Archive of January, 2020

January, 31 2020

Google: Schema Markup Won't Get Any Easier; Will Get Harder Google's John Mueller said in a Google webmaster hangout video at the 34:30 mark that he believes [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Meta descriptions and branding have the most influence on search clickthrough, survey finds The majority of participants also agreed that rich results improve Google search. - Search Engine Land
Google: No Need To Preemptively Disavow Links Before Sites Link To You Google's John Mueller said there is "no need to spend your time" on preemptively [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Encode, Tag and Realize: A Controllable and Efficient Approach for Text Generation Posted by Eric Malmi and Sebastian Krause, Software Engineers, Google Research [...] - Google Research
Google: We Do Not Prioritize Crawling For US Sites Google's John Mueller said that sites based in the United States do not get crawling priority from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Fun: Google People Also Ask Sponsored Ads; Not Really Here is something that someone shared with me that I found funny and thought might make you all [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 30 2020

Microsoft Lists SEO as the Most Important Hard Skill for Marketers A study published by Microsoft aims to identify the most important trends in marketing for the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Will the Discover feed be Google’s next cash cow? What advertisers are saying about Discovery campaigns Early looks at the new campaign type and native ad formats that have had little fanfare since [...] - Search Engine Land
We Got Chatter: Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update & Fluctuations Let me start off by saying that while there is a nice amount of chatter in the SEO community [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Everything You Need To Know About The Google Featured Snippet Deduplication Change There has been an enormous amount of confusion around the Google featured snippet duplication [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Apple’s big maps makeover now available across U.S., Europe coming soon Apple Maps needs a 'breakout' feature. Could that be privacy? - Search Engine Land
What’s happening with featured snippets? Questions remain if number one in the SERPs means a featured snippet or a typical organic result. [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads Switches To Standard Delivery For All Campaign Types Google announced it is switching all campaigns, not just Search campaigns, Shopping campaigns, and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Considers Changes To Image Section In Featured Snippets Danny Sullivan from Google said on Twitter that Google has "heard the feedback" around [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 29 2020

Did Forbes Google Search Traffic Just Completely Die? Gordon Kelly, a Senior Contributor for consumer technology at Forbes, shared some data on Twitter [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Tons Of Google My Business Suspensions Google My Business has performed more and more business suspensions recently according to local SEO [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google has stopped deduplicating right-sidebar featured snippets Google still plans to remove featured snippets from the right rail on desktop and move the feature [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Chrome In Google Search Tests Hiding URLs In URL Bar So domains are the most important part of the URL, eh? Well, here is Google Chrome testing hiding [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Mixed Languages In URLs Are Fine For Search Google's John Mueller said it doesn't hurt you to used mixed languages in your URLs but it might [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 28 2020

Towards a Conversational Agent that Can Chat About…Anything Posted by Daniel Adiwardana, Senior Research Engineer, and Thang Luong, Senior Research Scientist, [...] - Google Research
Data Privacy Day: seven ways we protect your privacy Keeping you safe online is a top priority at Google, especially for the thousands of Googlers who [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Search Console launches new removals tool The new tool temporarily block URLs from showing in Google, it shows outdated content and content [...] - Search Engine Land
New Removals report in Search Console We’re happy to announce that we’re launching a new version of the Removals report in [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google: Not Worth Signing Up For Dofollow Profile Links Google's John Mueller said "no" it is not worth signing up for dofollow profile links. He [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Updated (again): A visual history of Google ad labeling in search results A look back at how Google has treated ads in search results, from blue shading to the latest [...] - Search Engine Land
New: Google Search Console Removals Tool Google has just launched a new tool within the new Google Search Console named the removals tool. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
DuckDuckGo has other ideas for Google’s EU search choice screen The changes include more search engine options and an introductory screen aimed at reducing bias. - Search Engine Land

January, 27 2020

Work For Google As An SEO Google is hiring an SEO or multiple SEOs again. Former Google SEO, Sean O'Keefe, posted that his [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How BERT is helping SEO agencies focus on collaboration strategies BERT is pushing agencies to assess how content creators and SEOs collaborate to address [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Recommends Hiring SEOs in New ‘Search for Beginners’ Video Google’s latest episode of “Search for Beginners” covers the top 5 things people [...] - Search Engine Journal
What local SEOs should focus on in 2020 Four experts offer their top 3 recommendations for local search marketers. - Search Engine Land
Google’s SEO job description highlights importance of collaborating with multiple teams You can apply to work at Google as an SEO -- no joke. - Search Engine Land
How to optimize your website’s crawl budget The best approach to optimize the crawl budget is to start with improving overall site speed and [...] - Search Engine Land
Mueller Says Google Estimates Signals to Rank New Sites Google's Mueller explains how Google will estimates signals for new websites - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Console Report Colors Updated Google has updated some of the colors used in the Google Search Console reports, such as the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Moving Right Side Featured Snippet To Top Position Google should be moving, if they didn't do it already, any right side of the Google search results [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Video: Thom Craver at CBS Interactive on the importance of schema and a bit on Google News Just because Thom is an SEO at a news agency, don't blame him for any bias you see in Google News. - Search Engine Land

January, 26 2020

Google’s John Mueller on Ranking Important Pages Google's John Mueller shares how to rank important pages. - Search Engine Journal
The Most Searched: A celebration of Black history makers Search trends can help us understand what people are interested in and what has endured—the [...] - Inside Search

January, 25 2020

Google’s Featured Snippet Changes & Impact on Organic Traffic [STUDY] A new study from seoClarity examines the changes to organic traffic following Google’s [...] - Search Engine Journal

January, 24 2020

Google Responds to Criticism Regarding Desktop Search Changes Google has issued an official statement in response to widespread criticism of its recent changes [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google to experiment with more desktop search changes after favicon/black ad label rollout Expect more changes to how your search snippets in Google search are rendered on desktop. - Search Engine Land
Google Offers Guidance on Featured Snippets Update Google offers more details on the change to featured snippets that is calling deduplication. - Search Engine Journal
Bridging SEO and web development: How to get developers on your side Autodesk’s Jenny Jiang shares her approach to fostering a healthy, productive environment [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Rolls Out Profile Icon To Local Knowledge Panel Google announced this a while back but now it seems to be rolling out. Profile icons for your local [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
A Google Search Algorithm Ranking Update On January 23rd? This is going to be a hard one to judge because I see chatter within the SEO community and also [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Good Old SEO Days: Sergey Brin With Heather Lloyd-Martin & Detlef Johnson At The Google Dance - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 23 2020

Discovering millions of datasets on the web Across the web, there are millions of datasets about nearly any subject that interests you. If [...] - Inside Search
Google Datasets Search is out of beta and adds new features If you want to capitalize on this speciality search engine, make sure to add datasets schema where [...] - Search Engine Land
Google removes ‘ads’ and ‘sponsored’ labels from flight search results There will be no more referral fees from partners in flight search, as Google seeks to emphasize [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s New Dataset Search Engine Comes Out of Beta Google’s ‘Dataset Search,’ first launched in September 2018, is officially out of [...] - Search Engine Journal
Video: Search pioneer Mike Grehan on everything from the early days of SEO to AI’s role in paid and organic search Grehan also settles the long-running dispute over who coined the term search engine optimization. - Search Engine Land
Default Search in Chrome Switched to Bing for Office 365 ProPlus users Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus is bundling a payload that switches default search engine for Chrome [...] - Search Engine Land

January, 22 2020

Listings that earn featured snippets will not repeat on the first page of Google search Instead, they'll appear at the top of the second results page. - Search Engine Land
Google: Web Pages in Featured Snippets Not Repeated in Organic Listings Google’s Danny Sullivan confirms web pages in a featured snippet position will no longer be [...] - Search Engine Journal
Releasing the Drosophila Hemibrain Connectome — The Largest Synapse-Resolution Map of Brain Connectivity Posted by Michal Januszewski, Software Engineer and Viren Jain, Research Scientist and Technical [...] - Google Research
Stop paying for clicks when you’ve hit conversion capacity with this script To prevent you paying for clicks you don’t want or need, this capacity controller Google Ads [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s mobile-first indexing guide update emphasizes the same content across site versions New guidance has been added in numerous areas, including crawling, structured data, visual content [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s John Mueller: One Violation Will Not Result in a Manual Action Google’s John Mueller clarifies that one violation of the webmaster guidelines will not get a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Video: Josef Sperzel talks technical SEO and using Python to pull data Sperzel says he's most excited about using Python to do data visualization and streamline the [...] - Search Engine Land
Raising the stakes on product category pages Aleyda Solis and Arsen Rabinovich discuss ways to make your category pages more competitive and [...] - Search Engine Land
Is Google Biased Toward Some Top Level Domains? An experiment to see if Google indexes top level domains differently yields surprising results. - Search Engine Journal

January, 21 2020

Sunsetting support for data-vocabulary Structured data schemas such as schema.org and data-vocabulary.org are used to define shared [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Ends Rich Results for Data-Vocabulary.org Structured Data Google announced they will no longer show Data-Vocabulary.org rich results. Focusing on Schema.org [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s John Mueller on Optimizing Images for Search Results In the latest instalment of Ask Google Webmasters, John Mueller goes over tips on optimizing images [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google will drop support for data-vocabulary.org structured data on April 6 Site owners will have to switch to schema.org markup to be eligible for rich results. - Search Engine Land
A New Search Engine Enters the Market – OneSearch from Verizon Media An unlikely competitor enters the search engine market as Verizon Media launches its [...] - Search Engine Journal
Video: Google Image Search Ranking & Optimization Google has released a new video on how image search rankings work. John Mueller of Google answered [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
CallRail adds call analytics integration with Google My Business Call tracking makes more data available to marketers than GMB insights. - Search Engine Land
Machine Learning Spam in Google Machine learning technologies are being used to copy text, audio and video content to spam Google. - Search Engine Journal
Google To Drop Data-Vocabulary On April 6th, All In On Schema.org Google announced this morning that after April 6, 2020 it will no longer support the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Overthinking Natural Links? Google: If It Is Natural, It Is Natural. Is it this simple? John Mueller of Google said on Twitter "You're overthinking it. If the link [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 20 2020

The latest data on the January 2020 Google core update We asked several data providers for some more insights into the latest Google update. - Search Engine Land
SameSite requirements for cookies: What SEOs and developers need to know Get prepared for SameSite cookie handling behavior coming to Chrome, Firefox and Edge browsers. - Search Engine Land
SEO and SMEs: Q&A with Chris Rodgers, Founder and CEO of Colorado SEO Pros Useful insights from Chris Rodgers, Founder and CEO of Colorado SEO Pros about the conundrum of SEO [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google: Domains Are The Most Important Part Of URLs Over the past several years, espesially with the changes to Google's Chrome browser, SEOs have been [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Martin Luther King Jr. Day Google Doodle Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States. Like every year, Google has a Doodle, a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's Jumbo Lamp - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 17 2020

Google: Structured Data Has No Impact on Ranking in Web Search Google’s Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, clarifies that structured data is optional and does [...] - Search Engine Journal
SEOs Share Impact Of The Google January 2020 Core Update Yesterday, I asked on Twitter for SEOs to share charts and data on how the Google January 2020 core [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google desktop favicon search results study With this latest update, Google has made identification of ads less accurate so people think more [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Once Again Says Structured Data Does Not Impact Ranking Google, once again, had to say structured data does not impact ranking in web search. But this time [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: January 2020 Core Update Mostly Done Rolling Out But Is It? Google has said that the January 2020 core update is "mostly done" when I and others [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
OneSearch, Verizon Media’s new search engine, sounds awfully familiar The privacy-focused search engine serves contextual ads and doesn’t use cookies for tracking. - Search Engine Land
Google: Good Spam Reports Can Lead To Broad Spam Action Danny Sullivan from Google responded to complaints about spam in Google search asking the user to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEO competition research: The complete guide Along with keyword and backlink research, link building and website audits, competition research is [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google is hogging half your traffic–Learn how to get it back Join our webinar as our experts show you the proactive steps you can take today to recover traffic [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Showing Wrong URL In Snippets Google is now showing the incorrect URL in the snippets. It isn't a massive problem because when [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 16 2020

Reformer: The Efficient Transformer Posted by Nikita Kitaev, Student Researcher, UC Berkeley and Łukasz Kaiser, Research [...] - Google Research
Google January 2020 core update almost done rolling out Check your analytics and rankings to see how this latest core update impacted you or your clients. - Search Engine Land
Case study: The true value of informational content for e-commerce SEO Data suggests that informational content pages do indeed help rank better for search queries with [...] - Search Engine Land
The Google January 2020 Core Update Is Global Danny Sullivan from Google has confirmed that this January 2020 Core Update is global and pretty [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Introduces a New Shopping Section in Search Results Google’s rolling out a new addition to search results this week which makes it easy to shop [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Console unparsable structured data report data issue No need to panic, the errors you may be seeing in Google Search Console might be related to a bug [...] - Search Engine Land
Froogle Is Back - Well, Kind Of, With Free Google Popular Product Listings Remember Froogle, Google's free product search engines from the early 2000s? Well, Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bug Alert: Google Search Console Unparsable Structured Data Google has confirmed that some may see a spike in unparsable structured data errors within Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Get Ready for New SameSite=None; Secure Cookie Settings This is a cross-post from the Chromium developer blog and is specific to how changes to Chrome [...] - Google Webmaster Central

January, 15 2020

A new way to find clothes, shoes and more on Search When you’re shopping online for something to wear, like a down jacket for winter or dress [...] - Inside Search
New: Google My Business Provider Google has launched a new local Google My Business initiative named My Business Provider. This [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google rolls out organic ‘Popular Products’ listings in mobile search results The listing are powered by product schema and retailer feeds submitted to Google Merchant Center. - Search Engine Land
Google: We Do Core Search Updates 2-4 Times Per Year; Not Several Times Per Year? Danny Sullivan from Google again said that while Google makes changes in search "each [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Can You Trust Your Model’s Uncertainty? Posted by Jasper Snoek, Research Scientist and Zachary Nado, Research Engineer, Google Research [...] - Google Research

January, 14 2020

Google January 2020 Core Update Is Live & It's Big Yesterday, Google announced that it is releasing a core broad update named the January 2020 Core [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads enables bid simulator for Target ROAS, budget simulator for Maximize clicks, conversions See the projected impact of making bid or budget changes in your campaigns that use these smart [...] - Search Engine Land
Google buys Pointy to bring SMB store inventory online The company offers an elegant solution to the challenge of getting local merchant inventory into [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Rich Results Test Now Can Show Embedded Resources Google has upgraded the rich results test to show embedded resources. It is beta but it can show [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New: Google Ads Target ROAS Bid Simulator Google Ads has introduced a new bid simulator, the Target ROAS bid simulator. The target ROAS bid [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 13 2020

Google January 2020 Core Update rolling out later today Google has pre-announced yet another core update, keep an eye on your rankings -- it will begin [...] - Search Engine Land
Google January 2020 Core Update is Rolling Out Imminently Google confirmed that a broad core algorithm update, simply titled the ‘January 2020 Core [...] - Search Engine Journal
Using Machine Learning to “Nowcast” Precipitation in High Resolution Posted by Jason Hickey, Senior Software Engineer, Google Research The weather can affect a [...] - Google Research
Google rolling out desktop search redesign with black “Ad” label, favicons for organic results After several months of being live in the Google mobile results, Google has launched the new design [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Answers How to Optimize for BERT Google's John Mueller answers the question of how to optimize for BERT - Search Engine Journal
Google: We Treat Links On HTTP & HTTPS Pages Equally Google's John Mueller said a link on an HTTP page is just as valuable to Google as a link on an [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s ‘My Business Provider’ program replaces ‘Trusted Verifier’ for GMB outreach But agencies, SEOs, and resellers are not eligible to become MBPs. - Search Engine Land
7 reasons why you need to update your reputation management strategy in 2020 Whether repairing or proactively managing your reputation, prioritize a multi-pronged approach to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: It Would Be Rare For A Ranking Improvement After Removing Tag/Search Pages From Index Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that "that would be pretty rare" if you removed [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Video: William Álvarez on the importance of structured data and Google search He also likes to give back to the SEO community by mentoring less experienced SEOs. - Search Engine Land
Google Indexing Its Own Cache Now Fixed Gary Illyes from Google said it has fixed an issue with the search engine indexing its own cache [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 10 2020

Google Ads testing custom dimensions to enable reporting based on your business structure Group and report on campaigns with a hierarchical structure to see performance by business category [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Evergreen Content Doesn't Need To Change, Keep The Date Google's John Mueller was asked how can one communicate to Google that a page with evergreen [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Says Move Full Domain, Not Pieces, If You Want A Fast Site Migration When it comes to site moves, if you pick some URLs and not all, it can cause issues for Google. In [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Did Google Drops Table Schema Support In Search? Google may have dropped table schema for datasets that it launched in beta in 2018. If you try to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Still Displaying Emojis In Display URL Again, Google is still showing emojis in some Google Ads display URLs. We saw it in 2019 and in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tire Swing Tree Logo - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 9 2020

Google Research: Looking Back at 2019, and Forward to 2020 and Beyond Posted by Jeff Dean, Senior Fellow and SVP of Google Research and Health, on behalf of the entire [...] - Google Research
Google: As Search Engines Get Better At Intent, Keyword Research Won't Go Away Earlier this week, Frédéric Dubut, the PM of overall Bing's core search team, said [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The dangers of misplaced third-party scripts Most SEO tags like the title, canonical, etc. belong in the HTML HEAD but if placed in the BODY, [...] - Search Engine Land
Conductor launches SEO services marketplace for Searchlight users Marketers can request analyses, content briefs and more directly through the interface. - Search Engine Land
DuckDuckGo, Info.com crowd out Bing in Google’s Android search options The auction results are in: Bing will only appear in the UK, but DuckDuckGo and Info.com will be [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: FAQ Schema Must Be On Page, Not In External PDF Google's John Mueller said you really cannot use FAQ schema for PDF documents. John said on Twitter [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Pages Launches To Promote Your Public Persona Bing has quietly launched Bing Pages, a beta program that lets users manage their presence on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Crawl Stats Report Data Fixed Google seems to have fixed the stalled data in the crawl stats report within Google Search Console. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local/Maps With "In Between" Links To Other Businesses Google Maps and Local can show in a business listing profile the address but near the address it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 8 2020

Google’s John Mueller on intent research vs keyword research for 2020 Is Google all in on intent research versus keyword research for SEOs? Maybe not... - Search Engine Land
Here’s some data to help you understand how to rank better with your brand name When people search your brand name, you want them to see content that you have some control over. - Search Engine Land
With Bing Pages, brands can manage their profiles across Microsoft products, including Bing Search Brands can also use Bing Pages to promote their social content on relevant search results. - Search Engine Land
Google handles reconsideration requests in batches John Mueller said that the Google team goes through reconsideration requests in batches, so [...] - Search Engine Land
Video: Brian Dean on growing YouTube subscribers and the nofollow link change Brian Dean does SEO training and has grow a nice following over the years. I sit down with Brian [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Crawling At Large Scale Is Complicated; Don't Oversimplify It Google's John Mueller responded to a question related to crawl budget around large scale web sites [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 7 2020

Google Ads Outsourced Partner Teleperformance Trying To Poach Your Clients We know that Google has a history of calling companies and selling them to use Google Ads. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Surprising Facts About E-A-T The surprising truth about E-A-T and SEO. - Search Engine Journal
Google January 7th Search Ranking Algorithm Update Early Signals I am seeing some early signals of a possible Google search ranking algorithm update starting today, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google tests user comments for live TV shows TV shows get the real-time user comments feature that has been working for sporting events in [...] - Search Engine Land
Google working on fixing data in URL parameter tool The legacy URL parameter tool in Google Search Console is having some issues, Google is aware and [...] - Search Engine Land
Direct site navigation via voice arrives on iOS Bing Search app The app also has a new look featuring a carousel of common search categories. - Search Engine Land
Google Reconsideration Requests Responses With Longer Wait Times? There have been numerous reports within the SEO community that Google has been really slow recently [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console URL Parameter Data Issues John Mueller from Google has confirmed an issue with the data being displayed in the URL parameter [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 6 2020

Google Mocks SEO Strategy To Update Stories With "2020" Titles & Headlines I see a lot of SEOs over the years push out new stories, repurposed, with a new headline for the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s John Mueller: Our SEOs Have it Harder Than Others Google’s John Mueller informed an aspiring Google employee that it’s SEO allegedly have [...] - Search Engine Journal
Do Ugly Sites Convert Better? Major companies today use plain-looking websites. Does the "ugly" site strategy still [...] - Search Engine Journal
Video: A.J. Ghergich on not chasing the Google algorithm and focusing on human intentions From scaling your agency all the way to thinking about SEO in a deeper way - check out this [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Reminds Us To Fix Internal Links That 404 Google posted a response on the Google Webmaster Twitter account reminding us that when you get 404 [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Medium Google Organic Traffic Takes A Beating It seems that Medium, the popular publishing platform, hasn't been doing too well in Google over [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
January 2020 Google Webmaster Report Here is the first Google webmaster report of 2020, the January 2020 report is pretty packed. We [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing's FrÃ©dÃ©ric Dubut: Keyword Research Practices Should Be Replaced By Intent Research At SMX the team did a short interview with Frédéric Dubut, the PM of overall Bing's [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Outdoor / Indoor Picnic Area - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #34: A.J. Ghergich On Scaling An Agency, Not Chasing The Google Algorithm & Searcher Intentions A.J. Ghergich invited me to his office in St. Louis right by Busch Stadium where the St. Louis [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 3 2020

SEOs must focus on intent research practices in 2020 It is more important than ever to update your research methods since the release of BERT and the [...] - Search Engine Land
Focus on E-A-T to avoid performance problems in 2020 Show Google that you're a trusted entity with a focus on your expertise, authoritativeness and [...] - Search Engine Land
Make it easy for search engines to rank your website in 2020 Audit your website and check all the technical signals to understand how search engine algorithms [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Put Voice Search Optimization Fad To Sleep Already Gary Illyes from Google posted on Twitter "It's a new year, maybe we can put the voice search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Snippet Shows List Includes For Some List Based Content Brian Freiesleben posted a screen shot, that I can replicate on mobile, of Google adding to a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Fewer Page Types Is Easier Google's John Mueller was asked by a webmaster if he should remove the mobile alternative pages [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 2 2020

Google Explains How to Use Headings for SEO Google's John Mueller explains the proper use of heading elements (H1, H2, H3) for SEO. - Search Engine Journal
The big comings and goings in paid search 2019 that will shape how we market in 2020 Automation, full-funnel campaigns, shoppable ads and privacy fueled paid search changes in 2019. - Search Engine Land
Online tax-filing services can no longer hide free services from Google Search results TurboTax and others are prohibited from noindexing their free e-file landing pages, per new IRS [...] - Search Engine Land
Google New Years Search Algorithm Update? Mixed Signals. There is some significant chatter in the SEO industry around a possible new years update that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Top Stories Are Chosen By Importance Scores Changes have been made to Top Stories shown in Carousels in Google SERPs Google made a recent [...] - SEO by the Sea
Quantum supremacy and nine SEO trends that’ll flip 2020 on its head In 2020 Google will start using breakthroughs like the quantum processor for commercial purposes. [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Video Spam Through Text-To-Speech Technology Roger Montti posted on Twitter that he is seeing more and more spammers using a technique to spam [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Persistent 5xx Result In Slower Crawling But Won't Say How Many URLs Required Google's John Mueller said that persistent 5xx error responses to Google's requests by your server [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Displays "Get More Reviews" For Local Knowledge Panels You Manage Google has changed the button for your local knowledge panel from "write a review" to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Pack "Choose Area" Feature Now Live About six months ago Google was testing an option to select or "choose" your area or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 1 2020

John Mueller Of Google Helping Webmasters On New Years 2020 Just like on every Christmas, John Mueller from Google dials up to the internet and logs on to the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable