Archive of April, 2019

April, 30 2019

LinkedIn is Testing a New Services Section in User Profiles LinkedIn is working on a new addition to profiles which lets users display a list of services they [...] - Search Engine Journal
Outbound Links Content Strategy If delighting users helps a site become popular, then consider thoughtful outbound links for your [...] - Search Engine Journal
Rethinking What it Means to Have Better Links Being a leader when building links can help identify opportunities for outranking competitors. - Search Engine Journal
Google Broccoli - How Colorful - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Snippets With Image Collage Carousel We know Google has image carousels in some of their search results snippets, that isn't new. But is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Search Console Backlink Report Only Report Not Fully Fixed Yet I asked Google for an official update on the Search Console status, since we reported yesterday [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Works To Fix How Many Legs Horses & Snakes Have For the past few days or so, folks on social media are going a bit nuts about how Google doesn't [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Give Google Feedback On The Future Of The Disavow Link Tool Last week we reported that Google is still undecided on the future of the disavow link tool. This [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Earnings Show Paid Click Growth Declining With Cost Per Click Most Google earnings report show how the cost-per-click, the amount an advertiser pays when someone [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Yes, a SEO strategy beyond Google really matters iTunes Overcast Spotify [...] - Searchmetrics
Google Display & Video 360 Helps Marketers Protect Their Brand Google is introducing new ways for marketers to protect their brand while running Display & [...] - Search Engine Journal
Yoast adds image and video Schema with 11.1 update The enhancements claim to make it easier to provide what search engines need to make sense of your [...] - Search Engine Land
Brands can better understand users on third-party sites by using a keyword overlap analysis These scripts can help analyze cross-site branded traffic with overlapping keywords to capture [...] - Search Engine Land
Creative Commons Search Engine is Out of Beta, Has Over 300M Images After over two years of beta testing, Creative Commons is officially launching its search engine. - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 30, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Fixes Issue With Search Console Index Coverage Report Google confirmed the issue with missing data in Search Console's index coverage report has been [...] - Search Engine Journal
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt to leave Alphabet board of directors He will remain with the compain the very limited role of 'technical advisor.' - Search Engine Land

April, 29 2019

Google My Business May Offer Premium Features for a Monthly Fee Google is sending out surveys to gauge peoples’ interest in paying for access to premium [...] - Search Engine Journal
How Negative SEO Shaped Disavow Tool he origin of the disavow tool can impact how you should think about it now. - Search Engine Journal
John Mueller on Disavow Tool – FULL TRANSCRIPT The Full Transcript of John Mueller's discussion about which links to disavow. - Search Engine Journal
Google Austin Office Views - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Reports Finally Up To Date After Google pausing several of their reports within the Google Search Console due to the indexing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Explores Charging Fees? Google is sending out a survey to some local businesses asking if they would be willing to pay a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business POI Establishment Bug Now Point Of Interest Last week we reported how many businesses in Google My Business were noticing Google adding a new [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Here’s what you need to know about image optimization for SEO Google's updated image search interface isn't the only tool keeping the spotlight on visual content [...] - Search Engine Land
Goodbye Bing Ads & Hello Microsoft Advertising I am getting a bit tired of all the rebranding - I mean, not just with Microsoft's search engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Thanos Google Easter Egg Removes Search Results Google has a new easter egg in their search results, just search for [thanos] and the search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update Around April 26th? I am seeing both chatter and tracking tools reporting a possible Google search ranking algorithm [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Advertising is the New Bing Ads Bing Ads has been officially rebranded as Microsoft Advertising, marking an evolution in the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Microsoft Advertising Introduces Sponsored Products Microsoft Advertising, formerly Bing Ads, is introducing new product offerings: Sponsored Products [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Console reports back on track after multi-week delay You can finally now check your coverage and enhancement reports in Search Console after a [...] - Search Engine Land
Google may decide to charge for Google My Business listings If Google starts to charge for Google My Business listings it may introduce some issues for how [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s rise to the top of search and how they ate their competitors’ lunch iTunes Overcast Spotify [...] - Searchmetrics
Parallel tracking goes live for Google Ads display campaigns May 1 Stay tuned for the launch date of parallel tracking for video campaigns. - Search Engine Land
Announcing the 6th Fine-Grained Visual Categorization Workshop Posted by Christine Kaeser-Chen, Software Engineer and Serge Belongie, Visiting Faculty, Google AI [...] - Google Research
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 29, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
A Safe Way to Succeed with Guest Articles Instead of trying to influence Google, you may find better success by influencing people. - Search Engine Journal
Google Q1 revenues $36.3 billion but miss Wall Street expectations Mobile search and YouTube drove revenue gains, but growth of paid clicks has declined when compared [...] - Search Engine Land

April, 26 2019

Google Issue is Causing it to Select Unrelated Canonical URLs Google is currently experiencing an issue where it may have selected unrelated URLs. - Search Engine Journal
SEO Hungry: A Food Blogger For SEOs & Google Cookies - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Bug Selecting Unrelated Canonical URLs & Indexing Issues Google has announced a new bug yesterday, this time with Google possibly selecting unrelated [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Q&A On Google Video Screenshots We've covered the topic twice before but it still somewhat fascinating to me that Google is asking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Context Is Key For Some Keyword Searches Google's John Mueller said on Twitter the other day that "Some of these things really need [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: No Plans Yet On Migrating Disavow Link Tool Currently the disavow link tool is available in the old Google Search Console. It has not been [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Math Sans Bold Unicode Make Your Google Snippets Stand Out We've seen emojis and all forms of unicode in the Google search results over the years. Most [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Console Delays, Increase In One Boxes & Search Is Hard Just a note, I am offline, this video and post was pre-recorded and scheduled to be posted today. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google bug may select unrelated canonical URLs, could impact indexing Breadcrumb trails on mobile may reflect unrelated URLs. - Search Engine Land
Google Thanos Easter Egg Wipes Out Half of All Search Engine Results A new Thanos Google easter egg is turning the search results to dust. Here's how to see it for [...] - Search Engine Journal
SEO case study: How Venngage turned search into their primary lead source In Nov 2017, Venngage enjoyed 275,000 visitors a month from organic search traffic. Today (16 [...] - Search Engine Watch
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 26, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 25 2019

Google's Penguin Room - Giorgio's Center - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Posts Reminder On How Structured Data Can Richen Search Results Daniel Waisberg, who recently moved to the Google search team, posted his first blog post under his [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Really Wants You To Use Remote Job Markup For Job Schema In February, Google sent out Search Console notifications that you can and should add job [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: You Cannot Isolate Specific Ranking Factor Successes I am going to do it, I am going to read between the lines here on a John Mueller tweet. In short, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Sitemap Dates vs Web Page Dates John Mueller from Google explained on Twitter the difference between the timestamp date in an XML [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Career Day with Michael King: How a hip-hop music producer and rapper became a Google SEO expert iTunes Overcast Spotify [...] - Searchmetrics
What’s it like using DuckDuckGo in 2019? DuckDuckGo could be your new default search engine if you want to focus on privacy and security. [...] - Search Engine Watch
Bing Ads Will No Longer Serve Entities With Destination URLs By the End of 2019 Bing Ads is notifying users about upcoming changes to destination URLs that begin rolling out in [...] - Search Engine Journal
How to get brand URLs in Google AMP cache by extending TLS for Web Package Google has successfully rushed a solution with an implementation scheme that will display your [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads script: How to automatically apply bid modifiers Here's a bid modifier script for in-market and remarketing audiences, device and location targeting. - Search Engine Land
Younger users rely on snippets and knowledge panel, often don’t click, survey says Yet 'position zero' doesn't always win says survey, which reveals relatively discerning users. - Search Engine Land
Facebook Stories Have 500 Million Daily Users, 3 Million Advertisers Facebook stories have now reached 500 million daily active users, up from the 300 million daily [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 25, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Programming Note: Offline For Passover 5779 - April 26th This is a programming note that I will be 100% offline on Friday April 26th, for the Passover [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
DuckDuckGo is Google’s Only Competitor to Gain Organic Search Share in Q1 2019 DuckDuckGo's organic search growth is outpacing other search engines, with particularly strong [...] - Search Engine Journal

April, 24 2019

The inside story with Google’s external ranking factors Episode Overview When it comes to Google rankings, there are a lot of external factors that might [...] - Searchmetrics
Enriching Search Results Through Structured Data For many years we have been recommending the use of structured data on websites to enable a richer [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Take Your Child To Work Day Fun - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Maps Business Reviews Vanishing After Suspension Removal There are numerous reports of Google Maps listings, Google My Business listings that have had their [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Images, Featured Snippets & Videos More Often In Web Search Results It looks like Google is showing more vertical search features in the core web search results - more [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Searchers Upset That Easter Got Google Treatment While Passover, Ramadan & Others Did Not Google on Sunday had a pretty unique and new home page feature for Easter. It was the first time [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Can See Disavow Links Between Canonical URLs Google's John Mueller said it is best to disavow all the possible places the link may be pointing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Instagram Introduces Quiz Stickers Instagram has officially launched quiz stickers which allow users to create multiple-choice [...] - Search Engine Journal
A new way to find work-from-home (or wherever) opportunities Whether you’re a parent needing more flexibility or someone looking for the freedom to work [...] - Inside Search
Google Makes it Easier to Find Work-From-Home Jobs Google is making it easier for job searchers in the US to find work-from-home positions. - Search Engine Journal
Evaluating the Unsupervised Learning of Disentangled Representations Posted by Olivier Bachem, Research Scientist, Google AI Zürich The ability to understand [...] - Google Research
Google search spend growth slows as click volume rises, reports show Mobile continues to fuel growth in click share and spend, and Shopping remains steady growth [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 24, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
10% of Twitter Users are Creating 80% of Tweets A study on Twitter usage finds a disproportionate amount of users are responsible for the greatest [...] - Search Engine Journal

April, 23 2019

Google Reportedly Tolerated Non-Search Spam Ex-Googler tweets how and why Google tolerated spam on it's non-search side of products. - Search Engine Journal
Views From Google Milan Office - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business: POI Establishment Category I am seeing reports of business owners and local SEOs saying they are seeing a new category being [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Coverage Report Delayed 16 Days & Counting It is now 16 days and counting since the Google Search Console Coverage report has been updated. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: AJAX/XHR Calls Can Impact Crawl Budget Google's Gary Illyes posted on Twitter this morning that he updated the crawl budget post from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Nofollow Link Attribute Is Working Fairly Well Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that the nofollow link attribute has been and still is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Home & Assistant Listings May Need Google Guaranteed Label You've seen the Google local services ads before, they have the Google Guarantee label on them. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Instagram May Hide Like Counts to Reduce the Sense of Competition Instagram is considering hiding like counts on posts to reduce the sense of competition amongst [...] - Search Engine Journal
54% of Users Have Bought a Product Right After Seeing it on Instagram A Facebook-commissioned study of 21,000 Instagram users reveals how they interact with brands and [...] - Search Engine Journal
72% of People Have Used Voice Search Through a Digital Assistant in 2019 A study from Microsoft on consumer adoption of voice technology in 2019 shows that most people are [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 23, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Facebook Lets Users Share 3D Photos in Stories Facebook is expanding 3D photos to stories and offering two new ways to create them. - Search Engine Journal
Byte, the Follow-Up to Vine, Begins Sending Out Beta Invites Byte, a reboot of Vine from the same creator, has sent out the first 100 invites to its closed beta. - Search Engine Journal

April, 22 2019

Google’s John Mueller Discusses Changing Role of Links in Ranking Google's John Mueller discusses how the value of links may be context sensitive. - Search Engine Journal
Mortal Kombat Arcade Game At The GooglePlex - Search Engine Roundtable
2019 Earth Day Logos From Google, Bing, Yahoo, Baidu & More Today is Earth Day and for the special day the search industry has some special logos and themes. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Emails Some Publishers About Google AdSense Changes Google has supposedly sent out emails announcing upcoming changes to the AdSense platform in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google & Brackets - How Google Use Brackets In Search I noticed over the past couple weeks, when Google announced the before and after search commands [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: It's Easy To Read Between The Lines As you all know from reading this blog, I try hard to read between the lines when it comes to what [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Defends Search Results: No Influence On Ads Or Google Analytics Here we have Danny Sullivan, who now works at Google, defending Google's organic, free search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SpecAugment: A New Data Augmentation Method for Automatic Speech Recognition Posted by Daniel S. Park, AI Resident and William Chan, Research Scientist Automatic Speech [...] - Google Research
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 22, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 21 2019

Android Update Impact on European Search Marketing Google announced changes to Android that may affect it’s search and browser dominance in [...] - Search Engine Journal

April, 20 2019

Google’s John Mueller Discusses TF-IDF Algo Google's John Mueller explains the role of TF-IDF in how web pages are ranked. - Search Engine Journal

April, 19 2019

Google Releases Free Image Analysis Tool Google's AI/Machine Learning tool demonstrates how an algorithm can understand an image. - Search Engine Journal
Google’s work in progress with health care rankings iTunes Overcast Spotify [...] - Searchmetrics
Submit Questions Around JavaScript SEO For Google As you know, Google posted their last video on their JavaScript videos for SEO yesterday. But now [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AMP Kimonos At AMP Conf - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Posts Supports Highlighting Customer Testimonials & Reviews Google posted on Twitter that within Google My Business you can now highlight and post [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Why featured snippets could be less of a win going forward The evolution of the SERP feature is going to steal traffic away from content creators, but it can [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Might Change How NoIndex In Robots.txt Works For years Google has been communicating and we've been reporting that Google does not support using [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console URL Parameters Tool May Change Google's John Mueller hinted on Twitter that the URL parameter tool that was added to Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Don't Hand Rank Web Pages, It Would Be Impossible Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that Google does not manually hand rank any web page. He [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Bugs, Navigation Removal, AMP Updates, OMG I Donâ��t Know & More This week, we covered the ongoing Google bugs, this time with Google News indexing, Search Console [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Posts can now highlight customer testimonials in some countries Let your customers highlight your business with a new form of Google Posts. - Search Engine Land
Google My Business Suggests Positive Reviews to Share as Posts Google My Business is launching a new feature which will help business owners showcase positive [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 19, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Official AMP Plugin for WordPress Now Supports AMP Stories A new version of the official AMP plugin for WordPress supports the creation of AMP Stories. - Search Engine Journal

April, 18 2019

Twitter’s ‘Hide Replies’ Feature is Set to Roll Out in June A new Twitter feature which allows users to hide replies to their tweets is set to launch this June. - Search Engine Journal
How the travel industry is playing the Google rankings game iTunes Overcast Spotify Stitcher [...] - Searchmetrics
John Mueller "I Love Cheese" Tweet On A T-Shirt - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdSense Notification: Your payment amount is higher than your chosen form of payment Yesterday, tons of Google AdSense publishers noticed alerts and notifications in the AdSense [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Uploads Last JavaScript SEO Video: Dynamic Rendering For JavaScript Sites Google's Martin Splitt has uploaded his last video in the series of videos around JavaScript and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Track Quality Score daily with this advanced Adwords script This script will help you measure the impact of your optimizations on a daily basis. - Search Engine Land
Google's Paul Haahr: Search Engines Consider Spam Fighting A Competitive Advantage Google's Paul Haahr, a ranking lead in the search department, said on Twitter that he believes that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Poll: Do Google Posts Help Your Google Local Rankings? A thread at the Local Search Forums has different local SEOs saying different things about how [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Navigation Removal Trick Impacting Google Rankings Algorithm? An SEO, I believe his name is Dido, asked John Mueller of Google in this morning's video hangout if [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Some cheers, a few sneers for Google’s URL solution for AMP Solution addresses one of the most prominent AMP criticisms, but its implementation doesn’t [...] - Search Engine Land
Google to offer browser, search-app choices in Android Europe set-up flow Users will be asked to choose from among five search and browser apps in randomized order. - Search Engine Land
Study: How ready are businesses for voice search? A new analysis of 73,000 business listings found that 96% of all business locations fail to list [...] - Search Engine Watch
AMP WordPress plugin now supports Stories Latest update lets publishers create Stories without HTML, CSS or JavaScript experience. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 18, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Facebook is Testing Upvotes and Downvotes for Comments Facebook has been spotted testing the ability for users to upvote and downvote comments. - Search Engine Journal

April, 17 2019

Instant-loading AMP pages from your own domain Today we are rolling out support in Google Search’s AMP web results (also known as [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google announces ‘Signed Exchange’ solution to deliver AMP speed to publisher URLs Publishers will need to create a Signed Exchange but Cloudflare (and potentially others) promise to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google My Business Lets Users Create Custom Short URLs Google is now letting users create customized short URLs for Google My Business listings. Google is [...] - Search Engine Journal
Fintech revolution: How Google rankings are transforming banking and finance iTunes Overcast Spotify [...] - Searchmetrics
Google Says You Are Not Entitled to Links A recent post on Twitter by Google's Danny Sullivan highlighted that websites are not entitled to [...] - Search Engine Journal
SEO, Content and Linguistics: A Case Study What does linguistics mean for SEO, Content and mattresses? In this article, we look at the [...] - Searchmetrics
Google NYC Deck View - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Rolling Out Short Names & URLs Google My Business is rolling out a new feature to let businesses define their short name and URLs [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Building and scaling global SEO Centers of Excellence Before you can involve your company’s executives in SEO advocacy, you need a set of best [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Fixing Another Indexing Bug With Google News Google said yesterday they are aware of an indexing bug impacting a limited number of publishers [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AMP Now Can Support Real Publisher URLs We knew this was coming and at the AMP Conference in Tokyo, Google announced support for publishers [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: No, You Can't Force Someone To Link To You Legally Back in December we reported that Google updated their link schemes guidelines to disallow [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Some Other Google Bugs May Be Related To The De-Indexing Bug It seems like the past month or so has been a tough one for the Google engineers. We have seen bug [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google adds short names and URLs to Google My Business listings The new feature has yet to be publicized by Google, but local guides like Mike Blumenthal report [...] - Search Engine Land
Yoast offers revamped Schema markup with 11.0 update The SEO plugin claims to fix Schema implementation and provide more context for search engines. - Search Engine Land
MorphNet: Towards Faster and Smaller Neural Networks Posted by Andrew Poon, Senior Software Engineer and Dhyanesh Narayanan, Product Manager, Google AI [...] - Google Research
Google: Google News indexing bug has been resolved Resolved: Google has resolved the issue with Google News not indexing some publisher's content. - Search Engine Land
AMP Stories Now Have a Dedicated Section in Google Search Results Google is adding a new section to search results which is dedicated to AMP Stories. - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 17, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 16 2019

Facebook Introduces Cost Cap Bidding to Maximize Cost-Efficiency Facebook is introducing a new bid strategy for advertising which is focused on driving results [...] - Search Engine Journal
Built for speed: Google’s ranking factors for media and publishing sites iTunes Overcast Spotify [...] - Searchmetrics
Orchestra At The GooglePlex - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Use Site Command For Checking Individual URLs Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that you can use the site command to check individual pages [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Algorithms Are Designed To Be Granular But Older Updates Were More Broad Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that when it comes to Google's search algorithms they try to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
OMG: Google's Internal Alert System At the BirghtonSEO conference last Friday, John Mueller was interviewed by Hannah Smith - and one [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: It Is Hard To Measure If Publishers & Content Producers Are Happy Again, at the BirghtonSEO conference, John Mueller was asked about how do they know if they are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
When Google Says I Don't Know, They Might Know. Google's John Mueller said on stage at BrightonSEO last Friday that sometimes when Google says [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Facebook and Instagram May Be Forced to Remove Likes for Users Under 18 Social networks may have to prevent users under the age of 18 from liking posts, according to new [...] - Search Engine Journal
Take Your Best Selfie Automatically, with Photobooth on Pixel 3 Posted by Navid Shiee, Senior Software Engineer and Aseem Agarwala, Staff Research Scientist, [...] - Google Research
Does Google owe us more than just an apology over de-indexing? Do we deserve more transparency from Google? Do we deserve more then jut an apology? - Search Engine Land
Yoast SEO Becomes First WordPress Plugin to Offer Proper Schema Implementation Popular WordPress plugin Yoast is releasing an update which offers complete implementation of [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 16, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google investigating a new indexing bug – this time with Google News Oh no - another indexing related bug. But this one is limited to only a few Google News publishers. - Search Engine Land
Google is Experiencing Indexing Issues With Content in Google News Google has confirmed it's aware of indexing issues affecting content in Google News. - Search Engine Journal
Facebook is Improving Ads Manager and Business Manager Facebook shared plans to update both Ads Manager and Business Manager making them easier to use. - Search Engine Journal

April, 15 2019

What are Google’s unique ranking factors for the eCommerce industry? iTunes Overcast Spotify [...] - Searchmetrics
Pink Tesla With Wings At The GooglePlex - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's Indexing Bug Spreads Like A Virus To Coverage Report, URL Inspection Tool & More The Google de-indexing bug, which took about 6 days to resolve and is supposedly resolved as of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Showing Previously Fetched Results - Update Button Google is testing an option for some searchers to refresh the search results, like we saw back in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Smart speakers set to eclipse tablets globally by 2021 Commerce, advertising or something else: The smart speaker model hasn't been figured out. - Search Engine Land
Most SEOs Say Redirect, Not 404, When Pruning Old Content Cyrus Shepard posted a poll on Twitter asking SEOs what is better to do when pruning old content, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
You Want Google To Stay Stagnant & Not Improve? As you know, Google is making efforts to update their GoogleBot to crawl the more modern web. We [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Panel Can Show Fax Number Does your business still have a fax number? I'll be honest, I spend about $10 per month to have [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to appear in local services listings in Google Assistant and Google Home Company serving only pre-screened local providers in most major markets. - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console is Still Affected by Indexing Bug Google's indexing bug was resolved last week, but Search Console is still recovering. - Search Engine Journal
De-indexing bug hits Google Search Console reports, tools Don't trust the Google Search Console coverage and enhancement reports, nor the URL inspection tool [...] - Search Engine Land
Apple News, Google News, Google Newsstand: What marketers need to know What they are, how they work and how to optimize for Google News and Apple News. - Search Engine Land
Gathering insights in Google Analytics can be as easy as A-B-C Today’s customers are deeply curious, searching high and low for information about a product [...] - Inside Adwords
Facebook Tests Integrating Stories into the News Feed Facebook has been spotted testing a redesigned version of the news feed which also includes stories. - Search Engine Journal
Why we shouldn’t forget about PageRank in 2019 Before we talk about anything else, let’s address the elephant in the room. The last official [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 15, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Does Not Give Special Treatment to Content in a Blockquote Google's John Mueller recently addressed the use of the blockquote element, saying it's not treated [...] - Search Engine Journal
Twitter is Still Verifying Users Despite Pausing the Application Process Twitter has reportedly verified over 10,000 accounts since suspending the application process in [...] - Search Engine Journal

April, 14 2019

Study Finds Nearly Half of Business Listings Have Incorrect Information A study of online business listings finds that nearly half are missing critical pieces of [...] - Search Engine Journal
Customers Think Social Media Ads are Filling Their Feeds, but 70% Still Click [STUDY] Most customers feel that social media ads are taking over their feeds, but that’s not [...] - Search Engine Journal

April, 13 2019

Pinterest Ad Campaigns Can Now Be Optimized for Conversions For the first time, Pinterest is letting marketers choose conversions as a campaign objective for [...] - Search Engine Journal
YouTube Tests New Internal Metrics For Measuring the Success of a Video YouTube is reportedly testing two new internal metrics for determining which videos should be [...] - Search Engine Journal

April, 12 2019

New Data Shows How Much SEOs are Charging for Services in 2019 A study on digital marketing pricing shows how much SEO consultants and agencies are charging for [...] - Search Engine Journal
Majority of SMBs doing SEO are in-housing Nearly 80 percent expressed confidence about knowledge of best practices. - Search Engine Land
LinkedIn Aims to Boost Engagement With a Range of Reactions to Posts LinkedIn is introducing new ways to engage with posts, adding four new reactions alongside the like [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google spotted testing version of GoogleBot that can render more content Google may be able to fully crawl more advanced and modern web apps sooner than you thought. - Search Engine Land
10 principles of digital accessibility for modern marketers Developers and designers can help differently abled users navigate websites by using CSS to control [...] - Search Engine Land
Aligning content and SEO for search success Here are some best practices to get content and SEO teams working together throughout the creation [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Cache Date Is Old; Google Says Don't Worry About It There are many SEOs complaining that the cache date shown by Google is very outdated. Heck the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Survey: Less than 10% of marketers to focus on Digital PR in 2019 A recent survey found that while 76% of marketers said brand awareness is a KPI for them, only 9% [...] - Search Engine Watch
Ebikes At Google On Environment Day - Search Engine Roundtable
Should Google Index The Entire Web & Not Cherry Pick Pages To Index? For years and years Google has told us they don't index all the content and URLs they know about on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests A More Modern Rendering Engine For GoogleBot Just not long ago, we quoted Martin Splitt of Google saying he knows when Google will release an [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Performance Report AMP Stories & Q&A Rich Results Search Appearance Filter The same day Google launched the new Discover performance report in Google Search Console, Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google De-Indexing Bug Fixed, Google Discover Report, Google Assistant Ads & More This week, we saw a lot of the Google ranking tools go nuts but it is probably related to the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 12, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 11 2019

Facebook Imposes New Limits on Groups, Pages and Admins Facebook updated it's news feed algorithm to reduce the reach of misinformation, spam and sites [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google de-indexing issue now fully resolved After six days of Google trying to fix the indexing bug, it have finally announced it is fully [...] - Search Engine Land
4% of the Google index hit by de-indexing bug, Moz data shows Now that the Google de-indexing issue is resolved, how bad was it? - Search Engine Land
AMP to supports custom JavaScript with amp-script To be announced in more detail next week at the AMP Conference, Google is adding JavaScript support [...] - Search Engine Land
Going head to head with Google Smart Bidding: The good, the bad and the weird The first round of testing revealed Smart Bidding's strength but other tests showed where there is [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Confirms the Issue With Deindexed Pages is Fully Resolved Google has confirmed the issue which manifested last week causing pages to be deindexed is now [...] - Search Engine Journal
New Google Search Console Discover Report One thing SEOs were asking Google for for some time now is a report in Google Search Console that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Discover Is The -1 Screen Or Position -1 We have positions one through ten in Google, the main search results. We have position zero, the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Fully Fixed The Google De-Indexing Bug As you know, we were the first to report the large de-indexing bug where Google was dropping pages [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How we search for bow wows and meows It’s not quite caturday, and we’re a few months away from the dog days of summer, but [...] - Inside Search
Google Search Console Performance Report Now Consolidated To Canonical In February, Google announced that they would be consolidating the data in the performance report [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 11, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Compare 19 top SEO tools and platforms Over the years, Google’s search engine results page (SERP) has evolved from 10 simple blue [...] - Marketing Land

April, 10 2019

LinkedIn Gives SEO Tips for Boosting Visibility of Company Pages LinkedIn has published a series of SEO tips for getting company pages found in search engines. - Search Engine Journal
How you can make the most of your YouTube video advertising If you’re not already using YouTube videos as part of your marketing efforts, you should be. [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console adds Discover report If your website gets a lot of traffic from Google Discover you may see a new report in the Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Search Console reporting for your site's Discover performance data Discover is a popular way for users to stay up-to-date on all their favorite topics, even when [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Instagram to Stop Recommending Content That Almost Violates Guidelines Instagram is going to reduce the reach of posts that are borderline violations of the company's [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Console Adds Report for Site Performance in Discover Feed Google has added a new report to Search Console that will track a site's traffic and impressions [...] - Search Engine Journal
How is Google evaluating web content for rankings? iTunes Overcast Spotify Stitcher [...] - Searchmetrics
Froot Loops At Google - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Prefers Content Tweaks Vs URL Redirection For Personalization Google's John Mueller said it would be better to offer personalization to users through dynamically [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Was 4% Of Google's Index Was Removed With The Indexing Bug? I asked Google but I didn't hear back, so I then asked some of the tool providers - what percentage [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Recipe Rich Results & Mobile Friendly Bugs Reported With the indexing issue going on, people have also been reporting that Google is having issues [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Drops Sort By Date But Adds before: & after: Search Commands Google announced yesterday a new feature they are "beta testing" to allow searchers to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
A case study for delivering performance in a mature Google Ads account Over the course of a year, 80 experiments tested a wide array of features (like responsive ads, [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 10, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 9 2019

Google's Index Bug With Pages Being De-Indexed Is Almost Fixed Just to keep you all up to date on the issue with pages dropping out of the Google index starting [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Twitter Fights Spammers by Limiting the Number of Accounts Users Can Follow Per Day In an effort to fight spammers, Twitter is reducing the number of accounts users can follow each [...] - Search Engine Journal
Googlers At The Okinawa Google Webmaster Conference - Search Engine Roundtable
Live: Google Sitelinks Images In September we covered a report that Google has in their Sitelinks images or icons. Well, I have [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Assistant Results Now Include Ads With Updated Design Google announced they have updated the design for the Google Assistant search results on Android. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Ready, Set, Go! Googlebot Race The test demonstrated Googlebot ignores rel=next and rel=prev tags; but it is worth taking a closer [...] - Search Engine Land
Matt Cutts Wants Google To Bring Back The + Operator This is funny - back in 2011 when Google+ launched, Google removed the + search operator from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: More Crawling Doesn't Mean Things Are Better (i.e. Rankings) Google's John Mueller had to reiterate what he said a couple times now, this time on Reddit - [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Just 4% of U.S. businesses ‘voice search ready,’ finds analysis of nearly 75,000 companies Are your local SEO and business listing data optimization efforts ready for voice search? - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 9, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Search Commands – Before: and After: Google informally announced a new search command. It allows you to restrict searches by time. - Search Engine Journal

April, 8 2019

Google’s John Mueller Explains How to Rank Inner Pages Google's John Mueller discusses how to rank inner pages over the home page. - Search Engine Journal
Google is Fixing a Technical Issue Causing Pages to be Deindexed Google is working on fixing a widespread technical issue that has led to web pages getting removed [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Console adds Android app filters to performance report More ways to slice and dice your Google Search Console performance report is here — from your [...] - Search Engine Land
5 steps to improve media performance using Google Analytics This is the second post in a series about how linking Google Analytics and Google Ads can help [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Algorithm Update Tools Going Off - Is It A False Alarm? The automated tracking tools that look for Google search algorithm updates and large ranking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Performance Report Gets Android App Filter I was checking stuff in Google Search Console and I see a filter in the search appearance filter [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Impact Challenge Dancers - Search Engine Roundtable
New Chrome Feature May Negatively Impact Publisher Revenues New Chrome browser feature has the potential to decrease advertising revenues. - Search Engine Journal
Google Expands Audience Reviews To Music We have seen audience reviews in the Google search results panel for TV and movies but now Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Still Working On Reindexing Pages That Dropped Out Of The Index From Thursday On Friday we reported on an issue where SEOs began noticing that Google was removing tons of pages [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Performance Report Discover Feed Data Google Discover, formerly the Google feed, is a great source of traffic for many web sites. But [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests More Graphical Google My Business Dashboard Google is experimenting with a new dashboard for the Google My Business section. The new dashboard [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Consumers largely unaware of fake reviews problem on Amazon Three-quarters of respondents indicated they "fully" or "somewhat" trusted [...] - Search Engine Land
There’s no shortcut to authority: Why you need to take E-A-T seriously Following expertise, authoritativeness and trustworthiness guidelines should be a part of every SEO [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 8, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 7 2019

New Google Content Algorithms and Ranking Effects New Google Content Algorithms may provide information on recent Google updates. - Search Engine Journal
Google’s de-indexing issue still not fully resolved but Google is working on it Not fixed yet - but Google is working on it and has been communicating better about the issue. - Search Engine Land

April, 6 2019

Google: De-indexing issue now fixed, result of “technical issues” Site owners who saw large percentages of pages no longer show as indexed in Google Search Console [...] - Search Engine Land

April, 5 2019

Google Is Dropping Pages Out Of The Search Index; A Bug? Something weird is going on with the Google search index. I am seeing wide spread reports of SEOs [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Paid social, even print tops SEM as marketing priorities for SMBs, survey finds Paid-search ranked near the bottom of the list for 2019. - Search Engine Land
Here’s how to use Google Tag Manager’s new Trigger Groups This update offers a new way to manage how often, and under what circumstances, a tag will fire in [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: The Web is Faster Since Page Speed Became a Ranking Factor Google says sites are faster and abandonment rates are down since making page speed a ranking [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Assistant to Return More Detailed Search Results on Android An update to Google Assistant on Android devices will allow it to provide better visual responses [...] - Search Engine Journal
‘Rich Answers’ coming to Google Assistant Beyond improving the experience, Google appears to be trying to harmonize Assistant and mobile [...] - Search Engine Land
More signs that Amazon is attracting bigger search ad budgets CPG brands, in particular, are investing more in Amazon ads, but the marketplace is still a long [...] - Search Engine Land
Google My Business Profiles Will Display Product Catalogs on Desktop and Mobile In an update to Google My Business profiles, product catalogs will now appear in desktop and mobile [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Content on Sites With Exploitative Removal Policies Can Be Deindexed Google has a solution for dealing with sites that exploit others through charging exorbitant fees [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 5, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 4 2019

Google data shows Page Speed update resulted in 15-20% speed increases among slower sites Webmasters, developers, SEOs and site owners took notice and the results are in: The web is faster, [...] - Search Engine Land
What killing rel=prev/next means for SEO Make sure it's clear to Google which page is your Page One – and don't sweat the legacy code. - Search Engine Land
User experience improvements with page speed in mobile search To help users find the answers to their questions faster, we included page speed as a ranking [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Machine reservations: Google’s Duplex expanding to more Android, iPhone users The technology appears to be ready for prime time as Google readies machine-based booking for [...] - Search Engine Land
April 2019 Google Webmaster Report This may have been one of the busiest months for Google SEO related topics we've seen maybe ever? [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 3 2019

Google warns SEOs to expect increases in issues in Search Console enhancement reports Don't panic if you see new issues and spikes in errors in the Google Search Console enhancement [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Rates the Mobile Usability of the Web’s Most Visited Sites Google launched the new resource Masterful Mobile Web which assesses the mobile experiences of most [...] - Search Engine Journal
The anatomy of an SEO robocall scheme With a lot of believable lies behind multiple companies, it becomes clear why it's so difficult to [...] - Search Engine Land
WP Google Maps Plugin Vulnerable to SQL Injection Exploit WP Google Maps issued a security update to fix a potentially dangerous vulnerability. - Search Engine Journal
Bing Makes Text Ads More Actionable With New Extension Bing Ads introduced a new extension which lets advertisers utilize call-to-action buttons with text [...] - Search Engine Journal
Capturing Special Video Moments with Google Photos Posted by Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan and David Ross, Software Engineers Recording video of [...] - Google Research
Google Assistant is Not Disclosing That Some Search Results are Ads Google Assistant isn't making users aware that some of its recommendations are being generated by [...] - Search Engine Journal

April, 2 2019

Local-Services ads appearing in Google Home voice results The company is not yet disclosing the fact that some of the results are ads. - Search Engine Land
Google's Ranking Algorithm Allows SEOs To Be Unique Google's John Mueller responded to a Reddit thread where the webmaster didn't understand why a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to conduct a content migration audit Here's how to determine exactly what content needs to be migrated and what can be safely retired [...] - Search Engine Land
Facebook’s “Why Am I Seeing This Post?” Explains How its News Feed Algorithm Works Facebook is adding a new component to the news feed that answers the question "why am I seeing [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Analytics and Google Ads: A Powerful Pairing Today’s customer journey doesn’t follow a standard path—it’s diverse, [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Knows When Their New Web Rendering Engine Will Be Released But Won't Say For a long time now, Google has been teasing that they are working on closing the gap between how [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 1 2019

Search Engine Journal Announces New Search Engine Look out, Ahrefs! Search Engine Journal's new search engine will eventually challenge your eventual [...] - Search Engine Journal
Content Strategy and the Google March 2019 Algorithm Update MarketMuse shares surprising content strategy trends associated with the March 2019 Update - Search Engine Journal
Google: Links Not Shown In Search Console Are Generally Irrelevant Google's John Mueller was answering questions around an old topic of Google showing only a sample [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads API v1_1 out: Update client libraries for new features The latest version incorporates new features for ads, conversions, reporting as well as Hotel Ads, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ranking Update Fluctuations Continue (3/29-4/1) These fluctuations won't die down, it seems like we've been reporting these tremors and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Keyword Planner Now Allows Up to 10 Seed Keywords Google Ads Keyword Planner has been updated with the ability to process up to 10 seed keywords. - Search Engine Journal
You Got Work To Do If Robotted Out Pages Is Out Ranking Your Content In Google Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that if your content on your site is being outranked by [...] - Search Engine Roundtable