Archive of March, 2020

March, 31 2020

Communication tips for local businesses during COVID-19 Hear how local search veterans are using every channel available to help their clients stay [...] - Search Engine Land
Small and mid-sized Google Ads agency partners to lose dedicated ad rep support The change is "part of a routine review," according to the company said. - Search Engine Land
Google updates its ads policy for inappropriate content to include ‘public health emergency’ The change to the sensitive events section of the policy is effective immediately. - Search Engine Land
Coding for SEO 101: Understanding source code, compressed code and compiled code Why can't computers read human language? Why do some source files look like crazy character noise? [...] - Search Engine Land
Google is Helping to Make COVID-19 Information More Accessible Google has launched several initiatives to assist health organizations with making COVID-19 [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google creates best practices guides & support for health organizations around COVID-19 Google is offering more guidance and support to those in the health space.. - Search Engine Land
Google Posts In Google My Business Now Back After Being Disabled Google has said it has reenabled the ability to use Google Posts after it was temporarily disabled. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google webmaster conference videos now available Did you miss this Google event? Well, now you can watch most of the Google talks. - Search Engine Land
Google Releases The Webmaster Conference Product Summit Videos Last November Google held an SEO and webmaster conference at their Mountain View offices, the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 30 2020

Google My Business: When should you use ‘special hours’ vs. ‘temporarily closed’? A discussion with Google My Business Gold Product Expert Krystal Taing. - Search Engine Land
Google Posts, ‘temporarily disabled,’ now back Marketers had been having trouble with Posts over the past two weeks. - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console Updates: More Control Over Data & Email Notifications Google has updated Search Console with features that give site owners more control over their [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Console adds performance report and email preferences Google added new controls for Search Console. The SEO community will welcome these new preferences. - Search Engine Land
Video: Kevin Doory on difference between traditional SEO and local SEO He also shared some fun tips on Google My Business. - Search Engine Land
SMX Overtime: Creating a video-first content strategy SMX West speaker Joey Daoud explains why it's worth the time to go back and optimize older videos [...] - Search Engine Land
Live with Search Engine Land: Local SEOs talk ‘buggy’ Google My Business, COVID-19 Search Engine Land's Greg Sterling hosted an hour-long discussion with leading local SEOs to talk [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Volatility & Fluctuations Super Unusual Over the past few days, the fluctuations and volatility seen in the Google organic search results [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Testing Carousel In Search Again? Almost a year ago, Google was spotted testing a Google Ads format that shows the Google Ads in a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 29 2020

Google’s Martin Splitt on Indexing Pages with Infinite Scroll Google's Martin Splitt offers advice knowing how Google indexes a page with infinite scrolling - Search Engine Journal

March, 27 2020

Google pledges $340 million in Google Ads credits for SMBs The credits will be available for eligible active advertisers "in the coming months." It [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Trends is Useful During Coronavirus Coronavirus is changing everything. Get to Google Trends right now. - Search Engine Journal
Search marketers are volunteering services, support to help small businesses get through COVID-19 Consulting, web hosting, budget coaching — marketers are extending help to ease the strain on [...] - Search Engine Land
Did you know that users’ gazes follow a pinball pattern? Eye tracking studies uncovered a “pinball pattern” in users’ gazes. - Search Engine Land
Google On How To Technically Pause Your Online Business As promised, Google has put together both a blog post and a detailed developer document on how to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: No Such Thing As Two Waves Of Indexing Or Crawling We have heard Google talk about two waves of indexing or crawling, espesially when it comes to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 26 2020

How to pause your business online in Google Search As the effects of the coronavirus grow, we've seen businesses around the world looking for ways to [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Businesses should limit, not disable, their sites during temporary closures, Google says A full takedown can result in losing Search Console data and make it more difficult to ramp back up. - Search Engine Land
Google Recommends Ways to Pause Businesses in Search During COVID-19 Pandemic Google is providing guidance to businesses who wish to pause their online activity as the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Now, analyze more accounts in Google Ads Report Editor Run reports for up to 200 accounts in a Manager account. - Search Engine Land
SEOs Claiming Organic Search Traffic Declines Due To COVID-19 Marie Haynes is posting a weekly poll on Twitter asking SEOs if they are seeing organic search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
EU Android search choice screen’s impact delayed due to COVID-19 Engagement with the search choice screen has been slowed by stifled smartphone supply and decreased [...] - Search Engine Land
Explaining the Chrome ‘explainers’ for advertising without third-party cookies Although the “privacy sandbox” from Google is likely to continue to evolve, the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: There Is No Need To Include Every Link In Your Disavow File Google's John Mueller said on Twitter "Some tools find all sorts of irrelevant links -- [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 25 2020

A Neural Weather Model for Eight-Hour Precipitation Forecasting Posted by Nal Kalchbrenner and Casper Sønderby, Research Scientists, Google Research, [...] - Google Research
Google My Business Adds Mark As Temporarily Closed Option If you login to your Google My Business account and click on edit your information, you will be [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google turns on ‘mark a business temporarily closed’ for business owners on GMB The tool is under 'Close this business on Google.' - Search Engine Land
Social platforms cut streaming quality as ‘social distancing’ wages on Advertisers could soon be feeling the effects of reduced speeds in the U.S., if they haven't [...] - Search Engine Land
Discover podcasts you’ll love with Google Podcasts, now on iOS It took me a decade to find the podcasts I love most. When I lived in Chicago, I started [...] - Inside Search
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility Many of the tracking tools that follow the changes and volatility in the Google search results have [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Pro Tip: 3 important XML sitemap checks to improve your SEO Evaluate what important URLs are missing, what needs to be removed and asses how Google indexes [...] - Search Engine Land
Pivoting and planning for a future after COVID-19 SEOs share what they’re doing to help clients adapt to business during and after the pandemic. - Search Engine Land

March, 24 2020

Reducing digital marketing due to COVID-19? Read this first Here's some advice about being hands-on with paid search accounts and mindful of your content [...] - Search Engine Land
Winners and losers: How COVID-19 is affecting search behavior Social distancing has resulted in wild click behavior swings across sectors including grocers, [...] - Search Engine Land
Fake SEO Case Studies on Facebook Fake SEO Case Studies are trending on SEO Facebook Groups. One Facebook Group admin is fighting [...] - Search Engine Journal
Pro Tip: How to fix 3 not so obvious crawl errors Index bloat impacts performance as well as misconfigured trailing slashes and soft 404s. - Search Engine Land
City of Antwerp and Google to digitize 100,000 books The world of book publishing today is, in many ways, dignified and highbrow. But it was a different [...] - Inside Search
9 of the best SEO tools you can try for free Free trial is a great way to get acquainted with pricey SEO software. So here's a list of SEO tools [...] - Search Engine Land
Hitchhiker’s guide to the end of the third-party cookie as we know it Impact's Matt Moore explores options around what affiliate and partnership managers can do to [...] - Search Engine Watch

March, 23 2020

Google My Business not functioning as expected under the strain of coronavirus Many updates are taking considerably longer than normal. - Search Engine Land
Google Allowing Restaurants Add Delivery Available Or Takeout Available To Business Name Google is making a rule exception to what you can use in your business name for some restaurants. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Corona to COVID: How Google’s ‘corona’ results page has evolved In less than a month, the SERP has shifted from brand results to one focused on the coronavirus [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Supports New Schema Markup for COVID-19 Special Announcements Bing is now using a new type of structured data markup for special announcements related [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Suspends Local Reviews & Q&A During Coronavirus Outbreak Google has suspended accepting and posting reviews and Q&A on local businesses during the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google intros open testing ads, new asset reporting and more for App campaigns The slate of ads and analytics features specifically aimed at mobile gaming marketers will roll out [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing adopts SpecialAnnouncement structured data for COVID-19 The SpecialAnnouncement markup can be applied to coronavirus-related business, travel, health [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Says It's A Myth That It Prioritizes AMP Pages In Google Search Google's Martin Splitt said it is a myth that Google prioritizes AMP pages in Google search. We [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 22 2020

Google Answers How Manual Reviews are Handled Google's John Mueller answered questions about how Google's Manual Review team does it's job. - Search Engine Journal
Google is Asked About Advance Warning of Penalties Google's John Mueller is asked if Google will give advanced warnings of link penalties? - Search Engine Journal

March, 21 2020

Connecting people with COVID-19 information and resources Since the beginning of the year, search interest in COVID-19 has continued to climb around the [...] - Inside Search

March, 20 2020

Google temporarily disables local reviews The company has hit pause on review creation or responding for now. - Search Engine Land
Google’s right-sidebar featured snippets are no more The featured snippet variant now appears in Google’s main results column, as the company [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Instant Indexing API – Users Claim Ranking in 10 Minutes Bing announced an API for submitting URLs for instant indexing. One beta tester claims he ranked [...] - Search Engine Journal
Visual Transfer Learning for Robotic Manipulation Posted by Yen-Chen Lin, Research Intern and Andy Zeng, Research Scientist, Robotics at Google [...] - Google Research
Bing launches new portal for URL and content submission APIs Check out this new site from Bing to find everything you need to know about the two APIs. - Search Engine Land
How Google close variants brought broad match to every match type Most of us won’t weep about the death of broad match but we will miss the days of total match [...] - Search Engine Land
Using SEO to help people find more info on Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 The global pandemic is also a lesson in good keyword research for publishers. - Search Engine Land
Google Won't Hide News Behind Paywalls Many are now frustrated that when they are searching for news around the coronavirus and COVID-19, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 19 2020

COVID-19 checklist for businesses: How to manage your online presence and keep customers updated in a time of crisis Use your local business profiles, website and Schema markup to provide the latest information to [...] - Search Engine Land
A look at Google’s recent COVID-19 related policies in search It’s critical for all search engines to pull together to thwart bad actors and provide [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Offers Reasons for Significant SERP Changes Google's John Mueller offers several reasons for significant changes in the search results. - Search Engine Journal
Google’s Mueller Discusses Site Demotions Google's John Mueller discusses site demotions and what does not cause them. - Search Engine Journal
Google Stops Displaying Almost All Top Right Featured Snippets Google has virtually stopped showing featured snippets in the top right position of the search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Live With Search Engine Land: Top SEOs talk shop, social distancing with Barry Schwartz With the search marketing community largely holed up in home offices as the country tries to [...] - Search Engine Land

March, 18 2020

Possible Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update This Week Normalcy makes us happy, even if that normalcy is change. And that is what we seem to have this [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Brands, especially restaurants, need FAQs and ‘coronapages’ fast There are a number of common questions your customers are probably asking in search that aren't [...] - Search Engine Land
Optimizing paid search and Amazon campaigns for seasonality Planning ahead (even in a time that's anything but "normal") can help ensure your [...] - Search Engine Land
Video: Martha van Berkel talks about structured data Does adding schema help improve your search rankings? Google says no but... - Search Engine Land
Google Rolls Out New Types of Event Schema as COVID-19 Causes More Cancellations As events go virtual, get postponed, or altogether cancelled due to coronavirus – Google is [...] - Search Engine Journal

March, 17 2020

US Democratic Party Symbol Was A Rat In Google's Knowledge Panel Last night for a period of time, if you searched for [democratic party] or similar searches, the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Schema.org adds COVID-19-related structured data types in version 7.0 “SpecialAnnouncement” and “eventAttendanceMode” can help businesses provide [...] - Search Engine Land
60% Of SEOs Prefer If Google Pause Algorithm Updates During COVID-19 Outbreak Yesterday I asked should Google pause algorithm updates based on some folks in the SEO community [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New properties for virtual, postponed, and canceled events In the current environment and status of COVID-19 around the world, many events are being canceled, [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Experiencing Glitches in Search Results Google experiencing glitches that results in odd search results. - Search Engine Journal
Questions to ask before you buy an enterprise SEO platform? Here are a few questions companies should ask themselves before exploring a purchase. - Search Engine Land
Yahoo and other Verizon-owned search sites favor Verizon media properties [Study] Study compared rankings for the same queries across six Bing-powered search sites, including Bing [...] - Search Engine Land

March, 16 2020

Google to show which local businesses ‘temporarily closed’ in Search, Maps amid coronavirus outbreak Local data accuracy becomes critical at a time like this. - Search Engine Land
More PPC advertisers pause campaigns amid coronavirus upheaval For many marketers, last week was a tipping point as the U.S. grappled will coronavirus measures. - Search Engine Land
COVID-19 and corporate social responsibility in search engine marketing Audit your prospecting tactics and targeting to put thought behind how to minimize COVID-19’s [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s Mueller Clarifies Page Layout Algorithm Google's John Mueller clarifies a point about Google's Page Layout Algorithm - Search Engine Journal
Bing’s COVID-19 tracker filters data, news and video by region ‘Coronavirus’ results pages have become ad-free resource hubs on Bing, Google and other [...] - Search Engine Land
1 in 3 Business Owners Don’t Understand How Google Search Rankings Work A new study shows a significant knowledge gap when it comes to understanding SEO basics, such as [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads & Google My Business Support May Be Delayed Or Unavailable Google has been posting notices in the Google Ads and Google My Business (as well as other [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Warns About Assumptions Based on Site: Search Google's John Mueller warns about making assumptions from site: search. - Search Engine Journal
Google now showing ‘specialists’ tab in health condition knowledge cards on mobile This update to Google’s health condition cards in mobile search results will benefit patients [...] - Search Engine Land

March, 14 2020

Google SEO 101: Here’s How to Update Your Search Results Snippets Google‘s latest ‘Search for Beginners’ video is a crash course on how to create [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s John Mueller: We Do Not Use W3C Validation in Search Results Google’s John Mueller recently stated in a webmaster hangout that W3C validation has no [...] - Search Engine Journal

March, 13 2020

Google building coronavirus testing website The White House is working with Google to build a website that enables people to find nearby [...] - Search Engine Land
Data suggests there’s still no corporate or brand bias in Google results Google results may be occasionally terrible but data is not indicating results are biased or being [...] - Search Engine Land
Hiring an SEO? Why a technical SEO audit shouldn’t be part of the proposal process Experienced SEOs share what to expect from an initial audit and why Google’s hiring video [...] - Search Engine Land
Fast and Easy Infinitely Wide Networks with Neural Tangents Posted by Samuel S. Schoenholz, Senior Research Scientist and Roman Novak, Research Engineer, [...] - Google Research
Early look: Google ads customer value reporting and conversion rules The two features have been in testing for about a year. Here's what they're designed to do. - Search Engine Land
Searchmetrics is Evolving: Introducing our New Brand Identity A lot has happened since 2005, when Marcus Tober first launched the digital agency that would go on [...] - Searchmetrics
Lots Of Pages That Don't Get Searched For? Does It Hurt Your Google Search Rankings? John Mueller from Google was asked if "having too many non searched pages on website are bad [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 12 2020

Advanced Google Ads script removes locations from keywords This script automates the removal of individual locations from keywords at-scale within Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Start With Fewer Pages For New Sites Google's John Mueller said he would "recommend erring on the side of having fewer pages, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Soli Radar-Based Perception and Interaction in Pixel 4 Posted by Jaime Lien, Research Engineer and Nicholas Gillian, Software Engineer, Google Advanced [...] - Google Research
Mueller Says Don’t Focus on What Google Thinks is Quality. Focus on this Instead John Mueller answers how Google determines page quality, says publishers know what quality means [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google pushes out deadline parallel tracking for Video due to ‘global events’ The mandatory deadline is extended into June. - Search Engine Land
Ecosia to join Chrome v81 default search engine choices The not-for-profit search engine joins Google, Bing, Yahoo! and DuckDuckGo as an option in 47 [...] - Search Engine Land
How to improve your SEO after Google’s spot-zero-termination Google has changed SEO and the way featured snippets show up. Here’s how to adjust your SEO [...] - Search Engine Watch
Bing: The Magnitude Of Algorithm Changes Has Been Larger Than Usual Frederic Dubut from Bing said on Twitter that Bing has been very business working on algorithm [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 11 2020

Google bans face mask ads globally due to misleading coronavirus claims The face mask ban comes amid a rise in false claims around coronavirus prevention and price gouging. - Search Engine Land
Google signals stricter enforcement of GMB image guidelines It wants to ensure "all content that appears in the Business Profile is relevant, high [...] - Search Engine Land
Possible March 10th Google Search Algorithm Update I am seeing some chatter from March 9th through March 11th (today) about a possible Google search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Ten Years Ago, One Women Stopped SEO From Being Trademarked Ten years ago, Rhea Drysdale, who I interviewed here, defended the SEO industry by stopping an [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Now Prevents Advertising Face Masks Google is now not allowing its advertisers to bid and place ads on face mask related keywords. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Business Operations Verification Program Starting This Month I'll be honest, I am not sure what this is. Google announced "In March 2020, Google will [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The rise of customer review amplifiers We live in a feedback economy so if resources and budget are limited, prioritize managing reviews [...] - Search Engine Land
Video: Detlef Johnson on SEO for developers The longtime developer and SEO is working to bring the disciplines together. - Search Engine Land
Google’s ‘Interesting finds’ SERP feature: The ‘interesting’ reason why mobile organic search traffic remained strong while desktop dropped The “interesting” module in mobile search results is tough to track, but could be [...] - Search Engine Land

March, 10 2020

SEO Community Rebukes Google for Advising Free Site Audits Google tells businesses to ask for free SEO audits BEFORE hiring an SEO. SEO community response is [...] - Search Engine Journal
Coronavirus disrupts search, digital ad budgets With ad spend expected to fall in many sectors, media buyers share what they're seeing on the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google showing ‘key moments’ feature on multiple videos in search results The video timeline feature is getting more visibility in mobile search. - Search Engine Land
Yelp to Congress: Don’t investigate Google without looking at search The reviews site wants to stop Google's "self-preferencing" in the local SERP. - Search Engine Land
Google: Heading & Titles Help A Little With Pagination But Links Help Best How does Google understand what pages are in a set of pagination? Well, with the rel prev and next [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Indexing Search Result Pages Is A Watering Down Indexed Pages Issue Google's John Mueller responded to a comment about Google's guidelines around "Use the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Join us for the digital Google for Games Developer Summit Last month, Game Developers Conference (GDC) organizers made the difficult decision to postpone [...] - Inside Adwords

March, 9 2020

Announcing TensorFlow Quantum: An Open Source Library for Quantum Machine Learning Posted by Alan Ho, Product Lead and Masoud Mohseni, Technical Lead, Google Research [...] - Google Research
13 stories of women who are shaping the SEO field If you’re just starting to pave your way in SEO, read these empowering stories to learn what [...] - Search Engine Land
Google My Business tells businesses affected by the coronavirus to update listings You can update your business hours, description, phone number and even add Google Posts. - Search Engine Land
Case Study: How UGC increased organic blog traffic 228% User-generated content helped a healthcare network nonprofit cut down time spent sourcing unique [...] - Search Engine Land
Google people also ask boxes not showing as often now? RankRanger says the people also ask shows for 40% of queries, it use to show up for 52% of queries. - Search Engine Land
COVID-19 Affecting Search Marketing Conferences Search marketing conferences are postponed because of COVID-19. But not all conferences are being [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search is showing YouTube Music links on album queries More visibility for the platform may mean more subscribers. - Search Engine Land
Google My Business COVID-19 Instructions: Businesses Affected Should Update Listings Google posted in the Google My Business help area that it wants businesses affected by COVID-19, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Now Shows PDF Image Thumbnails In Search Brian Freiesleben notified me that Google is now showing thumbnails of the PDF document in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Does Not Have AI Ranking Contracts - It's Made Up There is a site out there claiming that Google has given it some sort of AI ranking contract. Thus [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 6 2020

Google My Business Now Will Manually Review All Photos & Videos Before Publication Google said yesterday that now before it publishes any of your photos or videos you post in a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Analysis of 250 million SERPs finds no-click story more complex than it appears Perficient Digital study: snippets are 'click-neutral' and ads steal from no-clicks - Search Engine Land
Google To Switch All Sites Mobile-First Indexing By September 2020 Big news yesterday, but we saw it coming, was that Google announced all sites are going to be moved [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Majority of consumers want standards and tougher action against review fraud Survey finds U.S. consumers want severe financial penalties for retailers that don't protect review [...] - Search Engine Land
Four essential ecommerce site optimizations that drive sales Internet marketer and Co-founder of Lbswebsoft shares a list of ecommerce site optimization [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Ads Attribution Reports Get Revamped Google has updated the attribution reports within Google Ads. Google said on Twitter [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 5 2020

Announcing mobile first indexing for the whole web It's been a few years now that Google started working on mobile-first indexing - Google's [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google to switch completely over to mobile-first indexing by September 2020 Google has said currently 70% of sites they show in search have already been switched over. - Search Engine Land
Several WordPress SEO plugins are on the fritz Site owners using Google Analytics Dashboard for WP, Yoast SEO and Rank Math should check for the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Says 70% of Sites Have Been Moved to Mobile-First Indexing As Google prepares to switch all sites to mobile-first indexing, the company confirms 70% of sites [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Only Worry About Sitemaps if Your Site Meets This Criteria Google’s Daniel Waisberg stated that sites don’t necessarily need sitemaps unless they [...] - Search Engine Journal
Will RSAs help or hurt your account? This script will help you figure it out The best way to determine the effect of an automation like RSAs is to test them with a Campaign [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads significantly streamlines attribution reporting It's also dropping "Search" from the name. - Search Engine Land
Google: We're Not Going To Index All Your Pages John Mueller of Google had to tell one SEO that it is not going to happen, Google is not going to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business: Car Dealerships Now Can Have Multiple Listings Google has updated its help documents to allow car dealerships to have multiple Google My Business [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Hreflang Annotations Not Processed Until All Pages In The Set Are Crawled & Indexed Gary Illyes from Google wrote in a Reddit thread that "generally" your hreflang [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 4 2020

Most local SEOs making at least $60,000 Half of local SEOs have been working in the industry for at least a decade. - Search Engine Land
How to Handle SSL Certificates When Merging Domains? Google answers whether you should keep an SSL certificate on an old domain when merging with [...] - Search Engine Journal
Enter the 2020 Search Engine Land Awards — it’s your turn to win! Categories range from small business SEM to enterprise-level SEO to Search Marketer of the Year and [...] - Search Engine Land
Doing a Google import into Bing Ads? Here’s what you need to know There are 4 key differences between the Google and Bing Ads so use this pre- and post-import [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: It's Fine To Link To HTTP URLS For SEO Google's John Mueller confirmed that from an SEO point of view, linking to an HTTP URL, instead of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Nofollow Change Was A Policy Change; No Action Was Necessarily Taken By Googlers Yet We are all still trying to figure out if Google took any action with the nofollow link attribute [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google I/O Cancelled Over Coronavirus Caution Google announced they are cancelling the physical/in-person version of their massive developer [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 3 2020

Coronavirus Impact on Search Marketing Will the coronavirus impact the search marketing industry? - Search Engine Journal
Fake and inaccurate reviews driving billions in ‘wasted’ consumer spending [Report] Roughly 90% of adult internet users rely on reviews, but with growing awareness of fraud and [...] - Search Engine Land
Optimization score comes to Google Ads app And so does Dark mode. - Search Engine Land
Toward Human-Centered Design for ML Frameworks Posted by Carrie J. Cai, Senior Research Scientist, Google Research and Philip J. Guo, Assistant [...] - Google Research
Google Algorithms Do Not Give Shopify Preferential Treatment John Mueller from Google was asked if Google does anything special for Shopify, since it is such a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Video On How To Hire An SEO: Old vs New Google posted a new video on how to hire an SEO. This video, I assume, will replace the one Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: There Are A Variety Of Things We Do To Watch For Wikipedia Vandalism Danny Sullivan of Google said on Twitter "There are a variety of things we do to watch for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
March 2020 Google Webmaster Report This was one busy month, filled with numerous unconfirmed Google search ranking updates both in web [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Some Google & Bing Employees Can Work From Home Due To The Coronavirus The Coronavirus is now spreading in the United States and there is the beginning of an outbreak not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 2 2020

Google tightens FAQ markup guidelines, disallows repetition of questions and answers If you repeat the same question and answer in multiple FAQ pages on your site, you are in violation [...] - Search Engine Land
Soapbox: Brand authority is the most underrated marketing goal A customer will nearly always choose a brand they’ve consistently seen as an authority over a [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Pagination Tips For Blogs: Use Tags Or Categories Google's John Mueller was asked for tips and advice around getting a blog with thousands of pages [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Weekend Search Algorithm Ranking Fluctuations & Chatter Over the weekend, like between February 28th, February 29th and March 1st, there was significant [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google FAQ Rich Result Guideline Update: One Markup Per Question Throughout Site Let's say you have a large site and you have FAQs throughout the site. Sometimes you might decide [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: No Such Thing As Premium Indexing Google's John Mueller was asked about premium indexing on Twitter and he responded "There's no [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 1 2020

Google Discourages Repetitive Use of FAQ Structured Data Markup Google updated its guidelines for the use of FAQ structured data with recommendations regarding [...] - Search Engine Journal