Archive of June, 2020

June, 30 2020

Why Google Ranks Singular and Plural Keywords Differently Google explains why the algorithm may rank singular and plural keywords differently. - Search Engine Journal
SpineNet: A Novel Architecture for Object Detection Discovered with Neural Architecture Search Posted by Xianzhi Du, Software Engineer and Jaeyoun Kim, Technical Program Manager, Google Research [...] - Google Research
Bing Ranking Factors Revealed in Update to Webmaster Guidelines Bing published an updated version of its webmaster guidelines which contains an all-new section on [...] - Search Engine Journal
Travel back in time with AR dinosaurs in Search Dinosaurs may have ruled the Earth millions of years ago, but with augmented reality (AR), you can [...] - Inside Search
Usage of voice has plateaued — for now Compared with past growth, 2020 survey data show flat-to-declining usage. - Search Engine Land
Bing updates its Webmaster Guidelines These new Bing guidelines discuss the fundamental principles behind how Bing crawls, indexes and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google is streamlining ‘Ad’ labeling for Shopping ads The "Sponsored" label will be retired on desktop results, too. - Search Engine Land
How in-house SEO teams and enterprise tech can boost organizational efficiency SEO shouldn’t be a solo endeavor — how to break down silos and make SEO a part of [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing’s search ranking factors; relevance, quality & credibility, user engagement, freshness, location and page load time Want to know how Bing ranks web pages? Here is how Bing describes it within its own guidelines. - Search Engine Land
Bing supports rel=sponsored & rel=ugc You can use the rel="nofollow" or rel="sponsored" or rel="ugc" [...] - Search Engine Land

June, 29 2020

July boycott: Marketing without Facebook Ads Alternative media plan considerations for businesses participating in #StopHateForProfit. - Search Engine Land
Google tests showing Analytics data in Search Console with ‘Insights’ With deeper integration with Google Analytics, Search Console can show you beyond the search [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Random Or Unrelated Links Aren't Necessarily Bad Google's John Mueller was asked if one should disavow random or unrelated links pointing to his [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bringing free retail listings to Google Search When shopping online, it can be daunting to find the right product, the best seller, or the best [...] - Inside Search
Google positioned to dominate the ‘O2O economy’ Online-to-offline: Nearly $12 trillion in offline economic activity is likely impacted by the [...] - Search Engine Land
Free Google product listings expand to knowledge panels Plus, some early stats on the effect of free listings in Google Shopping. - Search Engine Land
Google Updates The How Google Search Works Doc Google has made several changes to the how Google search works document within its help center. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google To Close The Door On Garage Door Spam As you know, Google said they would investigate the complaints around Google Maps spam with garage [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Insights BETA - Deeper Integration With Analytics The other week I reported how Google is sending out emails about Google Search Console and Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Landscape Orientation For Web Sites Does Not Impact SEO Google's John Mueller said that "there is no effect in regard to SEO for Google" when it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

June, 28 2020

Does Google Use Sentiment Analysis to Rank Web Pages? Many say that Google uses sentiment analysis to rank web pages. These are the facts. - Search Engine Journal

June, 27 2020

Stock Photography Impact on SEO Google's John Mueller's comment on stock images and rankings is a starting point for thinking about [...] - Search Engine Journal

June, 26 2020

Leveraging Temporal Context for Object Detection Posted by Sara Beery, Student Researcher, and Jonathan Huang, Research Scientist, Google Research [...] - Google Research
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Unconfirmed Update, Disqus Indexed, Structured Data & EAT & Google Analytics With Search Console I got my normal camera back and with it, we went to London - again, let me know your thoughts on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Structured Data Does Not Help Us Trust Authority Or Expertise Of Content Google's John Mueller said again that using structured data does not give Google something that it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests New Fonts For Search Results Page Google seems to be testing new font styles for the search results pages. Here is some screen shots [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

June, 25 2020

Now sending: Business Messages via Google Maps and Search People develop loyalty to the brands that make it easy to purchase products and services and [...] - Inside Search
Now sending: Business Messages via Google Maps and Search People develop loyalty to the brands that make it easy to purchase products and services and [...] - Inside Search
Google agrees to start paying for news content Germany, Australia and Brazil are the first three countries, with more coming. - Search Engine Land
Pro Tip: Table of contents can provide additional link options in organic search By implementing anchor jumps that match a page element with the same ID, you may be able to gain [...] - Search Engine Land
Google will now auto-delete your location history after 18 months The update is part of a number of new privacy changes being implemented. - Search Engine Land
How to diagnose and fix a search rankings dip SEO tools and a process to determine what was hit and how to fix it. - Search Engine Land
Google upgrades enterprise messaging capabilities in Maps and Search Enhanced features include smart replies, visual product carousels, custom welcome messages. - Search Engine Land
How to improve efficiency between SEO and IT teams Learning the language of IT will help find an SEO champion, while SEO can spotlight the value of an [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing shopping: Introducing new image-based product search Since the last month’s update on “4 ways to save money”, we continue to see more [...] - Bing Search
Google: You Cannot Control Where Google Crawls You From We know Google almost always crawls from the United States of America. But sometimes Google can [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

June, 24 2020

Microsoft launches a free Search and Social campaign management platform for SMBs Digital Marketing Center powers both organic social media and ad campaigns across Microsoft, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s John Mueller on Internal Anchor Text and “Visible Effect in Search” Google's John Mueller discusses internal anchor text on links and the "visible effects in [...] - Search Engine Journal
Sensing Force-Based Gestures on the Pixel 4 Posted by Philip Quinn and Wenxin Feng, Research Scientists, Android UX Touch input has [...] - Google Research
Web Vitals come to Google’s Test My Site tool The tool gives mobile speed and user experience recommendations. - Search Engine Land
New ways to put your customers first and achieve your marketing objectives Life looks very different now for my family than it did earlier this year. From juggling work [...] - Inside Adwords
New ways to put your customers first and achieve your marketing objectives Life looks very different now for my family than it did earlier this year. From juggling work [...] - Inside Adwords
Google to shutter CallJoy, virtual agent for SMBs, on July 22 Call intelligence service was another Area 120 project. - Search Engine Land
Google confirms fixing issue with indexing Disqus comments It is not clear how many blogs were impacted by this Google issue but it is now resolved. - Search Engine Land

June, 23 2020

Nest and Spotify are bringing you the sounds of summer My favorite part of summertime is that it means music festival season is upon us. For me, [...] - Inside Search
Nest and Spotify are bringing you the sounds of summer My favorite part of summertime is that it means music festival season is upon us. For me, [...] - Inside Search
A Big Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update Happening Now? I know I reported about a Google search ranking update from over the weekend and then again on June [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
What 20 years of Google algorithm updates say about what SEOs should focus on next More than a history lesson,. How to prepare for the next big Google update. - Search Engine Land
Is top of the funnel content under attack? How the SERP is set to change Sites with more specific and specialized content will be rewarded in the SERPs thanks to an [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Mobile First Indexing and Scoring of Sites with Mobile and AMP Versions How Google's Mobile First Index will index and score sites that have Desktop, Mobile and AMP [...] - Search Engine Journal

June, 22 2020

Bringing fact check information to Google Images Photos and videos are an incredible way to help people understand what’s going on in the [...] - Inside Search
Bringing fact check information to Google Images Photos and videos are an incredible way to help people understand what’s going on in the [...] - Inside Search
Google Creates a New Source of Traffic With Keen A new and powerful way to attract more site visitors. Google Keen proactively recommends content to [...] - Search Engine Journal
RepNet: Counting Repetitions in Videos Posted by Debidatta Dwibedi, Research Scientist, Robotics at Google Repeating processes ranging [...] - Google Research
Google to see first U.S. revenue decline, including paid search, says forecaster Google is predicted to see a 7% drop in paid-search revenue, driven primarily by a loss of travel [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: We Don't Explicitly Measure EAT In Search Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that Google Search does not explicitly measure E-A-T in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search & Discover Algorithm Ranking Update Over Weekend On Thursday, June 18th, we reported about a possible Google search ranking and algorithm update. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Replay: BuzzFeed SEO lead talks the future of AMP What SEOs need to consider before Google lifts the AMP restriction on the Top Stories carousel. - Search Engine Land
Google adds ClaimReview or Fact Check schema support for images This won't improve your rankings but it may lead to better click-through rates. - Search Engine Land
Google Adds ‘Fact Check’ Label to Image Search Results Google is adding “Fact Check” labels to thumbnails in image search results in a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Video: Daniel Waisberg from Google on Search Console and the Search Relations Team Daniel has a rich history in the search industry, even writing here at Search Engine Land for years [...] - Search Engine Land
The Google Assistant may start calling businesses to confirm in-stock inventory Google is expanding the use cases of its 'Duplex' AI tool. - Search Engine Land
5 essential tips for optimizing your Google Ads Campaigns Maximize your return, benchmark your potential, and get more results from your ad spend. - Search Engine Land
Google: How To Diagnose Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) Slowness Are you Google Core Web Vitals not showing good signs for speed? Well, how do you go about [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

June, 20 2020

Supporting refugees and displaced people on World Refugee Day More than 79 million were displaced at the end of last year as a result of persecution, conflict, [...] - Inside Search

June, 19 2020

Former Google ad boss Ramaswamy to launch new search engine Neeva Neeva will be subscription based and won't have advertising. - Search Engine Land
Google launches Keen, a new personalized search-discovery-social mashup Seen as a Pinterest competitor, it's something potentially broader and even older. - Search Engine Land
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Updates Thursday, June 18th Over the past couple of days, starting as early as Wednesday, but most on Thursday, June 18th, I am [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Top five B2B digital marketing tips during COVID-19 times Dan Marshall shares five ways to improve your website performance during COVID-19 using B2B digital [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Ads Now Issuing COVID-19 Credits Google told us the company would be giving out credits to Google Ads advertisers for COVID-19. This [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Data Holes Google's John Mueller said the time you would see missing data, or as he called it, "data [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

June, 18 2020

Improving Speech Representations and Personalized Models Using Self-Supervision Posted by Joel Shor, Software Engineer and Oran Lang, Software Engineer, Google Research, Israel [...] - Google Research
Youtube brings products to YouTube for action ads YouTube is continuing to make more ads more shoppable. - Search Engine Land
Google Explains Why Field Data is More Reliable Than Lab Data Google’s Martin Splitt recently gave a detailed explanation of the difference between lab [...] - Search Engine Journal
Drive results with new direct response solutions on YouTube Prolonged store closures have forced brands around the world to recalibrate their media campaigns [...] - Inside Adwords
How to track Shopping listings traffic from Surfaces across Google [Video] Combine UTM parameters and Google Analytics to see how shoppers behave after they click through on [...] - Search Engine Land
Using Selective Attention in Reinforcement Learning Agents Posted by Yujin Tang, Research Software Engineer and David Ha, Staff Research Scientist, Google [...] - Google Research
How to turn your customer feedback into a driving force for your product Maria Kazakova, reputation manager at SE Ranking, shares insights on how customer feedback can help [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Ads Stats In Search Results Google Ads will soon start showing you how your Google Ads campaigns are performing directly in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

June, 17 2020

Google adding local store details to Shopping, free Promoted Pins for Smart campaigns, more New features and updates are aimed at local businesses and services in the "reopening [...] - Search Engine Land
Smart campaigns helps small businesses reach more customers Small businesses are looking for tools to get their business online and reach the right audience. [...] - Inside Adwords
Google’s shocking ad ban [It’s clickbait] We'll save you a click. Google's banning click bait ads. - Search Engine Land
The data problem in Google Smart Shopping campaigns [Video] Smarter Ecommerce’s Mike Ryan discusses why ROAS isn’t a performance metric and why [...] - Search Engine Land
The Google Page Experience Scores Will Use AMP Version I already said this when I wrote about the Google Page Experience Update but it is important to say [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Should You Break Up Your CSS & JavaScript Files Into Smaller Chunks? Here Is What Google Said. Bartosz Goralewicz asked Martin Splitt of Google an interesting question. He asked if we should [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

June, 16 2020

Google Again: We Don't Look At Analytics Bounce Rates For Ranking Again, Google has said that it does not look at [Google] Analytics bounce rate data for ranking web [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Rankings for New Sites Could Fluctuate For Up to a Year Google’s John Mueller recently advised that it could take up to a year for the search engine [...] - Search Engine Journal
Local SEOs most focused on link building and content development, report finds 80% of survey respondents said they were also buying (local) ads on Google. - Search Engine Land
Google Advises Against Using Nofollow Links When Migrating Sites Google’s team of webmaster trends analysts discuss the intricacies of nofollow links in the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google My Business Pulling Data From Facebook It looks like Google My Business is able to pull data from Facebook to show in the Google Maps and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Yelp offers upgraded COVID reopening tools for local businesses, restaurants The company is also modifying Waitlist to help restaurants to better manage capacity during [...] - Search Engine Land
PPC tips: Bidding strategies for Google Shopping campaigns [Video] ZATO Marketing’s Kirk Williams and Smarter Ecommerce’s Mike Ryan discuss when to use [...] - Search Engine Land

June, 15 2020

Google Doubles Down On Guest Blog Links: Nofollow Them Last week we covered that Google said again, nofollow links in guest blog posts, even if they are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Replay: SEOs unpack Google’s page experience update on Live with Search Engine Land With Google’s new Page Experience Update coming in 2021, we’ll discuss what makes for a [...] - Search Engine Land
Should Google not trust links in all guest blog posts? Google has said again that links in guest blog posts should be nofollowed. - Search Engine Land
Google at CVPR 2020 Posted by Emily Knapp, Program Manager and Benjamin Hütteroth, Program Specialist This week [...] - Google Research
May e-commerce exceeds holiday 2019, setting up the battle of the marketplaces Walmart brought in more online revenue than eBay in May for the fist time. - Search Engine Land
Video: Eli Schwartz on Google Panda gutting a site’s traffic We also talked about enterprise SEO and what to expect when working with large companies on SEO. - Search Engine Land
Google Smart Shopping: How it’s different from standard Shopping campaigns [Video] Smart Shopping campaigns aren’t just a feature update. - Search Engine Land
Black Lives Matter content: Latest in unintended brand safety consequences Advertisers are reportedly blocking ads from appearing on Black Lives Matter-related content. - Search Engine Land
Google: We Don't Use Links On YouTube For Search Google's John Mueller confirmed, despite the nofollow attribute slapped all over links on YouTube [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Wants Examples Of .webp Logos With Logo Structured Data Google is asking for examples of logos that are in .webp format that also uses logo structured data [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

June, 12 2020

Google: All Guests Posts Links Should Be Nofollowed; Paid Or Not In 2017, Google's John Mueller said all guest blog posts, no matter how often you contribute, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Extracting Structured Data from Templatic Documents Posted by Sandeep Tata, Software Engineer, Google Research Templatic documents, such as [...] - Google Research
Google to prohibit demographic, zip code targeting for housing, employment, credit ads The update will roll out in the U.S. and Canada this year. - Search Engine Land
Cumulative Layout Shift – Overview of 2021 Ranking Factor Cumulative Layout Shift is becoming a ranking factor in 2021. Learn what it is and how to optimize [...] - Search Engine Journal
Why you should upload your full product catalogue to Google Merchant Center [Video] It's free! Take full advantage of Surfaces across Google. - Search Engine Land
Facebook Search Adds Knowledge Panels From Wikipedia Data It has been a while since I wrote about Facebook Search but news came out that it is now testing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

June, 11 2020

Unlocking the "Chemome" with DNA-Encoded Chemistry and Machine Learning Posted by Patrick Riley, Principal Engineer, Accelerated Science Team, Google Research Much of [...] - Google Research
Google to allow removal of counterfeit goods from search results You can now submit a form to request Google to review and take down counterfeit goods from Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Upcoming update to housing, employment, and credit advertising policies Our Google Ads policies are written to protect users, advertisers, and publishers, and prohibit [...] - Inside Adwords
Martech Spotlight: How Kenshoo does digital commerce ad management At a time when digital commerce is more important than ever, we're profiling vendors that help [...] - Search Engine Land
Life after Google Shopping: Don’t be a one-trick pony No brand grows at scale on one ad platform so you need to look for opportunities beyond Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Merchant Center tips: Supplemental feeds and feed rules [Video] Maximize your visibility in Google Shopping by using these two tools to augment and optimize your [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Will Now Remove Counterfeit Goods From Search Google has updated its legal troubleshooter form to allow users to submit requests to take down [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Stops How-To Schema Test On Desktop (5/20 - 6/5) A couple of weeks ago we reported that Google was testing how-to schema on desktop search. It seems [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Google Nofollow Change A Ranking Change? There has been some confusion, sorry to say it, around this nofollow link attribute change from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How a digital publisher monetized 8X more in one month with WordPress scaling strategies DevriX Team scales a WordPress-based publishing platform more than eight million user sessions [...] - Search Engine Watch

June, 10 2020

Are You Writing Too Much Content On Your E-Commerce Category Pages For Google? Another interesting tidbit from Marie Haynes interview of John Mueller was a snippet around how [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update Brewing There are some signs of a Google search ranking algorithm update happening now. Google has not said [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

June, 9 2020

PEGASUS: A State-of-the-Art Model for Abstractive Text Summarization Posted by Peter J. Liu and Yao Zhao, Software Engineers, Google Research Students are often [...] - Google Research
Google’s New Head of Search – Prabhakar Raghavan Google has a new head of search. He's authored link related research. What that means for online [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Finds Over 25 Billion Spammy Pages Every Day Google’s efforts to keep spam out of search results are detailed in the company’s [...] - Search Engine Journal
4 things we learned about automated bidding during the pandemic Smart bidding adapts to changes with reduced budgets, which is better than pausing campaigns, but [...] - Search Engine Land
Google webspam report: Cracking down on renegade linking practices, auto-generated content “More than 25 billion pages we discover each day are spammy,” the company revealed. - Search Engine Land
How we fought Search spam on Google - Webspam Report 2019 Every search matters. That is why whenever you come to Google Search to find relevant and useful [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Investigating Garage Door Spam Google's Danny Sullivan said the company is looking into reports of new spammy listings in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console performance report gets recipe filters Use these new reports to see how well your recipe markup is performing in Google Search. - Search Engine Land
Correlating online behavior to pandemic events and accelerating future digital Andy Betts shares BrightEdge search insights that highlight how marketers can prepare for new [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Search Console Added Search Appearance Filters For Recipes It seems Google has added new search appearance filters to the Google Search Console performance [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google On Brand Based Queries & Search Result Influence Gary Illyes from Google responded to a question around if brand based queries can hold any [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

June, 8 2020

Recent Advances in Google Translate Posted by Isaac Caswell and Bowen Liang, Software Engineers, Google Research Advances in [...] - Google Research
Google: Disavowing Links Would Rarely Help You Algorithmically Google's John Mueller in an interview with Marie Haynes said that it would be "really [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google BERT Does Not Determine Content Quality But Helps Understand Your Content Another snippet from Marie Haynes interview of John Mueller was around BERT. The short snippet, as [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Video: Katherine Watier Ong on how to grow your SEO team We also discussed voice search marketing strategies. - Search Engine Land
Google Does Not Rank Pages Before Content Analysis Google's John Mueller was asked if Google maybe does a first round of ranking of a new page based [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
A Well-Formed Query Helps a Search Engine understand User Intent Behind the Query A Well-Formed Query Helps a Search Engine understand User Intent Behind the Query To start this [...] - SEO by the Sea
It's A Bug: Google Rich Results For Home Pages Is Going Away Friday we reported that Google was showing rich results for home pages. Well, it turned out this [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #70: Katherine Watier Ong - Growing Your SEO Team & Voice Search Katherine Watier Ong is owner of WO Strategies and she built her first web site in 1994 but has [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

June, 5 2020

How to use Google Ads Explanations to understand performance changes The new feature can help you identify the causes behind substantial shifts in Search campaign [...] - Search Engine Land
‘What’s an ads guy doing running Google search?’ Some people may be unfamiliar with Prabhakar Raghavan's background. - Search Engine Land
DuckDuckGo Questioned By Authorities Over Google Antitrust Investigation DuckDuckGo has reportedly been in talks with the U.S. Justice Department regarding an investigation [...] - Search Engine Journal
Will publishers drop AMP when it’s no longer a requirement for Top Stories? Your organization’s resources, competitors, financial priorities and Google’s page [...] - Search Engine Land
New: Site Scan In Bing Webmaster Tools Bing launched a new feature in the new version of Bing Webmaster Tools - Site Scan. Site Scan is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Keyword Planner Adds Refine Keywords Google added the ability to refine keywords directly in the Google Keyword Planner tool. Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Prabhakar Raghavan New Lead Of Google Search; Replaced Ben Gomes Prabhakar Raghavan, who has been running the Ads and Commerce teams since 2018, is replaced Ben [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Ads Explanations Show Changes In Account Performance Google Ads introduced a new feature that has been in beta since late last year named Google Ads [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

June, 4 2020

SEMRush drops paid guest blogging service after Google policy scrutiny Google said selling paid links on blogs is against its webmaster guidelines and that Google can [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Webmaster Tools new Site Scan feature finds SEO issues New goodies are in Bing Webmaster Tools; first we got a competitive link tool and now a new SEO [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Explains Content Pruning Best Practices Google's John Mueller discusses how to identify low quality pages that should be blocked. Then he [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Featured Snippets Update Google announced an update to featured snippets. For some featured snippets results, Google will [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google My Business offers more flexibility with business hours Check your Google My Business console to set your "more hours" to reflect COVID-19 [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Says Some Guest Post Links Are Unnatural Google's John Mueller said an outreach guest post service might result in unnatural links. - Search Engine Journal
Google promotes Prabhakar Raghavan to lead Search, replacing Ben Gomes Jerry Dischler becomes the new head of Google Ads, Gomes takes over Google Education, while Google [...] - Search Engine Land
5 Things Search Engine Land Can Do For Your Team Right Now Looking for a boost to you or your team's search skills? Take a look through our best and most [...] - Search Engine Land
New Google My Business Custom Hours By Category Google released a new feature within Google My Business to let you set "more hours." More [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Featured Snippets Now Highlight Answers On Your Website Back in 2018, Google launched a feature in mobile search for featured snippets that were AMP. When [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

June, 3 2020

Google launches featured snippet to web page content highlight feature After years of testing, Google now launched the featured snippet to web page highlight feature. - Search Engine Land
SEMrush Selling Links That Are Against Google's Guidelines SEMRush launched the SEMRush Marketplace about a year ago and at some point, within that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Didn't Make Old Domains Rank Better There has been a lot of speculation around some recent unconfirmed Google search ranking updates. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: The Search Indexing Issues Are Now Resolved Yesterday morning we reported that Google was having issues surfacing fresh content; possibly [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Discovery Ads Now Available Worldwide Last week, while I was offline, Google announced that Google Discover Ads is now available [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

June, 2 2020

Google confirmed indexing issues causing some stale results Google is aware of the issue and is actively working on a fix. - Search Engine Land
Early Signs: June Google Search Ranking Update & Fluctuations I am seeing some early signs of a possible Google search ranking algorithm update touching down in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Webmaster Tools now gives you competitive link data You do not need to have the site verified to see the site's link profile in Bing Webmaster Tools. - Search Engine Land
Google is Currently Experience Indexing Problems Google published a PSA advising site owners that it is currently experiencing indexing issues which [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bing Updates Backlink Research Tool Bing super powered their backlink tool so that it now reports competitor backlinks. - Search Engine Journal
Common JavaScript errors that can harm your SEO [Video] And, why JavaScript may not be the real cause of your crawling issues. - Search Engine Land
Google: Robots.txt Can Be In Any Content Type John Mueller of Google said that your robots.txt content-type can be anything really. He said [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Sitelinks With Borders Over the past several days, in addition to Google testing outlined snippets, Google is also testing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

June, 1 2020

Google Can Use Historic Data For Ranking Your Site In Search John Mueller of Google confirmed on Friday's webmaster hangout video that Google does and can use [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Explains How Author Pages May Help Google's John Mueller says author bios aren't necessary for all sites. He then shows how they can [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google local ranking changes in early May? Thank a bug Google confirmed fluctuations seen in local rankings was a bug and says it fixed the issue. - Search Engine Land
Why the evergreen Googlebot is such a big deal [Video] Google’s Martin Splitt discusses the effort behind making Googlebot ‘evergreen’ [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: URL Parameters Tool Is Not A Replacement For Robots.txt Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that using the URL parameter tool is no replacement for using [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Won't Rule Out Meta Keywords Tag Forever In 2011, Bing said they do use the meta keywords tag. In 2014, Bing said the meta keywords tag was [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How the global lockdown is changing user behavior and digital consumption People have become more open to video content, online shopping, e-learning, and more. Observations [...] - Search Engine Watch
John Mueller's COVID Haircut - Search Engine Roundtable