Archive of December, 2017

December, 31 2017

Google Introduces Rich Results Tool for Testing Structured Data Google has introduced a catch-all tool for testing rich snippets, rich cards, and other [...] - Search Engine Journal
New Year’s Eve 2017 Google doodle brings back penguins for the holiday doodle series Today's New Year's Eve image is the third entry in the series. - Search Engine Land
Negative Google Reviews from Former Employees Are Now Against Guidelines Google has updated its Google My Business review guidelines with more specific information about [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Integrating Third Party Reviews in Local Search Results Google has been spotted integrating reviews from third party sources in the Knowledge Graph cards [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s Most Searched Fads of 2017 Google’s Year in Search continues as the company looks back on the most searched fads of 2017. - Search Engine Journal
New Year's Eve 2017 Google Logo & Bing Theme Today is New Year's Eve 2017, the last day of 2017 and of course, both Google and Bing have special [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 29 2017

New Google Update Targets Link Spam & Other Unnatural Links? For the past few days, I have been tracking webmaster forum chatter around another update that may [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New test prominently showcases Google Express in mobile search results A test includes a new callout and ad treatment for the shopping program in mobile search results. - Search Engine Land
A year in review: Search Engine Land’s top 10 columns of 2017 We conclude our year-in-review series by calling out our most popular columns of 2017, which [...] - Search Engine Land
Best of 2017: Our top 5 search industry articles As we come to the end of 2017, we’ve decided to take a look back at some of our most-read [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Maps Doesn't Allow Negative Reviews From Current Or Former Employees Google now has updated their review guidelines to prohibit and disallow negative reviews from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Fetching Content From Other Web Sites Does Not Add Value You see this a lot in the publishing world, where you have the same article published on hundreds [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Aleyda Solis -The Search Community Honors You This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series - feel free to nominate someone over [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Google Office Is Empty During Holiday Season - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Spam Update, SEO Tips, AdWords Tests & Christmas Workers This week Google may have pushed another algorithm update... - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 29, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Year in Search: The most fantastic fads of 2017 Here today, gone tomorrow. Our annual Year in Search is always a fun look back at the fads that [...] - Inside Search

December, 28 2017

Negative reviews from ex-employees are finally against Google’s guidelines Google recently updated its review policies to clarify that reviews left by former employees are [...] - Search Engine Land
5 (less obvious) PPC trends to watch in 2018 Here are several trends that will affect nearly every search marketer in the year ahead. - Search Engine Land
Going organic: Our top SEO columns of 2017 Search engine optimization saw another eventful year as readers consumed content on everything from [...] - Search Engine Land
Google again showing third-party reviews in local results Program has been in place since 2016 and involves direct, opt-in integration. - Search Engine Land
Google: Long Term Noindex Will Lead To Nofollow On Links Google's John Mueller explained in a webmaster video at the 54:51 mark that long term noindex, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Hopes To Communicate Larger Algorithm Changes In Future Danny Sullivan posted on Twitter that he hopes Google will communicate more about larger Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Matt McGee - The Search Community Honors You This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series - feel free to nominate someone over [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 28, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 27 2017

What to watch for in 2018: Mobile SEO predictions Mobile SEO expert Cindy Krum shares her predictions for where mobile is headed in 2018 and dives [...] - Search Engine Land
From algo to aggro: How SEOs really feel about Google algorithm updates Algorithm updates got you down? You're not alone. Columnist Jamie Pitman shares highlights from a [...] - Search Engine Land
Google image search results tests new related searches box Google is at it again, now testing a new way for searchers to expand their queries in image search [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Maccabee Updates Hurt Many Celebrity Web Sites Google somewhat confirmed there were many minor updates in that time frame. One of those updates [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Marlene Dietrich Google doodle honors the legendary actress’s career Actress, humanitarian, star and icon gets a Google logo on what would have been her 116th birthday. - Search Engine Land
Google: Avoid Using Google Tag Manager For SEO Experiments There is a post about using Google Tag Manager for SEO experiments and if Google is able to pick up [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 26 2017

Unique international trends require a unique marketing approach Trends and interests change from one market to another, so why do so many advertisers apply the [...] - Search Engine Land
Embrace a product manager mindset to improve 2018 SEO KPIs How can you improve your performance in the new year? Columnist Adam Dorfman recommends thinking [...] - Search Engine Land
Google keeps existing AdWords API terms related to exporting to third-party ad networks Google is keeping its domain opt-out and AdWords API tools policies as is, says their VP & [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: SEOs Don't Know If Unnatural Links Work Or Not Typical reward and punishment sometimes is more black and white than how Google's algorithm works [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Joe Hall - The Search Community Honors You This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series - feel free to nominate someone over [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Showing Structured Data Markup Just To GoogleBot Is Cloaking Did you know that if you decide to just show your structured data markup to GoogleBot, Google's [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
When Google Maps Shows Embarrassing Business Photos Over Your Photos There was a post on Twitter that caught my eye and I wanted to share it with you all: Thank you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Shopping Ads Similar Looks & Easy Checkout PPC Hubbub on Twitter shared a screen shot with me of a feature I don't necessarily think is new... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Kettlebells - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 25 2017

December global festivities Google doodle marks day 2 of Google’s holiday doodle series Today's doodle shows Google's animated penguins celebrating the holidays with their warm weather [...] - Search Engine Land
John Mueller Helping Webmasters On Christmas Eve Year After Year It is like a Christmas tradition for John Mueller, a Google webmaster trends analyst, where he [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
December Global Festivities: Some Upset Google Doesn't Say Merry Christmas If you go to Google's home page and check out the Christmas logo today, unlike the other search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Christmas Day Holiday Decorations From Google, Bing, Baidu, Sogou & More Merry Christmas everyone... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Stuffs Christmas Tree In Old Police Box - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 25, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 24 2017

Google & NORAD Santa Trackers show St. Nick already in flight for his 2017 trip around the world The two sites will be tracking Santa's whereabouts for the next 24 hours. - Search Engine Land

December, 22 2017

Google Brings Back Webmaster Help Videos Google is bringing back webmaster help videos on YouTube in a new series called “SEO [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google's John Mueller: Nofollow All Guest Posts Links Google's John Mueller said that if it was him, he would nofollow all guest blog posts links - even [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The enterprise business of SEO: Communicating to the C-suite Columnist Jim Yu shares advice for how to effectively engage with the leaders of your organization [...] - Search Engine Land
Brute Force Password Hacks on the Rise A subReddit hacking, 1.4 billion stolen passwords, and a WordPress attack are reminders that [...] - Search Engine Journal
Cindy Krum - The Search Community Honors You This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series - feel free to nominate someone over [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Eric Schmidt To Step Down As Executive Chairman At Google & Alphabet Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google and current Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Logos For Winter Solstice 2017 & Summer Solstice 2017 Google has their Doodles up for the new season, specifically both the winter solstice and the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google I Dream Of A World Where Poster - Search Engine Roundtable
SEO Snippets: Google Starts Up The Short Webmaster Videos Again I am so happy to see the announcement that Google is now starting up these short SEO/webmaster [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update, Guest Blog Posts, Rich Results & Eric Schmidt This week in search, Google confirmed they did many minor updates around the time of what I called [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Year in Search: To infinity and beyond The solar system had its shining moment this year, according to our annual Year in Search . From [...] - Inside Search
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 22, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 21 2017

4 things SEO professionals should do consistently Columnist Jeremy Knauff shares his vision for how to improve the SEO industry through transparency, [...] - Search Engine Land
‘SEO Snippets’ — new Google video series to help webmasters & SEOs The new series will address frequently raised issues in the webmaster forums. - Search Engine Land
Winter Solstice 2017 Google doodle marks the shortest day of the year & official start of winter Google has brought back its animated mouse to finish out the 2017 solstice and equinox doodle [...] - Search Engine Land
Google tests ‘more results’ mobile search interface and new search refinement buttons Google told us, "We constantly experiment with new search formats and experiences to deliver [...] - Search Engine Land
Eric Schmidt stepping down as Executive Chairman of Google parent company, Alphabet Longtime Google executive will transition to role of technical advisor. - Search Engine Land
How Chrome’s Ad Blocker Might Save the Ad Supported Internet Is Google's Chrome Ad Blocker a way to show more of their own ads? - Search Engine Journal
The Google Assistant SDK adds support for additional languages & more In addition to new language support, Google has added customized settings, text-based queries & [...] - Search Engine Land
Introducing the new Webmaster Video Series Google has a broad range of resources to help you better understand your website and improve its [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Confirms Search Ranking Updates But Calls Them Minor & Many That update we've been tracking for over a week that I nicknamed the Maccabees Update, well, Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Report: Google Overtakes Facebook In Referral Traffic A week or so ago, a report came out via Recode that Facebook is no longer the top site for referral [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Evaluation of Speech for the Google Assistant Posted by Enrique Alfonseca, Staff Research Scientist, Google Assistant Voice interactions with [...] - Google Research
Google: IPv6 & HTTP/2 Works But You Should Also Support IPv4 & HTTP/1.x Google's John Mueller said Google can handle sites on IPv6 & HTTP/2 all just fine with Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
5 New Year's Resolutions for AdWords Success With 2018 only weeks away, our team compiled a few AdWords New Year’s resolutions for you to [...] - Inside Adwords
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 21, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 20 2017

Google confirms mid-December search ranking algorithm update As the update continues to roll out, early indications suggest disruptions in mobile SERPs, sites [...] - Search Engine Land
The upcoming mobile app Monday: Be prepared Christmas Day and the day after are two of the biggest mobile download days of the year, and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AdWords Ads to Stop Showing Review Extensions in January 2018 Google AdWords will stop showing review extensions with ads as of mid-January 2018. - Search Engine Journal
Google Maccabees Update Analysis: Sites Targeting Many Keyword Permutations By far, the biggest bulk of sites that I saw got hit all had tons and tons of landing pages target [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 19 2017

Tacotron 2: Generating Human-like Speech from Text Posted by Jonathan Shen and Ruoming Pang, Software Engineers, on behalf of the Google Brain and [...] - Google Research
PPC 2017: Epic review of the biggest trends & updates in paid search This year, artificial intelligence and machine learning underpinned nearly every paid search update. - Search Engine Land
What you learn from talking with Google’s largest advertisers all day, every day The world’s largest advertisers routinely visit the Google campus to talk strategy. Columnist [...] - Search Engine Land
Introducing Rich Results & the Rich Results Testing Tool Over the years , the different ways you can choose to highlight your website's content in search [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google launches new Rich Results testing tool with some rebranding In addition to the new testing tool, Google is grouping all the names for these types of search [...] - Search Engine Land
Data bug with Google Search Console’s Search Analytics report The AMP filter, specifically for AMP non-rich results impressions and clicks, may show incorrect [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Issues Duplicate Content Warning Today John Mueller, Google Webmaster Trends Analyst, issued a warning via Twitter about duplicate [...] - Search Engine Journal

December, 18 2017

Google is testing images in search text ads The test was spotted on mobile over the weekend. - Search Engine Land
Getting your site ready for mobile-first indexing When we announced almost a year ago that we're experimenting with mobile-first [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Supercharge your email marketing with Google AdWords Columnist Todd Saunders explains how to use AdWords Customer Match to nurture your email marketing [...] - Search Engine Land
Facebook Demoting Engagement Bait Facebook will demote posts and pages that encourage users to like, post a specific word, or share [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google offers advice on how to get ready for the mobile-first index Check your log files to see if you see an increase in smartphone Googlebot activity, it may be a [...] - Search Engine Land
AI marketing and the journey through the uncanny valley “Things usually get worse before they get better.” “It’s always darkest [...] - Search Engine Land
December global festivities Google doodle kicks off series of holiday doodles Today's doodle is the first in a series of doodles Google will post over the next two weeks leading [...] - Search Engine Land
Doc Sheldon - The Search Community Honors You This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series - feel free to nominate someone over [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Favicons In Search Results Snippets Again Google is testing favicons in the search results snippets again... - Search Engine Roundtable
December Global Festivities: Google Kicks Off Year End Holiday Doodles From today, December 18th, likely all the way through January 1st, Google will have a series of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Didn't Find Crawling From Outside Of The United States Useful Back in 2015, Google announced they can now crawl locally better and said again not long ago that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Giving Less Weight to Reviews of Places You Stop Visiting? I don’t consider myself paranoid, but after reading a lot of Google patents, I’ve been [...] - SEO by the Sea
GooglePlex Lawn Has Frost - Search Engine Roundtable
Survey: Hit By Google Maccabees Update? Last week, we reported about an interesting unconfirmed Google update that touched down on Tuesday, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 15 2017

Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update: The Maccabees Update There is currently both a lot of chatter in the SEO forums and many of the tools are lighting up [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ad Grants policy changes include 5% CTR minimum, up from 1% Several new policy updates for the AdWords program for non-profits take effect January 1, 2018. - Search Engine Land
How to generate links that drive traffic, not just ranking Links are a crucial element of search engine optimization, and columnist Kevin Rowe believes that [...] - Search Engine Land
Optimizing for Hanukkah: Sometimes it’s still strings, not things Google has grown smarter at recognizing variant spellings of the same entity, but columnist Paul [...] - Search Engine Land
European press agencies push for licensing fees for their content from Google, Facebook It remains to be seen whether European legislators and regulators will pick up the cause, but [...] - Search Engine Land
What’s behind the trend towards private search engines? In the last two or three years, the search industry has seen a number of new engines that focus [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google: Watch Your Log Files To See If You Moved To The Mobile-First Index Google's John Mueller said this morning on a Google hangout at the 3:40 mark into the video that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 15, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 14 2017

SEO in 2018: Optimizing for voice search Columnist Bryson Meunier argues that by understanding the nuances of voice search, marketers can do [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Fundamentals of writing meta descriptions don’t change with longer search snippets Google has officially commented about what webmasters should focus on when writing meta [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing announces AI-powered new ‘intelligent search’ features None of the features or changes is disruptive, but they collectively point to the fact that search [...] - Search Engine Land
New Google Search Console Will Have Over 1 Year of Data Google’s new and improved Search Console experience is slated for an early 2018 roll out. - Search Engine Journal
Google adds price tracking features to flight search, hotel search and Google Trips Google adds several features to help searchers plan their getaways. - Search Engine Land
Twitter Makes it Easy to Send Tweetstorms With New Threads Feature Twitter has a new feature that makes it easy to automatically publish multiple tweets in a row. - Search Engine Journal
Target Google AdWords Ads by Customer Address and Phone Number Google has introduced the ability for AdWords advertisers to target known customers by phone [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Plans To Roll Out New Search Console Early Next Year In July, we first uncovered the new beta Google Search Console and SEOs and webmasters have been [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing to Offer Unique Search Experiences for Reddit Content Reddit has partnered with Microsoft, which will allow Bing to deliver unique search experiences for [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Brings Price Tracking to Google Flights, Trips and Hotel Search Google has introduced a new set of tools to assist travellers looking for the best deal. - Search Engine Journal

December, 13 2017

Google Search Console beta adds 12+ months of data to performance reports After a few years of promises, Google is finally providing longer-term data in Google Search [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Revamps its SEO Starter Guide: Here’s What’s New Google has revamped its official SEO Starter Guide for the first time in over 7 years. - Search Engine Journal
Hallelujah! Google Search Console Adds A Years Worth Of Data On Beta Finally... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Now Recommends Longer Meta Descriptions For New Longer Snippets Last week, Google confirmed they are rolling out longer search snippets but they also said via [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Hurricane Irma was the No.1 top trending Google search in the U.S. & globally for 2017 Google has released its top trending searches of the year, covering everything from the most [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s Year in Search: Top Queries in 2017 Google has released its annual Year in Search report, detailing the top queries of the year across [...] - Search Engine Journal
Visualizing your site structure in advance of a major change Making big changes to your website structure? Columnist Dave Davies shares a data visualization [...] - Search Engine Land

December, 12 2017

A revamped SEO Starter Guide There are lots of resources out there to create great websites. Website owners often ask Google [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google revamps its SEO Starter Guide This is the first update of the SEO starter guide in several years. - Search Engine Land
A balanced approach to data-driven SEO SEOs have access to massive amounts of data, and columnist Ryan Shelley asserts that we must learn [...] - Search Engine Land
TFGAN: A Lightweight Library for Generative Adversarial Networks Posted by Joel Shor, Senior Software Engineer, Machine Perception (Crossposted on the Google [...] - Google Research
Compare 13 leading SEO platforms SEO software comes in many shapes and sizes, from rank-checking tools and keyword research toolsets [...] - Search Engine Land

December, 11 2017

AdWords advertisers can use phone numbers & addresses for Google Customer Match targeting Google Customer Match becomes more accessible to advertisers that don't have large customer email [...] - Search Engine Land
5 local search tactics your competitors probably aren’t using When you and your competitors are all adhering to local SEO best practices, how can you [...] - Search Engine Land
Max Born Google doodle marks 135th birthday of man behind the Born Rule in quantum theory Born was awarded the Nobel Prize in quantum mechanics for his theory, which serves as the [...] - Search Engine Land
Introducing Appsperiments: Exploring the Potentials of Mobile Photography Posted by Alex Kauffmann, Interaction Researcher, Google Research Each of the world's [...] - Google Research
Bing Ads Now Allows Advertisers to Import Call Conversions Bing Ads is now letting advertisers import call conversion data, which can help connect phone sales [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Brings Celebrity Q&A Videos to Search Results Google’s latest addition to search results features celebrities answering frequently asked [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google AdWords Now Refreshes Auction Insights and Impression Share Data Multiple Times a Day Google AdWords has gone from refreshing auction insights and impression share data once a day, to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Facebook Removes Ticker News Feed For Monitoring Friends’ Activity Facebook has been quietly phasing out the ticker over the past few weeks, and has now removed it [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: We Don't Recommend Generic Disavow Files There are many folks out there that have generic or master lists of disavow files that they bring [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Bing Ads Call Conversions With Offline Conversion Import Bing Ads announced they now support call conversions through the offline conversion import method. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 10 2017

Robert Koch Google doodle honors German physician awarded the 1905 Nobel Prize in medicine Koch is credited with ushering in the Golden Age of bacteriology. - Search Engine Land

December, 8 2017

Google’s new custom intent audiences and you Columnist Allen Finn shares his thoughts on Google's new custom intent audiences before diving into [...] - Search Engine Land
‘Purchases on Google’ Shopping ads test is running on iOS devices The quick-payment mobile Shopping ads have previously been limited to Android. - Search Engine Land
Jan Ingenhousz Google doodle marks 287th birthday of scientist behind photosynthesis discovery Ingenhousz also served as the family doctor for Austria's royal House of Habsburg under the rule of [...] - Search Engine Land
#NoHacked 3.0: How do I know if my site is hacked? Last week #NoHacked is back on our G+ and Twitter channels! #NoHacked is our social campaign [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Ammon Johns - The Search Community Honors You This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series - feel free to nominate someone over [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Defends Inaccurate Mount Agung Eruption Search Listings Google had some inaccurate news stories listed in their top stories section in search when people [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Photosynthesis Logo On Jan Ingenhousz's 287th Birthday Today on Google's home page is a logo, a Doodle showing off the sun and plants and of course [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Yoga Pose Synced With Building Lights - Search Engine Roundtable
Does Google Supports Audiobook Schema? The other day I reported that Google is officially showing if a book supports audibooks and if so, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 7 2017

Is holiday paid search more competitive in 2017 than 2016? Columnist Andy Taylor explores year-over-year Auction Insights data from AdWords, revealing [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Reminds Publishers Not to Accept Bribes for Links In response to a controversial article published by The Outline, Google has reminded publications [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Revamps Search Results: Expanded Featured Snippets, Related Topics, More Google is revamping search results by expanding some key components and introducing a new way to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Have a question about Will Ferrell? Google may show you a video response directly from him Google is serving up selfie videos from celebrities answering frequent questions about themselves. - Search Engine Land
The lowdown on driving app downloads with Universal App campaigns Google’s Universal App campaigns use machine learning to automate app promotion. Columnist [...] - Search Engine Land
The highs and lows of enterprise SEO: Which strategies paid off best in 2017? As we come to the end of 2017 and embark on the inevitable dozens of review articles looking back [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Bangalore's Indoor Cricket Field - Search Engine Roundtable
Kim Krause Berg - The Search Community Honors You This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series - feel free to nominate someone over [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Join Google's John Mueller For A Webmaster Hangout Live In Zurich Google's John Mueller posted on Twitter that he can try to coordinate a live hangout with in person [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWord Auction Insights & Impression Share Data Refreshed Multiple Times A Day Google posted on Twitter that Google AdWords now refreshes the auction insights and impression [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Tell Google Why & How You Want To Filter Voice Search Queries In Search Console Google's John Mueller posted on Twitter that he is looking at what webmasters and SEOs would do [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Read More AMP Links Can Go To Read More HTML Pages The other day, Google announced a new penalty for AMP pages that have partial content with read [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Responds To Blog Bribes: It Can Lead To Search Penalties Over the past few days, the community has been buzzing about an article on The Outline named How [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Your Search questions, answered selfie-style on Google Whether you watch them on TV, listen to them on a podcast, or read about them in a magazine, you [...] - Inside Search
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 7, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 6 2017

Google Lens an impressive start for ‘visual search’ While it makes lots of mistakes, it also gets lots of things right. - Search Engine Land
Yahoo parent sues Mozilla for replacing it with Google as Firefox default search Mozilla countersues and says that poor Yahoo search quality caused Firefox to lose market share. - Search Engine Land
AMP: A case for websites serving developing countries As the gap in connection speeds between developed and developing nations continues to widen, [...] - Search Engine Land
Twitter broadens its AMP support to include analytics Twitter says the new AMP analytics feature will help distinguish page views happening on Twitter [...] - Search Engine Land
Barry Adams - The Search Community Honors You This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series - feel free to nominate someone over [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Adds To Featured Snippets: Images, Related Search & Content & People Relations Google has added a bunch of features to the featured snippets, one we covered yesterday before the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Keep the lights on for the last-minute shopper this December Would it surprise you to hear that we see 34% more shopping searches on Christmas Day than on Black [...] - Inside Adwords
Googleers At Dublin Office With Sinterklaas - Search Engine Roundtable
YouTube AdSense Reports Shows Zero Earnings For Many Many Google AdSense publishers who use YouTube to earn their money are reporting that their [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Mobile Search Interface With Few Organic Results Justin Briggs has been in this Google test bucket where he is seeing Google mobile search results [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Hotel Price Slider Rolling Out On Desktop & Mobile For months Google has been testing hotel price sliders on mobile and desktop. Well, now it seems [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 6, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 5 2017

Google’s latest search updates brings more content to Featured Snippets & Knowledge Panel info “Search is not just about answering your questions -- it’s also about discovery,” [...] - Search Engine Land
Links: To speed or not to speed Want to build links faster? Julie Joyce discusses which tasks can be sped up and which can't. - Search Engine Land
Google testing an answers carousel within the search results snippets Publishers and webmasters might not like this new feature Google is testing. - Search Engine Land
Google wraps Hanukkah, Festivus, Christmas & Kwanzaa searches in festive holiday decor Hanukkah decorations include a Menorah, Christmas searches display a gingerbread house and candy [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Assistant Can Now Find Local Home Services Google Assistant is now capable of helping people find local home services that are relevant to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search is Highlighting Accepted Answers from Stack Overflow Google has been spotted highlighting answers from Stack Overflow in search results. - Search Engine Journal
Google Santa Tracker 2018: Count Down the Days With Games and Activities Google’s Santa Tracker for 2018 is live, and Google is offering plenty of content to keep [...] - Search Engine Journal
Introducing a New Foveation Pipeline for Virtual/Mixed Reality Posted by Behnam Bastani, Software Engineer Manager and Eric Turner, Software Engineer, Daydream [...] - Google Research
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 5, 2017 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 4 2017

DeepVariant: Highly Accurate Genomes With Deep Neural Networks Posted by Mark DePristo and Ryan Poplin, Google Brain Team (Crossposted on the Google Open [...] - Google Research
It’s time to change your SEO reports! SEO reports are often really useful... for SEO professionals. Columnist Greg Gifford asserts that [...] - Search Engine Land
Google will stop using the old AJAX crawling scheme in Q2 2018 Googlebot will render the #! URL directly, making it unnecessary for the website owner to provide a [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Extends Search Results Snippets To Max 320 Characters Google has officially extended the search results snippets to a maximum character length of 320 [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Top 10 local search insights of 2017 From location data to SEO, columnist Wesley Young of the Local Search Association provides his top [...] - Search Engine Land
Rendering AJAX-crawling pages The AJAX crawling scheme was introduced as a way of making JavaScript-based webpages accessible [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google’s Search Snippets are Longer, But Don’t Go Changing Anything Google’s search result snippets are now longer than what once was the maximum length of 160 [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google tests ‘notable moments’ carousel in knowledge graph cards Check out this new feature Google is testing in the knowledge cards. It looks like a timeline of [...] - Search Engine Land
Google coding-game doodle marks 50th anniversary of kids learning to code The Google doodle team partnered with the Google Blockly team and MIT researchers to create [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s Search Crawlers to Natively Render JavaScript-based Pages In Q2 2018, Google’s search crawlers will begin to render JavaScript-based webpages without [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Santa Tracker is live, counting down the days until Christmas with holiday games & resources This year's Google Santa Tracker comes with coding games, an elf filter in the Android app and [...] - Search Engine Land

December, 3 2017

14 Years Covering The Search Industry Today is the 14th year anniversary of this site, the Search Engine Roundtable. This site, started [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 1 2017

Google officially increases length of snippets in search results Company says change is meant to provide more descriptive snippets. - Search Engine Land
8 simple ways to utilize a blog to improve SEO results Is your blog living up to its full potential? In this beginner-level how-to, columnist Joe Goers [...] - Search Engine Land
Google brings local lead generation to Google Assistant and Google Home The company taps HomeAdvisor and Porch to provide local contractors through a multistep [...] - Search Engine Land
Four brand-building activities that lay the foundation for SEO Columnist Brian Weiss explains why a strong brand is necessary to ensure that your SEO efforts can [...] - Search Engine Land
Merkle: Black Friday, Cyber Monday sales from Google paid search up by double digits YoY Phone sales from search ads continue to play a significant role for retailers. - Search Engine Land
Google Local Questions & Answers now rolling out to desktop search Searchers and businesses can now search on desktop to add questions and answers to the new Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Manufacturer Center for product data expands scope, launches API A new API, more countries and knowledge panel visibility give brands more incentive to use Google's [...] - Search Engine Land
Google facing $1 billion in potential liability with UK class action The case stems from bypassing the cookie-blocking settings on the iPhone's Safari browser in 2012. - Search Engine Land
Google Assistant Helps You Find Local Service Providers: Electrician, Plumber, Cleaner, etc. Google Assistant can now give you local results for service providers like electricians, plumbers, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable