Archive of August, 2021

August, 31 2021

Google to sunset Expanded Text Ads (ETAs) in June 2022 This is the latest move that Google is making to push automation through their ad products. - Search Engine Land
Meet the 2021 Search Engine Land Awards judges The final deadline to get your entry in is this Friday, September 3 at 11:59pm PT. What are you [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console lost performance report data for August 23rd and 24th The data won't be replaced or backfilled, as we hoped for. - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console Performance Report Data Lost Completely Last week, we reported that the performance report in Google Search Console for the dates of August [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How retailers can stand out this holiday season The holiday season is just around the corner and consumers are already ramping up their shopping. [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Adds New Shipping & Return Annotations in Search Results via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google is giving retailers the option to indicate in search results when they offer special [...] - Search Engine Journal
Cleaning house: how Google and Yelp handle fake reviews; Tuesday’s daily brief Plus, four tools to check for your title changes in SERPs - Search Engine Land
Introducing Omnimattes: A New Approach to Matte Generation using Layered Neural Rendering Posted by Forrester Cole, Software Engineer and Tali Dekel, Research Scientist Image and video [...] - Google Research
Google: Don't Blindly Replace Your HTML Title Tags With Google's Titles So now there are some SEOs asking if it makes sense for you to replace your HTML title tag with the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Expandable Search Snippet Carousels For the past couple of weeks, people have been showing me a feature in Google search that shows [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Content Behind Paywalls Is Not Automatically Thin Content Google's John Mueller said that just because some content might be behind a paywall, it doesn't [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 30 2021

How Google and Yelp handle fake reviews and policy violations A side-by-side analysis of Google and Yelp's respective approaches, policies and punitive measures. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 30, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Semrush: Google Dropped HTML Title Tags Usage By 77% & Replaced Those With H1s 75% Of The Time Mordy Oberstein, Head of Communications at Semrush, shared some really early data on the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Four tools to check for title changes in the SERPs These tools let you see whether Google changed your title, the date it changed and what it was [...] - Search Engine Land
Trends behind the Google title tag changes; Monday’s daily brief Plus, submit a pitch to speak at SMX Next - Search Engine Land
SEOs Want Opt Out For Google Title Change But How This title change has been causing a lot of stir in the SEO community. Personally, I think it will [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Lighthouse Scores Do Not Affect Google Search Google's John Mueller, with a tad of annoyance, posted on Twitter that "lighthouse scores do [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google says title changes don’t impact rankings "This just changes the displayed titles, it doesn't change ranking or takes [sic] anything [...] - Search Engine Land
Recreating Natural Voices for People with Speech Impairments Posted by Ye Jia, Software Engineer and Julie Cattiau, Product Manager, Google Research On June [...] - Google Research
Vlog #135: Paul VanHevel and Lily Ray: An SEO Smorgasbord In part one we mostly spoke about core updates and in part two we go into a quicker paced [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's Title/Header Change Does Not Impact Rankings There are a lot of people asking if the title/header change Google made on August 17th has any [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Mentor Trophy - Search Engine Roundtable
Survey Says Most SEOs Do Not Use Bing Webmaster Tools Most SEOs do not login to Bing Webmaster Tools, a recent Twitter poll determined. The poll asked [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 28 2021

Google: Interstitials are Fine Under this Condition via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller offered a nuanced explanation of how the negative ranking factor related to [...] - Search Engine Journal

August, 27 2021

Google: Low Traffic Does Not Always Mean Low Quality via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller offers solutions for what to do about web pages that have little to no search [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s Not Fooled By Fake Lighthouse Scores via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's John Mueller tells SEOs that fake Lighthouse scores won't help websites rank any higher in [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Snippet Descriptions Still Can Be Customized Based On Queries Google told us the other day that the title change for the search result snippets no longer uses [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Keyword Rich Domains For Your Website Won't Help You Rank Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that it is not worth buying multiple keyword-rich domains for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Waze Swag: Shirt, Cup, Seat Saver, Notebook, Fleece & More - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Pack Without Any Call To Action Buttons If you search for [restaurants near me] in Google Search mobile or desktop, you will see the local [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Top Stories Tests Fact Check Labels Google has been labeling news stories with fact check labels for many years now. But I do not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Generally Removing AMP Page Shouldn't Result In Search Ranking Decline Google's John Mueller was asked on Twitter if a site would remove an AMP page, would that result in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Link Spam Update Complete, Google Changes Titles In Search Results, Search Console Data Bug & Google Ads Google, two weeks longer than expected, has finally finished rolling out the link spam update. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 27, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 26 2021

Survey Says: Most SEOs Canonicalize Their Duplicate Content Issues Sophie Brannon posted a Twitter poll asking SEOs "what do you do with your content duplication [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search marketers should remember their power in the Google-SEO relationship Google’s search engine, as a business, relies on us (in both SEO and PPC) participating in [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Opens Complaint Thread For Title Changes Google has opened a dedicated thread where you can post examples of poor titles that Google has [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Title Tag Update Casualties Lose Search Traffic via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's Title Tag Update is causing so much disruption that some have started calling it [...] - Search Engine Journal
Ask the expert: Demystifying AI and Machine Learning in search Artificial intelligence encompasses multiple concepts, deep learning is a subset of machine [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Mobile & Desktop Pages Don't Have To Match But They Must Fulfill The Same Purpose Google's John Mueller said again that your desktop pages and mobile pages do not need to match [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Merchant Center & Manufacturer Center Sync Google is sending out emails to those who use both Google Merchant Center and Google Manufacturer [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Reportedly Paying Apple $15B to Stay Default Search Engine via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Financial analysts estimate Google is paying Apple $15 billion to remain the default search [...] - Search Engine Journal
Coloring the black box: a new look at managing Smart Shopping campaigns From actionables to high-quality PPC management - Search Engine Land
Will Google change this title?; Thursday’s daily brief Plus, tactics for content resilience in a dynamic search landscape. - Search Engine Land
Your AI and ML primer — and why it matters for search; Friday’s daily brief Plus, the latest trends in local search: personalization and depth of content - Search Engine Land

August, 25 2021

Google Confirms Update to Generating Web Page Titles via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's Danny Sullivan confirms the search engine is updating the way it generates web page titles [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Confirms Titles Did Change To Not Use The Searcher's Query A week after Google made a change to the titles it produces in its search results, the search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Title changes in Google Search causing distress; Wednesday’s daily brief Also Google Shopping bug and Google Ads campaign set up screen. - Search Engine Land
Google Link Spam Update Took A Full Month To Roll Out Google announced that the link spam update that initially began rolling out on July 26, 2021 is now [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Performance Reporting Is Currently Stuck This morning I've been noticing a lot of complaints about the Google Search Console Performance [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Products Approval Process Google now may decide to review your Google My Business product uploads manually and approve or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 25, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Hong Kong Office Utilization Monitor? - Search Engine Roundtable
Google confirms it changed how it creates titles for search result listings Google no longer uses the query to generate these titles but still uses HTML title tags 80% of the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Posts Can Now Appear On Third Party Sites Without Your Knowledge Google now has a notice when you add Google Posts in Google My Business that those posts can appear [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Deepcrawl announces Craig Dunham as new CEO Deepcrawl announces Craig Dunham as new CEO With a proven track record in strategic growth and [...] - DeepCrawl Blog
10 powerful reasons to enter the Search Engine Land Awards Showcase exceptional work, dazzle clients, earn new business... get your Search Engine Land Award [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s Page Title Update is Dynamic and Reactive to Changes via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern As more new information comes out about Google's update to generating web page titles, we learn [...] - Search Engine Journal

August, 24 2021

An update to how we generate web page titles One of the primary ways people determine which search results might be relevant to their [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google link spam update done rolling out It took an extra two weeks longer than expected to roll out. - Search Engine Land
Google Shopping Bug Leads To Huge Impression Declines Google Ads seemed to have a bug last week with Google Shopping in some regions, like the UK, but I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Tests Carousels: Research, People Also Shop & Similar Products Google is testing a number of additional carousels in Google Search. These carousels are titled [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Campaign Set Up Redesign Google Ads seems to have launched a redesign for the campaign set up form/wizard. The new [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Keyword Planner Tool Not Showing Data For the past 24-hours or so, the Google keyword planner tool within Google Ads has been broken. It [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Made 12.5 Changes To Search Each Day In 2020 We cover tons of Google changes here, from user interface changes to ranking changes - most of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Experience the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics with Google and YouTube While some of the Tokyo 2020 Games are over, others are just beginning: The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic [...] - Inside Search
Google Shopping issues in the UK lead to sharp KPI declines If your accounts or campaigns have been affected by this issue, it's critical to communicate to [...] - Search Engine Land
COVID Change How You Do SEO? Poll Results J Turnbull posted a poll on Twitter asking SEOs if COVID changed how you do SEO. Like any SEO [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 24, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Making AI work for workflow management AI-powered collaborative work management enables marketing teams to keep up with competition and [...] - Marketing Land

August, 23 2021

Ranking for Head Term Keywords via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller answers the question about ranking for massive traffic head term keyword [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google made 4,500 changes to search in 2020 Google also updated its How Search Works website. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 23, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
John Mueller Makes An Arduino Binary USB Keyboard - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdSense Auto Optimize: New Select Traffic, Block A Style & Block An Experiment Google AdSense has added three new settings to Auto optimize feature in your optimization [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Messy SEO Part 1: Navigating a site consolidation migration Search professionals have found themselves cleaning up issues following site consolidation [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads Conversion Value Rules For Smart Bidding Google announced a new method for smart bidding controls named conversion value rules. Google now [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Redesigns ‘How Search Works’ Website via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google has updated its 'How Search Works' website which contains information on how Google [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads Adds More Custom Columns For Reporting Two weeks after Ginny Marvin of Google asked what additional custom column metrics you'd like to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Awkward: SMBs think they know their customers; their customers disagree; Monday’s daily brief Plus, should Google be the content curator AND creator? - Search Engine Land
SERP trends of the rich and featured: Top tactics for content resilience in a dynamic search landscape There is no single tactic that works in isolation. The SERP is so highly dynamic at the moment, [...] - Search Engine Land
Helping people and businesses learn how Search works Every day, billions of people come to Google to search for questions big and small. Whether [...] - Inside Search
Neuroscience: video makes people happier than text Vidyard and B2B DecisionLabs conducted a neuroscience study to evaluate how buyers’ brains [...] - Marketing Land
Google Hears Title Snippet Feedback, Hopes To Improve Results & Maybe Add Search Console Tools Last week we were the first to report on the change Google made around its titles in the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Product Carousel Tests Green Discounted Prices Google is testing highlighting a discounted price in a green font in the Google Ads [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #134: Paul VanHevel and Lily Ray of Amsive Digital On Fixing Sites After Google Core Updates So you may remember Lily Ray, she was on vlog number two where I went to her office in NYC and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 22 2021

Google’s Danny Sullivan Wants to Fix Page Title Rewrites via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's Danny Sullivan hears the criticism of the recent page title rewrite update and suggests a [...] - Search Engine Journal

August, 20 2021

Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Ranking Update, Pages Dropping In & Out, Big Publishers Benefit & Author URLs and Rankings This week, we had not just one, but two different unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Personalization In Search Is Extremely Light & Rare For Ranking Google's Danny Sullivan confirmed, again, that personalization in Google Search is an [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 20, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Tests Suggested Channels Box Google seems to be testing a new feature in the Google search results named "suggested [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Cross-language Results Google Search Console Performance Filter Google has a new (I think new) filter in the Google Search Console Performance report named [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Poll: How Many SEO Projects Lead To Successful Outcomes For Clients Aleyda Solis ran a super interesting poll on Twitter asking SEOs about their SEO project success [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Insights Shirt - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 19 2021

Google: The Header To Title Tag Snippet Change Is Not Related To Passaging Ranking A couple of days ago, we broke the news, that many are noticing a change where Google is using the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Spells Curbside As Kerbside In Some Regions I can sometimes be naive when it comes to some differences between the USA and the rest of the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Blue Zurich City Sign In Google Zurich Office - Search Engine Roundtable
SEO Concerns If Agency Threatens To Delete Your Site We have seen lots of SEO threats in the past, mostly around negative SEO but I have not seen one [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 19, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Advertisers can adjust conversion values in Smart Bidding in the coming weeks "This allows businesses to get their intuitive/institutional knowledge into the machine [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update Wednesday As I mentioned yesterday in my story on the slow rollout for the Google link spam update - there [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Replaces Knowledge Panels Feedback Link With Report Link Google has replaced the "feedback" link we've seen on knowledge panels in Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 18 2021

Google is Rewriting Title Tags in SERPs via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google is rewriting title tags for a limited amount of pages in search results, often replacing the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: It’s Normal for 20% of a Site to Not Be Indexed via @sejournal, @martinibuster John Mueller on why it's normal for 20% of a site to not be indexed and the influence of overall [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads "Paid For By Label" On Political Ads Google is now placing a label (I think it is new) named "paid for by" on some political [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Top stories images aren’t showing in Google Search The company has confirmed that it’s a bug and is working to resolve it. - Search Engine Land
Google Link Spam Update Still Rolling Out Over 3 Weeks Later Google announced on July 26, 2021, three-weeks and two days ago, that it started to roll the link [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Top Stories Images In Google Search Blank Google's top stories carousel is not loading all the images for those articles. It seems like a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
YouTube adds video chapter previews, auto-translates captions in new search functions The auto-translation option for captions can help creators reach an even wider global audience. - Search Engine Land
Google: We Will Retry Old Redirect URLs For Years Google's John Mueller once again confirmed that Google will continue to retry old, redirected URLs [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Balancing risk and reach: The brand safety dilemma Is it worth risking reputation to reach a large audience? Is that audience human anyway? - Marketing Land
Google Local Result With Reviews From The Web & Independent Sites Google seems to be testing a new way of showing reviews in the local listing for some businesses. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Cover All Your Bases With Searcher Intent & Your Content Lily Ray shared an interesting chart from Ahrefs, the SEO toolset, showing how for a single keyword [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Bug Causing Issues With Images in Top Stories via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, reports that a bug in search results is causing images in [...] - Search Engine Journal
Good human marketing: Wednesday’s Daily Brief Plus news from Neustar and Drift. - Marketing Land

August, 17 2021

Google Opens Indexing Bugs Reporting Tool To Search Console Users Google announced that all signed-in Google Search Console users who go to the English help form can [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: A ‘Site:’ Search Doesn’t Show All Pages via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google’s John Mueller says the results of a site: query are not a comprehensive collection of [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Adds 3D Periodic Table Google has added a 3D and AR based periodic table to the search results. If you search for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Displaying Header Tags Instead Of Titles For Search Snippets? I am seeing numerous complaints this morning that Google is showing header tags, H1s and H2s, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Three targeting tactics that power every stage of the funnel "You can make any channel work for you depending on who your prospects are and which channels [...] - Search Engine Land
Raw Google Product Strategy Notes - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 17, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google On Being On The Right Track To A Google Core Update Quality Recovery Google's John Mueller was asked a two part question on the last video hangout he conducted. The [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 16 2021

Google’s tool to report indexing bugs is now available in the U.S. The tool provides a way for SEOs to escalate their issues with Google Search. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 16, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
How 500 Error Codes Can Impact Google Indexing via @sejournal, @martinibuster John Mueller explains the circumstances that trigger Google to start dropping web pages from their [...] - Search Engine Journal
SMX Convert is tomorrow… don’t miss out! What are you waiting for? Secure your $149 pass now and join us tomorrow at 11:00am ET. - Search Engine Land
Google Looking For Examples Of GoogleBot Refresh Crawl Surges Gary Illyes from Google posted on Reddit that he is looking for examples of where GoogleBot might [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
GoogleBot Art On Brick Wall at GooglePlex - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #133: Brett Bodofsky On Third Party PPC Integrations In part one, Brett and I spoke about his passion for paid search and helping others in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Most Google Updates Are Not In Response To Search Spam John Mueller, a Google search advocate, said on Twitter that most of the updates Google does [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The marketing ops profession: Monday’s daily brief Plus, CTV rising. - Marketing Land
Google Looking To Improve Knowledge Panel Edit Requests Danny Sullivan of Google said on Twitter that the search company is "working on improving our [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 15 2021

Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update On Saturday I am seeing signs again of yet another weekend search ranking update from Google Search. Again, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 13 2021

Bing Testing Orange Colored Link Overlays Microsoft Bing is testing a bit more color in its Bing Search results interface. When you mouse [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Which Schema Types Are Used Most by Industry [Research] via @sejournal, @MrDannyGoodwin Find out which schema types are most prominent across industries including travel, education, home [...] - Search Engine Journal
How to plan SEO content that actually ranks Learn how to identify metrics for content goals, perform keyword research that drives SEO value and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google My Business Reviews Policies Don't Differ Based On Type Of Business Google has confirmed that it did not make changes to its Google My Business reviews policies [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google AdSense Full-Screen Inline Ads Google launched a new ad format for the Google AdSense ad units named full-screen inline ads. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 13, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Can Being Crawled by Googlebot Desktop Cause Indexing Delay? via @sejournal, @martinibuster John Mueller was asked if getting crawled by Googlebot Desktop can explain why they're suffering [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Moving Links Around On A Page Won't Boost Your Search Rankings John Mueller of Google said that by just moving a link from one position on a page to another [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Is Google adjusting the FLoC strategy?; Friday’s daily brief Plus, HTML success factors for SEO - Search Engine Land
Google Podcasting Requirements Updated: Show Level Detail Required Google has posted a document about upcoming changes to the Google podcasting requirements coming by [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Ranking Update, Pages Dropping In & Out, Big Publishers Benefit & Author URLs and Rankings This past weekend we had yet another unconfirmed update around August 6th. Google may be having an [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 12 2021

Google Affordable Picks Carousel In Mobile Search Google is now showing a carousel to help shoppers find lower cost, cheaper and more affordable (I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Still Working On Moving All Sites To Mobile First Indexing - No ETA Google's John Mueller said this week that the search company is still not done moving sites to its [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Increase Discover Traffic with Max Image Preview Tag via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google published case study showing how a simple meta tag can increase clicks from Discover by over [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 12, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
There are new requirements to appear in Google Podcasts recommendations The new requirements do not affect visibility in Google or Google Podcasts search results. - Search Engine Land
Google: Linking To Lesser Websites Doesn't Make Your Site Less Relevant Does Google think less of your website if you link your site to a "lesser" website? I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Advanced techniques for driving conversions in Google Shopping campaigns Conversion rate is a great indicator of the relevance of your product to the search terms it [...] - Search Engine Land
Impact of Core Web Vitals Rollout — Jordan Koene // Searchmetrics [...] - Searchmetrics
SoundStream: An End-to-End Neural Audio Codec Posted by Neil Zeghidour, Research Scientist and Marco Tagliasacchi, Staff Research Scientist, [...] - Google Research
Google Local Pack Inventory Shows "Updated Today" Google is showing in the local pack for some of the business listings that show their local [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Bug Shows Empty Knowledge Panel Jason Barnard, a man who follows knowledge panels probably closer than anyone else, noticed some [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Explanatory Graphic By A Googler For A Typical Day In JohnMu's Life - Search Engine Roundtable
July Winners and Losers — Jordan Koene & A Party Crasher // Searchmetrics [...] - Searchmetrics
Google Attack On Spammy Verticales — Jordan Koene // Searchmetrics [...] - Searchmetrics

August, 11 2021

Catching up on 15 years of Google Trends When we initially launched an experimental version of Trends 15 years ago , we pointed out ways [...] - Inside Search
Do You Want More Custom Column Metrics In Google Ads? Ginny Marvin from Google asked that if you want additional custom column metrics in your Google Ads [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Demonstrating the Fundamentals of Quantum Error Correction Posted by Jimmy Chen, Quantum Research Scientist and Matt McEwen, Student Researcher, Google [...] - Google Research
Google Community News Summit On August 17th & 18th Google is holding its inaugural Google News Initiative for the North American Community News Summit [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
15 tips for getting the most out of Google Trends To celebrate Google Trends’s 15th anniversary, we took a look at what questions about it [...] - Inside Search
A loyalty boom for David’s Bridal using mobile wallet technology How a bridal and formal wear retailer with over 300 stores added 600,000 loyalty members in six [...] - Marketing Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 11, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Shares Data Handling Details On Search Console Insights Reporting Daniel Waisberg and Maya Mamo from the Google Search Console team published a blog post named [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Best Trends forever: 15 years of Google Trends What were you doing in 2006? Maybe you were going through your emo phase. Maybe you were loving low [...] - Inside Search
Googler & Doogler First Day Back At Google Germany Office - Search Engine Roundtable
Google To Restrict Ad Targeting On Children & Enable SafeSearch In Search & Assistant Google listed a boat load of changes it is making around children and search and ads. Google Ads [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Kick off the school year with Google Assistant and Search Wherever your kids will be learning from this year, one thing is undeniable: The school year is [...] - Inside Search
Google Not Yet Worried About Faking Author Details In Structured Data Google recently started to support author.url and other author properties that let you communicate [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 10 2021

Google Replaces Structured Data Tool with Promotional Landing Page via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google redirects Structured Data Testing Tool to a landing page that seemingly favors Google's Rich [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Adds Author Markup To Article Structured Data Recommended Properties Google said it has recently added the author.url property to the Article structured data [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads will soon block ad targeting based on age, gender or interests of people under 18 In the coming months, Google Ads will be expanding safeguards to prevent age-sensitive ad [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s legacy structured data testing tool now is gone Google replaced it with navigational page to direct you to the Google rich results tool or [...] - Search Engine Land
Google adds author URL property to uniquely identify authors of articles Google added a new recommended author.url property to the article structured data documentation. - Search Engine Land
Google On How to Check Page Experience Factors via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern In a new video, Google offers advice on how to check if your site meets all the non-Core Web Vitals [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Enforcing Physical Addresses For Some Google My Business Listings Google is now requiring some businesses to add a physical address and not be a service area [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Structured Data Testing Tool Directs You To Rich Results Test Or Schema.org Google has updated the structured data testing tool page to a page that instructs the user to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Possible Google Indexing Issues With Pages Dropping In & Out Of The Index For the past few weeks or so, I have been hearing complaints from SEOs, mostly in private forums, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 10, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Editor 1.7 Gains Hotel Ads Lead, Extension Forms & More Google, after a false start, announced the release of version 1.7 of Google Ads Editor. Google Ads [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 9 2021

Google Recommends Adding Author URL in Article Schema via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google recommends adding an author's URL to article schema to help with disambiguating the correct [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Investigating Cases Where Big Brand News Sites Ranking Above Small Specialized Publishers Over the past couple of weeks or so, I have been hearing complaints from the SEO and publishing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to Trigger a Sitewide Quality Re-evaluation? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller offers insights into regular quality evaluations and describes what can [...] - Search Engine Journal
Vlog #132: Brett Bodofsky On His Passion For Paid Search & Sharing With Others Brett Bodofsky is the senior paid media specialist at Elumynt, he explained how he got into doing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update August 6th Through The Weekend? Ever since Friday morning, August 6th, I've been seeing signals of a possible Google Search ranking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Each Google Core Updates Can Affect Search Rankings Differently Google's John Mueller clarified on Friday that when Google pushes out new core updates that each [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Insights behind the curtains Following the Search Console Insights announcement, we received great feedback from the community, [...] - Google Webmaster Central
How to maintain organic performance when merging multiple websites Migrations and mergers can be unpredictable. Here's how to identify and prioritize your most [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads attribution models now support YouTube and Display The inclusion of YouTube and Display lets advertisers better understand each channel's [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 9, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Doesn't Filter Out All Bot Traffic Google's John Mueller confirmed that Google Search Console doe snot filter out all bot traffic. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Alt Text Is Important For SEO Newsflash, Google's Martin Splitt said that "alt text is important for SEO too." I did [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Yahoo Sign Taken Down At Sunnyvale Headquarters - Search Engine Roundtable
Locally Prominent Semantic Features This patent relates to determining locally prominent semantic features using a computer. Operations [...] - SEO by the Sea

August, 8 2021

Page Speed and Google June-July 2021 Core Algo Updates via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller explains how ranking changes can be attributed to page speed but core updates [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Customer Reviews Not A Signal For Web Search via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's John Mueller states that customer reviews are still not taken into account when it comes [...] - Search Engine Journal

August, 6 2021

Sparse Looking Google Maps Local Pack With Just Directions Icon Google's local pack user interface and design tests have been a bit whacky over the past several [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Says Now The Page Experience Update Is More Than A Tie Breaker Ranking Factor Google's John Mueller said on Reddit this morning that the page experience update that incorporates [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Core Web Vitals Ranking Factor is More than a Tie Breaker via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller affirmed on Reddit that the Core Web Vitals ranking factor is more than just [...] - Search Engine Journal
Data and confused: The increasing complexity of digital ad targeting Four key factors that determine whether a business can survive in the complex post-cookie future. - Marketing Land
Official Google Crawling Exam Google has posted an exam to test your SEO knowledge on crawling. Google said this is to test your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Bing Announces Make Every Feature Binary (MEB) Microsoft announced their next AI model, a large-scale sparse model that complements our production [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Lots of Affiliate Links OK if Content is Valuable via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's John Mueller says the number of affiliate links on one page is irrelevant as long as the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Ices Google - Search Engine Roundtable
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Drops Safe Browsing Signal, Core Updates Impact Images & Local & Bing MEB AI I start off this week with the big Google webmaster report for August, it is a good one. Google has [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 6, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Some SEOs Say Google Grabbing All The SEO Related Traffic This is an SEO/SEM blog, we get some of our traffic from people doing SEO/SEM related queries in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 5 2021

Google Ads Search Terms Report Stops Hiding All Searches Back in September 2020, Google announced it would show less search term data in the Google Ads [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
User Queries Help Google Determine What To Show In Knowledge Panels Ever wonder why some knowledge panels show the authors books, while others might show movies or TV [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Tests Discussions Carousel Looks like Google is testing another design and layout for displaying forums in the search results. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Data: Most Popular Google Search Features Are People Also Ask & Local Pack Eric Enge along with SEO Clarity published a snippet of data showing which are the most popular [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Safe Browsing No Longer A Google Ranking Signal Google announced that it has removed the safe browsing signal as part of the page experience [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
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Improved Detection of Elusive Polyps via Machine Learning Posted by Yossi Matias, Vice President and Ehud Rivlin, Research Scientist, Google Research With [...] - Google Research
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 5, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 4 2021

August 2021 Google Webmaster Report While last month was filled with algorithm updates this month wasn't too much different. We had the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Core Updates Can Sometimes Impact Image Search & Local Search Danny Sullivan of Google confirmed on Twitter that core updates can sometimes impact both image [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google drops safe browsing as a page experience ranking signal Google updated the page experience report in Search Console. - Search Engine Land
Two New Datasets for Conversational NLP: TimeDial and Disfl-QA Posted by Aditya Gupta, Software Engineer and Shyam Upadhyay, Research Scientist, Google Assistant [...] - Google Research
Do You Want To Learn SEO Street Pole Sign - Search Engine Roundtable
A new way to approach your PPC personas: Learning from the sales process to limit waste and accelerate ROI By splitting your personas into buyer types, you'll have more targeted messaging and higher [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 4, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Advertising Target Impression Share Bidding & More Microsoft Advertising this week announced in its August roundup it launched Target impression share [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Think Retail on Air is Tuesday, August 31 at 10 a.m. PDT It’s time to get ready for the holiday season! This year, we expect shoppers to continue [...] - Inside Adwords
Simplifying the Page Experience report Today we’re launching a new version of the Search Console Page Experience report. The new [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Meet Make Every feature Binary: Bing’s sparse neural network for improved search relevance MEB helps Bing get closer to search intent by understanding relationships beyond pure semantics. - Search Engine Land
Google Analytics Now Tracks Google News Showcase Discover Traffic It seems like Google Analytics is now showing some of Google Discover traffic, likely from the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Try To Use One Sitemap File For Google News Google's John Mueller recommended that when it comes to your Google News sitemap file, try to use [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 3 2021

Google: Coming Back In Search Is Faster Than Dropping Out In Search After Downtime John Mueller of Google said on Reddit the other day that generally speaking he has seen that it is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Poll: SEOs Split On How They Will Nofollow Sponsored Links Aleyda Solis posted a Twitter poll last week after Google published its suggestions around the link [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Website Downtime Shouldn’t Impact Search Rankings via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google’s John Mueller says a website going down temporarily likely won’t have a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bing Did You Know Box In Search Results Microsoft Bing has a box and section in its search results named "did you know." It seems [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Why Is There No Discover Data In Google Search Console API? There Is No Query. The Google Search Console Performance report API does not include Google Discover data. We've [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 3, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: If You Remove A Part Of Your Site, The Site Will Rank Differently Here is one of those classic John Mueller responses, where the Googler said "So, asked [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 2 2021

Google Removes The Rich Result Type From The Performance Reports Google has removed the generic rich result type from the Google Search Console performance reports [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Editor v1.7 brings support for Hotel ads and lead form extensions The update also enables advertisers to download specific parts of their campaigns to work on [...] - Search Engine Land
The future of gaming and streaming: a networking and SEO arsenal Highlights of the gaming industry's challenges, the lack of SEO and internet marketing utilization, [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google: You May Get Some Ranking Benefit If Someone Steals Your Original Images Gary Illyes of Google was asked if someone steals your original image, makes no changes to it, and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google math solver guidelines require accuracy Google has added a number of technical and content quality guidelines to math solver markup. - Search Engine Land
Google Merchant Center Will Enforce Accurate Manufacturer Part Numbers (MPN) Google announced that it will begin enforcing that Google Merchant Center merchants use [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Bing Search Let's Chat Feature Microsoft Bing seems to be testing a new chat feature in its search results. Sunny Ujjawal posted [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 2, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #131: Udit Mhatre On AI & Dark Patterns SEO In part one of my interview with Udit Mhatre, the Senior SEO Manager at DuMont Project... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google at ACL 2021 Posted by Catherine Armato, Research Programs Specialist This week, the 59th annual meeting of [...] - Google Research
Google Adds New Guidelines To Math Solver Markup Help Documentation Google has added technical, content, and quality guidelines to the Math solver guidelines help [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
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August, 1 2021

Google’s New Technology Helps Create Powerful Ranking-Algorithms via @sejournal, @martinibuster New version of Keras-based TF-Ranking may explain recent pace of Google updates. Allows rapid [...] - Search Engine Journal