Archive of December, 2018

December, 31 2018

Google featured snippets can now jump to section of content it is sourcing For those that get a lot of traffic to their AMP pages and show up in the featured snippets [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AMP Featured Snippets Anchor & Highlight Content 9to5Google found a new Google feature that works on mobile for some featured snippets that lead to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search industry news and trends: Best of 2018 A roundup of fan favorite articles on search industry news and trends from 2018. Feat: alternative [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Moving Google Posts Back Up? A few months ago, Google stopped showing Google Posts in the top location, somewhat above the fold, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Unicode Works Within Google Local Listings Andy Simpson spotted a local panel that was using unicode to make the business name stand out from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Year's Eve 2018 Logos & Themes From Google, Bing, Yahoo & Baidu 2019 is around the corner and to celebrate, Google, Bing, Yahoo, Baidu and others in the search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
NBA All Star Voting On Google Did you know you can go to Google and vote for your favorite NBA players for the All Star game and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Log Cabin Room - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 31, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 28 2018

5 SEO Factors to Monitor in 2019 Five SEO factors may improve your SEO strategy for 2019. - Search Engine Journal
Mueller: Focus your SEO on Google’s status quo Sometimes it is a good idea to keep it simple with your web pages. - Search Engine Land
Google: Hard To Understand URL Structures Can Lead To Indexing Issues Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that sometimes hard to understand and really complex URL [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Query Leads To Infinite Loop, Like Recursion Dejan noticed that if you search for [can't wow "banana"] - which is a very unusual query [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Both Google & Bing Support ETag/If-None-Match Google's John Mueller said Google does support ETag/If-None-Match after this Search Engine Land [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Don't Look at Max-Age Value Of JavaScript Or CSS Files For Search Google's John Mueller confirmed that Google won't be looking at the max-age value of your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 28, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Paris LEGO Eiffel Tower - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Organic vs Ads, SEO Tips, Sundar Pichai on Core Search & Happy Holidays This was a very slow week in search, because of the holidays and New Years break. But I did [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 27 2018

Ask an SMXpert: New approaches in customization can build better analytics reports Data-driven digital marketing expert Simon Poulton outlines opportunities in various solutions to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: We Don't Skip Indexing Content That Is Over-Saturated On The Web Someone asked Google's John Mueller if Google might skip crawling and indexing content that Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: The Trailing Slash Is Implied For Canonicalization Google's John Mueller said on Twitter some time ago that the trailing slash after the domain name [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Don't Wait For Us To Change For Technical SEO Google's John Mueller was asked on Twitter about Google's plans to upgrading their crawling to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Sundar Pichai: Google Has Over A Thousand People Working On Core Search Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, testified before congress not too long ago (as you may remember) and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Flying A Drone Indoors At Google's Office - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 26 2018

Year in Review: Top 10 SEO expert columns of 2018 Here's a look at the most read columns from our SEO experts that stood above the rest this year. - Search Engine Land
PPC 2018: These changes will have the biggest impact on advertisers in 2019 Significant shifts toward more automation affected nearly every aspect of the paid search landscape [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Image Search Needs Image & Associated Landing Page Both Indexed For your images to show up in Google Image Search, you don't just need to make sure your images are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Ask an SMXpert: Link prospecting and helpful tools to manage outreach Content-led link building expert Paddy Moogan offers some practical tips on driving inbound links [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Getting Your Canonical URLs Wrong? A webmaster posted in the Google webmaster help forums after noticing that one of his sites saw [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
2018, celebrating our global Webmaster community 2018 has been a very important year for our webmaster support community. What has happened? [...] - Google Webmaster Central

December, 25 2018

Google's John Mueller Helping Webmasters On Christmas Eve Again John Mueller to me seems like a real genuine person and someone who is in a tough position every [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Happy Holidays & Christmas Day Logos From Google, Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Sogou & More The search engine industry is all decked out to celebrate the holidays and Christmas with their [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 24 2018

Agency Claims They Are A "Google Partner SEO Agency"; Google Calls Them Out Someone asked John Mueller of Google if it is true that a statement off an SEO company's web site [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEO Year In Review: 2018 saw Google updates and a focus on mobile Here is our recap of what happened in SEO in 2018 - with links and summaries of some of the bigger [...] - Search Engine Land
Track Santa With NORAD and Google’s Santa Tracker Apps for Christmas Eve 2018 The time has come again to follow Santa Claus on his journey as he delivers presents around the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Can searchers tell the difference between ads and free listings? Google engineer says ‘yes’ Should Google take concerns over their search ads blending into their organic listings seriously? - Search Engine Land
Why one marketer thinks smart speakers have their work cut out for them Rebecca Stone, LiveRamp's VP of Marketing, discusses what needs to happen for smart speakers (and [...] - Search Engine Land
Ask an SMXpert: Tips for dealing with (and avoiding) Google penalties SEO expert Fili Wiese explains some nuances of Google penalties in disavowing links, dealing with [...] - Search Engine Land
SEO 2019: Nine tips for beginners Interested in learning more about SEO in 2019? Here are the key trends you need to follow to [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google: We Use The Most Restrictive Crawling Command On The Page Google's John Mueller said in a Reddit thread that Google will typically use the most restrictive [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Searchers Can Tell The Difference Between Search Ads & Organic Listings There have been many claims and studies that say searchers have a hard time telling the difference [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Poll Searches Asking "Satisfied With These News Results?" We've seen Google ask searchers if they are satisfied with the search results before. Using smily [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Conference Room Table With Swings As Chairs - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 24, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 23 2018

Google Begins Their Happy Holidays Logos This Sunday, Google has begun posting their annual happy holidays Doodles, special Google logos. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 21 2018

Google Home wins smart speaker IQ test but Siri beats Alexa and Cortana Alexa had the most noticeable improvement according to the test results, nearly matching Google for [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Link Schemes Now Includes Contractually Requiring Follow Links Over the past few months, Google added to their link schemes guideliens page a line that basically [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google is testing a pronunciation feature in web search Check out this cool new feature Google is experimenting with in search. - Search Engine Land
Opinion: Congress needs to do their homework on search engines During a Dec. 11 hearing, congressional representatives questioning Google's CEO demonstrated their [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Recognizes Web Mentions But Says They Are Not Links In this mornings Google webmaster hangout, John Mueller from Google briefly touched on the concept [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Manual Action Reviews May Give You More Details Generally, I always thought you only submit a review request for a manual action when you fixed the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
John Mueller As Google AMP-Man - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Winter Solstice Doodle For First Day Of Winter On the Google home page is an animated Google Doodle, logo, for the first day of Winter - the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 21, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update, Mobile First Indexing Update, Medic Update, Link Schemes & More This week in search, Google probably did a search algorithm update last weekend - but they did not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 20 2018

Top Shot on Pixel 3 Posted by Li Zhang and Wei (Alex) Hong, Software Engineers Life is full of meaningful moments [...] - Google Research
Google My Business Products Beta Gets Update Design Kara from Google said in the Google My Business Help thread that they have done a user interface [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google How To Schema In The Search Results For Slack It looks like Slack was able to leverage the new how to schema to get some of their API help [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Pronounce Feature A Reddit thread shared a screen shot from I believe Google India where they have a search result [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Macaulay Culkin Getting Ready For Home Alone Google Assistant Commercial - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Mobile First Indexing Notices Are Delayed Within Search Console Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that there is a delay currently with the notices that go out [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 20, 2018 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 19 2018

Mobile-First indexing, structured data, images, and your site It's been two years since we started working on "mobile-first indexing" - crawling the [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Instagram Adds New Ways to Engage With Followers Instagram has rolled out a series of new features designed to engage with followers in different [...] - Search Engine Journal
Increase Sales with Google’s Retail Playbook Google published a strategy book that's a gold mine of data driven tips for increasing sales. - Search Engine Journal
New Google Search Feature Teaches People How to Pronounce Words Google has been spotted testing a feature that teaches searchers how to pronounce words. - Search Engine Journal
Google Explains the 2 Most Common Issues With Mobile-First Indexing Google has revealed the two most common issues it sees when evaluating sites for mobile-first [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: We Can Detect Automated Link Dropping With all the chatter around links, negative SEO, the tools, etc - Google's John Mueller said that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Poll: SEOs Like The Old Over The New Google Search Console Most people, by nature, do not like change. I love new tools and playing with new things, but I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Year in Search: the top Google Search trends for 2018 A closer look at the top Google Search trends for 2018 shows that queries are more direct, [...] - Search Engine Watch
Bing Ads is Removing Data From ‘Share of Voice’ Reports Bing Ads is removing data from the Share of Voice report, saying it's not needed after introducing [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Mobile-First Indexing Now Used For Over Half Of Google's Search Results Just about two years after Google announced their mobile-first indexing initiative, to crawl the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 18 2018

Google Launches First-Ever Game Based on Google Search Trends Test your knowledge of Google Search in 2018 by taking the new 'Game of the Year' quiz. - Search Engine Journal
Google AI Princeton: Current and Future Research Posted by Elad Hazan and Yoram Singer, Research Scientists, Google AI and Princeton University [...] - Google Research
Twitter Rolls Out ‘Show Latest Tweets’ Button Twitter now offers a way for users to quickly toggle between latest tweets and top tweets. - Search Engine Journal
Google: If A Random Tool Can Find Bad Links Then Google Probably Ignores Those Links Already It looks like Google is taking a jab now at third-party link audit tools now. John Mueller from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Feature Snippet: Pyramids Are 85 Years Old Every now and then I like to highlight when Google gets it wrong with their featured snippets. It [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Linking To Your Media Mentions Is Fine There is so much paranoia around linking in the SEO community that some questions seems a bit [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Black URL/Breadcrumbs At Top Of Search Result Snippets Google is always testing new search results user interfaces, here is yet another test I've been [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 17 2018

A Google Search Algorithm Update Over December 15th Weekend It looks like over the weekend, starting maybe this past Friday or Saturday and picking up speed on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Exploring Quantum Neural Networks Posted by Jarrod McClean, Senior Research Scientist and Hartmut Neven, Director of Engineering, [...] - Google Research
Google's John Mueller On The Medic Update: Improve The Whole Site It has been a while since we talked about the Google Medic Update, the big August 1st update, that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Offers a New Way to Pay for Display Ads Google Ads is now giving advertisers the option to pay for conversions when using display campaigns. - Search Engine Journal
Facebook Backtracks on Changing Chatbot Subscription Messaging Policies Facebook will no longer be changing its subscription messaging policies, which would have affected [...] - Search Engine Journal
Top social media trends for 2019 Key social media trends to consider for a successful marketing strategy in 2019. More focus on ROI, [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google: You Can Ignore Negative SEO Threats Google's John Mueller said it again, you can ignore negative SEO threats, attacks, blackmail and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Reveals the Top Holiday Queries for 2018 Bing Ads has released its list of the top trending searches for the 2018 holiday season. - Search Engine Journal
Google: Links Within iFrames Can Be Interpreted Multiple Ways Google's John Mueller said that when it comes to links within iFrames, Google can interpret those [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The SEO Cave - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Expandable More People Carousel Google seems to be testing an expandable "more people" carousel. So instead of jumping [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 14 2018

Social Media Surpasses Traditional Newspapers as a Primary News Source [STUDY] For the first time, more US adults are saying they regularly get news from social media compared to [...] - Search Engine Journal
7 WordPress Vulnerabilities Discovered – What You Need to Know WordPress announced seven vulnerabilities. Updating is recommended, though it may result in [...] - Search Engine Journal
YouTube is Removing Spam Accounts Which May Cause Noticeable Decrease in Subscribers YouTube is warning users that they may see a noticeable decrease in subscriber count as the company [...] - Search Engine Journal
Six most common travel SEO mistakes to get right in 2019 In-depth guide for all things SEO in the travel industry for 2019. Index bloat, on-site search, 404 [...] - Search Engine Watch
Local SEOs Say Google Posts Traffic Significantly Declining A group of local SEO experts are saying in the Local Search Forums that the Google Posts traffic [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Moved Some Of The Old Google Search Console Reports As expected, yesterday, Google officially moved several of the old Google Search Console reports to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Organic Search Doesn't Have A Negative Keywords Feature I know this is obvious for most of you but while Google Ads (AdWords) has a way to exclude your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 13 2018

Google Transfers Ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo Google has given up ownership of the domain Duck.com and transferred it to rival search engine [...] - Search Engine Journal
Official AMP for WordPress Plugin Updated, Allows Sites to be Built Entirely With AMP The official AMP for WordPress plugin has received a major update, including the ability to build [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Reveals its Top Searches of the Year for 2018 Google has released its annual list of top searches around the world, including overall searches [...] - Search Engine Journal
Improving the Effectiveness of Diabetic Retinopathy Models Posted by Rory Sayres PhD and Jonathan Krause PhD, Google AI, Healthcare Two years ago, we [...] - Google Research
Google Fully Moves Multiple Reports Over to the New Search Console Google confirmed that multiple reports in the classic Search Console have been fully moved over to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Limited Chatter: Google Search Algorithm Update This Week For the past week or so, I've been seeing chatter within the community about Google search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Rolls Out Image Thumbnails In Related Searches In August we caught Google testing showing thumbnails or icons in the related searches options in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: More On When To Ignore Bad Links The other day I reported that Google said in most cases it is perfectly safe to ignore, not act, on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s Pichai answers to Congress: The good, the bad and the frustrating Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified in front of Congress this week on transparency and [...] - Search Engine Watch
Monopoly Man Trolls Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 12 2018

The Year in Search 2018 Every day, people turn to Search to explore the world of information on the web. They come looking [...] - Inside Search
Google to Roll Out New Call-to-Action Extension for Video Ads Google Ads is sunsetting the YouTube call-to-action overlay in January 2019 and introducing a new [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: We Don't Need To Notify You Of Bad Links Because We Just Ignore Them Since the Penguin 4.0 update Google devalues bad links versus demoting the pages they link to. So [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
5 Mind-Blowingly Dumb Things We Heard at the Google Hearing Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee yesterday, which left [...] - Search Engine Journal
Facebook Search Ads are Now Available to Select Businesses in North America Facebook is now testing ads in search results, which are available to businesses in the automotive, [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google China's Beijing Office Fire Video & Photos - Search Engine Roundtable
Introducing Clarity, a web analytics product for webmasters Clarity is a web analytics product which enables website developers to understand user behavior at [...] - Bing Webmaster

December, 11 2018

Grasp2Vec: Learning Object Representations from Self-Supervised Grasping Posted by Eric Jang, Software Engineer, Robotics at Google and Coline Devin, Berkeley PhD Student [...] - Google Research
Vulnerability Reported in All in One SEO Pack WPScan Vulnerability Database reports that the All in One SEO Pack plugin has a cross-site [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google My Business Adds New Permissions to ‘Communications Manager’ Role Google My Business has upgraded the 'communications manager' role to 'site manager,' which adds [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Brings Google Lens Visual Search to its iOS App Google Lens, a tool allowing users to search for information in photos, is now available in the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Moving Hosting Companies Doesn't Cause Ranking Declines Google's John Mueller said that moving to a new hosting company doesn't cause ranking declines. Of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Performance Reports & Search Analytics One Day Off Still Back in January, we reported that when you look at the new Google Search Console Performance report [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Expedites Closing Google+ After Another Security Bug We knew Google+ was shutting down but Google announced they are now expediting this process since a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Lens Finally On iOS Devices Google Lens, the tool to have your camera look at objects and detect what they are, is now [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 10 2018

Google Introduces WordPress Plugin With Integrated Analytics, Search Console, More Google has introduced a new WordPress plugin which brings insights from Google tools to users' [...] - Search Engine Journal
7 Things to Know Before Updating to WordPress 5 How to successfully update to WordPress 5 Gutenberg - Search Engine Journal
Providing Gender-Specific Translations in Google Translate Posted by Melvin Johnson, Senior Software Engineer, Google Translate Over the past few years, [...] - Google Research
Google to Shut Down Google+ Earlier Than Expected Google is shutting down Google+ four months earlier that originally planned following a second data [...] - Search Engine Journal
Why & how to secure your website with the HTTPS protocol A few days ago, Fatih Ozkosemen and I led an episode of the AdSense On Air series . This program [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google URLs In Search Results Snippets Now Clickable After much testing, it appears that the URLs in the Google search results are now clickable. I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Scrapers Are Not A Google Quality Or Ranking Signal Google's John Mueller had to say on Twitter that people scraping your content is not a signal that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Renamed Communications Manager To Site Manager In GMB Google has renamed the communication manager to site manager in Google My Business. With that site [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console AMP Errors Gets More General, Less Specific Google posted on the data anomalies page that Google Search Console AMP error reporting starting [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 7 2018

7 Reasons Why Accessibility is Good for SEO and Sales Accessibility can help a site rank better and earn more sales. - Search Engine Journal
Adding Diversity to Images with Open Images Extended Posted by Anurag Batra and Parker Barnes, Product Managers, Google AI Recently, we introduced [...] - Google Research
Google Again: Do Not Worry About Words Or Keywords In URLs Google's John Mueller said it again, do not worry about words or keywords in the URLs. John [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Reddit Now Gets 1.4 Billion Native Video Views Per Month Reddit released its 2018 Year in Review report which reveals the rapid growth of video content [...] - Search Engine Journal
Majority of Publishers See Much Lower Facebook Traffic Now vs. Last Year [POLL] Publishers are seeing much lower Facebook traffic now compared to last year. SEJ is no exception. - Search Engine Journal
Google To Shut Down Many Old Search Console Reports December 13th Google has posted the date of December 13, 2018 as the date they will be removing some of the old [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Assistant Testing Audio News Google announced audio news for the Google Assistant. This is not speakable markup or YouTube [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Join Google's John Mueller In Zurich For A Webmaster Hangout Google's John Mueller rarely invites people to join him for his webmaster hangouts but when he [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Changes, Sticky Search Bar, Filter Bubbles, Livestreams & Holidays This week I covered the big monthly Google webmaster report for December. Google may have done a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 6 2018

Google Refutes DuckDuckGo’s Claims of Creating a “Filter Bubble” Google has refuted DuckDuckGo’s recent study which claims that Google’s personalized [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Introduces Structured Data for Livestreams Google is introducing a way for publishers to markup livestreams with structured data. - Search Engine Journal
Yoast SEO 9.1 Vulnerability Explained Yoast SEO 9.1 SEO Manager Role Vulnerability Explained - Search Engine Journal
85% of Consumers Think Local Reviews Older Than 3 Months Aren’t Relevant A new study reveals the importance that consumers place on local reviews from other customers. - Search Engine Journal
Google is Adding Personalized Audio News Feeds to Assistant Google Assistant will soon be capable of delivering personalized audio news after users say [...] - Search Engine Journal
Most SEOs Think Google Shouldn't Delist A Hacked Site As you know, Search Engine Land was delisted from Google's search results for most of the day on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
What people search for: Tools for trends Seven of the top tools available to help you discover what people search for online: the most [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google: Canonical Tags May Not Work With Other Inconsistent Signals, Like Redirects Aaseesh from Google responded to a complaint about Google not picking up on a web site's canonical [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Livestream Support In Search With Structured Data & Indexing API Google now supports showing livestreams in the search results and in Google Assistant. Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Matt Cutts: Google Index Was Cursed In The Month Of March There is this outstanding article from The New Yorker named The Friendship That Made Google Huge. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 5 2018

TF-Ranking: A Scalable TensorFlow Library for Learning-to-Rank Posted by Xuanhui Wang and Michael Bendersky, Software Engineers, Google AI Ranking, the process [...] - Google Research
Google Introduces 4 New Tools for Responsive Search Ads Google is rolling out a series of updates to responsive search ads which includes more languages [...] - Search Engine Journal
Introducing the Indexing API and structured data for livestreams Over the past few years, it's become easier than ever to stream live videos online, from celebrity [...] - Google Webmaster Central
YouTube Videos Will Now Autoplay in the Home Section YouTube videos in the home tab will now be set to autoplay by default, without audio. - Search Engine Journal

December, 4 2018

WordPress 5 Release Date Announced – Should You Upgrade? WordPress 5 Gutenberg to be released December 6, 2018. Why the WordPress Community is not [...] - Search Engine Journal
WordPress 5 Release Date Announced WordPress 5 Gutenberg to be released December 6, 2018. Why the WordPress Community is not [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Shows Personalized Search Results When Logged Out, According to New Study Google personalizes search results even when users are logged out or in private browsing mode, [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Expands Rich Results for Q&A Pages in Search Google's rich result type for question and answer pages is now available to all websites. - Search Engine Journal
Google: It's Worthwhile To Have Unique Images On Each Page Google's John Mueller said on a hangout last week that when it comes to images, he thinks it is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Adds Structured Data For Question & Answer Pages Google announced yesterday a new supported structured data format named Q&A pages. It is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEO & Content in 2019 and beyond – The Online Marketer’s Wishlist With the year 2018 coming to a close, it’s time to recall the past, recap the highlights and [...] - Searchmetrics
Google Posts Tests Like Button It looks like Google is testing a like button, thumbs up button, on some Google Posts within search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 3 2018

Rich Results expands for Question & Answer pages People come to Google seeking information about all kinds of questions. Frequently, the information [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google at NeurIPS 2018 Posted by Slav Petrov, Principal Scientist, Google This week, Montréal hosts the 32 nd [...] - Google Research
Google Search Algorithm Update Hits Friday November 30th? I was going to cover the chatter and signals of a Google update this past Friday on Friday but when [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Imagining new ways to learn Morse code’s dots and dashes We first met Emmett at Adaptive Design Association, an organization near Google’s NYC office [...] - Inside Search
Official: Google Sticky Round Search Bar Header Is Live After several months of ongoing testing, Google has officially launched the new desktop search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google "Sold Here" In Local Pack Results Google seems to have launched a new feature in the local pack named "sold here." It [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 2 2018

15 Years Covering The Search Industry 15 years ago today was the first time I wrote a blog post on this site, the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Hanukkah Decorations For 2018 Google has posted their Hanukkah or Chanukah decorations for the holiday season. Why they also [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 1 2018

Content Factors and Ranking Factors for Google Search Consideration of content and ranking factors in a search engine that uses AI for 30% of search [...] - Search Engine Journal
Facebook Explains How its Search Results Work Facebook has put together a short explainer video with details about how its search results work. - Search Engine Journal
Google Answers Questions About AMP Indexing Google has compiled the most common questions about indexing AMP pages in search and answered them [...] - Search Engine Journal