Archive of July, 2018

July, 31 2018

Google to Add Q&A, FAQ, and How-To Features in Search Results Google recently previewed three new features coming to search results dedicated to Q&A, FAQ, [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google on Ranking Power of Keyword Domains John Mueller talks about the ranking power of keyword domains. - Search Engine Journal
Google Rolls Out New Markup for Displaying Data Tables in Search Results Google has introduced a new type of schema markup for displaying data tables directly in search [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Adding FAQ, Q&A and How To Verticals to Search Results At Google Dance Singapore, Gary Illyes from Google revealed a new feature that is coming to the [...] - The SEM Post
Bing Webmaster Tools Now Supports JSON-LD Users can now validate their JSON-LD implementation by logging into Bing Webmaster Tools and using [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Implies Uploading Your Products To Amazon's Marketplace Can Hurt Your Rankings Google hints at how having a web site and also being in the Amazon marketplace with the same [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEO Tip: Don't Do As Google Does, Do As They Say Just because Google sets up a subfolder over a subdomain or uses a 302 redirect over a 301 redirect [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Ads Rolls Out Advanced Bidding Strategies: Target CPA & Maximize Conversions Bing Ads has two new advanced bidding strategies, one of which is the most user-requested feature [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bing Launches JSON-LD Support in Bing Webmaster Tools Bing has finally launched its long awaited support of JSON-LD in Bing Webmaster Tools, with a new [...] - The SEM Post

July, 30 2018

Google’s ‘Speed Update’ Has Minimal Impact on Search Results Google’s latest mobile search algorithm update, called the “Speed Update,” has [...] - Search Engine Journal
YouTube on Desktop Now Plays Vertical Videos Without Black Bars YouTube now plays vertical videos in their native aspect ratio on desktops, which means no black [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s John Mueller on Penalty Recovery John Mueller offered insights into the different kinds of manual actions and what to do to recover [...] - Search Engine Journal
Yext Begins Submitting Local Business Listings to Amazon Alexa Yext has integrated with Amazon’s digital assistant, Alexa, giving it the ability to deliver [...] - Search Engine Journal
Quality Scores for Queries: Structured Data, Synthetic Queries and Augmentation Queries Augmentation Queries In general, the subject matter of this specification relates to identifying or [...] - SEO by the Sea
Google Assistant Smart Displays For Viewing, Not Just Listening Last week, Google introduced smart display support for the Google Assistant. This enables you to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Clear Content Structure Helps But If Done Wrong, Won't Hurt You know what they say about having all your ducks in a row? Well, John Mueller of Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Something to hide? The rise of privacy-focused search engines In this editorial from Marc Smith, Founder of Mojeek, he argues that alternative, privacy-focused [...] - Search Engine Watch
Reminder: Google Link Operator Is No Longer Supported Just in case you missed the news from a year and a half ago, the Google link operator is dead. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Quality Suffering From PDF Spam? Let Them Know. Recently I've been seeing more and more complaints about PDF spam showing up in Google search. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Testing New Visual Product Recommendations in Image Search Google is testing a new visual product search in image search results, adding a new similar items [...] - The SEM Post

July, 28 2018

Google Assistant is More Accurate Than Alexa, Siri, and Cortana Google Assistant is the most accurate smartphone digital assistant, beating Amazon Alexa, [...] - Search Engine Journal

July, 27 2018

Google Removes Public URL Submission Tool Google has removed the public version of its URL submission tool, which allowed users to submit [...] - Search Engine Journal
Appearance of Google’s Related Questions Box up by 34% The rate at which Google shows its “People Also Ask” search suggestions, aka [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Makes Event Structured Data More Useful Google makes it easier to drive more sales to almost all local businesses. - Search Engine Journal
Google Can Combine URLs Before Crawling Google doesn't want to list the same content in the search results for a single query... - Search Engine Roundtable
#SEOChat Opens Up On Depression Within The Search Industry This article was written by industry friend Jenny Halasz @jennyhalasz who we have cited here [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's John Mueller Hasn't Read The Updated Quality Raters Guidelines Google's John Mueller said in this morning's webmaster hangout at the 6:18 mark that he has not yet [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Updates Landing Page Parameters Options Google announced on Twitter yesterday that they have added "two changes to make it easier to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Removes Public Submit URL to Google Tool Google has removed the public version of their submit URL tool. This tool allowed anyone to [...] - The SEM Post
Google Events Rich Results Boosts Events Search Results Google announced new features in search for event results. I covered it in detail yesterday at [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 26 2018

Bing Shares 5 Algo Insights Bing posts details on how a niche search works. Learn insights into how Bing works. - Search Engine Journal
Google Has Removed The Quality Raters Guidelines PDF Sometime this morning, Google has abruptly removed the Search Quality Raters Guidelines PDF for the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Debunking SEO Theories & Myths Is Not Scalable Yesterday I reported how Google suggested that some SEOs make up theories to suit their own agenda. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Fetch Works But Won't Render The Page? May Be Timeout Issue. Google's fetch as Google tool in Search Console lets you do a lot of cool things but what happens [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests New Hotel Search Results Design A nice number of people are seeing Google testing a new design and layout for hotel search results [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Removes Search Quality Rater Guidelines PDF A few days after Google released its first new version of the quality rater guidelines of the year, [...] - The SEM Post

July, 25 2018

Machine Learning in Google BigQuery Posted by Umar Syed and Sergei Vassilvitskii, Research Scientists, Google AI, NYC Google [...] - Google Research
Google Announces New Schema Markup Google updates Structured Data that will drive more traffic from Google Assistant & Google Home. - Search Engine Journal
Google: Word Count Does Not Equal Quality Content Google’s John Mueller has revealed that content length is not an indicator of its level of [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Redefines What is Considered Low Quality Content Google updated its Quality Rater Guidelines, which includes new information regarding the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Twitter is Locking Out Users Who Created Accounts When Underage Twitter is locking out users who created their accounts when they were underage, regardless of how [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google To Drop Public Submit To Index Tool Google announced on Twitter that they are or have dropped "the public submission feature" [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Some SEOs Make Up Theories To Fit Their Agenda I was recently having a conversation with someone about why I find it valuable that I don't do SEO [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Speakable Annotations With Structured Data For Publishers Google announced yesterday new structured data annotations named Speakable. These annotations let [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 24 2018

Google Search Quality Rater Guidelines Updated: Beneficial Purpose, Creator Reputation & More It has been a year since we last saw Google’s Search Quality Rater Guidelines updated, but [...] - The SEM Post
Google Has New Markup to Optimize Content for Google Assistant Google has collaborated with schema.org on new structured data that publishers can use to optimize [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Word Count Isn't Indicative Of Quality One of the things I see so often in the SEO space is that SEOs say you need your pages to have a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Rel=Canonical isn’t a Guarantee Google’s John Mueller advised that rel=canonical does not necessarily guarantee Google will [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Tests New Design for Image Search Results Google has been spotted testing a new design for image search results pages. - Search Engine Journal
Hey Google, what's the latest news? Since launching the Google Assistant in 2016, we have seen users ask questions about everything [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Search Community Heart Broken Over Loss Of Jordan Kasteler Yesterday the search community got the gut wrenching news that Jordan Kasteler has passed away. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Podcast Revenues Continue Remarkable Growth Research shows podcast revenues soaring and going higher. Time to get a slice of this pie? - Search Engine Journal
Google Image Search Tests White Tiled Design & Layout I am seeing reports of Google testing a new look for their image search results. This one looks [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Showing Competitors Google Posts As a way to encourage businesses to use Google Posts more, Google is now showing some businesses [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Noogler Cake Pops - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 23 2018

Google: Don’t Mix Noindex & Rel=Canonical Google’s John Mueller advises site owners not to mix signals like noindex and rel=canonical. - Search Engine Journal
Reminder: Chrome Browser to Display “Not Secure” Warnings for HTTP Sites on July 24 Google’s Chrome browser will begin warning users that non-HTTPS sites are “not [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s Search Algorithm Does Not Recognize Off-Site Sentiment Google’s Danny Sullivan has confirmed, once and for all, that off-site sentiment does not [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Algorithm Update Saturday July 21st? Starting maybe late Friday and into Saturday there were signals of a possible Google search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Having Rel Canonical Doesn't Guarantee Google Picks Up That Page As Canonical Back to the advice of providing clear and consistent signals to Google - Google's John Mueller had [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Do Not Recognize Sentiment In Search Ranking Danny Sullivan from Google has said on Twitter that there is no search operator for sentiment [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Hotel Search Tests Price Insights It is like every day now that Google is testing some new feature with their hotel search results. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Wants SEOs To Interview In Zurich This Thursday, July 26th Google's John Mueller posted on Twitter that Google is specifically looking for local SEOs, those [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Mario Bros At GooglePlex There is this Instagram feed of a toy Mario from Mario Bros traveling the world... - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 23, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Mario Bros At GooglePlex - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 21 2018

DuckDuckGo Blasts Google for Anti-Competitive Search Behavior Following a record-breaking $5 billion from the EU for antitrust violations, DuckDuckGo has voiced [...] - Search Engine Journal

July, 20 2018

Instagram Shows Users When Friends Are Online With a recent update to Instagram, the app will now show users when people they’ve direct [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Noindex & Rel=Canonical Should Not Be Mixed There is an outstanding explanation from Google's John Mueller about the differences around the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Still A Lot To Do To Fully Roll Out Mobile First Indexing As many of you know, Google has been active at rolling out the mobile-first indexing process to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Webmaster API Still Broken After 2 Weeks - No Fix In Sight Over a week ago, I reported that Bing Webmaster Tools API was down and then began using some of my [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google EU Fine, Image Search Change, Trump Idiot Bomb & Mobile First Indexing This week, Google was fined a record breaking $5 billion by the EU for Android antitrust issues. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Lots Of Google Watermelons - Search Engine Roundtable
Trump Gets Googlebombed In Google Images As Idiot You cannot be a president in the Google era without getting multiple Googlebombs throughout your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 20, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 19 2018

YouTube Shows Searchable Hashtags Above Video Titles YouTube now displays hashtags on videos that can help users search for and discover other videos [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google My Business Sends Notifications When New Listings Go Live Google My Business has started sending notifications when new listings go live on the web. - Search Engine Journal
Amazon PPC Challenges Google Ads Analysis of billions of dollars of digital advertising offers insights into Amazon PPC Advertising [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bing Ads Can Now Have Security Badge Annotations Bing Ads advertisers can now add a new type of annotation which lets searchers know that a site is [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google's John Mueller Shares His SEO Related Podcast List A Reddit thread asks folks to share their favorite SEO related podcasts. I spotted John Mueller of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Ads Strongly Recommends You Use HTTPS URLs Bing announced 10 days ago that they are now strongly recommending that you switch all your ad URLs [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: You Should Redirect HTTP Even With HSTS Configured Google's John Mueller said this morning on Reddit that even if you have HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests New Location Tab & Scores For Hotel Listings As I reported on at Search Engine Land based on Sergey Alakov spotting another test, Google is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Building More Offices Near GooglePlex - Search Engine Roundtable
Google May Still Add Voice Query Filters To Google Search Analytics This might sound funny by now because we've been talking about Google adding voice query data and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 19, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 18 2018

Announcing Cirq: An Open Source Framework for NISQ Algorithms Posted by Alan Ho, Product Lead and Dave Bacon, Software Lead, Google AI Quantum Team Over the [...] - Google Research
4 New Insights Into Google’s Algorithm Google's testimony to House Judiciary Committee reveals 4 facts about how Google's algorithm works. - Search Engine Journal
Facebook Updates Ad Manager App With New Creative Tools Facebook updated Ad Manager with a suite of creative tools, allowing advertisers to build ad [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Automatically Recognizes Broad Site Changes Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that Google already can and does recognize broad site changes [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Image Search To Change Referrer URL For Tracking Google is updating the referrer URL from Google Image search in the upcoming months. This is super [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
EU Fines Google $5 Billion Over Android Antitrust Less than 20 minutes ago, the whopping news broke that the European Union has fined Google $5 [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Notifications When Local Listings Go Live Google's Allyson Wright from the Google My Business team announced in the Google My Business Help [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Takeaki Kanaya Google Birthday Cake Surprise - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Logo For German Conductor, Kurt Masur Google has a logo on their home page on their US, German, Iceland, Japan and other home pages to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 18, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 17 2018

Google to Roll Out New Referrer URL Specific to Google Images Google has announced plans to roll out a new referrer URL specific to Google Images over the next [...] - Search Engine Journal
An update to referral source URLs for Google Images Every day, hundreds of millions of people use Google Images to visually discover and explore [...] - Google Webmaster Central
AMP Stories Updated With Advertising Capabilities AMP stories have been upgraded to version 1.0, which includes new features such as monetization [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Updates UK Job Search Results Major Change to UK Google Job Searches. How to minimize disruption in traffic. - Search Engine Journal

July, 16 2018

Google Shows Which Search Queries are Used to Find a Google My Business Listing An update to Google My Business will now show which search queries are used to find a business [...] - Search Engine Journal
Improving Connectomics by an Order of Magnitude Posted by Viren Jain, Research Scientist and Technical Lead and Michal Januszewski, Software [...] - Google Research
Google Does Not Use Pogo-Sticking As a Ranking Factor Google’s John Mueller revealed that a behavior known as pogo-sticking is not a signal when it [...] - Search Engine Journal
Podcasts More Popular than Blogs Data shows that podcasts are more popular than blogs. This is a disruption and an opportunity. - Search Engine Journal
Google: A/B Testing Can Delay a Site Migration Google’s John Mueller recently provided advice to site owners regarding A/B testing during a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Matt Cutts Asked Mozcon Not To Bring In Black Hat Speakers Rand Fishkin who ran Moz said on Twitter that back in the day, Matt Cutts (formerly of Google) [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Helping more people in the U.K. find their next job Like anyone who has searched for a job at some point in their lives, I know from experience how [...] - Inside Search
Google My Business Agency Dashboard Can Now Sync With AdWords As you know... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Structured Data Beta Support For Tabular Dataset Aaron Bradley who follows the schema, structured data, markup world closer than anyone else I know [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Artificial intelligence for marketers In this editorial from Amanda DiSilvestro, she puts the case forward for AI as an essential tool [...] - Search Engine Watch
Upcoming Events In Google Local Knowledge Panel Raj Nijjer shared on Twitter a screen shot of Google showing upcoming events within the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Insights Search Queries Report Coming Still 11 days ago, we reported about the search queries report in Google My Business insights section [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Air Ducts - Search Engine Roundtable
Learning to Rank My last Post was Five Years of Google Ranking Signals, and I start that post by saying that there [...] - SEO by the Sea
Memo to the Modern Marketer: It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like an Online Christmas Who needs little things like the $700 billion US shoppers spend over the [...] - Searchmetrics
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 16, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 13 2018

5 Ways Twitter Purge Impacts Search and Social Five ways Twitter Purge may positively impact your sales, SEO and advertising. - Search Engine Journal
Accelerated Training and Inference with the Tensorflow Object Detection API Posted by Jonathan Huang, Research Scientist and Vivek Rathod, Software Engineer, Google AI [...] - Google Research
Bill Atchison, Loved In The SEO Community, Passed Away I am incredibly sad to report that the beloved Bill Atchison, known in the SEO community as [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Console Search Analytics API Increased Max Results / Rows To 25,000 Google announced on Twitter that they have increased the maximum results of results or rows of data [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Is Gary Illyes From Google Leaving Twitter Again? Back in March, Gary Illyes from Google - one of our most favorite Googlers, said he is no longer [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Adds People Also Search For Box For Search Ads The people also ask box which launched in Google organic desktop results in February 2018 has also [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Posts Adds Call Now Button As I covered at SEL yesterday, Google Posts has launched a call now button in Google Posts. It [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: H Tags as a Ranking Factor How important are using <h> tags – and more specifically multiple <h> tags, such [...] - The SEM Post
Google NYC: Wall Of Buttons - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Tests Open In New Tab Button In Search Bing is testing a new search results feature where they add an icon as you hover either the search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Slows Crawling With 5xx Server Errors When a website starts to serve Googlebot 5xx server errors, how does Googlebot handle the change in [...] - The SEM Post
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Speed Update, Algorithm Shifts, Bing Tests, Google & Bing APIs & More This week, the much anticipated Google Speed Update began rolling out. We did see some limited [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 13, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 12 2018

Google Ads Introduces New Campaign Type for Hotels Google Ads has introduced a new campaign type designed to help advertisers better manage hotel ads. - Search Engine Journal
Google Helps YouTube Creators Find Re-Uploaded Content on Other Channels Google is taking a new step toward helping YouTube creators protect their copyrighted work. - Search Engine Journal
Google Asks Publishers to Add Nosniff Response Headers Google Security Blog asks publishers to add nosniff response headers to their websites. - Search Engine Journal
Google My Business Lets Users Add “Call Now” Button to Posts Google is letting users add “Call Now” buttons to posts created in Google My Business. - Search Engine Journal
MIT Research: How to Get More Twitter Followers Scientific research shows how to gain more followers on Twitter. - Search Engine Journal
Google Representatives Are People With Feelings During my morning research for what is going on in the SEO community... - Search Engine Roundtable
Automating Drug Discoveries Using Computer Vision Vincent Vanhoucke, Principal Scientist, Google Brain Team “Every time you miss a protein [...] - Google Research
Google Says Pick One Testing Tool For Measuring Page Speed As you all know very well, the Google Speed Update has begun rolling out and while it is a bit too [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Webmaster Tools API Down For Over 5 Days Mike Sullivan noticed that the Bing Webmaster API has been down for over five days now. I had him [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Real-Time Google Trends Excludes Many Countries In Filters If you go to Google Trends you can filter those trends by country and the list of countries [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 12, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 11 2018

Google Introduces the “Mobile Speed Score,” Grading Pages on a 10-point Scale Google introduced a new way to evaluate mobile page speed, with a report that grades pages on a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Adds “People Also Search For” Box to Paid Search Results Google has added a new feature to paid search results that was previously displayed only in organic [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Algorithm Update Currently Mild Since the roll out of the Google Speed Update - the SEO community has been on high alert to see [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Similar Domain Names Don't Hurt Your Rankings In Google Search In a webmaster hangout yesterday at the 1 minute 22 second mark, someone asked if they own [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Google Search Console Reports Are As Accurate As It Gets People over the years have complained a lot about the reports within Google Search Console. Some [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 10 2018

Google Speed Update: Load Time is a Mobile Ranking Factor Google is getting fast and furious since 9th of July: Your future may depend on how fast your URLs [...] - Searchmetrics
Google Warns Using Meta Refresh May Lead to Wrong Content Getting Indexed Google’s John Mueller warns site owners using meta refresh that doing so may lead to the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Introduces Responsive Search Ads Which Adapt to Users’ Queries Google is introducing a new ad product that uses machine learning to adapt to users’ queries. - Search Engine Journal
Bing Now Provides Exact Snippets of Code for Developers’ Queries Bing has launched a new intelligent search feature which provides the exact piece of code a [...] - Search Engine Journal
YouTube to Surface More Authoritative News Sources YouTube is implementing several changes to how it displays news stories in the US. - Search Engine Journal
Putting machine learning into the hands of every advertiser The ways people get things done are constantly changing, from finding the closest coffee shop to [...] - Inside Adwords
Available For All: Google Search Console URL Inspection Tool A few weeks ago, Google launched the URL inspection tool within the new Google Search Console. Not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Provide Consistent & Clear URL Rewriting Google's John Mueller said it is fine using either root relative links (/google.html) vs relative [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Read Contents Within Figure Tag But No Special Treatment The figure HTML tag or element is often used to represent self-contained content. It is frequently [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Many 5xx Errors Can Slow Crawling Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that serving too many 5xx errors, the internal server types [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Relative Versus Absolute URLs for SEO Every once in a while, the whole relative versus absolute URLs and what is best for Google and/or [...] - The SEM Post

July, 9 2018

Google “Speed Update” is Rolling Out Now for All Users As of today, page speed is now a ranking factor for mobile searches. - Search Engine Journal
It's Live: Google Speed Update Now Rolling Out This morning, July 9th, Google has begun rolling out the Google Speed Update that they first [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Asks SEOs if Domain Changes Result in Loss of Traffic Google put a call out for feedback, asking whether site owners should fear a loss in traffic when [...] - Search Engine Journal
Chrome DevTools Sensors To Check Regional Google Search Results Aleyda Solis posted on Twitter a tip that SEOs and search marketers will love, to test regional [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Unwanted Video Showing In Google Search Results? Since Google starting showing video carousels in the desktop results again, Google seems to have [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Publisher Knowledge Graph Cards: Writes About, Awards & More Last November Google launched what are called Google News Publisher Knowledge Graph Cards but for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Tell Google About Your Large & Medium Site Moves Google's John Mueller posted on Twitter asking about webmasters who have done medium to large web [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Panda Keyboard? - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 9, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s Mobile Page Speed Update Rolling Out Google has confirmed that their page speed update – officially called the “Speed [...] - The SEM Post
Google Uses Speed Scale for Mobile Page Speed Update Google’s new mobile page speed update has a new improvement over the desktop page speed algo [...] - The SEM Post

July, 6 2018

Google Stops Crawling AJAX Crawling Scheme "For The Most Part" In May, we reported that by the end of Q2 the AJAX crawling scheme will be going away. Well, Q2 [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEO Challenge Google Assistant Quiz What if you can test your SEO intelligence by asking the Google Assistant... - Search Engine Roundtable
Wired On Keyword Or Data Voids In Google Search, The Evil Unicorn A Wired story named The Complexity of Simply Searching For Medical Advice came out yesterday and is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Updates Their hreflang Official Documentation Google has recently updated their official documentation for hreflang help. Prior, it only had [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Professional Beach Volleyball Players Play At Google - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Speed Update, AJAX Crawl, Local Search, & More It was a slower week than the norm, but that is to be expected with it being the July 4th holiday [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 6, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 5 2018

Court Ruling Exposes “Loopholes” in Copyright Protection Court ruling shows why copyright infringement is not as black and white as commonly assumed. - Search Engine Journal
Google My Business Insights Adds Queries & Keyword Report The Google My Business Insights, analytics, section has added a new section for showing you keyword [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
July 2018 Google Webmaster Report This month was somewhat typical but we did have a lot of updates to the Google Search Console. We [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google 10 Years Later: Absolute Vs Relative URLs Doesn't Matter For SEO I know, I know, this is a basic SEO question - the absolute URLs versus relative URLs. But we [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Index Report Doesn't Show Blocked URLs From Sitemaps Alan Bleiweiss shared a scree shot of how the Google Sitemaps report in Google Search Console shows [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Cannot Process Verbatim & Custom Date Range Searches Go ahead and try to search using Google's verbatim filter with a custom date range - you'd be out [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 5, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
July 4th Fireworks Display From The GooglePlex - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 4 2018

Google Responds to Criticism of New Google My Business Agency Dashboard Google has addressed feedback about the new Google My Business agency dashboard in the form of an [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Highlights Top 4th of July Search Trends Ahead of July 4th Google is highlighting the top search trends related to the US holiday. - Search Engine Journal
Fourth of July Google & Bing Home Page For 2018 Happy Fourth of July everyone! As normal, I won't be posting stories here on independence day [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 3 2018

Google Speed Update Clarification: Making A Fast Site Faster Won't Help Your Rankings The other day I covered how Google's John Mueller implied there was gradual scale to the upcoming [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Rumors Of A Google Search Algorithm Update Coming Soon The SEO industry is a funny place in that we are constantly tracking Google updates as they are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The end of DoubleClick and Adwords? Google simplifies its branding with Google Ads, Marketing Platform and Ad Manager Google is rebranding Adwords and DoubleClick. How will these changes affect us? Here’s [...] - Search Engine Watch
SEO Industry Mocks BuzzFeed Story On SEOs Buying Links At Popular Web Sites It feels like every six-months or so a new story comes out how SEOs are manipulating the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Data Studio Gains 16-Months Of Search Analytics Data The Google Data Studio now also has 16-months of Search Analytics data from Google Search Console... - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 2 2018

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How to monitor your competitors’ content marketing efforts Competitor monitoring informs content marketing strategy, inspires more content marketing tactics [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Tests Making URL In Search Results Snippets Clickable Eric Hedekar from STAT, a tool that tracks the Google search results, posted on Twitter that he [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Self-Referential hreflang Is Good Practice Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that while self-referential hreflang is optional, it is also [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Using Synonyms on a Page for SEO The old joke goes “An SEO walked into a bar, pub, public house, Irish pub, tavern, beer [...] - The SEM Post
Google Maps Business Reviews Fraud Checking Tool There is this new tool at stopcraponthemap.com that looks for suspicious and fake reviews on Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business FAQs & Feedback On Agency Dashboard As you know, Google has launched a new agency dashboard for Google My Business users who manage a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Poll: How Long Have You Been Using Google AdWords? As you know, Google is rebranding AdWords to Google Ads soon and with that, Google is getting a bit [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Meta Keywords Use Not a Spam Signal, But Not Used by Google Meta keywords were one of the early meta tags, but as it is something that could easily be spammed, [...] - The SEM Post
Tyrannosaurus Head On Wall At GooglePlex - Search Engine Roundtable