Archive of May, 2021

May, 31 2021

Memorial Day Logos From Google, Yahoo & Bing Today is Memorial Day in the United States and to honor the day, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Bing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Will Prefetch Websites Built Using Signed Exchanges Jeffery Jose, Google Product Manager, not only announced that the page experience update is coming [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Hide Your Phone Number In Google My Business / Google Local Google seems to be adding a setting to Google My Business to allow businesses to hide their phone [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Dragon Added to Google Signage At GooglePlex - Search Engine Roundtable
Mueller Mentions Google Sandbox and Honeymoon Ranking Effects via @sejournal, @martinibuster Question about why new pages rank well then taper off results in answer that discusses Google [...] - Search Engine Journal
Vlog #122: John Shehata On The Early Days of Google News & SEO (Part One) John Shehata is the Global Vice Present of Audience Development Strategy & CRM at Condé [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: AJAX Crawling Scheme For Search Not Supported Again The AJAX crawling schema has like nine lives, it has died many deaths but has kept coming back. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 31, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 29 2021

Google Explains How to Target a Specific Country via @sejournal, @martinibuster John Mueller shares two ways to geotarget a specific country for ranking purposes - Search Engine Journal

May, 28 2021

How to Make Original Featured Images from Stock Photos: The Shrink Trick via @sejournal, @martinibuster How to make an original Featured Image for your articles using stock photography that Google [...] - Search Engine Journal
Dog Racing Around Google Shrubs - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Podcast: Deeper Insight Into Serving & More Fun Tidbits I have to say, I love these Search Off The Record podcasts because they always contain really [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
6 Months Since The Last Google Core Update, Google Will Announce When A New Update Is Released It is just about six months since the last Google core update (5 weeks and 25 days) since the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New From Google Marketing Live: Hotel Ads, Local Ad Campaigns, Product Feeds, Customer Match & More Google announced a slew of new features and tools at its Google Marketing Livestream event [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Advocates Aren't Suppose To Know About Ranking Anymore Martin Splitt from Google said something I found very interesting in his video hangout from the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Search May Updates, Featured Snippet Testing, Fewer Manual Actions & Google Ads News This week, we reported on another Google Search algorithm update, but only one, it was on May 22nd [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How and why you should pause paid search (for science) With the right structure and parameters, pausing paid search can be an invaluable source of data [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 28, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 27 2021

Google Warns of Manual Actions for UGC Spam via @sejournal, @martinibuster A warning of penalties for User Generated Content (UGC) spam was published by Google. Publishers [...] - Search Engine Journal
Core Web Vitals Means Deciding What Add-ons are Necessary via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's Martin Splitt encourages analysis of whether a plugin or addon should be replaced if it [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google updates Customer Match, Performance Max campaigns, the Insights page and product feeds at its Marketing Livestream event The company also expanded tROAS bidding to Video Action campaigns and Discovery Ads. - Search Engine Land
ABM tech is on fire, but don’t get burned Bring together your demand strategies into a coordinated motion with a buyer-driven, omnichannel [...] - Marketing Land
Google NYC Physical Store Sign with Bunny - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Expandable More Specific Searches In April we saw Google testing a new related search box named more specific searches. Now, we are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Poll: 56% Of SEOs Say Fewer Than 40% Of Their SEO Recommendations Are Implemented Kristina Azarenko posted an outstanding SEO poll on Twitter asking on average, how many of your SEO [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Featured Snippets Tests Also Covered On This Page Links Google is testing or rolling out a new feature for its featured snippets section named "also [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Sent 2.9 Million Manual Webspam Actions In 2020; Less Than Previous Years While Google already published its annual web spam report for 2020, yesterday Google also published [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: SEO Does Not Cause Visible Problems On Websites Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that he has "never seen a site where that was an issue [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads announces travel product updates for vacation rentals, hotel booking extensions to begin rolling out Some features may increase competition in travel ads, while others make ad creation and support [...] - Search Engine Land
Google launches new ad formats for local campaigns and pickup later option for local inventory ads Google announced a number of local ad features at its annual Google Marketing Livestream event. - Search Engine Land
Get discovered and build your brand on Google There are now over one billion shopping sessions happening across Google every day. More consumers [...] - Inside Adwords
Building for the future to help you prepare for what’s next The COVID-19 recovery process will vary by country, region and business sector, but the [...] - Inside Adwords
Google expands its shopping integrations to include retailers on WooCommerce, GoDaddy and Square Retailers on those platforms can more easily show their products for free across Google. - Search Engine Land
How to measure Google’s E-A-T criteria and improve your organic results In this live webinar, learn how to measure your website’s Topical Authority for any given [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 27, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: No Need to Worry About Using JavaScript via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google says there’s no need to worry about JavaScript when it comes to search, as [...] - Search Engine Journal

May, 26 2021

Google: Why Fixing Core Web Vitals Already Boosts Rankings via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's Martin Splitt explains why some who improved Core Web Vitals are experiencing ranking [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Cites Scholarship Links in a Manual Action Penalty via @sejournal, @martinibuster A law firm with a link penalty received an example from Google of bad links that included [...] - Search Engine Journal
How we worked with you towards a safe and spam-free Search experience in 2020 Making sure your Search experience is safe and free of spam is important to us and we can’t [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Analytics & AdSense Don’t Get a Core Web Vitals Pass via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google products don't get a break on CWV and there's no ranking advantage to using them over others - Search Engine Journal
Kazoo Birthday Party At Google Office - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Results With Hear This Out Loud Button Google may be testing a new feature in search for its featured snippets and knowledge panels to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google News Showcase On Desktop Google announced that the Google News Showcase feature is coming to desktop in eight countries (not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Poll: 40% Of SEOs Will Remove AMP After The Google Page Experience Update As you know, when the page experience update launches, AMP will no longer be a requirement for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Can Lose Track Of Tons Of URL Parameters; Why Canonicals Are Important John Mueller of Google had an interesting reply to a question around linking to a page without a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Ginny Marvin Now Offering Google Ads Help @AdsLiaison On Twitter Just like Danny Sullivan has the @searchliaison account, now Ginny Marvin is using the @adsliaison [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Prevent portions of your site from being abused by spam As a website owner, you might provide a few channels where your users can interact. [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Bug Hiding Search Results For Pfizer MRNA Queries If you search for [pfizer mrna] on Google Search on your desktop, you won't see any free organic [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Performance Report To Drop Rich Result Type Google announced it is removing the generic rich result filter from the Google Search Console [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Cross-Modal Contrastive Learning for Text-to-Image Generation Posted by Han Zhang, Research Scientist and Jing Yu Koh, Software Engineer, Google Research [...] - Google Research
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 26, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
News from Google I/O for technical SEO practitioners and site developers For technical SEO practitioners and site developers alike, we can glean a lot from the [...] - Search Engine Land

May, 25 2021

Core Web Vitals: Will Google Give Breaks for Slow Plugins and Apps? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Martin Splitt offered three pieces of advice to publishers struggling to achieve better core web [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Sneakers With "Do The Right Thing" Laces - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Tweaking Title Tags Won't Improve Your Rankings After Quality Drop Google's John Mueller said that tweaking your title tags after your site was impacting by a quality [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Redirecting A URL To A New URL Will Redirect The Core Web Vital Metrics Google's John Mueller was asked if redirecting a URL to a new URL will also pass the Core Web [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Practice Problems Search Appearance Filters Now Available In Search Console Performance Report Google launched a new search appearance filter in the performance report within Search Console for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Won't Share How Core Web Vitals Ranking Metrics Add Up Google documents in its Core Web Vital reports the scores and grades for each URL it knows about on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: JSON-LD Doesn't Give You An SEO Benefit Over Other Markup Formats Google on occasion tells you which method of technology they prefer over others. They did it with [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Mediocre Core Web Vitals Enough if Competitors are Worse? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's Martin Splitt on the tie breaker ranking effect and if mediocre core web vitals scores are [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Mobile First Indexing Still Not 100% Yet In March we reported that Google was going to migrate over the last batch of sites to mobile first [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google removing generic rich results filter from Search Console performance report Google says this is because it now breakouts most rich result types in their own search appearance [...] - Search Engine Land
How Gatorade, Burnbrae Farms are getting creative to reach target audiences Niche platforms like Hudl and Flipp are giving marketers new ways to connect, inform and ultimately [...] - Marketing Land
Brand safety Whack-a-Mole: Marketoon of the Week Taking a proactive stance against digital faux pas. - Marketing Land
Email Newsletter Update: Google Feedburner Is Out The email newsletter on this site is changing and for those who has subscribed, please let me know [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 25, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 24 2021

Google KELM Reduces Bias and Encourages Factual Accuracy via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google AI announced KELM, a way to reduce bias and toxic content and increase factual accuracy - Search Engine Journal
Google News Showcase now available on desktop, adds enhanced panels on mobile If your publishing site is lagging on desktop, make sure to give it some attention as this update [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s Last Minute Advice On The Page Experience Update via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's Martin Splitt offers last minute guidance to SEOs who are working hard to get ready for [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Console performance report gains practice problems You can now track your performance for your practice problem rich results. - Search Engine Land
Google: Creating Unrelated Content To Build Links Is A "Wasted Opportunity" Google's John Mueller was asked if it is against Google's webmaster guidelines to create a blog and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
GoogleBot & BingBot Brand SERP Shirts - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Complaining On Twitter About Content Not Being Indexed Won't Help Googlers are often being asked about why content on specific websites do not rank or are not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Trending Searches On Google Mobile Home Page Last week I saw a bunch of people notice Google showing a trending searches box on the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Punctuation After A Link Bad For Google Ranking? Nope. Here is a new question I have never heard before in the SEO space. Someone asked if "adding [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Join us for Google for Games Developer Summit 2021 With a surge of new gamers and an increase in time spent playing games in the last year, it’s [...] - Inside Adwords
Vlog #121: Mike McPeak On SEO In A Low Tech Space & Markets With Low Volume Keywords In part one we spoke about learning SEO on the job and then here spoke about about the topic of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Invoca acquires DialogTech, expands its conversation intelligence platform Two leaders in call tracking and analytics join forces and customer bases. - Marketing Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 24, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Understanding Contextual Facial Expressions Across the Globe Posted by Alan Cowen, Visiting Researcher and Gautam Prasad, Software Engineer, Google Research [...] - Google Research

May, 23 2021

May 22nd Google Algorithm Update Is Off The Charts There is yet another Google search algorithm ranking update that seems to be going on - it touched [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 21 2021

Google’s Mueller Offers Two Tips for Getting Indexed via @sejournal, @martinibuster John Mueller offers advice for fixing the situation of a site not getting properly indexed - Search Engine Journal
Google: You Don't Need All Three Good Web Vital Scores For Ranking Boost Google at an AMA at I/O this week on the top of web vitals was asked about how the core web vitals [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Page Experience Update Launching Mid-June on Mobile First via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's Martin Splitt says the Page Experience update will begin a gradual launch in mid-June with [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Maps Showed Distances For Service Area Businesses Earlier this week, several searchers noticed that Google, within Google Maps, was showing the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google App Ads Adds Deep Linking Features, Analytics & Tools Google announced a bunch of Google Ads updates to app based advertising, where you want to push [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Will Announce When MUM Is Added To Google Search The big search news this week from Google was around MUM, Multitask Unified Model. Which is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 21, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Updates, Google MUM, Page Experience Desktop & I/O News I was offline for two days this week but it was an insanely busy week with two unconfirmed Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 20 2021

Research Papers May Show What Google MUM Is via @sejournal, @martinibuster Clues to how Google MUM works may be described in recent machine intelligence research - Search Engine Journal
Google Discusses Grouping URLs for Core Web Vitals Scores via @sejournal, @martinibuster John Mueller discusses grouping similar URLs for Core Web Vitals scoring and that the group score [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update May 19th & 20th - Not Confirmed I seem like a broken record but for the past several weeks the Google Search ranking volatility has [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google expands ways to reach new and returning app users and update in-app event tracking New features help app developers and marketers work together better too. - Search Engine Land
16 updates from Google I/O that’ll make your life easier Part of our mission is to help make your daily life easier. At I/O this year, we shared news about [...] - Inside Adwords
Google video structured data with Clip markup and Seek markup Here are some new methods to make your videos stand out in Google Search. - Search Engine Land
Examination of Anchor Text Ratios for SEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster Anchor Text Ratios are considered important by many SEOs for ranking in Google. But is it really [...] - Search Engine Journal
New ways to grow your app business and connect with users Apps have transformed the way billions of people engage with the world — making it more [...] - Inside Adwords
KELM: Integrating Knowledge Graphs with Language Model Pre-training Corpora Posted by Siamak Shakeri, Staff Software Engineer and Oshin Agarwal, Research Intern, Google [...] - Google Research
Google Shopping I/O: Shopping Graph, Shopify Integration, Google Lens & More At Google I/O, Google also announced a bunch of Google Shopping and commerce related features. This [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We're Crawling Half Of The URLs Over HTTP/2 Google's John Mueller said in his I/O talk that Google is now crawling "more than half of all [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 19 2021

Google Page Experience Update to Apply to Desktop Search Results via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google says the upcoming Page Experience update, which was thought to only impact mobile search, [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google page experience update will come to desktop pages We will have time to prepare but overall, do not expect this update to be too drastic. - Search Engine Land
Google unveils its Shopping Graph, an expanded Shopify integration and more shopping features at I/O The announcements position Google as the middle ground between shoppers and retailers. - Search Engine Land
New Smart Bidding features in Google Ads: Top signals for Target ROAS and max conversions, manager account level seasonality adjustments and more Google hopes to help advertisers manage bid strategies and drive performance - Search Engine Land
Google’s LaMDA will enable open-ended voice conversations This might be the voice search functionality we’ve all been waiting for. - Search Engine Land
Google Announces Multitask Unified Model - MUM Google announced its next big change in how it understands queries and language on the web - they [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 18 2021

MUM: A new AI milestone for understanding information When I tell people I work on Google Search, I’m sometimes asked, "Is there any work left [...] - Inside Search
Can We Know When SEO Causes Ranking Changes? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Two questions highlight a problem in perceived causal relationship between SEO and Google rankings - Search Engine Journal
Google MUM: New Technology For Complex Search Queries via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google aims to answer more complex search queries with a new technology called Multitask Unified [...] - Search Engine Journal
Working with merchants to give you more ways to shop We want to help people discover, learn about and shop for the products they love — whether [...] - Inside Adwords
Google previews MUM, its new tech that’s 1,000x more powerful than BERT Multitasking is the key differentiator, enabling MUM to acquire knowledge, understand and generate [...] - Search Engine Land
Search, explore and shop the world’s information, powered by AI AI advancements push the boundaries of what Google products can do. Nowhere is this clearer than at [...] - Inside Adwords
60% Of SEOs Improved Core Web Vitals Prior To Google Page Experience Update As you know, the Google Page Experience Update is now not scheduled to begin rolling out until [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Project Guideline: Enabling Those with Low Vision to Run Independently Posted by Xuan Yang, Software Engineer, Google Research For the 285 million people around the [...] - Google Research
Why marketing attribution and predictive analytics tools are gaining currency: Tuesday’s daily brief Plus the Instagram browser-based posting rumors - Marketing Land

May, 17 2021

Rankings Collapsed After Buying Google Ads? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Question was asked about Google rankings dropping after buying PPC Ads then coming back right after [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: PBNs Are Pretty Obvious Google's John Mueller said that finding link schemes from PBNs (public blog networks) is easy and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Removing Dates On Articles Won't Stop It From Keeping Time Google's John Mueller was asked if removing dates from articles would help with search rankings. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The importance of marketing attribution platforms in today’s environment At a time when there's more scrutiny on marketing budgets, attribution solutions are helping [...] - Marketing Land
The NFT bandwagon: Marketoon of the Week Just because you can sell something, does that mean you should? - Marketing Land
Streaming giants merge sales; iHeart creates ad network Sirius XM's SXM Media and iHeartMedia's Private Marketplace consolidate sales for their massive [...] - Marketing Land
ADA Compliance Not A Google Search Ranking Signal Google's John Mueller confirmed again that Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance is not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 17, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
BERT Question-Answering at Google BERT Question-Answering A Patent granted to Google on May 11, 2021, involves performing Natural [...] - SEO by the Sea

May, 16 2021

Google on What’s Going on With FAQ Rich Results via @sejournal, @martinibuster John Mueller was asked if FAQ structured data still produces rich results. He explained the fine [...] - Search Engine Journal
Mid-May Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update Continues There is again significant chatter within the SEO forums and signs from the automated tracking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Programming Note: Offline For Shavout On Monday & Tuesday, May 17th & 18th This is a programming note that I will be 100% offline Monday and Tuesday... - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 14 2021

Learning to Manipulate Deformable Objects Posted by Daniel Seita, Research Intern and Andy Zeng, Research Scientist, Robotics at Google [...] - Google Research
Trends That Will Shake Up The SEO World In The Future Nicolas Bouchand posted on Twitter that he is working on his thesis and selected SEO as the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How Storage Asset Management succeeds with a focus on reviews and social media SAM relies heavily on customer reviews, managed through Reputation - Search Engine Land
Google Confirms No Broad Core Update Since December 2020 Danny Sullivan of Google confirmed that Google has not released a new broad core update since the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Just Because Your Site Ranks Well Now, Doesn't Mean It Will Rank Well Forever Just like Saved By The Bell was great for four seasons in 1989, it didn't mean it would come back [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Partner Bike Gift - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 14, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 13 2021

Google Ads announces privacy-focused changes for Analytics, Tag Manager and enhanced conversions These solutions from Google Ads attempt to preserve user data while ensuring that search marketers [...] - Search Engine Land
Future-proof your measurement with privacy-safe solutions Getting the most out of your marketing investments requires a clear understanding of what actions [...] - Inside Adwords
May 13th Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update (Not Confirmed) I am seeing early signs and signals of a possible Google Search ranking algorithm update going on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Performance Report To Add Direction Requests & Website Visits Google seems like it will be migrating more data from the Google My Business Insights report to the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Spam Joke: Just Don't Let Google Know About Your Guest Blog Posts A Reddit thread asks if guest posting is safe and asks how you can ensure the site posting your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Releases Video On Google Ads After Complaints From Rachel Maddow If you missed it, last week, Rachel Maddow from MSNBC complained on Twitter that the Google Ads [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Moving Navigation Code From Top To Bottom Should Not Be A Problem Google's John Mueller was asked if moving the navigation in your HTML code from the top of the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 12 2021

H1 Headings: Over 50% of SEOs Doing it Wrong? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Poll of nearly 2,000 SEOs shows more than 50% don't know what Google recommends for H1 headings - Search Engine Journal
Video SEO best practices for ecommerce Get the most out of your videos on your ecommerce site by making sure Google can find and [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google: Old Site Complain About New Sites; New Sites Complain About Old Sites With Rankings Generally over the years, we've heard and reported on complaints about how new sites find it hard [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Schema.org Markup Validator Is Now Live In December, Google told us they would move its structured data testing tool from Google's site to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEO Sessions At Google I/O Google I/O kicks off next week and it is open to all, remotely, online. I will actually be offline [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Screen Saver (Easter Egg) Do a search in Google for [dvd screensaver] and just wait a bit. The Google logo will start to move [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 11 2021

Core Web Vitals: A Complete Guide [Ebook] via @sejournal, @MrDannyGoodwin Our new must-read ebook will teach you everything you need to know to optimize for Core Web Vitals, [...] - Search Engine Journal
Schema.org launches its schema markup validator tool Several months after Google said it would deprecate the Google structured data testing tool, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google call history report begins to show data in Google My Business Several months after showing a "preview call history" feature, Google is now showing some [...] - Search Engine Land
Google events enhancement report updated to show more errors You may see an increase in the number of errors in this Search Console report as a result of the [...] - Search Engine Land
Register for Google Marketing Livestream Did you know searches for corsages and boutonnières are one of the top trending categories [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Bug Displayed Hidden Business Addresses In Google Local Shopping Search Google notified some local businesses that specifically had set their business address not to show [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Changes Event Structured Data Reporting Google said that starting on May 10, 2021 it has changed how it reports in some event structured [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Call History Feature Now Showing Call Data After months of Google teasing us with the preview call history section and showing us no data, now [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Do Not Use The Trust Project Directly For Search Rankings Back in 2017, Google announced that it was working with The Trust Project to help publishers use [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Report: Google Showing People Also Ask Results More Often Both Semrush and RankRanger are reporting an increase in the frequency Google shows the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 10 2021

Does Google Gives Preference to Content Above the Fold? via @sejournal, @martinibuster John Mueller answers what Google's preferences are with regard to content that's above the fold - Search Engine Journal
Google Modifies Logo Requirements for AMP Structured Data via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google updated the developers page for the AMP Article Logo Structured Data to accurately reflect [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Console Bug: Insufficient HTTPS Coverage On Your Site For the past couple of weeks or so, well, really since page experience report launched in late [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Tremors On May 7th & May 9th I am seeing an increase in chatter amongst the SEO industry around a possible Google search ranking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
More On How Google Uses Machine Learning In Google Search This past Friday, I asked John Mueller of Google a bit more on if and how Google may use machine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Accelerating Eye Movement Research for Wellness and Accessibility Posted by Nachiappan Valliappan, Senior Software Engineer and Kai Kohlhoff, Staff Research [...] - Google Research
Google Tends To Not Watch For Scroll Events Or Click To Load More Buttons What is the latest in terms of how Google / GoogleBot sees the content on your full page. Now when [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
John Mueller Relaunches His Old Blog Back in 2004 John Mueller started his personal blog while he was the owner of a small marketing and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 10, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 8 2021

Google on Partial and Total Site Deindexing via @sejournal, @martinibuster John Mueller discusses different ways Google removes websites from the search index - Search Engine Journal

May, 7 2021

The real-world impact of keyword stuffing in Google My Business Many businesses are rebranding completely to skirt Google's guidelines. But when everyone does it, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Internationalized Sites Even With Same English Content Not Duplicate Content Let's say you have multiple international sites, ccTLDs, with your business registered with a .com [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Content Submission API Beta Is Now Available Microsoft announced last night that the Bing Content Submission API is now in beta and open to be [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Artificially Creating Author Names For Some Search Snippets Lily Ray shared on Twitter some examples of Google making up artificial author names to attach to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Tests Super Wide Image Results Box Google is testing a incredibly wide image results box in its web search results interface. So [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 7, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 6 2021

Microsoft Bing opens Content Submission API as beta This now only helps expedite indexing but also bypassing crawling, reducing server resources [...] - Search Engine Land
Why killing your content marketing makes the most sense “Kill your darlings”, yes, I said it! It may sound crazy but will be one of the wisest [...] - Search Engine Watch
When it comes to mental health, what are we searching for? You know that exhaustion you’re feeling — the one that no amount of espresso shots or [...] - Inside Search
Google Talks Hypothetically About Speed As A Ranking Factor - It's Small Google's John Mueller, Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt released their latests "search off the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Your eleventh-hour SEO intel on Google’s Core Web Vital metrics With page experience a definite search ranking signal moving forward, improving web performance and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Confirms Your Content Be Indexed But Not On All Data Centers Google's John Mueller confirmed something most of us know, that your site and/or pages can be [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Services Ads Bug May Have Changed Your Bid Mode Google has a bug with its Local Service Ads program where it may change your bid mode from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Contact Us Form Select Business Drop Down Google added a business selection drop down feature to the Google My Business contact us form. So [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Wheelchair Accessibility Attributes A week or so ago, Google added to Google My Business the ability to add attributes to your business [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Changing A Bit Of Content Based On IP Address; Google Likely Won't Penalize You Technically, if you change your content based on the IPs or user agents visiting that piece of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 5 2021

Google: We Do Not Penalize Sites For Using Google Analytics A competitor to Google Analytics named Simple Analytics wrote on its blog "Google penalizes [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Adding Images To Your Pages Won't Make You Rank Higher Google's John Mueller was asked if adding images to your web pages, if that will help you rank [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Rachel Maddow Of MSNBC Calls Out Google For Hiding Search Ads But She Likely Has Malware Rachel Maddow Of MSNBC posted on Twitter that she is switching from Google Search because Google is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 4 2021

Google Announces it Uses Spam Fighting AI via @sejournal, @martinibuster Artificial Intelligence offers "unprecedented potential to revolutionize" spam fighting. [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Embedded Links in Featured Snippets is a Bug via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google confirms that embedded links within Featured Snippets is a bug and not a test. - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Console Stops Reporting On Scroll To Text Google has stopped displaying the scroll-to-text data in the reporting within Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Most SEOs Use DNS Or HTML Verification In Google Search Console Google offers numerous ways to verify your website with Google Search Console. Jackson Lo asked on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Rel External, Noopener & Noreferrer Do Not Impact Your SEO Google's John Mueller confirmed that using a rel=external, rel=noopener and/or a rel=noreferrer [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
May 2021 Google Webmaster Report Last month in the Google webmaster, SEO and search world was pretty busy to say the least. We had [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Verizon To Sell Yahoo & AOL For $5 Billion After Buying Each For ~$5 Billion In 2015 Verizon bought AOL for about $4.4 billion while AOL was under Tim Armstrong's leadership. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Do Wide and Deep Networks Learn the Same Things? Posted by Thao Nguyen, AI Resident, Google Research A common practice to improve a neural [...] - Google Research
Taiwan Burger At Google - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 3 2021

Google Ranking Algorithm Update; Is It Product Reviews Related? Starting around Friday, April 30th but really spiking a lot on Saturday, May 1st, we are seeing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Adds Links To Featured Snippets Leading Back To Google Search Results Google is adding links to featured snippets that when clicked on send the searcher to a new set of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google at ICLR 2021 Posted by Jaqui Herman, Research Specialist and Tim Herrmann, Program Manager The 9th [...] - Google Research
Google Advice On How To Optimize Images While Not Hurting Image Search Rankings Google's John Mueller posted a great thread on Twitter about considerations around how to make your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Local SEOs Not Seeing Unusual Google Local Ranking Fluctuations Over the past week, actually, starting since Friday, April 23rd, the BrightLocal tracking tool has [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Trending Searches In Google Discover Google seems to be testing trending searches in the Google Discover feed. Jason Mandragona, the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Customer Match Now Has Real-Time Match Rates Google announced that is is now making the Customer Match feature in Google Ads. Now the Customer [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
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