Archive of July, 2020

July, 31 2020

Google: Links Are Not The Most Important SEO Factor Google's John Mueller said on Twitter "links are definitely not the most important SEO [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Extra Structured Data Could Be Useful for SEO Google's John Mueller describes the benefits of using structured data that goes beyond Google [...] - Search Engine Journal
Why SEOs should care about brand Brand is already affecting the performance we are held accountable for, so we can use the data we [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Says Don’t Focus on “Link Juice” Focus on this Instead Google's John Mueller answered a question about how to handle so-called internal "Link [...] - Search Engine Journal
5 tips for starting international PPC Be ready to watch for nuances of your targeted regions and adapt your strategy on a regional basis [...] - Search Engine Land
Will Google’s Ad Disclosure schema catch on? It's among several initiatives the company is working on as privacy takes center stage. - Search Engine Land
Updates on our work to improve user privacy in digital advertising Privacy is core to our work at Google, and to our vision for a thriving internet where people [...] - Inside Adwords
US Congress Investigation Suggests Google Uses Clicks & User Data In Search Rand Fishkin went through a lot of the US Congress documents from the hearing on "Online [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Adds Black-Owned Attribute For New Icon Google My Business has added another attribute for businesses owners to use to enhance their [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Tests Subtitle Or Headline Links Google Ads is testing showing a hyperlinked subheadline or subtitle below the main headline or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 30 2020

Google adds ‘Black-owned’ business attribute to local listings The attribute can show when listings appear in Search and Maps and is part of several initiatives [...] - Search Engine Land
Advanced tactics for SEO title tag optimization Moz' Cyrus Shepard offers top tips on boosting CTRs and earning more traffic with better title tags. - Search Engine Land
Google: Forget Everything You Read About Link Juice John Mueller of Google said on Twitter "I'd forget everything you read about "link [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google blows up ad headline font in new test Headline one goes big in this latest Google Ads test. - Search Engine Land
Feedback optimization: A user-first approach to SEO Feedback optimization is the process of using readers’ comments to improve your content. See [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing’s new URL Inspection tool: What it does and why to use it A quick side-by-side of Bing vs Google's URL Inspection tools. - Search Engine Land
Google Advises Site Owners of Rise in ‘Work From Home’ Searches Google is notifying site owners via Search Console of an increase in searches related to work from [...] - Search Engine Journal
New Bing Webmaster Tools – Overview and Review Bing's new Webmaster Tools provides new SEO and site audit tools that can help a site rank better. [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Console adds image license structured data support Now you can debug your image license markup in the Rich Results test tool or in Search Console. - Search Engine Land
Microsoft launched revamped Bing Webmaster Tools With this launch, Bing added a URL inspection tool with some exciting features. - Search Engine Land
Announcing the new Bing Webmaster Tools (migration complete) We have migrated Bing Webmaster Tools to our brand new Bing Webmaster Tools with enhanced tools and [...] - Bing Webmaster

July, 29 2020

Google Comments on Idea that it Uses GA for Ranking Purposes Google's John Mueller clarified several points about the hypothesis that Google uses Google [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google CEO Says Company’s Continued Success is Not Guaranteed CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google testified before US Congress today during a hearing on [...] - Search Engine Journal

July, 28 2020

Announcing ScaNN: Efficient Vector Similarity Search Posted by Philip Sun, Software Engineer, Google Research Suppose one wants to search through a [...] - Google Research
Google’s John Mueller: Use Images Instead of HTML to Display Charts Google’s John Mueller speaks on whether it’s okay to publish charts as images, or if [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s tools now recognize “Web Story” As Web Stories become more popular, Google now supports labeling them as such in Google Search [...] - Search Engine Land
What SEOs get wrong about Google updates Your ranking decline is likely not due to an update and good luck trying to figure out the ranking [...] - Search Engine Land
Google rolling out LSAs and ‘Google Screened’ to select professional services nationally After successful test, the program goes into general availability. - Search Engine Land
Bing Webmaster Tools gets a new robots.txt tester Here is another tool you can use from Bing to see how BingBot can or cannot access your web pages. - Search Engine Land
Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook set to preview antitrust defenses before Congress Sure to be a marathon, the hearings could be dramatic or incredibly dull. - Search Engine Land
Hacked Government Web Pages With Adult Content In Google Search Danny Sullivan, Google's Search Liaison was on the defensive yesterday when there were a number of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
10 Reasons why marketers use data to make budgeting decisions Budgeting is a crucial part of any marketing strategy. A quick look at 10 ways that enable you to [...] - Search Engine Watch
SEO Is Dead Light Up Sign - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Webmaster Tools Adds Robots.txt Tester In the beta version of the new Bing Webmaster Tools, Bing recently added a robots.txt tester. This [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Googlers Working From Home For Another Year - Through July 2021 Google announced it will allow its employees to work from home for another year, through July 2021. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 27 2020

Google SEO 101: Page Speed Optimization Google’s Martin Splitt discusses the importance of page speed and its impact on SEO in the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Saying adieu to AMP: You might be giving up rankings — and revenue In one study travel marketers saw a 29% bump in mobile revenue with AMP. - Search Engine Land
Why Google Search Console Reports 5XX Server Errors What it means when Google Search Console reports receiving 5XX errors and what to do about it. - Search Engine Journal
Hacking Attacks on Elasticsearch and MongoDB Ongoing hacking attack has deleted all data from over 2000 unsecure databases. Threat is called [...] - Search Engine Journal
Video: Brian Ussery of Razorfish on SEO for e-commerce sites We also talked about the new GoogleBot and some of the old days in the SEO industry. - Search Engine Land
Google: We're Planning On Expanding The Rich Results Test Tool A couple of weeks ago, Google announced the Rich Results Test Tool is out of beta and the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's John Mueller Says Don't Use Loading Screens & Delay Users Google's John Mueller was asked about why Google is showing a blank screen for the Google Cache. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Pack Carousel With Products We have seen Google local pack carousels with images and also Google showed what was "sold [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 24 2020

WordPress 5.5 With Google Sitemaps Integration In Its Core For over a year, Google said it is working with the WordPress team to build in to the core of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Ranking Update On July 23rd & 24th I am seeing some early chatter and signals that there may be another, currently unconfirmed, Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s John Mueller Discusses Recent Changes to Search Google's John Mueller discusses quotidian updates to search and how to respond to them. - Search Engine Journal
Google’s Mueller on How to Successfully Implement Major Site Changes Google's John Mueller offers advice on how to make major changes on a website without negatively [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google SERP Shows Amazon Ranked 9 out of 10 Spots. Danny Sullivan Says Google Not Broken Google's Danny Sullivan shown a SERP with Amazon ranking 9 out of 10 positions. Why does this [...] - Search Engine Journal
Seven brand health metrics and how to measure them Struggling to figure out where your brand's strengths and weaknesses are? This article will help [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google: Split Things Up When Revamping Your Web Site If you are tearing down your web site and rebuilding it completely from the ground up, you should [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 23 2020

Google Shakes Up E-commerce With Commission-Free Sales Google is making it free for retailers to sell products in search results by waiving fees for sales [...] - Search Engine Journal
Product feed optimization: Here’s more reason to use those attributes Google is surfacing product attributes such as "Material" in Shopping ads. - Search Engine Land
Spotted: Upgraded Google My Business Profile Program Google is reported to be offering Upgraded Google My Business Profiles for $50/month. Program not [...] - Search Engine Journal
Buy on Google goes commission-free, will enable checkout via PayPal, Shopify This is the second big shake up for Google's commerce efforts this year. - Search Engine Land
How To Improve Google Indexing? Create Great, Unique & Compelling Content. Google's John Mueller said that "best way to improve indexing is to create great - unique [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to use trending keywords from current events in content marketing Using trending keywords from current events in content marketing requires sensitivity, but doing so [...] - Search Engine Watch
Why SEOs are going to miss the Structured Data Testing Tool Google’s decision to deprecate the testing tool in favor of the Rich Results Testing Tool [...] - Search Engine Land
Apple Lists Its Search Ranking Factors Apple has updated the "about Applebot" help documentation page the other day and in that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 22 2020

Google offering ‘upgraded’ GMB profile with Google Guaranteed badge for $50 per month Google tested the idea of subscription-based services for GMB in April 2019. - Search Engine Land
Prepare for mobile-first indexing (with a little extra time) Mobile-first indexing has been an ongoing effort of Google for several years. We've enabled [...] - Google Webmaster Central
What content survives Google algorithm updates? Be able to anticipate your target audience's needs. - Search Engine Land
Google delays mobile-first indexing deadline to March 2021 Due to the pandemic, Google pushed the deadline from September 2020. - Search Engine Land
New Google Mortgage Information Search Google is rolling out a new Mortgage information search. The new feature contains a calculator, [...] - Search Engine Journal

July, 21 2020

Guide to Core Web Vitals for SEOs and Developers What you need to know about Google’s latest set of key user experience metrics for Web [...] - Search Engine Land
Improving Holistic Scene Understanding with Panoptic-DeepLab Posted by Bowen Cheng, Student Researcher, and Liang-Chieh Chen, Research Scientist, Google [...] - Google Research
Does Google Struggle with Aggregators Outranking Original Content? A Twitter discussion with Google's Danny Sullivan highlights difficulty of ranking original content [...] - Search Engine Journal
News filter added to Google Search Console performance report You can now filter your News traffic in Google's performance report. - Search Engine Land
Google site command bug being fixed Google is working on fixing this issue. - Search Engine Land
Google Search ‘Site:’ Command is Broken There’s currently an issue with the ‘site:’ command in Google Search that may [...] - Search Engine Journal
Twitter is now back in Google After Twitter was hacked, Google removed the Twitter carousel from search - it is now back. - Search Engine Land
Bing published WordPress plugin to submit content immediately to Bing’s search index You can now get your WordPress content indexed immediately using Bing Webmaster Tools plugin. - Search Engine Land
Top EU court blows up data transfer agreement relied on by Google, Facebook, Amazon Privacy Shield is dead, what now for U.S. brands and marketers doing business in the European Union? - Search Engine Land
Google: No Need To Worry About Duplicate Content With Site Migrations Google's John Mueller said there is no need to worry about duplicate content when you are migrating [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Get your WordPress content indexed immediately using Bing Webmaster Tools plugin Announcing the release of Bing URL Submissions Plugin for WordPress as open source project to make [...] - Bing Webmaster
Does Google Struggle Ranking Original Content Publishers? A Twitter discussion with Google's Danny Sullivan highlights difficulty of ranking original content [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Updates Employer Aggregate Rating Structured Data Requirements Google updated the Employer Aggregate Rating structured data requirements for Rich Results. Take [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Console Performance Reports News Filter You can now slice and dice your Google Search Console Performance report by news content versus [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 20 2020

Google SEO 101: Blocking Special Files in Robots.txt Google’s John Mueller answers a question about using robots.txt to block special files, [...] - Search Engine Journal
The most memorable Google algorithm updates of all time Panda, Penguin and the Florida updates still loom large. What you can learn from their history. - Search Engine Land
Google Local Algorithm Weighs Business Names Too Highly; Google To Fix This. There has been a number of complaints about Google's local search ranking algorithm giving way too [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads To Ban Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dangerous & Derogatory Ads Google announced late on Friday a new Google Ads policy around the coronavirus and COVID-19 as it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Partners Rewards Is Back Email Notification Dave Davies posted a screen shot of an email he received from Google with the subject line [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Showing Large Image Packs For Queries This looks like a bug, but might be a test, where Google is showing some searchers for almost all [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Celebrates Dr. Dilhan Eryurt On Moon Day Today on Google's home page is a special out of this world Google Doodle, aka, special Google logo, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #76: Mary & Dave Davies on User Experience vs Technical SEO Mary & Dave Davies is like the SEO sweetheart couple and they co-run Beanstalk Internet [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Super G Logo With Masks - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 17 2020

Does Google respect the URL parameters tool? E-commerce sites should not make assumptions about Google’s crawling parameter - check the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s John Mueller: “Search is Not a Science” Google’s John Mueller advises SEOs not to look at search ranking as an exact science with an [...] - Search Engine Journal
COVID is accelerating TV advertising’s transformation into an addressable medium "They come for the targeting and stay for the attribution," says Simplifi's CEO about CTV. - Search Engine Land
Google Local Panel Displays When Hours Were Last Updated Casey Bryan shared a screen shot with me on Twitter showing what I think is a new, nifty feature by [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Pruning The Rich Results & FAQ/How To Schema Results? There has been chatter recently, with some data backing it up from the data tool provider [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Our Algorithm Reviewers Are Different From User Reports Reviewers Google's John Mueller said that Google has very different people in the corporation who are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 16 2020

How to show up on Google Discover: Google’s latest guidance The updated doc has guidance around article titles, enabling high-quality large images and having [...] - Search Engine Land
Back to basics: How to manage your brand through a crisis Here are some opportunities to protect – and even greatly improve – the reputation of [...] - Search Engine Land
Largest Contentful Paint – Easy Explanation New Google Ranking Factor. Learn what is Largest Contentful Paint and how to optimize for it. - Search Engine Journal
Replay: CCPA enforcement is here. What marketers need to know The California Attorney General estimates compliance costs could reach $55 billion. - Search Engine Land
Google SEO 101: Website Crawl Budget Explained Google goes in depth on crawl budget, answering some of the most common SEO-related questions in [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search drops tweet carousels after Twitter hack Twitter had a serious and concerning security event Wednesday. Google has since removed tweets from [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Allegedly Boosts YouTube Results Ahead of Competitors Google prefers ranking content from YouTube over other video sources, according to a new report in [...] - Search Engine Journal
John Mueller On Google Rants On Ranking Factors Google's John Mueller, Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt released another podcast this morning. This [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Remove A Lot Of Pages From Your Site, Remove The URLs From Your Sitemap John Mueller of Google said it is a good idea to remove the URLs of pages you remove from your web [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Did Google Temporarily Remove Twitter Results From Search? As you probably all know, Twitter has been hacked in a big way yesterday. In short hackers pushing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Adds Image Extensions, Responsive Ad Features, New Layouts & More Google Ads has added a bunch of features and announced a bunch of new features according to their [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 15 2020

Over 25% of People Click the First Google Search Result The first organic result in Google Search has an average click-through rate of 28.5%, according to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google opens image extension beta, adds countdowns to responsive search ads RSAs are getting more features and functionality. - Search Engine Land
Search engines penalize websites – but why? Penalties must be seen for what they truly are: stopgap measures. - Search Engine Land
Smart Shopping campaigns get shipping annotations, ‘new customer’ bidding control A new Smart Shopping format will also roll out later this year, and videos are coming to Display [...] - Search Engine Land
Augmented reality starts driving sales: AR product engagement increased mobile purchases at eBags There was a 112% increase in mobile conversions when users interacted with 3D-AR enabled products, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Video On Crawl Budget & SEO Alexis Sanders of Merkle sat down with Martin Splitt of Google last year (before COVID) and spoke [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 14 2020

Google: No Way to Optimize Content for Ranking in Google Discover Google says content cannot be optimized for Discover in the same way that it can be optimized for [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Updates Recipe Structured Data Guidance Google updated their structured data guidelines regarding marking up multiple items. Some changes [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Links From Lower Quality Sites To Your Site Doesn't Necessarily Hurt Let's say your site has a DA of one billion and you get a link from a site that has a DA of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Exploring Faster Screening with Fewer Tests via Bayesian Group Testing Posted by Marco Cuturi and Jean-Philippe Vert, Research Scientists, Google Research, Brain Team [...] - Google Research
Google My Business Will Notify Business Of Listing Suspensions Google will soon begin sending email notifications to businesses when their business listings or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Guide: How to effectively incorporate customer journey mapping into your marketing strategy A comprehensive customer journey mapping guide that helps you understand the role of digital [...] - Search Engine Watch

July, 13 2020

Target Google Ads audiences based on new predicted purchase and churn metrics in Google Analytics Available in App + Web properties, automate audience creation based on predicted behavior. - Search Engine Land
Google will now notify GMB account owners by email when local listings suspended Seen as a major step forward, the notice still won't say explain why. - Search Engine Land
Google at ICML 2020 Posted by Jaqui Herman and Cat Armato, Program Managers Machine learning is a key strategic focus [...] - Google Research
When AMP and other Google initiatives go to the grave, are your SEO efforts going with it? [Video] Before adopting, SEOs need to consider how long a new feature may be around for, the cost of [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Discover Help Document Updated With E-A-T Mentions & More Google has updated the help document on Google Discover. It has been almost completely revamped [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Make Your Site Architecture Easy & Interesting Google's John Mueller said the way to make your site architecture and navigation easy and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Marketing strategies during COVID-19 times We discuss marketing strategies during COVID-19 on the lines of contextual [...] - Search Engine Watch
Entity Seeking Queries and Semantic Dependency Trees Entity Seeking Queries and Semantic Dependency Trees Queries for some searches may be entity [...] - SEO by the Sea
Google: Links Placed Without Your Input Is A Good Thing Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that links placed without any input by you is not a bad [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Shopping Ads Policy Against Phishing & Scamming Google has updated its Google Shopping Ads policies to add two new "unacceptable business [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #75: Purna Virji On Search Accessibility & Inclusion & PPC Automation Purna Virji is the Senior Manager of Global Engagement at Microsoft Advertising, won the US Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Robots At Google Kitchener Office - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 10 2020

Google Ads to prohibit spyware, surveillance products and services The ban will apply globally. - Search Engine Land
What’s behind the hype about Customer Data Platforms? How CDPs aim to solve some of marketers' most vexing challenges. - Search Engine Land
Google’s 3D Swirl ad format now available in DV360 The interactive ads are available in three sizes for mobile. - Search Engine Land
Grounding Natural Language Instructions to Mobile UI Actions Posted by Yang Li, Research Scientist, Google Research Mobile devices offer a myriad of [...] - Google Research
Coming up on Live with Search Engine Land: Special three day series on SEO for developers Act like a developer/ Think like an SEO. - Search Engine Land
Google: JavaScript Redirects Not A Good Idea Gary Illyes from Google said it is probably not a good idea to use JavaScript redirects. This was [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Has No Plans On Supporting Service Workers & Here's Why Martin Splitt from Google was asked on Reddit "are there plans to support service [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 10, 2020 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads No Longer To Allow Intimate Partner Surveillance Products & Services Google Ads and Google Merchant Center has updated its Enabling Dishonest Behavior policy to include [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Bold & Large Ad Titles In Snippets Google is testing not just large titles for grouped snippets but also large titles that are fully [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google NYC Staircase With Google Doors - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 9 2020

AutoML-Zero: Evolving Code that Learns Posted by Esteban Real, Staff Software Engineer, and Chen Liang, Software Engineer, Google [...] - Google Research
Google: To Say All Link Building Is Bad Would Be Wrong There you have it, Google's John Mueller said not all link building is bad. He said on Twitter [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Five Google Trends charts that show the impact of COVID-19 As marketers struggle to grasp the magnitude of changes, Jason Tabeling highlights five Google [...] - Search Engine Watch
Who Would Win An SEO Contest: John Mueller, Gary Illyes Or Martin Splitt There was an AMA on Reddit with Martin Splitt of Google and one of the wise-crack questions Ryan [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Clarifies Structured Data For Multiple Items On A Page Google has updated the structured data policies page, specifically the section on having multiple [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 8 2020

Google Creates a New Way to Drive Traffic Via Image Search Google is adding more context to photos in image search results, which presents site owners with a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Signs Of A Small Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update Around July 6th Over the past couple of days, maybe starting around July 6th but continuing on through today, July [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Learn more about what you see on Google Images In recent years, we’ve made Google Images more useful by helping you explore beyond the [...] - Inside Search
How to create new Google Shopping insight reports in Data Studio Identify under-performing products faster, see what’s popular in your industry and get more [...] - Search Engine Land
How to evaluate content quality with BERT Using a code-free deep learning toolkit model to review grammar in your posts and could be used as [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Images adds more facts about images with the Knowledge Graph If you notice more traffic to your site from Google Image Search, this may be why. - Search Engine Land
Google Ads app supports manager accounts Get an overview of all your accounts on your mobile device. - Search Engine Land
Duality — A New Approach to Reinforcement Learning Posted by Ofir Nachum and Bo Dai, Research Scientists, Google Research Reinforcement learning [...] - Google Research
Google Structured Data Testing Tool Going Away; SEOs Are Not Happy Google announced yesterday that the Rich Results Test Tool is out of beta - yay! Google announced [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How audience insights can improve your campaign’s bottom line Blueclaw's Online PR Campaign Manager shines a light on how audience insights can catalyze your [...] - Search Engine Watch

July, 7 2020

The Rich Results Test is out of beta Today we are announcing that the Rich Results Test fully supports all Google Search rich result [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Is it time for Google Scotland? Google has search results specific to 179 countries but some improvements are needed to be [...] - Search Engine Land
How to set up a simple Google Ads testing framework for continual campaign optimization Regular PPC ad testing is easier than you may think -- and can come with big rewards and set you [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Rich Results Test tool now out of beta Google is deprecating the old Structured Data Testing Tool. - Search Engine Land
Google: Scoring 100 In SEO In Lighthouse Doesn't Make You A Good SEO Gary Illyes of Google said on Twitter "achieving a SEO score 100 in Lighthouse just means that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
If you think you’re link building, you’re doing it wrong Founder and CEO of Organic Growth, Kevin Carney discovered many link building golden nuggets after [...] - Search Engine Watch
The Google Indexing Issue From A Month Ago Was A Crawling Issue On June 2, 2020, Google yet again confirmed it was having issues displaying new content in its [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The impact of COVID-19 on marketing and SEO In the face of the COVID-19 crisis and economic turbulence, marketers are anticipating lower [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Advice On Optimizing For Intelligent Answers & Questions? I will be honest, the blog post Bing posted yesterday confused me. The title is "How to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to Optimize Your Content for Search Questions using Deep Learning This is the first blog post in our Industry Expert series, featuring guest blogger Hamlet Batista [...] - Bing Webmaster
Google Tests Video List View Google is testing replacing the carousel interface in the Google search results for videos with a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Mic Catchbox - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 6 2020

Google Testing Thumbnail Images in Search Results Google testing thumbnail images in the organic search results. This is why some sites don't get [...] - Search Engine Journal
Replay: What SEO practitioners can do to make sites ‘algorithm-proof’ Enterprise SEOs talk content creation and optimization for the future. - Search Engine Land
Regular expression filter support coming to Google Search Console performance reports This new support is mentioned in the Google help documents but does not seem to be live yet. - Search Engine Land
Google: A Small Fraction of Spam Reports Result in Manual Actions Most spam reports submitted via Google search results do not lead to manual actions. Google uses [...] - Search Engine Journal
Regular Expression Filter Coming To Google Search Console Performance Report People either love or hate regular expressions, so if you love them - you are going to love what is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Gary Illyes From Google Quizzes SEOs Google's Gary Illyes posted a pop quiz for SEOs the other day on Twitter. The responses of the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Spam Reports Not Used For Manual Actions Gary Illyes from Google posted on the Google blog that spam reports are not used for manual [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Boxed In Related Searches User Interface Google is yet again testing another user interface for the related searches. We saw magnifying [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 6, 2020 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Extracting Covid-19 insights from Bing search data The Covid-19 pandemic has created a global health crisis that is unprecedented in our lifetimes. It [...] - Bing Search
Tony Hawk At Google Detroit Months Ago - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #74: Christi Olson On Audience Targeting & Digital Commerce Strategy Christi Olson (@ChristiJOlson), is the head of Evangelism for Search and Advertising at Microsoft. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 3 2020

Google updated guidelines to say spam reports are not for manual actions Google only uses spam reports to improve its spam prevention algorithms. - Search Engine Land
Google Polls SEOs and Finds Workload is Up During COVID-19 Google’s Gary Illyes polled SEOs about changes to their work life during COVID-19, and the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Grillin’ it: Barbecue trends and family recipes This Fourth of July, the fairground fireworks and pool parties may be put on hold. But [...] - Inside Search
How spam reports are used at Google Thanks to our users, we receive hundreds of spam reports every day. While many of the spam [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Interview with Lior Davidovitch, the founder of PUBLC PUBLC is a new search engine built by everyone, for everyone, that aspires to create an equally [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Maps Tests Local Listing Carousel In Footer Andy Simpson spotted this interesting Google Maps interface test. It shows a local listing or local [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Local Panel Ads Again, But With No Opt Out Over the past few days Tim Capper has been noticing ads back in the local knowledge panels again. I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 3, 2020 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 2 2020

How Google Might Rank Image Search Results Changes to How Google Might Rank Image Search Results We are seeing more machine learning in how [...] - SEO by the Sea
With new ‘pilot program,’ Google again testing ads on local business profiles The ads can't be removed or influenced by the business owner. - Search Engine Land
What will publishers do when Google lifts the AMP restriction on Top Stories? [Video] If publishers can become eligible for Top Stories by optimizing their mobile sites for users, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: CLS Is Measured Through The Entire Lifecycle Of The Page Google's new ranking algorithm that launches next year, the Page Experience Update, has metric [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
GoogleBot Is Able To Add Products To Your Shopping Cart As I covered at Search Engine Land last night, according to a Wall Street Journal article, Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The three most critical marketing metrics to measure right now Credly's VP of Marketing shares three of the most critical marketing metrics to measure in these [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google AdSense Third Party Ad Technology Vendors Google announced that AdSense now allows ads from additional third party ad technology vendors to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 1 2020

WSJ: GoogleBot can add products to shopping carts Make sure to double check those abandoned cart metrics; they may be inflated. - Search Engine Land
Ad fraud prevention firm CHEQ enters PPC market The company says it offers the first cybersecurity-based platform for paid search and paid social [...] - Search Engine Land
The pillars of successful link building Create linkable assets and identify relevant opportunities to reach a wider audience. - Search Engine Land
Want to Earn More Online? Let’s Talk About Conversions Conversion analysis improves the online performance of every site. It plays a role in SEO, link [...] - Search Engine Journal
What publishers need to consider before dropping AMP [Video] BuzzFeed’s Matt Dorville shares what his publication is thinking about ahead of [...] - Search Engine Land
SmartReply for YouTube Creators Posted by Rami Al-Rfou, Research Scientist, Google Research It has been more than 4 years since [...] - Google Research