Archive of August, 2018

August, 31 2018

Google Clarifies Internal Anchor Text and Ranking Effects Google answers if updating internal anchor text will negatively affect rankings. Then discusses [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Discourages Linking to Every Page From a Site’s Home Page Google's John Mueller discourages websites from linking to every page from the home page. - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Console Made a Change to Data Calculations as of August 19 Google recently informed site owners that changes were made to the way Search Console tracks [...] - Search Engine Journal
What Content Length Typically Ranks Well? [POLL] Here's what content length the SEJ community recommends for a blog post to rank well in Google. - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads Lets Users Make Campaign Changes from ‘Overview’ Page An update to Google Ads now allows users to make changes to their campaigns directly from the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Understanding Performance Fluctuations in Quantum Processors Posted by Paul V. Klimov, Research Scientist, Google AI Quantum Team One area of research the [...] - Google Research
Google Assistant Can Now Speak Multiple Languages Interchangeably An update to Google Assistant will allow users to speak more than one language to it at a time. - Search Engine Journal
Google: The Source Alone Of The Link Doesn't Make The Link Bad Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that the source of the link alone doesn't make the link a bad [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Testing “Relevant History” Section in Mobile Search Results Google is testing a new feature in the mobile search results – a drop down section labelled [...] - The SEM Post
Google Local Service Ads Display Pricing Estimates for Specific Locations Google has added a new feature to their local services as, the special local ads that appear for [...] - The SEM Post
Google Assistant Supports Multilingual Responses Google announced yesterday that the Google Assistant and Google Home can handle questions where you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Rounded Search Box That Sticks To Top Looks like more and more searchers are seeing a brand new design test from Google in their core [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 30 2018

Teaching the Google Assistant to be Multilingual Posted by Johan Schalkwyk, VP and Ignacio Lopez Moreno, Engineer, Google Speech Multilingual [...] - Google Research
YouTube to Roll Out Non-Skippable Ads to All Creators YouTube will soon be expanding non-skippable ads to all creators who can already monetize content. - Search Engine Journal
US Senator Asks FTC to Investigate Google’s Search Dominance Google's dominance in online search may be the subject of investigation, as a US Senator calls for [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Console to Show History of User Actions Google announced that the new version of Search Console will soon offer history tracking of user [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Responds to Trump Claiming it Didn’t Promote his State of the Union Address Trump continues his attack on Google, claiming it didn't promote a live stream of his State of the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Top 5 AdSense Publisher Concerns AdSense requested feedback from publishers. Are these issues affecting your AdSense earnings? - Search Engine Journal
Google Converts PDFs To HTML For Indexing In Search Google's John Mueller said that Google will convert PDF documents, as well as other documents, from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
‘Google Go’ Browser Will Read Web Pages Out Loud, Even on Slow Connections Lightweight browser 'Google Go' received an update this week which will allow it to read any web [...] - Search Engine Journal
YouTube Users Can See How Much Time They’ve Spent Watching Videos In an effort to improve the "digital wellbeing" of its users, Google is introducing a new [...] - Search Engine Journal
How to target and achieve Google Featured Snippets: 36 Questions & Answers Winning “Position 0” is often considered as the one of the biggest and most promising [...] - Searchmetrics
Google Converts PDFs, DOCs, XLS etc into HTML for Indexing A discussion came up on twitter about different content types and how Google determines what type [...] - The SEM Post

August, 29 2018

Google Measures Effectiveness of Ads With New ‘Ad Strength’ Indicator Google has introduced a new tool for helping advertisers measure the effectiveness of their ads [...] - Search Engine Journal
SEO Community Resists Threats to Regulate Google Search Trump threatens to regulate Google search. The SEO community responds with opposition and satire [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bing Enhances Search Results for News Stories Bing is enhancing search results with a "spotlight" on news, designed to give searchers a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Why Google Shows Featured Snippets With Images from Another Site For a few years now, Google has sometimes shown featured snippets where the text is from one site, [...] - The SEM Post
Google Search Console August 19th Query Report Drop Clarified Remember we reported that Google dropped anonymous queries from the Search Analytics and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
President Donald Trump Says Google's Results Rigged Against Him & Republicans President Donald Trump said on Twitter yesterday that the search results for his name, specifically [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 28 2018

Google Explains Why Singular and Plurals Rank Differently Google’s John Mueller discussed why Google showed different results for the singular and [...] - Search Engine Journal
Instagram Lets Users Apply to Become Verified Instagram has simplified the verification process, adding a form to the app that lets users easily [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google My Business Adds “Veteran-led” Identifier for Local Listings Google added a new attribute to Google My Business listings for identifying when a business is led [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Updates Structured Data Requirements Google updated it's Developers Page for Structured Data. Update affects articles, including recipe [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Adds Price Insights to Hotel & Flights Searches Ahead of holiday travel season Google is making an effort to keep searchers informed about price [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Judges All Content On Your Pages, Be It Written By You Or Others Google's John Mueller said again that any type of bad content on your site, be it content you write [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Adds Veteran Led Attribute / Icon Google has added a new attribute for businesses that are veteran led. It is pretty easy to get the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Posts Tests Without Google Local Knowledge Panel Normally, you would see Google Posts show up in or near a local knowledge panel when you search for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Certifying Content It Still Valid Is Good, But Not Date Update Worthy Google's John Mueller said it is great to go through old content and make sure it is still valid [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 27 2018

Introducing a New Framework for Flexible and Reproducible Reinforcement Learning Research Posted by Pablo Samuel Castro, Research Software Developer and Marc G. Bellemare, Research [...] - Google Research
Google: Focus on Search Console Data When Disavowing Bad Links Google's John Mueller recommends focusing on data in the Search Console links report when [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Redirecting All Your URLs To Your Home Page Is A Bad Practice Google's John Mueller said on Friday in a webmaster video that redirecting all of your URLs to your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Create more effective ads for today’s consumer Consumers are more curious and more demanding than ever before. They expect to get things done [...] - Inside Adwords
Google: We Take Web Site Spam Take Overs In Search Very Seriously Google's John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout video that Google's spam teams take it super [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Reports Removes Anonymous Queries Last week we reported that some were notice huge drops in their Google Search Console reports when [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's John Mueller Is In Regular Contact With Web Spam & Search Quality Teams Google's John Mueller has confirmed that he is in regular contact with both web spam team and the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Google Search Console New Link Report Has A Latest Links Download Google's new link report in the beta Google Search Console does have a download latest links [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Avoid Including Redirected URLs in Sitemaps Google is reminding site owners that they shouldn’t add URLs that are being redirected in the [...] - The SEM Post
How to Download Links Report in New Google Search Console Google has released a brand-new link report within the new version of Google Search Console. The [...] - The SEM Post
Google Students Big Social Media Post Sign - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s Featured Snippet Videos Now Overlay in Search Results Google has made a major change with how featured snippets with a video are done in the search [...] - The SEM Post

August, 24 2018

Google Search Algorithm Update Starting On August 22 There is new chatter and signals that there may be a Google search algorithm update starting around [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Do Not Rank Websites Based on Author Reputation Google's John Mueller has clarified that the search engine's algorithms do not look at author [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Tests New Design for Desktop Search Results Google istesting a new design for desktop search results, which features a sticky header and a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google vs. YouTube: Why Video Rankings Differ Roger Montti discusses why rankings are different between Google desktop search and YouTube search. - Search Engine Journal
Google's John Mueller Recommends SEO Noobs Join Help Forums To Gain Experience John Mueller of Google answered a question in a Reddit thread about advice on how an SEO noob, a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Dog days, always: the most fetching trends for National Dog Day For someone like me who barely asks permission to pet puppers passing by on the street, every day [...] - Inside Search
Google Writes Letter Of Recommendations For Agencies? Did you know Google may have and may be currently writing letters of recommendation for third-party [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Link Report To Get Download Latest Links Feature Google launched the new link report in the new beta Google Search Console this week. One of the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Assistant Hopes To Cheer You Up With Good News Google announced this week a new Google Assistant feature to ask the Google Assistant to tell you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Expect Googlebot Crawl Increase With Changes to CDNs Whenever you make major changes to something about the website, it is natural you see significant [...] - The SEM Post

August, 23 2018

Google Analytics Access Will Auto Verify You In Google Search Console Google announced that they will now begin automatically verifying some users in Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Finally Lets Local Guides Upload iPhone Videos Google is now letting Local Guides add videos to Google Maps with their iPhones. - Search Engine Journal
Instagram to Display Recommended Posts in Users Feeds Instagram announced it will begin displaying recommended posts in users feeds from accounts they [...] - Search Engine Journal
Social Media Signals and August Core Algo Update Read about a proposed connection between user experience and Google's August Core Algorithm Update. - Search Engine Journal
Five easy tips to improve the creative assets for your next campaign Wrike’s Creative Survey Report uncovers some hard truths about creative and marketing teams, [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Search Console URL Inspection Tool Shows More Recent Data Than Indexing Reports Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that the URL inspector tool that launched about a month ago [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Hey Google: We Still Want An Automated Action Viewer In Search Console For years, I've been suggesting along with the SEO community that Google think about how to design [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Links & Disavow Files If you are doing a disavowal for a site, Google is recommending that you start looking at the URLs [...] - The SEM Post

August, 22 2018

Google Launches Auto-Verification in Search Console Google is making it easier for site owners to verify their sites in Google Search Console. - Search Engine Journal
Facebook Releases Tools for Creating Mobile Video Ads Facebook is rolling out a set of tools to help advertisers create ads that are tailor-made for [...] - Search Engine Journal
New Google Assistant Feature Delivers “Good News” Only Google Assistant has been updated with a feature that will deliver "good news" on command. - Search Engine Journal
What Is the Most Effective Publishing Frequency? [POLL] We asked our Twitter community what publishing frequency is most effective based on their [...] - Search Engine Journal
Easier Search Console access for Analytics owners Verifying websites in Search Console can be useful for site owners, giving you access to [...] - Inside Search
Facebook to Remove Over 5,000 Ad Targeting Options Facebook announced plans to remove over 5,000 ad targeting options in an effort to prevent [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: We Strongly Recommend 301 Redirects For HTTPS Migrations We all know that making HTTP to HTTPS site migrations is unique, it is treated differently by [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 21 2018

Google Images Data Will Soon be Displayed in Google Analytics Google is adding data from image search in Analytics. Users may see a drop in referral data from [...] - Search Engine Journal
Links, Mobile Usability, and site management in the new Search Console More features are coming to the new Search Console . This time we've focused on importing existing [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Local Search Packs Now Show Posts from Google My Business Google has added a tab to its local search pack dedicated to posts from Google My Business. - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Console Notifying Users About HTTPS Migration Errors Google Search Console is sending notifications to site owners about errors identified in recent [...] - Search Engine Journal
New Google Search Console Adds a Streamlined ‘Links Report’ Google continues bringing classic features to the new Search Console, recently adding a Links [...] - Search Engine Journal
DuckDuckGo Receives $10M Financing to Expand Global Impact DuckDuckGo is receiving a US$10-million investment to help the search engine continue expanding its [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: We Do Not Favor Fresh Content Google's John Mueller said that Google does not favor fresh content over I guess stale content. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Search Console Finally Gets Link Report Google has announced that the new beta Google Search Console is now getting the link report. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Sharing Same Image On Multiple Pages Is Okay Google said that it is okay and even normal to have the same image placed on more than one page on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests New Image Search Results Preview Design Google seems to be testing a new design for how Google Image search shows you previews of images [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Panel: Browse Some Featured Items Sold Here Google is showing yet another product/shopping related feature in the local panel. This one says [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Sending Out Notifications for HTTPS Site Migration Issues Google is now sending out a new notice to search console users detailing issues that Google has [...] - The SEM Post
Google: Indexing API Not Coming Anytime Soon A few months ago, Google introduced the Indexing API specifically for job posting URLs. It is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 20 2018

Google’s Forum Post Carousels are an Optional, Opt-in Feature Google's Danny Sullivan has revealed that carousels of web forum posts appearing in search results [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Google's Medic Update Was Not Designed To Target YMYL Or Health Sites Gary Illyes said while on stage at the Search Masters Brazil that the Google Medic update, the core [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Panda & Penguin: The Page Level Differences Google's Gary Illyes confirmed on stage at the Search Masters Brazil event that while the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Reports Of Some Google Medic Update Recoveries I am seeing some webmasters and SEOs claim they have seen recoveries over the weekend with some of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Answer For What Is My User Agent If you search Google for [what is my user agent], Google will show you the answer. Just like they [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Reserve With Google Expands: Enables More Bookings, Appointments & Reservations In Google Local Google seems to be expanding Reserve with Google, a way to integrate your booking, reservation and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Office Gets C-3PO - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 18, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 17 2018

Twitter Kills Off Third-Party App Features Twitter has restricted access to APIs, which effectively kills off certain key features in popular [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Crawls Pages More Often If They Are More Important & Popular Google's John Mueller confirmed that Google crawls pages more often if they are more important and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Sends Useful HTTPS Gone Wrong Notifications Google is now sending useful notifications about issues when you migrate from HTTP to HTTPS. In [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Launches Expandable Featured Snippets Google announced they have launched a new form of featured snippets that offer expandable snippets [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Did The Google Medic Update Make Search Worse? Show Google Examples. Google is asking you to provide examples of how the search results are now worse off since after [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Medic Update Advice, SEO Tips, Featured Snippets, Search Console, Manual Actions & More This week in search, I covered what SEOs are doing about the Google Medic update, and how you can [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
YouTube Live Streaming Disabled For Many I am seeing a huge number of YouTube creators complaining in the YouTube Help forums that their [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 17, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Google Beach Party - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 16 2018

Google Rolls Out New Featured Snippets With Expandable Subtopics Google has introduced a new type of featured snippet dedicated to displaying more in-depth [...] - Search Engine Journal
LinkedIn to Integrate Groups into the Mobile App LinkedIn plans to bring Groups back to mobile by integrating the feature into its flagship app. - Search Engine Journal
Google: Taking Old Content & Relabeling It As New Is A Bad SEO Hack Google's John Mueller said on Twitter, with the disclaimer of him putting his user hat on (not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Avoid Change URLs Unless You Really Have To For years and years, Google has been telling people to not change URLs unless they have to. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
12th Annual SEMPO State of Search Results Released SEMPO has released the results of its 12th annual State of Search marketing survey, with insights [...] - Search Engine Journal
Helping you find useful information fast on Search Imagine you’re remodeling your kitchen, and you want information about how quartz compares to [...] - Inside Search
Google Medic Update: Many Are Looking Back To Google's Panda Advice From 2011 With the Google Medic Update from August 1st, the core broad Google algorithm update. Many are not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Key takeaways from Google’s latest algorithm update We're looking at Google's latest algorithm update. - Search Engine Watch
The evolution of search: succeeding in today’s digital ecosystem – part 1 During the last decade, technology has shaped our world dramatically. Marketers had to find new [...] - Search Engine Watch
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 16, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 15 2018

Is Google My Business Stealing Your Local Leads? Earlier this year, Google launched a new Google My Business feature to allow businesses to add [...] - Search Engine Journal
Twitter is Removing Accounts that Previously Tried to Avoid Suspension Twitter will soon be removing accounts belonging to individuals who have managed to avoid a prior [...] - Search Engine Journal
Moving Beyond Translation with the Universal Transformer Posted by Stephan Gouws, Research Scientist, Google Brain Team and Mostafa Dehghani, University of [...] - Google Research
Google Adds More Classic Features to the New Search Console Google's new version of Search Console has gained three features which were previously only [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: The Medic Update Is Global; All Categories Of Search, Not Just Health You all know that I named the August core Google algorithm update the Medic Update because it seems [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Research on User Satisfaction and Trust Google research and white papers show how site design inspires trust. Does your page design inspire [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Useful Content Position On A Page Doesn't Matter Google's John Mueller hints that where you place your content on the page doesn't matter. This [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
On your mark, get set, go! Stay up to speed with the 2018 Asian Games After 56 years, the Asian Games are coming back to Indonesia. This Saturday, thousands of [...] - Inside Search
Google India Toy Basketball Hoop - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 14 2018

Google Ads Report Editor Now Supports Time Period Comparison Google Ads' Report Editor tool has rolled out the ability to compare performance for two different [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Beer Pong - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Insights To Expand Query Pool Joy Hawkins posted in the Local Search Forums that Google My Business Insights, the place to go to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Member Prices In Hotel Listings From Google One? A number of people over the past few days have been noticing "Member Price" with the new [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Fixes Video Carousels To Show Them Less Often Several weeks ago, Google began showing more and more video carousels in the search results. So [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Poll: How Are You Going To Fix Your Rankings After The Google Medic Update? Google is not telling webmasters what to fix after the Google Medic update and the advice around [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Add Google Posts In Local Knowledge Panel Google is asking business owners to add Google Posts directly in their Google local knowledge [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 14, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 13 2018

Matt Cutts & Danny Sullivan At Foo Camp Together - Search Engine Roundtable
SEO Industry Mourns The Loss Of Michael Streko, ORM Pioneer The SEO industry is mourning the loss of yet another well loved personality in our industry - [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Panel Adds "Your Past Visits" Google has added "your past visits" to the local knowledge panel. If you visited the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Hotel Location Scores & Tab Now Live Google has rolled out a new local hotel search feature that shows you how well a specific hotel [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: When You Switch To HTTPS There Is No Rush On Indexing Or Deindexing Gary Illyes from Google said when you migrate from HTTP to HTTPS, there is no need to rush. Just [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Don't Flat Line After The Google Medic Update As you know, the Google Medic update was pretty big and Google'a advice is there is no fix. But [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Pulse: Experts Reveal Changes Since Google Speed Update Since July 9th, page speed has been a definitive ranking factor. While websites with decent mobile [...] - Searchmetrics
Facebook Changes Requirements for Pages With Large US Audiences Facebook is implementing new requirements for people who manage pages with a large US audience. - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 13, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Facebook Bans Ads for Bail Bonds, Restricts Ads for Addiction Treatment Centers Facebook made changes to its advertising policies restricting ads for addiction treatment centers [...] - Search Engine Journal
Pinterest Rolls Out Max Width Promoted Videos to All Advertisers Pinterest is making max width promoted videos available to all advertisers following a successful [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Local Search Grades Hotels Based on Location Google has added a new tab to local search knowledge panels which assigns a grade to hotels based [...] - Search Engine Journal

August, 10 2018

Google: We Do Not Have A Page Partially Moved To A New Location Directive Google's John Mueller said they do not have a directive to tell Google part of this page or content [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search trends 2018: what can marketers learn? Jason Tabeling has spent 9 years monitoring 50 search terms across five verticals to monitor to see [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Can't Recommend SEOs To Hire; It's A Conflict Of Interest I wonder how often Googlers get asked about who they should hire as an SEO consultant or firm... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google DC Hallway - Serious Without A Suit - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Analytics Signals - Cross Device Capabilities Google is beta testing a new Google Analytics feature named Google Signals. It lets you track and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Report Editor Now Supports Chart Time Comparison Data Google Ads Report Editor has added the ability to let you compare data in a chart or graph view. A [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google "View Previous Posts" To Highlight Old Google Posts Google showing âview previous posts on Googleâ for some local panels that trigger older [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Medic Update, Local Ranking Update, Google Search Console Data, Google Signals, Bing Search & More This week we uncovered a lot of interesting things about the confirmed Google core broad search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s New ‘Cameos’ App Lets Celebs Answer Questions from Search Results Google launched an app that allows celebrities to record video responses to frequently asked [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Lets Advertisers Add a Third Headline to Text Ads Google is letting advertisers add an additional headline and description to text ads. - Search Engine Journal
Google Analytics Introduces Cross Device Capabilities With ‘Google Signals’ Google Analytics has started beta testing a new feature called Google Signals, which offers cross [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 10, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 9 2018

The rise of the modern B2B marketer 2018 B2B Marketing Survey unveils key insights on the role of the modern B2B marketing [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google India Wall Of Soda Cans - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Honors Mary G. Ross, First American Indian Female Engineer On the home page on Google.com in the United States is a special Google logo, Doodle, for Mary G. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Menu & Services Editing Now Globally Available If you are on Google My Business and you have a menu or service offering that you want to keep [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Medic Update: What You Can Do To Fix Your Rankings Are you looking for things you can change to "fix" your web site in the Google search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google URL Removal Tool Does Not Stop Crawling; It Hides The URL In Search Google's John Mueller explained on Twitter that the Google URL removal tool does not stop Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Shows How Slow Google Can Process Changes Google can take a really long time to validate your fixes you make in the new Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Medic Update Complete But We Are Seeing New Search Fluctuations Google has confirmed that the Google core algorithm update that we named the Medic Update is now [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Imposters are Reportedly Using Fake Takedown Requests for Negative SEO Purposes A new form of negative SEO is on the rise, as imposters use fake DMCA takedown requests to [...] - Search Engine Journal
The Machine Learning Behind Android Smart Linkify Posted by Lukas Zilka, Software Engineer, Google AI Zürich Earlier this week we launched [...] - Google Research
Google Rankings Dropped? How to Evaluate with Raters Guidelines Recommendations based on Google's raters guidelines for evaluating a drop in rankings - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 9, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Assistant Can Now Read Google News Stories Out Loud Google Assistant has been updated with the ability to read articles in Google News out loud. - Search Engine Journal

August, 8 2018

Google’s New Creator Reputation: Guide For Site Owners & Creators Google has released a new version of the Google quality rater guidelines, and one of the most [...] - The SEM Post
Internet Explorer Logo Made Up Of PostIt Notes In Google Office - Search Engine Roundtable
Reminder: Google Mobile First Indexing Notifications Are Delayed Google issues a reminder that when you already received the Google mobile first indexing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Don't Let The "Google Search Update" Notice In Search Console Confuse You Yesterday I reported about the index status report update in the Google Search Console reporting [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Banned From Google Event Markup? You Can Now Submit A Reevaluation Request. Google is now letting those who were banned from showing event rich snippets in search submit a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Cache Date Is Last Indexed Or Reindexed Google has confirmed the date shown in the Google Cache is the date Google last indexed or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Medic Update: Google's Core Search Update Had Big Impact On Health/Medical Sites The big core Google search algorithm update is being named the Google Medic Update. The reason for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 8, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Improves Search Experience for Hotels, Home Services, and Coupons Bing has rolled out new "intelligent search" features designed to overcome challenges [...] - Search Engine Journal

August, 7 2018

Google: When Asking for Links Isn’t a Link Scheme For SEOs, links are very important part of any SEO strategy for all websites. However [...] - The SEM Post
Google My Business Insights Show How Posts from Pages are Performing Google My Business has begun offering insights related to how posts from GMB pages are performing. - Search Engine Journal
New Android Pie Statue At The GooglePlex - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Index Coverage Upgraded & More Accurate Google has updated the Google Search Console Index Coverage report to be more accurate. This [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Adds Multi-Factor Authentication Security Google Ads, formerly AdWords, has announced they are adding multi-factor authentication for login [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The SEO Monopoly Game - SEOPOLY - Help Design It Jef Van Gool from Sherlock SEO has started the process of designing a Monopoly game for the SEO [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Listen To Google Speakable Markup In Action Over Here A couple weeks ago we reported that Google launched a beta of speakable markup for news publishers [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google On Links For Republishing My Content As you know, Danny Sullivan is somewhat new to working at Google - for decades he worked from the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdSense Earnings Fluctuations Not Related to Algorithm Update Google has confirmed that any fluctuations in AdSense earnings is not related to the recent search [...] - Search Engine Journal
MnasNet: Towards Automating the Design of Mobile Machine Learning Models Posted by Mingxing Tan, Software Engineer, Google Brain Team Convolutional neural networks [...] - Google Research
Google Core Update: E.A.T. Makes a Meal of Sites Deemed Less Authoritative A few times a year Google acknowledges it’s at it again – rolling out a broad [...] - Searchmetrics
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 7, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Improves Accuracy of Search Console Index Coverage Report Google has improved the accuracy of the Index Coverage report generated by Google Search Console. - Search Engine Journal

August, 6 2018

Google Does Not Use Quality Raters for Machine Learning Algos Whenever there is a new quality raters guidelines released by Google, there is always lots of [...] - The SEM Post
Google Yellow Submarine Sleep Pod - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Core Algorithm Update Roll Out Slowing Down The big core Google search algorithm update seems to start slowing down. The rollout might be [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: AdSense Fluctuations Not Related To Google Search Update There are a nice number of Google AdSense publishers, those who monetize their web site with Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Was There A Google Local Maps Algorithm Update Too? Last Wednesday there was a big confirmed Google core web search algorithm update but some SEOs are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Hotel Search, Home Repair Search & Deal Search Gets A Boost Bing announced Friday some new features are hotel searches, home repair searches and finding good [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Beta Test The Google Ads Mobile App Want to play with the beta version of the Google Ads mobile app for iOS or Android? You can sign [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 6, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 3 2018

Google Says Raters Guidelines is Key to Update Google offers guidance that Quality Raters Guidelines is key to ranking better in Broad Core Update. - Search Engine Journal
Google FAQ, Q&A and How-To Snippets Requires Schema Google has confirmed they are testing new snippets around showing FAQs, Q&As and How Tos. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How Not To Complain About Search Results To Google Danny Sullivan who is now working within Google search has responded to an SEO who has sent several [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
We’ll take “what’s trending” for a hundred da da da da da da da da da da da DA dadadada da da da da da da da DA da da da DUH DUH DUUHH DUM [...] - Inside Search
Google’s Latest Core Algo Update Still Rolling Out For those watching the search results to see how well (or not) sites have done with Google’s [...] - The SEM Post
Google Comparison Carousel In Search Google has been deploying various methods to allow searches to compare products both in paid and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Managers Permissions Now Shows Email Addresses Of Managers The place you go to manage the permissions of who has access to your Google My Business account or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Wall Map Designed With Google Display Ad Units - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Core Update Confirmed, New Search Snippets, Bing API & More SEO This week in our weekly recap, we had a very big Google update that Google ended up confirming as a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Intelligent Search that can save you money: hotel booking, home services price ranges, and more We're excited to announce new intelligent search features: booking tips, price trends, and a [...] - Bing Search
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 3, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 2 2018

What Google & SEOs Are Saying On The August 1st Algorithm Update Here is a recap of how Google and SEOs are talking about the big Google broad core algorithm update [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Which Digital Marketing Channel Has the Highest ROI for Websites? [POLL] Which digital marketing channel might offer you the highest ROI – SEO, PPC, social, or email? [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Now Recommends Date Published & Modified Structured Data To Non-AMP Articles Aaron Bradley posted on Google+ that Google updated their article structure data recommendations [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Core Search Algo Update: What We Know Google has confirmed a major algo update in their search results that was released this week. Danny [...] - The SEM Post
Survey: Tell Us How You Were Impacted By The Google August 1st Update Google confirmed the August 1st search algorithm update calling it a "broad core update." [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
G Suite Pro Tips: how to record macros in Google Sheets If you spend your day working in spreadsheets, you understand that with great data comes great [...] - Inside Search
Google Tests Another Design Variation Of Hotel Search Results After we reported Google was testing a new hotel search results design and layout last week - [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Knowledge Panels Cite Sources & Can Pull From Facebook & YouTube Brodie Clark posted on Twitter that he found it interesting that Bing would show Facebook as a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Top Stories Box Design With Images Google is testing showing images in the top stories list view. Previously, Google only showed [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Introducing JSON-LD Support in Bing Webmaster Tools Introducing JSON-LD support as part of Bing Webmaster Tools. The Markup Validator now supports [...] - Bing Webmaster
Pulse: How To Build Content Silos To Improve The Buyer Journey Getting Found, Building Authority & Driving Sales Online When your customers have a problem or [...] - Searchmetrics
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 2, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 1 2018

Google Search Algorithm August 1st Update Rolling Out Now; Might Be A Big One Google may have done a large algorithm update, impacting the search results. The SEO community is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Update Confirmed – The Facts and Advice Google confirms a major update and offers official guidance. Information and facts as to what is [...] - Search Engine Journal
Building a new data center in Singapore We started building our first Southeast Asia data center in Singapore back in 2011 , expanding [...] - Inside Search
Five new grants to support CS education research Excitement about computer science (CS) education is growing across the country —from [...] - Inside Search
Google Adds a New Featured Snippet Google's Featured Snippets now features a Google Suggest tool. Impacts how users navigate to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Twitter Reveals How it Ranks Tweets in Search Results Twitter has addressed recent accusations regarding shadow banning accounts by explaining how it [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Adds a Breathing Exercise to Search Results A new easter egg has been found in Google search results, which guides users through a 1-minute [...] - Search Engine Journal
Facebook Changes How it Measures Video Ad Metrics Facebook updated its video ad metrics, bringing its metrics more in line with how people watch and [...] - Search Engine Journal
Gerda Taro, German Born & Jewish War Photographer Get A Google Doodle Google is honoring Gerda Taro on her would be 108th birthday with a doodle. She was a German war [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Datasets Schema Now Live In Search Results Google launched datasets schema in the search results, which now enables them to show pretty charts [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Testing Reading Time Filter in Search Results Google is testing a new feature in the search results that allows searcher to filter the search [...] - The SEM Post
Google Posts Insights Announced Google Posts has announced new insights, or analytics, to see how well your Google Posts are doing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable