Archive of March, 2021

March, 31 2021

Spot misinformation online with these tips The COVID-19 pandemic. Elections around the world. Fact-checkers worldwide have had a busy year. [...] - Inside Search
Google’s John Mueller Answers Rapid Fire SEO Questions Google's John Mueller answers a mixed bag of SEO questions in rapid fire style in the latest video [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Updated The Core Web Vitals & Page Experience FAQs In December 2020, Google posted a Core Web Vitals & Page Experience FAQs. Well, Google has [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Dropping Three Pack For Two Pack (Local Results) Joy Hawkins is saying she is noticing evidence that Google is testing, testing heavily, showing a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEO Appearance On German Game Quiz Show - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Don't Have Open Redirects On Your Website Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that Google "generally recommends not keeping open [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Identifica la información falsa en línea con estos consejos La pandemia de COVID-19. Elecciones alrededor del mundo. Los verificadores de hechos han tenido un [...] - Inside Search

March, 30 2021

Google expands its core web vitals and page experience update FAQs Google explained it "will continue to prioritize pages with the best information overall, even [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Mobile-Friendly Does Not Mean Ready For Mobile-First Index Google’s John Mueller advises site owners that mobile-friendliness is not the same as ready [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Bad Idea To Make Your Images Low Quality To Improve Core Web Vital Scores Often when it comes to getting a better score in some of the core web vital metrics it is about [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Pickup and delivery attributes, indoor Live View and more AI-powered features are coming to Google Maps and GMB Google is packing more features, many commerce-related, into Maps, helping the company maintain its [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: We Do Not Measure Title Tags By Pixels Martin Splitt from Google confirmed that Google Search does not measure title tags by the number of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Streaming is surging, and so are data collaborations TransUnion's new partnership with Blockgraph supports precision ad targeting while protecting [...] - Search Engine Land
Google News Algorithmic Inclusion Is A Failure For Publishers Back in December 2019 or so, Google stopped the requirement for news publishers to manually submit [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Case study: Schneider Electric’s digital transformation through centralized search Digital transformation and a redesigned paid search account structure drove more qualified traffic [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Maps To Improve Curbside Pickup & Delivery Features Google announced this morning new features to improve Google Maps, including improved curbside [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update This Weekend? Before going offline for this long three-day holiday, I saw rumblings of a possible Google update [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 29 2021

Google Says There’s No Limit on Title Tag Length Google's Gary Illyes says that industry standards on title tag lengths are not recommended by [...] - Search Engine Journal
The ABCs of spelling in Google Search You’d hardly know it from the way Google Search works, but nearly 20 years after introducing [...] - Inside Search
Fabrice Canel From Microsoft Bing Wants To Build Instant Indexing Into WordPress As I covered at Search Engine Land the other day, Fabrice Canel From Microsoft issued a feature [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Won't Test FLoC In Europe - Not Yet At Least Marshall Vale from Google said on Twitter that Google will first begin testing FLoC, the company's [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Advertising Automated & Auto-Applied Ad Suggestions I am surprised I am not seeing more concern with the latest Microsoft Advertising notice that it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #113: Dan Toplitt On The Evolving Role Of SEOs & SEO Hiring Trends In part one with Dan Toplitt we spoke about how enterprise SEOs look at the larger picture of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 29, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 28 2021

Google: No Benefit to An Artificially Flat URL Structure Google's John Mueller says there's no benefit to having an artificially flat URL structure compared [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s John Mueller Stresses Importance of E-A-T For YMYL Websites Search Advocate John Mueller stresses that Google is most concerned with expertise, [...] - Search Engine Journal

March, 27 2021

Google: Fine If AMP Page Has More Ads Than HTML Page Google's John Mueller says the search engine's recommendation to maintain parity between AMP and [...] - Search Engine Journal

March, 26 2021

Google Supports New Schema Markup For Education Sites Google is adding support for a new type of schema markup with the introduction of rich results for [...] - Search Engine Journal
Discover the best products for everything on Google When you shop for products — whether for your home, your family or yourself — you [...] - Inside Adwords
Semrush At New York Stock Exchange - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: First Party Data Includes Subdomains, ccTLDs and Vanity URLs Owned By The Company Ginny Marvin, now of Google, said on Twitter that Google considers subdomains, country TLDs and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Don't Re-block Pages After You Allowed Them To Crawl To See Noindex Tags Gary Illyes from Google said it is an "silly idea" to re-block or re-disallow pages after [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
User-Generated Content — The secret SEO weapon Learn how UGC can improve all your search marketing KPIs, including page rankings and Google Ads [...] - Search Engine Land
New Google Structured Data & Debugging Tools For Practice Problems & Math Solver Search Results Google has new structured data markup for the practice problems and math solver search results. We [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 25 2021

Googlebot Doesn’t Click On Buttons – What to Use Instead Google advises site owners that the use of buttons on web pages is not optimal as Googlebot is not [...] - Search Engine Journal
Microsoft proposes method to automatically submit URLs from WordPress to search engines Microsoft wants to build into the core of WordPress the ability to automatically push new and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google crawl stats report data issue Between March 10th and March 23rd there was a data issue with the crawl stats report, no Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Constructing Transformers For Longer Sequences with Sparse Attention Methods Posted by Avinava Dubey, Research Scientist, Google Research Natural language processing (NLP) [...] - Google Research
Google adds practice problems and math solver structured data and Search Console reports Earlier this year we reported how Google was testing displaying practice homework problems in the [...] - Search Engine Land
New for education sites: Practice problems and Math solver structured data In this post, we provide details to help you implement structured data on your practice problems [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google On Search Rankings With Hyphenated Words The topic of hyphens between words is a classic old time SEO question, something we've covered here [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Penalty For FTC Warning Letters - Nope Here is a new question I have never seen asked before; does Google downgrade the search rankings of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Bug With Address Verification Form Google has a bug in Google My Business when you try to verify or update an address. The form [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 24 2021

Google Shares Technical SEO Best Practices For Ecommerce Sites Google provides guidance to SEOs and ecommerce site owners on best practices for providing the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Zero Click Claims Are Misleading Google offers convincing evidence that claims surrounding "zero click" searches are [...] - Search Engine Journal
Recursive Classification: Replacing Rewards with Examples in RL Posted by Benjamin Eysenbach, Student Researcher, Google Research A general goal of robotics [...] - Google Research
Google Search sends more traffic to the open web every year This week, we saw some discussion about a claim that the majority of searches on Google end without [...] - Inside Search
Google announces global launch of property promotion ads for hotels Property promotion ads help hotels capture demand in users looking online for places to stay - Search Engine Land
Google Disputes Zero Click Study, Shares More Data, But It's Not Enough Last night, Google responded to the zero click study that said 65% of searches end up without a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
What five news-SEO experts make of Google’s new, “Full Coverage” feature in mobile search results SEO experts from The LA Times, New York Times, Conde Nast, Wall Street Journal, and prominent [...] - Search Engine Watch

March, 23 2021

Research: Trillions of Site Visits Uncover SEO Insights Analysis of trillions of actual site visits yields insights into user behavior shifts that may [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s current FLoC tests aren’t GDPR compliant Questions about whether a browser assigning users into cohorts counts as a use of personal data, [...] - Search Engine Land
4 local review trends to watch in 2021 It’s important for businesses to not ignore the importance that reviews still have in local [...] - Search Engine Land
5 ways Search can help you learn As students, parents and teachers continue to rise to the challenges of remote learning, [...] - Inside Search
YouTube experiments with automated lists of products detected in videos Plus, enabling YouTube video playback directly within Twitter may help content creators get more [...] - Search Engine Land
Study Says 65% Of Google Searches Do Not Click On Results But Should They? Rand Fishkin came out with yet an eye popping study, saying that based on SimilarWeb data [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Don't Worry About Bounce Rate For SEO Purposes Google's John Mueller, once again, said that for SEO purposes, for ranking in Google purposes, you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Don't Use A 502 Status Code When You Should Use A 503 Recently, Google's John Mueller posted about what to do if your site goes offline. The advice was [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Update Google Featured Snippets Fast Ever see one of your sites rank well for a featured snippet in Google Search but the information [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 22 2021

Zero-click Google searches rose to nearly 65% in 2020 Efforts to regulate Google aren’t making a dent. And, the pandemic may have resulted in [...] - Search Engine Land
Google To Move Last Batch Of Sites To Mobile-First Indexing Soon Google's John Mueller said in a video hangout on Friday that Google has stopped automatically [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: It Is About Link Quality Not Link Quantity For most SEOs, this is very obvious, that it is not about the raw number of links you have to your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Tests Smart Matching Match Type Last week, @PPCGreg spotted Google testing a brand new match type in Google Ads named "Smart [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Not Helpful Button On Google Local Reviews Google is now testing a "not helpful" button in the local reviews within local listings [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Chat Button In Local Panel (Instead Of Message) Google's local panel allows you to message or now chat with some businesses that enable the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Kippah - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #112: Dan Toplitt on Enterprise SEO & Looking At The Larger Picture On a bit of a gloomy day, Dan Toplitt was out in my neighborhood and stopped by to get on the vlog. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 22, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 19 2021

Leveraging Machine Learning for Game Development Posted by Ji Hun Kim and Richard Wu, Software Engineers, Stadia Over the years, online [...] - Google Research
Google Does Not Count The Number Of Blog Posts On Your Blog For Ranking Purposes Google's John Mueller was asked if Google looks at the number of blog posts on a blog as some sort [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google clarifies the SharedArrayBuffer notification After much confusion, Google explained why it send out these notifications and what your next steps [...] - Search Engine Land
Google" Many Sites Think About Links Much More Than Necessary Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that he thinks that many SEOs and sites think about links [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
March 19th Google Search Ranking & Algorithm Tremors I am seeing some early signs of yet another Google Search ranking algorithm update - it is early [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
45% Of SEOs/Marketers Do Some Affiliate Marketing Cyrus Shepard posted a poll on Twitter asking SEOs and marketers if they do any affiliate marketing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SharedArrayBuffer messaging clarifications Some of you might have received an email from Google Search Console with the subject "New [...] - Google Webmaster Central
2021 SEO and digital marketing salary and job trends guide How much should you earn — or pay? What does it take to get hired — or attract top [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 19, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 18 2021

Research: Core Web Vitals Ranking Boost by Industry Research unveils which industries may receive a ranking boost, which will fall behind and explores [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s 5 Video SEO Best Practices Google recommends five best practices for site owners to follow when optimizing video content for [...] - Search Engine Journal
Massively Parallel Graph Computation: From Theory to Practice Posted by Jakub Łącki and Vahab Mirrokni, Research Scientists, Google Research Graphs [...] - Google Research
Google Video SEO Tips In New Video & Updated Help Docs Google has published some new and updated resources around video SEO. First, there is a new video, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google To Update Robots.txt & Robots Tags Help Docs - Asks For Feedback So while Google made some additions to the meta robots directives section of the robots help [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads New Summary Views User Interface Google Ads announced a new summary view interface with the goal of making "it easier for you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Added To The Help Documentation For Meta Robots Directive Google has made some updates to the meta robots directive help documentation, specifically by [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 17 2021

Google My Business Review Removal Request Status Tool Google My Business has launched a new tool where you can not only see the reviews for your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Possible Quality Issue if Copied Content Outranks Original Google’s John Mueller says there might be a site quality issue if copied content is [...] - Search Engine Journal
Our annual Ads Safety Report At Google, we actively look for ways to ensure a safe user experience when making decisions about [...] - Inside Adwords
Google blocks 3.1 billion ads in a tumultuous 2020, says annual Ads Safety Report The report lists misinformation around COVID-19 and the political climate as well as ad fraud as [...] - Search Engine Land
Providing better product information for shoppers As global online video consumption continues to grow, Google aims to surface video content [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Blocked 3.1 Billion Ads, Restricted 6.4 Billion Ads & Suspended 1.7 Million Advertisers Google has published its annual "Ads Safety Report" and disclosed that it has blocked or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 16 2021

Google My Business manage your reviews tool There is a new tool from Google that lets you manage your reviews and check the status of removal [...] - Search Engine Land
Contactless Sleep Sensing in Nest Hub Posted by Michael Dixon, Software Engineer and Reena Singhal Lee, Product Manager, Google Health [...] - Google Research
Creepy: Google Maps Street View Images For Service Area Home Businesses Google lets businesses that do not want to display their addresses (like home based businesses) on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SharedArrayBuffer warnings in Search Console: Clarifying a new cross-origin isolation security policy Android Chrome 88 and desktop Chrome 91, plus Firefox 79+ now implement SharedArrayBuffers again [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console Security Notice For SharedArrayBuffers Yesterday, Google sent out a slew of notifications through Google Search Console about security or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google On When To Canonical Category Landing Pages To Others: It Depends. There is a nice chat recorded in the last Google webmaster hangout between Mihai Aperghis and with [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Showing Product Image Thumbnails In Search Snippets More Often Over the past couple of days I am seeing more reports of people seeing Google multiple display [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 15 2021

Google Explains Featured Snippets Volatility John Mueller of Google explains general reasons for changing what triggers Featured Snippets - Search Engine Journal
FLoC is coming — Here’s what we know so far Google has positioned its third-party cookie replacement squarely between advertisers and users, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google tests displaying cost estimates in local search results Google has confirmed the company is showing cost estimates from Homewyse for some local queries. - Search Engine Land
New Job Posting Structured Data Requirements BETA Job Posting Structured Data offers opportunity to be first to rank in Google's updated Job [...] - Search Engine Journal
Poll: 60% Of SEOs Say SEO Is Harder Than Five Years Ago Aleyda Solis posted a poll on Twitter asking SEOs if SEO "easier, more difficult or as [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Words In A URL A Very Light Weight Factor But Less After Indexing Google's John Mueller said once again that Google does use the words in the URL as a ranking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Location/Order Of rel Attribute Does Not Matter Does it matter if you put the rel attribute in your HTML link before the link or after it? The [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Featured Snippets Back To Normal Levels In Google Search On February 19th or so, Google significantly dropped the number of times featured snippets would [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Advertising Static Headlines For Dynamic Search Ads Available Microsoft announced that you can now use static headlines within your Microsoft Advertising Dynamic [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 13 2021

First Input Delay – A Simple Explanation An easy to understand explanation of what First Input Delay is, what causes it and typical [...] - Search Engine Journal

March, 12 2021

Google: Pages With Core Web Vitals May Have Tiny Ranking Advantage Martin Splitt of Google gave me a softball yesterday when he said on Twitter "all things being [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Tests Estimated Prices Near You (Local Service Ads) Google Local, I believe part of the local service ads product, is testing a feature to show [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Research: The integration of SEO and PR Founder and CEO of Organic Growth, Kevin Carney surveyed 184 SEO and PR professionals to discover a [...] - Search Engine Watch
LEAF: A Learnable Frontend for Audio Classification Posted by Neil Zeghidour, Research Scientist, Google Research Developing machine learning (ML) [...] - Google Research
Bing Local Panel Questions & Answers Box Microsoft Bing now shows for some businesses a questions and answers section within the business's [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Site Going Offline For Longer Than A Day; Upload A Static Version We know that Google recommends using a 503 server status code for your your website goes offline or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Job Posting Rich Results Report Change Google made some changes to the rich results report for the job posting structured data. You can [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 12, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 11 2021

Career certificates and more ways we're helping job seekers At Google, our mission has always been to make sure that information serves everyone in important [...] - Inside Search
Google Search Console rich results report updated Google tweaked some of the job posting structured data requirements and also how it checks the [...] - Search Engine Land
Yet Another Unconfirmed Google Search Ranking Update Last Night I know, I know, this is getting ridiculous, at what won't do I stop reporting on all these Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Large Unconfirmed Google Local Search Algorithm Update Yesterday The BrightLocal tool picked up one of the the biggest updates I've seen it report in a long time or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Posts Spike In Rejection Notices There may be a bug with the Google My Business Google Posts feature. There is a spike in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Recipe Rich Results Images Disappearing Again From Search Results In 2019, Google had issues with displaying images in the rich results recipe carousel for a nice [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 10 2021

A New Lens on Understanding Generalization in Deep Learning Hanie Sedghi, Google Research and Preetum Nakkiran, Harvard University Understanding [...] - Google Research
Trends in PPC, reporting and analytics in 2021 and beyond from SMX Report With COVID shifting consumer behavior in 2020, use these trends to find equilibrium in 2021. - Search Engine Land
As CTV viewership surges, YouTube is people’s Main Stream The last year marks a massive paradigm shift on the TV screen, as more people than ever turn to [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Preparing For New Search Console Functionality Google is likely going to keep releasing new features and functionality for Google Search Console [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Is Google moving towards greater search equity? Wix's Mordy Oberstein explores how Google is democratizing the SERP and driving more search equity, [...] - Search Engine Watch

March, 9 2021

Google May See Web Pages As Duplicates if URLs Too Similar Google uses a predictive method to detect duplicate content based on URL patterns, which could lead [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Results Updated With ‘Full Coverage’ For News Google Search is gaining the Full Coverage feature for breaking news results which provides more [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: No Plans to Speed Up Data Collection For Core Web Vitals Google’s Core Web Vitals testing tools take 28 days to gather aggregate field data, and [...] - Search Engine Journal
More choice for travelers with free hotel booking links While the past 12 months have been difficult for both travelers and the travel industry, [...] - Inside Adwords
Accelerating Neural Networks on Mobile and Web with Sparse Inference Posted by Artsiom Ablavatski and Marat Dukhan, Software Engineers, Google Research On-device [...] - Google Research
Google Hotel results opens up to free listings Google opens the door to more hotels by offering free hotel listings, separate from paid results. - Search Engine Land
When Losing A Google Featured Snippet Hurts A couple of weeks ago we reported a steep dive in the number of featured snippets Google showed in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: When Unindexing Pages From Search Use Noindex, Not Robots.txt Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that when you want to "unindex," remove indexed [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Everything you need to know about audience targeting without relying on third-party cookies The death of third-party cookies certainly presents an obstacle but it’s also an opportunity [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google's New Free Hotel Listings Option Google has announced that it is now offering a free version of its hotel listings, this is now in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google PageSpeed Insights Now Supports HTTP/2 - Scores Might Go Up Google announced that its PageSpeed Insights tool as of March 3, 2021 uses http/2 to make network [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 8 2021

Google on Choosing the Best Anchor Text Google's Mueller describes how to choose the best anchor text for links - Search Engine Journal
Google’s Mueller on Keys to a Successful Site Migration Two tips on how to ensure a successful site migration according to Google's John Mueller - Search Engine Journal
Google brings Full Coverage news to search results Longer running news items may be surfaced more for some queries in Google Search. - Search Engine Land
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update/Instability Over Weekend Over the weekend there are a nice amount of chatter from the SEO community around the Google search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Get the full news story with Full Coverage in Search This past year has reminded us that the most important news stories are often complex and [...] - Inside Search
If Google Can't Fetch/Read Your Sitemap File? Try A New File URL. Google's John Mueller was asked about an error with Sitemaps files. The question was around Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
You feta believe we’ve got pasta Search Trends Every season of quarantine can be marked by a food trend. Last year around this time, we were all [...] - Inside Search
Google: We Won't Build Alternative Identifiers To Track Users Across The Web Google announced last week that while other companies are planning to replace third-party cookies [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Bing Search More Visual Updates Microsoft Bing announced a slew of "visually immersive" upgrades to the search results [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 5 2021

Google Sites Sitemap Documentation Removed Official developer pages updated to reflect that Google Sites no longer creates sitemaps - Search Engine Journal
Many SEOs Will Prioritize Core Web Vitals Google Page Experience Efforts Despite all the new messaging that the Google Page Experience update won't result in massive [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
PAIRED: A New Multi-agent Approach for Adversarial Environment Generation Posted by Natasha Jaques, Google Research and Michael Dennis, UC Berkeley The effectiveness of [...] - Google Research
Google Short Videos Now Include Facebook Videos When Google first launched "short videos" in Google Search it seemed to just show videos [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Fun Video: How Google Changes Since 1998 Google just posted a short four-minute video on how Google has changed since it first launched in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Ads Evasive Ad Content Policy Google is starting a new Google Ads content policy called "Evasive Ad Content." Evasive [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Mobile App Gains Custom Notifications & Performance Insights Google has added to the Google Ads mobile app custom notifications and review performance insights [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 4 2021

Google Updates PageSpeed Insights Scores Google announced that in general, Page Speed scores will all rise as of March 3rd, 2021. - Search Engine Journal
Microsoft Bing Rolls Out 5 Upgrades to Search Results Microsoft Bing is launching five updates to search that aim to evolve SERPs beyond a list of links [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google My Business people who viewed your business report You can now see device and platform breakdown in your Google My Business performance reports. - Search Engine Land
Microsoft Bing updates search results interface to make it more visually immersive Microsoft Bing updates recipe results, similar looking items, expandable carousels, infographic [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads mobile app adds custom and performance insights notifications The updates can help advertisers keep tabs on the metrics that are important to them and notify [...] - Search Engine Land
Google March 2021 Search Ranking Algorithm Update I have yet another unconfirmed Google search ranking update to report on. This was started around [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Rich Results Disappear? Google Says It Might Be A Site Wide Quality Issue. Google's John Mueller listed a few reasons why your site may not show rich results in the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business New Available Performance Metrics Help Doc Google has updated the Google My Business "available performance metrics" help document [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 3 2021

Charting a course towards a more privacy-first web It’s difficult to conceive of the internet we know today — with information on every [...] - Inside Adwords
How Gootkit trojan distributes ransomware via Google SERPs Unknowing developers that search forums for script help can fall victim to Gootkit trojan and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google will not build or use alternate identifiers to track users across the web Google reiterated that its products will use Federated Learning of Cohorts to enable advertisers to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google On Pagination: Would It Be Okay If The Page Was Only Accessible Via Your Site Most SEOs I know are still grumbling a little about the rel=next and rel=prev is no longer [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Recommends Pyramid Navigation Structure For Large Sites A couple of months ago John Mueller of Google was asked a question about a site with a mega menu of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
2021 Will be the year brands make winning experiences out of remote interactions Donna Tuths, Chief Transformation and Innovation Officer at Sutherland foresees four key trends [...] - Search Engine Watch

March, 2 2021

Google: Internal Linking Gives Google A Sense Of Page Level Importance Google's John Mueller was asked how someone can help Google understand which pages of a site it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Semrush (SEMR) To Go Public With $144M Revenue & 67K Customers The beloved SEO toolset provider announced it will be going public. The stock will be listed on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Maryland’s ad tax is here, and advertisers should look to their European counterparts for how to deal with it Last year, Google passed digital service taxes onto advertisers in the UK, Turkey and Austria, and [...] - Search Engine Land
Semrush plans to go public after posting big 2020 growth But the company says changes in access to 3rd party data and cookies could really disrupt its [...] - Search Engine Land
Ginny Marvin Joins Google As New Ads Product Liaison Ginny Marvin has announced on Twitter she has joined Google as the new Google Ads Product Liaison. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google On The Importance Of GTINs For Products In Search Google posted a Friday blog post named "providing better product information for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search February 26 & 27th Search Algorithm Volatility This weekend there was another unconfirmed Google search ranking update, maybe starting around [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google See Results That Mention Filter On Left Side Panel We saw Google testing a search refinement feature named "see results that mention" on the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Sites Stopped Generating XML Sitemap Files Google Sites over a decade, almost 15 years, has automatically generated XML sitemap files to be [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Chrome To Support Scroll To Text Links With Images & Videos So we've seen Google do the scroll to text fragment links for a while now, with featured snippets [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Are Google Search Console DMCA Takedown Notifications Broken? Last week, Max Prin from Merkle, notified me that one of his awesome free tools on technicalseo.com [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Bell Icon To Follow Updates On Medical Knowledge Panels Since 2014 Google had a method to follow news and updates related to social profiles and other [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Partner Program Wooden Coffee Box - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 2, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Steve Marin On Content & SEO With Measuring Digital Marketing Success With Data Steve Marin runs Spark PPC, a marketing consulting firm based in New York City, he focuses on small [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 1, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Wall Frames Sleep Pod - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 26, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Crawl your way towards better search results with dynamic rendering Learn how dynamic rendering gets your JavaScript-loaded content indexed, ranking and driving [...] - Search Engine Land

March, 1 2021

Ginny Marvin joins Google as its new Ads Product Liaison In her new role, the veteran PPC journalist and former Third Door Media editor-in-chief will be [...] - Search Engine Land