Archive of September, 2020

September, 30 2020

Pages Dropping Out Of Google's Index With More Google Ranking Fluctuations? This morning I am seeing a number of complaints around pages being dropped from Google's search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Explains Role of Time and Place in Featured Snippet Rankings New article explains three things that Google uses for selecting web pages to rank for featured [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Shopping now free globally Initially launched in the U.S. in April, now available worldwide in mid-October. - Search Engine Land
Google takes Local Services Ads to Europe Searches for local services grew more than 25% YoY across European countries. - Search Engine Land
Antisemitic memes in image results highlight vulnerabilities in search “Data voids” enable offensive content to rise to the top of the search results. - Search Engine Land
Google My Business Announced New Performance Insights Metrics Google announced new performance metrics, specifically for Google My Business Insights. Now, this [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Doodle For Dachshund Bobblehead History Today on Google's home page is the first bobblehead Doodle I believe in its history. In fact, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 29 2020

Google Launches Mini-Site of Holiday Marketing Resources Google’s new small business holiday hub is full of resources marketers can use to prepare for [...] - Search Engine Journal
How Google Handles Naked Links Google's John Mueller answers how Google handles bare URL inbound links that do not have an anchor [...] - Search Engine Journal
Video: Drew Madore on how “black hat SEO” has changed over the years What was considered "white hat" SEO in the old days may now be considered "black [...] - Search Engine Land
Why is the sky orange? How Google gave people the right info On the morning of September 10, millions of people in Northern California woke up to an orange sky [...] - Inside Search
Anti-Semitic Image Search Results Pollute Google, Bing & DuckDuckGo Over the weekend Google and Bing (and DuckDuckGo) were all called out for displaying horrid and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #87: Drew Madore on Black Hat SEO In 2020 & How Black Hat Has Changed Drew Madore ventured out from his lock down to meet with me at a nearby baseball stadium. I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Again Had An Indexing Issue With News Content Last Night Just amazing, again, Google had an issue indexing news content last night. Ewdison Then, a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Related Searches List View Format Google has been super busy testing tons of variations of the user interface for the related [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Give Google Examples Of Canonical URL Issues On Sunday I reported about a canonical URL issue with Google that may have caused major turbulence [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 28 2020

Google SERP Study: Which Rich Results Get the Most Clicks? All rich results in Google SERPs are not created equal – at least not when it comes to [...] - Search Engine Journal
SEJ eSummit Is Back! 5 Stages, 30+ Speakers & Workshops Early bird tickets are now available for our two-day virtual conference happening in January. [...] - Search Engine Journal
How to audit sites inside corporate networks Turn private (VPN required) URLs into temporary ones that allow for page changes but hide the [...] - Search Engine Land

September, 27 2020

Were There Google Search Canonical URL Issues Around September 23rd? Remember that possible Google search ranking algorithm update from September 23rd? As I mentioned [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Programming Note: Offline Monday For Yom Kippur 5781 This is just a programming note that I will be 100% offline starting Sunday night (September 27th) [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Celebrates Its 22nd Birthday This Sunday Tomorrow, Sunday, September 27th, is Google's 22nd birthday. To celebrate, Google will be posting [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 26 2020

Google Rewrites Meta Descriptions Over 70% of the Time Google rewrites meta descriptions for pages over 70% of the time, according to a recent study [...] - Search Engine Journal

September, 25 2020

Is Amazon about to eat Google’s lunch? The e-commerce giant’s DSP is capturing more budgets and accelerating over the course of the [...] - Search Engine Land
Advancing Instance-Level Recognition Research Posted by Cam Askew and André Araujo, Software Engineers, Google Research Instance-level [...] - Google Research
Google: The Context Around Links Is Secondary But Anchor Text Is Primary You know that many uses of anchor text on links around the web do not say much about where it is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The rise and fall and rise again of “now more than ever” One of my favorite Google tools is the Google Books Ngram Viewer, or “Ngrams.” [...] - Inside Search
Ginny Marvin Is Leaving Search Engine Land & SMX Ginny Marvin is leaving Third Door Media, you know the company behind Search Engine Land, SMX and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business SAB & Virtual Offices Guidelines Updated Over the past couple of weeks Google has been making updated to its guidelines around service area [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Ranking Fluctuations, Bing Search Improves With AI & Google Local Ranking Information This week in search we saw a lot of ranking fluctuations in Google Search starting around [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 25, 2020 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 24 2020

Travel digitally with Google on World Tourism Day September 27 is World Tourism Day - a time to celebrate tourism's ability to promote meaningful [...] - Inside Search
Google brings bidding to Local Services Ads Only selected advertisers will get access to the auction during the beta period. - Search Engine Land
Google On Link Algorithms and How Long for Links to Work Google's John Mueller discusses how often link algorithms update and how long it takes for a link [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bing Improves Key Search Features Bing is improving several key search features with updates designed to provide users with a wider [...] - Search Engine Journal
The rise of reputation experience management Reviews and ratings influence search rankings and customer acquisition. Here's how marketing and [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing applies AI and natural language models to autosuggest, People Also Ask Intelligent answers and semantic highlighting are also rolling out to more markets. - Search Engine Land
SEO Mythbusting On SEO Community vs Google With Martin & Barry (That's Me) So I did an SEO Mythbusting video with Martin Splitt of Google way back last November. I posted [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 23 2020

Early Signs Of A Google Search Algorithm Ranking Update On September 23rd I am seeing signs both in terms of SEO community chatter and the automated tracking tools of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Supports New Structured Data for Retailers Google is starting to support a new type of schema.org markup that allows retailers to add shipping [...] - Search Engine Journal
Help local customers reconnect with your store Since the start of the pandemic, people have built new habits and ways of managing their “new [...] - Inside Adwords
Google on its Relationship With SEOs Google’s Martin Splitt, and Barry Schwartz of Rusty Brick, discuss myths surrounding [...] - Search Engine Journal
Video: Barry Schwartz and Google’s Martin Splitt discuss strained relations with the search community The two chat about how the company’s attempts at transparency have backfired, common SEO [...] - Search Engine Land
Google local ads gain Smart Bidding for store sales, ‘pick up later,’ service attributes The company is investing heavily to address the dominant online to offline use cases, including buy [...] - Search Engine Land
Google opens the source for its robots.txt parser in Java and testing framework in C++ The new releases are from Google's Search Open Sourcing team. - Search Engine Land
Featured Snippet Answer Scores Ranking Signals Calculating Featured Snippet Answer Scores An update this week to a patent tells us how Google may [...] - SEO by the Sea
Top 15 Chrome extensions for social media marketers From theme-based to technical coding-related, these top 15 Chrome extensions will make social media [...] - Search Engine Watch

September, 22 2020

Google rolling out video appointments, online classes to local business profiles It requires a booking relationship with a Reserve with Google partner. - Search Engine Land
Google now supports shipping details schema for product results Sellers are no longer limited to Google Merchant Center for sharing shopping details with Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Googlers Do Not Answer Direct Messages; Here’s Why Google’s Search Relations team explains why they cannot answer direct messages from SEOs and [...] - Search Engine Journal
New Schema.org support for retailer shipping data Quick summary : Starting today, we support shippingDetails schema.org markup as an alternative [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Ads API Is Now Available To All Google announced that the Google Ads API is now "generally" available to all advertisers [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Gains Voice Search Option On Desktop Search Bing announced it has added the ability to do voice search queries from the Bing desktop interface. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Schema.org support for retailer shipping data Quick summary: Starting today, we support shippingDetails schema.org markup as an alternative way [...] - Google Webmaster Central

September, 21 2020

On World Tourism Day: How technology can support recovery After months of isolation while living in quarantine, travel is the leisure activity that I miss [...] - Inside Search
Did Google just hint at an authority profile? A recent blog post from Google points to defining a paradigm on the SERP with what we now know as a [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s Mueller on Shared Hosting and Ranking Impact Google's Mueller disputed results of SEO study that found shared hosting negatively impacts [...] - Search Engine Journal
Advancing NLP with Efficient Projection-Based Model Architectures Posted by Prabhu Kaliamoorthi, Software Engineer, Google Research Deep neural networks have [...] - Google Research
Where will we go with Personalized Knowledge Graphs? I’ve written a couple of posts about patents at Google on personalized knowledge graphs (a [...] - SEO by the Sea
New open source robots.txt projects Last year we released the robots.txt parser and matcher that we use in our production systems to [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Search Fact Check Guidelines Google has updated its fact check Google Search developer document to list out all the current [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
iOS 14 Now Lets You Add A Google Search Home Screen Widget With the release of iOS 14 last week for iPhones and iPads, you can now add home screen widgets to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Honors Jovita IdÃ¡r, Mexican-American Journalist & Civil Rights Activist Google has a special Google logo, Doodle, honoring Jovita Idár as part of Hispanic Heritage [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New open source robots.txt projects Last year we released the robots.txt parser and matcher that we use in our production systems to [...] - Google Webmaster Central

September, 20 2020

Introduction to Structured Data Easy explanation of Structured Data code. Take the first steps to understanding structured data. [...] - Search Engine Journal

September, 18 2020

Easier access to Search, Chrome and Gmail in iOS 14 iOS 14 has launched, and with it comes new features that make it easier to access some of the [...] - Inside Search
A new era has arrived in local search: Google’s Local Trust Pack The variables that drive performance for LSA extend beyond the prominence, relevance and proximity [...] - Search Engine Land
Can Cheap Hosts With Many Low Quality Sites Can Hurt Your Google Rankings? Recently an interesting experiment was published on Reboot Online that says cheap hosting with [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Improving the Accuracy of Genomic Analysis with DeepVariant 1.0 Posted by Andrew Carroll, Product Lead, and Pi-Chuan Chang, Technical Lead, Google Health [...] - Google Research
Google Merchant Center Additional Countries Setting Is Coming Google said by the end of this month you will need to control global product availability in your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Confusing Google Search Fluctuations, Many Google Bugs & How Google Core Updates Work This week was an interesting one... - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 17 2020

Googlebot will soon speak HTTP/2 Quick summary: Starting November 2020, Googlebot will start crawling some sites over HTTP/2. [...] - Google Webmaster Central
GoogleBot to soon crawl over HTTP/2 While HTTP/2 should result in efficiency improvements, there is no ranking benefit to this chage. - Search Engine Land
This decade’s most important marketing question: What data rights do advertisers possess? Google's move to reduce advertisers' visibility into search terms reporting raises big questions [...] - Search Engine Land
SMX is Coming to You in December 2020: Be a Part of it! Interested in speaking at SMX? Now’s the time to submit your session idea. - Search Engine Land
GoogleBot To Crawl Some Sites Over HTTP/2 In November 2020 Google announced that starting in November 2020 it may begin to crawl some sites over HTTP/2. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Ranking Volatility Continues But Is There A Google Update? The tracking tools are still going insane, some are higher today than they were yesterday or the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdSense New First-Party Cookies Setting Google AdSense has a new feature to enable you to now choose whether Google can use first-party [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Googlebot will soon speak HTTP/2 Quick summary: Starting November 2020, Googlebot will start crawling some sites over HTTP/2. - Google Webmaster Central

September, 16 2020

Google: Don’t Expect Same Rankings After Manual Action Recovery Google says site owners shouldn’t expect search rankings to bounce back to previous levels [...] - Search Engine Journal
How much does Google’s new search term filtering affect ad spend transparency? Here’s how to find out This script will show you the daily percentage of clicks going to search terms that Google doesn't [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Adds Support for Regional Video Structured Data Google introduces support for the regionsAllowed structured data property for video. Gives [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google boosting visibility of ‘nearby’ product inventory with new Shopping features Responding to changing consumer behavior, Google starts emphasizing BOPIS - Search Engine Land
Google: Speed Is Complex To Measure But Focus On Core Web Vitals Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that "speed is complex & sometimes confusing" [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Build your brand with YouTube: New ways to drive reach and engage your audience at scale The digital video boom is here. As people spend more time at home and the need for relevant, fresh [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Search Algorithm Update On September 15th? Limited Chatter But Tools Spiking. Over the past 24-hours or so, most, if not all, of the Google rank checking tools are showing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Improving Sparse Training with RigL Posted by Utku Evci and Pablo Samuel Castro, Research Engineers, Google Research, Montreal Modern [...] - Google Research
Shop safely and easily from stores in your community Convenience and safety are important when you’re deciding how to shop–in fact, [...] - Inside Adwords
Google ranking factors to change search in 2021: Core Web Vitals, E-A-T, or AMP? Which of the fresh Google ranking factors will actually influence SEO practice, and which will fade [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Mostly Treats Affiliate Links As Nofollowed Links Most of you know by now that Google generally treats affiliate links as nofollowed links. That [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 15 2020

Google’s John Mueller: Keywords in Domain Name Aren’t Needed Google’s John Mueller advises SEOs and site owners there’s no ranking benefit [...] - Search Engine Journal
8 major Google ranking factors — SEO guide Of over two hundred Google ranking factors that we know about, which ones are the most important? [...] - Search Engine Land
8 major Google ranking factors — SEO guide Of over two hundred Google ranking factors that we know about, which ones are the most important? [...] - Marketing Land
Keywords in generic top-level domains won’t help you rank better Here’s how Google treats every type of TLD. - Search Engine Land
Replay: The SEO gender gap and how to close it Leading female SEOs on the impact of gender imbalance and how agencies, in-house teams and [...] - Search Engine Land
Imitation Learning in the Low-Data Regime Posted by Robert Dadashi, Research Software Engineer, and Léonard Hussenot, Student [...] - Google Research
Felicitas Mendez Celebrated With A Google Doodle Today on Google.com is a special Google Doodle for Felicitas Mendez on the first day of Hispanic [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google To Drop Crawl Anomaly Data For Something More Useful Google's John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout at the 10:02 mark that Google Search Console will [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Sharing what we learned on the first Virtual Webmaster Unconference The first Virtual Webmaster Unconference successfully took place on August 26th and, as [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Tests Knowledge Panel In The Middle Of The Search Results Looks like Google may be testing (I think again) the knowledge panel box in the middle of the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Created A New Ad Destination Report Google Ads has launched a new report named the ad destination report. Google said this new report [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 14 2020

Google Broad Core Updates Recoveries & How Google Reprocesses Core Update Scores Last week at Search Engine Land I wrote Google says you can recover from core updates without a new [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to earn your place in Google’s index in 2020 The four distinct types of indexing problems and how to identify them. - Search Engine Land
Google custom audiences, the combo of custom affinity and custom intent audiences, now live How custom audiences work for Display, Discovery, Gmail and YouTube campaigns. - Search Engine Land
More Google Search bugs: Top stories indexing snag, coverage report delays Google had yet another indexing issue and the search coverage report in Search Console is very [...] - Search Engine Land
Are search engines dead in China? Users are moving away from traditional search engines towards in-app search on the giant Chinese [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Featured Snippets With How-To Schema Brodie Clark noticed that Google is now showing some featured snippets also have how-to schema show [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Coverage Report Delayed 14-Days Last week we reported that Google is aware that Google Search Console's coverage report was delayed [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Review Attributes With Emojis If you open up the Google Maps app and click into the area to see the reviews you have submitted, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Top Stories Indexing Bug Lasted Four Hours Google has confirmed an indexing issue or bug specifically with the Top Stories section in Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 14, 2020 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 12 2020

Google Experiencing Indexing Issue With New Articles Google is currently fixing an indexing issue affecting new articles appearing in the ‘Top [...] - Search Engine Journal

September, 11 2020

Better conversion measurement for video ads on YouTube and our network From sparking an idea to helping people make that final decision, online video plays an important [...] - Inside Adwords
Yesterday's Google Search Announcement Was Not About A Core Update Yesterday, Google posted two blog posts around how it delivers reliable information in its search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Bug When Changing Addresses For Service Area Business (SAB) Google seems to have a bug when changing the addresses of some server area businesses (SABs) [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Unpacking the TikTok algorithm: Three reasons why it’s the most addictive social network TikTok has taken the marketing world by storm with personalized content and unique design. Three [...] - Search Engine Watch
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Google Easter Egg Google has a new easter egg for Google Search, this one is for a search on [fresh prince of bel [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 10 2020

Recent changes to improve relevance and reliability of Google Search Google made numerous changes to auto-complete, news, fact checking, knowledge panels, breaking news [...] - Search Engine Land
New Bing URL Inspection Tool Bing announced a new URL inspection tool that diagnoses issues and provides suggestions for how to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Local businesses can highlight COVID-19 ‘health & safety’ measures with Google My Business The attributes should start appearing in Search and Maps soon. They are intended to give consumers [...] - Search Engine Land
How content consolidation can help boost your rankings Update, remove and/or merge content to avoid split ranking signals and provide users with a better [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s New Measures to Protect Search Results From Vandalism Google is investing in new efforts to ward off vandalism in search results and ensure information [...] - Search Engine Journal
How Google delivers reliable information in Search For many people, Google Search is a place they go when they want to find information about a [...] - Inside Search
Introducing the Bing Webmaster Tools URL Inspection Tool Bing Webmaster Tools URL Inspection is a powerful new tool allowing webmasters to check and take [...] - Bing Webmaster
Petition Over Google Ads Hiding Search Term Data Greg Finn posted a petition on Change.org hoping the SEM community can sign it and influence Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Adds Health & Safety Attributes Now you can label if your business requires appointments, masks for both employees and customers [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Our latest investments in information quality in Search and News Delivering high-quality results is what has always set Google apart from other search engines, even [...] - Inside Search
SEO & Content Explored In Google's Latests SEO Mythbusting Video Martin Splitt and Lily Ray in the latest SEO mythbusting video has just been released and it is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEO proposals: Particular challenges and how to avoid getting a silent no SEOmonitor looks into all the aspects of pitching an SEO proposal, the key components, and how to [...] - Search Engine Watch

September, 9 2020

Google says you can recover from core updates without a new core update Unlike the old Panda or Penguin updates, Google core updates get refreshed data regularly. - Search Engine Land
Google SEO Mythbusting: Is More Content Better? Google’s Martin Splitt, and Lily Ray of Path Interactive, discuss the most common concerns [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Finance makes investing information more accessible There are many questions that come to mind when it comes to investing: Where can I get information [...] - Inside Search
RSAs: Are they living up to the promise? It depends Marketers weigh in on what they're seeing from responsive search ads as Google tests making them [...] - Search Engine Land
John Mueller: The Global Search Personality Of The Year It was such a nice surprise to see John Mueller win the Global Search Personality Of The Year last [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Advertising Adds Multi-Image Extensions Microsoft Advertising added a new feature for its ad platform for supporting multiple images for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 8 2020

Shorter Content Earns the Most Backlinks, Study Says Shorter content earns the most backlinks, on average, according to an analysis of thousands of [...] - Search Engine Journal
SEO Companies Can Sabotage Your Web Site & Maps Listings Sadly there can be pretty immortal people in the world, including a lack of business ethics. It [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Asks You To Verify These Facts Google is asking some searchers with some queries to "verify the facts to help others." [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Coverage Report Delay & Stuck Google Search Console seems to be having another data issue. This time with the coverage report. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google image:loc URLs Are Not Counted Towards 50k XML Sitemap Limit The same question was asked both on Twitter and on Reddit, asking do URLs in the image:loc tag also [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Transforming advertisement and graphic design through AI AI has entered new industries like advertising and graphic designing recently and its role in these [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google: No A Way To Limit Visibility Of A URL By Country In Search Google's John Mueller said that within Google Search there is no way to limit the visibility of a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 7 2020

Google: It's Unlikely Core Web Vitals Will Become A Primary Ranking Factor Gary Illyes from Google said on Reddit he thinks it is unlikely that core web vitals "would [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google URL Parameter Tool Upgrade Will Be 'Really Cool' When Migrated To New Search Console Google's John Mueller said on Friday's webmaster hangout that while the current URL parameter tool [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft's Christi Olson: Google Ads Removing Search Terms Is Ludicrous Christi Olson, Head of Evangelism for Search and Advertising at Microsoft, and someone the industry [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEO Conference Exhibitor Booth During A Pandemic - Search Engine Roundtable
Official: Bing Launches New Robots.txt Tester Tool Back in July we reported that Bing launched, or re-launched, its robots.txt tester tool. But on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #83: Kevin Lee On Nofollow Links, 302 Redirects & If SEO Is Harder Than PPC In part one of my interview with Kevin Lee is the CEO is the Executive Chairman and Founder of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 7, 2020 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Uploads Labor Day Doodle Five Years In A Row After never showing a special Google Doodle for Labor Day in the US, Google for the fifth year in a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 6 2020

Bing Announces Enhanced Robots.txt Testing Tool Bing announced an enhanced Robots.txt tester. New features improve testing and diagnosing of the [...] - Search Engine Journal

September, 5 2020

Google Offers Details on Core Update Recovery Times Google's John Mueller offers insights into recovery times from Core Algorithm Update and what [...] - Search Engine Journal

September, 4 2020

Bing’s new robots.txt tester can help SEOs identify crawling issues The new Bing Webmaster Tool can also be used to edit robots.txt files and check URLs for errors [...] - Search Engine Land
A Corona Xmas: Why physical stores will power online shopping this holiday season Most shoppers are more likely to make an e-commerce purchase if they can return the item in a local [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Webmaster Tools makes it easy to edit and verify your robots.txt robots.txt is a standard used by Webmasters to regulate how search engines bots crawl your website. [...] - Bing Webmaster
Google's Googlebot Crawling As Chrome v85 On August 25th, Google updated its web browser Chrome on desktop and mobile to version 85 and then [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How would an SEO agency be built today? Part 1: Consumers and trends As agencies adapt to circumstances and discover new ways of positioning themselves, they can use [...] - Search Engine Land
Google My Business Adds Adds Video Conferencing Integration Google My Business has added a new option that says "Connect in real-time, with video." [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Most SEOs Believe Google Can Penalize A Site Without A Notification Back in the old days, when you received a manual action Google did not notify you in Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads More Than Triples The Conversion Categories Google Ads announced yesterday it went from 6 conversion categories to 19 conversion categories, if [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Recommends Not To Use Double Slashes In URL Path Google's John Mueller said it isn't recommended to use // - double slashes - in your URL path. He [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 3 2020

Google’s search terms move will make millions in ad spend invisible to advertisers The change removes visibility into more than 20% of search terms, one agency finds. - Search Engine Land
Measure conversions while respecting user consent choices With so many people around the world turning to online shopping this year, advertisers need to [...] - Inside Adwords
The Technology Behind our Recent Improvements in Flood Forecasting Posted by Sella Nevo, Senior Software Engineer, Google Research, Tel Aviv Flooding is the most [...] - Google Research
Google: We Don't Have A Concept Of Toxic Domains Google's John Mueller said on Twitter "we don't have a concept of toxic domains." It was [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 2 2020

Google Ads to limit Search Terms reporting, citing privacy The impact will depend on what "significant" means, but advertisers are likely to lose [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s Mueller Tweets About Content and Ranking Google's John Mueller engages in a Twitter discussion on the best way to write content. - Search Engine Journal
Traditional media suffer as digital ad spend grows in 2020 forecast shows Paid search and social are the big winners of shifting budgets. - Search Engine Land
Google Ads Search Terms Report To Hide Some Searches Google Ads is posting a notice in the Google Ads console telling advertisers that it has updated [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
KeyPose: Estimating the 3D Pose of Transparent Objects from Stereo Posted by Kurt Konolige, Software Engineer, Robotics at Google Estimating the position and [...] - Google Research
Using symptoms search trends to inform COVID-19 research Search is often where people come to get answers on health and wellbeing, whether it’s to [...] - Inside Search
Google To Disallow Ads That Profit Or Blame Others For Sensitive Events Google updated its Google Ads sensitive events content policy to prohibit ads that potentially [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 1 2020

Advertisers to absorb Google’s digital services taxes in UK, Austria, Turkey What to consider before Google starts passing the taxes onto advertisers in November. - Search Engine Land
Apple Ratings are coming to iOS 14, how disruptive will it be? The company may use device location to ensure review integrity. - Search Engine Land
Voice SEO: Different tactics required for Google Assistant, Siri and Alexa Study by SEMrush found only 1% overlap in answers to the same voice queries across platforms. - Search Engine Land
Google Merchant Promotions will be approved faster this holiday, Google says Google also announced pre-holiday updates for Local campaigns. - Search Engine Land
How to use super-resolution and improve onsite image quality There are pros and cons to super-resolution, but if it makes sense for you, here’s a [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Image Search Licensable Badge Now Live With Updated Search Filters In February, Google added a new licensable badge for image search as a beta while it tested out new [...] - Search Engine Roundtable