Archive of September, 2018

September, 30 2018

Google Confirms An Algorithm Update Occurred This Week Google's Danny Sullivan has confirmed that an algorithm update occurred this week. Here's what we [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google My Business Changes Post Limit to 1,500 Characters Google has changed the length of posts published via Google My Business to 1,500 characters. - Search Engine Journal
Google Reportedly Extends the Length of Page Titles in Search Results Google appears to have extended the length of titles in search results snippets, according to a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Birthday Update: Google Confirms Small Algorithm Update On September 27th On Friday we reported on a possible Google update that touched down on September 27th. Google's [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 28 2018

Google Search Algorithm Update On September 27th I am hearing some chatter around a possible Google search algorithm update that took place [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Real World Ranking Factors Evaluating how Google ranks websites today and what the new ranking factors may be. - Search Engine Journal
Anna Crowe: Goodbye & Good Luck! Today, the SEJ teams bids farewell to a member of the SEJ family, Anna Crowe. - Search Engine Journal
Google Imags Search Adds Creator & Credit Metadata For Image Credits Google announced yesterday they have added support for Creator and Credit metadata and will be [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Here Is Google My Business Video Verification Feature A couple years ago we reported Google was testing a way for you to verify your local business in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Introducing the Kaggle “Quick, Draw!” Doodle Recognition Challenge Posted by Thomas Deselaers, Senior Staff Software Engineer and Jake Walker, Product Manager, [...] - Google Research
Google Image Search Desktop Redesign Officially Rolls Out After some testing, Google yesterday officially rolled out the new design for the image search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 27 2018

Image rights metadata in Google Images As part of a collaboration between Google, photo industry consortium CEPIC , and IPTC , the [...] - Inside Search
Google Celebrates 20th Birthday With Doodle, 17 Search Easter Eggs Google is celebrating its 20th birthday with a video Doodle highlighting popular searches, plus 17 [...] - Search Engine Journal
Report: Google Extends Titles In Snippets From 55 to 67.5 Characters According to RankRanger, Google has extended the number of characters they show for the title in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How Google Decides on Manual Actions Google's John Mueller discussed the details of how Google penalizes websites. - Search Engine Journal
Google Images to Show Credit Information Google Images now supports IPTC metadata. Will boost discoverability in Google. - Search Engine Journal
Throwbacks and thank yous on our 20th birthday On Google’s 20th birthday, Thursday is not just for throwbacks. It’s also for thank [...] - Inside Search
Google Posts Now Allows 1,500 Character Posts Previously, Google Posts had a 100 to 300 word limit in your Google Posts. Now Google has a 1,500 [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Image Search For Hot Only Returns Images Of Sensual Women For some reason, when you go to Google Image Search and search for the term [hot] - the only images [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Adds Event Markup Report & Sends Notices Google has recently added to the Google Search Console an event markup report and also recently [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Is The Google Search Console Page Filter Throwing Off Accuracy? There are some savvy SEOs and webmasters that are noticing a possible bug with the Search Analytics [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 26 2018

Google: Make Content More Relevant to Recover from August Algorithm Update To site owners working to recover from August's core algorithm update, Google's John Mueller [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads is Extending the Parallel Tracking Deadline For Mobile Display & Video Campaigns Google Ads is extending the deadline when advertisers are required to switch to parallel tracking [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads Switches to Smart Bidding for Search Partner Sites Google Ads has switched from Smart Pricing to Smart Bidding for search partner sites that utilize [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Images Algorithm Now Uses Page Authority & Image Placement On A Page Google said on Monday that they have updated their image search algorithm to use the authority of a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Facebook Now Lets All Advertisers Run Ads in Stories Facebook Stories ads are now available globally to all advertisers following a successful test run [...] - Search Engine Journal
Instagram Brings Notifications to Web Browsers Instagram has added notifications to the web-based version of its app. - Search Engine Journal
Google's 20th Birthday Logo Remembers Popular Searches Tomorrow, September 27th is Google's official 20th birthday or anniversary. To celebrate the day, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Building Google Dataset Search and Fostering an Open Data Ecosystem Posted by Matthew Burgess and Natasha Noy, Google AI Earlier this month we launched Google [...] - Google Research

September, 25 2018

What is Google’s Neural Matching Algorithm? A review of what Google's Neural Matching Algorithm might be and how it might impact SEO. - Search Engine Journal
Google to End Ban on Cryptocurrency Ads Google will again allow cryptocurrency ads starting in October, ending a ban that was put in place [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Try Not To Use Multiple Languages In Title Tags Google's John Mueller answered a question on Reddit about a site using dual languages, multiple [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Seems Not Much Has Changes At Google's Internal Search Quality Meetings About six years ago, Google published a behind the scenes video of what goes on in an internal [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 24 2018

Improving Search for the next 20 years Growing up in India, there was one good library in my town that I had access to—run by the [...] - Inside Search
Google Begins Using Neural Matching to Understand Synonyms, Impacting 30% of Queries Google has been using a technique called neural matching to better understand synonyms, which [...] - Search Engine Journal
Keeping people safe with AI-enabled flood forecasting For 20 years, Google Search has provided people with the information they need , and in times of [...] - Inside Search
Google is Updating Image Search on September 27, Here’s What to Expect Updates to Google Image Search on on mobile and desktop are rolling out on Thursday, September 27th. - Search Engine Journal
Google: Low Traffic Does Not Mean Content is Low Quality Google's John Mueller cautions against removing content from a website simply because it doesn't [...] - Search Engine Journal
Making visual content more useful in Search When Search first began, our results were just plain text. But on February 24, 2000, something [...] - Inside Search
Google Feed, Now ‘Google Discover,’ is Getting a New Look and New Features Google Feed is getting updated with a new name, a new look, and new features. - Search Engine Journal
Instagram is Testing a Way to Add Hashtags to Posts Without Putting Them in Captions Instagram has been spotted testing a way to add hashtags to posts without including them in post [...] - Search Engine Journal
Instagram Lets Users Send GIFs in Direct Messages For the first time, Instagram is letting users send GIFs via direct messages. - Search Engine Journal
Pinterest Lets Small Businesses Use ‘Shop the Look’ Pins Pinterest is now letting small-to-medium sized businesses use Shop the Look pins for marketing [...] - Search Engine Journal
Baidu: Can the search giant hold firm in China’s increasingly competitive mobile market? A look at China's search giant Baidu. Against mobile-first Shenma, and potential for Google to [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google: A Change In Structured Data Formats Won't Result In Drop In Indexed Pages Google's John Mueller said in a video hangout on Friday that changing your structured data format [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: There Is No Meta Tag Limit Per Page Google's John Mueller said on Twitter he doesn't believe there is a limit to the number of meta [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Over 150 Stories At How Matt Cutts Has Helped You - Thank You I wanted to personally thank everyone who helped contribute to the How Has Matt Cutts Helped You [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Knowledge Panel Answers Nicely Lineup Valentin Pletzer shared a cool user interface in Google search that shows a onbox knowledge panel [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 23 2018

Pinterest Makes it Easier for Businesses to Connect With Influencers Pinterest is opening its content marketing API to third-party influencer marketing platforms in an [...] - Search Engine Journal
Instagram Introduces Shopping in Stories, New Shopping Section in Explore Instagram is expanding shopping capabilities, giving more businesses access to Shopping in Stories, [...] - Search Engine Journal

September, 21 2018

Google Search Algorithm Shifts Around September 19th? I am seeing some chatter, nothing too insane, around a Google search algorithm update around [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Q&A with SAP on digital transformation and search Last week we spoke with Siddarth Taparia, SVP and Head of Marketing Transformation at SAP. He [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Mobile First Indexing Migrations Not Done - Will Takes Years I know there were tons of sites that got notifications that their sites migrated to the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Celebrates Mister Rogers On 51st Anniversary Today on Google's home page is a video Doodle for the 51st anniversary of Fred Rogers show, Mister [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Finally Adds AMP To Search Results Bing has finally added AMP to the news section of the search results. So now, if you site comes up [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Auto-Expanding People Also Ask Box Google may be testing auto-expanding, auto-loading, the people also ask box so that it opens by [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 20 2018

Bing’s Mobile Search Results Now Supports AMP Pages Bing has announced that Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) will now work directly from its mobile [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Sends Out Many Mobile-First Indexing Enabled Notices Starting earlier this week, Google began sending out tons of mobile-first indexing notices to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Mobile Shopping Now Accounts for Over 50% of Online Transactions [REPORT] Mobile transactions now represent more than 50% of online transactions in many countries, according [...] - Search Engine Journal
Amazon Partners With Getty Images to Bring Image Search to Echo Devices Amazon is partnering with Getty Images to bring image-based search results to all Echo devices with [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Advises About Spammy Backlinks Google's John Mueller answers the question about what to do about random spam links. - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads Lets Users Enable Call Reporting at the Account Level An update to Google Ads will allow advertisers to enable call reporting at the account level. - Search Engine Journal
Google Tests Tabs On Branded Knowledge Panels Sergey Alakov spotted Google testing tabs for a knowledge panel for branded search terms. So not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Maps Now On Apple CarPlay & It's Okay Right before I went offline on Tuesday night, Apple approved a new version of the Google Maps app [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Also Drops Public URL Submit To Index Tool Just like Google did back in July, Bing announced they have dropped their public submission tool. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 19 2018

Google Updating Mobile First Index? SEO community notices huge amount of Mobile First Index inclusion emails from Google. What it means [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bing Ads Updated With Competition Tab, Performance Insights, and Location Recommendations Bing Ads has received three AI-powered updates, including a competition tab, performance insights, [...] - Search Engine Journal
Twitter Lets Users Switch to a Chronological Feed Twitter plans to let users easily switch between a reverse chronological feed and an [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google is Testing Images With Sitelinks in Mobile Search Results Google is testing a new way of displaying mobile search results by displaying images alongside [...] - Search Engine Journal
Amazon oneTag – Using it to Earn More Affiliate Revenue? While not new, Amazon's oneTag is worth looking into if you are an Amazon affiliate publisher. - Search Engine Journal
Introducing Bing AMP viewer and Bing AMP cache Bing is announcing the release of the AMP viewer and the Bing AMP Cache. If you have an AMP enabled [...] - Bing Webmaster

September, 18 2018

Bing Expands Visual Search With Text Transcription, More Bing is expanding its Visual Search capabilities with text transcription, a math problem solver, [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bing is Removing its Public URL Submission Tool Bing is shuttering its public URL submission tool, which allowed people to anonymously submit URLs [...] - Search Engine Journal
Anonymous URL Submission Tool Being Retired Saying Goodbye is never easy, but the time has come to remove the ability to anonymously submit [...] - Bing Webmaster
Google Search Launched 2,453 Changes In 2017 In that CNBC article, Google told them that in 2017 Google ran 31,584 side-by-side experiments with [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Don't Build Sites Where You Need To Test To See How Search Engines React Google's John Mueller has said on Reddit that it is better to build a site where you know how [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Guidelines: Can You Hypnotize Someone For Links? A funny question came up in a Reddit thread, and I am in the mood for funny right now. The [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Sitelinks With Image Thumbnails Google seems to have launched image thumbnails in the sitelinks of the mobile search result [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 17 2018

Google: We Index & Rank Content In Accordions & Tabs Fully Despite Some Studies So here we have Google's Gary Illyes again defending what Google has said in the past, when SEOs [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Reviews Can Now Be Edited In Local Panel Now you can edit the reviews and responses you leave for local businesses in Google Maps and Local [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Responds To Auto-Translated Content Spam Issue; It's About Intent Since 2010 we knew that using Google Translate or other automatic machine translation services to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Adds Videos To Shopping Ads With Showcase Shopping Ads Google has added more videos to their Google Ads platform, this new one is called Showcase Shopping [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Maps Showing Future Open Dates For Businesses Google is now able to show the date a business will open in the future, if the business owners [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 16 2018

Google is Bringing ‘WWW’ Back to Chrome URLs Following User Complaints Google will again display 'www' in front of URLs in Chrome's address bar following idespread user [...] - Search Engine Journal

September, 15 2018

Google My Business Lets Admins Edit Review Replies from the Knowledge Panel Google My Business is letting admins edit their replies to reviews directly from the Knowledge [...] - Search Engine Journal
Twitter Bumps Live Streams to the Top of the Timeline Twitter announced it will display live streams more prominently, bumping them to the top of [...] - Search Engine Journal
Facebook Expands Fact-Checking to Photos and Videos Facebook announced it's expanding fact-checking efforts to review the accuracy of photos and videos. - Search Engine Journal

September, 14 2018

Google Strongly Recommends Using HTML to Get Content Indexed Quickly Google’s John Mueller says content needs to be in HTML in order for it to be indexed quickly. - Search Engine Journal
Google Introduces Shoppable Image Ads Google is introducing a new type of ad unit that will allow advertisers to display shoppable images [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google on How to Improve Sites that Don’t Rank Google's John Mueller offers insights into the kinds of sites that impress search engineers. - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads Lets Advertisers Include Video in Showcase Shopping Ads Google Ads has updated its Showcase Shopping ads with video functionality, making it Google's first [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s Next Generation Music Recognition Posted by James Lyon, Google AI, Zürich In 2017 we launched Now Playing on the Pixel 2, [...] - Google Research
Google Ads Tests Headlines & URL Without Descriptions Google seems to be testing an ad format on mobile search where they remove the description section [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEO Vet On The Negativity In The Search Community Martin MacDonald, an SEO who has been in the community for 15 or so years, posted an excellent [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Broke For 12 Hours On A Query It is rare to see Google bug out, not work, when you try to use it. But yesterday starting around [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 13 2018

YouTube Launches Vertical Video Ads for TrueView and Universal App Campaigns Google is launching vertical video ads on YouTube for TrueView and Universal App campaigns. - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Activates SOS Alert for Hurricane Florence Google has activated an SOS alert in the search results pages for Hurricane Florence. - Search Engine Journal
Google Canada Caught With Paid Link For Non-Profit Contribution Google has been caught buying or paying for links before but doesn't always take action against [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Show Original Date Or Last Modified Date In Search Results Snippet Google's John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout video that Google can show either the original [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google May Remove Sites Blocking Users Over GDPR From Search? As you know, when GDPR, the European law about data privacy regulations across the web, went live - [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Introducing the Unrestricted Adversarial Examples Challenge Posted by Tom B. Brown and Catherine Olsson, Research Engineers, Google Brain Team Machine [...] - Google Research
How to Generate Persona-Based Content for Organic Search If you want to perfectly serve the needs and interests of your users, you need a clear content [...] - Searchmetrics

September, 12 2018

Google Algorithm Update On September 11th I was offline the past two days but when I came back, I saw a nice amount of chatter of a possible [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Partners Features Have Been Moved to Google Ads Google Partners features, including badge status, have been moved to Google Ads. - Search Engine Journal
Google Introduces a New Way to Split Test AMP Pages in Google Ads Google has a new way to compare the impact of using AMP pages vs. traditional web pages with Google [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Explains Why Charity Sponsor Links are Sometimes Spam Google explains why charity sponsorships are sometimes seen as spam and when it's not considered [...] - Search Engine Journal
Wix Versus WordPress? HttpArchive Data Doesn’t Lie Analysis compares First Contentful Paint by CMS. Suggests ways to improve SEO & conversions. - Search Engine Journal
LinkedIn Makes Dynamic Ads Available in Campaign Manager via Self-Service LinkedIn Dynamic Ads will soon be available to all advertisers via self-service in Campaign Manager. - Search Engine Journal
Google: Try For A Few 100MS For Time Spent Downloading A Page Metric Google's John Mueller hinted that you should aim for your "Time spent downloading a page" [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Instant Apps In Mobile Search Results Sometimes, espesially on Android devices, when you search Google, you may see a link for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Hey Siri, how do I responsibly invest in voice-activated technology at work? Voice-activated technology is here and more accessible than ever before. Globant released a new [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Tests Related Images Hover Interface Here is another test Google is trying in their search results. This one shows up in mobile image [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests New Video Search Results Box Here is a screen shot of a new user interface for videos showing up in the mobile search results. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 11 2018

The What-If Tool: Code-Free Probing of Machine Learning Models Posted by James Wexler, Software Engineer, Google AI Building effective machine learning (ML) [...] - Google Research
Get Your Guide to Local SEO [EBOOK] Gain a better understanding of today’s local search landscape. Download SEJ's Local SEO guide [...] - Search Engine Journal
Facebook Gives Advertisers Control Over Placement of Instant Article and In-stream Ads Facebook is giving advertisers more control over placement of in-stream, Instant Article, and [...] - Search Engine Journal
Facebook Rolls Out New Overlays for Product Ads, Holiday Templates, More Facebook is assisting advertisers with their holiday marketing strategies by rolling out new ad [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Displays Different Dates in Search Results Depending on Relevancy Google's John Mueller says search results will display the publication date or last modification [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Suggests Reviewing Quality Rater Guidelines for Info About Good Content Google's John Mueller suggests referring to Google's quality rater guidelines when looking for [...] - Search Engine Journal
Pinterest Hits 250 Billion Monthly Active Users Pinterest announced that it has hit a milestone of 250 million people using the social network each [...] - Search Engine Journal
Pinterest Hits 250 Million Monthly Active Users Pinterest announced that it has hit a milestone of 250 million people using the social network each [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Company Name In Title Tag Is Fine Many web sites put a keyword rich one line short description of the content on the page in their [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Data: Google Assistant Searcher Behavior On Android vs Google Home A couple weeks ago, Scott Huffman the VP of Engineering at Google shared some interesting data on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Q&A with Adobe on the future of search Prior to his panel discussion on Google, Amazon, Bing, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and Adobe at [...] - Search Engine Watch

September, 10 2018

Google’s New Responsive Display Ads Let Advertisers Upload 15 Images, 5 Headlines, More Google's new responsive display ads will become the new default ad type for the Google Display [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s Dynamic Search Ads Get New Targeting Options, More Reporting Data Google has released several updates to Dynamic Search Ads, which include new targeting options and [...] - Search Engine Journal
Instagram Adds Personalized Emoji Shortcuts for Quick Comments Instagram has introduced personalized emoji shortcuts, which show up above the keyboard when [...] - Search Engine Journal
32% of Consumers Own a Smart Speaker, 71% Use Voice Commands Daily Adobe's State of Voice Assistants report shows 32% of consumers own a smart speaker, up from 14% in [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Chrome 69 & SEO Annoyances As you know, Google announced version 69 of Chrome last week. The Omnibox now shows answers as you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Report: Google Showing More Search Snippets With Images STAT, a search analytics tool shared a graph on Twitter Friday showing that they saw a 10 point [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Programming Note: Rosh Hashanah 5779 - Shana Tova! This is a programming note that Monday and Tuesday is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and I will [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Wall Panel Runner Design Pattern - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 10, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Cannot Index Pages That Require Cookies Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that Google almost certainly cannot index a page that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads AdWords Editor Version 12.5 Now Out Google has released version 12.5 of the Google AdWords editor on August 30, 2018. The interesting [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 9 2018

Twitter Adds Audio-Only Live Broadcasting Twitter has launched a new feature that gives users the ability to create audio-only live streams. - Search Engine Journal
Twitter is Testing a Redesigned Desktop Interface Twitter is testing a redesigned version of its desktop website, which is currently available to a [...] - Search Engine Journal

September, 8 2018

Facebook Updates Ad Metrics to Combine Web, App, and Offline Purchase Data Facebook updates its ad metrics to offer a holistic view of how customers interact with a business [...] - Search Engine Journal
Facebook Upgrades Canvas Ads, Now Known as “Instant Experience” Ads Facebook has upgraded its full-screen mobile ad type with new capabilities, while also renaming it [...] - Search Engine Journal

September, 7 2018

Daily Search Forum Recap: September 7, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Marketers Say Link Building is Their Most Effective SEO Strategy [STUDY] A majority of marketers surveyed in a recent study say link building is their most effective SEO [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Sites Using A Lot of JavaScript May Not Be Moved to Mobile-First Indexing Google's John Mueller says using a lot of JavaScript may prevent a site from being moved to [...] - Search Engine Journal
YouTube Trolley - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Research Team Wants To Interview You On Google Search Console Google posted on Twitter that the Google Research team is looking to gather some names of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Shows Multiple Featured Snippets In Grid Google can show a featured snippet from multiple sources, we covered this before, but here is a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Manual Actions Still Expire & Sometimes Algorithms Take Over Google's John Mueller reminded us on Twitter that manual actions still do expire, we knew this from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Expands Exact Match To Include Same Meaning Of Words Google Ads has quietly expanded how exact match works by also including keywords in exact match to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: White Space Pushing Content Down Is Not An SEO Issue Google's John Mueller said on a webmaster hangout this morning that white space pushing content [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update, Search Console Out Of Beta, Google Ads Exact Match Expanded & More This week, Google seemed to have rolled out a small search algorithm update on Thursday - we are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Text-to-Speech for Low-Resource Languages (Episode 4): One Down, 299 to Go Posted by Alexander Gutkin, Software Engineer, Google AI This is the fourth episode in the [...] - Google Research
Google Discusses How Secondary Effects Can Negate SEO Google notes how poor user experience issues can subvert well executed technical SEO. - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads’ Exact Match Targeting Now Includes Keywords With Same Meaning Using machine learning, Google Ads' exact match will now serve ads that match the intent of a [...] - Search Engine Journal

September, 6 2018

Over 25% of Facebook Users Have Deleted the App from their Phone A study published today indicates that US adults are making changes to the way they use Facebook. - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Ranking Update Brewing? Early Signs Of Algorithm Shifts. I am seeing super early signs of a Google search algorithm update brewing right now. There is some [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Don't Publish Articles On How To Break Our TOS & Guidelines Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that he finds it awkward when he reads articles and how-to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: You Can Place Your Company Reviews From 3rd Parties On Your Web Site Google's John Mueller said he doesn't see an SEO problem with taking reviews left about your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Marking 10 years of DuckDuckGo: From Search Engine to Privacy Company We mark 10 years of DuckDuckGo: from search engine to privacy company. DuckDuckGo doesn't track [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Datasets Search - Searching Large Dataset Databases Yesterday, as everyone is reporting, Google launched Google Dataset Search. A way to search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's John Mueller: I'm Not A Fan Of The Anonymous Queries Reporting Change We covered the change to the Google Search Console performance and search analytics reports several [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Introducing the Inclusive Images Competition Posted by Tulsee Doshi, Product Manager, Google AI The release of large, publicly available image [...] - Google Research
Google Pedicab - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 6, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Facebook Lets Advertisers Target Users Based on Travel-Related Web History Facebook has introduced a new way for advertisers to target users based on their history of [...] - Search Engine Journal

September, 5 2018

Google Introduces New Search Engine for Finding Datasets Google has launched a new type of search engine designed specifically around helping people find [...] - Search Engine Journal
Chrome Update: Changes for SEO and Developers Chrome will answer questions in address bar without showing SERPs. - Search Engine Journal
Instagram is Working on its Own Shopping App Instagram is reportedly building a new app exclusively for shopping. - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Console Is Out Of Beta But More To Still Come Yesterday we reported that Google began directing users by default when they login to Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Conceptual Captions: A New Dataset and Challenge for Image Captioning Posted by Piyush Sharma, Software Engineer and Radu Soricut, Research Scientist, Google AI The [...] - Google Research
Google Tests Expandable Top Stories List View Google is testing a way to load more stories in the top stories section where Google shows a list [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Did Not Turn 20 Years Old Just Yet A lot of sites are reporting Google has turned 20 years old, but the truth is, Google has not yet [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Doubles Speed Of Some Search Results Via Service Workers Google has doubled the speed of searches done on Chrome for Android through a technology named [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Search Console Adds Live URL Inspection Tool & Manual Actions As you know, Google has graduated the Google Search Console out of beta and with that, added a new [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 5, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 4 2018

The new Search Console is graduating out of Beta 🎓 Today we mark an important milestone in Search Console’s history: we are graduating the new [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Bing Ads Enhances ‘Overview’ Tab and Report Downloads Bing Ads rolled out several updates designed to help advertisers save time by getting a faster look [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s New Version of Search Console is Officially Out of Beta Google announced today the new version of Search Console is officially out of beta. - Search Engine Journal
Google Restricts Ads for Third-Party Tech Support Services Google has updated its advertising policies to restrict ads for third-party tech support providers. - Search Engine Journal
Google Search on Android Loads Repeated Searches Twice as Fast Google's search results on Android now use a web browser technology called Service Worker to cache [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google's John Mueller: "Why Not Put A Date On It" As you all know, I am a huge fan of dates on articles and blog content. I even suggested Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: If You Want Your Images To Rank Then Use Alt Text Google's John Mueller said this morning on Twitter that if you want your images to rank in Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Now Defaults To BETA Version When you go to the main Google Search Console home page at google.com/webmasters and click the sign [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Restricts Third-Party Technical Support Providers Google announced late Friday that they will begin restricting ads from third-party technical [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Displays AMP Icon Within Story Image Google is showing the AMP icon in the carousel within the story image, as opposed to outside of the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 3 2018

Google Ignores A Lot Of Edu Links Google's John Mueller said that Google ignores a lot of links on EDU TLDs because they are more [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
September 2018 Google Webmaster Report Here is our monthly Google Webmaster report with the big ticket item being the Google Medic Update [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests "Relevant History" In Search Results Google is testing showing searchers a section in search called "relevant history." It [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Google Old Monitor Graveyard - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Posts Labor Day Logo For Third Year In A Row Three years ago today, Google posted their first Google Doodle for Labor Day. For some reason, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Shopping Ads "See More" Button PPC Chat on Twitter posted a screens hot and video of a new treatment to Google Shopping ads on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Dance Zurich Takes Place On September 21st Google is hosting their very first Google Dance Zurich event on September 21, 2018. Google has [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 3, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 1 2018

Twitter Tests Threaded Replies and Online Status Indicators Twitter gave users a sneak peek at some changes that are in the works, including comment threads an [...] - Search Engine Journal