Archive of October, 2018

October, 31 2018

Google Celebrates Halloween With First-Ever Multiplayer Google Doodle Google is getting in the Halloween spirit with a first-of-its-kind Google Doodle. - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads Introduces “New vs. Returning” Store Visits Segmentation Google Ads advertisers who measure store visits can now utilize a "New vs Returning" [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bing Ads Introduces Recurring Insertion Orders Bing Ads advertisers can now create insertion orders that automatically renew after a set period of [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Redesigns the Hotel Search Experience on Desktop Google is rolling out a redesigned hotel search experience on desktop, which mirrors the redesign [...] - Search Engine Journal
Twitter Doubling its Character Limit from 140 to 280 Has Not Led to Longer Tweets It has been a year since Twitter doubled its character limit from 140 to 280. Here's what has [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: We Will Close The Gap On Modern Browsers & GoogleBot Martin Splitt from the Google Webmaster Trends Analyst team said yesterday on a hangout that they [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 30 2018

Introducing AdaNet: Fast and Flexible AutoML with Learning Guarantees Posted by Charles Weill, Software Engineer, Google AI, NYC Ensemble learning , the art of [...] - Google Research
SEOs Turn To EAT After Recent Google Algorithm Updates Google had a big issues years ago, every Google algorithm update was about PageRank and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdSense Policy Change: All New Sites Need to be Verified Google is making a change to AdSense that will require every new site to go through a verification [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Fill In Your Meta Descriptions Because You Know Your Content Best Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that it is best not to leave your meta descriptions blank. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Are Facebook and Twitter Winning Against Fake News? Research shows effectiveness of Facebook and Twitter against fake news. But much work remains. - Search Engine Journal

October, 29 2018

Introducing reCAPTCHA v3: the new way to stop bots Today, we’re excited to introduce reCAPTCHA v3, our newest API that helps you detect abusive [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Shares How 301 Redirects Pass PageRank Google's John Muller reveals Google's process for assigning PageRank with 301 redirects. - Search Engine Journal
LinkedIn Company Pages Can Now Publish Video Content Directly from Vimeo Vimeo has announced an integration with LinkedIn that will allow company pages to publish content [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s Homepage on Mobile Receives a Major Redesign Google's homepage on mobile devices now contains a lot more than just a search bar. - Search Engine Journal
Acoustic Detection of Humpback Whales Using a Convolutional Neural Network Posted by Matt Harvey, Software Engineer, Google AI Perception Over the last several years, [...] - Google Research
Google Tests Double Featured Snippets Google is testing Double Featured Snippets, resulting in just 2 organic links in the SERPs. - Search Engine Journal
More Things to Do After a Rankings Decline A publisher asks what they can do after rankings decline, recovery, then a decline. John Mueller [...] - Search Engine Journal
Amazing Interview With Matt Cutts About Google, Spam & The Community Anyone who reads here knows I have a deep appreciation for Matt Cutts so when I saw Brian [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Campaign Manager Now Offers LinkedIn Ad Attribution LinkedIn has integrated with Google Campaign Manager, which will allow advertisers to get [...] - Search Engine Journal
Is Google's PageRank Algorithm Still Important For Google Search Rankings? Long gone are the times of monthly Google PageRank updates, Google dances, and checking Google data [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Shows Two Featured Snippets For One Query Some folks are noticing that Google is showing two featured snippets for a single query. It is not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 27 2018

Snapchat Launches a Desktop App for Adding Filters to Streaming Videos Snapchat has launched a desktop app, called Snap Camera, which lets users add filters to live [...] - Search Engine Journal

October, 26 2018

Google Search Rankings Seems Unstable; More Algorithm Tweaks Or Penalties? Over the past few days the SEO communities and forums have been in a somewhat state of stress [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Rolls Out ‘.new’ Domains as Shortcuts for Creating G Suite Files Google has created '.new' domains that people can use as a quick way to create new G Suite files. - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads Brings New Features to the Ad Preview and Diagnosis Tool Google rolled out new features to the Ad Preview and Diagnosis tool, providing more insight into [...] - Search Engine Journal
Twitter Lost 9 Million Monthly Active Users Last Quarter Twitter has released its latest quarterly report, revealing its monthly user count dropped by 9 [...] - Search Engine Journal
Which Signal Is Most Important When Ranking New Content? [POLL] Our Twitter community weighs in on what they think is the most important factor for ranking brand [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Debunks Spooky Google Maps Myths Are these spooky images captured on Google Maps really as scary as they seem? - Search Engine Journal

October, 25 2018

Google Images Update – Google Lens is Live Google Images has updated to add the Lens feature. This has the potential to send more traffic to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Learn and do more with Lens in Google Images On Google’s 20th anniversary last month, we announced updates to make Google Images a more [...] - Inside Search
Google Maps Lets Users Follow Businesses to Receive Latest Updates Google Maps is introducing a new way for users to keep up with local businesses. - Search Engine Journal
Google Survey Uncovers 5 Principles for Success Google research uncovered 5 principles for successful apps that may be useful to websites, too. - Search Engine Journal
Google Enhances Click-to-Message Ads With Email Forwarding and Auto Replies Google has announced a series of improvements to its advertising solutions ahead of the holiday [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s PageRank algorithm, explained In their original paper presenting Google, Larry and Sergey define PageRank like this: PR(A) = [...] - Search Engine Watch
New Google Search Console Fix Slow Page Loading Notices Google is sending out a new warning and notice via Google Search Console to let webmasters know [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Enhances Product Ads With Multiple Images, Ratings, More Bing introduced a series of enhancements to product ads and shopping campaigns just in time for the [...] - Search Engine Journal

October, 24 2018

Curiosity and Procrastination in Reinforcement Learning Posted by Nikolay Savinov, Research Intern, Google Brain Team and Timothy Lillicrap, Research [...] - Google Research
Google Produced 92% of US Organic Search Visits in Q3 2018 [REPORT] Google’s organic search volume in the US continues to rise, producing 92% of organic search [...] - Search Engine Journal
Instagram Lets Users Share Audio from SoundCloud to Stories Instagram now offers SoundCloud integration, which lets users share audio from the free streaming [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Makes it Easier for Users to Delete Search History Google is making it easier for users to delete their search history without having to go through [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Maps Now Provides Accessibility Information for Over 40 Million Places Google has announced that Maps now provides accessibility information for more than 40 million [...] - Search Engine Journal
Facebook to Let Users Add Songs to Their Profile Facebook has announced a series of new features that expand the ways users share and connect with [...] - Search Engine Journal
Making it easier to control your data, directly in Google products We’re always working on making it easier for you to understand and control your data so you [...] - Inside Search
Google Search Console is Sending Warnings About Slow-Loading Pages Google is sending warnings to webmasters via Search Console, notifying them of slow-loading pages. - Search Engine Journal

October, 23 2018

Google: IP Addresses Don't Matter For Backlinks & Search Rankings Google's John Mueller responded "nope" when asked if IP addresses matter for backlinks [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Announces LinkedIn Profile Targeting for Bing Ads Bing Ads releases LinkedIn Profile Targeting for text ads, shopping campaigns, and Dynamic search [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Link Penalty Can Remove Rich Snippets/Results Google has said they can issue a rich snippets or results manual action, removing the ability for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing’s Mobile App Can Now Find Your Celebrity Lookalike Bing’s mobile app has a fun new feature that lets users find their celebrity lookalike. - Search Engine Journal
AMP Pages Will Soon Support Video Docking, Sticky Ads, More The Accelerated Mobile Pages project has announced a variety of new features coming soon to AMP [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google My Business Account Migration Tool is Now Widely Available Google has made available a tool for assisting Google My Business users with migrating their [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google My Business Cards In Google Maps Results Google Maps is showing some people a card asking them to to take charge of their listings in Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Personal Account Migration To Organizational Account Tool Google has posted a new help document that walks you through the process of migrating your Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing App Doppelganger Camera Feature I am not sure if this is new, but Bing posted on Twitter that the Bing app lets you take a selfie, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 22 2018

Google Local Services Ads Receive 13% of All SERP Clicks [STUDY] A new local search study finds Google’s Local Services ads account for 13.8% of all SERP [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bing Makes its Search Crawler Bingbot More Efficient Bing’s search crawler, bingbot, has been improved to maximize crawl efficiency. - Search Engine Journal
Fluid Annotation: An Exploratory Machine Learning–Powered Interface for Faster Image Annotation Posted by asper Uijlings and Vittorio Ferrari, Senior Research Scientists, Machine Perception The [...] - Google Research
Google Caches JavaScript & CSS Files For A Long Time & Why That Matters Google's John Mueller confirmed on Twitter that Google does cache your JavaScript and CSS files for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Caught Me Buying Links (Framed) - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Cache Bug With Mobile-First Indexing Now Fixed It looks like Google has fixed that ongoing bug with the Google cache 404ing after being switched [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Putting Out More Content Doesn't Make Your Site Better Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that putting out more content doesn't necessarily make your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Products Beta Lets You Add Products To Your Local Listings Last week we showed how Google added a products and services section to the local listings in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Old Google Search Console Sitemap Bug With Mobile-First Indexing Google's John Mueller said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that there is a bug with the Sitemaps [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 22, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 21 2018

Google Notifies Site Owners About Delays With Search Console Reports Google has notified site owners that some reports in Search Console are currently delayed. - Search Engine Journal

October, 19 2018

Google Listens & Responds To A Site That Lost 60% Of Their Traffic After An Algorithm Update In this mornings hangout with Google's John Mueller, one web site owner who lost 60% of his traffic [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Me Wearing A Tiara - Search Engine Roundtable
Why search marketing matters in 2018 Consumers are ignoring the mass of email and seeking out businesses on their own terms -- when and [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Search Console Pipeline Issues Cause Reporting Delays Google announced this morning on Twitter that some reports within Google Search Console are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Insights Shows Branded Searches Now As I covered yesterday at Search Engine Land, Google has added a new slice in the pie within the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Update Impacts, Reporting Delays, JavaScript SEO, Local, & Tiaras This week we had another big Google algorithm update, Google did not yet confirm it. Google said [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Video Upload Not Working: Server Reject Error Google has confirmed they are working on fixing a bug within Google My Business for uploading [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Not Use isRelatedTo & isSimilarTo Product Schema Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that Google does not currently use isRelatedTo or isSimilarTo [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 18 2018

Google My Business Lets Businesses Add Products to Listings Google My Business has been spotted testing a new feature that lets businesses add collections of [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Do Not Use Hashtags In URLs You know I just reported yesterday that Google's John Mueller confirmed that the AJAX crawling [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Facebook Introduces User Retention Optimization for App Install Ads Facebook has introduced new ways for mobile app advertisers to target users who are most likely to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Facebook Punishes Scraper Sites Facebook announced it is demoting posts that link to sites with copied content. - Search Engine Journal
Pinterest Upgrades its Self-Serve Ads Manager With New Features, Reporting, More Pinterest is rolling out a series of updates to its self-serve advertising tools. - Search Engine Journal
Is GoogleBot Able Scroll Down Your Page? Another debate came up based on what Google's Gary Illyes said at PubCon and what Google's John [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Large Slideshow Images For Local Pack Results Google is testing large images that you can swipe through in a slideshow mode for the local pack [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Render 98% Of Crawled Pages But It Can Take Weeks Google's Gary Illyes said at PubCon that they are able to fully render 98% or more of the web pages [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Supports Noscript Tag For Images But Not Sure About Web Content? Yesterday at PubCon, Gary Illyes from Google said you can use the noscript tag as a way to give [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 17 2018

October 16, 2018 Google Search Algorithm Update Trust me, I am even getting tired of reporting on Google search algorithm updates - we've had so [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Report Editor Gains New Predefined Landing Page Reports Google is adding two new predefined landing page reports to the Report Editor. - Search Engine Journal
Bing Ads Now Counts Conversions Based on the Time of Ad Clicks Bing Ads has updated its conversion tracking and will now count conversions based on the time of [...] - Search Engine Journal
Pinterest Introduces New Product Pins and Shopping Recommendations Pinterest is making hundreds of millions of pins more shoppable with links that go directly to the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Has Fully Deprecated AJAX Crawling Scheme Google has been deprecating, killing off support for, their old AJAX crawling scheme since 2015. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Tru Biz: A conversation with Deaf artist Jessica Flores about sign language, stickers, and more Gboard, Google’s on-screen keyboard, is a tool that helps people communicate exactly the way [...] - Inside Search
How voice queries are showing up in search data The rise of voice search is no secret, and many companies are still wondering how to address it. [...] - Search Engine Watch

October, 16 2018

Google Maps Adds Locations of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Google Maps has begun highlighting the locations of charging stations for electric vehicles. - Search Engine Journal
How Often Google Crawls and Indexes Google's John Mueller advises on how often Google crawls web pages. - Search Engine Journal
Explore product search trends with Shopping Insights With the world of commerce at their fingertips, consumers are more curious, more demanding and more [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Releases New Version of Shopping Insights for Researching Popular Brands and Products Google has released a new version of Shopping Insights designed to help advertisers uncover [...] - Search Engine Journal
Facebook Adds Ability to Create and Share 3D Photos Facebook has introduced the ability to share 3D photos that can be viewed by anyone with the mobile [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Makes it Easier to Target YouTube Ads to Users on Connected TVs Google is introducing a new TV screens device type for video, allowing advertisers to target [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Algorithm Updates Impact Sites That Didn't Have Ranking Changes Google's John Mueller said that most Google Search algorithm updates will have an impact on every [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
GoogleBot Favicon: Google Has A New Favicon Crawler Google may have a new web crawler that specifically looks for Favicons, the little icons you see in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 15 2018

See Better and Further with Super Res Zoom on the Pixel 3 Posted by Bartlomiej Wronski, Software Engineer and Peyman Milanfar, Lead Scientist, Computational [...] - Google Research
The end of Google+ after a data breach and how it affects us Google has decided to shut down Google+ after discovering a data breach. How should marketers and [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google’s John Mueller Predicts Much More JavaScript in SEO in the Coming Years Google’s John Mueller predicts technical SEOs will run into more JavaScript in the coming [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Huge Opportunity In Knowing JavaScript For Technical SEO Google's John Mueller believes that there is a lot of opportunity for a technical SEO to learn [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Facebook Messenger is Reportedly Testing an Unsend Feature Facebook has been spotted testing an unsend feature for Messenger, allowing users to delete [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Improves Attribution for YouTube’s ‘TrueView for Action’ Ads Google has improved attribution for TrueView for Action ads on YouTube, taking into account those [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Again Tests Favicons In Search Results Snippets Google is once again testing favicons in the search results snippets near the title of the result. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: If It Is Not Documented, It Can Change Over Time Here is some advice from Google's John Mueller on Reddit. He said, "my go to answer for these [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google People Also Search In Local Search Results It looks like Google also has the "people also search for" feature in the local search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 12 2018

Applying Deep Learning to Metastatic Breast Cancer Detection Posted by Martin Stumpe, Technical Lead and Craig Mermel, Product Manager, Healthcare, Google AI [...] - Google Research
Roberto Clemente Google Doodle Honors Puerto Rican Major League Baseball Player On Google's home page in the United States is a special Google Doodle for Roberto Clemente. Roberto [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google is Testing Ads in the ‘Discover’ Section of its Mobile App Google has been spotted displaying ads in Google Discover. - Search Engine Journal
Facebook Targets Social Media Optimization Spam Facebook is banning hundreds of spam accounts that exploited user engagement algorithms to generate [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Top Contributors Are Now Google Product Experts Google announced they have rebranded the Google Top Contributors program into what they are calling [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Updates Us On Search Updates Communication I guess Google is sick of me asking them about their search algorithm updates because they posted a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google is introducing its Product Experts Program! Over 12 years ago, we started answering webmaster questions and listening to feedback on our [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Ignores Browser Location Requests (Allow & Block) You know those browser requests you get where it says this website wants to know your location and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 11 2018

YouTube is Removing Channels From its Partner Program for Content Duplication YouTube is removing channels from its partner program for duplication, which means the channels can [...] - Search Engine Journal
DuckDuckGo Traffic Up 50% from Last Year, Hits New Record of 30M Daily Searches DuckDuckGo has hit a new record of 30 million daily direct searches. That represents a 50% [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Clarifies a Few Things About Recent Search Algorithm Updates Google's Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, has published a series of tweets regarding recent updates [...] - Search Engine Journal
Facebook Introduces New Tool for Measuring Effectiveness of Facebook Ads Facebook has introduced a new tool which is designed to help businesses measure the impact of of [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Assistant to Test Automated Phone Reservations Feature Next Month Google is giving restaurant owners a heads up that it will be testing Assistant's automated phone [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Does Not Use Real Life User Signals For Search Ranking Let's put the controversy around Google using user signals and user behavior within a site on the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Just Because You Call Yourself The Best, It Doesn't Mean You Should Rank For The Best So you name your company Best Company, so for SEO companies, you go with the name "Best [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google data breach + Berners-Lee’s Solid — is the power shifting? Yet another data breach--now from Google. We trace the trajectory of the WWW, Tim Berners-Lee 's [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google: We Treat Quotes The Same As Standard Text Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that they treat the content within quotes and blockquotes the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 10 2018

Open Sourcing Active Question Reformulation with Reinforcement Learning Posted by Michelle Chen Huebscher, Software Engineer and Rodrigo Nogueira, New York University PhD [...] - Google Research
Instagram Rolls Out New “Kindness” Photo Filter to Spread Positivity In an effort to make the web more positive, Instagram is rolling out features to spread kindness [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads Begins Recording Some Calls Initiated by Call Extensions Google has started recording a "small percentage" of calls that are initiated by [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bing Ads Editor Gains Support for In-Market Audiences Bing Ads Editor has been updated with support for in-market audiences. - Search Engine Journal
How to Rank in Google Dataset Search Google published information on how it ranks dataset info in Dataset Search and in Rich Results. - Search Engine Journal
90% of Top Content Marketers Aim to be Useful, Not Promotional [STUDY] A new study shows 90% of top-performing B2B content marketers put their audience’s needs [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Mobile-First Indexing Unrelated To Search Ranking Algorithm Changes Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that all the search ranking algorithm changes we have been [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Twitter is Removing the Ability to Create ‘Moments’ on Mobile Apps Twitter is removing the ability to create Moments on its iOS and Android apps on October 23rd. - Search Engine Journal
Google: Crawl Rate Increases Can Be Related To Mobile-First Indexing Switch Google has said this before, but it is worth repeating, that an increase in crawl rates may be a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Warns They Will Test Google Assistant's Duplex Next Month Google announced yesterday that they will start publicly testing the Google Assistant Duplex [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 9 2018

Google Search Algorithm Ranking Update Again On October 8th & 9th? I know, Google updates every day, but I promise, I try to limit my coverage of these Google search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Word Count, Link Count, Anchor Text Ratios Are Not Indicative Of Quality Google's John Mueller responded on Twitter saying that word counts, anchor texts to word rations, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to Export Your Google+ Data Before it Shuts Down A quick walkthrough to help you download your Google+ data before it's gone for good. - Search Engine Journal
Google+ Is Shutting Down: How Will It Impact SEOs? As you probably heard by now, Google+ is shutting down. The reason is over lack of us and a data [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Expandable Sitelinks In Search Results Google is testing a new format for Sitelinks in the search results. These sitelinks are not just [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Has A Manual Review Bug If you have any locations in Google My Business that requires manual reviews, it may result in a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 8 2018

Google is Shutting Down Google+, Admits Low Consumer Adoption Google is shutting down Google+ for consumers following a security breach. - Search Engine Journal
Google Cache 404 Hack & Workaround For months and months I get complaints that the Google Cache is serving up a 404 error for their [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Other Sites Outranking You For Your Content While Sourcing You Google's John Mueller talked about the frustration some may feel when you write a breaking story [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Dragonfly: What we know about Google’s possible plans to re-enter China’s search market Separating facts from speculation on recent reports of Google re-entering China's search market. [...] - Search Engine Watch
Bing Not Listening To Submit URL Webmaster Tools Feature I am hearing some reports that even the submit URL tool within Bing Webmaster Tools is not working. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads URL Anchors Shouldn't Impact Campaign Performance Google responded on Twitter to a question about using anchors in your destination URLs within your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's John Mueller Defends His Making Links Against Guidelines Statement Last week we reported that Google's John Mueller said that the concept of making quality links is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Gives New Employees A CD-ROM Case - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 5 2018

Google Search Algorithm Ranking Shuffling On October 4th The Google search results don't seem to be settling down at all, at least not over the past five [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Assistant Can Book Rides and Compare Prices of Ride Sharing Services Google Assistant is now capable of booking rides from many of the most popular ride-sharing [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google My Business Rolls Out Tool for Adding Listings to Agency Accounts Google is launching a tool for Google My Business that will make it easier to transfer listings to [...] - Search Engine Journal
AdSense Giving Machine Learning to Publishers AdSense will give publishers access to machine learning to help increase earnings. - Search Engine Journal
Google: App Interstitials Will Cause Issues With Mobile-First Indexing Google's John Mueller has stated that app interstitials will be problematic when it comes to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google on Dealing with Low Traffic Pages Google's John Mueller shows how to deal with under-performing content. Removing it is not the only [...] - Search Engine Journal
Old Google Ads Interface Shutting Down October 4th or October 18, 2018 After over two years of testing, Google is going to be shutting down the old Google Ads interface [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Minimalist Local Pack Again We've seen it before, a more subtle and more minimalistic layout and design for the Google local [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 4 2018

Google Shows Your Site’s Average Ranking Position for the Keyword You Search For Want to see your average ranking position for a particular query? Just search for it in Google. - Search Engine Journal
Facebook Makes it Easier for Businesses to Hire for the Holiday Rush Facebook is rolling out new job tools to help businesses hire seasonal employees for the upcoming [...] - Search Engine Journal
Facebook Enhances Marketplace With New AI Features for Faster Selling Facebook is improving Marketplace for buyers and sellers with updates that include new AI features. - Search Engine Journal
Instagram Launches Snapchat-style QR Nametags Instagram has introduced another Snapchat-inspired feature that makes it easier for users to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Assistant Gets Redesigned on iOS and Android Google's Assistant app has been redesigned on iOS and Android to be equally accommodating for both [...] - Search Engine Journal
Promoting inclusive storytelling with the Google Podcasts creator program Podcasting has quickly become one of the best ways to share and listen to stories, but its future [...] - Inside Search
October 2018 Google Webmaster Report The month of September was an insane month for Google, specifically for SEOs and webmaster. We have [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Displays Search Console Stats In Search Results Google is now showing Google Search Console statistics and a brief dashboard directly in the search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 3 2018

Google: Making Quality Links Is Against Google's Webmaster Guidelines Google's John Mueller said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that making quality links is against [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
What is Google’s September Algo Doing? A review of what we know about Google's recent updates and how it affects SEO. - Search Engine Journal
Facebook Lets Pages Post Pre-Recorded “Live” Videos Facebook is making its 'Premieres' feature available to everyone, which allows pages to publish [...] - Search Engine Journal
LinkedIn is Improving Sponsored Content to Generate Higher-Quality Clicks LinkedIn is working on a series of changes to sponsored content that are designed to generate more [...] - Search Engine Journal
Win a Ticket to the 2018 U.S. Search Awards, Find Vahan at Pubcon! Get a chance to sit with the SEJ team at the 2018 U.S. Search Awards. Simply join this giveaway! - Search Engine Journal
Bing Ads Lets Advertisers Target Multiple Languages at the Campaign Level Bing Ads has expanded its support for language targeting with the ability to target multiple [...] - Search Engine Journal
This Is What Google Is Saying About The Google September Updates So we had a nice number of updates to the Google search ranking algorithm in September. Google is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 2 2018

Google Introduces New Ways for YouTube Advertisers to Make Money Google has introduced new capabilities for YouTube ads that will help advertisers drive more [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Introduces the .Page Domain Name Extension Google Registry has introduced a new domain name extension, .page, which is now available for [...] - Search Engine Journal
DuckDuckGo: Links From Wikipedia Help You Rank In Search Engines A WebmasterWorld thread points to a DuckDuckGo, a search engine that competes with Google, help [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Navigation Slider For Mobile Search Results Google is testing a scroll navigational slider for the mobile search results. Valentin Pletzer [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 1 2018

Study Shows Web Security Directly Affects SEO Website security can have a positive impact on your SEO. - Search Engine Journal
Google Lets Advertisers Copy Column Preferences to the New Google Ads Google is making it possible for advertisers to copy column preferences from the classic Google Ads [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Maps Adds New Features to Assist Workers With Their Commute Google has introduced new features to the Maps app that are designed to assist people with their [...] - Search Engine Journal
From discovery to click, new YouTube ads capabilities for more effective video storytelling The heightened role of video throughout today’s consumer journey is an exciting opportunity [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Lens Coming To Google Images Google announced that they will be bringing Google Lens features directly to the Google Image [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Moves Google Posts At Bottom Of Search Results Google is apparently moving the Google Posts in the knowledge panel down a bit, to the bottom area [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Dance Zurich Quick Recap Mihai Aperghis, an SEO Specialist from Romania, attended the Google Dance in Zurich and has shared [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Munich Four Tier Birthday Cake - Search Engine Roundtable