Archive of May, 2018

May, 31 2018

Referral Traffic From Google Search Surpasses Facebook on Mobile Devices Google search has surpassed Facebook as a top source of mobile referral traffic, according to a new [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bing Ads Introduces In-Market Audience Targeting Bing Ads is introducing a way to target in-market audiences — groups of users who are most [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Crawl Budget Optimization Is Overrated Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that he believes that crawl budget optimization is overrated [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Brings ‘Optimize’ Integration to New AdWords Experience Google’s latest edition to the new AdWords experience is integration with Optimize, the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Web Less Mobile Friendly in 2018 than 2017 Data shows the Internet is less mobile friendly in 2018 than in 2017. This could be good news for [...] - Search Engine Journal
Yandex Introduces Its Own Smart Speaker Russian search engine Yandex has introduced a smart speaker, marking the company’s first [...] - Search Engine Journal
Recapping The Say Something Nice About An SEO/SEM Series In October, I thought it would be nice to say something nice about the folks in our industry and I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Ads Editor for Mac Adds Support for Labels Bing Ads Editor for Mac has added support for labels, allowing users to better organize ad [...] - Search Engine Journal
Twitter Will Limit What Third-Party Apps Can Do, Starting August 16th Twitter is set to roll out policy changes on August 16th, limiting what third-party Twitter apps [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Asks For Photo Of Business Hours Ben Fisher noticed and posted on Twitter that if you try to edit a business's hours in Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Tests New Tab Bar Navigation Reena Jha from India shared with me on Twitter a new search interface being tested by Google, maybe [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 30 2018

Google My Business Reportedly Removes Anonymous Reviews Google My Business appears to have stopped counting anonymous reviews toward a business’s [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Rich Results Testing Tool Adds Support for Events, Movies, and TV Shows Google’s rich results testing tool is now able to test structured data markup for events, [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Doesn’t Count Typos in Web Content, John Mueller Says Google Webmaster Trends Analyst John Mueller has clarified how the search giant deals with spelling [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google On GDPR Pop Ups Notices With Search & SEO How would these GDPR notices impact SEO and your Google search rankings? Well, Google doesn't have [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Where we’re going, we won’t need websites As voice becomes dominant in search, and users turn to social media, apps and news aggregators for [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google: PDFs Are Not Mobile Friendly Well, this is one of those no-brainer posts, but hey - I'll say it anyway, PDF documents are simply [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Steve Morgan - 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
Facebook Lets Users Sell Home Services in Marketplace Facebook has recently added support for home services to its Marketplace platform. - Search Engine Journal
Four ways Google is making SEO easier One of the best ways to stay up-to-date with SEO and search marketing developments is to keep a [...] - Search Engine Watch
New Google News Search Results User Interface? Google News on mobile, the search results, maybe have launched a new user interface. This might be [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 29 2018

Google: Multiple Sites on Same IP is Not a Problem, But Similar Content Is Google’s John Mueller recently clarified that having multiple sites on the same IP address is [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Dropping Anonymous Local Reviews? Google Maps and Local might be removing anonymous reviews, sometimes shown as reviews by a Googler [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Dido Grigorov - 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
New Google Search Console Adds Quick Site Navigator The new Google Search Console has added a quick drop down menu to navigate from verified site to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Structured Data Testing Tool Not Working With Google Tag Manager For the past several tags the Google Structured Data Testing Tools has stopped working with Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Referrals Swag: Blanket & T-Shirt - Search Engine Roundtable
S.P.L. SÃ¸rensen Google Logo For pH Scale Today on Google's home page is a fun interactive pH scale, a scale for measuring acidity and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 29, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 28 2018

Google Does Not Count Your Typos & Spelling Mistakes Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that Google doesn't count your typos. He said that it is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Google Cache 404s After Move To Mobile-First Indexing As you know, there has been another wave of mobile-first index moves over this weekend and some are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Fourth Batch Of Google Mobile First Index Notices The fourth batch, I believe that is what we are up to now, of notices that sites have been moved [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Rich Results Test Now Supports Movies, TV Shows & Events Aaron Bradley posted on Google+ that the Google rich results testing tool now supports testing on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Josh Bachynski - 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
Wolf Serving Drinks At Google - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 28, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 25 2018

StumbleUpon Shuts Down After 16 Years Content discovery platform StumbleUpon is shutting down on June 30th, after 16 years in operation. - Search Engine Journal
Google Treats Subdomains and Subdirectories the Same, John Mueller Says Google’s John Mueller this week that subdomains and subdirectories are treated the same in [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: There Is No Fixed Timeout For JavaScript Page Rendering So with all this JavaScript code and high end JS based web development going on, pages need to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Shared Robots.txt Across Domains Work Okay Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that having shared robots.txt across multiple domains is fine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google News Drops RSS Feed Subscription Buttons With the new Google News, they didn't just drop the standout tag and editors pick but it seems like [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Update, Suing Local SEO, Bing Cryptocurrency & Don't Be Evil This week in search, we reported on the maybe 3rd Google algorithm and search update in May. Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 25, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
James Wong Howe, The Cinematographer, Google Logo Today on the Google home page in the United State is a special Google logo, Doodle... - Search Engine Roundtable
Stephen Kenwright - 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

May, 24 2018

Google AdWords Requires All Accounts to Use Parallel Tracking, As of October 2018 Google AdWords introduced parallel tracking earlier this year, and all accounts will be required to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Announces Directory of Trusted Partners for GMB Local Search Google announced a directory of trusted Google My Business 3rd party agencies and a complaint form [...] - Search Engine Journal
Is Another Google Update Happening In May? Mid-may we reported of a Google update brewing that led to more fluctuations around May 17th or so. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Googlers Are Being Targeted With An Anti-Google Ad Campaign Google employees are being targeted with an ad campaign encouraging them to advocate for unbiased [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Sues SEO Company Threatening To Remove Businesses From Google Google announced yesterday that they are "taking legal action against Kydia Inc. d/b/a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Trends Updated: SEOs/SEMs Should Check It Out Google announced as I covered yesterday at Search Engine Land that they have updated Google Trends. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Has A Bias Towards Scientific Truth In Search Paul Haahr, a top lead Google engineer in search, said on Twitter that Google indeed has a bias, if [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: AJAX Crawling Scheme Going Away Sooner Rather Than Later Here is yet another update on when Google will really be killing off the AJAX crawling scheme from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 24, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 23 2018

Google Trends Keyword Research Tool Updated Google has updated it's popular keyword research tool, Google Trends. Offers more features and data. - Search Engine Journal
Instagram Lets Users ‘Mute’ Other Accounts Instagram is introducing a way for users to hide posts and stories in their feed without actually [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Offers Advice on 404 and 410 Status Codes Google's John Mueller offers guidance on proper use of 404 & 410 Status Response Codes. - Search Engine Journal
See what the world is searching for with the updated Google Trends Google Trends has become a key part of journalistic storytelling, giving reporters everywhere an [...] - Inside Search
SEO For Google Now Harder? What Has Changes Over The Past Few Years? There is an interesting thread starting up at WebmasterWorld talking about what has changed [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Maps Lets Users Customize Navigation Icons Google is letting users customize their navigation experience on the Google Maps app for iOS with [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Duplication In Title Tags With Image Alt Tag Is Not An Issue John Mueller of Google said on Twitter having your title tag read exactly the same as your image [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Adam Riemer - 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 Removed "Don't Be Evil" From Code Of Conduct A few days ago, it was reported that Google removed the "don't be evil" from their code [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Number Of Slashes In URLs Doesn't Matter For Search Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that Google doesn't look at the number of slashes, i.e. /, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 22 2018

Adobe Acquires Magento Commerce for $1.68 Billion in Cash Adobe Systems Inc has agreed to acquire e-commerce services provider Magento Commerce for $1.68 [...] - Search Engine Journal
David Iwanow - 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 "Similar To" Carousel For Local Search Results Sergey Alakov spotted another Google local feature that might be undergoing testing now, he posted [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Beware Of Browser Hijacks & Fake Google Ads Every now and then I see people post screen shots of Google search ads that look suspicious because [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Settings Page Broken If you go to your Google search settings and try to change some of those settings, such as the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Shows More Yellow Map Pins In Snippets In early April we reported some folks seeing yellow map pins in the Google search results snippets. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: When to Choose Subdirectories vs Subdomains The debate over subdomains versus subdirectories has been a hot one for SEOs for years. For [...] - The SEM Post
Unwrapping the Secrets of SEO: Sports Betting Joins the SEO Fast Track Odds are you haven’t followed the US Supreme Court’s recent ruling that’s struck [...] - Searchmetrics
Google Badge For Dog - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 21 2018

Jason Acidre - 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
Aleyda Solis With Her European Search Personality Award - Search Engine Roundtable
No need for Google: 12 alternative search engines in 2018 Here are 12 alternatives to escape your reliance on Google for all things search in 2018. - Search Engine Watch
Google: Ranking Is Nothing Without Conversion The topic of HTML validation has been covered here time and time again - we know Google doesn't [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
60% Of SEOs Say They Hurt A Web Site In Google With Spammy Links A few months ago, I asked you all to take a poll around if you have ever hurt a web site using [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Ads Bans Cryptocurrency Advertisements Advertisers who want to use Bing Ads to promote the sale of cryptocurrency, the digital asset such [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Poll: How SEOs Measure Changes To Backlink Profile I can honestly tell you, I have personally not looked at my backlink profiles in years. Not in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Programming Note: Offline Monday For Shavous 5778 This is just a heads up that I am currently offline today for the Jewish holiday of Shavout. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 21, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 20 2018

Google’s “Don’t Be Evil” No Longer Prefaces Code of Conduct Google's "Don't be Evil" is NOT gone. It's simply demoted from prefacing Google's Code of [...] - Search Engine Journal

May, 18 2018

Google Chrome Issues Final Warning on HTTPS Chrome issued a final warning to remaining websites that have not switched over to HTTPS. October [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Google Algorithm To Generate Content Not For Search Image credit to Shutterstock The ability to autogenerate content for the web is nothing new, it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Beta May Be Getting Links From Data The new Google Search Console isn't fully on par with the feature set of the old Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Publishers: Google AdSense Email Reporting Revenue Numbers Are Wrong Publishers who are using Google AdSense are complaining that the email notifications they get from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Hotel Pack Showing Search Refinement Option I am not 100% sure if this is new, it looks super familiar but I don't think I've covered this [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Andy Drinkwater - 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's Gary Illyes Buys Link (The Character) - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Ranking Shifts, Google Snippets Shorter, Personalized Search Dead & Google News Updated Earlier this week, we reported on more Google algorithm changes with web sites fluctuating in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 18, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 17 2018

Google’s New Algorithm Creates Original Articles From Your Content Google has published a new algorithm. It paraphrases your content to create brand new content. - Search Engine Journal
Facebook Introduces Voice Posts, a Stories Archive, and Cloud Storage Facebook is adding three new features which include a new type of post, a stories archive, and [...] - Search Engine Journal
Pulse: Google Sets 2019 Agenda by Welcoming Latecomers to the AI Cloud “Just get to the cloud. There’s no time to waste anymore.” – Eric Schmidt, [...] - Searchmetrics
Advances in Semantic Textual Similarity Posted by Yinfei Yang, Software Engineer and Chris Tar, Engineering Manager, Google AI The [...] - Google Research
Google Posts Video Upload Feature Now Working Last week we reported how Google said you can now upload videos to your Google Posts so they show [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Faster, safer and better ad experiences for consumers Consumers have high expectations for faster, safer and better digital experiences. This means it's [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Expands Job Posting Structured Data To Additional Countries Google has expanded the job posting schema and structured data to additional countries outside of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Sending New Wave of Mobile-First Indexing Enabled Notifications If you have a large number of sites in your Google Search Console, chances are good you have [...] - The SEM Post
Google Testing Disambiguation Box for Local Packs Google is testing a disambiguation box which shows up on the mobile search results for a local [...] - The SEM Post
Mark Scully - 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
Massive Bing Calculator - Search Engine Roundtable
Did Google Search Console Send You An Inaccurate WordPress Upgrade Notice? Google does send notices via Google Search Console to upgrade your WordPress install or other [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Shared IP Addresses Are Fine For Search Google's John Mueller once again said on Twitter that using a shared IP with other web sites, even [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 17, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 16 2018

Smart Compose: Using Neural Networks to Help Write Emails Posted by Yonghui Wu, Principal Engineer, Google Brain Team Last week at Google I/O , we [...] - Google Research
Twitter to Filter Out Negative Tweets in Search Results Twitter is ramping up its efforts to filter out negative tweets in searches and conversations. - Search Engine Journal
All-New Google News App Now Available on iPhone and iPad Google has released a completely revamped version of its Google News app on the iOS App Store. - Search Engine Journal
Google’s John Mueller on Ranking for Featured Snippets Google's John Mueller offers useful advice on how to rank for featured snippets. - Search Engine Journal
Google: Personalized Search Results Is "Very Light" Several months ago... - Search Engine Roundtable
Top time-saving tools for SEOs As an SEO, it's likely that you heavily rely on a number of time-saving tools. In this article, [...] - Search Engine Watch
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 16, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 15 2018

Amazon Drops Out of Google Shopping Ads Amazon drops out of Google's shopping ads. Signals major changes coming to PPC marketing. - Search Engine Journal
A Hidden Instagram Feature Shows Users Time Spent in the App Instagram is testing a hidden “Usage Insights” feature, which shows users how much time [...] - Search Engine Journal
Ramadan Kareem! Get in the Ramadan spirit with Google Ramadan starts today, and we’re helping you access the information you need to make the most [...] - Inside Search
Bing’s Intelligent Answers Now Show Up to 5 Sources Bing has expanded its intelligent answers to now include up to 5 sources that support the same [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: The Faster We Can Crawl, The More We Can Crawl This seems logical, but I'll say it anyway, since Google's John Mueller said it on Twitter. The [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's Danny Sullivan Defends Reducing Length Of Search Snippets Image credit to Shutterstock Yesterday we reported that Google cut down the search snippets length [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New: Google Dynamic Rendering To Help With JavaScript In Search Friday I mentioned something new that Google introduced named Dynamic Rendering. Google has still [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Why Google Won’t Give Specific Meta Description Lengths Ever since Google dropped the length of the descriptions in the search results last week, many SEOs [...] - The SEM Post
Google #NBACareerCrossover: Where NBA Players Try Working At Google - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 14 2018

Google: Search Snippets Are Now Shorter on Average Google has confirmed there is still no fixed length for search snippets, though they have been [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Reduces Description Length in Desktop & Mobile Search Results Two years after Google significantly increased the length of descriptions in the search results, [...] - The SEM Post
Google to Notify Users When Businesses Respond to Reviews Google will now be sending email notifications to customers when a business responds to their [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bing Bans Ads for Cryptocurrency Bing Ads is the latest ad provider to ban cryptocurrency advertising, joining other ad giants such [...] - Search Engine Journal
YouTube to Show Users How Long They Spend Watching Videos YouTube is introducing a feature that will make users acutely aware of how much time they’re [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: 15% Of All Queries Are Still Never Seen Before Since 2013, Google has been saying 15% of queries are new and never seen before by Google. The [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Memo to the Modern Marketer:How to Build Your Own Content Marketing Taxonomy Using Semantic Topic Modeling As search engines take on new smarts seemingly with each passing day, consumers gain access to [...] - Searchmetrics
Google Forums Has Private Replies Google posted a very generic how we help webmasters blog post the other day during Google I/O. One [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Cuts Down Search Snippets By Half Google increased the max characters shown in the search results snippets box to 320 characters but [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Is A Google Search Algorithm Update Brewing? I am seeing some very limited and niche chatter around a possible Google algorithm and search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 14, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Maps To Notify Customers When Businesses Respond To Reviews Google announced on Twitter a small feature in the Google Local space that they will soon begin [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Tejas Thakkar - 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 Bike To Work Challenges - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 11 2018

Automatic Photography with Google Clips Posted by Aseem Agarwala, Research Scientist, Clips Content Team Lead To me, photography is the [...] - Google Research
Google Makes it Easy to Download and Delete Search History Google is introducing more user-friendly ways to download and/or delete search, browsing, and [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Types of Links That Googlebot Will & Will Not Follow At Google I/O yesterday, Google clarified the types of links that Googlebot will follow. [...] - The SEM Post
Google & JavaScript: Googlebot’s Indexing Can Miss Metadata, Canonicals & Status Codes At Google I/O yesterday, Google detailed some issues surrounding the use of JavaScript when it [...] - The SEM Post
Google Indexes and Ranks JavaScript Pages in Two Waves Days Apart Tom Greenaway from Google spoke at Google I/O yesterday about how Google handles JavaScript pages, [...] - The SEM Post
Googlebot Still Uses Older Chrome 41 for Rendering At yesterday’s Google I/O John Mueller revealed that Google is still using the older version [...] - The SEM Post
Damon Burton - 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
GoogleBot Standing On The Google I/O Stage - Search Engine Roundtable
WordStream Sells To Gannett For $150 Million As I covered at Search Engine Land, we got big industry news, the company Larry Kim founded in 2007 [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Process rel=canonicals On Initial Fetch, Not Rendered Version Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that GoogleBot currently will process the rel=canonical [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Can Treat 308 Redirects As 301s Google can treat 308 redirects the same as they treat 301 redirects, says Google's John Mueller. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Two Google I/O Sessions On Search You Should Watch Google gave really only two SEO focused sessions at I/O this year, although, Google published all [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google I/O, Search Questions, Image Guidelines, JavaScript Upgrades, AdWords & More It was a super busy week, mostly because a lot that came out of Google I/O but also busy outside of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Klout Loses its Influence, Announces Shutdown on May 25 Social media measurement platform Klout announced that it is shutting down at the end of this month. - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 11, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 10 2018

Facebook Lets Admins Crosspost Live Videos to Multiple Pages Facebook is enhancing live video with new features — the ability to crosspost live videos and [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Lens improvements ready visual search and AR for mainstream adoption Better text recognition, lookalike search and real-time functionality are upgrades. - Search Engine Land
Our goal: helping webmasters and content creators Great websites are the result of the hard work of website owners who make their content and [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Pulse: Searchmetrics Summit 2018 in London Explores New Standards in Search and Content Marketing The world of search is evolving, with micro-targeting, voice search and accelerated mobile first [...] - Searchmetrics
Google Testing Product Listing Ad Carousels With 30 Products on Mobile By default, Google’s Product Listing Ads have 10 or less products in their mobile [...] - The SEM Post
Danny Richman - 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
Homemade Google I/O Cookies - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Pauses AdWords Abortion Ads In Ireland News yesterday came out that Google, following Facebook's lead, is pausing or banning ads related [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
JavaScript Sites Now Work With Google's Mobile Friendly & Rich Results Tools Image credit to Shutterstock Google has updated their mobile-friendly testing tools and their rich [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: M Dot & Responsive Sites At The Same Time Confuses Us We all know that Google can handle crawling and indexing all sorts of sites, including many types [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Signs That Google Datasets Structured Data May Rollout Soon Image credit to Shutterstock Schema and structured data expert, Aaron Bradley posted on Google+ [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Marketing Company WordStream Acquired for $130 Million WordStream, a provider of search marketing software solutions, is being acquired by Gannett Co. for [...] - Search Engine Journal
Instagram’s New Emoji Sliders Can Gauge Your Audience’s Opinion on Topics Instagram has a new feature that lets users give opinions on various topics by moving an emoji [...] - Search Engine Journal
New Google Data on Shopping Keywords Google shares three kinds of mobile shopping queries that have grown by up to 125% over the past [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 10, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 9 2018

Custom On-Device ML Models with Learn2Compress Posted by Sujith Ravi, Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google Expander Team Successful deep [...] - Google Research
Bing Ads Rolls Out New Features for Importing Google AdWords Campaigns Bing has introduced a new set of features for advertisers looking to import Google AdWords [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google announces ads updates for app developers at Google I/O Google says 94 billion apps were downloaded from Google Play last year. - Search Engine Land
Google to Deactivate Non-Spending AdWords Accounts This Month Google will be deactivating AdWords accounts with no recent ad spend starting in mid-May. - Search Engine Journal
Google updates mobile-friendly test, rich results test tools to better support JavaScript sites Is your site heavily built in JavaScript? No worries. Google just updated two of its popular tools [...] - Search Engine Land
Google asking dissatisfied searchers to submit questions manually in the search results If Google doesn't have content for your query, it may ask you to help content creators to make [...] - Search Engine Land
Demoed at Google I/O: AMP cache URLs showing publisher’s URL instead of Google AMP URL Want to see how the new AMP URLs work in search? Google demoed showing the publisher's URL over the [...] - Search Engine Land
A time-saving free script to keep Ad Grants accounts out of trouble When your free Ad Grants money is in on the line, contributor Frederick Vallaeys recommends an [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 9, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Mobile-Friendly Test Now Shows Rendered HTML for JavaScript Sites Google’s mobile-friendly and rich results testing tools have been updated with featured [...] - Search Engine Journal

May, 8 2018

Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone Posted by Yaniv Leviathan, Principal Engineer and Yossi Matias, Vice President, Engineering, Google [...] - Google Research
Beyond keywords: What really matters in SEO content Going beyond keywords to write high-quality content that attracts new customers and is SEO-friendly [...] - Search Engine Land
Deep Learning for Electronic Health Records Posted by Alvin Rajkomar MD, Research Scientist and Eyal Oren PhD, Product Manager, Google AI [...] - Google Research
New AMP features announced for geotargeting content, as well as some GDPR support The Accelerated Mobile Pages project released a new "amp-geo" component and full support [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Posts now accepting videos for some local businesses Google Posts gets richer with the ability to upload videos to your messages. - Search Engine Land
Google Image Search updates guidelines, adding structured data, speed and more Google has finally refreshed content for its image search publishing guidelines. - Search Engine Land
Google Assistant takes center stage at I/O, search takes a back seat Search only mentioned twice in a nearly two-hour keynote that saw a long list of announcements. - Search Engine Land
Ask the SMXpert: Keyword research and copywriting Contributor and SMXpert Christine Churchill answers keyword research and copywriting technique [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Maps redesigns ‘Explore’ tab, launches ‘Your match,’ ‘Group planning’ and ‘For you’ section Google Maps has announced a whole set of new features at Google I/O around their mapping product. - Search Engine Land

May, 7 2018

Google bans ads for bail bonds services At Google, we take seriously our responsibility to help create and sustain an advertising ecosystem [...] - Inside Adwords
Introducing Google AI Posted by Christian Howard, Editor-in-Chief, Google AI Communications Hmm, have I made a wrong [...] - Google Research
Old AdWords interface will be phased out by year-end Google will notify advertisers ahead of the final switch to the new AdWords experience. - Search Engine Land
Link building is complicated: A rebuttal Contributor Andrew Dennis (kinda) disagrees with a previously published SEL article and offers his [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Publishes New Algorithm Research Google published a research paper about a new machine learning algorithm. It proposes a new way to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Ask the SMXpert: Google manual penalties explained Have you ever gotten a manual penalty from Google? It's no fun. Contributor and SMXpert Kaspar [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AdWords is Fully Switching to New Version by End of Year Google has confirmed that AdWords is fully switching over to the new experience by the end of 2018. - Search Engine Journal
Google Publishes New Algorithm Research Google published a research paper about a new machine learning algorithm. It proposes a new way to [...] - Search Engine Journal
US Teacher Appreciation Week Google doodle highlights what it means to be a teacher Today's doodle was created in partnership with the 55 US educators named "State Teachers of [...] - Search Engine Land
Google to Ban Ads for Bail Bonds, Effective July 2018 Google AdWords is implementing a new policy prohibiting ads that bail bond services. This will come [...] - Search Engine Journal
AdWords is fully switching to the new experience We introduced AdWords 17 years ago to help businesses, large and small, get online and connect with [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Integrates Search Console With Squarespace Squarespace has become the first content management system (CMS) to integrate with Google Search [...] - Search Engine Journal
Will ASOS’ visual search tool revolutionize the retail industry? The visual search ecosystem is growing rapidly, with innovations from Google, Amazon, eBay, [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google: Keep Same URLs When Replacing Old Content With New When content becomes outdated, sometimes site owners remove the old page and replace it with a new [...] - The SEM Post

May, 5 2018

Google Lets Users Buy Movie Tickets Through Google Assistant Google Assistant is now capable of helping users find information about movies and buy tickets [...] - Search Engine Journal

May, 4 2018

Google AdWords new responsive search ads can show 3 headlines The new ad format, now in beta, offers more real estate and dynamically combines an advertiser's [...] - Search Engine Land
Where to find ideas for content your audience will love, look at and link to If you're looking for new, inspirational and trendy content ideas, consider using sites that [...] - Search Engine Land
Google rolls out new ID requirements for US political ads Due to increased scrutiny of how these ads affect users and voters, company says more transparency [...] - Search Engine Land
Has Amazon ended its Google Shopping campaigns? Reports from digital marketing firm Merkle show Amazon's Shopping campaigns slowed after end of Q1, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google combos Shopping & dynamic remarketing in new goal-optimized Shopping campaign type Campaigns are optimized to the campaign conversion goal, and ads can run on Search, YouTube, Gmail [...] - Search Engine Land
Facebook Introduces New Video Retention Metrics Facebook will soon roll out improvements to the video retention graph available to pages in video [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google voice-enables movie-ticket buying with Fandango Enhanced capability is likely a preview of many similar Google Assistant integrations to come. - Search Engine Land
The Question of Quantum Supremacy Posted by Sergio Boixo, Research Scientist and Theory Team Lead, and Charles Neill, Quantum [...] - Google Research
Google Assistant May Start Sending More Traffic to Recipe Sites Google has alerted owners of recipe sites that they may begin to receive more traffic from a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google AdWords Editor Version 12.3 Now Available: Here’s What’s New Google’s latest version of AdWords Editor is now available. Here’s an overview of the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 3, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
The YouTube Google Emmy - Search Engine Roundtable
Matt Siltala - 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 My Business Adds Clear Button For Attributes Allyson Wright from Google announced in the Google My Business Help forums a small but useful [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 3 2018

Google: Expect “Extreme” Ranking Fluctuations When Publishing New Content Google’s John Mueller stated this week that “extreme” ranking fluctuations may [...] - Search Engine Journal
AdWords Editor 12.3 is out with more robust filtering, search query reports & more Editor also now supports custom intent audiences, responsive search ads and other newer features. - Search Engine Land
Send your recipes to the Google Assistant Last year , we launched Google Home with recipe guidance, providing users with step-by-step [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google updates recipe markup for Google Search & Google Assistant Google requires that the recipeIngredient and recipeInstructions properties for recipes work on [...] - Search Engine Land
How to turn a boring email into an irresistible link pitch Getting people to open, read and act on your email is tough, but Contributor Gisele Navarro gives [...] - Search Engine Land
Microsoft Launches New AI-Powered Audience Network The Microsoft Audience Network lets advertisers reach users across MSN, Outlook.com, the Edge [...] - Search Engine Journal
Snapchat Makes Story Ads Available Through its Self-Serve Ad Manager Snapchat is now letting marketers purchase Story Ads, formerly known as Promoted Stories, through [...] - Search Engine Journal
Georges Méliès Google doodle pays tribute to visionary French film director with first-ever VR doodle Today marks the 1912 release of Méliès's famous film, "À la [...] - Search Engine Land

May, 2 2018

Facebook Introduces An Analytics App for iOS and Android Now available for iOS and Android, the app will help businesses conveniently review their key [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google My Business Now Lets Agencies Register Accounts For the first time, Google is letting agencies register accounts on Google My Business. - Search Engine Journal
Searcher intent: The secret ingredient behind successful content development Contributor Dave Davies takes the guesswork out of determining what type of content will resonate [...] - Search Engine Land
[Report] Shopping ads are eating text ads: accounted for 60% of clicks on Google, 33% on Bing in Q1 Merkle's Q1 2018 report shows Shopping campaigns dominate retailers' paid search click volume. - Search Engine Land
The ultimate guide to bot herding and spider wrangling — Part Two Next up in a series on bots and why crawl budgets are important, Columnist Stephan Spencer explains [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s New Ad Type Targets Users Watching YouTube on TVs Google has introduced a new ad type designed to capitalize on the growing trend of people watching [...] - Search Engine Journal

May, 1 2018

Google launches new Google My Business API, new dashboard to manage multiple locations Now a single registered account on GMB will be able to manage an unlimited number of locations. - Search Engine Land
Hooray! Google My Business descriptions are back Contributor Joy Hawkins points out that GMB has brought back the business description field and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Starts Letting Anyone Register ‘.app’ Domains Google is letting anyone register domains ending in .app, a top-level domain that has been [...] - Search Engine Journal
5 Easy Wins for Structured Data in Google Roger Montti shares five tips for how to understand and use Schema.org Structured Data. - Search Engine Journal
Let’s face it — clickbait works. Here’s how to use it to your advantage Hook people with a creative title using the right words as "bait," and searchers will [...] - Search Engine Land
Twitter to Display News Articles More Prominently Twitter is going to start displaying more links shared by those in your network in the home [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google involved in Supreme Court case that may change class-action damages awards The question before the court involves 'cy-près' and whether it was OK for plaintiffs' [...] - Search Engine Land