Archive of December, 2019

December, 31 2019

At enterprise companies, SEOs cannot ‘do’ most of the SEO (An article to forward to non-SEO teams in your company) Why consistent SEO training is critical for all of the teams that touch enterprise websites. - Search Engine Land
Google’s Mueller Answers How to SEO a Podcast Site Google's Mueller answers how to SEO an audio site. Reddit members provide additional tips. - Search Engine Journal
Google: XML Sitemaps Are Mixed Up & Used As An Energy Drink Google's John Mueller said on Reddit that Google uses XML Sitemaps like an energy drink. John said [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
A Cheesy Video On Google's URL Inspection Tool John Mueller and Martin Splitt from Google released a cheesy video, literally cheesy in many ways, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Not Cloaking When Content In NoScript Missing Due To A Blocked Endpoint Mike King asked John Mueller of Google an interesting question around issues that come up with the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Lists On Google Maps Search Carousel For Restaurants? Google is testing a new search user interface treatment for map results called "Lists on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's New Year's Day Doodle For 2020 It is a new year, 2020, in some places now and if you visit the Google home page in those locations [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
A Sunset View From The Google Irvine Office - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 31, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 30 2019

The big list of Google My Business changes, upgrades and tests in 2019 The key GMB updates of 2019 with local experts’ perspective on what's most significant. - Search Engine Land
Google Again: Linking Out To High Authority Sites Does Not Help With Your Rankings Google's John Mueller said again that linking out to high authority web sites does not help you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: You Always Need Textual Content On-Page Let's say you have a web site that just serves audio or video or images or other forms of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
10 Tips for improved guest blogging in 2020 Top tips that'll do wonders for your guest blogging in 2020. Brand your business, demonstrate [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Images Tests Paginated Results Google may be testing allowing mobile searches using image search to jump from page to page of the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google New Year's Eve 2019 Frog Doodle New Years Eve is tomorrow (December 31, 2019) here in New York but if you are in New Zealand, it is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Coverage Report Now Delayed 10 Days There is currently a ten-day delay with the Google Search Console coverage report. It is not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 30, 2019 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 27 2019

Google: E-A-T Less Important For E-Commerce Sites Google's John Mueller said in a video hangout this morning at the 53:52 mark into that video that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The PPC changes that bugged and elated marketers most in 2019: An unscientific poll Close variants changes and poor customer support topped the list of grievances this year. - Search Engine Land
Google My Business Photos Being Added To Google Posts Without Option To Delete A new "feature" was released earlier this month where Google would automatically take [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
An update on 2019 With 2020 hanging above our heads much the same way that bricks don't, people start reflecting on [...] - Google Webmaster Central
How to utilize holiday season traffic for 2020’s Q1 growth A 2020 Q1 strategy for success: Holiday season audience types and how to engage with them in 2020's [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Local Pack Tests Tile-like Buttons Google is testing a new style for the buttons in the local pack results. I am not sure if this is a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to create content your target audience actually wants Content pollution is real. Are you part of the problem? - Search Engine Land
Google Removes Live Coverage Help Docs Google has removed the Google search help documents for the live coverage carousel, which was [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Staircase Doors - From Small To Large - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 26 2019

SEO year in review 2019: Zero-click searches, BERT, local spam and more What’s past is prologue. Here’s our recap of the stories that will shape search for [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: HTML Headings Numbers Do Not Matter (H1 vs H2 vs H3) Martin Splitt from Google seemed almost upset by advice he saw someone was given around how to use [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Pro Tip: A look back at some helpful tips from our SEO community in 2019 Here are 5 tips from our SEO community we think are worth a second look. - Search Engine Land
Google On Salience Score Matter For SEO John Mueller from Google was asked if a salience score matters for SEO. His response was [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Christmas Search Algorithm Update Chatter - I Don't Think So Over the past few days or so, I have been seeing chatter both at WebmasterWorld and Black Hat World [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
December 16th Google Analytics Bug Not Fixed Yet Remember the bug we helped uncover with Google Analytics that occurred on December 16, 2019? Well, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Uncommon Downloads;You Should Request Review & Ignore Google Search Console is super useful and helpful and the messages can be critical for the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Dublin Lobby During Christmas - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 25 2019

Google's John Mueller Doing Webmaster Support On Christmas Again Every single Christmas since John Mueller joined Google, he has been helping webmasters with issues [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 24 2019

SEOs Are in High Demand, According to LinkedIn’s Data A study published by LinkedIn shows the demand for SEO professionals in increasing, creating a [...] - Search Engine Journal
3 Qualities of the Best SEO Information How to know what is the best SEO information. - Search Engine Journal
The 2019 search engine patents you need to know about Bill Slawski of Go Fish Digital shared which patents topped his list this year. - Search Engine Land
Google's John Mueller Answers Seven Common SEO Questions Including The Secret To Ranking Google's John Mueller posted a single #AskGoogleWebmasters video answering seven SEO questions. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Social Media Support Ends January 1, 2020 Google Ads announced on Twitter and Facebook that it is ending its social media support on January [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Interviewing Five Google Webmaster Trends Analysts In One Room Aleyda Solis interviewed not one, but five Google Webmaster Trends Analysts at the same time while [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Publisher Center Add Section Crawl Option Broken? Google upgraded the publisher center over the past couple weeks but not everything in the new [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Holiday Season From Happy Holidays 2019 Doodles Yesterday we posted two Google Doodles for the happy holidays season but something changed. The [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 23 2019

Page load time and crawl budget rank will be the most important SEO indicators in 2020 Based on my own testing, PLT and CBR are the technical aspects I believe will determine website [...] - Search Engine Land
Video: Matt Cutts, former head of Google web spam, on his days at Google, current work at US Digital Services An old industry colleague and friend in the White House is working to improve government websites [...] - Search Engine Land
Nine voice search stats to close out 2019 A look back at some of the year's key voice search and virtual assistant metrics. - Search Engine Land
SMX Overtime: Here’s how to take control of your account ad groups and search terms PPC veteran and SMX speaker, Brad Geddes, explains how adapt your approach to search terms and [...] - Search Engine Land
Top 10 Search Engine Patents to Know About from 2019 I was on the podcast Webcology last week, with fellow guest David Harry, talking with hosts Dave [...] - SEO by the Sea
Google Local Pack With Blue Star Icon For Top Rated? Sergey Alakov posted a screen shot on Twitter of a new icon he spotted in the local pack listings. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Posts Happy Holidays 2019! Doodles For The Week Google has started posting the Doodles for "Happy Holidays 2019!" Today you get a happy [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 20 2019

Google Ads to end customer support via social Jan 1, 2020 Advertisers will be directed to the online form. - Search Engine Land
How many people should be on your SEO team? The factors to consider Why you need to look at the operational needs as well as revenue impact when determining SEO team [...] - Search Engine Land
Pro Tip: Making images accessible to screen readers doesn’t need to be hard Using clear, easy to understand alt text helps your SEO and makes a big difference to a visually [...] - Search Engine Land
La mort d’ads: French regulator fines Google $166 million for ‘brutal’ ad suspensions Google says it was protecting the French public from deceptive websites. - Search Engine Land
ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-Supervised Learning of Language Representations Posted by Radu Soricut and Zhenzhong Lan, Research Scientists, Google Research Ever since the [...] - Google Research
Google: We Try To Understand Comment Sections But It Is Primary Content Google's John Mueller said at the 3:16 mark into a webmaster hangout from December 13, 2019 that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Web Hating On SEOs - Sad John Mueller from Google retweeted a post from a person named Holly who posted a very anti-SEO [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Using Google Domains Does Not Help You Rank Better John Mueller from Google said that using Google's own domain name service, Google Domains, will not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Funny Google Local Listing Problem - Closed Down Business Name I saw a funny and somewhat ironic problem posted in the Local Search Forums that I had to share [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 19 2019

Google highlights fact-checking while Bing SERP found to be disinformation hotbed There's still a long way to go to fix the fake-news problem, but even further for Bing according to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Serves 11 Million Fact Checked Articles Per Day Google is highlighting the work it’s done to surface more fact-checked content in search [...] - Search Engine Journal
How we highlight fact checks in Search and Google News Google has highlighted fact checks in Search and News for almost three years as a way to help [...] - Inside Search
85% Of SEOs Do Not Report Bing & Yahoo Rankings To Clients Russ Jones from Moz did a Twitter poll asking if you report rankings related to Bing and Yahoo to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Speed Report Changes As you know, Google launched a speed report in experimental mode in Google Search Console. Since [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console's Coverage Report Shows More Indexed Pages Google posted in the data anomalies page and on Twitter that it has updated the coverage report [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 18 2019

The big list of 2019 Google search algorithm updates From core updates to BERT, here are the big algorithm changes that shook up search rankings in 2019. - Search Engine Land
The On-Device Machine Learning Behind Recorder Posted by Itay Inbar and Nir Shemy, Software Engineers, Google Research Over the past two [...] - Google Research
Google Search Algorithm Update This Week; Mixed Signals & Confusion There is so much confusion and mixed signals right now, mostly because of a Google Analytics bug [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Yandex Announces Major Algorithm Update Russian search engine Yandex announced an update that offers 1,500 improvements. - Search Engine Journal
Yandex, the big Russian search engine, releases Vega update Yandex doubled the size of its index, made it faster and added human elements to search. - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console Coverage report improves accuracy on indexed pages "Index Coverage report can more accurately report on indexed pages," Google said. - Search Engine Land
Video: Will Hanke on teaching SEO and lead generation Sit down in this St. Louis super market and watch Will and I chat about SEO. - Search Engine Land
Bing partners with flight booking sites to bolster flight search offerings The new flight search experience uses real-time data and direct integrations with airlines. - Search Engine Land
SMX Overtime: Opportunities and challenges for conversational voice search Expert search marketer and SMX speaker, Eric Enge, explains why brands need to better understand [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Allows You To Request Multiple Quotes From Local Service Ads Tom Waddington posted a GIF on Twitter of Google Local Service Ads allowing you to request multiple [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 17 2019

Google Analytics Bugs Causing Concern & Confusion Over the past 12 hours or so, the SEO/SEM and and beyond are freaking out because Google Analytics [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google now showing ‘request quotes’ button for Local Services Ads on mobile Large button appears above 3-pack, connected to GMB messaging. - Search Engine Land
Don’t know much about SEO: Survey finds business owners lack basic knowledge A survey of almost 400 businesses uncovered uncertainty and confusion about the importance of SEO. - Search Engine Land
Discover Performance reports in Google Search Console just got fresher data Publishers can now see Discover data that’s less than a day old. - Search Engine Land
Google Super Easy Explanation How It Uses Machine Learning In Search John Mueller from Google gave one of the clearest and easiest to understand explanations on how [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
One year, three highlights: Google for Nonprofits looks back Imagine ending homelessness, solving climate change, or guaranteeing a sustainable future for the [...] - Inside Adwords

December, 16 2019

Improvements to Portrait Mode on the Google Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL Posted by Neal Wadhwa, Software Engineer and Yinda Zhang, Research Scientist, Google Research [...] - Google Research
Bug in Google Search Console performance reports impact Google Discover reporting The bug affected reporting between December 8 and December 13, 2019. - Search Engine Land
Here’s how I used Python to build a regression model using an e-commerce dataset If you want to advance your data science skill set, Python can be a valuable tool for SEOs to [...] - Search Engine Land
John Mueller: Googlebot Receives Sitemaps “In the Form of an Energy Drink” Google’s John Mueller illustrated how Googlebot processes sitemap files by using a unique [...] - Search Engine Journal
Microsoft brings visual search to Windows search bar The feature lets users take a full or partial screenshot to be processed by Bing Visual Search. - Search Engine Land
Bing to update BingBot’s user agent BingBot is getting a new name, just like GoogleBot - are you ready? - Search Engine Land
Google: It's Not Just About Improving Your Content But Rather Your Whole Web Site Google's John Mueller dug into a question about a site that spent time improving its "mediocre [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google 2019 Holiday Decorations Are Live For Christmas, Chanukah & Kwanzaa Google has put up its decorations for the holidays, at least in the desktop and mobile search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's New GoogleBot User Agent Names Rolling Out As you know, Google told us the user agent names are changing in December, this month, with the new [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Pack Tests Site Cards Element I do not know what to call it but it seems Google is testing showing a card or box within the local [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Announcing future user-agents for Bingbot Bing is adopting Microsoft Edge as the engine to run JavaScript and render web pages. In the coming [...] - Bing Webmaster
Google's John Mueller Hiding Again But From What? - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Discover Performance Report Data Bug; December 8-13 Google has documented a bug with Google Search Console reporting, specifically the performance [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Can Debug Our Search Ranking Algorithm At Many Levels Google's John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout that Googlers, at many levels, not just the elite [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 13 2019

Google: Speakable Markup Works Outside Of News Content Danny Sullivan from Google confirmed that speakable markup now can work for content outside of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Hootsuite social trends report for 2020 TikTok shakes up the status quo and brands strike a balance between public and private [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Search Console Showing Errors For Incorrectly Tagging URL With RDFa or Microdata Google has started to show errors specifically with the rich results when implemented using RDFa or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Does Not Support Crawl Delay But Bing Does Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that Google "never supported crawl-delay in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google 12/11 Algorithm Update, BERT Expanded, Google News Changes & Bing This week, we may have had a larger Google update roll out around December 11th, before that a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 12 2019

Google Warns: City Landing Pages Can Be Doorway Pages & Against Guidelines Google's John Mueller had to warn one SEO that he should not go ahead and build out 1,300 city [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
December 11th Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update Signals There are now signs that there is a Google search ranking algorithm update going on. The signals [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google showing product availability markup in image search results Image previews display the price, description and other relevant structured product data. - Search Engine Land
2019 benchmark report: brand vs. non-brand traffic in Google Shopping New research suggests that splitting campaigns to bid separately for branded traffic is worthwhile [...] - Search Engine Land
Google brings ‘Interpreter Mode’ language translation to the Assistant on smartphones The capability was introduced previously on Google Home and smart displays. - Search Engine Land
Conductor becomes an employee-owned firm after almost two years under WeWork WeWork bought the SEO firm in 2018 for more than $120 million. - Search Engine Land
SMX Overtime: Managing your online business reviews Product management expert Adam Dorfman answers questions from SMX East about asking for, and [...] - Search Engine Land
Conductor Extracts Itself from WeWork Conductor announced they have emerged as an independent company and no longer part of WeWork. - Search Engine Journal
Top eight SEO trends for 2020 Google makes hundreds of changes to its search algorithms every year of which any could affect your [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google News Submission Not Required, Powered By BERT & New Top Stories Features Google announced some new features around Google News and Top Stories. First, now Google is using [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Screen surfers, unite: 2019 TV and movie Search trends Whether you get your entertainment in the theater or on the couch, Year in Search captured the [...] - Inside Search

December, 11 2019

Google now shows carousels of reviews on local business profiles Reviews carousels surface when relevant to the query and the business has enough high quality [...] - Search Engine Land
Google adding more news content to ‘top stories’ in search results Users will now see multiple carousels of news stories. - Search Engine Land
Consumers more invested in reviews, but also more skeptical of authenticity — survey Users now consult multiple sites and expect reviews to be relatively fresh. - Search Engine Land
The UK election and SEO games: Search, scandal, and big promises In light of the UK election and the Conservatives' online activities, Luke Richards dives into and [...] - Search Engine Watch
9 Questions with SEL Awards Judge Chris Sherman What he and his fellow judges hope to see, what has impressed him in the past, and what he’s [...] - Search Engine Land
Video: Ben Cook on site migrations & the earlier days in SEO Listen to my chat with this industry vet. - Search Engine Land
Fairness Indicators: Scalable Infrastructure for Fair ML Systems Posted by Catherina Xu and Tulsee Doshi, Product Managers, Google Research While industry and [...] - Google Research
Smarter organization of top stories in Search People come to Search for all types of information to help them form a better understanding of the [...] - Inside Search
Then and now: a decade in Search A new decade is right around the corner. As 2020 rapidly approaches, we’ve started [...] - Inside Search
We need a hero: 2019 in Search In 2019, the world found heroes. We found heroes at the box office, where Avengers: Endgame [...] - Inside Search

December, 10 2019

Google’s BERT Rolls Out Worldwide Google announced that BERT is rolling out in 72 languages worldwide. - Search Engine Journal
Pro Tip: Why you should stop using last-click attribution in Google Ads The Model Comparison Tool report in Google Analytics evaluates non-last click models to help you [...] - Search Engine Land
Say hello to Google’s new Publisher Center The interface is now the central hub for publishers to manage content across Google. - Search Engine Land
Launching a new Publisher Center Today we are announcing the launch of Publisher Center to help publishers more easily manage how [...] - Google Webmaster Central
LocalU acquired by Sterling Sky founder and SEL contributor Joy Hawkins Hawkins says the Local Search Forum & the LocalU forum will merge. - Search Engine Land
Mid-market, enterprise retailers had different Google Ads holiday weekend strategies, data indicates Daily text ad CPCs were significantly lower among mid-market retailers this year as they focused [...] - Search Engine Land
Google BERT Now International Supporting Over 70 Languages Well that was quicker than most expected, Google has taken BERT, which launched in late October for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Recent Google Algorithm Update Chatter May Be Related To An Analytics Bug There is a lot of chatter in the past 24-hours in the SEO forums, mostly at WebmasterWorld, around [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 9 2019

BERT is rolling out to Google search in over 70 languages The algorithm was first introduced to search in October. - Search Engine Land
John Mueller Surprises with Answer to a Negative SEO Question Google's John Mueller shows how to discover the real reason a site might not be ranking. - Search Engine Journal
Don’t overlook these 5 quick updates to boost your search ranking Focus on pages on the brink of page 1 ranking but don’t forget about quick fixes to 301 [...] - Search Engine Land
Google extends ‘Incognito Mode’ in Maps to iOS users Bulk delete in Timeline is coming to Android next month. - Search Engine Land
Advertisers increased Google Shopping spend by 32%, Amazon Sponsored Product by 50% YoY this holiday cyber weekend Advertisers benefited from flat to moderately higher CPCs between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday. - Search Engine Land
Google To Revise Guidelines Around Rel=next/prev Google looks like they might publish new guidelines and help documents around what to do now that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
11 Proven PPC strategies for your ecommerce site Greeting your customers, optimizing your products page, implementing schema, and seven more great [...] - Search Engine Watch

December, 7 2019

Google is Working on Adding Package Tracking to Search Results Google is working on integrating package tracking into search results, allowing users to get [...] - Search Engine Journal

December, 6 2019

How to level up from a Google My Business apprentice to a GMB master Your business page is a dynamic asset so prioritize these updates to gain a distinct advantage over [...] - Search Engine Land
Google search quality guidelines update emphasizes users of diverse backgrounds Evaluators are reminded not to base ratings on personal viewpoints. - Search Engine Land
Google Updates Search Quality Raters Guidelines On December 5th Yesterday I spotted that Google updated its Search Quality raters guidelines. George Nguyen from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Understanding Transfer Learning for Medical Imaging Posted by Maithra Raghu and Chiyuan Zhang, Research Scientists, Google Research As deep neural [...] - Google Research
TripAdvisor buys SinglePlatform to enhance services for restaurants The acquisition is part of a strategic shift to deepen restaurant relationships and diversify [...] - Search Engine Land
Privacy-focused, rewarded ads browser Brave tops 10M monthly active users MAUs have doubled in the past year. - Search Engine Land
John Mueller Discovers Halva In Israel - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Not Having A Manual Action Does Not Mean Your Site Is Good Google's John Mueller said on Twitter "not having a manual action doesn't mean that the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Explanations Beta; Explains Large Performance Changes Google Ads launched a new beta feature named "explanations." Explanations gives you clear [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Improving personalization with machine learning As personalization is predictive, machine learning has started playing a central role. Three ways [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Tests Package Tracking Directly In Search With Opt In Google is testing an early adopter program to let shipping companies like UPS, FedEx, DHL, USPS and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 5 2019

Google extends optimization score to Display campaigns Display-specific recommendations are also now available. - Search Engine Land
December 4th Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update. Maybe? Some of the tracking tools are spiking up and showing signals of a Google search ranking update [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Package Tracking Early Access Program People frequently come to Google Search looking to find information on the status of their [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Package tracking on Google’s search results page is coming to more carriers Shipping companies around the world can now opt into the early access program. - Search Engine Land

December, 4 2019

Now is the time to position your site for a successful start to 2020 If your strategy has a heavy focus on link acquisition, the end of the year is a good time to shift [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console messages can now be viewed without leaving reports Messages are also categorized by type. - Search Engine Land
Introducing the new Search Console messages Search Console sends millions of messages every month. They’re our main way to let you know [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Video: Jeff Selig on the early days of SEO, Google algorithms & international SEO Is there ROI in international SEO? How do you build sites that rank after Google algorithm updates? - Search Engine Land

December, 3 2019

Google co-founders step down, Sundar Pichai to lead both Google and Alphabet Page and Brin will remain as board members. - Search Engine Land
Google Confirmed The November 2019 Google Local Update - Here Is What We Know Google, I believe, for the first time ever, has confirmed a Google Local update. Google confirmed [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Developing Deep Learning Models for Chest X-rays with Adjudicated Image Labels Posted by Dave Steiner, MD, Research Scientist and Shravya Shetty, Technical Lead, Google Health [...] - Google Research
Google Encourages to Differentiate Your Site Google's John Mueller encourages site owners with "commodity content" to differentiate [...] - Search Engine Journal
How to breathe fresh life into evergreen content (and get fresh traffic, too) John Shehata discusses how to attract more visitors through consolidating and optimizing existing [...] - Search Engine Land
Genius sues Google and LyricFind for more than $400 million in damages The company alleges breach of contract, unfair competition and lost ad revenue. - Search Engine Land
Google: BERT Does Not Affect Indexing Google's John Mueller said something obvious to most the readers here, that "BERT does not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search and the ecommerce holiday season: Capturing key moments that matter Leveraging real-time insights can take you all the way through to the January sales and more. - Search Engine Watch
Psh, think you can guess the top GIF expressions of 2019? LOL. Yasss. SMH. The internet has long been where words (and of course, acronyms) solidify their [...] - Inside Search
Google Keyword Planner Now Lets You Share Keyword Plans Google Ads announced that you can now create and share keyword plans in the Google Keyword Planner [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Legal Interstitials Are Fine As Long As We Can Index Content Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that "legal interstitials are fine as long as we can [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 2 2019

Google confirms Nov. 2019 Local Search Update Google added neural matching in local search, which is why many are seeing local ranking changes in [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: We Ignore Links From Sites Where Links Are Unlikely To Be Natural Google's John Mueller was asked about links from from "theglobe.net and related spammy [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to manage search terms in the new match type world A look by Brad Geddes at the impact of close variants updates and the analysis and workflow [...] - Search Engine Land
16 Years Covering The Search Industry Today is the 16th anniversary of this website, the Search Engine Roundtable, and thus my sweet 16 [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
More EU antitrust heat for Google (and Facebook) over data collection In a separate matter, 41 shopping comparison sites want the European Commission to further penalize [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ignoring The rel=canonical For Syndication Partners? So we just covered that Google said the best approach is to force your syndication partners to use [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Best Approach For Syndication Partners Is To Use rel=canonical Google said the best approach for when you allow others to syndicate and publish your content is to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
December 2019 Google Webmaster Report This past month we had a bunch of tremors and somewhat unconfirmed and semi-confirmed Google search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Ads.txt Is For AdSense But Not Needed For Search Or SEO Google's official webmaster channel on Twitter responded to a question about the ads.txt file. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Indoor Surf Room - Search Engine Roundtable