Archive of October, 2020

October, 31 2020

Google on 307/HSTS Redirects (HTTP to HTTPS) How Google handles 307/HSTS redirects is thoroughly explained in the latest ‘Ask Google [...] - Search Engine Journal

October, 30 2020

Background Features in Google Meet, powered by Web ML Posted by Tingbo Hou and Tyler Mullen, Software Engineers, Google Research Video conferencing is [...] - Google Research
Google Search Algorithm Update On October 28th? There is some chatter and some signs that there may have been a disturbance to the Google search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ignores Capitalization In HTML When you hand type HTML code, which I do in all these blog posts - yes, I am using something really [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Five fears of channel owners: What spooks you about creating your own CTV app? In the dark, dark woods of AdTech, Connected TV (CTV) apps are a dime a dozen. Spooky enough for a [...] - Search Engine Watch
Search Revenues: Google 14% Increase & Microsoft Bing 10% Decrease Microsoft (Bing) reported earnings on October 27th and Alphabet (Google) reported earnings on on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Report Editor Data Selection Panel Update & More Google Ads has updated the Report Editor to make it easier build reports and analyze your data [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 29 2020

Microsoft Clarity is now Generally Available Microsoft Clarity is a free-to-use analytics product built to help website managers improve their [...] - Bing Webmaster
Experimenting with Automatic Video Creation From a Web Page Posted by Peggy Chi, Senior Research Scientist, and Irfan Essa, Senior Staff Research Scientist, [...] - Google Research
Could Google passage indexing be leveraging BERT? How Google leverages BERT depends on the use of the term ‘Passage Indexing’ (although [...] - Search Engine Land
US Election 2020 Trump vs. Biden: An SEO Check The US presidential election is nearing the home stretch, with American citizens set to go to the [...] - Searchmetrics
Google Ads Report Editor gets a new look The Custom report builder will feel a bit more like Data Studio. - Search Engine Land
CallRail’s Lead Center is a virtual phone system and contact center for SMBs It's designed for small companies with between 3 and 20 employees. - Search Engine Land
Google: E-Commerce Sites Should Use Unavailable Request Indexing Tool Prior To Black Friday On Monday, Google lists a bunch of SEO tips for e-commerce sites to get ready for the upcoming [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Some gourd, old-fashioned Halloween fun with Google A socially distant Halloween doesn't have to be antisocial; there's plenty of family fun at home to [...] - Inside Search
Google My Business Progress Status Of Reinstatement Request Ben Fisher spotted that Google is now testing in Google My Business a status indicator of where [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Coverage Report Delayed Again The coverage report within Google Search Console is delayed again. It is currently now delayed by [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 28 2020

Does the Google antitrust case make an Apple search engine more likely? The DOJ may cause Apple to accelerate plans for its own engine. - Search Engine Land
Estimating the Impact of Training Data with Reinforcement Learning Posted by Jinsung Yoon and Sercan O. Arik, Research Scientists, Cloud AI Team, Google Research [...] - Google Research
Microsoft Bing Team Working Harder & Longer While Working At Home So it looks like the employees at Microsoft are going to be working from home through July 2021, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Activates Real Time Alerts Feature & More Google Ads added a few new features yesterday including real-time alerts, improvements to draft [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Do SEOs Trust SEO Sources - Good Polls Cyrus Shepard posted a series of excellent pools on Twitter with a nice number of responses. The [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 27 2020

What passage indexing and natural language processing mean for the future of SEO Google’s recent updates provide SEOs with more freedom to focus on users instead of bots. - Search Engine Land
An update on our efforts to help Americans navigate COVID-19 The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges and emphasized how important it is for [...] - Inside Search
Google: Suspension Of Request Indexing Unrelated To Indexing Bugs As many of you know, Google suspended (temporarily) the request indexing feature in Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Bing May Be Having Search Indexing Issues Over the past few weeks, I have been seeing some reports that Microsoft Bing is having their own [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Yogurt Doodle Honors Stamen Grigorov Today's Google Doodle honors Stamen Grigorov, the man who discovered Lactobacillus bulgaricus [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Get caught up to speed on the US elections so you can cast an informed vote Our goal with Microsoft Bing is to deliver experiences that give back to our users. That’s [...] - Bing Search

October, 26 2020

Best practices for Black Friday and Cyber Monday pages The end of the year holiday season is a peak time for many merchants with special sales events such [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google to Highlight Best Shopping Deals in Search Results Google is highlighting top shopping deals in search results in an effort to boost visibility for [...] - Search Engine Journal
Holiday 2020 is do or die for many SMBs Small businesses need to focus their marketing on key consumer sites, especially Google, for [...] - Search Engine Land
Video: Mike Blumenthal on review attribution in local search Reviews can be used for a way to speak to your customers and as a competitive intelligence tool. - Search Engine Land
Google: Translating Content, Don't Forget To Translate Title Tags Danny Sullivan from Google issued a PSA yesterday afternoon saying that if you translate your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
GoogleBot To Help Chrome Detect & Block Abusive Notifications Google announced on the Chrome blog that it will be adding an additional security feature to reduce [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads, I Mean, AdWords Turns 20 Years Old As I tweeted this morning, we have a special design theme up on this site for the 20th birthday of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: There Is No Optimal Number Of Links On A Page In continuation of Google saying they have a stupid high limit on the number of links it can [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Adds Shopping Features For Advertisers & Searchers Google has added a bunch of features to Google Ads and Shopping right before the holiday shopping [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Live: Google Maps Square Pins For Ads In June we reported that Google will be launching new map pins for advertisers. These pins are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 22, 2020 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Best practices for Black Friday and Cyber Monday pages The end of the year holiday season is a peak time for many merchants with special sales events such [...] - Google Webmaster Central

October, 25 2020

Google Shares How Noindex Meta Tag Can Cause Issues Google's John Mueller answers why using a meta noindex could backfire on certain kinds of pages. - Search Engine Journal

October, 24 2020

Google Answers If Site Section Can Impact Ranking Score of Entire Site Google answers if a site section can negatively impact ranking score of entire site and how to stop [...] - Search Engine Journal

October, 23 2020

Google Ads turns 20: The most important trends and changes of the past 5 years Looking back, we can see where the biggest trends in search (and beyond) are heading. - Search Engine Land
Rethinking Attention with Performers Posted by Krzysztof Choromanski and Lucy Colwell, Research Scientists, Google Research [...] - Google Research
Marsbot is Foursquare for AirPods Its augmented reality for your ears. - Search Engine Land
How 5G will pave the way for mobile app innovation Digital Turbine Media's Executive Vice President shares the top six trends to expect as 5G covers [...] - Search Engine Watch

October, 22 2020

Shop early for the best holiday deals online and nearby Black Friday typically has the biggest deals of the season. But this year, holiday shopping is [...] - Inside Adwords
3 ways to help shoppers find the latest holiday deals Last holiday season in the U.S., Google was used by more shoppers related to their shopping than [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Can Subscribe to Push Notifications Google announced that Chrome 86 blocks abusive push notifications. Google subscribes to push [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Crawling Doesn't Mean Indexing, Indexing Doesn't Mean Ranking This is probably SEO 101 but often even those who do SEO every day, they are so in the weeds that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google moves one step closer to ads that can deliver personalization and privacy Individualized targeting is replaced by group targeting using an algorithm to assign people to [...] - Search Engine Land
With an eye toward deal-seekers, Google releases promotions, pricing updates for both advertisers and users this holiday season Pricing and promotions in Google Shopping could be more important than ever this year. - Search Engine Land
Google: Passage Indexing vs Featured Snippets So when Google announced Passage Indexing at the Search On 2020 event, there was a lot of confusion [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Has A "Stupid" High Limit On Number Of Links On A Page Back in 2014 and also in 2008, Google basically said it has no limit in the number of links it can [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Esports livestreams, news, and more - all in one place We are proud to announce the launch of the MSN Esports Hub, a one-stop destination for information [...] - Bing Search

October, 21 2020

Announcing the Recipients of the 2020 Award for Inclusion Research Posted by Negar Saei, Program Manager, Google Research At Google, it is our ongoing goal to [...] - Google Research
DOJ antitrust suit: Google uses contracts, market power to neutralize rivals Google thinks it will win but the DOJ used these arguments successfully before. - Search Engine Land
Google Says Links In Commented Out HTML Do Not Impact Ranking Martin Splitt of Google, in a rare case about talking specifically about Google rankings, said that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 20 2020

Google: First Indexed Does Not Mean That Content Is Yours Some feel that you need to ensure your piece of content is published first on your site and then [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google confirms it doesn’t index passages separately Google now "consider passages from pages as an additional ranking factor." - Search Engine Land
How Google Identifies Individual Passages of a Web Page Google’s public Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, shares more detail about an upcoming change [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Indexing Issues Resolved, No More Status Updates Google said last night that the indexing issues are essentially fully resolved outside of some edge [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Responds to Antitrust Lawsuit Google responds to allegations from the United States Department of Justice that it’s [...] - Search Engine Journal
SEO for reactive JavaScript using React or Vue with NodeJS and other backend stacks How to get SEO-friendly website pages to feel like there's magic burbling up beneath them. - Search Engine Land
Myth: Google Needs 30-60 Days To Index New Backlinks Here is a new myth, that says Google requires 30-60 days for it to discover, index and then use new [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEOs Waiting For The Next Google Core Update It has been five and a half months since the last Google broad core update. To give you context, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
CEO’s take on emerging industry trends and strategies: Q&A with Moz’s Sarah Bird We caught up with Moz’s CEO, Sarah Bird to uncover emerging trends in the search scape, SEO, [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Still Supports Data-Vocabulary Four Months After It Was Deprecated Back in January, Google told us it would sunset support for the data-vocabulary markup for rich [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 19 2020

99% of Google’s indexing issues fully resolved There are some edge cases left with the indexing bug but those should be resolved within a couple [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Passage Ranking, It Is Not Passage Indexing In the slew of Google Search announcements from last week, one of the more interesting bits was a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Video: Mike Blumenthal on Google Maps spam resource issues Google invests a lot in Google Maps but maybe in the wrong areas? - Search Engine Land
Will The Request Indexing Feature In Google Search Console Return? A lot of SEOs are skeptical and concerned that the request indexing feature, which was temporarily [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google More Comfortable Discussing E-A-T & Its Importance With Health Queries You may have been noticing a patterns from Google more recently. Where Googlers seem more [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Slow URLs Can Potentially Impact Ranking Of Other Faster URLs On Your Site Google's John Mueller said that when it comes to Google measuring speed with the upcoming Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Optimizing the browser long tail across platforms, devices, and countries Cloudinary's VP of Marketing discusses how to optimize at a global scale ton increase audience [...] - Search Engine Watch
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 19, 2020 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #90: Mike Blumenthal On Some Of The Issues With Google Maps & His History In The Space (Part One) Mike Blumenthal and I met up in Owego, New York, the midway point between his home base and my home [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google About This Result: Site Age, Security, Paid Listing Details & More We've seen Google test three dots that can trigger an "about this result" overlay in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Martin Splitt Sheep Neighbors Returned For More - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 16 2020

Find voting and ballot drop box locations on Google This year, searches for " how to vote " in the U.S. are higher than ever before. To make [...] - Inside Search
Google Search gets deeper into the ‘real-world’ with Busyness, Duplex and AR in Maps Building the data bridge between online and offline. - Search Engine Land
Google Search Announcements: BERT, Passages & Subtopic Indexing & More Google made a boat load of announcements last night around Google Search. Now, while some of the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google tests local ads in Maps auto-suggest results A local ads shows up as you start typing. - Search Engine Land
Google Local Wait Times For Restaurants Inaccurate Remember the days where you use to look at Google Maps to see how busy a place was before you went [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Announcing the Microsoft Bing app on Xbox We’re excited to announce the release of the Microsoft Bing app on Xbox, so you can search [...] - Bing Search

October, 15 2020

Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search Do you know that song that goes, “da daaaa da da daaaa na naa naa ooohh yeah”? Or the [...] - Inside Search
Google Announces AI Search Updates – Analysis This is how Google AI updates will dramatically impact how sites are ranked. Analysis of changes [...] - Search Engine Journal
How AI is powering a more helpful Google When I first came across the web as a computer scientist in the mid-90s, I was struck by the sheer [...] - Inside Search
How Google indexes passages of a page and what it means for SEOs Google will begin passage based indexing later this year for English languages. It is a ranking [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: BERT used on almost every English query When BERT was added only a year ago, it was used in only 10% of queries. - Search Engine Land
Google Mobile First Index News from PubCon Virtual 2020 Google said March 2021 is the date for mobile first index. Desktop sites will be dropped and m-dot [...] - Search Engine Journal
Consumers are already holiday shopping online. Are you ready? According to research we began with Ipsos over the summer, consumer behavior is showing a [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Updates Search Quality Raters Guidelines On October 14th Google has just updated the Search Quality Raters Guidelines PDF. The last time it was updated was [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Suspends Request Indexing Feature While It Has Indexing Issues Google announced it has suspended, temporarily, the request indexing feature, within the URL [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google search quality guidelines update breaks down dictionary and encyclopedia results and more Google added a new section for rating dictionary and encyclopedia results for different queries, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google on Opportunities For SEO – Pubcon Pro Virtual 2020 Google's John Mueller offered insights into the state of SEO in the near future and the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Shares SEO Tips for Single Page Apps In the latest Google Lightning Talks video, Martin Splitt shares tips for making single page apps [...] - Search Engine Journal
Site explorer: SEO-explore your site Site Explorer offers in Microsoft Bing Webmaster Tools a unique SEO view of how Microsoft Bing [...] - Bing Webmaster
Recreating Historical Streetscapes Using Deep Learning and Crowdsourcing Posted by Raimondas Kiveris, Software Engineer, Google Research For many, gazing at an old photo [...] - Google Research
Bing revamps Site Explorer in new Bing Webmaster Tools This tool gives SEOs information on how Microsoft Bing does just that and then gives you more data [...] - Search Engine Land
Visual ways to search and understand our world Whether you’re a student learning about photosynthesis or a parent researching the best cars [...] - Inside Search
3 Latest Google Patents of Interest – October 13, 2020 This week’s list of recently granted Google search patents covers vectors, entities, and [...] - Search Engine Journal

October, 14 2020

Introducing the new Google Analytics Millions of businesses, large and small, rely on Google Analytics to understand customer [...] - Inside Adwords
Meet Google Analytics 4: Google’s vision for the future of analytics The new Analytics adds AI-powered insights, tracks users across devices and provides more granular [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console temporarily drops request indexing feature This feature should be back in the upcoming weeks while Google makes infrastructure changes. - Search Engine Land
New Research Suggests Historic 2020 Holiday Shopping Trends New research suggests online shopping will be something to crow about, making SEO more important [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Podcasts Manager – Why Podcasters Need This Google announced a service that helps podcasters gain more listeners from Google and get listener [...] - Search Engine Journal
Is There A Google Search Ranking Update Or More Indexing Issues & Fixes? As we have been covering, the Google Search results have been pretty unstable recently. Yesterday [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 13 2020

8 major Google algorithm updates, explained Of countless Google algorithm updates introduced over the last decade, here are the ones that [...] - Search Engine Land
SEO 101: Get Your SEO Guide for Beginners [EBOOK] Looking to upgrade or refresh your SEO knowledge? This guide covers what you need to know about [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Podcasts Manager shows you search impressions and clicks from Google Search You can see impressions and clicks for Google Podcasts results that appear in Search, as well as [...] - Search Engine Land
Google YouTube Content Planning Guide Works for Web Pages Google published a YouTube content strategy guide for politicians that's useful for web and [...] - Search Engine Journal
8 major Google algorithm updates, explained Of countless Google algorithm updates introduced over the last decade, here are the ones that [...] - Marketing Land
Google: Reconsideration Requests Can Take A Week To A Few Months A question that comes up often in the SEO world is how long does it take after one submits a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Duplex Live For Some Haircut Appointment Bookings VentureBeat reports that Google made the Duplex technology live for some haircut appointments, for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Tests Virtual Keyboard Again Google seems to be testing a virtual keyboard icon in the search box on the Google home page and in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Most Of The Time A Wrong Date In The Search Results Is Your Fault A couple of years ago, we reported that Google said that with dates and times in the search results [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 12, 2020 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 13, 2020 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 12 2020

Make every marketing dollar count with attribution and lift measurement Understanding how each media touchpoint contributes to your goals can mean the difference between [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Ads brings YouTube into Attribution fold, expands data-driven attribution to more advertisers Conversion Lift is also now in beta for YouTube campaigns. - Search Engine Land
Google Smart Shopping Campaigns: Everything you need to know to get started If you're new to SSCs, the main value prop is to combine Shopping and Display into a single [...] - Search Engine Land
Is It Google Search Ranking Updates Or Instability Over Bugs? Over the past week or so, the search tracking tools have been showing a lot fluctuations, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #89: Ed Bernstein On Challenges Of Doing In House SEO & Mapping The Competitive Search Landscape Ed Bernstein, the IT Director at Active Ventilation Products, came out to the ballpark to get on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Adds More COVID-19 Health & Safety Checks A month ago, we reported how Google My Business added new health and safety attributes for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Googlers Finally Receiving Noogler Hats - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Webmaster Tools Now Supports Arabic & Hebrew Languages Bing Webmaster Tools now supports languages that go from right-to-left, like Arabic and Hebrew. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Sports Scores Stop Working In The US Yesterday Yesterday, Google had another bug - this one was not with indexing or ranking but live sports [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 9 2020

U.S. Government Accuses Google of Monopolistic Practices House subcommittee report accused Google of achieving market dominance through anti-competitive [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Indexing Bug Almost Fixed – New Update Google offered an update on the ongoing indexing problems, stating that mobile indexing and [...] - Search Engine Journal
Status update on the Google indexing bugs 99% of the mobile-indexing URLs are restored and 55% of the canonical URLs are restored. - Search Engine Land
Google’s Mueller on Copying Top Ranked Sites Google's John Mueller downplayed "blindly" copying what a top ranked site does. Then he [...] - Search Engine Journal
Adjusting Featured Snippet Answers by Context How Are Featured Snippet Answers Decided Upon? I recently wrote about Featured Snippet Answer [...] - SEO by the Sea
Google's Gary Illyes Explains What Caffeine Does Google released the next the next Search Off the Record podcast, which was actually recorded at [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Simplified Locations Report Hiding Some Location Data Ginny Marvin broke down the issues with the new location data report in Google Ads. She said on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's Change Of Address Tool Is A Setting Toggle, Not Status Check Earlier this year, Google updated the change of address tool but maybe the new tool makes things a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
BrightEdge launches market insights and shares updates on new purchasing behaviors Marketers are looking for a robust view of their macro market and to act on micro opportunities. [...] - Search Engine Watch
Web Stories On Google Discover Are Towards The Top Of The Page When Google announced that Web Stories will be shown on the Google Discover feed, the announcement [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Online Classes With Zoom Integration A month ago we reported that Google My Business is adding video conferencing integration to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Tests Mouse Over Favicons In Search Result Snippets This is a cute user interface test from Bing, where when you hover your mouse cursor over the title [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Tests See Results That Mention Filter Box Google Search is testing a new search feature that lets you filter the search results by pages that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Explains How Autocomplete Predictions Work Danny Sullivan from Google posted another big how does search work piece on the Google blog. This [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 8 2020

Announcing the 2020 Google PhD Fellows Posted by Susie Kim, Program Manager, University Relations Google created the PhD Fellowship [...] - Google Research
If you’ve got it, haunt it: Halloween 2020 costume trends This year’s Frightgeist is a real treat. From cats in taco costumes and baby sharks to [...] - Inside Search
Google Autocomplete Predictions Explained Google’s Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, explains in a new blog post how autocomplete [...] - Search Engine Journal
How Google autocomplete predictions are generated You come to Google with an idea of what you’d like to search for. As soon as you start [...] - Inside Search

October, 7 2020

Study: Comparing the data from 8 SEO tools Spoiler: The numbers you'll find don't match up. SEO metric tools are for general trend analysis [...] - Search Engine Land
Google testing new ‘call history’ feature for Google My Business The missed call log will remain available to businesses for 45 days. - Search Engine Land
‘People Also Ask’ boxes: Tips for ranking, optimizing and tracking PAA boxes appear in nearly half of all searches. Here’s how they work and how SEOs can use [...] - Search Engine Land
Congressional report blasts Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook as monopolistic ‘gatekeepers’ of the digital economy Breaking up these companies will apparently be on the table. - Search Engine Land
Microsoft’s Digital Marketing Center for search and social management adds features, opens beta The free platform is now open to U.S. small businesses. - Search Engine Land
House Judiciary Subcommittee Antitrust Findings On Google & Others The big news yesterday was that the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust has released its [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 6 2020

Google Ads intros automated Insights, Performance Max campaigns, to release Video Action out of beta The new products and features are further indication of Google's machine learning goals. - Search Engine Land
Get your business ready for what comes next Advertising Week is an event I look forward to every year—it brings global thought leaders [...] - Inside Adwords
What’s changed in Google Ads Locations reporting and why you need a custom report Simplified locations reporting misses the nuance of user location — here's what you need to [...] - Search Engine Land
Web Stories are coming to Google Discover Web Stories is being expanded to show in more Google areas. - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console To Potentially Annotate Reports To Show Indexing Bugs Gary Illyes from Google said the Google Search Console team is "working hard on estimating the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Indexing Bug Progress Report - It's Getting There Just to keep you up-to-date on the status of Google's efforts to fix the indexing bugs. Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Preview Call History To See Recent Calls From Customers It looks like Google is testing yet another, what would seem, powerful feature in Google My [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bursty Fresh and Local Featured Snippet Answers at Google Featured Snippet Answers Based on Context Last month I wrote about answer passages when Google [...] - SEO by the Sea
Bing Now Microsoft Bing With Curved Logo After a couple of months of testing, Microsoft made it official and rebranded Bing to Microsoft [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Keynote Goes Bananas With Smile From Gary - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 5 2020

Google My Business and reviews gain in 2020 Local Ranking Factors survey But rankings and conversions aren't always the same thing. - Search Engine Land
Bing Officially Rebrands As ‘Microsoft Bing’ Bing is now known as ‘Microsoft Bing’ after rolling out several changes which include [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google My Business Video Upload Reduced From 100 To 75 MB Google has changed the maximum file size for the videos you can upload to your Google My Business [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Shares Details On The Canonicalization & Mobile-Indexing Bugs Google has shared some more details around the indexing issues around canonicalization and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
GoogleBot Does Not Use Nutch Britney Muller spotted someone using Apache Nutch with a GoogleBot useragent name when crawling a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Bing: the search engine that gives back As Bing continues to evolve, we’re focused on expanding the ways in which you can use Bing. [...] - Bing Search
October 2020 Google Webmaster Report It has been an interesting month with Google Search. We saw numerous bugs with Google Search around [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Intelligent Question Answers Supported In Over 100 Languages Bing said its intelligent questions and answers search feature is now supported in over 100 [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 5, 2020 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Old Google Sukkah - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #88: Drew Madore On User Experience Signals As Google Ranking Factors In part one of my vlog with Drew Madroe we talked about how black hat SEO has changed... - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 2 2020

Google Confirms Two Indexing Outages Google announces two indexing outages affecting search results. One outage affects mobile indexing. [...] - Search Engine Journal
Massively Large-Scale Distributed Reinforcement Learning with Menger Posted by Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Research Scientist, and Junchaeo Chen, Software Engineer, Google [...] - Google Research
We Were Right: Google Had Indexing Bugs With Canonicalization & Mobile-Indexing After noticing changes in Google since September 23rd and actually calling out canonical issues [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Removing Links May Impact Your Rankings But Links Aren't The Only Reason You Rank Google's John Mueller on Twitter stated something that is obvious but he said "ff links are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google On Cookie Consent Banners Impacting Cumulative Layout Shift One of the items in the core web vitals, which is part of the upcoming Google Page Experience [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Search Console Training lives on In November 2019 we announced the Search Console Training YouTube series and started publishing [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 2, 2020 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Search Console Training lives on In November 2019 we announced the Search Console Training YouTube series and started publishing [...] - Google Webmaster Central

October, 1 2020

Google Says Changing Web Layout Can Affect Rankings Google cautioned that updating a web layout can affect rankings, even if URLs and content remain [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google confirms indexing issues with both canonicalization and mobile-indexing Google said it is fixing the issue and there is no action you need to take. - Search Engine Land
Developing Real-Time, Automatic Sign Language Detection for Video Conferencing Posted by Amit Moryossef, Research Intern, Google Research Video conferencing should be [...] - Google Research
Help for retailers and shoppers in Asia Pacific Retailers have played a vital role in Asia Pacific’s response to COVID-19, battling through a [...] - Inside Adwords
Audiovisual Speech Enhancement in YouTube Stories Posted by Inbar Mosseri, Software Engineer and Michael Rubinstein, Research Scientist, Google [...] - Google Research
Google Shopping Goes Free Worldwide In Mid-October Google announced that by mid-October it will make Google Shopping free not just in the US, but also [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google gives publishers new content ‘Showcase’ on News, Search, Discover There are no ad or ranking implications, but Showcase News features will be coming to Search and [...] - Search Engine Land
Submitting URLs Does Not Lead To Google Reprocessing Your Sitemaps John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that if you use the submit URL within Google Search Console [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Pivoting with SEO: How Wildgoose reinvented itself during the COVID-19 crisis Case study of how Wildgoose used a great SEO strategy to reposition its online business and [...] - Search Engine Watch
When Google Search Console Might Show URL Fragment Identifiers Sometimes you see in your Google Search Console reporting, like the performance report, URL [...] - Search Engine Roundtable