Archive of April, 2018

April, 30 2018

First batch of Google mobile-first indexing notifications goes out today Achievement unlocked! Google has begun sending out mobile-first indexing notifications to [...] - Search Engine Land
Is responsive web design enough? (Hint: No) Contributor Kris Jones explains why having a responsive web design is a great first step but [...] - Search Engine Land
Announcing Open Images V4 and the ECCV 2018 Open Images Challenge Posted by Vittorio Ferrari, Research Scientist, Machine Perception In 2016, we introduced Open [...] - Google Research
Google Begins Sending Mobile-First Indexing Notifications Google has started sending emails to notify webmasters that their site has been migrated to [...] - Search Engine Journal
How to use a podcast to create smart and usable content In the last of this three-part series, Contributor Sherry Bonelli says a podcast might be an audio [...] - Search Engine Land
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauß Google doodle honors mathematician known as the ‘Prince of Mathematicians’ The celebrated mathematician made contributions across several mathematical fields. - Search Engine Land
Google’s New Rules for Publishing Job Postings Google has updated its guidelines for publishing job openings that have been marked up with job [...] - Search Engine Journal
Instagram Lets Users Upload Multiple Photos and Videos to Stories Instagram rolled out an update allowing users to upload multiple photos and videos to their stories [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Sending Mobile First Indexing Enabled Notices via Google Search Console It seems Google has finally started sending out emails to site owners informing them that their [...] - The SEM Post
Instagram is Testing Slo-Mo Videos, a Mute Button, More Instagram appears to be testing several new features, which have been uncovered by digging through [...] - Search Engine Journal
Video is everywhere – helping brands find their audience in the era of convergence With cord-cutting on the rise, brands have been looking for new ways to connect with an important [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Has A Human Size Bird Cage - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 29 2018

Google at ICLR 2018 Posted by Jeff Dean, Google Senior Fellow, Head of Google Research and Machine Intelligence This [...] - Google Research

April, 27 2018

The first steps of your SEO audit: Indexing issues Even a magic SEO wand will not get a web page to rank if the page has not been indexed. Contributor [...] - Search Engine Land
AdSense Issues GDPR Recommendations for Publishers Google recommends AdSense publishers take action to conform to GDPR requirements. Offers the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google announces new job posting guidelines & requirements Google has officially updated its job posting guidelines and says if you violate those guidelines, [...] - Search Engine Land
We updated our job posting guidelines Last year, we launched job search on Google to connect more people with jobs. When you provide [...] - Google Webmaster Central
The High Five: two newborn babies and a “Cursed Child” This week, babies were born and lettuce was thrown out. Here’s a look at some top Search [...] - Inside Search
Google Adds Photos Tab To Local Panel On Android Devices Sergey Alakov spotted Google adding a new tab to the local panel specifically for Photos. Well, it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google VHS Tapes Museum - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 27, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
What Is Better Google: Wrong Hreflang Or No Hreflang? Image credit to Shutterstock We know hreflang is pretty complex and in many cases, you don't [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Core Algorithm Update, Autocomplete Changes, Negative SEO, Hijacks & One Line AdWords This week in search, we got confirmation about the large Google update from Google as being a broad [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Hijacks Speedtest.net With Their Own Speed Test Widget You know the lovely folks at speedtest.net - they tell you how fast or slow your internet [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Kelvin Newman - 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

April, 26 2018

Google Wants to Make Audio Content Searchable Google wants to change how people discover audio content in search results. - Search Engine Journal
Look Ma, no keywords! Phrase-free AdWords campaigns are here Contributor Andy Taylor discusses Google's new Local Search Ads Experiment in AdWords, which [...] - Search Engine Land
Intent-based keyword research: Let Google be your guide Contributor Jacob Baadsgaard takes a look at why intent is an important part of keyword research [...] - Search Engine Land
Instagram Lets Users Export Everything They’ve Shared Instagram now has a tool that will users download a copy of everything they’ve shared to the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Study: Google Assistant most accurate, Alexa most improved virtual assistant While one new study on voice assistants compares the quality of different providers' answers, the [...] - Search Engine Land
Fanny Blankers-Koen Google doodle honors Olympic runner who broke records & shattered stereotypes The Dutch-born Olympian earned the nickname "The Flying Housewife" after becoming the [...] - Search Engine Land
Snapchat Lets Anyone Create AR Face Lenses With an update to Snapchat’s Lens Studio, anyone can now create custom augmented reality (AR) [...] - Search Engine Journal
PSA: Google Is Able To Figure Out Different Languages Without Hreflang Image credit to Shutterstock What if you really don't want to get into the hreflang game, maybe [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Having Duplicate Meta Descriptions Doesn't Mean Your Site Is Broken Image credit to Shutterstock Google has a report in Google Search Console that shows you your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Fanny Blankers-Koen, The Flying Housewife, Gets A Google Doodle Today on Google's home page is a special Google Doodle, logo, for Fanny Blankers-Koen. Fanny [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Announcing the Google Cloud Platform Research Credits Program Posted by Steven Butschi, Head of Higher Education, Google Scientists across nearly every [...] - Google Research

April, 25 2018

PageRank Patent Update – How it Impacts SEO Bill Slawski noticed a change in Google's PageRank algorithm patent. How this may affect link [...] - Search Engine Journal
Critical Drupal Core Vulnerability – Upgrade Now Drupal.org announced a critical core vulnerability that allows attackers to exploit multiple attack [...] - Search Engine Journal
Pinterest Business Profiles to Display Total Monthly Viewers Pinterest is making several changes to the appearance of business profiles, including the addition [...] - Search Engine Journal
How to use good ol’ PPC to support fun and creative branded content Contributor Kevin Lee looks at creative synergies and the power of collaboration to increase the [...] - Search Engine Land
Which SEO Skill Do Practitioners Think Is the Most Important? [POLL] Which SEO skill do SEO professionals think is the most important? Find out here. - Search Engine Journal
Google Ranking Algorithm Update Continues On For Over A Week As you know, Google confirmed a "broad core algorithm" update that started a week ago [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 24 2018

PageRank Updated A popular search engine developed by Google Inc. of Mountain View, Calif. uses PageRank.RTM. as a [...] - SEO by the Sea
Reports: Fake reviews are a growing problem on Amazon, Google Facebook is reportedly the source of some of the fake review solicitations. - Search Engine Land
Google to Remove More Types of Autocomplete Predictions Google is expanding its policies on autocomplete predictions to prevent even more types of queries [...] - Search Engine Journal
SEMRush Raises $40 Million to Expand Beyond US-based Search Engines Search marketing software company SEMRush has raised $40 million to grow its operations, which [...] - Search Engine Journal
So many paid search campaigns, so little time. Here’s how to stay ahead of it all. Saving time and money are top priorities for most search marketers, Contributor Christi Olson has [...] - Search Engine Land
Google posts $31.1B in total revenue, beats top- and bottom-line expectations The company reported nearly $27 billion in ad revenues. - Search Engine Land
Google: Linking To Noindexed URLs Is Not A Problem You have this large site and you noindex a lot of the parameter, filter, sort, etc types of pages [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Facebook Publishes Internal Enforcement Guidelines & Announces Appeals Process Facebook publicly released the guidelines used by their moderators to enforce community standards. [...] - Search Engine Journal
Creepy Google Client Mask - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Test One Line Brief AdWords Ads Google seems to be testing a new format for Google AdWords ads on mobile, which I personally cannot [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Rohan Ayyar - 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 HTTPS Ranking Boost Is Very Subtle, Per URL & Not Industry Specific It has been a while since we mentioned the Google HTTPS ranking boost that launched in August 2014. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 23 2018

Why do we overcomplicate link building? Do we overcomplicate link building to make the job look glamorous? Contributor Julie Joyce thinks [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Confirmed Last Week Algorithm Update As "Broad Core Update" Earlier last week we reported on a Google algorithm update that seem to have been kicked off and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Craig Campbell - 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
Study: Majority reject ads on smart speakers Just under 40 percent said they were open to ads if they were “relevant.” - Search Engine Land
Google Autocomplete Search Prediction Changes On Friday, Google published a How Google autocomplete works in Search but in that post, as I dug [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Showing Titles On Some Featured Snippets It looks like Google is showing titles on some of the featured snippets results on mobile. Mordy [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Memo to the Modern Marketer: The End of Net Neutrality and Why You Should Care One benefits of driving in the slow lane is you get to enjoy the scenery in a lot more detail. [...] - Searchmetrics
Girl Scouts At Google Austin - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Negative SEO Via Canonicals Redirects Don't Really Work Bill Hartzer posted about a "new undetectable negative SEO tactic" last week, which was a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 23, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 21 2018

Earth Day Google doodle delivers hopeful message from Dr. Jane Goodall "Every single individual matters, every single individual makes some impact on the planet [...] - Search Engine Land

April, 20 2018

Google Confirms Algorithm Update Released on April 16th Google confirmed that another broad core algorithm update was rolled out this week. - Search Engine Journal
Google confirms rolling out a broad core search algorithm update earlier this week Google has confirmed the rumors that there was a Google search algorithm update that took place on [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Exploit: Canonical Negative SEO A new negative SEO attack has been discovered. It's difficult to detect the attacker. - Search Engine Journal
How Google autocomplete works in Search Autocomplete is a feature within Google Search designed to make it faster to complete searches that [...] - Inside Search
Hreflang tags: How to serve correctly regionalized content Contributor Marcus Miller gives us an overview of international and multilingual SEO and lists ways [...] - Search Engine Land
Google expanding types of predictions they remove from autocomplete Google autocomplete saves 200 years of typing time every single day. - Search Engine Land
Introducing the CVPR 2018 On-Device Visual Intelligence Challenge Posted by Bo Chen, Software Engineer and Jeffrey M. Gilbert, Member of Technical Staff, Google [...] - Google Research
Google To Replace Assistant Featured Snippet Answers With How To Ads? CNBC reports that Google is looking to get advertisers to create how to content and videos to be [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Study: Google Local Pack Intentionally Showing Two Near Results & One Result Further Away? The folks over at RankRanger published data around a local pack study that they are calling the 2:1 [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Pete Watson-Wailes - 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
Path To Google - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Update & Ranking Algorithm Fluctuations Continue Earlier this week, we reported that we saw signs of a Google algorithm update kicking off - the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm & Ranking Update, Job Listings Penalty & Mobile-First Indexing This week we saw a long going Google algorithm update that has been ongoing for a few days or so [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 20, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 19 2018

DeepVariant Accuracy Improvements for Genetic Datatypes Posted by Pi-Chuan Chang, Software Engineer and Lizzie Dorfman, Technical Program Manager, Google [...] - Google Research
Anchor Text Best Practices for Google What the best practices for the use of anchor text are. How does Google use anchor text? Search [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Assistant sometimes uses AccuWeather when their weather service fails When Google's first party responses are not available, Google may ask if you want to use a [...] - Search Engine Land
The High Five: put your hands together for this week's search trends Every Friday, we look back at five trending topics in Search from that week, and then give [...] - Inside Search
When Google Assistant First Party Responses Fail, It May Failover To Third-Party App As I reported yesterday at Search Engine Land, Google Assistant may use a third-party Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Voice agents and interfaces will require many new marketing strategies Marketers are only now getting a glimpse of the many approaches that will be required for the many [...] - Search Engine Land
Todd Mintz - 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: Mobile-First Indexing Switch Is Based On Technical Set Up, Not Search Query Volume As you may know, Google began rolling out the mobile first indexing process a few weeks ago, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: How To Reverse A Site Move & Go Back To Original URLs Site moves in the SEO world are always scary, moving from one domain to another or one URL [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 19, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 18 2018

The 40-point SEO checklist for startups Startups can't afford to miss a SEO trick when it comes to launching a new site, says Contributor [...] - Search Engine Land
Google launches Outstream Ads to boost video reach beyond YouTube A new video ad format brings video to mobile devices, in locations where no YouTube videos [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Maps is Now Using Fast Food Locations as Reference Points Google Maps is testing a feature which gives drivers turn-by-turn directions using fast food [...] - Search Engine Journal
Snapchat Integrates Shopping Ads Into AR Lenses Snapchat is letting advertisers sell products with custom AR lenses, which users can add to selfie [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Chrome to Prevent Videos With Sound From Autoplaying Google’s latest version of Chrome for desktop will disable most videos with sound from [...] - Search Engine Journal

April, 17 2018

Google’s mobile-first index has set sail. Are you on board? 5 SEO essentials We've been hearing about the mobile-first index forever, and now it's finally here. Contributor Jim [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AdWords Introduces New Video Format to Reach More People Google AdWords has introduced a new video format which is said to extend the reach of video [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Algorithm & Ranking Update Kicking Off? There may be a Google search and ranking algorithm update starting off this morning. I received a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Study: Responding to reviews can improve paid-search conversion rates Better reviews would have meant 13,000 more local leads for businesses in the study. - Search Engine Land
Google partners with LegitScript to certify addiction treatment center advertisers After suspending rehab facility advertisers last year, Google will begin accepting these ads once [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s Direct Answers Now Shown on 10% of SERPs [REPORT] Google is returning more direct answers in search results, with 10% of mobile SERPs now containing [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google may issue manual actions over job schema on expired job listings You'd better remove job listings from your website shortly after you fill those positions, or [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Resumes Accepting Ads from Addiction Treatment Centers Google has reversed its decision to ban ads for addiction treatment centers after introducing a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Offers New Advice on Recovering From a Penalty Google's John Mueller highlights two reasons why reconsideration requests fail. Offers solutions to [...] - Search Engine Journal
A new video format to reach people across the mobile web and apps Over the last year, we've been working on a way to extend the reach of your video campaigns to [...] - Inside Adwords
Google: Do Not Link Hreflang to Redirecting URLs For sites that are using hreflang, especially those who are utilizing 301 and 302 redirects for any [...] - The SEM Post

April, 16 2018

An Augmented Reality Microscope for Cancer Detection Posted by Martin Stumpe, Technical Lead and Craig Mermel, Product Manager, Google Brain Team [...] - Google Research
Here’s how to use Twitter to dominate the Google search results If you want to displace negative content or build a strong brand identity, Twitter can help, says [...] - Search Engine Land
Google to Issue Manual Action Penalties for Expired Job Postings Google has updated its guidelines warning users that failure to remove expired job postings may [...] - Search Engine Journal
Are your ads pointing to the right domain? Here’s a script to find out. KA-POW! Contributor Daniel Gilbert has a 'super' helpful script that will make you look like a PPC [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Maps Highlights Public Events Currently In Progress A feature has been spotted in Google Maps that appears to show the app highlighting public events [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google is Reportedly Replacing Voice Search on Android With Google Assistant Google’s voice search button on Android is being replaced with Google Assistant. - Search Engine Journal
Google Generally Prefers One Stronger Page Versus Many Smaller Pages Just to be clear, Google said this before - Google: Few Strong Pages > Many Weak Ones but here [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Closed Job Listings Can Result In Manual Action Penalty Google's new guidelines around Job Postings and listings requires that you remove any job postings [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Is Google Dropping Live Wait Times In Local Panel? Last November, Google started showing live wait times at some venues and locations. But that may [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Gianluca Fiorelli - 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 Baby Shower Cake - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Search Ads That Blend into Organic & Can Be Closed Out Antony Jackson posted a screen shot on Google+ of a new user interface where the search ads and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 16, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 14 2018

Google Releases Tool to Show Off Natural Language Search Capabilities Google’s research division has released a tool which shows off advancements the company has [...] - Search Engine Journal

April, 13 2018

Google Search Console Update: Filter Reports by Result Type A new feature in Google Search Console will allow site owners to filter performance reports by [...] - Search Engine Journal
Research: Google local algorithm uses 2:1 clustering formula Study identifies Local Pack results distance pattern. - Search Engine Land
4 underutilized schema markup opportunities that impact SEO Contributor Tony Edwards recommends taking advantage of little-used brand, image, app and person [...] - Search Engine Land
Want to target position 0? Here’s what you need to make that happen Hey Google, how do you become the answer people hear on their voice assistants? Contributor Karen [...] - Search Engine Land
Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case in UK High Court Decision likely to spark other appeals to courts by those denied de-listing. - Search Engine Land
Introducing Semantic Experiences with Talk to Books and Semantris Posted by Ray Kurzweil, Director of Engineering and Rachel Bernstein, Product Manager, Google [...] - Google Research
Google Search Console is Notifying Site Owners About AMP Issues Site owners have been receiving e-mail notifications from Google Search Console regarding issues [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Assistant Can Recognize Cat and Dog Breeds Using Photos Google is getting smarter when it comes to image recognition with updates rolled out to Google [...] - Search Engine Journal
Facebook Gets Instagram’s ‘Boomerang,’ and an AR Drawing Tool Facebook’s mobile app has been updated with some enhancements for Stories — an AR [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Order of H Tags & Search Rankings in Google Does the order of your <h> tags on a page make a difference when it comes to ranking in [...] - The SEM Post
The High Five: prom gets cheesy, pollen makes you sneezy Whether you’re on the hunt for a flower crown or a corsage, here’s what that ol’ [...] - Inside Search
Google Analytics Asks Customers To Set Their Own Data Retention Policies The other day, Google emailed their Google Analytics customers with a long email about GDPR and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Dog Chasing A Google Street View Car - Search Engine Roundtable
Add Google Search Console To Your Google Shortcut Menu Folks were asking John Mueller about Google adding the ability to add a link to Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Instagram Makes it Easy to Follow People by Scanning ‘Nametags’ Instagram is reportedly in the process of rolling out a new feature which is similar to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 13, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 12 2018

New Google Search Console adds Search Appearance filters and more You can now filter your Google Search Performance reports by Rich results, AMP non-rich results, [...] - Search Engine Land
Chrome tests showing themed search suggestions based on Google search history Chrome uses past Google searches to show a set of search suggestions about what you might be [...] - Search Engine Land
Instagram Has a New ‘Focus’ Mode for Sharper Selfies and Portraits Instagram has a new portrait effect that can be added to photos and videos in stories. - Search Engine Journal
4 hreflang tag errors Google corrects for you Can we fix it? Yes we can! Do we need to? Contributor Patrick Stox says it may not be worth your [...] - Search Engine Land
Snapchat Releases New Lenses Exclusively for iPhone X Snapchat has released a new set of lenses designed to take advantage of the dual front-facing [...] - Search Engine Journal
Power up your B2B remarketing campaigns with 4 killer tricks Contributor Todd Saunders explores four types of Google AdWords remarketing campaigns targeted [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Announces “More Results” Button for Mobile – A Win for Publishers Google announced a change to mobile search results. May result in more traffic to websites. - Search Engine Journal
Instagram to Let Users Save Their Data Instagram is in the process of building a tool that will allow users to export their data. - Search Engine Journal
Power up your B2B remarketing campaigns with 4 killer tricks Contributor Todd Saunders explores four types of Google AdWords remarketing campaigns targeted [...] - Search Engine Land
Seeing More with In Silico Labeling of Microscopy Images Eric Christiansen, Senior Software Engineer, Google Research In the fields of biology and [...] - Google Research

April, 11 2018

Google Confirms March 7th Algorithm Update Was About Relevance, Not Quality Google’s John Mueller has confirmed the March 7th algorithm update did not necessarily target [...] - Search Engine Journal
Looking to Listen: Audio-Visual Speech Separation Posted by Inbar Mosseri and Oran Lang, Software Engineers, Google Research People are remarkably [...] - Google Research
Google My Business Pages Can Now Include Service Menus Businesses can now add service menus to their Google My Business listings. - Search Engine Journal
Google officially rolls out ‘More results’ search button on mobile After confirming it was testing the 'More results' button earlier this week, Google tweeted an [...] - Search Engine Land
How to outdo the PPC robots in shopping ads Contributor Frederick Vallaeys isn't ready for Skynet to manage his PPC campaigns just yet and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Adds Carousel of Quora ‘Top Answers’ to Search Results Google is testing a new type of carousel in search results featuring top answers from Q&A site [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bing’s Product Ads Can Soon Include Multiple Images Bing Ads advertisers can soon create product ads with up to 11 images — 1 main image plus 10 [...] - Search Engine Journal
New Google AdWords Tool Can Forecast Reach of YouTube Ads Google AdWords has introduced a new tool called Reach Planner, which allows advertisers to forecast [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: RSS Feeds Don't Help Your Site Rank Better Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that RSS feeds do not help your web site rank better in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Shows Save Button On Local Panel On Desktop Last August, Google began displaying a save button on local panels on mobile search results. Now, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Groundbreaking In Bridgeport, Alabama With Google Shovels - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 11, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 10 2018

Google Switches to Infinite Scrolling Mobile Search Results Google has introduced infinite scrolling to mobile search results pages. - Search Engine Journal
Google launches Reach Planner for YouTube & video ad forecasting in AdWords The tool suggests ad format mixes and provides reach estimates based on campaign objectives and [...] - Search Engine Land
Become an SEO rock star: Evolve your SEO skill set Want to be the SEO everyone looks up to? Contributor Bobby Lyons lists areas of marketing and [...] - Search Engine Land
Facebook Discusses How Feed Algorithm Works Facebook's Head of News Feed discusses algorithm. That's then compared to a Facebook algorithm, [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google tests showing two Shopping ad carousels on mobile The test features Google's Showcase Shopping ads and traditional product listing ads on one result. - Search Engine Land
Omar Sharif Google doodle honors actor from classics like ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ & ‘Doctor Zhivago’ The artwork for today's doodle was created by doodler Sophie Diao. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 10, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Waterloo Has A Wall Of Clocks - Search Engine Roundtable
Omar Sharif Google Logo For The Egyptian Actor Today on Google's home page is a special Google logo, Doodle, for the Egyptian actor... - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 9 2018

Google is officially testing “more results” button to load more search results Instead of clicking to the next page of the Google search results, Google is testing a way to load [...] - Search Engine Land
How to align SEO and sales teams so everyone benefits If your sales and SEO team need a refresher on how to work together, Columnist Casie Gillette has [...] - Search Engine Land
Google My Business expands menu editor to support service menus You no longer need to be a restaurant to add your menu of services to your Google local listings. - Search Engine Land
Build better media plans on YouTube and across the web with Reach Planner How many people can I reach on YouTube for $100k? And how much should I spend on TrueView versus [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Removes ccTLDs Part Of Generic TLDs From Help Doc In 2013, Google listed the 20 ccTLDs they treat as generic TLDs. So for example, a .co TLD would [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Job Posting Report Now With More Specific Errors Google posted on their data anomalies page an update about their Jobs Postings Report saying after [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Anthony Randall - 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: Avoid Non-Head HTML Tags in Head Section of Pages During the recent Google AMA with John Mueller, he mentioned an interesting technical SEO [...] - The SEM Post
Google Tests Mini Local Packs In Search Andrew Hagemann posted a screen shot on Twitter of Google showing a miniature or minimized version [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Testing Infinite Scroll in Mobile Search Results Google is testing infinite scroll for their mobile search results. Although Google has tested [...] - The SEM Post
Google Testing Double Product Listing Ads Carousels in Search Results Google is testing a new double Product Listing Ads carousel in the mobile search results. [...] - The SEM Post
Google "Interesting Finds" Shows AMP Pages & More Google is testing a feature called "Interesting finds" which shows AMP pages in a two by [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Dumbbells Weights - Search Engine Roundtable
Memo to the Modern Marketer: Creating A Content Marketing Calendar with the Ultimate SEO Keywords List Quality content is king when you’re trying to get found on the internet. While you may be a [...] - Searchmetrics

April, 8 2018

María Félix Google doodle celebrates iconic actress from Golden Age of Mexican cinema Félix's breakout role came in the 1942 film El Peñón de las Ánimas. - Search Engine Land

April, 6 2018

Already doing SEO? Add these two things to optimize for voice search Not sure how to optimize your webpage for voice search? Contributor Bryson Meunier lists 12 [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Settles Lawsuit Alleging it Unfairly Kept AdSense Earnings Google settles lawsuit claiming it unfairly kept AdSense publisher earnings for itself. - Search Engine Journal
Google Is Able To Index CSS Grid Layouts Google said even though Chrome 41, how GoogleBot sees the web, doesn't support CSS Grid Layouts, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Meet Gary Illyes Of Google In Australia Next Week Gary Illyes, one of our favorite Googlers, will be in be in both Sydney and Melbourne, Australia [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 5 2018

Announcing the 2018 Google PhD Fellows for North America, Europe and the Middle East Posted by Susie Kim, Program Manager, University Relations Google created the PhD Fellowship [...] - Google Research
Google patent on related entities and what it means for SEO Contributor Dave Davies pulls key points from a newly awarded Google patent on related entities and [...] - Search Engine Land
Facebook Messenger Now Supports HD Video and 360-degree Photos With the latest update to Facebook Messenger users can now send and receive HD videos and [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s John Mueller Answers: How to Add Sitemaps for More Than 50,000 URLs In Google’s latest Q&A video, John Mueller explains how webmasters can submit a sitemap [...] - Search Engine Journal
April 2018 Google Webmaster Report A core algorithm update, the mobile-first indexing rollout begins, zero search results tested, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daniel Richardson - 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 Ads Price Extensions Bing announced they launched new ad extensions named Price Extensions. Bing Ads Price Extensions [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Uses Many Signals To Know What & If To Show Dates In Search Snippets We've have our issues with Google showing the wrong date or false dates in the search results [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google SEO Snippets Video: Multiple Sitemap Files Here is another SEO Snippets video, this one on the basic topic of submitting more than 50,000 URLs [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Wood Google G Logo For GooglePlex - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 4 2018

Snapchat Now Offers Group Video Chats Snapchat is rolling out an update that will allow up to 16 people to join a group video chat. - Search Engine Journal
7 ways to turn a webinar into a stream of link-attracting content Contributor Jordan Kasteler explains how to use webinars you've created to develop new content and [...] - Search Engine Land
Facebook Makes it Easier to Split Test Ads Facebook now offers an easy solution for split testing ads — also referred to as A/B testing. - Search Engine Journal
In big win, Apple hires Google AI chief John Giannandrea away from Google Apple must succeed in AI if it is to remain competitive with rivals. - Search Engine Land
Bing Ads Introduces Price Extensions Bing has launched a new feature that will allow users to add price extensions to search ads. - Search Engine Journal
Distrust of the Symantec PKI: Immediate action needed by site operators Cross-posted from the Google Security Blog . We previously announced plans to deprecate [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Maya Angelou Google doodle features Oprah Winfrey, Laverne Cox & others reciting her poem, ‘Still I Rise’ Today would have been Dr. Angelou's 90th birthday. - Search Engine Land
Google Maps Now Highlights Locations of Active Shootings Google Maps has been updated with a feature that will indicate when there’s a confirmed [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google local knowledge panel profile images are not loading in search Broken images in the local Google results seem to be caused by a bug. - Search Engine Land
Google: No Set Time Periods For A/B Testing Limits A good question came in video a Google webmaster hangout, in the video at the 21:30 mark the SEO [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 4, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 3 2018

How to use the Knowledge Graph for higher rankings Contributor Ryan Shelley recommends looking into the content displayed in a knowledge card and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Confirms that Structured Data Improves Targeting Google's John Mueller confirmed that structured data maybe helps a page rank for the right search [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s AMP Project announces new consent component ahead of GDPR compliance deadline Development of a new Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) component enabling publishers to acquire user [...] - Search Engine Land
Four ways to remain productive when the AdWords interface changes The new AdWords interface is creating quite a stir in the PPC industry because, while it’s [...] - Search Engine Land
John Harrison Google doodle honors man who invented marine chronometer 283 years ago A self-taught clockmaker, Harrison's invention helped sailors gauge their latitude and longitude at [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Chrome’s Article Suggestions Now 4th Greatest Source of Referral Traffic A new report shows that Google Chrome’s mobile article recommendations are now the fourth [...] - Search Engine Journal
Third-party Instagram Apps Are Broken as Company Reportedly Limits API Access Third-party Instagram apps are breaking as multiple outlets report the company is limiting access [...] - Search Engine Journal

April, 2 2018

Google’s Ben Gomes expands role to head all of search amid leadership shuffle Role previously held by John Giannandrea being split into two between Jeff Dean and Ben Gomes - Search Engine Land
7 ways to increase mobile engagement The mobile search economy continues to explode. Contributor Kristopher Jones outlines several [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Fools SEOs With Fake Recrawl Feature in Search Console Don’t be fooled by Google’s clever April Fools’ joke, disguised as a new Search [...] - Search Engine Journal
Pricing Lists in Web Pages Hurt Google Rankings? Does using tables in a web page keep sites from ranking in featured snippets, even for their own [...] - Search Engine Journal
The power of podcasting: SEO keyword angles In Part 2 of a three-part series, Contributor Sherry Bonelli dives into the details of optimizing a [...] - Search Engine Land
April Fools’ Day 2018: Google, Amazon & more have fun over the weekend April Fools' Day 2018: Google, Amazon & more have fun over the weekend - Search Engine Land
Google: Adding New Pages Can Devalue Current Pages Many people believe “more is better” when it comes to adding new pages on a site, [...] - The SEM Post
Sight, sound and scale: Introducing TrueView for reach Building brand awareness and increasing market penetration used to be fairly straightforward: find [...] - Inside Adwords
Issues Indexing SEO Test Sites in Google Search Results Many SEOs do a great deal of testing when it comes to indexing and ranking in the Google search [...] - The SEM Post
Google Search Engineer’s Approach to Algo Updates The last month has seen quite a bit of fluctuations in the search results. John Mueller from [...] - The SEM Post
Structured Data Helps with Google Ranking But Not Huge Ranking Boost In last week’s Reddit AMA with John Mueller, he reminded site owners about the importance of [...] - The SEM Post

April, 1 2018

Google’s John Mueller Says Parameters in URLs Do Not Matter In the latest instalment of Google’s Q&A videos, John Mueller answers a question about [...] - Search Engine Journal
Facebook No Longer Allows Ad Targeting With Third-Party Data Facebook is shutting down Partner Categories, which allowed third-party data providers to offer [...] - Search Engine Journal