Archive of October, 2019

October, 31 2019

Google launches Site Kit plugin for WordPress WordPress users can see data pulled from various Google products. - Search Engine Land
Google doesn’t have an ‘ideal’ page speed The most meaningful speed metric depends on how users interact with your site, said Google's Martin [...] - Search Engine Land
Study: Killing ‘review gating’ doesn’t hurt scores and grows overall volume GatherUp's examination of internal data shows benefits of inclusive process. - Search Engine Land
Publishers Report a Spam Exploit in Google Publishers report that competitors are spamming Google with fake review websites. - Search Engine Journal
SMX Advanced Overtime: Your questions answered about webspam and penalties Bing's Frédéric Dubut and ex-Googler Fili Wiese covered a wide range of questions in [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Image Rich Snippets Bug Returns Recipe bloggers report a return of Google's rich snippets bug. Images in the SERPs are disappearing. - Search Engine Journal
Want to make a podcast? 5 tips to get you started Editor’s Note: Luvvie Ajayi is the host of the podcasts Rants & Randomness and Jesus [...] - Inside Search
Google: No Plans To Add Google Discover Referrer Google's John Mueller was asked if Google would add to Google Discover traffic a referrer that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Evolution of Google’s News Ranking Algorithm Image: Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash Did the Algorithm Behind How News Articles Rank at Google [...] - SEO by the Sea

October, 30 2019

Achieving 3.7 Google My Business rating stars delivers highest conversion boost, study finds Replying to a third of reviews may increase conversions by 80% for enterprise locations. - Search Engine Land
New York Times Search Ranking Drop After Google BERT Update The New York Times said it may have seen a "huge" impact from the Google BERT update and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Here’s how to leverage long-tail keywords for your SEO Thinking about long-tail keywords for local search, intent and conversational language can help [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s John Mueller & Martin Splitt Answer Questions About Site Speed Google’s John Mueller and Martin Splitt teamed up for a special edition of the ‘Ask [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Don't Crawl Your Site To Build A Sitemap File I never understood why people would use a crawler to build their XML sitemap file. I guess if you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Video: Eric Enge on Google advice vs. real-world SEO experience We also discussed how to build out successful content and manage client expectations. - Search Engine Land

October, 29 2019

Google Lets Anyone Register a .New Domain to Create Custom Shortcuts via @MattGSouthern Google Registry has made the .new domain extension available for anyone to use to create custom [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Links With Diminishing Traffic Are Not Any Less Valuable Google said in its Google Webmaster Twitter account that diminishing traffic of a backlink does not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Elon Musk: It's Hard To Google Tesla Solar Panels Elon Musk, the co-founder of PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX and the list goes on and on, said on Twitter [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Are TrueView video discovery ads the better option for your brand? Discovery ads require a strategy for a different type of use-case that can be helpful to your [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s Q3 ad revenue growth propelled by mobile search, YouTube Ad revenues were $33.9 billion in the third quarter of 2019. - Search Engine Land
Google Shows Paywall Content in Featured Snippets via @martinibuster Google says users should be able to click a featured snippet to read content. So why is paywall [...] - Search Engine Journal
Twitter Begins Showing More Ads to Some Users via @MattGSouthern Twitter is reportedly increasing the frequency at which it serves ads to certain groups of users. - Search Engine Journal
Google Highlights Restaurants That Earned ‘Local Favorite’ Status via @MattGSouthern Google is highlighting the most loved restaurants in some of the major cities in the US. - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads Brings New Sets of Data to Shopping Campaigns via @MattGSouthern Google Ads can now report on cart data for shopping campaigns, tracking all information related to [...] - Search Engine Journal

October, 28 2019

Why you may not have noticed the Google BERT update Don't try to optimize for BERT, try to optimize your content for humans. - Search Engine Land
Google to stop indexing Flash content By the end of this year, Google will stop indexing Adobe Flash. - Search Engine Land
Google To Stop Indexing Content Within Flash This Year Google announced this morning that it will stop indexing content within Adobe Flash files, SWF [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Will Ignore Flash Content on Websites & No Longer Index SWF Files via @MattGSouthern Google will stop supporting Flash later this year, which includes web pages with Flash content as [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s John Mueller Says There is No Ideal Size for Sitemaps via @MattGSouthern Google’s John Mueller recently stated there is no ideal sitemap size when it comes to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: There Is Nothing To Optimize For With BERT On Friday, Google said it launched the biggest change it made to search within Google in the past [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
As App campaign placements expand, Google Ads aims to improve asset combinations for app ads App campaign advertisers might see changes to asset reporting. - Search Engine Land
What does Google Maps ‘incognito mode’ mean for businesses? Google is giving consumers more control to opt-out but likely priming the market for more ambitious [...] - Search Engine Land
Google's New How Google Search Works Video Previously, I believe, the how search works video that was used on the How Search Works portal at [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 26 2019

Facebook Announces Program to Help News Sites via @martinibuster Facebook introduces Facebook News, a way to balance needs of news organizations and Facebook [...] - Search Engine Journal

October, 25 2019

Welcome BERT: Google’s latest search algorithm to better understand natural language BERT will impact 1 in 10 of all search queries. This is the biggest change in search since Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Understanding searches better than ever before If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the 15 years working on Google Search, [...] - Inside Search
Google BERT Update – What it Means via @martinibuster Google BERT update affects 10% of all search queries. This is what it means for SEO. - Search Engine Journal
Google BERT Update Impacts 10% Queries & Has Been Rolling Out All Week This morning Google announced that starting earlier this week, throughout the week, Google has been [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Applies New BERT Model to Search Rankings, Affecting 1-in-10 Queries via @MattGSouthern Google is rolling out what it says is the biggest step forward for search in the past 5 years. - Search Engine Journal
Voice assistant study: Microsoft’s Cortana offers most answers, Google Assistant proves most accurate Perficient Digital ran 5,000 queries on seven devices including Alexa, Cortana, Google Assistant [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads Conversion Time Reporting, Facebook Ads in Search Results & More News from This Week [PODCAST] via @shepzirnheld This week's episode of Marketing O'Clock tackles Google's conversion by time reporting, new [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Corporate Contact Markup For Knowledge Panels Deprecated Google has officially deprecated the corporate contact markup for knowledge panels. Lizzi Harvey [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 24 2019

Google Launches New, Animated Video Series About SEO for Beginners via @MattGSouthern Google is growing its YouTube presence with another video series – this time it’s [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads Rolls Out 2 New Tools for Responsive Search Ads via @MattGSouthern Google is introducing two new tools for responsive search ads, which are now available to all [...] - Search Engine Journal
How to find your ideal SEO agency An ideal agency has expertise up and down the chain that can help demonstrate the skillset of the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update Signals On Wednesday Over the past 24-hours or so, maybe piggy backing off the weekend update or maybe a tremor to a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads to Improve the Optimization of App Campaigns via @MattGSouthern Google Ads is improving the way it tracks the performance of app campaigns. - Search Engine Journal
E-commerce spend on search, social product ads keeps growing Product ad spend growth on social outpaced search in the third quarter, Kenshoo reports. - Search Engine Land
Google’s Advice on How to Determine if Your Business Needs a Website via @MattGSouthern The first episode of Google’s ‘Search for Beginners’ video series aims to help [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google's Weird Looking French Search Results As you know, Google had to remove the full snippets from many Google France search results pages. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 23 2019

Google’s John Mueller On Link Velocity and Penalties via @martinibuster Google's John Mueller answers if getting links too fast results in a link velocity penalty. - Search Engine Journal
Featured snippets display on desktop 13% more often than mobile, study finds URLs matched 91% of the time when featured snippets were displayed on both devices. - Search Engine Land
Google Ads Responsive Search Ads Officially Live After over a year of testing and being in beta, Google has announced that the responsive search ads [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 22 2019

Screaming Frog releases SEO Spider version 12.0 The update adds PageSpeed Insights API integration and auto-saves. - Search Engine Land
Google begins testing Duplex internationally Duplex will be powering automated calls to confirm holiday business hours in New Zealand. - Search Engine Land
The benefits of using SEO software Is your team spending too much time managing SEO campaigns? Learn how an SEO platform can help. - Search Engine Land
Audio and Visual Quality Measurement using Fréchet Distance Posted by Kevin Kilgour, Software Engineer and Thomas Unterthiner, Research Software Engineer, [...] - Google Research

October, 21 2019

Capture leads with Google Ads latest ad extension test Optional webhooks allow lead data to flow directly to your CRM. - Search Engine Land
Google Ads now showing cart metrics for Shopping campaigns See average cart size, cost of goods sold, gross profit and more for your campaigns. - Search Engine Land
A Google Search Algorithm Update Rolling Out? There are some signs of a Google search ranking algorithm update rolling out since over the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Pro Tip: 3 common mistakes SEOs make when disavowing links Misconceptions about disavowing links can have detrimental impacts on your website’s [...] - Search Engine Land
Connect to remote hosts with secure shell The terminal is important because it provides access to command line utilities the ability to [...] - Search Engine Land
California Law Threatens Freelance Journalists via @martinibuster 2020 California law impacts freelance journalists and in some cases content marketing by extension. - Search Engine Journal

October, 20 2019

Google Checks Status Codes Before Anything Else When Crawling Content via @MattGSouthern Google’s John Mueller recently explained that HTTP status codes are the first thing Google [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s John Mueller Speaks on SEO for Dark Mode Websites via @MattGSouthern Google’s John Mueller recently discussed whether or not there are specific SEO considerations [...] - Search Engine Journal
Paid Search Association Launches First-Ever Non-Profit to Help PPC Pros via @MattGSouthern The Paid Search Association has launched the first non-profit organization dedicated to serving the [...] - Search Engine Journal

October, 19 2019

Google Ads is Testing New Lead Form Extensions via @MattGSouthern Google Ads is testing a new way for businesses to capture customer information with lead form [...] - Search Engine Journal
Pinterest‘s Top Trending Holiday Searches for 2019 via @MattGSouthern Pinterest has revealed its top trending searches for the 2019 holiday season which includes gifts, [...] - Search Engine Journal
YouTube to Sell Artists’ Merchandise Underneath Videos via @MattGSouthern YouTube has partnered with Merchbar to help artists sell official merchandise on their video pages. - Search Engine Journal
Pinterest Gives Users More Control Over Content on Their Home Feed via @MattGSouthern Pinterest is making it easier to control the recommendations users see in their home feed with [...] - Search Engine Journal

October, 18 2019

Facebook is Changing How it Calculates Organic Impressions via @MattGSouthern Facebook pages are likely to see organic impressions go down as a result of changes to how [...] - Search Engine Journal
Mary Davies Wins Search Engine Journal Community Award via @MrDannyGoodwin Mary Davies, president of Beanstalk Internet Marketing, is the first recipient of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Journal
A deeper look at Google Search Console Speed Reports We got access to the experimental speed reports in Google Search Console. - Search Engine Land
Google Ads debuts ‘conversions by time’ reporting The new columns report conversions on the days they occur instead of by ad click date. - Search Engine Land
Snapchat Introduces a New Ad Unit for Ecommerce Advertisers via @MattGSouthern Snapchat is rolling out Dynamic Ads – new ad unit designed specifically for eCommerce [...] - Search Engine Journal

October, 17 2019

Yahoo to Shut Down All Yahoo Groups on October 21st via @MattGSouthern Yahoo announced that all Yahoo Groups will be shut down October 21st, and all content will be [...] - Search Engine Journal
Advanced Google Ads script to forecast ad performance Putting projections together is tedious and time consuming but this advanced Google Ads script can [...] - Search Engine Land
Video Architecture Search Posted by Michael S. Ryoo, Research Scientist and AJ Piergiovanni, Student Researcher, Robotics at [...] - Google Research
Google: Buying Used Domains Is Like Buying Used Cars Google's John Mueller had a fun analogy when it comes to buying used domains and the potential [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Improves “By Conversion Time” Reporting With New Columns via @MattGSouthern Google Ads is improving its ability to improve on conversions by the time they occurred with new [...] - Search Engine Journal
Facebook Introduces New Custom Templates for Stories Ads via @MattGSouthern Facebook introduced new templates which make it easier for marketers to create custom stories ads [...] - Search Engine Journal
15 years of Google Books Books are the windows to new worlds. Through them, I’ve explored the wintery lands of Narnia [...] - Inside Search

October, 16 2019

11 tips for using Google Ads’ new audiences like a pro Learn how to reach your ideal customer with Google Ads' new audience types for Search ads. - Search Engine Land
Google’s New Customizable Search Snippets Begin Rolling Out This Week via @MattGSouthern Google’s new markup, which lets site owners customize how their search snippets are [...] - Search Engine Journal
Affinity audiences coming to Google Search campaigns In-market audience seasonal event segments like Christmas are also rolling out for Search and [...] - Search Engine Land
WordPress 5.3 Moves Closer to Valid HTML via @martinibuster WordPress 5.3 will bring it closer to valid HTML. Good news to those who value standards compliant [...] - Search Engine Journal
There is hope after a site gets hit by a Google core update Veteran SEOs Glenn Gabe and Lily Ray share their insights on Google's core algorithm updates. - Search Engine Land
New Report Reveals the 3 Trends Shaping Email Marketing in 2020 via @MattGSouthern A new report from eMarketer reveals the trends that that will shape email marketing practices [...] - Search Engine Journal
Investing in the next generation of measurement on YouTube Ad reporting and measurement is an important part of getting digital advertising right. We invest a [...] - Inside Adwords
LinkedIn Rolls Out 3 New Features for Company Pages via @MattGSouthern LinkedIn is introducing new features designed to help companies stay better engaged with their [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google may be having issues showing new content again Not seeing your new and fresh content show up in Google News or Google Search? You are not alone. - Search Engine Land
Twitter’s Mac App is Back via @MattGSouthern Twitter relaunched its app for Macs, which brings the same features and design of the mobile app to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google readies new markup rules for European news publishers The approach is a reaction to the EU Copyright Directive, to avoid paying licensing fees. - Search Engine Land
Video: Dan Shure on Google core updates and podcasting From a piano teacher to an SEO - how Dan's journey into the SEO space has not just changed his [...] - Search Engine Land

October, 15 2019

Google Ads Introduces 2 New Ways to Target Users in Google Search via @MattGSouthern Google Ads is rolling out two new ways to reach your target audiences in Google Search. - Search Engine Journal
Is This Why Some Content Ranks in Google? via @martinibuster Suggestions for why some content ranks in Google. And why some does not. - Search Engine Journal
Amazon keeps chipping at Google’s search ad dominance The e-commerce giant has 13% of U.S. search advertising market and is the only top player expected [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s voice AI resonates in new Pixel Recorder app Recorder identifies words, sounds, and produces a searchable transcript, even without an internet [...] - Search Engine Land
Facebook’s 2019 Holiday Marketing Guide is Full of Useful Shopping Insights via @MattGSouthern Facebook released its 2019 holiday marketing guide, which is full of insights heading into the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Study Predicts Google’s Search Ad Revenue Will Drop While Amazon’s Grows via @MattGSouthern A forecast on US ad spending predicts that Google’s share of search revenue will drop over [...] - Search Engine Journal
3 ways to take back control from PPC automations When Google and the engines automate PPC tasks, you can still remain in control with [...] - Search Engine Land
Instagram Gives Users More Control Over Data Shared With Third-Party Apps via @MattGSouthern Instagram is introducing new features that give users more control over the data they share with [...] - Search Engine Journal
Restaurant app Tobiko goes old school by shunning user reviews The app represents a return to the simplicity of expert reviews. - Search Engine Land
Google: Ignore Link Spam Ransom Attempts Google's John Mueller is once again telling webmasters that they do not need to respond or lose [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Brings Virtual Makeup Try-on to YouTube Masthead Ads via @MattGSouthern Google Ads is launching AR Beauty Try-on, which allows beauty brands to display ads where users can [...] - Search Engine Journal

October, 14 2019

Location targeting available in Google Smart Shopping campaigns Target and exclude locations in Smart Shopping campaigns. - Search Engine Land
Google: Disavow Tool Hurts Too Many Sites Google hasn't been a huge fan of folks using the disavow link tool but the tool remains because it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search transformation projects: Q&A with SAP’s Siddharth Taparia Siddharth Taparia, SVP and Head of Strategic Transformation and Partner Marketing at SAP, [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google: Only Invest In Link Audits If There Was Shady SEO Google's Gary Illyes said you really only need to invest in a link audit if you had some shady SEO [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Changed Nofollow Link Rule To Better Understand The Web The reason Google changed the nofollow link from a directive to a hint is to give the search engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 14, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 13 2019

Programming Note: Offline For Sukkot This is just a quick note that I will be offline for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. All stories, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 11 2019

Exploring Massively Multilingual, Massive Neural Machine Translation Posted by Ankur Bapna, Software Engineer and Orhan Firat, Research Scientist, Google Research [...] - Google Research
Facebook Launches New Tools to Help With Holiday Marketing via @MattGSouthern Facebook has released several new tools to assist businesses with their holiday marketing efforts. - Search Engine Journal
Are small errors like worldwide targeting draining your budget? This Google Ads script can help The script emails you a customized report to flag issues with your chosen account settings, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Content Accuracy Is A Ranking Factor Gary Illyes from Google said on stage at PubCon that he would consider content accuracy a ranking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Do Not Have An EAT Score Google's Gary Illyes cleared up one thing that SEOs have been possibly confused about for some [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
When parsing ‘Googlespeak’ is a distraction It's easy to get bogged down in every statement. This week was a good reminder to focus on the [...] - Search Engine Land
Instagram is Bringing Direct Messaging to its Desktop Site via @MattGSouthern Instagram appears to be in the process of bringing direct messaging to its desktop website. - Search Engine Journal
The State of SEO 2019 – Infographic The survey reviewed 70% of in-house marketers and 30% of agency heads. Insights on the [...] - Search Engine Watch
New Term: Google Baby Algorithms Gary Illyes from Google threw out a term, he made up, Google does not use it internally I think he [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Tests Content Submission API Removing Crawling Requirement Bing announced a pilot, a really early test, for a content submission API. The content submission [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Some But Not All Algorithms May Trigger Spikes In Crawl Rates Gary Illyes from Google said yesterday that some baby algorithms may trigger a spike in crawl [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 10 2019

Should you do 100% of your SEO in-house? Here are some real-world scenarios where it can make sense to augment your in-house team with [...] - Search Engine Land
Instagram Removes ‘Following’ Tab Which Let Users Keep Track of Others’ Activity via @MattGSouthern Instagram has removed a section of its app which was referred to by many as a “stalker” [...] - Search Engine Journal
BrightEdge promises ‘self-driving SEO’ with new Autopilot offering Key SEO tasks can now be fully automated according to the company. - Search Engine Land
Google: All You Need Is Google's Link Tool, Not Third-Party Tools Google's Nathan Johns said at PubCon yesterday that you do not need to use third-party link tools, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google showing mobile ‘search by photos’ option in selected local verticals The new element appears to not have a fixed position but resides below the local pack, sometimes [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Stick to structured data guidelines if you want the rich result “Even without the structured data leading to rich results, our systems profit by [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing launches content submission pilot Bing is testing a feature to let some publishers not just submit URLs to the search engine but also [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Core Updates Are Not About Bad Links Most of you know this already but Gary Illyes from Google said the other day at PubCon that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 9 2019

Moz launches Domain Analysis, free tool for SEO metrics Includes experimental metrics not available in Moz’s paid offerings. - Search Engine Land
ROBEL: Robotics Benchmarks for Learning with Low-Cost Robots Posted by Michael Ahn, Software Engineer and Vikash Kumar, Research Scientist, Robotics at Google [...] - Google Research
Google: Follow Our Structured Data Requirements to Ensure Rich Result Eligibility via @MattGSouthern Google recommends following the official structured data requirements to ensure content is eligible [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google to Use Machine Learning to Manage Ad Frequency When Cookies Are Missing via @MattGSouthern Google announced it will soon be using machine learning to manage ad frequency when third-party [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Begins Showing User-Generated Images in Product Reviews via @MattGSouthern Google is introducing user-generated images in product reviews on Google Shopping. - Search Engine Journal
Google Reveals the Top Halloween Costume Searches for 2019 via @MattGSouthern Google has released its annual edition of ‘Frightgeist’ – a roundup of the [...] - Search Engine Journal
The new evergreen Bingbot simplifying SEO by leveraging Microsoft Edge Bing is adopting Microsoft Edge as the Bing engine to run JavaScript and render web pages. Doing so [...] - Bing Webmaster
Bingbot goes evergreen Bing will adopt Chromium-based Edge browser to run JavaScript and render pages. - Search Engine Land

October, 8 2019

Google is Testing Search Results Without URLs via @MattGSouthern Google appears to be testing the complete removal of URLs from search results, displaying only the [...] - Search Engine Journal
If Google says H1s don’t matter for rankings, why should you use them? Here’s why Even if Google says its ranking systems work just fine without them, accessibility and readability [...] - Search Engine Land
With loss of Yahoo and image search, Google Shopping search partner traffic nosedives While it is a small fraction of Shopping traffic, the partner network can help advertisers [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads Lets Users Optimize Video Ads at the Campaign Level via @MattGSouthern Google Ads is letting advertisers set conversion actions at the campaign level for video ads. - Search Engine Journal
Video: Britney Muller Of Moz on Google’s feature snippets Check out this interview literally behind the scenes at Mozcon. - Search Engine Land
A privacy-safe approach to managing ad frequency At Google, we believe it's possible to improve user privacy while preserving access to the [...] - Inside Adwords
Someday Machine Written Content Will Be Okay With Google Webmaster Guidelines Google has a guidelines in its webmaster guidelines against automatically generated content but [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 7 2019

New reports for video results in Search Console Video is an important and growing medium used to consume information online, and we want to make it [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google’s solution to search results dominated by FAQ Schema When FAQ Schema first launched, it was an exciting time for SEO. But the excitement soon turned to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console adds Video Enhancement, Video Appearances Performance reports Google has new reports to help you with your videos in Google Search and Discover. - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console Adds New Reports for Video Search Results via @MattGSouthern Google is adding two new reports in Search Console that provide site owners with more data on video [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google My Business Photos Support GIFs On Mobile Andy Simpson posted an example of a business listing in Google Maps that shows animated GIFs for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Links Do Not Expire But They May Become Less Important Over Time Google's John Mueller said that links do not expire, but it may be the case that links can become [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEJ Partners with “Marketing O’Clock” Podcast via @brentcsutoras We're excited to announce our newly inked partnership with Marketing O’Clock, a podcast [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Has A Graveyard For Dead Products - Search Engine Roundtable
October 2019 Google Webmaster Report Last month was incredibly active in so many ways when it comes to Google search and SEO topics. So [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
GIVEAWAY: Win an SEJ SEO-Themed T-Shirt! via @MrDannyGoodwin Join our giveaway and get the chance to win one of 10 SEO-themed T-shirts from Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google News Increases Bar For Application Process Google News has supposedly made it harder to become a Google News news source. John Mueller of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
24-HOUR GIVEAWAY: U.S. Search Awards After-Party Stars DJs Fleetmac Wood 💞 via @itsduhnise We're giving away 4 tickets to the U.S. Search Awards after-party. Learn the details here. - Search Engine Journal

October, 4 2019

Awkward: Google Asks Moz How It Gets Its Ranking Data This is funny and awkward at the same time. Dr. Pete from Moz was excited to share that Moz rebuilt [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
WordPress 5.3 Adopts Rel UGC Nofollow Link Attribute via @martinibuster WordPress announced adoption of Google's UGC Nofollow Link Attribute in version 5.3. - Search Engine Journal
A eulogy for Mapquest Once the dominant mapping site, the decline of Mapquest is a story of disruptive competition and [...] - Search Engine Land
Timely: Google Posts H1 Tag Video After H1 SEO Controversy Earlier this week, we covered that Google's John Mueller said H1 tags are not critical for your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Lens Can Now Provide “Style Ideas” With Matching Clothing Items via @MattGSouthern Google Lens has been updated with the ability to find pieces of clothing that match items seen in a [...] - Search Engine Journal
You Can Now Edit Google Maps Business Listings When Unverified Google announced that you can now make some edits to Google My Business listings as an unverified [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 3 2019

Google Chrome Will Block Mixed Content via @martinibuster Google announced that Chrome will block mixed content in steps beginning December 2019. - Search Engine Journal
Possible Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update On October 3rd I am seeing some early signs of a possible Google search ranking algorithm update kicking off [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Improving Quantum Computation with Classical Machine Learning Posted by Murphy Yuezhen Niu and Sergio Boixo, Research Scientists One of the primary [...] - Google Research
Multiple H1s won’t get in the way of your SEO, Google says Google still uses semantic headings to understand the context of different parts of your pages, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Reveals Small Business Search Trends for 2019 via @MattGSouthern Google released a new report with fresh data on how people are searching for small businesses in [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Announces New Ways to Hide Personal Activity, Including Incognito Mode in Maps via @MattGSouthern Google has announced three new ways for users to hide their personal activity while using Maps, [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s new take on Shopping goes live in U.S. The new Google Shopping offers personalized recommendations. "Buy on Google" is featured [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Shopping Updated With New Design, Price Tracking, Local Inventory, More via @MattGSouthern Google Shopping has been updated with a redesign and new features that make it easier for users to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s John Mueller Asks Why SEOs Don’t Publish Their Address via @martinibuster SEO community shares thoughtful reasons why they don't list business address. - Search Engine Journal
Google to Update Googlebot’s User Agent in December via @MattGSouthern As part of Google’s switch to evergreen Googlebot, the user agent will be updated to reflect [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Console Link Counts Drops - Cut In Half A WebmasterWorld thread has some complaints that the number of external links reported in Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 2 2019

Google Brings ‘Change of Address’ Tool to New Version of Search Console via @MattGSouthern Google has finally moved the ‘Change of Address’ tool to the new Search Console [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: HTML Sitemaps Not Worthwhile For SEO Purposes Google's John Mueller posted on Reddit that he agrees, that HTML sitemaps are not worthwhile for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Releasing PAWS and PAWS-X: Two New Datasets to Improve Natural Language Understanding Models Posted by Yuan Zhang, Research Scientist and Yinfei Yang, Software Engineer, Google Research [...] - Google Research
Google to update GoogleBot’s user agent Make sure you are prepared for the new GoogleBot user agent, which launches this December. - Search Engine Land
Google rolling out ‘Incognito Mode’ for Maps, activity data deletion via Assistant These privacy controls promote trust and won't impact targeting and analytics. - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console adds Change of Address tool to new interface The change of address tool should be around for the foreseeable future. - Search Engine Land
Google Ads’ switch to standard delivery to start Oct. 7 for Search, Shopping campaigns, shared budgets An updated list of error codes for API clients and scripts is also available. - Search Engine Land

October, 1 2019

Google: H1 Tags Are Not Critical For Search Ranking Google's John Mueller said that your site can rank fine with or without H1 tags. You don't have to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Assistant in Chrome testing Duplex to help users buy movie tickets The Assistant’s transaction-handling abilities take a step forward. - Search Engine Land
Google is Testing a New Search Interface for Video Games via @MattGSouthern Google has been spotted testing a new user interface for video game search results. - Search Engine Journal
Google Announces Webmaster Conference at the Googleplex via @martinibuster Google announced a webmaster conference on November 2019 at Google's headquarters in California. - Search Engine Journal
An Official Creative Commons WordPress Plugin Makes Content Attribution Easier via @MattGSouthern Creative Commons has created a WordPress plugin which makes it easier to attribute and license [...] - Search Engine Journal
Instagram to Help Businesses Sell Products By Reminding Customers on Launch Day via @MattGSouthern Instagram is testing a way for customers to set reminders about product launches - Search Engine Journal