes Public Transit To Google On First Day - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Don't Build Links From Google Sheets I think I've seen it all, covering search for over 13 years but every day, I learn a bit more. I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: International Targeting In Search Console Doesn't Reduce Visibility In Other Countries Back in 2014, Google came out with a feature in Google Search Console named international targeting [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Use Nofollow When Linking To Bad Sites Google's Gary Illyes said this morning on Twitter that it makes sense to use the nofollow link [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Android App Adds Notifications For New Doodles The new version of the Google Android app has a new notification that can send you a notification [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Testing “Send Directions to Phone” Test in Local Knowledge Panel Bing has added a new directions feature in their Google Places local knowledge panel directly in [...] - The SEM Post
Five most interesting search marketing news stories of the week Welcome to our weekly round-up of all the latest news and research from the world of search [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Testing Price Trends for Local Hotel Listings Google is testing a new feature that shows up in the local panel for a hotel listing. Below [...] - The SEM Post
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update, Mobile Interstitial Penalty, Link Operator & Matt Cutts I am back after skipping two shows due to sickness but I try to catch you up in this one video. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Making YouTube Better in a Mobile, Cross-Screen World Throughout the day, people turn to their nearest device for help making choices about what to do, [...] - Inside Adwords
Google AMP carousels are multiplying! Columnist Barb Palser says the growing number of single-source AMP carousels in Google search [...] - Search Engine Land
6 Major Changes Coming to LinkedIn’s Redesigned Desktop Site LinkedIn has given its desktop site a much-needed redesign. Here's what's changing with LinkedIn's [...] - Search Engine Journal
Former Google search chief Amit Singhal joins Uber Singhal will become a senior vice president of engineering, overseeing Uber's Maps & [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 20, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 19 2017

Bing Ads Now Lets You Schedule When Ad Extensions are Displayed in Search Bing is giving advertisers more control over their ad extensions with the ability to schedule [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Acquires Fabric, a Mobile App Development Platform Fabric, one of the most popular mobile development platforms, has been acquired by Google. - Search Engine Journal
Matt Cutts Resigns from Google, Confirms He’s Staying With the US Digital Service Matt Cutts, once the head of Google’s webspam team, confirmed his leave of absence from the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Indoor Lifeguard Tower - Search Engine Roundtable
Matt Cutts Officially Resigns From Google With no surprise to I am sure most of you, Matt Cutts, the man at Google who helped shaped the SEO [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Ad Extensions Scheduling Feature The Bing Ads team announced the release of a new scheduling feature to schedule your ad [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Android App Offline Search Google announced that their new Android search app lets you do searches even when you are offline [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Intrusive Interstitials Mobile Penalty Having Minimal Impact As you know, the Google mobile interstitial penalty began to roll out on schedule on January 10, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Crawl Budget: What SEOs Need to Know About Googlebot Crawling Gary Illyes from Google has posted a blog entry on the Google Webmaster blog, touching on Googlebot [...] - The SEM Post
Matt Cutts officially resigns from Google Matt Cutts is the new director of engineering at the US Digital Service. He has been on leave with [...] - Search Engine Land
The Top 20 Most Popular Super Bowl Ads on YouTube YouTube has put out a list of the top 20 most viewed Super Bowl commercials of the past nine years. [...] - Search Engine Journal
Safari for iOS Adds Click-to-Call Button in Search Suggestions It has been discovered that Safari for iOS is now returning click-to-call buttons in some of its [...] - Search Engine Journal
Study shows search terms with the very worst (and best) clickthrough rates A new study uncovers a slew of search terms that aren't earning their fair share of clicks in the [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 19, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
DuckDuckGo Hits Milestone 14 Million Searches in a Single Day DuckDuckGo revealed it has hit a milestone of 14 million searches in a single day. In addition, the [...] - Search Engine Journal

January, 18 2017

Don’t let a spotty connection stop you from searching Whether you’re a commuter reading the news with a spotty network, a farmer looking up crop [...] - Inside Search
Google Killing Off Google+ on January 24th, But it Won’t Be Gone For Good Google is retiring the “classic” Google+ as it introduces an all-new version with [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google App on Android Will Save Searches if Connection Fails Google has updated its Android app to benefit those who may find themselves running into spotty [...] - Search Engine Journal
Traffic From Google Home App Considered Direct Traffic in Google Analytics It has been discovered that Google Analytics is reading clicks from the Google Home app as direct [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google's New Calvin & Hobbes Post It Wall Art - Search Engine Roundtable
New: Google Local Pack Showing Google Shopping Ads Mike Blumenthal posted a screen shot on Twitter showing Google shopping ads in the local pack [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords To Only Allow Add/Edit Extended Text Ads Starting January 31st Starting January 31st... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Testing Local Inventory Ads in Local Pack Google appears to be testing a hybrid of a local pack listing with shopping ads, where it is [...] - The SEM Post
Google: Intrusive Interstitials Mobile Penalty Still Rolling Out Based On Recrawl Many keep asking, has the Google mobile interstitial penalty fully rolled out yet... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Testing Google My Business Web Site Builder Tool Mike Blumenthal reported on the Google My Business web site builder tool, to enable businesses to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdSense Launches Ad Balance Slider To Show Less Ads Google launched a new feature in the new Google AdSense user interface named "Ad [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local 4-Packs Showing 1 Ad & 3 Organic Local Listings We have seen local 4-packs from Google where Google will show 4 paid local listings in a local [...] - The SEM Post
Google Android search app will keep trying your searches when your internet connection is poor Don't you hate it when your phone loses it's internet connection and you can't search for something [...] - Search Engine Land
How artificial intelligence drives PPC automation As artificial intelligence starts to play a bigger role in PPC account management, columnist [...] - Search Engine Land
Google testing new look for local inventory ads in place of local pack The test is another effort to monetize local queries on mobile. - Search Engine Land
Four resolutions for Shopping success in 2017 Retailers like you are always looking for the best ways to promote your products and reach shoppers [...] - Inside Adwords
A Large Corpus for Supervised Word-Sense Disambiguation Posted by Colin Evans and Dayu Yuan, Software Engineers Understanding the various meanings of a [...] - Google Research
In or Out? Year in Review of Top Google Winners and Losers in 2016 In the words of fashion icon Heidi Klum, “One day you’re in, the next day you’re [...] - Searchmetrics
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 18, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 17 2017

Spelling Google Wrong On Google Bumper Stickers - Search Engine Roundtable
Tell Google What Technical SEO Topic They Should Write About Gary Illyes from Google posted on Twitter asking webmasters and SEOs "what (technical) topic [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Maps Highlights Robert E. Lee's Birthday Instead Of Martin Luther King Yesterday For Some Yesterday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States but in some states, instead of Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Crawl Rate & Crawl Demand = Crawl Budget Several weeks ago, Google told us crawl budget is not what we think it is and promised to write a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Algorithm Update On January 16th, MLK Day? Yesterday was a US holiday, so overall there was less people working, searching and buying online. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: The Mobile Friendly Icons Confused Searchers Initially Google's John Mueller said in a YouTube hangout on the other day at the 9:20 mark into the video [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How Google Ranks “Top Stories” News in Search Results We don’t often hear about how Google ranks their news related results nor how the “Top [...] - The SEM Post
Survey: 60 percent of voice users want more “answers” and fewer search results Making calls, searching, texting and map lookups were the most common use cases for voice. - Search Engine Land
Mind the store: Using AdWords to drive offline sales Store visits from online ads can be reported in AdWords. Columnist and Googler Matt Lawson explains [...] - Search Engine Land
Reminder: Transition to expanded text ads before January 31, 2017 This is a friendly reminder that starting on January 31, you’ll only be able to create and [...] - Inside Adwords
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 17, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
10 Mind-Blowing Stats About Social Media Usage Find out which groups use social media the most, what social media users have been shopping for, [...] - Search Engine Journal

January, 16 2017

Google Image Search Starts Playing YouTube Videos Google Image Search's mobile interface tests a new feature that starts playing snippets from a [...] - Google Operating System
Martin Luther King Jr. Day - Google Doodle Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day - a very important day in the U.S. It commemorates the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Has An Indoor Tractor - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Structured Data Testing Tool Validates Multi-Typed Entities MTE Brad Brewer posted on Twitter that the Google Structured Data Testing Tool now supports MTE, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google On Negative SEO: Keeps Competitors Busy While You Get To Move Forward We've covered the topic of negative SEO to exhaustion but hey, Google's John Mueller had a nice [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Has Search Quality Raters In Tons Of Countries The Google quality raters are contractors who work to test and judge experiments in the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Image Search testing YouTube videos with “New Look on YouTube” YouTube videos now being tested in Google Image Search for mobile for retail based queries. - Search Engine Land
Martin Luther King Jr. Day Google doodle promotes King’s message of unity Created by guest artist Keith Mallett, the doodle's artwork highlights King's belief that all life [...] - Search Engine Land
New in Instagram for Business: Insights and Ads in Stories There's no stopping Instagram — especially when it comes to Stories. Only five months into [...] - Search Engine Journal
What Crawl Budget Means for Googlebot Recently, we've heard a number of definitions for "crawl budget", however we don't have a [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google explains what “crawl budget” means for webmasters Google says crawl demand and crawl rate make up GoogleBot's crawl budget for your web site. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 16, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Googlebot Crawl Budget Explained by Google’s Gary Illyes "Crawl budget" is a loaded term made up of a lot moving parts. Gary Illyes, a Google [...] - Search Engine Journal

January, 13 2017

YouTube Desktop Notifications, Now For Everyone It looks like YouTube's notification experiment is now a regular feature and you can no longer [...] - Google Operating System
Book an Uber Ride Directly in Google Maps on iOS and Android Google Maps is rolling out a global update to its ride services mode which brings a new design and [...] - Search Engine Journal
Facebook Journalism Project Launched to Build Stronger Ties With News Industry 2016 has seen an increase in fake news stories, especially on Facebook where posts can go viral and [...] - Search Engine Journal
No Need to Change Canonicals from Desktop for Mobile First Indexing Just a reminder, if you are updating any canonicals, you do not need to update all desktop/mobile [...] - The SEM Post
SEO Weather Reporting Tools & Google Ranking Experiments SEO weather reports – the trackers that track a number of keywords in the search results, and [...] - The SEM Post
Google Intrusive Interstitials Mobile Penalty Does Hurt The Google mobile interstitial penalty began rolling out this week. It seems to still be rolling [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Picking Fruits Inside The Google Office - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Mobile-First Index Not Launching Too Soon In November 2016, Google began experimenting with the mobile-first index and since then, many SEOs [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Jump To Links In Mobile Search Snippets Google has had links within their search snippets for years... - Search Engine Roundtable
Five most interesting search marketing news stories of the week This week, Larry Kim peers into his crystal ball to make some outlandish predictions for SEO in [...] - Search Engine Watch
Mobile First Index: Google to Notify Sites of Possible Issues via Search Console In today’s Google Webmaster Office Hours, John Mueller said that they plan to send notices to [...] - The SEM Post
Google Home Traffic Marked As Direct Traffic By Google Analytics As many of you know, when you ask your Google Home a query and it responds, it puts the answer box [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Newly-granted Google patent sheds light on how the search engine sees entities Columnist Dave Davies explains a recent Google patent which hints at how the search engine [...] - Search Engine Land
14 Irresistible Valentine’s Day Search Stats From Bing Win the love of the most valuable shoppers this year. Here's who will be shopping, how and when [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 13, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 12 2017

Google's Circle Shaped Ping Pong Table - Search Engine Roundtable
Moz Updates Their 302 SEO Help Docs Based On Google Feedback For almost a year (maybe more), Moz and Google have not agreed on how Google handles 302 redirects. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Alerts No Working? There is a large Google Web Search Help thread with complaints that Google Alerts stopped sending [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Intrusive Interstitials Mobile Penalty Only To Impact Search Result To Page The Google mobile interstitial ad penalty is just around the corner now. What constitutes a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Dirty Sitemaps URLs Don't Hurt Your Sitemap File Back in 2011, Duane Forrestor, when he was at Bing was interviewed about Bing Sitemaps and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
January 2017 Google Webmaster Report I am really delayed this month with the monthly Google Webmaster Report, but here it is for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google has officially killed off their link command Google tells webmasters and SEOs to stop using the link command, that it is officially dead and not [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: The Link Operator No Longer Works Yesterday, we covered that Google's John Mueller said not to use the link operator. This comes a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Facebook Tests New Mid-Roll Video Ads The ads will be triggered after a Facebook user has watched a video for 20 seconds and only appear [...] - Search Engine Journal
A simple checklist to prep for the Google mobile-first index Columnist Bryson Meunier believes that for savvy marketers, the rollout of Google's mobile-first [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Places Testing New Local Listing Redesign; Adds Popular Times Bing Local is testing a major new look for their local listings in the Bing search results, and the [...] - The SEM Post
Fetch and Horror: 3 examples of how fetch and render in GSC can reveal big SEO problems Columnist Glenn Gabe demonstrates why discovering how Googlebot sees your desktop and mobile [...] - Search Engine Land
Inside Adwords By using Customer Match and remarketing lists for search ads (RLSA) in AdWords, you can connect [...] - Inside Adwords
6 New Facebook Live Features You Need to Know Facebook has announced six new Facebook Live tools and features that publishers should find [...] - Search Engine Journal
The Google Brain team — Looking Back on 2016 Posted by Jeff Dean, Google Senior Fellow, on behalf of the entire Google Brain team The Google [...] - Google Research
Google Recommends No Longer Using the Link: Operator Google’s John Mueller recommends users no longer use the ‘link:’ operator in [...] - Search Engine Journal
WordPress 4.7.1 Security Release Available, Immediate Update Recommended A security release for all previous versions WordPress is now available, which the company strongly [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 12, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 11 2017

Official: Google Intrusive Interstitials Mobile Penalty Now Rolling Out Google have of plenty of notice that yesterday, January 10th, the Google mobile intrusive [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Coaster - Search Engine Roundtable
Marissa Mayer To Step Down From Yahoo, While Yahoo To Be Renamed To Altaba A day or so ago ago, via a SEC filing, we learned two things about Yahoo. First, Marissa Mayer [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Most 404s Are Not Webmasters Fault Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that most of the 404 error codes that Google picks up on are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Seattle Docks - Search Engine Roundtable
New: Share Google AdWords Negative Keywords Across Accounts You can now share negative keywords across all your Google AdWords accounts. They just need to be [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Don't Use Our Link Operator In Web Search For over a year now, probably longer, the link operator, i.e. link:domain.com in Google, would not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Says: iOS Users Can Scroll Away The AMP Top Bar Tomo from Google said in an ongoing Google Webmaster Help thread about disabling AMP in search that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's Gary Illyes Likes SEO Questions, Not SEO Arguments Gary Illyes from Google said that he does enjoy and like answering SEO questions but he doesn't [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google confirms rolling out the mobile intrusive interstitials penalty yesterday Google said the mobile intrusive interstitial penalty went live yesterday but webmasters have not [...] - Search Engine Land
Analytics Screen Shot Of A Google Penguin 4.0 Recovery Google launched Penguin 4.0 in late September, but it took a while to roll out and see [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Ad copy hack for your AdWords pathways Ad copy implementation and testing for Single Keyword Ad Groups (SKAGs) can be difficult; use [...] - Search Engine Land
No Need to Resubmit Pages to Google Search Monthly A question came up on a recent Google Webmaster Office Hours asking about the fetch and submit [...] - The SEM Post
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 11, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 4, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 10 2017

Google is launching automated call extensions in mobile ads on February 6 Call extensions will automatically pull phone numbers featured on landing pages. - Search Engine Land
Yahoo Renames Itself as ‘Altaba’, CEO Marissa Mayer Resigns Yahoo as we know it is no longer. CEO Marissa Mayer resigned, and remaining board members have [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s Mobile Interstitial & Popup Change Now Live: What to Know Google’s change that would see pages devalued for using popups and interstitials for mobile [...] - The SEM Post
Google App for Android gets a refresh with new shortcuts to frequently used features Shortcuts to widgets for Weather, Nearby Restaurants, My Events and more appear at top of Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Google to Automatically Add Call Extensions to Mobile Ads in February Google AdWords will be automatically adding call extensions to mobile ads beginning February 6, [...] - Search Engine Journal

January, 9 2017

Which Google algorithm changes impacted marketers most in 2016 – and what can we expect from 2017? Between the long-awaited rollout of Penguin 4.0, a strengthening of Google's mobile-friendly [...] - Search Engine Watch
John Mueller Of Google Helping Webmasters On New Years Again Just like last year and this past Christmas and the years before - Google's John Mueller spent some [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Mexico Indoor Bike Parking - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: SEO Is One Of The Primary Reasons Websites Are Targeted For Hacking Google posted on their webmaster channel on Google+ that one of the primary reasons a web site is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Wix Web Sites Work Fine For Search Over the years, Wix has had a reputation of not doing too well with SEO and search rankings. Wix [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Essential voice search strategies for 2017 Are you prepared for the rise in voice search? Columnist Sherry Bonelli discusses how voice search [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Bollywood Themed Car - Search Engine Roundtable
5 B2B marketing tips to jump-start your 2017 results Columnist Jessica Cameron provides B2B marketing tips for starting your new year off on the right [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Showing Rich Cards In Over 10% Of Search Results Rank Ranger, a software based Google tracking tool, posted on Twitter that it seems Google has been [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Adds “Trending in the News” Autosuggest on Mobile Google is testing a new autosuggest in the mobile search results, this time highlighting specific [...] - The SEM Post
AdWords Managed Accounts can finally share negative keyword lists across accounts Create a single list of negative keywords that can be applied to campaigns within an MCC. - Search Engine Land
Google AdWords Notifying Customers Using Call & Location Extensions Google sent an email to AdWords customers who are using both call and location extensions. If they [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
10 Ways to Get Ready for Google’s Mobile Interstitials Penalty on January 10th Google gave site owners plenty of time to prepare the upcoming mobile interstitials penalty, but in [...] - Search Engine Journal
Sorry: I'm Sick But Hope To Be Back Fully Soon People keep asking me, what is up with the lack of stories here. I just need to apologize. I got [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 2, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 8 2017

New Year's Day 2017 Google Doodle Happy New Years everyone! Here is the Google Doodle, their special logo, for New Year's Day [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 6 2017

Vine is Dead, Long Live Vine Vine may not be so dead after all. The app will be updating to the "new" Vine Camera on [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Assistant Coming Soon to Android TV With Siri being thoroughly integrated into the latest Apple TV units, it was only a matter of time [...] - Search Engine Journal
2016 in Review: Top US Marketing Search Terms of the Year Bing has revealed the top marketing keywords searched for in 2016, according to Bing US search data. - Search Engine Journal
Google: Normal for Not All Pages to Be Indexed on a Website Getting all pages indexed in Google can be a challenge for some site owners. But if Google [...] - The SEM Post
Google Still Sending Unnatural Links Manual Actions After Penguin Update If you have been wondering about whether or not Google is still sending out unnatural inbound link [...] - The SEM Post
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Mobile First, Algorithm Update, 2017 SEO Advice & More This week was expected to be slow because of the holiday week but hey, we may have had a small [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Five most interesting search marketing news stories of the week This week, we've got stories from Bing, Google and Instagram, plus a look at how a new search [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google to start overriding call extension numbers with location-specific phone numbers in ads Advertisers that depend on calls going to a central phone number for conversion tracking and other [...] - Search Engine Land
Brand vs. local Knowledge Graph result: Which is better? Columnist Tony Edward explains which Knowledge Graph results are appropriate in different [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 30, 2016 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 5 2017

Bing Wants to Keep People Healthy in the New Year With These New Search Features Bing announced a series of updates to its search results designed to make it easier for people to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Cloth Shop Bag In India - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Doesn’t Throttle or Restrict Traffic to Sites in Search Results It comes up periodically where webmasters will question whether Google has any kind of throttle in [...] - The SEM Post
Google: How to Handle Near Identical Product Pages for Search It is always one of those challenging decisions for site owners – what to do about products [...] - The SEM Post
A new guide to testing and experimentation in AdWords Digital marketing is always evolving. It’s crucial to evolve your approach as well. This [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Brain Residency Program - 7 months in and looking ahead Posted by Jeff Dean, Google Senior Fellow and Leslie Phillips, Google Brain Residency Program [...] - Google Research

January, 4 2017

Differences in Google Search Console Link Report for Small & Large Sites Google has often said that there is only a selection of URLs that will show as links when viewing [...] - The SEM Post
A comprehensive guide to SSL certificates Need to secure your site, but not sure where to start? Check out columnist Stephanie LeVonne's [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s updated iOS app pulls in YouTube videos, menus & more Version 22 gives searchers fewer reasons to need to leave the app. - Search Engine Land
Google’s iOS App Updated With Native YouTube Support, Built-in Gboard, + More Google’s iOS app received a fairly significant update, bringing with it several new features [...] - Search Engine Journal

January, 3 2017

Google Recommends Using Two Verification Methods in Search Console Google recently held themed Webmaster Office Hours, one of them dealt solely with Google Search [...] - The SEM Post
Most 404 Errors in Google Search Console Not Site Owner’s Fault Many people hate when 404 errors pop up in their Google Search Console account. While this is [...] - The SEM Post
Personalization Affects Search Analytics Positioning in Google Search Console Does personalization impact the search positions shown in Search Analytics within Google Search [...] - The SEM Post
Bing Helps You Reach New Year’s Health Goals Follow through on your health and fitness resolutions and save money, with help from Bing. - Bing Search

January, 2 2017

Google Search Console Warns Site Owners Collecting Unsecured Passwords Google began sending out warnings to many website owners for collecting passwords on sites that are [...] - The SEM Post
Google and Spoken Queries: Understanding Stressed Pronouns The future of searches on the Web will likely involve searches by voice, as more and more people [...] - SEO by the Sea

January, 1 2017

Google Tracking How Busy Places are by Looking at Location Histories Google Maps helps people navigate from place to place. In order for it to work effectively, [...] - SEO by the Sea
New Year’s Day 2017 Google doodle features balloon drop to mark 1st day of the year Google follows its New Year's Eve doodle with an animated image of celebratory balloons. - Search Engine Land