Archive of January, 2019

January, 31 2019

New Google Search Console adds a security issues section In anticipation of the old Google Search Console going away, Google has moved the security issues [...] - Search Engine Land
Getting started with Google Search Console In this first part of our in-depth exploration of the new Google Search Console, we'll explain the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Produced 96% of US Mobile Search Visits in Q4 2018 Google accounted for 96% of all US mobile organic search visits in the fourth quarter of 2018. - Search Engine Journal
Dynamic Rendering with Rendertron Many frontend frameworks rely on JavaScript to show content. This can mean Google might take some [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google’s Best Practices for Improving Your Google Ads Optimization Score Google has released a set of best practices to help Google Ads users improve their optimization [...] - Search Engine Journal
Snapchat is Considering Making Public Posts Permanent Snapchat is reportedly considering the idea of introducing permanent photo and video posts. - Search Engine Journal
Client in-housing, competition for talent top digital agency concerns Marketing Land's first Digital Agency Survey finds the sector is weathering digital transformation [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing lets webmasters submit 10,000 URLs per day through Webmaster Tools How about a 1000x increase in the number of URLs you can submit to Bing in a day? - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console to Alert Users About Site Hacks and Malware Google added a 'Security Issues' tab in Search Console that will report on harmful activities like [...] - Search Engine Journal
Instagram Stories Are Viewed by 500 Million Users Per Day Instagram Stories have hit 500 million daily users, which is up from the 400 million reported in [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bing Allows Site Owners to Submit Up to 10,000 URLs Per Day Bing has significantly increased the number of URLs site owners can submit for indexing per day. - Search Engine Journal
Most SEOs Want Fetch As Google Even With URL Inspection Tool Google told us the Fetch as Google tool is going away and being replaced by the URL Inspection [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 30 2019

Google+ is Officially Shutting Down on April 2nd An official date has been set for the shut down of Google+, which will now occur on April 2nd. - Search Engine Journal
Now your Google text ads can show on YouTube search results, too Google says early tests have shown similar performance results for text ads on YouTube and Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Targeted SEO: Here’s how to grow a page from 200 visits per month to 30,000 Pages need to be optimized, linkable and have search opportunity to grow. - Search Engine Land
Agencies say search, social spend will rise, but increases target 5 platforms While Amazon and LinkedIn cracked the top five, our survey finds second-tier platforms are much [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Chrome to Warn Users About Impostor Sites With Lookalike URLs Google will be implementing a new warning in its Chrome browser alerting users when they're [...] - Search Engine Journal

January, 29 2019

Transformer-XL: Unleashing the Potential of Attention Models Posted by Zhilin Yang and Quoc Le, Google AI To correctly understand an article, sometimes one [...] - Google Research
81% of People Think Less of a Business if its Website is Outdated New research on customer satisfaction with web user experiences makes a strong case for keeping [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google adds voice input and spoken results to mobile web search The search giant appears to be conditioning searchers to use voice across all platforms. - Search Engine Land
Nearly 70% of Consumers Say Page Speed Impacts Their Purchasing Decisions A report on page speed revealed nearly 70% of consumers say a website’s loading time affects [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google is Testing Mobile SERPs With Up to 14 Ads Google has been spotted testing a total of 14 ads in a single mobile search results page. - Search Engine Journal
Marketers are Shifting Advertising Budgets to LinkedIn Marketers are reportedly shifting advertising budgets away from platforms like Facebook and [...] - Search Engine Journal
How to know when it’s time to pay for search analytics tools SEO and search marketing experts offer feedback on when to pay for search analytics tools, factors [...] - Search Engine Land
Myth Busting: HTTPS Not Required For Google Indexing & Ranking Google's John Mueller did some myth busting this morning around HTTPS. There are always some SSL [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Facebook to Allow Communication Between Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp Facebook is reportedly working on a solution for users on Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Facebook Enhances Ad Units for Automobile Dealers Facebook is upgrading the targeting capabilities of its automotive inventory ads with the ability [...] - Search Engine Journal
Save your grant account from suspension with this script Columnist Daniel Gilbert shares a script to help you identify negative phrases to improve CTR and [...] - Search Engine Land

January, 28 2019

Google: Do Not Put ‘Organization’ Schema Markup on Every Page Google's John Mueller recently addressed a question regarding the use of 'organization' schema [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Discourages Use of Disavow Tool. Unless You Know the Bad Links In a Webmaster Hangout, Google’s John Mueller stated in clear terms that the “vast [...] - Search Engine Journal
DuckDuckGo is growing fast but not enough to grab SEOs’ attention The search engine's share is small but some of its metrics are better than Bing's, according to a [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AMP errors widely reported by webmasters and publishers Seeing AMP errors over the past few days, don't run to fix them just yet - it might be a bug on [...] - Search Engine Land
How Does Google Measure Publisher Expertise? John Mueller Explains Google's John Mueller recently addressed a question on how the search algorithm measures the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Officially To End Some Old Search Console Features I reported on Friday that Google will be deprecating some or all of the old Search Console features [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business messaging via SMS to end with no alternative in sight The end of SMS messaging on the GMB dashboard will have a sizable – and negative – [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Investigating AMP Errors & AMP Pages Not Showing In Search Over the past few days or so, Google has been having issues showing AMP pages in the search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Poaching Advertiser Clients Again But Now Requiring Opt Out Every few years or so we cover Google Ads (former AdWords) representatives caught trying to poach [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 25 2019

Google: Disavowing Bad Links May Help Google Algorithmically Trust Your Links Google's John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout on Tuesday at the 16:44 mark that in some cases, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
5 New Features Coming to Google Search Console (and 7 That Are Getting Removed) Google announced a series of updates are coming to Search Console in the next couple of months. - Search Engine Journal
MarTech Today Research: A marketer’s guide to enterprise SEO platforms The report offers an in-depth review of the market, tips on the buying process and 18 vendor [...] - Search Engine Land
Slow pages hurt conversions, but marketers aren’t in a hurry to fix them Faster-loading sites was at the bottom of a list of marketing priorities according to an Unbounce [...] - Marketing Land
YouTube to Reduce Visibility of Videos That Spread Misinformation YouTube is adjusting its recommendation engine in an effort to lower the reach of videos that [...] - Search Engine Journal
Focusing on the new Search Console Over the last year, the new Search Console has been growing and growing , with the goal of [...] - Google Webmaster Central
How to keep your SEO team (and yourself) relevant Ongoing education, conferences and case study discussions not only help clients but also your own [...] - Search Engine Land
Mueller previews Google image search changes, old Search Console sunsetting at NYC meetup. Here are the highlights from a Google webmaster event that happened in the Google NYC office last [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Image Search Changes Coming This Year: Think Different Google's John Mueller said last night that bigger changes are coming to Google Image search this [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google May Drop The Old Search Console In March Last night in the Google NYC event John Mueller said Google is currently aiming to deprecate most, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 24 2019

Google tells some advertisers it will handle their campaign management In seven days, the email says, Google Ads reps will start making changes to advertiser accounts if [...] - Search Engine Land
4 building blocks to help your brand’s SEO strategy succeed Crawlability, optimization, brand engagement and knowledge-content creation are all important [...] - Search Engine Land
Introducing SEO for developers. It’s time. Let's bring developers into the search engine optimization conversation and community so sites are [...] - Search Engine Land
Data: Google organic search CTRs decline on desktop, see big drop on phones Mobile organic clicks on declined roughly 10 points between 2016 and 2018. - Search Engine Land
Google Ads to Manage Users’ Campaigns Unless They Opt Out Google Ads is sending emails to users notifying them of a major change that will be implemented [...] - Search Engine Journal
Facebook to Remove Pages and Groups Affiliated With Bad Actors Facebook may now remove pages that are affiliated with bad actors, even if the page has done [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s John Mueller on Why Old Pages Outrank Fresher Content A web publisher asked why an old outdated site is outranking a newer “fresher” site. [...] - Search Engine Journal

January, 23 2019

Natural Questions: a New Corpus and Challenge for Question Answering Research Posted by Tom Kwiatkowski and Michael Collins, Research Scientists, Google AI Language [...] - Google Research
The Most Critical Google Ads (AdWords) Trends of 2019 Search engine marketing (SEM) has been a game-changing marketing tool for companies for the last [...] - Search Engine Land
Google My Business Helps Businesses Without Offices With New Sign Up Process We saw this coming and now Google officially released a new sign up process for service area [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Don’t give up on Google Posts Since a GMB listing is a major local ranking factor for a business, keeping listings fresh with [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Expands Access to 15-Second Non-Skippable Video Ads Google is giving all advertisers the ability to run 15-second non-skippable video ads. - Search Engine Journal
Google’s John Mueller on Ranking for Featured Snippets Google's John Mueller discusses content used for featured snippets. - Search Engine Journal
Google's John Mueller: You Focus Too Much On Links Google's John Mueller has been telling some SEOs over the past day or so that they are focusing too [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 22 2019

How reputation became a major ranking factor in SEO To stay on top of rankings today, you need to be diligent in assessing your site's usability and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: We Know When Domain Names Change Ownership Aaseesh from the Google Webmaster Trends Analysts team said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Rolls Out New Features for Service Area Businesses Google My Business is introducing new features for businesses that serve customers located within a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Small business scammer shut down by Google lawsuit Defendant firm had falsely represented that it was acting on behalf of Google. - Search Engine Land
Accelerated mobile pages: Are they worth it? An update on where the AMP project stands today offers insight into whether it’s worth [...] - Search Engine Land
GoogleBot Not Indexing Right Pages? Google Offers 5 Ways to Fix Google's John Mueller offers tips and tool suggestions to improve site crawling. - Search Engine Journal
Google offers improved GMB sign-up flow for service-area businesses Improved process will make it easier to set up service areas on GMB. - Search Engine Land
Google is Reportedly Considering Pulling Google News from Europe Google may pull its Google News service from Europe, according to a report from Bloomberg. - Search Engine Journal
Google Showing Some Europeans Sparse Search Results A week ago, we shared a screen shot from Google on how the search results may look like if Article [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's Sundar Pichai At Fancy European Roundtable - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 21 2019

State of Social 2019: Untapped Opportunities for Marketers Results of the State of Social report from Buffer have been published, revealing what marketers are [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google is Creating Featured Snippets from PDF Content Google has been spotted pulling content from PDFs to create featured snippets. - Search Engine Journal
Google’s John Mueller Explains Why Rel=Canonical is Sometimes Ignored Google's John Mueller responded to an SEO seeking advice regarding issues with canonicals and the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Facebook is Wrong 27% of the Time When Detecting Users’ Interests [STUDY] According to a recent study, 27% of US adult Facebook users say the platform's classification of [...] - Search Engine Journal
Twitter Accidentally Reveals Private Tweets of Android Users A Twitter bug has prevented the "Protect Your Tweets" setting from working as intended [...] - Search Engine Journal
How did the 2018 SERP changes impact organic search? How did the 2018 SERP changes impact organic listings? More importantly, how should you react? The [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Posts Allows Anchor Text Links For Verified Authors Google appears to be allowing some with access to use Google Posts to add hyperlinks, either URLs [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Image Schema Or Noscript Tags Are Good For Images Last October we learned a lot about how Google supports the noscript tag for lazy loaded content, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: There Is No Time Frame For Algorithmic Changes To Take Effect Google's John Mueller said on Twitter yesterday "There is no fixed timeframe for algorithmic [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google & Bing With Martin Luther King Jr. Day Logos & Themes If you visit Google or Bing's home page today at Google.com or Bing.com you will see special [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 18 2019

How to make your content more accessible to the visually impaired Updating alt tags and creating friendly URLs and file names are just a few ways to maximize the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: How Soon Can You Remove 301 Redirects? We've covered the topic of how long Google wants you to keep 301 redirects in place here numerous [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft seeks more Cortana distribution, deeper integration on Android, iOS We're heading toward a voice-first world for publishers, retailers and brands. - Search Engine Land
Data: Local search trends from 2017-2018 Key local search trends and tips based on data from more than 300,000 customer business locations [...] - Search Engine Watch
Is Google Getting Ready To Punish Google News Publishers In Violation? Google published on the webmaster blog some tips and advice around doing well in Google News. All [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Soft Actor-Critic: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robotics Posted by Tuomas Haarnoja, Student Researcher and Sergey Levine, Faculty Advisor, Robotics at [...] - Google Research
Google Sends Many AMP Issue Detected Notices A couple of days ago, Google sent out via Google Search Console a nice number of AMP notifications [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 17 2019

25 tools to streamline YouTube SEO optimization Keyword research, tracking ranking positions and creating thumbnails are just some of the tools [...] - Search Engine Land
Updated study shows how links are still incredibly important for ranking in Google Surprise, surprise - a Google ranking study shows links are still important for ranking. - Search Engine Land
Bing Ads to Exclusively Serve Yahoo Search Traffic Starting in March Microsoft has announced an expanded partnership with Verizon Media enabling Yahoo search traffic to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Twitter Releases its Official Marketing Calendar for 2019 Twitter has released a new, free resource to help guide marketers' social media strategies in 2019. - Search Engine Journal
Google shares tips for success in Google News search results Get reacquainted with best practices for getting your content in Google News. - Search Engine Land
91% of Brands are Moving Toward In-House Digital Marketing [STUDY] A new study reveals that 91% of brands have moved at least a part of their digital marketing [...] - Search Engine Journal
New Study Reveals What People Are Buying Through Voice Assistants A study of US consumers reveals how they're using voice assistants, and what types of products [...] - Search Engine Journal
Ways to succeed in Google News With the New Year now underway, we'd like to offer some best practices and advice we hope will lead [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Get more conversions by deconstructing your PPC ads Columnist Frederick Vallaeys shares a new Google Ads script that will reveal what parts of your ads [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console for small businesses [Video] Looking for some tips on Google Search Console for small businesses? The latest update brought [...] - Search Engine Watch

January, 16 2019

Google Search Console Makes ‘Inspect URL’ Tool More Useful Google Search Console has updated the Inspect URL tool with information about HTTP response codes, [...] - Search Engine Journal
Demystifying Google’s guide to clicks, impressions and position in Google Search Console Here are the answers to the most common questions asked about managing metrics in the Performance [...] - Search Engine Land
EU copyright directive nearing final form as Google tests stripped-down news SERPs Once the language is finalized, each member state will need to ratify the directive. - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console’s URL inspection tool adds HTTP response, page resources, JS logs and rendered screenshot You must check out the upgraded Google URL inspection tool; it really gives you more detailed [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update Chatter January 15th Over the past 24-48 hours, I've been seeing some chatter amongst the SEO communities, a bit more in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Makes it Easier to Manage Dynamic Search Ads Campaigns Bing Ads is introducing page feeds which will make it easier for advertisers to manage Dynamic [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google ordered to submit search index to state sponsorship in Russia Google has a 45 percent search market share in Russia, second only to Yandex. - Search Engine Land

January, 15 2019

Looking Back at Google’s Research Efforts in 2018 Posted by Jeff Dean, Senior Fellow and Google AI Lead, on behalf of the entire Google Research [...] - Google Research
DuckDuckGo Improves Local Searches With Apple Maps Integration DuckDuckGo is now utilizing Apple Maps to power map and address-related searches. - Search Engine Journal
Facebook Launches Original Podcast Series About Business Building Facebook has launched an original podcast series which shares lessons learned while building new [...] - Search Engine Journal
A quick and dirty guide to winning with Gmail ads Email marketers love to brag about how email marketing is still one of the most effective digital [...] - Search Engine Land
Google & WordPress Are Offering Early Access to Newspack Google and Automattic/WordPress are giving news organizations the opportunity to apply for early [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google's Nofollow Link Attribute Didn't Help Improve Blog Comments; Sorry Yesterday at Search Engine Land I wrote how the Google blog turned off comments and how the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Stops Testing Domain Property? Did Google end their beta test of Domain Property, the feature that aims at simplifying property [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Site Command For 301 Redirect URL Shows The Origin URL Google's site command will show the URL you put into Google for the site command, even if the URL [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 14 2019

Google is Partnering With WordPress to Develop a News Publishing Platform Google is partnering with Automattic/WordPress to develop a low-cost system specifically designed [...] - Search Engine Journal
Caution: GoDaddy is Adding Unwanted JavaScript to Websites Web hosting provider GoDaddy is inserting JavaScript code into websites, which could slow down [...] - Search Engine Journal
The explosion of PAA: Answering questions is the new way to dominate search Quality answers in plain language land in Google’s answer box and “People Also [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AdWords Express is Now Part of Google Ads Google is notifying advertisers that AdWords Express has joined the Google Ads platform. - Search Engine Journal
Nofollow couldn’t save the Google webmaster blog from comment spam Google's plan of "preventing comment spam" with the nofollow link attribute didn't work [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Spammers Using Open Date Edits To Hurt Local Businesses In November, Google began supporting the option to specify when the business opens in the future. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Incentivizing Ad Partners To Use Automation Kirk Williams posted on Twitter that he got an email from Google with new rewards and incentives if [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Fixed The Knowledge Panel Hack Google has finally fixed the exploit with the knowledge panel in their search results. It only [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 13 2019

Google: Mobile Usability is Not Related to Mobile-First Indexing Google's John Mueller clarified that content may be still moved to mobile-first indexing despite [...] - Search Engine Journal

January, 12 2019

Google: A Technically Well-Optimized Site Won’t Rank Without Good Content Google's John Mueller reminds site owners that the most technically well-optimized site won't [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google May Filter Emojis Out of Meta Titles & Descriptions in Search Results Although Google supports emojis in search results, it may choose to filter them out in certain [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Changing Image URLs Will Affect Rankings in Image Search Google's John Mueller cautions site owners that a change to image URLs will affect how they rank in [...] - Search Engine Journal

January, 11 2019

Google’s internal SEO strategy: Make small changes, embrace change, consolidate Google gave a rare glimpse into how they manage their 7,000 internal websites. - Search Engine Land
Google Will Discontinue Some Old Search Console Features Google's John Mueller confirmed this morning in a webmaster hangout at the 1:09 mark into the video [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
An update on the Google Webmaster Central blog comments For every train there's a passenger, but it turns out comments are not our train. Over the years [...] - Google Webmaster Central
YouTube to Remove Automatic Sharing to Twitter on January 31st YouTube is removing the ability to automatically share videos on Twitter after they've been [...] - Search Engine Journal
Sitelinks tip: Set your sitelink descriptions or Google, Bing Ads can do it dynamically If you haven't set up manual sitelink descriptions in non-brand campaigns, yet, you may not like [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Now Sending Consolidated Mobile-First Indexing Notifications Google is now consolidating the notifications they send around sites being switched into Google's [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 10 2019

7 things you might not know about Google My Business categories I have found that Google My Business categories are often an overlooked tactic by many people that [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Explains its Own Company’s Approach to SEO Google has provided an inside look into how the company approaches SEO for its own properties. - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Algorithm Update On January 9th? The Google search results and rankings have been pretty unstable the past week or so. There are a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEOs noticing ranking volatility in Google’s search results There may have been an update or two in the past week. - Search Engine Land
Google Knowledge Panel Hijack Explained A nuanced review and explanation of the reported Google Knowledge Panel Hijack. - Search Engine Journal
Google may be headed for victory in EU right-to-be-forgotten indexing appeal The top legal advisor for the European Court of Justice has recommended that delisting under RTBF [...] - Search Engine Land

January, 9 2019

Google working to disable knowledge graph hack that shows misleading search results A knowledge panel manipulation technique is finally getting the search giant's serious attention. - Search Engine Land
Pick up where you left off on Search While we’ve probably all turned to Google to settle a bet, often we need more than just a [...] - Inside Search
LinkedIn Reveals the Most In-Demand Skills in 2019 LinkedIn has released a list of professional skills that companies need most in 2019. - Search Engine Journal
Google Chrome to Expand Ad Blocking Worldwide on July 9th Google Chrome is expanding ad blocking worldwide on July 9, which will affect sites that repeatedly [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google lets user see their related search history with new card Google helps searchers remember what they saw on Google in their past searches and web site visits [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Lets Users Continue Previous Searches With New Activity Cards Google has created new activity cards designed to help people to pick up where they left off in [...] - Search Engine Journal

January, 8 2019

Machine vs. man: What really matters for SEO success Changes to the core concepts of quality and authority over the past year have altered the course of [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Assistant Will be on One Billion Devices by the End of the Month Google expects its Assistant to be on one billion devices by the end of this month. - Search Engine Journal
Need to expedite page removal in Google’s search index? Try a temporary sitemap file Do you need to remove a lot content from Google quickly? Here is how to do it if you own the site. - Search Engine Land
Google PSA: Do Not 301 Pages that Should 404 To Your Home Page Google's John Mueller said it again, if you 301 redirect pages that should 404 to your home page, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Assistant updates: Airline check-ins, hotel bookings, language translation and Maps The business model for Google Assistant may be transactions over advertising. - Search Engine Land
Google Ad Impressions on Connected TVs Up by Over 80% Google's efforts to expand advertising to TV screens led to an 80% increase in impressions in 2018. - Search Engine Journal

January, 7 2019

Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update Around January 6th Google may have pushed out their first larger search algorithm update of 2019 over this weekend. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s Rich Results testing tool now supports code editing You can now edit the code in the rich results test and see what those edits do in real time. - Search Engine Land
Google Shopping Lets Merchants Add Full Product Pages to Listings An update to Google Manufacturer Center gives advertisers the ability to add product pages to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google's John Mueller Gives Hard Advice To Low Quality Site Google's John Mueller often doesn't give direct advice that contains hard messages. But in a Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Leading local SEO predictions: Reserve with Google will grow, real-time local inventory gets real GMB messaging, voice search optimization, local inventory data, Q&A and the decline of SMB [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Manufacturer Center adds rich content, deeper analytics, expands availability A new "From the manufacturer" section in Google Shopping product pages can feature [...] - Search Engine Land
Gary Illyes From Google Now Takes Speaking Requests Via Google Form Gary Illyes speaks at a lot of conferences around the world on Google SEO and webmaster related [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
StrategiQ launches Spark, an SEO deployment platform The tool employs Cloudflare Workers to make changes server-side. - Search Engine Land
DuckDuckGo Responds to Claims of Fingerprinting Users DuckDuckGo has responded to accusations that it uses browser fingerprinting to identify its users. - Search Engine Journal
Help influence and understand how your products appear on Google Shoppers turn to Google to find products that are just right for them. And you rely on Google [...] - Inside Adwords
Google: Unnatural Links By Humans Or Bots Are Your Responsibility Google's John Mueller was asked if there is a difference between a human adding unnatural links on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The most in-demand skills for PPC, Paid Search, and SEM Specialists in 2019 The new year often comes with a resolution to find a new job. And conversely, many companies put [...] - Search Engine Watch
Guide to voice search optimization: Six steps to undertake in 2019 Have you ever tried to search for some data online when you were multitasking and couldn’t [...] - Search Engine Watch

January, 4 2019

Google buys expert community and ‘answer engine’ Superpod for $60 million The speculation is that Superpod founders and assets will be used to improve Google Assistant. - Search Engine Land
How are your YouTube campaigns performing on TV screens? Monitoring performance and making adjustments when necessary is important to do now, as the TV [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Too Many Repeated Internal Links Doesn't Hurt Google's John Mueller responded to a question on Twitter around having too many internal links with [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads conversion rates by industry: How do you compare? See how your Google Ads conversion rates stack up against industry averages. Data based on 14,197 [...] - Search Engine Watch
Universal Search Updated at Google unsplash-logoTristan Colangelo Sura gave up on her debugging for the moment. “The word for [...] - SEO by the Sea
Yelp's Ghost Update In October: Reviews Drop Out & Not Recommended Craig Mount posted a detailed analysis of a Yelp update being named the Ghost update over at Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Drops Unicode Hack In Local Panel Earlier this week we reported how one Google My Business listing added unicode like text to their [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Featured Snippets Tests Blue Feedback Bar Two SEOs from India noticed and told me about Google showing them a new blue bar under some of the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 3 2019

A simple 3-step framework for improving your technical SEO In a world where everyone’s fighting for relevance in search, technical SEO is a Swiss army [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s John Mueller Offers Guidance on Building AMP-Only Sites Google's John Mueller recently provided some advice on what to look out for when creating an [...] - Search Engine Journal
January 2019 Google Webmaster Report In our first monthly recap for 2019 we covered a couple smaller unconfirmed Google updates. It was [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Robots.txt tip from Bing: Include all relevant directives if you have a Bingbot section Pay close attention to the directives you give to Bingbot and other search engines in your [...] - Search Engine Land
Google is Shutting Down its Small Business Community Message Board Google's "Small Business Community" message board is shutting down, according to an [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bing: We Ignore Default Robots Directives If There Is A Bingbot Section Frédéric Dubut from Bing's search team said on Twitter that if you create a specific [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Asks For Food Or Other Photos From Local Guides I cannot replicate this, but I suspect certain level Google Local Guides are being asked to upload [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 2 2019

What you need to know about Yelp’s latest update dubbed ‘Ghost’ Something major happened to Yelp’s recommendation software around late October and the update [...] - Search Engine Land
What makes people click on search ads? There's a reason search ads resonate with users -- even when they know they're ads. - Search Engine Land
Google emphasizes ‘Message this business’ in new local search test Take notice, Google is testing a more prominent look for the messaging feature in the local search [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Refutes Claims That Users Can’t Recognize Paid Search Results A Google engineer has refuted claims that most people cannot tell the difference between paid and [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s Mueller spend New Year’s helping SEOs tackle hacked content, slow website issues Google is helping webmasters and SEOs on New Years and other holidays. - Search Engine Land
Google Shopping is largest growth opportunity for most online retailers in 2019 Brands need to invest resources into feed management and utilize format variations to ensure they [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Links From Non-English Languages Are Not Unnatural Links This may be filed under the super obvious category but John Mueller from Google confirmed that you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Shopping ads for the small budget: Here’s what to expect in 2019 This year may (finally) see the end of feeds, but we can also expect an increasing adoption of [...] - Search Engine Land
Google search tests new interface for movie, TV show streaming options Do you work at a movie and TV streaming service? If so, take notice of this new feature Google is [...] - Search Engine Land
2019 in search: Find your seamlessness Companies should focus on working seamlessly across all channels, consolidating recurring tasks, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Tests Larger Messaging Buttons In Local Panels Joy Hawkins who follows the local SEO beat really closely spotted a new interface treatment that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests More Movie & TV Streaming Options In Search Google in November 2017 began showing movies and TV shows to watch on YouTube and other providers [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
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January, 1 2019

Google's John Mueller Helping Webmasters On New Years Just like this past Christmas, Google's John Mueller on New Years even and day is out helping [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Year Day Logos & Themes From Google, Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Sogou & More Happy New Years everyone - here is to an awesome, successful, healthy, happy and consistent 2019! [...] - Search Engine Roundtable