Archive of May, 2019

May, 31 2019

Google to No Longer Display Text-Only AdSense Ads via @MattGSouthern In an effort to modernize its advertising products, Google is returning the text-only AdSense ad [...] - Search Engine Journal
Attacked by Negative SEO? Lost Rankings? Read This via @martinibuster Under attack by Negative SEO and disavowing links hasn't helped? This may help. - Search Engine Journal
Google Maps to Highlight a Restaurant’s Popular Dishes via @MattGSouthern A new feature in Google Maps utilizes machine learning to recommend a restaurant's most popular [...] - Search Engine Journal
Lamar Odom Gives Google Talk - Search Engine Roundtable
Big Changes To Google AdSense Including Removing Text-Only Ads Google sent out an email to AdSense publishers, including myself, yesterday, announcing big changes [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
PWA: How to avoid partial rendering issues with service workers When there are issues rendering pages server side to prevent correct rendering, the content can [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Lets Restaurants & Customers Add/Edit Popular Dishes Google announced yesterday that both restaurants and their customers can add popular dishes to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
15 Google Webmaster Conferences In India Coming Soon I didn't expect Google to announce that they are putting together a blitz of 15 different [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Implies It Got Better At Judging Quality Of Medical Sites Last August, I came up with this wild theory that the August 1, 2018 core update was more focused [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Quality In Romania & Other Countries Being Worked On I don't follow much about search quality with Google specifically outside of the United States [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update, Mobile-First Indexing, Indexing Bugs, Favicons, Search Quality & AdSense Another busy week in search where we had a possible Google search ranking algorithm update on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google is expanding when it shows ads to ‘people in targeted locations’ The advanced location targeting option update is aimed at reaching commuters -- whether they're at [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads Restrictions Are Impacting Third-Party Tech Support Providers via @MattGSouthern After restricting ads for third-party tech support services to "legitimate" providers, [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s John Mueller Answers Question About Negative SEO Attack via @martinibuster A webmaster asked John Mueller if he should disavow negative links by a competitor or wait for a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 31, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Study Shows High Ranking Websites Are Neglecting Accessibility via @MattGSouthern According to a recent study, the most neglected aspect of technical optimization is website [...] - Search Engine Journal

May, 30 2019

Twitter Lets Users Host Live Videos With Up to Three Guests via @MattGSouthern Twitter is upgrading its live streaming capabilities by letting up to four users broadcast [...] - Search Engine Journal
NEW: Chrome DevTools Can Override Geographic Location via @martinibuster Google announced that Chrome can now override your geographic location and show a different [...] - Search Engine Journal
Buddhist Monks At Google - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Chrome Omnibox Image Thumbnails In Search Suggestions I personally have disabled the omnibox search suggestions or autocompletes in Chrome but a bunch of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Time For Google To Update Your Favicon In Search? I've been covering the favicon change in the search results almost every day since it launched but [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Our Indexing Issues Fully Resolved - Really If you are still having indexing issues with Google, they are unrelated to the previous Google bugs [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Live: Google 3D Objects With AR Support In Search It is live - the 3D images in Google search results is now available to searchers. Just open your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Can Crawl Web Workers That Schedule Work Immediately Martin Splitt from Google confirmed that Google's crawler, GoogleBot, can indeed crawl and index [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Career Day: Reaching 300M a month at one of the largest health publishers Episode Overview Senior Director at Healthline Media, Ryan [...] - Searchmetrics
Now live: Google 3D images and AR integration in mobile search Have fun with 3D images in Google search by placing them in your room or office. - Search Engine Land
“Popular dishes” have arrived in Google Maps listings Machine learning will match restaurants’ most popular offerings with corresponding reviews. - Search Engine Land
Major Update to Moz Local in June 2019 via @martinibuster An exclusive interview with Moz Local details improvements that are coming in June 2019. - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 30, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 29 2019

Google’s John Mueller is Asked About Top 3 SEO Factors via @martinibuster Google's John Mueller answers question about top 3 SEO factors. - Search Engine Journal
Meet’n’Suite – Searchmetrics Roadshow kicks off in Switzerland On the 6th and 7th of May, Searchmetrics & Friends hosted the first event of our [...] - Searchmetrics
Google Retirement Home - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Busy Updating Developer Docs For SEOs & Webmasters Google has been very busy updating their developer documents related to structured data, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Knows How Changes Impact Billions Of Queries We know that when Google changes even a pixel on their web site, there are going to be vocal [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google To Notify Old Sites Not On Mobile-First Indexing But Maybe Not New Sites I asked Google's John Mueller in yesterday's Google hangout if Google will be notifying new sites [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Hints That Favicon Removals From Search May Be Automated I am really trying hard to understand the process webmasters and SEOs can take when it comes to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Early Signs Of A Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update I am seeing very early signs of a Google search ranking update that started last night and has been [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to run Screaming Frog SEO Spider in the cloud in 2019 By utilizing the power of a cloud provider with an open source operating system and software along [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Updates Guidelines on Using ‘How-to’ Structured Data via @MattGSouthern Google has updated its help document on using 'how-to' structured data with new guidelines about [...] - Search Engine Journal
Career Day: Becoming an expert in Google search with Kristin Vaughn Episode Overview How do B2B organizations get discovered on [...] - Searchmetrics
Google Ads is Removing Two Bidding Strategies in June via @MattGSouthern Google is planning to remove the 'Target Search Page Location' and 'Target Outranking Share' bid [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google sunsetting two bidding strategies in June IF you're using target outranking share or target search page location bidding, prepare to make a [...] - Search Engine Land
EfficientNet: Improving Accuracy and Efficiency through AutoML and Model Scaling Posted by Mingxing Tan, Staff Software Engineer and Quoc V. Le, Principal Scientist, Google AI [...] - Google Research
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 29, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
A favicon is worth a thousand keywords SEOs predictably unhappy about shrinking distinction between paid and organic mobile search results [...] - Search Engine Land
Instagram is Testing an “Order” Sticker for Stories via @MattGSouthern Instagram has been spotted testing "order" stickers in stories, which may indicate it's [...] - Search Engine Journal

May, 28 2019

23% of Small Businesses Say Visual Content is Most Effective via @MattGSouthern A recent study shows that nearly a quarter of small business owners believe visual content is [...] - Search Engine Journal
Mobile-First Indexing by default for new domains Over the years since announcing mobile-first indexing - Google's crawling of the web using a [...] - Google Webmaster Central
July 1: New sites will be indexed using Google’s mobile-first indexing Google to default to mobile-first indexing for new sites. Be sure to build web sites that work well [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Noogler Notebooks - Search Engine Roundtable
How to maximize social media traffic to your site How good exactly is social media at generating referral traffic? Let’s look at the facts. As [...] - Search Engine Land
Google To Index New Web Sites Using Mobile-First Indexing By Default Google announced this morning that starting on July 1, 2019 they will begin to index new web sites, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Already Penalizing Favicons In Search Google has launched their new mobile search design that shows favicons in the search snippets. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Mobile Search Video Box Shows Large & Small Video Thumbnails Google is now showing a video box in the mobile search results that highlights a large video at the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Disavow Tool Not Going Away - Just Use The Old Version For Now There has been some rumors floating around that Google is not going to migrate the disavow tool [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Pack Ad Label Feels Even More Subtle So with the new Google mobile design and the favicons and this ad label, the local pack has also [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Goodbye to average position on Google SERPs Average position is misinterpreted as a metric that shows the actual position of ads on SERPs. How [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Moves to Mobile-First Indexing by Default for New Websites via @MattGSouthern Mobile-first indexing will be enabled by default for all new websites as of July 1, 2019. - Search Engine Journal
91% of B2B Professionals Say Webinars Are Their Preferred Type of Content via @MattGSouthern A recent study shows that a vast majority of business-to-business (B2B) professionals prefer [...] - Search Engine Journal
People Are Using Instagram More, Facebook and Snapchat Less via @MattGSouthern Time spent on Instagram is expected to grow this year, while Facebook will not recover from last [...] - Search Engine Journal
The Ultimate Guide to Selling SEO You’ve got yourself an awesome product. You’re ready to roll it out to your customers. [...] - Search Engine Land
Yoast SEO 11.3 lets you add an image of a person to its structured data graph In its update notes, Yoast reminds us that sites below WordPress 5.2 may no longer be supported. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 28, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 27 2019

A moment of remembrance on Memorial Day I always wanted to be a Marine, but it wasn't until the first day of rugby practice at the Naval [...] - Inside Search
LinkedIn Says They Got Hit By A Google Algorithm Update In February 2017 It is incredibly rare for a public company to admit they got hit by an algorithmic update by Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Rainbow Staircases - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Really Honors Memorial Day For The First Time After years and years of doing absolutely nothing on the Google home page for Memorial Day or maybe [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Fixed The Indexing Issue Again & Again Google has confirmed yesterday that they fixed the indexing issue that started Thursday night with [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google To Produce More Q&A SEO Videos #AskGoogleWebmasters John Mueller from Google posted on Twitter that he will be creating more Q&A videos around SEO [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEOs Enjoying Google's Favicon Mobile Search Results Interface As you know, Google has started rolling out the new interface for the mobile search results that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdSense Ads Not Displaying - Widespread Complaints I am seeing widespread complaints over the past 24 hours or so from the Google AdSense community [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Displays an Unusual SERP With 30 Results via @MattGSouthern Google was recently spotted displaying a strange search results page with 30 organic listings. - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 27, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Instagram to Make Stories More Colorful for Pride Month in June via @MattGSouthern Instagram is taking its celebration of Pride Month a step further this year with rainbow story [...] - Search Engine Journal

May, 26 2019

Google has fixed the indexing issue from Thursday night 2.5 days after Google's new indexing bug, Google has confirmed the issue was fully resolved today. - Search Engine Land
Top 10 Personality Traits Marketers Need to Succeed [Study] via @MattGSouthern A recent study of marketing leaders aims to determine which character traits are common among those [...] - Search Engine Journal

May, 25 2019

April 2019 Google Outages Due to Human Error via @martinibuster Two independent witnesses share what a Googler said were the real reasons for the April 2019 index [...] - Search Engine Journal

May, 24 2019

Google’s indexing bug is back – new content not being indexed It's back, Google isn't able to index new fresh content right now. - Search Engine Land
NEW Google Indexing Issue Ongoing Friday May 24 via @martinibuster Google announced a new index outage. Remained unresolved as of Friday May 24, 2019. Rumors say that [...] - Search Engine Journal
Confirmed: New Google Indexing Issue Unrelated To Previous One Last night at around 8pm ET while in a taxi back to my home from the airport, I wrote on Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The London SEO Community Is Special I am sitting here in the London airport waiting for my flight out and I keep thinking how amazing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google NYC Unicorn - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Two Web Sites Out Of One Won't Result In Twice As Much Visibility Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that if you think it is a good idea to take your web site and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google May Have Fixed The Cache Page Delay If you look at the Google cache on many sites that are updated regularly (daily or more often), you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Speed Report Will Be Slow To Come Google announced a new speed report that they are beta testing while at Google I/O. They told us [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Map Pins With Your Company Logo Google is testing using company logos in map pins. Darren Friel spotted an example of this with [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update, Two Indexing Bugs, New Mobile Search Design, Quality Raters Guidelines & More It was a pretty busy week with a possible Google search algorithm update on Wednesday. In [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Twitter Experiments With Showing Users More Ads via @MattGSouthern Twitter is displaying more sponsored posts in users' feeds in an experiment that tests how often [...] - Search Engine Journal
The middle ground for single keyword ad groups (SKAGs) SKAGs is the practice of placing single keywords in an ad group. With Google’s user intent [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google’s Disavow Tool Doesn’t Work With Search Console Domain Properties via @MattGSouthern Google's disavow links tool apparently doesn't work with the new domain properties in Search [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 24, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google moves hotel pricing chart into the SERP By improving the consumer travel-search experience Google is also going after a larger share of [...] - Search Engine Land

May, 23 2019

Google Can Now Index The Web Again Yesterday we were the first to report that Google was having an issue indexing the web. Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Index Issues Resolved – What Happened? via @martinibuster Google announced that it's indexing issues have been fixed. Is something going on at Google? - Search Engine Journal
What is the State of Links and Ranking in 2019? via @martinibuster The type of links that matter may have changed. Kicking up links in 2019. - Search Engine Journal
Google SEO Myth Busting Video On GoogleBot Yesterday Google posted the second video in the SEO Myth busting video series, this one was on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Won't Be Impacted By The Latest Indexing Bug So now that the indexing bug from yesterday is fully resolved, I had to ask if we should expect any [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
A Skype License Plate On Tesla At Google - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Mobile Search Redesign Live: Favicons & Ad Label Blending For years Google has been testing placing the URL at the top of the search result snippet. Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Shows Green Map Pins For Local Pack Ads The folks in the Local Search Forums spotted Google showing green map pins in the local pack map [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Was There A Google Search Algorithm Update Around May 22nd? Over the past couple of days there has been limited chatter around ranking fluctuations and changes [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Lighthouse Success Stories: Improving Performance with Technical Optimization With Google Lighthouse, you can quickly and easily assess the technical performance of any URL. [...] - Searchmetrics
Google’s indexing issue is now resolved – new content being indexed Google has fixed the issue with getting new and fresh content into their index. - Search Engine Land
Career Day: Avinash Conda, retail high-flyer and SEO expert shares his path to success Episode Overview Amateur pilot, marketing expert, sought-after [...] - Searchmetrics
How crawl budget has changed in the last 2 years Here's what you need to know about crawl budget and what it all means for your optimization efforts [...] - Search Engine Land
What’s for dinner? Order it with Google French fries, lettuce wraps, massaman curry, chicken wings, cupcakes—I could go on. When I [...] - Inside Search
Moving Camera, Moving People: A Deep Learning Approach to Depth Prediction Posted by Tali Dekel, Research Scientist and Forrester Cole, Software Engineer, Machine Perception [...] - Google Research
Google brings ‘end-to-end’ food ordering to Search, Maps, Google Assistant This is part of a larger effort to own consumer transactions and help users "get things [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 23, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Adds Ability to Order Food Directly From Search Results via @MattGSouthern Google is rolling out a new ability to Search, Maps, and Assistant that allows users to order from [...] - Search Engine Journal

May, 22 2019

LinkedIn Users Can View All Sponsored Content From the Past 6 Months via @MattGSouthern LinkedIn pages will feature an 'Ads' tab showing all sponsored content an advertiser has run in the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Easy set-up guide for Bing’s Adaptive URL submission API Quick Setup guide for Bing's Adaptive URL Submission API. Integrate today with your website to get [...] - Bing Webmaster
Google Juice - Drinking The Google Water - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Algorithm Updates & Data Refreshes Are Different Systems All of you know there are ranking algorithms, data refreshes and infrastructure changes - those are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Stopped Indexing The Web? There may be a serious Google bug or it might just be a interface issue - I am not sure - but if [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Renaming Posts To Updates Mike Blumenthal spotted Google renaming the Google Posts section in the local knowledge panel from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
GoogleBot May Be Injecting Unwanted Meta Data Into Your Page Let me first start off with the title may sound more scary than it is, but I tried hard to come up [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Explains How To Submit URLs Via API Remember earlier this year Bing wanted to slow crawling the web and request webmasters to push them [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google not indexing recent content? A new Google bug? It looks like another Google bug. Good luck finding new content within the hour. - Search Engine Land
Brian White, A Lead Spam Fighter Leaves Google Brian White worked at Google for over 16 years, joining the company before I started this blog back [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google rolling out mobile search redesign with black “Ad” label, favicons for organic results The new look brings some branding to the search results, but also preps the results pages for more [...] - Search Engine Land
A new look for Google Search Our goal with Search always has been to help people quickly and easily find the information that [...] - Inside Search
Google Confirms a Bug Preventing New Content from Being Indexed via @MattGSouthern Google is experiencing a major issue that is preventing new content from being indexed in search [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google is Adding Favicons to Mobile Search Results via @MattGSouthern Google will soon roll out a new look for mobile search results which includes favicons in SERPs. - Search Engine Journal
How to become a top seller on Amazon using the latest SEO techniques Episode Overview On Amazon’s highly competitive [...] - Searchmetrics
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 22, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s URL Parameter Tool Does Not Remove URLs From Search Results via @MattGSouthern Google's John Mueller cleared up a misconception about the URL parameter tool in Search Console, [...] - Search Engine Journal

May, 21 2019

How to check why PPC performance changed There are lots of moving pieces in PPC campaigns and that can make it challenging to pinpoint the [...] - Search Engine Land
Glass Enterprise Edition 2 - Google Glass 2 Again? Yesterday Google announced version 2.0 of Google Glass again. I say again because 2.0 I thought [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google URL Inspection Tool Is Not For Images Google's URL Inspection tool within Google Search Console only works for web pages. It doesn't [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Yandex Webmaster Tools: SEOs Should Check It Out Have you ever checked out the Yandex webmaster tools? Yandex is a huge Russian search engine but [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google John Mueller: Voice Search Query Data Shouldn't Be A Priority For years and years now, Google has been suggesting that Google Search Console way add ways to see [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Street View Car In A Ditch - Search Engine Roundtable
Googlebot renders, indexes AJAX-style dynamic content driven by XHR POST More of your dynamic content can now be indexed by Google. - Search Engine Land
Cars.com vs. CarGurus.com saga shows the importance of SEO (and the bad side of a Google update) When an algorithm update slams one of your biggest rivals, that's when you should step on the gas. - Search Engine Land
What’s wrong with translating keywords? Translation automation relies on written language but the impact of speech for user-chosen keywords [...] - Search Engine Land
Five ways blockchain will impact search marketing Five major ways blockchain will impact search marketing, and how advertising professionals are [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Ads Offers New Recommendations to Improve Optimization Score via @MattGSouthern Google Ads is making its optimization score even more useful by adding new recommendations to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 21, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
YouTube to Stop Showing Full Subscriber Counts via @MattGSouthern YouTube will no longer publicly display full subscriber counts for channels with 1,000+ subscribers. - Search Engine Journal

May, 20 2019

Google Ads Introduces Three New Bidding Strategies via @MattGSouthern Google has introduced three new bidding strategies for Google Ads advertisers that offer more [...] - Search Engine Journal
Top 10 Google Ads Announcements From Google Marketing Live 2019 via @MattGSouthern Google Marketing Live concluded last week after two days full of announcements related to new [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google on Domain Penalties that Don’t Expire via @martinibuster John Mueller discusses a problem where an old penalty remains with a domain and keeps it from [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Testing New Beta Versions Of Chromium On GoogleBot Google has been caught testing features that do not work in Chrome 74, but work in Chrome 75. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Hit Machine Drummers At Google - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Updates The Search Quality Raters Guidelines After 10 Months The last time Google updated the search quality raters guidelines was in July 2018. On May 16, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google URL Inspection Tool Labels 410 HTTP Status Codes As 404 Did you know that the URL Inspection Tool within Google Search Console will label a 410 HTTP server [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: POST Requests Use More Crawl Budget Than GET Requests Martin Splitt from Google said one thing you need to be aware of when it comes to Google handling [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: No Need To Block Pieces Of Content From GoogleBot It is common, you visit a web site, click through the web pages on that web site and you see that a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
These are the Google Ads reporting metrics still affected by May 2 bug The company is still working to fully correct reporting for May 1 and 2. - Search Engine Land
Study Shows Consumers Trust Websites More Than Google My Business via @MattGSouthern New research reveals local business websites hold more weight than Google My Business listings when [...] - Search Engine Journal
21% of People Are Using Voice Search Every Week [STUDY] via @MattGSouthern A new study reveals the rate at which people are adopting voice search to find local business [...] - Search Engine Journal
SEMrush expands to Amazon with Sellerly for product page testing The product detail page optimization testing tool is free for Amazon sellers. - Search Engine Land
Be smart, advertisers. Here’s how to approach rising Google brand CPC While we are at the mercy of Google’s auction systems in determining CPC, we can install [...] - Search Engine Land
50% of Small Businesses Do Not Have a Marketing Plan via @MattGSouthern A new study on small business owners in the US finds that many are operating without a marketing [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 20, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Image Classification Image Classification in the past Back in 2008, I was writing about how a search engine might learn [...] - SEO by the Sea

May, 18 2019

Google Updates Quality Rater Guidelines Targeting E-A-T, Page Quality & Interstitials There is a brand new version of the Google Quality Rater Guidelines, and here are all the changes [...] - The SEM Post
Link Distance Ranking Algorithms via @martinibuster Understanding link ranking algorithms may improve how you approach link building. - Search Engine Journal

May, 17 2019

The Forgotten History of Link Ranking Algorithms via @martinibuster Google's link algorithms are always changing and being improved. Learn how links may be used today. - Search Engine Journal
Google Garden - Search Engine Roundtable
GoogleBot Supports Simple POST Requests Martin Splitt from Google responded to a question from an SEO around if Googlebot support fetch (or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Won't Show Content Hidden Within Tabs In Search Snippets We know Google has said numerous times that content hidden within tabs on mobile is something that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Change Of Plan: Google Images Not Changing Referral URL July 2018 Google told us they would be changing the referral source URL from Google Images from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Searchers Now Seeing Google Ads In Discover Feed We knew this was coming, Google said ads will be shown in the Google Discover feed and yes, it is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Open Sources Their Vector Search Algorithm To Make Finding Results Fast Bing announced they have made their Space Partition Tree And Graph (SPTAG) vector search algorithm [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Says No Updates, GoogleBot Info, Google Discovery & Gallery Ads, Bing Algorithms & Much More It was a busy week, Google told us there were no core updates or infrastructure updates recently [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google says image search referrals will not get new source URL (but forgets to tell us) The company teases publishers with more traffic data and then retracts that offer. - Search Engine Land
How voice search changes everything Voice search and voice-powered experiences are two of today’s hottest topics — and for [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads unveils several fine-tuning controls for bidding strategies Campaign-level conversions and a new smart bidding strategy are among the new features. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 17, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google updates Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines The updates add guidelines on content expertise and interstitial pages, while lumping [...] - Search Engine Land

May, 16 2019

51% of Marketers Believe They’re Not Delivering the Right Content via @MattGSouthern New research reveals over half of marketers aren't delivering the right content to the right [...] - Search Engine Journal
Career Day: Lessons on fierce marketing entrepreneurship from SEO Kelsey Jones Episode Overview A leader in the SEO space, Kelsey Jones, [...] - Searchmetrics
Google Shares Top 3 SEO Factors via @martinibuster Google's Martin Splitt shared the top 3 SEO factors. Then he answered an unexpected question about [...] - Search Engine Journal
GoogleBot Jewelry From Pandora Charms - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Top Three Things A Developer Can Do For Search Rankings Doesn't Include Links Google's Martin Splitt posted the first SEO Mythbusting series and in there, a developer asked him [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's First SEO Mythbusting Video Didn't Have Mythbusting Watching the comments about Google's first mythbusting video reminds me of the comments around the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
CJR Audit Claims Google Shows Limited Number Of News Sources The Columbia Journalism Review posted an audit that showed that just 20 news sources account for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Performance Planner In Google Ads Google Ads announced a new performance planner tool that identifies the best spend amounts for your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Trips: Hotels, Flights, Weather, Things To Do & More Google announced Google Trips, a more consolidated view of using Google for trips, travel and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New visual search innovations tap human emotions and biological buying triggers Shopping on social media channels is spreading quickly as the next big thing. The rise of visual [...] - Search Engine Watch
Instagram’s Explore Page Now Includes Stories via @MattGSouthern Instagram stories are set to reach an even greater audience as they can now be discovered in the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Search at Google I/O 2019 Google I/O is our yearly developer conference where we have the pleasure of announcing some [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Facebook Rolls Out Multiple Updates to its News Feed Ranking Algorithm via @MattGSouthern Facebook is updating its news feed algorithm to prioritize the ranking of more personal content. - Search Engine Journal
Microsoft goes open source with one of its Bing algorithms Microsoft's Space Partition Tree and Graph algorithm enables developers to apply vector search to [...] - Search Engine Land
Mobile, desktop search traffic split may have stabilized at roughly 60% – 40% Hitwise found an average of 61.3% of searches across key categories were initiated on mobile [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 16, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Why are Googlers So Confident About Link Spam? via @martinibuster Googlers are so confident in their ability to catch spam, that some consider the disavow tool [...] - Search Engine Journal
Twitter Updates TweetDeck With Support for GIFs, Threads, and More via @MattGSouthern Twitter is rolling out several updates to TweetDeck that include support for features it has been [...] - Search Engine Journal

May, 15 2019

Google Lets Users Shop Directly From Search, Images, and YouTube via @MattGSouthern Google is expanding its shopping experience, letting users add items to a universal shopping cart [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s Smart Shopping Campaigns Can Be Optimized for In-Store Visits via @MattGSouthern Google will soon allow retailers to optimize Smart Shopping Campaigns for store visits and display [...] - Search Engine Journal
Facebook Gives a Heads-Up About a New Tool That May Affect Ad Targeting via @MattGSouthern A new tool for users to manage how their off-Facebook activity is used by advertisers may affect ad [...] - Search Engine Journal
Danny Sullivan Reminds Google of Webmaster Ecosystem via @martinibuster Google's Danny Sullivan shares how he conveys webmaster concerns to Google. - Search Engine Journal
Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg & Yonca Dervisoglu Give Google Talk - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Says Cache Date Bug To Be Fixed Soon After months and months of complaints from the SEO community, Danny Sullivan from Google said the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
3 ad copy mistakes keeping you from paid search success Although Google provides data on keywords, bids and other aspects of your paid search campaigns, it [...] - Search Engine Land
Danny Sullivan Presents Webmaster & SEO Complaints At Google Ranking Fair Danny Sullivan who is now at Google told us about these ranking fairs, where Googlers can show off [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEOs Not Happy With Google Ads Announcements As I briefly covered, Google announced tons of new ad features yesterday - two of the more [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads New Discovery Ads, Gallery Ads, Showcase Shopping Ads, App Deep Linking & More Google had their big Marketing Live event where they announced a boat load of new ad features [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: No Changes With Search Algorithm Or Infrastructure Last Friday I reported about potential Google search ranking updates and then SEJ reported that I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Kenshoo Trends Report – The state of search advertising in 2019 The search industry's interest goes beyond Google, Apple Search Ads' on the rise. Kenshoo reveals [...] - Search Engine Watch
YouTube, what does it take to go viral? Insider SEO tips for top-ranking video Episode Overview When it comes to developing YouTube videos, [...] - Searchmetrics
54% of Podcast Listeners Will Consider Buying From Brands They Hear Advertised via @MattGSouthern A report on podcast listeners reveals over half are likely to consider buying from a brand [...] - Search Engine Journal
Introducing Translatotron: An End-to-End Speech-to-Speech Translation Model Posted by Ye Jia and Ron Weiss, Software Engineers, Google AI Speech-to-speech translation [...] - Google Research
“Trips” consolidates Google’s travel offerings Enables advertisers and marketers to reach travelers on desktop and mobile. - Search Engine Land
The big picture from Google Marketing Live: With multi-channel campaigns, Google aims to own the funnel The company introduced new and expanded ad surfaces for campaigns that run across multiple [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 15, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Yoast SEO 11.2 lets webmasters tailor their schema output New filters facilitate adding or removing from the schema graph. - Search Engine Land
Facebook’s Best Practices For Maximizing Video Distribution via @MattGSouthern Facebook has published a set of best practices to help pages achieve greater reach with video posts. - Search Engine Journal

May, 14 2019

YouTube is Developing a Tool That Creates 6-Second Ads Automatically via @MattGSouthern YouTube is working on a tool called a "Bumper Machine" that can cut down a longer ad into [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Infrastructure Update RIGHT NOW? via @martinibuster Signs appear to indicate that Google making a major infrastructure update to it's algorithm. - Search Engine Journal
Peter The Greeter - Welcomes Everyone To Google - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Rolled Out The New GoogleBot Over Several Months Just an FYI, Google did not simply flip the switch last week and turn on the new GoogleBot, the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: New GoogleBot & Indexing Bugs Unrelated Google's Martin Splitt said the new GoogleBot has zero impact or was completely unrelated to the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Steven Levy: Google Search Results Overrates Freshness As A Ranking Signal Steven Levy, the tech reporter that most tech reporters look up to. He has interviewed legends of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Don't Just Blindly Delete Old Pages Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that it doesn't necessarily make sense to just go into your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEO Test Proves New GoogleBot Is Live Valentin Pletzer didn't want to just take Google's word that the new evergreen GoogleBot is live, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
51% of D2C Brands Say SEO is a Top Acquisition Channel via @MattGSouthern A report on direct-to-consumer (D2C) marketing in 2019 finds that SEO is a top acquisition channel [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google bringing new Shopping experience with personalization, local and better checkout to U.S. next The redesign and new features aim to lure shoppers away from Amazon. - Search Engine Land
Google’s giant gallery ads for search are coming: What they are and how you’ll pay for them Advertisers can feature up to eight images in gallery ads, Google's new mobile search ad format. - Search Engine Land
New native Discovery ad campaigns from Google monetize Discover feed for first time Discovery campaigns run across YouTube home feed, Gmail social and promotions tabs and Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Google announces new ‘discovery’ ad formats, revamped Shopping experience, native placements at Google Marketing Live The company also announced a new Google Shopping experience that aspires to be more competitive [...] - Search Engine Land
Making it easier to shop across Google Each day, hundreds of millions of people do shopping-related searches on Google. Now, we’re [...] - Inside Adwords
Getting started on YouTube just got easier Every month, more than 2 billion people turn to YouTube for entertainment, inspiration and [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Marketing Live: Building for the new consumer journey Today, mobile phones allow people to engage more often, in more ways, and from more places than [...] - Inside Adwords
Google says no core update or infrastructure changes have occurred despite chatter The company says the rumors are not legit - there was no major update to Google search recently. - Search Engine Land
Google Confirms it Will Show Ads on its Mobile Home Page via @MattGSouthern Google has introduced a new ad unit that will be displayed on the search engine's home page in [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 14, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Trips Could Disrupt Travel Business via @martinibuster Google rolled out the Trips travel planning service to the desktop and a tighter integration [...] - Search Engine Journal
Performance Planner now live in Google Ads: Shows predicted impact of campaign changes on conversions, clicks, more Forecasts are calculated using historical campaign and auction data. - Search Engine Land

May, 13 2019

Google NYC Allows Model Photoshoots? - Search Engine Roundtable
Google PageSpeed Insights Implements Design Update Google's PageSpeed Insights, last week, as I noted very briefly my weekly video this past Friday, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Georgios Papanikolaou Pap Smear Google Doodle Today on Google's home page is a special Doodle, Google logo, for Georgios Papanikolaou. Georgios [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Old Google Cache Date Is Nothing To Worry About Like expired milk, and old Google cache date won't hurt you. Well, at least expired milk according [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
User-generated content for SEO: The cost-benefit analysis you need Understand the pros of UGC and precautions to make sure it helps, not hurts, your SEO efforts. - Search Engine Land
Google: Crawl Budgets & Delays Not About Page Size This past Friday, while at the GooglePlex, John Mueller, Martin Splitt and Lizzi Harvey from the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search and JavaScript Sites I/O Session I covered most of the important news from the Google Search: State of the Union session but Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
I/O announcements have some applauding and others shaking their fists Marketers continue to accuse Google of stealing their clicks. - Search Engine Land
Google Launches a New Performance Planner for Google Ads via @MattGSouthern Google Ads is getting a new tool in the form of a Performance Planner that helps with planning ad [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 13, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 10 2019

Lucy Wills Google Doodle Today on Google.com is a special Google Doodle, a special Google logo, for Lucy Wills' 131st [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Automobile With Donuts - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Tests Design & Layout Update It looks like the folks at Google My Business are testing and maybe rolling out yet another new [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Audio Podcasts Now In Google Search You can now discover, see and listen to audio podcasts directly in search. This was part of the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEOs: Here Is What Is Coming To Google Image Search That Matter For the past several months both John Mueller and Gary Illyes from Google have been telling [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Algorithm Update Signals Around May 9th I am seeing some limited chatter around a possible Google search algorithm update around May 9th, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Update, Evergreen GoogleBot, Image Search Features & I/O This week I covered the monthly Google Webmaster report, so catch up on the past month there. It [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Is Google caching getting even more confusing? Even if "it doesn't mean much," seeing organic rating data not matching the latest crawl [...] - Search Engine Land
Evergreen Googlebot with Chromium rendering engine: What technical SEOs need to know Googlebot now supports many more features and will make it easier for developers to ensure their [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 10, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads store visits, store sales reporting data partially corrected Google says it is making progress, but there are still days for which reporting is inaccurate. - Search Engine Land

May, 9 2019

Google confirms store visits, store sales reporting data incorrect from 4/28 on The problem is tied to the Google Ads reporting bug identified on May 2. - Search Engine Land
Google: SEO Contests Are Useless and Should Be Ignored Google's John Mueller sounded off on SEO contests, warning people they're a waste of time and [...] - Search Engine Journal
Poll Reveals Negative Facebook Marketing Trend 4,800 Social Media Marketers indicate that Facebook marketing trends are taking an unprecedented [...] - Search Engine Journal
The Fungineers At Google I/O - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: SEO Contests Useless, Waste Of Time & Generate Tons Of Spam Every now and then you hear about a new SEO contest where you can win money, prizes, recognition [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console New Speed Report At Google I/O they demonstrated a new report within Google Search Console named the Speed Report. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Officially Launches FAQ & How-To Structured Data Markup Google announced it a year ago at Google I/O 2018 but didn't launch FAQ and How-to structured data [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
More Details On Evergreen GoogleBot: Two Waves, Old User Agents & More Google launched the evergreen GoogleBot, a GoogleBot that will be up-to-date with the latest [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
There’s a new Speed Report coming to Google Search Console You can request beta access to this new speed report today. - Search Engine Land
Digital marketing strategy guide for B2B industrial manufacturers Most of the time, people that gather information to find suppliers are engineers, [...] - Search Engine Watch
How online presence and SEO can make or break your local business Episode Overview In this episode of the Searchmetrics Voices of Search [...] - Searchmetrics
Mobilizing for summer: Google Marketing Live 2019 We are just five days away from Google Marketing Live, my favorite event of the year. It’s [...] - Inside Adwords
Google teases Google Ads app, Local campaigns announcements ahead of Google Marketing Live next week Google Marketing Live will be held May 14. - Search Engine Land
Google Ads App Can Now Create More Types of Ads On-the-Go Google unveiled some updates to the Google Ads app which will let users create more ads and manage [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google now rolling out podcast results in search Can you hear me now? Yes, Google is now showing podcast results in search. - Search Engine Land
Google Shows Off the New Speed Report Coming to Search Console Google previewed the new page speed performance report making its way to Search Console. - Search Engine Journal
An End-to-End AutoML Solution for Tabular Data at KaggleDays Posted by Yifeng Lu, Software Engineer, Google AI Machine learning (ML) for tabular data (e.g. [...] - Google Research
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 9, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google to add support for higher quality images in search, swipe up images & 3D images Google Images is often overlooked, but it can be a great source of traffic. Here are some new [...] - Search Engine Land
Facebook Makes Multiple Changes to Ad Policies for Financial Services Facebook is modifying its policies related to advertising blockchain, cryptocurrency, and financial [...] - Search Engine Journal
New app rating formula headed to Google Play will favor newer reviews Recent ratings will carry more weight to reflect the current state of your app. - Search Engine Land
Facebook Launches New Tools for Small Businesses Facebook is rolling out new tools to help businesses run automated ad campaigns, book appointments, [...] - Search Engine Journal

May, 8 2019

Google Brings Augmented Reality to Search Results Today at Google I/O, the company announced features in Google Search that utilize Google Lens and [...] - Search Engine Journal
3 Ways to Measure Link Quality 3 tips for measuring quality from nearly 20 years of link building. - Search Engine Journal
Google I/O Digital Detox Area Was Empty - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Top Stories To Add News Timelines, Search & Play Podcasts & More At Google I/O yesterday, Google first announced updates to how they will handle top stories in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Code Lab Supports Structured Data, Single Page Apps & Dynamic Rendering Martin Splitt from Google announced while at Google I/O yesterday that they have updated the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Adds 3D Objects With AR Support Google demonstrated at I/O yesterday a search feature where you can bring up 3D objects and then [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
GoogleBot Runs Latest Chrome - This Is Big News Probably the biggest news for the SEO industry out of Google I/O yesterday was that Google said [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Mobile Friendly Test Not Using Latest Chromium Yet With the big news around Googlebot now being evergreen and running the latest version of Chromium [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Smart strategies for growing your app business with ads Every year Google I/O showcases the delight that technology can bring to our lives. Mobile apps [...] - Inside Adwords
Titan of search Duane Forrester shares his inside SEO knowledge on brand and local optimization Episode Overview In this episode of the Searchmetrics Voices [...] - Searchmetrics
Should we be paying for Google My Business features? Paying for GMB features would be a handy new revenue stream for Google, but how it manages trust [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search adds support for FAQ and How-to structured data Google now supports more structured data and adds two new enhancement reports within Google Search [...] - Search Engine Land
New in structured data: FAQ and How-to Over the last few weeks, we've been discussing structured data: first providing best practices [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Announcing Open Images V5 and the ICCV 2019 Open Images Challenge Posted by Vittorio Ferrari, Research Scientist, Machine Perception In 2016, we introduced Open [...] - Google Research
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 8, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 7 2019

Facebook Changes How Videos Rank in the News Feed Facebook is making three distinct changes to the way videos are distributed in the news feed. - Search Engine Journal
Twitter Lets Users Add Photos, Videos, and GIFs to Retweets Twitter is expanding the 'retweet with comment' option to include photos, videos, and GIFs. - Search Engine Journal
Google on Content Theft and Effect on Rankings Google gives a definitive answer on content theft and how it impacts rankings. - Search Engine Journal
Google I/O Registration Badge, Water Bottle & More - Search Engine Roundtable
What SEOs & Webmasters Should Watch At Google I/O Google published an agenda of which sessions they think would be most relevant and useful to SEOs [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Weirdness: Hmm... the results for your search don't seem very relevant I have seen numerous reports of Google showing very weird search results, or lack there of, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's New How Google News Works Portal Google launched a new portal named How News Works on Google. This is similar to the How Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Reporting Also Buggy The folks in the Local Search Forums are complaining that some of their clients are showing weird [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Disallowed URLs Can Still Collect Links Just like you can sometimes see listings in Google search for URLs that are disallowed, those URLs [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search experiments with showing less relevant search results when requested Google experiments with a message in search that reads, "Hmm... the results for your search [...] - Search Engine Land
The evolution of SEO and the shift from point solutions to platform SEO methods and insights are supporting strategy and decision making beyond website content. [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google announced updates to news in search, adds 3D support to search results and more Breaking news from Google I/O on search related topics including Google top stories, AR and 3D [...] - Search Engine Land
Helpful new visual features in Search and Lens Sometimes, the easiest way to wrap your head around new information is to see it. Today at I/O, we [...] - Inside Search
Google Confirms Testing Pages With Zero Search Results Google confirmed it's running a test which involves showing zero search results for queries when no [...] - Search Engine Journal
Raising the bar on transparency, choice and control in digital advertising Advertising has made possible open access to quality information and communication on the [...] - Inside Adwords
IAB: U.S. search spend grew 19% in 2018, but its share of digital ad spend ticked down, again Search remains the primary digital format, but video continues to see rapid spend growth. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 7, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s web crawler Googlebot now runs on the latest version of Chromium: Why that’s a good thing Googlebot has been upgraded and should now be able to crawl more modern web sites with less of an [...] - Search Engine Land
The new evergreen Googlebot Googlebot is the crawler that visits web pages to include them within Google Search index. The [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google to Improve Search Experience for News and Podcasts Google has plans to upgrade search results with more complete news coverage as well as podcast [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google search bug has search suggestions crawling off the page Google, that just looks ugly. Can you fix it? - Search Engine Land
Google Will Keep Googlebot Up-to-Date With the Latest Version of Chrome Google is making Googlebot evergreen, meaning it will be continually updated every time a new [...] - Search Engine Journal

May, 6 2019

Free Google Enterprise Anti-Scraper Beta Google announced a free trial of Enterprise reCAPTCHA currently in Beta that blocks automated [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Teacher Appreciate Week Doodle Today on Google's home page in the US is a Doodle, a special Google logo, for teacher appreciation [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google I/O Nails Code - Search Engine Roundtable
Meet Gary Illyes From Google In Hyde Park In Sydney & Get Free Pizza Gary Illyes said he will be in Hyde Park, Sydney this Wednesday and at 5pm at Buckley's Sydney he [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's John Mueller: Learning About Information Retrieval Will Be Useful Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that "learning how information retrieval algorithms work [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Change Of Address Tool Not Working I am hearing reports of the change of address tool in Google Search Console is not working. I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
May 2019 Google Webmaster Report The past month in terms of Google search, SEO and webmaster related topics can be summed up into [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Who are the Search Winners and Losers after Google’s March Core Update? Episode Overview Google’s March Core Update saw [...] - Searchmetrics
How AI is powering real-time SEO research: Insights and optimization Around 77% of C-level executives recently reported that business adoption of AI initiatives is a [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google at ICLR 2019 Posted by Andrew Helton, Editor, Google AI Communications This week, New Orleans, LA hosts the [...] - Google Research
Google I/O 2019 - What sessions should SEOs and webmasters watch? Google I/O 2019 is starting tomorrow and will run for 3 days, until Thursday. Google I/O is our [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Ads reporting bug fix halfway there Reporting for the full month of April is now correct. - Search Engine Land
The real-time SEO shift: Research, ranking and recommendations SEOs need to consider ways to put automation to work while also keeping up with Google’s [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads’ automated recommendations could become more ubiquitous In a new test, recommendations show on related areas in the web UI. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 6, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Deprecates Old Keyword Planner, New Version is Now Complete Google is deprecating the old Keyword Planner this week as the new version is now finalized. - Search Engine Journal

May, 4 2019

Google Celebrates Star Wars Day With Search Console Easter Eggs May the 4th be with those using Search Console this weekend. Google's added Star Wars sounds, [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google on Effect of Low Quality Pages on Sitewide Rankings Google's surprising answer to whether shady pages can drag down an entire website's rankings. - Search Engine Journal

May, 3 2019

Google Ads Reporting is Currently Delayed Until Further Notice Reporting data for Google Ads and AdSense is currently delayed as a result of a bug discovered on [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Introduces Three New Search Console Reports Google is bringing three new reports to Search Console which are all related to structured data. - Search Engine Journal
Google Employee Wearing A Giraffe Hat - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Star Wars Mode For Star Wars Day Everyone in our community is talking about how Google Search Console is doing a special theme [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Launches Video Series On SEO Myth-Busting Google has announced with a video on the Google Webmasters YouTube channel a new video series [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Adds Three New Reports Google announced three new reports to Google Search Console yesterday. They include uparsable [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
5 Months Later Google Has Not Fixed A Googlebot Search Exploit Tom Anthony after 5 months of informing Google about a way to manipulate Googlebot to execute [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Mobile-First Indexing Is Still On Track & Making Good Progress It has been a while since we talked about Google's mobile-first indexing initiative and the last we [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Survey: More consumers trust accuracy of SMB websites over Google My Business BrightLocal also found an overwhelming consumer preference for phone calls vs. other channels such [...] - Search Engine Land
Hey Google, Yelp, DoorDash, and Amazon are the vertical search players in town Episode Overview Google is not the only search player in town. With competition from [...] - Searchmetrics
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Update, Search Console Data Loss, Bing Ads Now Microsoft Advertising & Star Wars This was a super busy week starting with a possible Google search algorithm update over the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Announcing Google-Landmarks-v2: An Improved Dataset for Landmark Recognition & Retrieval Posted by Bingyi Cao and Tobias Weyand, Software Engineers, Google AI Last year we released [...] - Google Research
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 3, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 2 2019

Instagram to Let Creators Tag Products in Posts Instagram will soon let creators link to products in posts, which users can shop for without [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Welcomes The San Francisco 49ers - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads & AdSense Confirmed Reporting Delays Both Google Ads and Google AdSense are having reporting delays. Google has confirmed the delays [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Don’t rely on Google Ads reporting for Apr 30, May 1 until further notice Details are scant in an alert currently showing in the Google Ads UI. - Search Engine Land
Multi-brand digital initiatives: Thinking web system, not web site A thorough inventory to identify common and unique elements for businesses with multiple brands and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Buggier Now More Than Usual? Google Responds. I was asked by someone on Twitter last week if Google is more buggier than normal these days, with [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console's Lost Data Directly Related To Indexing Bug I was confused as to why Google Search Console lost 16-days worth of data if the indexing bug [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Manual Actions Now Back After Disappearing Yesterday we reported that Google Search Console had yet another bug, this time with your manual [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: If It's Not Obvious Which Links Hurt You Then It's Not Hurting Or Helping Google's John Mueller posted one of his classic tweets the other day around links. He said to an [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Optimizing for China’s Baidu search engine with its two billion users worldwide Episode Overview Over the past decade, China has blocked access of its 1.3 + billion [...] - Searchmetrics
Monitoring structured data with Search Console In our previous post in the structured data series, we discussed what structured data is and why [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Sitelinks searchbox, logo enhancement and unparsable structured data report added to GSC Check out these three new reporting goodies Google just added to Search Console. - Search Engine Land
Google launches new video series: SEO Mythbusting The new video series from the Google Webmaster Trends Analyst team aims to clarify common [...] - Search Engine Land
Sites vulnerable to XSS can be used to phish Googlebot How to protect your site from being used in XSS exploits. - Search Engine Land
Google Steps Up Its Content Game With New YouTube Series on SEO Myths Google is preparing to launch a new video series on SEO myths which is drastically different from [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 2, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Data for Most of April is Inaccurate Google alerted site owners that nearly all of last month's reports in Search Console were affected [...] - Search Engine Journal

May, 1 2019

14% of “Normal” Americans Think Facebook is the Next Social Network to Shut Down A survey on social network closures finds a notable amount of "normal" Americans think [...] - Search Engine Journal
24% of Search Marketers Are Now Running Responsive Search Ads Responsive search ads (RSAs) are catching on quickly with search marketers after being introduced [...] - Search Engine Journal
Facebook is Introducing New Business Tools for Messenger Facebook is making Messenger even more useful for businesses with tools designed to generate leads [...] - Search Engine Journal
Mark Zuckerberg Announced a New eCommerce and Payment Platform Mark Zuckerberg announced that WhatsApp Business will become an eCommerce platform, complete with [...] - Search Engine Journal
Ruth Asawa Google Wire Sculpture Doodle Today is Asian-American Pacific Islander month and to commemorate the kick off the month, Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Queen Of England Cardboard Cutout At Google - Search Engine Roundtable
Now Google Search Console Manual Actions Are Buggy Just when you thought the bugs were over, we have a new batch of them within Google Search Console. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Eric Schmidt To Step Down As Google Board After 18 Years Google/Alphabet announced last night that Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO and long time board [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Lost Data From April 9 to April 25th Remember those Google Search Console bugs that we thought was related to the indexing issue? Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Don't Provide SEO Support Based On Business Relationships One of the biggest complaints I see from newbies in SEO is that it is impossible to call someone at [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Some April Google Search Console data lost, manual actions disappeared Most of the reports are missing data during the de-indexing bug period. - Search Engine Land
Key SEO strategies for building your site traffic outside of Google search iTunes Overcast Spotify [...] - Searchmetrics
Local SEOs sound off on prospect of Google My Business subscription services They recognized the logic – but many had strong criticisms. - Search Engine Land
7 SEO tasks you should be doing regardless of what Google says It’s important to keep in mind that maintaining a good online presence goes beyond search [...] - Search Engine Land
Introducing auto-delete controls for your Location History and activity data Whether you’re looking for the latest news or the quickest driving route, we aim to make our [...] - Inside Search
You can now automatically set your Google history to be deleted Set it and forget it when it comes to deleting your search and location history on Google. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 1, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable