Archive of November, 2020

November, 30 2020

Yes, Anchor Text Is A Google Ranking Factor I am a bit surprised I am writing this but yes, anchor text is a signal Google uses for ranking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Social Shorts: Snapchat’s TikTok rival is here, Facebook teams with BBB for ad reviews The social media marketing week in review: A round up of news and announcements you may have missed. - Search Engine Land
Vintage GoTo Beach Towel - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Longer Anchor Text Is Not Better But May Provide More Context On Friday, Google's John Mueller was asked if longer or better anchor text is better. Anchor text [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Why It May Appear Your JavaScript Page Is Not Fully Rendered Before Indexed Mark Williams-Cook posted the results of an SEO Twitter poll that said most believe Google does [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Podcast Carousel Updated With Larger Graphics A couple of weeks ago Google started to test a new design for displaying podcasts in Google Search. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 30, 2020 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #96: Elie Orgel On Writing Unique Robust Content That Ranks Well In Google (Part Two) In part two of my interview with Elie Orgel (you can see part one here) we talked about how to get [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 29 2020

Google’s John Mueller: Long Anchor Text Gives Us More Context There is one key difference between using many words in anchor text compared to using fewer words, [...] - Search Engine Journal
H1 Headings For SEO – Why They Matter Google uses H1 headings for SEO. But the ways they are used have evolved. Keep heading tag use up [...] - Search Engine Journal

November, 27 2020

Click Bots Won't Improve Your Google Rankings A post on Reddit asks what is stopping someone from building a bot to click on your Google search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Can Still Rank A Page After Matching Content Is Removed Let's say your company name is Google and then after 17 years you decide to change your name to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Some Google AdSense Publishers Receive Multiple Payments/Deposits There are reports of some Google AdSense publishers receiving more than one deposit or payment from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Suggest An Edit Placement Moved On Mobile Google has moved the feature to "suggest an edit" from in the main mobile list view of a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Maps Tests Address Numbers On The Map Google seems to be testing displaying address numbers in the Google Maps user interface. I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Ranking Fluctuations, Featured Snippets With Augmented Links, Google-Generated Web Stories Deindexed & New Crawl Stats Although this is the Thanksgiving holiday week, it was not slow at all in terms of search news and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 27, 2020 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's Martin Splitt Gets A Trim - Search Engine Roundtable
SEOs Driving Impact Outside of SEO – Tyson Stockton & Alan Turner // Searchmetrics GUESTS & RESOURCES Tyson [...] - Searchmetrics

November, 26 2020

Google's Socially Distant Thanksgiving Day Logo: History of Thanksgiving Google has a socially distant Thanksgiving Doodle, logo, up on its home page in the US today. You [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Applying Search Data in the Wild – Tyson Stockton & Alan Turner // Searchmetrics GUESTS & RESOURCES Tyson [...] - Searchmetrics

November, 25 2020

The problem with the ‘structured content’ mindset As Google gets better at understanding content it will more important to focus on real readability [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console Crawl Stats Report Is Now Outstanding Google has announced the launch of the new crawl stats report and to be honest, it is a huge [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Was There A Google Update Earlier This Week? Starting around Monday, November 23rd, there has been some signals that Google was pushing out [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Deletes Its Autogenerated Web Stories & They Now 404 The other day I reported how Google was showing featured snippets with overlays but some of those [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Adds Messaging Button To Google Posts Looks like Google is adding a message button on the Google Posts for local business profiles. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Private Whois Domain Name Data Does Not Impact Rankings Google's John Mueller said that having a private whois domain name registration status does not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Maps Displaying Hotel Review Rating Averages & Other Attributes On Map Pins Lluc Berrio Penycate posted on Twitter some screen shots of Google testing in Google Maps [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 25, 2020 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 24 2020

New and improved crawl stats for your site To help website owners better understand how crawls their sites, we’re launching a brand new [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google launches new crawl stats report in Search Console Google has revamped the crawl stats report to provide actionable and useful data to your crawling [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Updates Search Console Crawl Stats Report Google launched an updated Crawl Stats Report in the Search Console. Features more granular [...] - Search Engine Journal
10 ways you can support women in SEO Female-identifying search marketers share their personal experiences and tips to support women in [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Others Copying Your Content Wouldn't Results In Your Pages Rank Lower Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that just because someone is copying your content, that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google tests multiple contextual links in featured snippets Google confirms web stories as featured snippets are not a great experience for searchers. - Search Engine Land
Google puts some contextual search features in context Google is using newish language understanding models specific to leveraging conversational context [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Guaranteed Badge Displays On Google Local & Maps Results Last week Google began testing showing the Google Guaranteed badge in the Google Local pack and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
A peek into PPC routines during Cyber Five week After all the preparation, here's what paid search and social marketers will be doing this week to [...] - Search Engine Land
Navigating Recorder Transcripts Easily, with Smart Scrolling Posted by Itay Inbar, Senior Software Engineer, Google Research Last year we launched Recorder , [...] - Google Research

November, 23 2020

Google Knows When You Upgrade Your Server & Will Relearn How Fast & Frequent To Crawl When you move your web site from one host to another, Google generally knows about it. When Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Large Spike Google My Business Suspensions There has been a large number of recent complaints that Google is suspending tons of Google My [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google manual actions bug is now resolved Google's Daniel Waisberg confirmed this bug is resolved and said it only "affected only a tiny [...] - Search Engine Land
The new conversational Search experience we’re thankful for When you’re having a conversation with someone, you might ask multiple questions in a row on [...] - Inside Search
Stop, drop and pass the rolls! Thanksgiving fun with Google Thanksgiving is just a few days away, which can only mean the approach of a classic dinner table [...] - Inside Search
Social Shorts: YouTube expands ad inventory, Twitter launches Fleets, more The social media marketing week in review: A round up of news and announcements you may have missed. - Search Engine Land
Microsoft Bing Search: Shopping The Look Microsoft Bing has added a new feature to its search results page before the holiday shopping [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Highlighting Snippets To Refine Your Search Here is a weird Google Search feature that the company may be testing. Jackson Lo first notified me [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Manual Actions Back In Google Search Console Last week starting around Wednesday November 18th manual actions began disappearing from Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Editor v1.5 Adds Improved Filtering, Image Extensions, Detailed Recommendations & More Google released a new Google Ads Editor release the other day, it is version 1.5 and with it comes [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 20 2020

The Language Interpretability Tool (LIT): Interactive Exploration and Analysis of NLP Models Posted by James Wexler, Software Developer and Ian Tenney, Software Engineer, Google Research As [...] - Google Research
Crowd Marketing: Fears, perks and a comprehensive Guide “Crowd marketing is spam. It is dangerous. It does not really work. Is crowd marketing even [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Webmaster Blogs Moved Locations As you know, Google renamed Google Webmaster Central to Google Search Central. But with that, as [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Insights Page Beta Rolling Out To Some Several weeks ago Google told us they are working on new Insights page in Google Ads. The Insights [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Dashboard Tests New Location Manager Interface Looks like Google is testing a new dashboard for the location list view in Google My Business. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Bing Adds Green Secure Label To Search Results I am not sure if this is a test or if everyone can see it, but I see a green "secure" [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Algorithm Update, Core Update By Years End, Passage Indexing & Manual Actions This week... - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 19 2020

Google Guaranteed badge starting to appear on Google Maps listings Google seems to be testing how consumers react to Google Guaranteed badges in places other than in [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Passage Ranking – Martin Splitt Answers Questions Google's Martin Splitt answers questions about the Passage Ranking algorithm. Learn what it's about. - Search Engine Journal
Google investigating missing manual actions Over the past 24-hours or so there have been reports of manual actions disappearing from Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Analyzing competition with SE Ranking tools Unravel your competitors’ secret strategies and leave your rivals behind with SE Ranking, [...] - Search Engine Land
More From Google On Passage Indexing vs Featured Snippets We already heard a bit about the differences between featured snippets and passage indexing from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Manual Actions Disappearing From Google Search Console It seems like for many, the manual actions within Google Search Console are disappearing. This is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Review Owner Replies Not Displaying For Some I am seeing a number of complaints around Google My Business review replies, the replies owners [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Passage Indexing Is A Lifeline For Pages With Diluted Content There was an excellent phrase I wanted to pull out from another part of Martin Splitt's interview [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Thanksgiving Easter Egg - Translate Gobble If you bring up Google Translate in Google Search, you will see the ability to translate your text [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 18 2020

What to evaluate ahead of Google’s Page Experience update The content you’re competing against, the AMP option, your organization’s resources and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads Automatically Changing Some Campaigns Without Documenting In Change History Lior Krolewicz spotted that one of his clients had changes in his Google Ads account, changes that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update November 17th & 18th? I am seeing some evidence of another unconfirmed Google Search Ranking algorithm update starting [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Haptics with Input: Using Linear Resonant Actuators for Sensing Posted by Artem Dementyev, Hardware Engineer, Google Research As wearables and handheld devices [...] - Google Research
We moved! Introducing the new home for the Google Webmasters blogs Last week we changed our name to Google Search Central and published our new central site. As part [...] - Google Webmaster Central

November, 17 2020

Audio ads on YouTube expand reach and grow brand awareness Whether it’s to squeeze in a living room workout before dinner, catch up on a podcast or [...] - Inside Adwords
Using GANs to Create Fantastical Creatures Posted by Andeep Singh Toor, Stadia Software Engineer, and Fred Bertsch, Software Engineer, Google [...] - Google Research
Google migrates the disavow link tool to new Search Console Google also added the ability to download the file and see new errors related to your file. - Search Engine Land
Google Completes Migration of Disavow Tool to Search Console Google announced completion of Disavow Tool migration to the new Search Console. Industry response [...] - Search Engine Journal
Data-Backed Ways to Optimize for Google Featured Snippets New research into Google SERPs reveals the top ways of optimizing pages in order to maximize the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s new Small Business Advisors program aims to help SMBs grow Don't think of it as an enhanced version of Google Support. - Search Engine Land
Google’s Auto Applied Recommendations catch advertisers, agencies off guard The auto-applied changes do not show in Google Ads change history logs. - Search Engine Land
New Google Office Hours Hangout Support Page Google published a new support page that helps SEOs learn how to participate in Google Search [...] - Search Engine Journal
Visit 100 cultural sites in Search If travelling is on your mind, Google Search might be your starting place to research, find [...] - Inside Search
Google Quietly Launches Small Business Advisors Five years ago, yes, that long ago, Google first began seeking applications for small business [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Subcategories In Search Results Google seems to be testing, or maybe it is some weird bug, these sub-category tabs in the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Auction Insights Report Now Available In Google Ads Report Editor Google announced that it is now allowing you to access the Google Ads auction insights report [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 16 2020

Google Ads wants advertisers to give broad match another shot Broad match keyword suggestions will start surfacing in Recommendations - Search Engine Land
Google May Not Release Another Core Update Before Holidays It has now been well over 6 months, yes, a half of a year, since the last confirmed Google core [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Video: Michael Lewittes on growing a site after an algorithm update He built his own entertainment news site, went through numerous Google algorithm updates and sold [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Podcast: Indexing Images, Video, Audio & AMP & Launch Freezes In the Search Off The Record Podcast released this morning, John Mueller, Gary Illyes and Martin [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Q&A Limited To 440 Characters From 1,000? Google My Business has this Q&A feature where people can ask question and others can answer [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
No, Google Does Not Drop Your Organic Result If You Have An Ad Last week, someone showed me a screen shot of the organic result for a company name go missing in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Some Google Algorithm Updates Are Jarring & Others More Gradual In continuation to the conversation Mihai Aperghis had with John Mueller of Google about the core [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 16, 2020 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 13 2020

Hijacked Google My Business listings appear to be a growing problem GMB listings phishing is on the increase. Google says it's aware of the problem but business owners [...] - Search Engine Land
Googlebot Begins Crawling With HTTP/2 Protocol Originally announced September 2020, Google updated it's developer page to reflect that Googlebot [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google AdSense Search Engine Update Google has made some changes to how AdSense publishers can add the Google powered search engine to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The rise of vertical search engines The recent antitrust case against Google opens the door for specialized search engines that serve [...] - Search Engine Watch
Two Years Later The SEO Monopoly Game Is Here But It's Not Cheap Back in August 2018 I reported that Jef Van Gool was working on an SEO Monopoly game named SEOPOLY. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Redirected URLs Are Put Into A Cluster For Canonicalization Google's John Mueller explained how Google handles redirects within its index. At the 5:30 mark in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Q&A Schema Supports STEM Education-Related Pages Google has updated its Q&A schema structured data guidelines to specify that STEM-education [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Flutters, Page Experience Update May 2021 With Labels, Google Search Central & Machine Learning This week in search I covered more chatter around tremors in the Google search results, a possible [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
GoogleBot Now Can Crawl Over HTTP/2 Last month Google told us that beginning in November GoogleBot will support crawling sites over [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 12 2020

The Machine Learning Behind Hum to Search Posted by Christian Frank, Google Research, Zürich Melodies stuck in your head, often [...] - Google Research
Here Is How Google May Use Machine Learning During Crawling Martin Splitt from Google said Google may be using machine learning in crawling in production right [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Reviews Publishing Delayed Looks like reviews being added to Google Maps business listings are being delayed for some reason. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Internal communication plan: How SMB marketing teams can achieve growth Eight great tips to improve your SMB digital marketing team's internal communication plan and [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Webmaster Central Now Known As Google Search Central First it was known as Google Sitemaps, then Google Webmaster Central and now it is Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Hotel Health & Safety Data Now Fully Live We saw it coming for a couple months now and we even saw it start rolling out a few weeks ago. But [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Results Diwali Festival Decorations If you search for [diwali] in Google Search on desktop or mobile, the search results will have the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Main Stage at DeepCrawl Live 2020: Featured sessions The Main Stage at DeepCrawl Live 2020: Featured sessions There’s no shortage of renowned [...] - DeepCrawl Blog

November, 11 2020

Goodbye Google Webmasters, hello Google Search Central The history behind Google Webmasters Merriam-Webster claims the first known use of the word [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Webmasters Rebrands As ‘Google Search Central’ Google Search Central is the new Google Webmasters following a change in branding that also comes [...] - Search Engine Journal
301 redirect: Google Webmasters Central to Google Search Central Five years in the making, the Webmasters Central brand gets retired. - Search Engine Land
Google on BERT and Exact Match Keywords Google's John Mueller answers if BERT impacts need for exact match keywords on web pages - Search Engine Journal
Google Shares Update on Future of Request Indexing Feature Google's John Mueller shares an update on the background surrounding the Request Indexing feature [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google on Dealing With Sneaky Use of Expired Domains Google's John Mueller answers a question about the balance needed to deal with expired domains and [...] - Search Engine Journal
Goodbye Google Webmasters, hello Google Search Central Merriam-Webster claims the first known use of the word "webmaster" was in 1993, years [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Say G’day to Aussie AR Animals Australia is home to some of the most magnificent creatures in the animal kingdom: birds that [...] - Inside Search
Improving On-Device Speech Recognition with VoiceFilter-Lite Posted by Quan Wang, Software Engineer, Google Research Voice assistive technologies, which enable [...] - Google Research
Unusual Google Search Ranking Algorithm Chatter Over the past few days there has been weird levels of chatter from within the SEO industry around a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: No Plans On Taking Away Request Indexing Tool So I put John Mueller of Google on the hot seat and asked him what is up with Google taking away [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 10 2020

Timing for bringing page experience to Google Search This past May , we announced that page experience signals would be included in Google Search [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google: Core Web Vitals Becoming Ranking Signals in May 2021 Google is announcing Core Web Vitals will become ranking signals in May 2021 in an update that will [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Page Experience Update to launch May 2021 with new labels in search results Google will highlight search results that have a great page experience. - Search Engine Land
Timing for bringing page experience to Google Search This past May, we announced that page experience signals would be included in Google Search [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google’s Mueller on Crawl Rate for Big and Small Sites Google's Mueller answers if big sites have a crawl rate advantage over smaller sites in context of [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: XML Sitemaps Are A Minimal Baseline For Any Serious Website Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that having an XML Sitemap file is "a minimal baseline [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Video On Google Search Quality Evaluators/Raters Google has released a short video on how Search Quality Evaluators help Google make Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Advertiser: Google Smart Shopping Campaigns Can Report Fake Revenues Kirk Williams posted a warning that if you are using the new customer acquisition goals in Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Responds To Exact Match Domain Not Ranking For Christmas Trees Got to say, this is an unusual response from Google's John Mueller. In short, someone with an [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Does Not Know Its Ranking Signal Weights - Machines Learning Deals With It Izzi Smith and Marcus Tandler in their 302 of a Kind weekly SEO video chat interviewed Microsoft's [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 10, 2020 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Spoke Chairs - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 9 2020

Announcing the Objectron Dataset Posted by Adel Ahmadyan and Liangkai Zhang, Software Engineers, Google Research The state of the [...] - Google Research
How to show Lighthouse Scores in Google Sheets with a custom function Learn how to use machine learning to streamline your reporting workflows right within Google Sheets. - Search Engine Land
Beware Of Google My Business Listings Hijackings Joy Hawkins, a local SEO expert, has said she has seen a "large increase" in the number [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Survey: Why You Want The URL Submission Tool Back Three weeks ago, Google "temporarily" suspended use of the request indexing tool within [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Loser: Google Images vs Bing Images I have been watching the Google and Bing Image search results all weekend for the search term [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #93: Michael Lewittes: A Journalist Turned Investor After Succeeding In Journalism With SEO (Part One) Michael Lewittes came to my home on a Sunday to talk to me about his unique perspective as starting [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 9, 2020 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Investigating Complaints Of Original Content Not Ranking There has been a number of complaints from various publishers online that Google Search is letting [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Poland Office Lobby Area With Timeline - Search Engine Roundtable
What’s the current state of play in marketing and search? What’s the current state of play in marketing and search? What will make a brand successful [...] - DeepCrawl Blog

November, 6 2020

‘Significant’ drop in Google-reported search terms seen across devices and ad formats [Report] Tinuiti's granular look at search term data offers a snapshot of how big Google's search terms [...] - Search Engine Land
Using auction insights for better PPC competitor analysis Here's how Google and Microsoft auction insights can help you identify core competitors and track [...] - Search Engine Land
Two Latest Google Patents of Interest – November 6, 2020 Here are some interesting Google Search-related patent updates from the past few weeks that are [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Two Different Canonicals On Same Page Is Undefined What happens if you have two different canonical URLs listed on the same page, you know where they [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Who SEOs Voted For In The US Presidential Elections I saw an interesting NPR story on which types of Americans voted for who in this US Presidential [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Drops Local Pack Reviews For Banks I am not sure when this happened but it seems Google is now treating banks differently in the local [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 6, 2020 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: 18k URLs Dropping Out Of Google In A Few Days Is Not Surprising A webmaster or SEO said on a site he works with, about "18,000 urls were suddenly [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: 11/4 Google Algorithm Update, Google DeepRank & BERT & Dupe Detection Explored I start off this week's video recap with the monthly Google Webmaster Report... - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 5 2020

Google Search Ranking Algorithm Disturbance On November 4th Over the past few days there has been chatter within the SEO industry about a possible Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google One-On-One On Why Rankings Go Up But Traffic & Clicks Down Valerie Stimac, a travel blogger, complained on Twitter that while her site's content is ranking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Misclassified Discover As Video Performance Data Google has documented that on October 28, 2020 it has, in some cases, misclassified some Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Home Page Outranking Internal Pages For Deeper Keywords John Mueller from Google was asked why does Google sometimes rank a home page for a specific [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 5, 2020 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
PES@Home 2020: Google’s first virtual summit for Product Experts More than ever, users are relying on Google products to do their jobs, educate their kids, and stay [...] - Google Webmaster Central
PES@Home 2020: Google’s first virtual summit for Product Experts More than ever, users are relying on Google products to do their jobs, educate their kids, and stay [...] - Google Webmaster Central

November, 4 2020

COVID helped drive record ad revenue for big tech in Q3 Facebook, Google and Amazon all reported significant revenue growth during, and partly because of, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Goes Deep On Dupe Detection & Canonicalization This morning our Google friends, John Mueller, Martin Splitt, Gary Illyes and also Lizzi Harvey [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Podcast: How Google Chooses Canonical Page Google's Martin Splitt shares details of signals and weightings used for identifying canonical page [...] - Search Engine Journal
DeepRank Is Google's Codename For BERT Last night I had to get clarification from Google about their internal project name DeepRank. In [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
November 2020 Google Webmaster Report Last month was pretty busy, we had Google's big Search On 2020 event with BERT going 100%, passage [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Most SEOs Use Few SEO Tools & Don't Spend Much On Them Aleyda Solis posted a set of polls on Twitter asking SEOs about their SEO software and tools usage. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 3 2020

Google DeepRank: The Next Frontier of Ranking Search Results Google is revealing its new DeepRank algorithm which surfaces more relevant search results by [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google launched DeepRank in October 2019 – DeepRank is BERT DeepRank goes back to 2017 at Google, it is the internal code name for the BERT launch. - Search Engine Land
Microsoft Advertising New Promotion Extensions Microsoft launched new "Promotion Extensions" that allows advertisers on Microsoft [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Search APIs Are Moving To Azure Marketplace Bing announced on the search blog that the Bing Search APIs are moving from Azure Cognitive [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Frederic Dubut's Halloween Costume (Oh, His Dog Dressed Up Also) - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 2 2020

How Google Chooses to Rank Images and Videos in Search Results Google's John Mueller answered how Google chooses to rank images and videos in the SERPs - Search Engine Journal
Featured snippets: The 9 rules of optimization Here's a set of guidelines to follow when optimizing for the featured snippet - like using an [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Recommends Permanent URLs for Black Friday Pages Google recommends using permanent URLs for Black Friday pages rather than creating new URLs for [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Answers Question About Passages SEO Google's John Mueller answered a question about search optimizing web pages for Google's new [...] - Search Engine Journal
New GPT-3 solutions can help speed up PPC ad and landing page copy creation AI-generated copy isn't perfect, but these tools can churn out ideas and inspiration in a matter of [...] - Search Engine Land
How to get the most out of Google’s product Knowledge Panels What manufacturers and retailers need to know to take advantage of product Knowledge Panels in [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads Maximize Clicks Bid Strategy Going Away January 2021 Google announced that those using target spend with the Maximize Clicks bid strategy in Google Ads [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google On Passage Indexing: It's Not A Core Update, It's Ranking Not Indexing & Don't Optimize For It In this past Friday's webmaster video with Google's John Mueller, the first question he was asked [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
What’s left when the cookie goes away? Many marketing tech companies are built on the faceless calculations of cookie-based tracking, [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google To Stop Supported Data-Vocabulary On January 31, 2021, For Real This Time A week ago we reported that although Google told us they would sunset support for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Add-On To Google Sheets & Link To Ads Data Hub Google Ads announced two features for managing your data outside of Google Ads. There is a new [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 1 2020

Amazing Google Movie On How Search Works It is Saturday night and I am just about done watching a new movie Google released a couple of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable