Archive of September, 2021

September, 30 2021

Google: Directory, Article Submission & Bookmarking Links Are Against The Webmaster Guidelines Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that directory submissions, article submissions and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
“Google” is Bing’s Top Keyword via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern "Google" is reportedly the top query in competitive search engine Bing, according to a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Efficient Partitioning of Road Networks Posted by Ali Kemal Sinop, Senior Research Scientist, Google Research and Mahmuda Ahmed, Senior [...] - Google Research
Google Ads launches new budget report The report shows daily spend, monthly spending limit, monthly spend forecast, cost to date and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search On: MUM, Things To Know, Shoppable, About This Result & More Google had a slew of Google Search related announcements at the Google Search On 2021 event. The [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google unveils multimodal search, new SERP features; Thursday’s daily brief Plus, the case for zero-party data as we approach the end of third-party cookies. - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console products enhancements report gains more granular errors Starting September 29th, you may see changes in your products rich results enhancements report in [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Answers if Links or Content Determine E-A-T Scores via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller speaks frankly on the topic of using E-A-T as an SEO or technical factor - Search Engine Journal

September, 29 2021

Google Announces Search Redesign Using MUM Algorithm via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google announced a redesign of Google Search that introduces an intuitive way to explore topics and [...] - Search Engine Journal
How AI is making information more useful Today, there’s more information accessible at people’s fingertips than at any point in [...] - Inside Adwords
New ways to find shopping inspiration on Google Shopping online is as much about inspiration and discovery as it is about the final purchase. [...] - Inside Adwords
New ways to find shopping inspiration on Google Shopping online is as much about inspiration and discovery as it is about the final purchase. [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Publishes Best Practices Guide for Ecommerce via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google published an advanced SEO guide featuring best practices for a successful ecommerce online [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google MUM is Coming to Lens via @sejournal, @martinibuster Widescale introduction of Google's MUM AI Algorithm is an encouraging development for web [...] - Search Engine Journal
Can Chrome-Based Spammers Impact Core Web Vitals? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Is it possible that Chrome-based spam traffic can have a negative impact on Core Web Vitals? - Search Engine Journal
Google Helps You Validate Sources Directly in Search Results via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Updates to Google Search will help you determine if a website is a trustworthy source of [...] - Search Engine Journal
MUM brings multimodal search to Lens, deeper understanding of videos and new SERP features At Google’s Search On event, the company previewed ways its MUM technology may change how [...] - Search Engine Land
Google search gets larger images, enhances ‘About this result,’ gets more ‘shoppable’ and more While MUM was the highlight of the Google Search On event, more search changes were announced [...] - Search Engine Land
Google's Query Interpretation May Shift Over Time As Searcher Intents Change John Shehata, the global VP at Conde Nast, asked a super interesting question about how Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
These Are The Ranking Factors SEOs Want Google To Turn Up Remco Tensen asked on Twitter which dials would you want to turn in the Google search ranking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
G Area Web Logo At Google Boulder - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 28 2021

Google Can’t See Content Behind Captchas via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google says websites can run into problems if they hide content behind captchas, as its web crawler [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: URLs Are Case Sensitive via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's John Mueller clarifies that URLs are case sensitive, so it matters whether the characters [...] - Search Engine Journal
Ecommerce SEO guide: New documentation from Google The new guide from Google gives ecommerce SEOs documentation to show their clients and stakeholders [...] - Search Engine Land
New Google Help Docs: Best Practices For Ecommerce In Google Search Google has added a multipage set of new help documentation around e-commerce best practices for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Data-driven attribution to become the default in Google Ads; Tuesday’s daily brief And, should robots.txt support a feature for no indexation? Take the survey. - Search Engine Land
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Google Ads Moves From Last Click To Data Driven Attribution (DDA) For Conversion Actions Google announced yesterday that Google Ads is moving away from last-click. Instead the data-driven [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 28, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Adds Latino-Owned Attribute Google has added a new business attribute to the Google My Business console. You can now specify if [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Pack Header Can Show Brands Over Keyword Search Colan Nielsen noticed the other day that for some local keyword searches, Google will change the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 27 2021

The future of attribution is data-driven In the face of a changing privacy landscape, marketers need new measurement approaches that meet [...] - Inside Adwords
How to Know Core Web Vitals Affects Your Search Rankings via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller shares how to know if the Page Experience Update is affecting website search [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Has Moved Away From 200 Ranking Signals Number via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller stated that the 200 ranking signal number is misleading in the sense that [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads announces machine learning-based data-driven attribution models in new privacy landscape In the wake of losing data to FLoC, Google's new DDA solution seems to offer more attribution [...] - Search Engine Land
Should robots.txt support a feature for no indexation? Take the survey "I'd like to avoid adding more directives. I'm still not aware of common issues caused by this [...] - Search Engine Land
Sergey Brin In Google's First Data Center 23 Years Ago - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #139: Charley Spektor On Important Of Link Building For Home Depot Charley Spektor is the co-founder of Saratoga B2B Group and has a very deep and rich career in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Programming Note: Offline For Simchat Torah I will be offline completely for the holiday of Simchas Torah on September 28th and September 29th, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Big Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update On September 24th and 25th? Once again, there may have been yet another Google search ranking algorithm update this past [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads announces machine learning-based attribution models in new privacy landscape Google seeks to balance greater privacy for users with viable attribution models for advertisers. - Marketing Land
Rewritten Queries and User-Specific Knowledge Graphs Rewritten Queries On Search Engines Using Mobile Devices People write queries for search engines to [...] - SEO by the Sea
Google: Best To Not Have Sponsored Products In Category Pages Indexed I asked John Mueller of Google about category pages that contain sponsored products. Does Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Seller Rating Product Star Reviews Box Interface Brodie Clark spotted another Google Search user interface test where the product reviews stars and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: 200+ Ranking Signals Figure Is Misleading Google's John Mueller said that Google is trying to move away from the over 200 ranking signal [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: URL Length Is A Very Light Signal For Canonicalization Earlier we reported that Google does not use URL length as a ranking factor. While that may be [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's 23rd Birthday Logo - Happy Birthday Google Today is Google's officially birthday, it's 23rd birthday. Oh boy are we all getting old. :) The [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 25 2021

Google Working on Indexing Instagram & TikTok Videos via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google is negotiating deals with Instagram and TikTok to index their content in search results, [...] - Search Engine Journal

September, 24 2021

Google on Using Duplicate Manufacturer Product Descriptions via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller offered encouraging feedback on ranking eCommerce sites that use manufacturer [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Extra Content Not Always Needed For Category Pages via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google advises that it’s not always necessary to add extra content to product category pages [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Update 9/16, Google Search Console Bugs, Google Ads Keyword Matching & More This weekend we had yet another Google search ranking algorithm update that went unconfirmed. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Product Experts Android Toy - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Image Search Upgrade With V3 Of Aesthetic Model Microsoft announced on the Bing blog that it has made some serious improvements to Bing Image [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 24, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Confirmed Google Ads Outage Causing Billing Confusion Google confirmed there was an "account outage issue" that resulted in some ads to stop [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Phrase & Broad Match Keyword Preferability & BERT There is a ton to pack into Google Ads announcement that they named "matching the most [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Adds Booking Links & More Information For Points Of Interest Google announced it is rolling out new booking links and information for points of interest. Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 23 2021

PageSpeed Insights Updates to Lighthouse 8.4 – Helps Improve LCP via @sejournal, @martinibuster PageSpeed Insights updates to Lighthouse 8.4. A new audit diagnoses a widespread Largest Contentful [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Referral Traffic Doesn’t Increase Link Equity via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern When Google evaluates how much weight to assign to backlinks it doesn’t consider factors such [...] - Search Engine Journal
High-Quality, Robust and Responsible Direct Speech-to-Speech Translation Posted by Ye Jia and Michelle Tadmor Ramanovich, Software Engineers, Google Research [...] - Google Research
Google Ads: Phrase and broad match keywords that are identical to a query are now preferred Google has also provided new details for when searches are identical to a given keyword as well as [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Now Allows Sale Of At-Home COVID-19 Test Kits Google has updated its coronavirus disease (COVID-19) policy to now allow the sale both in paid ads [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console performance reports are now back to normal We are now seeing reporting as early as four hours ago! - Search Engine Land
Google: We Licenses The Automobile Data In Search, It Does Not Come From The Web Earlier this week, we reported that the automobile industry is upset that Google is showing richer [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google rolls out new products for travel and leisure businesses; Thursday’s daily brief Plus, Facebook is sorry, not sorry, and Roku’s new app for Shopify merchants. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 23, 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 Advertiser Pages Google announced new advertiser pages that can be accessed under the about this ad button in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Performance Report Should Catch Up Later Today While I was offline, Google had a super long delay and a bunch of issues with Google Search Console [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 22 2021

Google’s Apps Work Different on iOS 15 via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Many of Google’s key apps work slightly different on Apple’s iOS 15. These are the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Giving users more transparency into their Google ad experience Today, people engage with a wider variety of ad formats on more Google products than ever before [...] - Inside Adwords
You Can Get A Google Penalty For Bad Links In FAQ Schema A while back an SEO asked John Mueller of Google if "linking to an external site from the FAQ [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google rolls out ticket booking links, ‘Things to do’ ads and an eco-certified badge for hotels Google’s new travel and leisure products are meant to help businesses bounce back after over [...] - Search Engine Land
Helping travelers discover new things to do While travel restrictions continue to vary across the globe, people are still dreaming of places to [...] - Inside Adwords
Staying virtual; Wednesday’s daily brief Plus, how to set up Google Analytics 4 using Google Tag Manager. - Search Engine Land
Magic in the making: The 4 pillars of great creative Consumers report that helpfulness is their top expectation of brands since the start of the [...] - Inside Adwords
Google: It's Not Terrible To Have Related Links Dynamically Change All The Time You often see on product pages or even blog posts, a section for related products or related [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 22, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
When Your Google Rankings Is Not Impacted By Changing Website Themes The other week we covered how Google's John Mueller said that changing your website theme or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Street Mural Painting Near The Google Chicago Office - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 21 2021

Announcing WIT: A Wikipedia-Based Image-Text Dataset Posted by Krishna Srinivasan, Software Engineer and Karthik Raman, Research Scientist, Google [...] - Google Research
SEOs experiencing delays in data on Search Console performance reports If you're missing data, make sure to inform your clients and update your reporting to reflect the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Self-Referential Canonicals Help Clean Up Small SEO Mistakes Google's John Mueller said that using self-referential canonicals is a good way to clean up small [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Firefox Testing Bing As Default Search Engine Mozilla, the company behind the Firefox browser, is testing setting the default search engine to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
iOS 15 is out, but marketers can shake off the loss of email open rates This is not a channel-ending event for email, Tactically, opens fueled automations and inferring [...] - Marketing Land
How BIMI will boost brand recognition, email engagement Validity Email Strategist Danielle Gallant discusses the importance of BIMI in brand recognition [...] - Marketing Land
Google: You Don't Need Reviews To Use Product Schema For Product Rich Results Google's John Mueller confirmed that even if you do not have reviews on your product landing pages, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Roku announces Shopify app Door opens for SMBs to execute TV ads ahead of holidays. - Marketing Land
Get your fall campaigns ready with MarTech’s Email Marketing Periodic Table Everything you need to know about sending emails that your customers want to receive and that [...] - Marketing Land
SEO Work Colleagues Birthday Balloons Written With "JohnMu Loves You" - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 21, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 20 2021

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Google's New Automobile Search Features Upset The Automobile Retail Industry Google seems to have rolled out new automobile search features that show more details [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Possible Google Algorithm Update On September 16th & 17th We may have had another Google search ranking algorithm update this past Thursday and Friday - over [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google provides some reasons why it won’t use your HTML title tags; Monday’s daily brief Plus, Instagram tests ‘Map Search’ and last-minute holiday shopping SEO tips. - Search Engine Land
Google: Don't Remove Old News From Your News Site For SEO Reasons Google's John Mueller said he would not recommend that you remove old content or old news from your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google On Importance Of Bylines For Trust On Articles Lily Ray asked John Mueller of Google what does one do if the author of a piece of content does not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #138: Dan Shure On Featured Snippets & Buying Sites For SEO In part one, Dan Shure and I spoke about Google core update and in part two we spoke about using [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Programming Note: Offline For Sukkot This is just a quick note that I will be offline for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot on Tuesday [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How Serial 1 eBikes leveraged visual intelligence to increase website conversions Premium eBicycle manufacturer Serial 1 used Vizit to optimize their digital assets and boost [...] - Marketing Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 20, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Oracle Fusion Marketing reduces the role of traditional CRMs The new product aims to automate lead generation and scoring and put qualified opportunities into [...] - Marketing Land

September, 17 2021

Why Does Google Replace Page Titles? via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google reveals new information about the page title update and explains why it replaces some titles [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google explains why it made the title change to the search results Google said it went from using your HTML title tag 80% of the time to 87% of the time in the past [...] - Search Engine Land
More information on how Google generates titles for web page results Last month, we shared about our new system for generating titles for web page results. Thanks to [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google: We Now Use Titles 80% Of The Time vs 87% & Here Is Why I've been asking Google for a month now how big of a change was the title change - where did it go [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Mozilla tests Bing as the default search engine for 1% of users Many SEOs often forego Bing optimization in favor of its higher traffic counterpart, but this is [...] - Search Engine Land
SEO testing for continuous improvement; Friday’s daily brief Plus why you should pause your ads (for science) - Search Engine Land
Google: We Don't Do Anything Special For All -Caps Headings Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that he doesn't think that Google does "anything special [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Intrusive Interstitials Don't Impact Indexing But Can Impact Ranking Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that mobile intrusive interstitial elements won't generally [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Yes, The Google Sitemap Ping Tool Still Works Google's John Mueller was asked on Twitter if the sitemap ping tool still works or not. John said [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Accessibility Site Changes Aren't Against Our Webmaster Guidelines Google's John Mueller made it sound like making site changes in the spirit of accessibility won't [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How testing can give your email marketing a conversions boost Holistic Email Marketing CEO Kath Pay shares tactics for getting the most from “the original [...] - Marketing Land
Acrobats At Google Kirkland, Seattle - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 16 2021

Google: Changing WordPress Themes Can Impact Rankings Google's John Mueller said in one of his #AskGooglebot short video answers that changing your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to test your content site strategy for continued improvement Forecasting, documenting and analyzing your content initiatives can help grow your brand’s [...] - Search Engine Land
Toward Fast and Accurate Neural Networks for Image Recognition Posted by Mingxing Tan and Zihang Dai, Research Scientists, Google Research As neural network [...] - Google Research
Google Maps Local Listing Overlay Image Carousel When you go to Google Maps on desktop and place your cursor over a business listing, Google will [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Survey Via Notification We've seen Google ask searchers if they were or are happy with the search results. But I've never [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Hotel Search Results Drops Visit Website Button Google has dropped the "website" button in the Google hotel search listings. Previously, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 16, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Aims To Make Search Help Documentation Clearer & Direct Google's John Mueller said that the search company has been working towards providing more [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 15 2021

Website Themes Impact SEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller says that website themes impact SEO. Site design and SEO experts share what [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads will combine Smart and standard Display campaigns The new Display campaign type will have the same controls that standard Display campaigns currently [...] - Search Engine Land
The Future SEO: Boardroom edition Thoughts of an SEO pioneer on where SEO is headed in the not-too-distant future - Search Engine Watch
Display campaigns made easy Helping you connect with customers is core to the Google Ads mission, and we're always working to [...] - Inside Adwords
Google: We Do Not Differentiate Between Category, Filter, Tag Or Search Pages Google's John Mueller said in a video hangout that Google Search does not specifically [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Revisiting Mask-Head Architectures for Novel Class Instance Segmentation Posted by Vighnesh Birodkar, Research Software Engineer and Jonathan Huang, Research Scientist, [...] - Google Research
Google Crawl Rate Setting Takes A Day To Work Google's John Mueller said on Reddit that if you want to slow Google from crawling your site (or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Advocate Team Meets Outside - Search Engine Roundtable
Why SEO right now? Take the opportunities presented by this particular moment in time to drive towards a bigger and [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Search Compact View Microsoft is testing a new "compact view" in the Bing search results interface. It is a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Programming Note: Offline Thursday For Yom Kippur 5782 This is just a programming note that I will be 100% offline starting Wednesday night (September [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Weird Google Search Pagination Bug If you search for [bbc news] and some other queries on Google Search you might run into a weird bug [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 14 2021

We Analyzed 88 Google Ranking Factors & Here’s What We Found [Ebook] via @sejournal, @MrDannyGoodwin Have you ever wondered what is and isn’t a ranking factor? This guide determines whether [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Smart Internal Linking Can Help Google Trust Your Site More I found it super interesting to listen to a dialog between a new German startup and Google's John [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google to enforce unique product identifiers on free merchant listings Starting on September 15, 2021, Google said it will begin to enforce the requirement of products [...] - Search Engine Land
Exclusive agenda preview: What’s next in search marketing Your $199 virtual pass unlocks four new tracks programmed by the Search Engine Land experts, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Tests Larger Sitelinks Block Design Again Google is testing a larger sitelinks layout block design again. Google tested tons and tons of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's John Mueller Explains Passage Ranking In More Detail We've covered the topic of Google passage ranking with tons of articles over the past several [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Your communications shouldn’t feel like marketing; Tuesday’s daily brief And, California’s challenge to Amazon’s labor algorithms carries potential [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Fashion Store - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Ignore Mobile Usability Issue Notices If You Pass Live Test Google's John Mueller said that if your page passes the live mobile usability test - that means you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 14, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 13 2021

What’s Driving Google’s Title Tag Rewrites? via @sejournal, @martinibuster What Google recommends for title tags and if that influences why title tags are rewritten - Search Engine Journal
Do Prominent Lead Gen Forms Impact SEO? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller answered question regarding under which conditions prominent lead generation [...] - Search Engine Journal
Messy SEO Part 2: The importance of canonicalization How we began cleaning up canonical tags after the MarTech site consolidation migration. - Search Engine Land
Google: content-visibility CSS Won't Impact Google Search Google's John Mueller said that he does not believe that the new content-visibility CSS that modern [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Long Volatile Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update: 9/9 - 9/12 Starting Thursday, September 9, 2021 and going on through even today, September 13th, there has [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Site Quality Is Not About The Pages Missing From The Google Index Google's John Mueller explained that you really need to look at your site as a whole when [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Music Conditioned 3D Dance Generation with AIST++ Posted by Shan Yang, Software Engineer and Angjoo Kanazawa, Research Scientist, Google Research [...] - Google Research
Google Embedding Links In Featured Snippets Again It looks like Google is testing embedding links in featured snippets again. It is hard to find [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 13, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #137: Dan Sure On Using Buy Guides For SEO In part one with Dan Shure we followed up on his previous advice around Google core updates and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Lead Gen Forms Or CTAs Can Sometimes Be Seen As Ads When... Google's John Mueller said that sometimes Google can treat a large lead generation form or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 10 2021

How to drive the funnel through content marketing and link building “It isn't so much about what you want to tell your audience, it’s what you understand [...] - Search Engine Land
Advertisers will now get more data in Google Ads… sort of; Friday’s daily brief Plus, the conundrum of in-house career progression - Search Engine Land
Google My Business Removes Site Manager User Role Google has now removed the site manager role or user rights level for Google My Business users. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Second annual Search Engine Land Award for Advancing Diversity and Inclusion in Search Marketing: Nominations open We're elated to announce that this year’s awards will include a guest judge, last [...] - Search Engine Land
Access to Instant Indexing: Bing URL submission API Now gain access to instant indexing with 3 quick steps. Integrate with Bing URL submission API and [...] - Bing Webmaster
Google Ads Search Terms Report Gains 6.5X More Query Data Google announced that the Google Ads search term report now has, on average, 6.5 times more query [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: JavaScript Verification Still The Way To Go For Sensitive Pages Back in 2008 Google's Susan Moskwa said that when it comes to showing content to search engines but [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Update 9/4, Bing Content Submission API, Recipe Rich Results & Google Ads Search Terms This past Saturday, September 4th, there may have been another Google search ranking update. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 10, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 9 2021

Incorrect business listings deter 63% of consumers; Thursday’s daily brief Plus, the Google News app will show non-AMP content and Microsoft Advertising announces [...] - Search Engine Land
Google search terms report adds historical query data for impressions without clicks And, on February 1, 2022, Google Ads will be removing historical query data (collected before [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: If You Want To Rank For Those Queries Don't Syndicate Or Republish Content Google's John Mueller said sometimes syndicating or republishing content makes sense but it never [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Website Quality Can't Be Fixed With Technical Changes Google's John Mueller said again that you cannot fix your overall website quality by making some [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google PSA: Have Dedicated Pages For Seasonal Sales Events John Mueller from Google posted a reminder or PSA on Twitter this morning saying "having a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Furry Google Logo GIF - Search Engine Roundtable
Personalized ASR Models from a Large and Diverse Disordered Speech Dataset Posted by Katrin Tomanek, Software Engineer and Bob MacDonald, Technical Program Manager, Google [...] - Google Research
Google: Image Uniqueness Isn't Equivalent To Higher Quality Google's John Mueller said recently on Twitter that when it comes to images, images being unique [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Start - The Bing Version Of Google Discover Microsoft announced Microsoft Start, which looks and feels a lot like its own version of Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 8 2021

Google Lighthouse 8.3.0 Update via @sejournal, @martinibuster Update affects PageSpeed Insights, SEO description emphasizes CWV over SEO and introduces Project [...] - Search Engine Journal
New pilots from Microsoft Ads and the secret to happiness at work; Wednesday’s daily brief Plus, B2B tech finally sees the SEO light - Search Engine Land
Google News app will display non-AMP content and send readers to publisher pages Tracking and performance reports in Google Search Console won’t be affected. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 8, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google NYC Catering Staff Back To Work? - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: URL Parameters Don't Make Links Unnatural Google's John Mueller had to say that links that have UTM parameters, or tracking parameter, added [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Content Exclusions Do Not Hurt Organic Search Rankings Google Ads has a boatload of policies, like you'd imagine, and some of those policies are around [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 7 2021

Google May Automate The Removal Of Recipe Rich Results For Listicles Google's John Mueller said in Friday's video that he reviewed a bunch of recipe related queries and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Still Uses Original Page Titles For Search Rankings via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's John Mueller confirms a webpage's original title will still be used for ranking purposes [...] - Search Engine Journal
The State of SEO 2021: Key Industry Survey Findings [Research] via @sejournal, @theshelleywalsh Search Engine Journal's first State of SEO Report will help guide your SEO strategy into 2022 with [...] - Search Engine Journal
Now you can speed up your site indexing in Bing; Tuesday’s daily brief Plus, Q&A about ETAs and RSAs - Search Engine Land
Google UK Office Construction - One Million Square Feet - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Avoid Using Knowledge Graph IDs For SameAs Property Google's John Mueller said technically you can use the knowledge graph ID URL for the URL in your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
You Can Add Google Posts Directly From Google Search Back in June Google said you will be able to add Google Posts directly from the Google search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 7, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Your personal brand: Marketoon of the Week What's the right way to use LinkedIn? - Marketing Land

September, 6 2021

Google News Q&A Tips With Danny Sullivan The other day, I posted on Twitter a video from the inaugural Google News Initiative Community News [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Don't Put Too Much Content On Category Pages Google's John Mueller was once again asked about how much content should you put on your category [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Content Submission API Now Available To All Microsoft announced the company has opened up the Bing Content Submission API to all for site [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Programming Note: Rosh Hashanah 5782 - Happy & Healthy Jewish New Year This is a programming note that Tuesday and Wednesday is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Ranking Update On Saturday - September 4th (Tools Little Chatter) This weekend there may have been yet another Google Search algorithm ranking update. This one is a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Chicago Rooftop Yoga - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #136: Dan Sure Gives More On Google Core Updates This is the second time I interviewed Dan Shure, the first time was in vlog #20, where I went to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Email: Simplifying Content Management In Google News With news that the Google page experience update is pretty much done rolling out, with the one [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 6, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 4 2021

Why Web Pages Disappear from Search Console Reports via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller answers why the amount of web pages in various search console reports may [...] - Search Engine Journal

September, 3 2021

Google Shows How to Optimize for Beta Discover Follow via @sejournal, @martinibuster Get more traffic. Google published how to optimize a site to receive followers from the Discover [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Page Experience Update Fully Rolled Out – This is Why it Matters via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's Page Experience Update finished rolling out. These are the reasons why this update is [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Page Experience Update Fully Live In Search & Top Stories Google has announced yesterday afternoon that the Google page experience update is now done rolling [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing content submission API now available to all Now you can push your content and HTML directly to Bing Search without the need for crawling. - Search Engine Land
Why are in-house SEOs looking for new jobs?; Friday’s daily brief Plus, is pinning the solution to control RSAs? - Search Engine Land
Bing Content submission API is now open to all webmasters Bing Content Submission API is now open to all webmasters allowing websites to push their latest [...] - Bing Webmaster
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Sept 1 Google Search Update, Title Changes, Google Ads RSAs, Search Console Data Lost & More This week, I posted the monthly Google webmaster report - catch up there on search topics you may [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Changing IP Addresses A Non-Issue But Can Impact Crawl Rates Google's John Mueller said that when you change your sites IP address, maybe because you are moving [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Prerendering With GoogleBot You Don't Need All Your Site's Functionality To Work Martin Splitt from Google said it is not necessary to have all your site's functionality operate [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 3, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Quality Score Not Changing But Maybe Focus On Ad Strength With Google's plans to drop support for expanded text ads for responsive search ads, some paid [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 2 2021

Google page experience update is now rolled out The Google News app changes have about a week more to go. - Search Engine Land
Everything you need to know about the Google MUM update As new search experience dimensions open up for users this also cranks up competition between [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Adds Documentation On Chrome Follow Beta Feature Google had added a new section to the Google Discover help documents around markup you can use to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
What does crypto have to do with SEO and PPC?; Thursday’s daily brief Plus the latest PPC coverage from SMX Convert - Search Engine Land
Chrome Beta Can Display Competitors When Customers Are On Your Site Part of the latest version of the Chrome beta, not out to the masses yet, is a feature named [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Was There A Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update On September 1st? There are some signs of the start of a Google search ranking algorithm update that kicked off on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 1 2021

How to write ad copy that actually converts (and 3 major mistakes to avoid) When testing copy, make it worth testing. Use power words or emotional calls-to-action to really [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads To Drop Expanded Text Ads For Responsive Search Ads In 2022 Google announced yesterday that on June 30, 2022 it will drop support for expanded text ads for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Only Internal Feedback Link For Search Results Google employees have a special feature that allows them to submit feedback about Google products, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Detecting Abnormal Chest X-rays using Deep Learning Posted by Zaid Nabulsi, Software Engineer and Po-Hsuan Cameron Chen, Software Engineer, Google [...] - Google Research
Google Analytics Building Stairs Sign Looks Like The Google Analytics Logo? - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 1, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable