Archive of March, 2018

March, 31 2018

Goo.gl Shutting Down – These are Your Options Google warned that Goo.gl users have one year to vacate. Offers options to help migrate away to new [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google April Fools Joke: Find Waldo in Google Maps In celebration of April Fools Google has released a limited-time feature in Google Maps, available [...] - Search Engine Journal

March, 30 2018

Recruitment SEO: How to create a well-optimized career section on your site Are you looking for quality hires? Contributor Thomas Stern explains how optimizing the careers [...] - Search Engine Land
UK webmasters prepare for #Brexit – the EU is coming for your .eu domains You may want to consider migrating to a new domain now, so you can set up your redirects and new [...] - Search Engine Land
Mobile speed case studies: Push for faster page loads If you are not feeling the need for speed, don’t be surprised if your site stalls. [...] - Search Engine Land
Alexis Sanders - 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: Manual Reviews Cannot Lift Algorithmic Search Penalty If you are hoping Google can do something on their back end to lift an algorithmic penalty, you are [...] - The SEM Post
Google SEO Snippets Video: URL Endings Or Extensions Don't Matter In yet another SEO Snippets video John Mueller of Google addresses another basic SEO question, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 30, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Mobile First Indexing Release, Algorithm Updates, Bing Search & More This week was pretty hectic in the search world. Google announced they are beginning to roll out [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Ads Editor Adds Account Level Ad Extensions Bing announced a new feature within the Bing Ads Editor. It now supports managing your account [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Custom Google Donut Box - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Request Indexing & Submit URL Feature Accepting URLs Again For the past couple of months or so, we have been reporting on changes to the request indexing and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Image Search Exact Size Filter To Be Fixed If you go to Google Image search and search for any image, let's say flowers, and then go to the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 29 2018

Compare 16 leading SEO platforms SEO software comes in many shapes and sizes, from rank-checking tools and keyword research toolsets [...] - Search Engine Land
No search volume? No problem! 3 ways to improve low-traffic AdWords campaigns Contributor Jacob Baadsgaard thinks you need to get scrappy and find ways to make the most of [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Ads brand CPC taking the elevator — up Looking for options to hold down brand CPC on Bing Ads? Contributor Andy Taylor shares strategies [...] - Search Engine Land
Bartosz GÃ³ralewicz - 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
Investing in France’s AI Ecosystem Posted by Olivier Bousquet, Principal Engineer, Google Zürich Recently, we announced the [...] - Google Research
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 29, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 28 2018

Google Lets Businesses Post Offers to Organic Search Results Google is testing a new feature which allows Google My Business pages to publish offers directly to [...] - Search Engine Journal
You can now add your business description in Google My Business Add a business description to your local knowledge panel in Google My Business. - Search Engine Land
To make every conversion count, count every conversion Measuring conversions is critically important in digital marketing. Columnist and Googler Matt [...] - Search Engine Land
Google adds air quality data in search results Traveling to a new city and want to know if you should breathe the air? Google can now tell you the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Maps is Now Available in 39 More Languages Google has released a update to Maps which makes the service available in 39 more languages. - Search Engine Journal
Waze launches ‘Local’ ads primarily aimed at SMBs and franchises Waze has 100 million active users who spend an average of 11 hours per month in the app. - Search Engine Land
Bing to Increase Ad Coverage on Bottom of Search Results Pages Bing is expanding ad coverage at the bottom of search results pages, while removing sidebar text [...] - Search Engine Journal
Using Machine Learning to Discover Neural Network Optimizers Posted by Irwan Bello, Research Associate, Google Brain Team Deep learning models have been [...] - Google Research

March, 27 2018

Google AdWords Releases New Keyword Planner Tool Google has rolled out a rebuilt version of Keyword Planner, which is available now in the new [...] - Search Engine Journal
Hijacking Google search results for fun, not profit: UK SEO uncovers XML sitemap exploit in Google Search Console SEO wins bug bounty from Vulnerability Reward Program, Google search team confirms the exploit no [...] - Search Engine Land
Expressive Speech Synthesis with Tacotron Posted by Yuxuan Wang, Research Scientist and RJ Skerry-Ryan, Software Engineer, on behalf of the [...] - Google Research
Making it easier to find and share GIFs with Google When we started Google Images, we focused on making it easy to find photos and images from across [...] - Inside Search
Google Maps adds 39 new languages supporting over 1B people Google Maps now supports an additional estimated 1.25 billion people worldwide with new languages. - Search Engine Land

March, 26 2018

Rolling out mobile-first indexing Today we’re announcing that after a year and a half of careful experimentation and testing, [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google begins rolling out mobile-first index to more sites Sites that follow the best practices for mobile-first indexing will be migrating over now, and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Officially Announces Rollout of Mobile-First Indexing Google has made its first official announcement regarding the rollout of mobile-first indexing. - Search Engine Journal
SEO for multi-language websites: How to speak your customers’ language Combining international and multilingual SEO can get complicated. Contributor Marcus Miller walks [...] - Search Engine Land
Signals Influence Date Google Shows in Search Results How does Google choose the date – if any – that is shown within the search results [...] - The SEM Post
Taiwan Google Artwork - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ranks Adolf Hitler In List Of Best German Writers If you search for [best german writer] in Google either in English or in Spanish or other languages [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Nancy McDonald - 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 Emails AdSense & Others Their Responsibilities With GDPR GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, is a huge deal for most businesses, whether they know it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Announced The New Keyword Planner Tool A month ago we reported about the new redesigned keyword planner tool which was put into the new [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google To Redirect encrypted.google.com After April 30, 2018 Google has posted a message on https://encrypted.google.com/ that this URL will redirect to the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Algorithm Update March 23rd : Chatter & Signals As I mentioned in my Friday video, there seemed to be some chatter around the algorithm update [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Europeans again raise the specter of breaking up Google More of a bargaining position, it's extremely unlikely to actually happen. - Search Engine Land
The merged approach: How combining traditional and digital brings marketing success Digital is vital to the success of any marketing strategy. Or is it? It's a bold statement but one [...] - Search Engine Watch
Bing Launches More Intelligent Search Features Bing launches more intelligent search features. - Bing Search

March, 23 2018

The new Google AdWords interface is coming soon. Are you ready? Bagpipe music in AdWords? Contributor Mona Elessily lists pros and cons of the new Google AdWords [...] - Search Engine Land
The power of podcasting: How to boost your reputation and search engine rankings Podcasting is hot and a must-use SEO tactic, says contributor Sherry Bonelli. Here is Part 1 of a [...] - Search Engine Land
To comply with GDPR, Google asks publishers to manage user-data consent for ad targeting in EU Publishers are being asked to manage the consent process on behalf of Google. - Search Engine Land
Proposed EU consumer rules to force ‘marketplaces’ to reveal ‘default ranking criteria’ Penalties will be stronger, and there will be an individual right of action. - Search Engine Land
The High Five: Springing for search trends Springtime means new beginnings, and that seems to be the case for Ringo Starr and Cynthia Nixon [...] - Inside Search
Google My Business Won't Notify You For Non-Sensitive Secondary Business Changes Allyson Wright, Community Manager, Google My Business, wrote in the Google My Business Help forums [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests More Results Button Again Back in July 2017 and December 2017 Google testing showing fewer results on the search results page [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdWords Adds Version History On Ads, Including Their Performance Google announced on Twitter and Google+ yesterday that they added version history to their ad [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Googlebot Behavior When Major Changes Made to Site The question about Googlebot being allowed to crawl pages that had previously been blocked from [...] - The SEM Post
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 23, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Eric Wu - 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
Is Google Flight Search Spamming Google's Search Results? Martin MacDonald notified me on Twitter of Google Flights spamming Google with links in their [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: About Links Placed in Source Code If you run WordPress, you have likely noticed that there are sometimes links placed within the code [...] - The SEM Post
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Drops Zero Results, Voice Search Buying, Flight Search Spam & Subscribe With Google This week in search was quiet busy, we had Google revert the zero search results feature. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Google Home Mini Donut Truck - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Site Command With Hour Filter Not Working If you go to Google on desktop or mobile and put in a site command and filter the results to only [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 22 2018

5 easy but smart SEO wins to boost content and link-building efforts Don't ignore the basic, everyday technical SEO issues that pop up when marketing a website, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AdWords Accounts With No Recent Ad Spend are Getting Deactivated Next Week Google will start deactivating AdWords accounts next week if they have not spent any money in the [...] - Search Engine Journal
SEO Ranking factors panel: SMX West session recap Contributor Eric Enge recaps the controversial takeaways and interesting marketing tips from the [...] - Search Engine Land
Giants collide: Google’s impending showdown with Amazon With Google pushing into retail and Amazon into advertising, where should you invest your ad [...] - Search Engine Land
AdWords now shows ad version history Compare old ad variations in the new AdWords interface. - Search Engine Land
Instagram Adds Support for Hashtags and Profile Links in Bios Instagram is now letting users insert links to hashtags and other profiles in their bio. - Search Engine Journal
Google Lets Users Search Through Reviews of Business Listings Google Maps for iOS has been updated with restaurant wait times and new search features. - Search Engine Journal
Katsuko Saruhashi Google doodle honors first woman elected to Science Council of Japan Born on this day in 1920, Saruhashi was a renowned Japanese geochemist who spent her career [...] - Search Engine Land
Changes to our ad policies to comply with the GDPR In May, Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect. Google is [...] - Inside Adwords
Reformulating Chemistry for More Efficient Quantum Computation Posted by Ryan Babbush, Senior Research Scientist, Quantum AI Team The first known classical [...] - Google Research

March, 21 2018

Google: Using non-English URLs for non-English websites is fine In Google's latest SEO snippets video series, Google's John Mueller talked about non-English URLs [...] - Search Engine Land
Dynamic Search Ads are for amateurs or superheroes Contributor Daniel Gilbert is definitely not a fan of Google's Dynamic Search Ads. He shares why he [...] - Search Engine Land
Guillermo Haro Google doodle celebrates Mexican astronomer who discovered Orion’s flare stars Haro's discovery of the red and blue flare stars in the Orion constellation earned the astronomer a [...] - Search Engine Land
Google News Initiative kicks off with Subscribe With Google, other efforts Subscribers will see articles from their subscribed publications higher in the search results and [...] - Search Engine Land

March, 20 2018

The Google News Initiative: Building a stronger future for news People come to Google looking for information they can trust, and that information often comes from [...] - Inside Search
Google Faculty Research Awards 2017 Posted by Maggie Johnson, Vice President of Education and University Relations, Google [...] - Google Research
Google’s John Mueller Reveals New Details About Mobile-First Index Google’s John Mueller announced new information about the mobile-first index at SMX Munich, [...] - Search Engine Journal
New Google My Business dashboard for multiple listings rolling out More business owners are reporting that they are seeing the new Google My Business dashboard. Are [...] - Search Engine Land
Google stops showing zero search results for time, calculations & conversions After only a week of experimenting with showing only a single answer, Google is putting that test [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Updates Search Console Reports Google has rolled out visual updates to Search Console designed to provide more context to data [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google My Business Update Now Rolling Out to More Users An updated version of Google My Business, first announced last November, is now being rolled out [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Ad Grants changes and your PPC strategy: Where to go from here Is your nonprofit organization involved with the Google Ad Grants Program? Contributor Pauline [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Glitch? 100% Ads – Zero Organic Links Google users spot search results consisting entirely of ads, zero organic. Google suggests this may [...] - Search Engine Journal
Spring Equinox Google doodle introduces Quinn, an animated flower fairy & musician Designed by Google doodler Sophie Diao, the image leads to a search for Spring Equinox. - Search Engine Land

March, 19 2018

AMA with Google highlights: The core search algorithm update, mobile-first index status & more From nofollow links to negative SEO, the core search algorithm and Google showing zero search [...] - Search Engine Land
Google launches cost-per-sale Shopping Actions, unified shopping program across Search, Assistant & Express In its answer to Amazon, Google's new umbrella program will extend existing relationships with [...] - Search Engine Land
AMP: Do or die? Session recap from SMX West Contributor Christine Churchill sat in on one of the AMP sessions at SMX West and shares the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: 404 Errors Are Fine As Long As They Have No Links or Traffic In the latest episodes of Google’s SEO Snippets video series, John Mueller answer’s a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Console updates visual reporting features A look at what's new in Google Search Console. - Search Engine Land
New Google Shopping Actions: Is Organic Search for Sale? Google is partnering with brands to sell products through Google's Organic Search and be paid a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Help shoppers take action, wherever and however they choose to shop Today’s consumers don’t just want answers; more and more, they’re craving [...] - Inside Adwords
LinkedIn Makes it Easier to Ask for Referrals LinkedIn is streamlining the process of asking for and receiving referrals from contacts. - Search Engine Journal
Google Shutting Down Some Google+ Pages Brodie Clark posted on Twitter that he received an email from Google that one or some of his [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Emily Mace - 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
Nofollow Has Not Changed Since Google Launched It We don’t hear too much from Google about nofollow anymore, aside from how it relates to the [...] - The SEM Post
Google Local Panel Tests About Tab Last week, we saw that some businesses can now edit their business descriptions in Google My [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 17 2018

St. Patrick’s Day Google doodle includes hidden word written in ancient Irish ogham alphabet Google recruited Irish artist Ross Stewart to create the image depicting a scenic Ireland landscape [...] - Search Engine Land

March, 16 2018

Stop! Think twice before using nofollow attributes on your website Using page-level nofollow attributes? Just stop, says Contributor Patrick Stox. Instead, use [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s Object Recognition Tool, Google Lens, Now Available on iOS Google Lens, a tool that utilizes smartphone cameras to recognize objects, is now available to iOS [...] - Search Engine Journal
Filter Google Maps Results by Wheelchair Accessible Routes Google Maps is becoming more wheelchair accessible with an update that will help users find the [...] - Search Engine Journal
George Peabody Google doodle honors philanthropist often called ‘Father of Modern Philanthropy’ Over the course of his life, Peabody is credited with giving away half of his $16 million fortune. - Search Engine Land
Using Deep Learning to Facilitate Scientific Image Analysis Posted by Samuel Yang, Research Scientist, Google Accelerated Science Team Many scientific [...] - Google Research
The High Five: “A Brief History” of this week’s searches Sifting through the week’s news can feel like sinking into a black hole. Luckily, we have [...] - Inside Search
Beau Graves - 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
George Peabody, The Philanthropist, Gets A Google Logo On the Google home page today is a very kind looking Google Doodle with George Peabody and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests People Also Search For Feature On Cursor Hover? Google may be testing a feature in the search results where the people also search for box not only [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 15 2018

Report: EU to ask Google, others to publicly reveal ranking factors Proposed rules are designed to redress the “superior bargaining power” of the large [...] - Search Engine Land
Google adding business descriptions in Google My Business & local panel Business owners will likely soon have the option to write and edit descriptions that show up in [...] - Search Engine Land
Using Evolutionary AutoML to Discover Neural Network Architectures Posted by Esteban Real, Senior Software Engineer, Google Brain Team The brain has evolved over a [...] - Google Research
Google My Business updates the directions heatmap in Insights reporting Check out the new report that shows you where people requesting directions to your business are [...] - Search Engine Land
Understanding campaign performance: Answers to common conversion tracking questions Contributor Frederick Vallaeys suggests answering clients' questions about AdWords quickly and [...] - Search Engine Land
You Can Edit Your Business Description In Google My Business, Again... Google is bringing back the feature to edit your business description for your local listings. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Search Results Now Showing JSON-LD Support The other week we reported that Bing added JSON-LD support for schema and markup. Well, now if you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Become the GOAT of mobile gaming with new innovations from AdWords & AdMob Great games are magical. They allow players to escape to new worlds, turn into superheroes, and [...] - Inside Adwords

March, 14 2018

Google search results page displays answer without any search results Who needs the ten blue links when you have the answer? Google is hiding the organic listings from [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Advertisers Can Soon Retarget Searchers With YouTube Ads Google advertisers will soon be able to reach YouTube viewers who have previously searched for [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google says it removed more than 3.2 billion bad ads in 2017 The number of ads Google took down last year for advertising policy violations nearly doubled from [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AdWords Bans Ads for Cytocurrency Google plans to ban all AdWords ads for anything related to cryptocurrencies, starting in June 2018. - Search Engine Journal
How using search opportunities can guide link-building content strategies Why should you outline a link-building strategy before content is published? Contributor Andrew [...] - Search Engine Land
4 concrete ways to use images to build links Every picture tells a story and also may help you build links. Contributor Pratik Dholakiya shares [...] - Search Engine Land
Reddit Launches New Promoted Posts for Mobile Reddit has a new Promoted Posts feature that lets users promote posts to all mobile users natively [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google to Boost New Stories in Search Results for Paying Subscribers Google will soon boost news articles in search results for individuals who are paying subscribers [...] - Search Engine Journal
Pi Day Google doodle marks 30th anniversary of March 14 holiday honoring mathematical constant 3.14 Google recruited Dominique Ansel, the pastry chef behind the Cronut, to bake a salted caramel apple [...] - Search Engine Land

March, 13 2018

Google’s Broad Core Algorithm Update Examined Analysis of Google's Broad Core Algorithm Update is. Although Google states there is no fix, there [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Adds Title Tags to Image Search Results Starting this week Google will be adding captions to thumbnails in image search results. - Search Engine Journal
Google Images update: Captions added to images, pulled from the page title tag To add more context to image results, Google will now display a caption with images in mobile [...] - Search Engine Land
Notes are coming to AdWords, plus Recommendations & an Account Performance Score Google has announced several productivity updates for the new AdWords interface, including the [...] - Search Engine Land
New ways to harness the combined power of Google + YouTube in AdWords With the world’s information at people's fingertips, today’s consumers research [...] - Inside Adwords
Optimize for voice search by keeping it short and to the point Contributor Dave Davies explains the many layers and aspects of Google Voice Search and how to [...] - Search Engine Land

March, 12 2018

Google confirms core search ranking algorithm update Google acknowledged the suspected update but says there is nothing webmasters can do to fix their [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Confirms Algorithm Update Occurred Last Week Google has confirmed that a broad core algorithm update was released last week. - Search Engine Journal
Semantic Image Segmentation with DeepLab in Tensorflow Posted by Liang-Chieh Chen and Yukun Zhu, Software Engineers, Google Research Semantic image [...] - Google Research
Chat rate is the new CTR for AdWords message extensions Google is rolling out message reporting metrics in the next few weeks for the US, the UK, Canada [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AdWords Has New Performance Insights for Click-to-Message Ads Google AdWords is introducing a new set of performance insights specifically for click-to-message [...] - Search Engine Journal
AdWords custom columns now available at keyword and ad levels Track and optimize to custom metrics tailored to your goals at all levels of your campaigns. - Search Engine Land
Getting results from your website means asking the right questions Contributor Dianna Huff explains blending website data, smart online and proven offline marketing [...] - Search Engine Land
Google tests rounded mobile search design without full Google logo Google is yet again testing an even more curved design for its search results pages. - Search Engine Land
Sir William Henry Perkin Google doodle recognizes British scientist behind 1st synthetic dye Perkin accidentally discovered mauveine, the first synthetic dye, while cleaning out a beaker after [...] - Search Engine Land
Memo to the Modern Marketer: How I Saved 15 Hours a Week Writing Great Content Any business owner or marketing director knows how difficult it is to get found online. Often [...] - Searchmetrics
5 conversion boosters to optimize your PPC campaigns Earlier this year, Facebook broke some bad news. Organic reach is officially being choked, making [...] - Search Engine Land

March, 9 2018

7 marketing and promotion tactics to get your content discovered Contributor Kristopher Jones outlines seven tried-and-true content promotion strategies that will [...] - Search Engine Land
Google is Developing Web Standards for Instant Loading Non-AMP Content Google is taking what it learned from AMP and developing web standards that will allow non-AMP [...] - Search Engine Journal
Starting on March 10, Navigate Google Maps with Mario for a Limited Time In celebration of MAR10 day, Google is letting users navigate Maps Mario Kart-style for a limited [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Allows Musicians to Post Directly to Search Results An update to Google’s search results allows musicians to instantly publish short updates to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google My Business adds ‘women-led’ icon & attribute to business listings Here's how to add a 'women-led' icon to your Google Maps and local search listings. - Search Engine Land
Ask the Experts: How Understanding the Marriage of SEO and Content Marketing Can Save Your Business As the overlap between search and content marketing continues to grow, company executives [...] - Searchmetrics
Introducing the iNaturalist 2018 Challenge Posted Yang Song (Staff Software Engineer) and Serge Belongie (Visiting Faculty), Google Research [...] - Google Research
Google Starts Highlighting Women-led Businesses in Search Results As the world celebrated International Women’s Day this week, Google introduced a way to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Paralympics 2018 Google doodle marks the start of the winter games in Pyongyang The animated image celebrating the Paralympic games honors the 670 athletes competing over the next [...] - Search Engine Land
Google tests showing answers under ‘people also ask’ feature Google shows answers to the questions you didn't even think you were asking with this new Google [...] - Search Engine Land

March, 8 2018

Eight SEO ladies give their advice on being a woman in search In honor of International Women’s Day 2018, we wanted to highlight the perspectives of women [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Can Detect Duplicate Content Before Crawling It Google Can Detect Duplicate Content Before Crawling It Google’s John Mueller revealed that Googlebot is capable of recognizing duplicate content [...] - Search Engine Journal
Celebrating women’s voices around the world on International Women’s Day As a woman, a mother to an amazing daughter, a sister, a wife, a leader and a passionate women's [...] - Inside Search
Google working to integrate AMP benefits into future open web standards Standardization will allow sites to implement, and benefit from, AMP features without adopting the [...] - Search Engine Land
How to effectively report competitor spam Contributor Kaspar Szymanski outlines reasons why submitting a spam report against a competitor [...] - Search Engine Land
Google amplifies musicians in Google search through the Google Posts platform Google officially launches Google Posts to all musicians that have Knowledge Panel details in [...] - Search Engine Land
Open Sourcing the Hunt for Exoplanets Posted by Chris Shallue, Senior Software Engineer, Google Brain Team Recently, we discovered two [...] - Google Research
Google Lens comes to Android devices through the side door — Google Photos This indirect rollout of visual search is intriguing but awkward. - Search Engine Land

March, 7 2018

Google: How to Get New Content Indexed Fast Google's John Mueller discourages use of the URL Submit Tool. Shows better way to get new content [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google AMP team launches ‘Render on Idle’ to load ads faster when browsers sit idle The feature works automatically with DoubleClick AMP ad tag and for ad networks using Fast Fetch. - Search Engine Land
The ultimate guide to bot herding and spider wrangling In Part 1 of a three-part series, Columnist Stephan Spencer does a deep dive into bots, explaining [...] - Search Engine Land
International Women’s Day Google doodle honoring females around the world arrives a day early The doodle is a collective of 12 stories from female artists, all using their art to share an [...] - Search Engine Land

March, 6 2018

Disney theme parks now on Google Street View Users can now virtually tour almost every inch of Disney's many theme parks. - Search Engine Land
Clues in Google’s Mobile SERPs Test Google's test of a mobile first SERP may indicate a clue to how Google intends to display sites in [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bringing new languages from around the world to Gboard for Android From the busy city streets of India to the remote islands of Samoa, Gboard helps people all over [...] - Inside Search
Google Logo For Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Columbian Writer On Google's home page is a special Google logo, Doodle for Gabriel García Márquez, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 5 2018

A Preview of Bristlecone, Google’s New Quantum Processor Posted by Julian Kelly, Research Scientist, Quantum AI Lab The goal of the Google Quantum AI lab [...] - Google Research
Google’s John Mueller Reveals How Often a Site is Re-indexed in Search Google’s John Mueller answers a question from a site owner concerned about their site not [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google is extending Search capabilities to iMessage and other browser apps on iOS New extensions bring the search engine into more apps on iOS. - Search Engine Land
Facebook Ends News Feed Test – How this Impacts Public Pages Facebook ended a test of a double news feed. Will continue with new Friends & Family news feed [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google selling Zagat to restaurant recommendations site The Infatuation Google no longer needs Zagat as it once did. - Search Engine Land
Brett Tabke - 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
Bing has confirmed support for JSON-LD formatted Schema.org markup Though not yet available in the toolset, buildout of verification support within Bing Webmaster [...] - Search Engine Land
3 Ways Query Stream Ontologies Change Search Search engines trained us to use keywords when we searched – to try to guess what words or [...] - SEO by the Sea
Google: Again Provide Clear & Consistent SEO Signals For as long as I can remember, Google's John Mueller has been preaching consistency when it comes [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Do Not Use GS1 Web Markup Several months ago, we covered how Google does not use GS1 markup for ranking in the search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Getting more done with Search on iOS Whether you’re messaging a friend about dinner plans or reading an article on sloths, [...] - Inside Search
Craig Newmark Interviewed At Google - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: There Is Always Risk Of Losing Rankings When Moving A Site Site moves and domain or URL changes can be scary, nerve wracking, dangerous and risky. Even [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
March 2018 Google Webmaster Report It has been a pretty busy month in the Google SEO and webmaster world. We had two possible Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 5, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 3 2018

Google’s Second Most Important Algorithm? Before Google’s Panda, there was Phil They named the project Phil, because it sounded friendly. (For those who required an acronym, they [...] - SEO by the Sea

March, 2 2018

Making Healthcare Data Work Better with Machine Learning Posted by Patrik Sundberg, Software Engineer and Eyal Oren, Product Manager, Google Brain Team [...] - Google Research
What is GS1 SmartSearch Schema markup and why should e-commerce sites use it? Contributor Tony Edwards explains the new, more advanced schema markup for products called GS1 [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Entity Search API is now available The API enables you to pull Bing Knowledge Graph information about people, places, things, and [...] - Search Engine Land
Holi Google doodle celebrates the Hindu holiday with a colorful image of dhol players The illustrated doodle highlights the vivid colors associated with the holiday along with the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Algorithm Update Brewing? Depends Who You Ask. Over the past couple days or so, the ongoing WebmasterWorld thread has some folks passionately [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The High Five: give a dog a clone This week, Barbra Streisand revealed that two of her canine companions are actually clones of her [...] - Inside Search
Googler Does Yoga In the Snow - Search Engine Roundtable
Tadeusz Szewczyk - 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
Colorful Google Logo For Holi, Hindu Spring Festival Today on Google's home page in India, the United States, Canada, the UK and some other regions is a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Dance Tokyo Officially Returns On April 3, 2018 We knew Google was bringing back the Google Dance to their Tokyo office but we were unsure on the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google On Reading Level: Write On The Level Of Your Audience Google's John Mueller broached on the topic of reading level again and this time he answered it a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Meta Refresh Redirects Work Fun But Not Recommended I literally have several blog posts here that has Google saying not to use the meta refresh [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Update, Multifaceted Featured Snippets, Search Console Changes, AdWords & More This week we noticed a possible Google update starting on March 1st through March 2nd. Google is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 2, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 1 2018

Mobile Real-time Video Segmentation Valentin Bazarevsky and Andrei Tkachenka, Software Engineers, Google Research Video [...] - Google Research
Google Engineer Issues Warning About Google Crawler Google engineer issues warning on Twitter about a rendering issue that may affect rankings. - Search Engine Journal
Shari Thurow - 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 Dublin Gets Lots Of Snow - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Page Speed Update & Mobile First Index Are Separate There still seems to be confusion about ranking versus indexing. As you know, Google has the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Chrome Starts Filtering Ads Yesterday - Examples, Observations & The Path Forward I probably post a guest post here on average once a year and I really wasn't in the mood to cover [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: GoogleBot Can't Crawl CSS Custom Properties Eric Bidelman from Google posted a PSA, public service announcement, that since GoogleBot is based [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google SEO Snippets: How Often Google Reindexes A Web Site Google has posted their first SEO Snippets video since announcing it back in December. This is a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Search Console To Make Property Sets Easier One specific feature that Google plans on migrating over but vastly changing seems to be the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Multifaceted Featured Snippets Focuses On Multi-Intent Queries Google has announced they are now rolling out a new form of featured snippets they are calling [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Phrase, broad, or broad match modifier: After exact, what’s the next best match type? Contributor Andy Taylor answers by sharing research that shows deploying multiple match types [...] - Search Engine Land
Are you ready for the attribution changes coming to Google AdWords? If you're not, contributor Mona Elesseily will help you get up to speed. Here's her overview of [...] - Search Engine Land
Google-Landmarks: A New Dataset and Challenge for Landmark Recognition Posted by André Araujo and Tobias Weyand, Software Engineers, Google Research Image [...] - Google Research
Google’s antitrust infringement continues ‘unabated’, Google Shopping competitors tell European Commission Four months in, 19 rivals say too little has changed. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 1, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable