Archive of October, 2021

October, 31 2021

How to Fix Google Title Tag Rewrites via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller suggested steps to take to fix title tags so that Google stops rewriting them - Search Engine Journal
Title Tags are a Tiny Ranking Factor via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller explains the status of title tags as a ranking factor and whether company [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Said The Penguin Algorithm May Not Just Ignore Links, It May Target Whole Site When Google released Penguin 4.0, Google said that update was about devaluing links, not demoting [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Logo Wishes You An imPECKable Halloween Google has a special Doodle, Google logo, on its home page today and last night for Halloween. The [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 30 2021

Do Google Lighthouse Scores Affect SEO? via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google Lighthouse is the top recommended tool for measuring Core Web Vitals and other performance [...] - Search Engine Journal

October, 29 2021

SEO and Temporarily Out-of-Stock Product Pages via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller shared four tips for dealing with pages for products that are temporarily out [...] - Search Engine Journal
Does URL Length Affect SEO? via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Does Google prefer shorter URLs over longer URLs? That's an SEO myth that won't go away. Here's [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Changes More Structured Data Requirements via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google updated the requirements for the HowTo, QAPage and SpecialAnnouncement structured data. The [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google removes 12 structured data fields from the help documents This may impact HowTo, QAPage and SpecialAnnouncement rich results and reporting. - Search Engine Land
Google introduces new ‘Deals’ features for the Shopping tab and Merchant Center The company is expanding areas in its search results where deals can appear and making it easier [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Removes Some HowTo, QAPage & SpecialAnnouncement From Help Documents Google has removed the following structured data fields from its Google Search help documentation. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google On How To Reduce Duplication By A Factor Of 10X I spotted an interesting comment from John Mueller of Google about URLs and reducing duplication. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: An Often Updated Sitemap Might Be A Good Idea Google's John Mueller told one webmaster that for his specific example, it might be a good idea for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Handled Facebook Name Change To Meta The big news yesterday was that Facebook announced its new company name - Meta. Yes, Facebook's [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 28 2021

Core Web Vitals Winner: WordPress, Drupal, Duda or Wix? via @sejournal, @martinibuster The Core Web Vitals Technology Report shows which web publishing platform offers the best Core Web [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Site Quality Can Cause Loss of Rich Results via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller explains that site quality can affect whether or not Google shows rich [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: We Don't Care About The Image For Web Search Google's John Mueller said that when it comes to web search, Google does not "look at the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Core Web Vitals: SEOs look back and shrug; Thursday’s daily brief Plus, retailers will lose half of sales on backordered items unless they compensate with [...] - Search Engine Land
Whether Google manipulated AMP or not, it’s a great time to reassess using it If the allegations from 17 state attorneys general are true, we’ll likely all ditch AMP. But [...] - Search Engine Land
Google reduces the unique product identifiers enforcement on free product listings Instead of removal from Google Search, your products may still show up but the performance will be [...] - Search Engine Land
GoEmotions: A Dataset for Fine-Grained Emotion Classification Posted by Dana Alon and Jeongwoo Ko, Software Engineers, Google Research Emotions are a key [...] - Google Research
Google Swanky Office - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 27 2021

Interpretation of complex and foreign topics; Wednesday’s daily brief Google app campaigns, podcast knowledge panels and more. - Search Engine Land
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update On October 26th There may have been a Google search ranking algorithm update on the smaller side on or around [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Earnings & Microsoft Bing Ads Earnings Both Up Over 40% Google and Microsoft both released earnings statements last night and both were impressive. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Continuous Scroll Does Has No Impact Search Console Reports As you know, Google is rolling out continuous scroll on mobile search. To be honest, in my [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
YouTube ads are the breakout star of Google’s Q3 earnings report While shoppers are returning to physical stores, the company’s also seeing 'strong growth in [...] - Search Engine Land
Core Web Vitals: SEOs aren’t sold the work was worth it But, UX remains crucial and Google has introduced Priority Hints to help site owners and browsers [...] - Search Engine Land
Respected American Journalists Ask If Google Search Is Now Significantly Worse A few respected American Journalists the other day asked on Twitter if you are noticing Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google makes it easier to remove images of kids from the search results This may come in handy if you work in online reputation management. - Search Engine Land
Google: We Do Not Keep Track Of Order Of Links On A Page Google's John Mueller said on Twitter "I don't think we keep track of order of links on a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 26 2021

10 News SEO Tips from The New York Times’ Christine Liang via @sejournal, @gregjarboe Christine Liang from The New York Times shares the latest tips and strategies for optimizing news [...] - Search Engine Journal
News SEO: Popular Topics, Hot Takes & Expert Tips via @sejournal, @mirandalmwrites Top takeaways and expert tips from news SEO experts at The New York Times, USA TODAY, WSJ, Google [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: We Won't Confuse Titles In SVG Images With Page Titles The other day I asked John Mueller on Twitter to confirm that Google can handle and not confuse the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Impressions Report and Continuous Scroll SERPs via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller assessed how Search Console Impressions Reports may change because of the new [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Says Non-AMP Page Throttling & Other AG Paxton's Claims Baseless First, please go read Google throttled non-AMP page speeds, created format to hamper header [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s Priority Hints Improves CWV via @sejournal, @martinibuster Experimental Chrome HTML attribute can speed up Core Web Vitals scores - Search Engine Journal
Makes you miss the ‘Don’t be evil’ days; Tuesday’s daily brief Plus, Facebook's aging user base and what it means for advertisers. - Search Engine Land
Google: Using Admin Or Author For Author Name On Articles Google's John Mueller was asked if using "admin" or "author" for the author [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console API Gains Discover & Google News Data With Regex Support Google added to the Search Console Search Analytics API Discover and Google News data that it added [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 25 2021

Google Offers a Definition of Quality Content via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller offered a definition of what quality content means that is surprisingly [...] - Search Engine Journal
Does Content or Links Improve Trust with Google? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller pops the bubble on the idea that trust factors or trust metrics are used by [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Doesn’t Care What’s In An Image via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google’s web search algorithm doesn’t care what’s in an image. All that matters [...] - Search Engine Journal
Search Analytics API now supports Discover, Google News, and Regex The Google Search Analytics API, which already provides data about Search performance, is being [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Deciding Which Tasks Should Train Together in Multi-Task Neural Networks Posted by Christopher Fifty, Research Engineer, Google Research, Brain Team Many machine learning [...] - Google Research
Google Search Console Search Analytics API gains Discover, News and Regex This data and the features were already in the web interface but now they are also available in the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google allegedly creates ad monopoly with Facebook to favor its own exchange according to new, unredacted details from Project Jedi There is potential that publishers and advertisers have been overpaying and missing out on [...] - Search Engine Land
App advertisers can now use App campaigns for engagement without implementing deep links The new option can cut down on developer support requests and takes users to the app homepage. - Search Engine Land
Google: We Don't Classify Sites By Technology Platform Or Infrastructure Google's John Mueller said that the search engine does not classify the type of site you are based [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Trust Is Not A Matter Of Just Links Pointing To A Site Google's John Mueller said that when it comes to Google trusting a website, "when it comes to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
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Google: We Don't Hard Code YMYL Categories Into Our Algorithm Google's John Mueller was asked if energy supply types of websites would fall into the YMYL, your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #143: Miriam Schwab On The Startup World In part two (part one over here) with Miriam Schwab is the co-founder and CEO of Strattic, a static [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Advertising Partners With Shopify & Google Ads Partners With BigCommerce Google and Microsoft announced new partnership deals on the ad side. Microsoft Advertising now [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads 3 Strike Bowling Automation For Removing Violating Ads Google, the other week, announced a new simple Python script that lets advertisers with many [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 24 2021

Google throttled AMP page speeds, created format to hamper header bidding, antitrust complaint claims Recently unredacted sections of the complaint paint a damning picture of Google's motivations that, [...] - Search Engine Land

October, 22 2021

Free AI Content Optimization Tool by MarketMuse via @sejournal, @martinibuster Free version of MarketMuse content optimization tool brings AI and Machine Learning technology to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Navigating Google’s title changes: The rollout, what’s happening now and what you can do about it SEOs share their experiences with Google’s new system for generating title links and what [...] - Search Engine Land
Poll: Which Search Engine Can Compete With Google? DuckDuckGo, Bing, Brave Or Neeva Brodie Clark posted a poll on Twitter that has about a thousand responses, asking "which [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to use PageRank for ecommerce websites Get a headstart to the holiday season with a comprehensive guide - Search Engine Watch
Google: Sometimes Black Hat SEO Works & You Don't Get Caught But... Google's John Mueller admitted on Twitter that sometimes black hat SEO and risky practices work and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Crowd Attributes For LGBTQ+ Friendly & Transgender Safespace Google My Business seems to have added a new business attribute named "crowd." In this, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Author Not A Direct Ranking Factor Google's John Mueller said a bit ago in a video hangout that the author of an article is not a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Asks How You'd Use More Exportable Data From Search Console Daniel Waisberg of Google asked on Twitter how would you use the data, if Google let you export [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 21 2021

BigCommerce merchants can now reach new customers across Google Since our earliest days, Google has been devoted to democratizing information and creating helpful [...] - Inside Adwords
How to fix the SEO issues that keep you from achieving your goals Effective SEO requires a holistic approach. JR Oakes deep-dives into his approach from his session [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: No SEO Benefit For Opening Links In Existing Or New Windows Google's John Mueller was asked if opening links in a new window versus the existing window (tab) [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google search results are more volatile this year than last year, says data provider Semrush data shows Google's search results have been over 68% more volatile on desktop and 85% more [...] - Search Engine Land
Google extends its shopping integrations to include BigCommerce Google now has integrations to show free product listings for GoDaddy, Shopify, Square, WooCommerce [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Buttons Are Not Links, Buttons Not Used For Crawling Purposes Google's John Mueller was asked if the button attribute is treated like a link attribute. The [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Practical Differentially Private Clustering Posted by Alisa Chang, Software Engineer, Google Cloud and Pritish Kamath, Research Scientist, [...] - Google Research
Bing Checks XML Sitemap File Daily Fabrice Canel from Microsoft said that Microsoft tries to check your site's XML Sitemap file one [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Larger Font In Mobile Search Bar Google is testing a larger font and larger search bar in the mobile search interface. This was [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 20 2021

Google Updates Search Quality Raters Guidelines On October 19th After over a year of not having an update on the Google Search Quality Raters Guidelines - Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
IndexNow Elicits Mixed Reactions Including Skepticism via @sejournal, @martinibuster Some in the search community feel IndexNow offers no value while others see it as the future of [...] - Search Engine Journal
How Google Analyzes Web Page Content and Weights It via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's Martin Splitt introduces the concept of Centerpiece Annotation and how different parts of [...] - Search Engine Journal
What Google’s Indexing Looks like From Discovery to Ranking via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's Martin Splitt explains Google's indexing process from discovery to ranking and where [...] - Search Engine Journal
The revised Google search quality guidelines are out; Wednesday’s daily brief Health insurance ad formats for Microsoft Advertising... - Search Engine Land
Google Analytics Bug Results In Unrecoverable Data Loss On October 18th Google Analytics had a bug that resulted in about an hour of lost data on October 18th. That data [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Semrush: Google Search Algorithm Updates Are More Extreme This Year Mordy Oberstein from Semrush came out with some data proving I am not insane or crazy, at least, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Different Intent Content On A Page Basis Can Confuse, Not Site Level Google's John Mueller said when it comes to confusing Google around having different intent of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
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October, 19 2021

5 New Google Quality Rater Guidelines Updates & Why They Matter via @sejournal, @lilyraynyc Google added 5 revisions to its Search Quality Raters Guidelines changelog. See what's new in YMYL [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google search quality guidelines update expand YMYL category, defines lowest quality content and more One year after later, Google has refreshed the search quality raters guidelines. - Search Engine Land
What’s next for YouTube, from Advertising Week New York The pandemic accelerated two changes already underway — the move to streaming, and the move [...] - Inside Adwords
IndexNow - Ping Some Search Engines With URLs For Instant Indexing Microsoft Bing and Yandex announced a new initiative named IndexNow that lets site owners ping [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Alerts Not Working, Here Are 3 Free Alternatives via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google Alerts is not working, the company advises. An issue has been identified that is in the [...] - Search Engine Journal
After 13 years, Frédéric Dubut, principal product manager, core search & AI, departs Microsoft Dubut’s contributions to the industry have furthered our understanding of both Bing and how [...] - Search Engine Land
Index when? IndexNow, say Bing and Yandex; Tuesday’s daily brief Plus, industry insights for technical SEOs and the brands that hire them, courtesy of Aira and [...] - Search Engine Land
10 reasons to attend SMX online Nov. 9-10 At SMX, you'll learn actionable tactics, expert advice, and trusted best practices that can help [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Centerpiece Annotation: Primary Content Of Page & Site Martin Splitt from Google explained the concept of centerpiece annotation, a term used in Google to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Survey Asks You If You Want Ad Free Search Results For Paid Subscription Can you imagine Google offering a monthly fee for using Google Search? Can you even imagine an [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google My Business Attributes Replaced Led With Owned Previously Google My Business had labeled the business attributes for women owned businesses as [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 18 2021

IndexNow is Key to Instant Search Engine Indexing via @sejournal, @martinibuster IndexNow is an evolutionary indexing protocol that can radically change the way content is indexed [...] - Search Engine Journal
IndexNow – new initiative by Microsoft and Yandex to push content to search engines Google seems to currently not be participating in this initiative. - Search Engine Land
IndexNow - Instantly Index your web content in Search Engines Announcing Indexnow a new protocol created by Microsoft Bing and Yandex, allowing websites to [...] - Bing Webmaster
Messy SEO Part 3: How to find cached images and improve user experience Anyone who’s worked with website moves and merges knows redirecting the old pages to the new [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Changes Review Structured Data Requirements via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google updated the review structured data requirements. Failure to conform to new requirements [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google May Be Rolling Out Things To Consider, Refine This Search & Broaden This Search Some SEOs are now seeing the Things To Consider, Refine This Search and Broaden This Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Possible Google Search Algorithm Ranking Update October 15th - October 18th I lead with I am sorry for yet reporting on another Google search ranking algorithm update - [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How Underspecification Presents Challenges for Machine Learning Posted by Alex D’Amour and Katherine Heller, Research Scientists, Google Research Machine [...] - Google Research
How infinite scroll will affect your ad metrics; Monday’s daily brief Plus, we’re all hackers now! - Search Engine Land
New Google Policy Prohibits False Claims That Undermine Democratic Process Google has posted a new policy in the merchant center help area that is "prohibiting offers [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Should Google Debug Indexing Issues With Site That Have AI Driven Content? Over the weekend a webmaster asked John Mueller of Google for assistance around why Google was not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 15 2021

How Google Responds to a Site Move via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller describes Google's internal process for dealing with a site domain migration - Search Engine Journal
Big Sites and Website Authority via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller answers question about big sites and "authority" - Search Engine Journal
Google Says Improve Content to Recover From Core Updates via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's John Mueller says work on improving your website's content, rather than implementing [...] - Search Engine Journal
What does Google’s infinite scroll on mobile mean for advertisers? Advertisers may see more mobile impressions and a lower CTR on Search, Shopping, and Local Ads. - Search Engine Land
The possibilities are infinite (or at least the mobile SERPs are); Friday’s daily brief Plus, how to build a marketing team that works - Search Engine Land
Google Rolling Out Continuous Scroll On Mobile Search Results Google announced yesterday that it is rolling out what they are calling "continuous [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SimVLM: Simple Visual Language Model Pre-training with Weak Supervision Posted by Zirui Wang, Student Researcher and Yuan Cao Research Scientist, Google Research, Brain [...] - Google Research
Google: Links From Reporting Tools Do Not Impact Rankings Do links from reporting tools, like similar sites checker and SEO report generation sites, impact [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Was There A Google Search Update This Week? Mixed Signals Maybe Triggered From UI Changes? Over the past few days the Google search tracking tools, some of them, showed huge spikes in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 14 2021

Google Mobile Search Updated With Continuous Scrolling via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google Search on mobile is getting updated with continuous scrolling, which will automatically [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google On Small Business SEO & How it’s Changing via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's John Mueller suggests the way small businesses do SEO is changing in a way that industry [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google rolling out continuous scroll on mobile This is gradually rolling out today for most English searches on mobile in the U.S. - Search Engine Land
Should the Product Name be in the Heading? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller discusses how to write headings for a product page - Search Engine Journal
Google on Separating Content By User Intent via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google explains what it means when it suggests separating content by user intent, such as one place [...] - Search Engine Journal
Baselines for Uncertainty and Robustness in Deep Learning Posted by Zachary Nado, Research Engineer and Dustin Tran, Research Scientist, Google Research, [...] - Google Research
Google My Business App Gains Edit Welcome Message & Shows Messages Response Time Google My Business seems to have added to messaging features to the mobile app. The first is the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Podcast knowledge panels go live in Google Search Many podcasters are noticing that searching for their podcast show's name shows a new knowledge [...] - Search Engine Land
Search results, but without the search results page; Thursday’s daily brief Plus, leaked documents suggest Amazon is abusing its position in India. - Search Engine Land
Google Rolling Out New Knowledge Panel Design With Buttons At Top After months of testing, it seems Google is now rolling out the new design for the knowledge panels [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Podcasts Google Knowledge Panels Go Live Looks like Google has pushed out knowledge panels for podcasts the other day. Many SEOs are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 13 2021

Google’s New Best Practices For Writing Page Titles via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google published updated best practices for writing page titles, which includes tips on how to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Explains Why Index Coverage Report is Slow via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google clarified the limits of the Index Coverage Report in order to explain why it seemingly [...] - Search Engine Journal
What is with Google Search updating all the time?; Wednesday’s daily brief Google vet known for his stylish shirts and more to join Stanford’s Human-Centered AI [...] - Search Engine Land
How to get buy-in from the C-suite SEO maven Kevin Indig helps fellow SEOs and search marketers successfully navigate the pitch and [...] - Search Engine Watch
Neeva’s ‘FastTap Search’ feature presents direct links instead of a results page FastTap Search is a reimagining of the search results that’s only possible because Neeva [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Rich Results Errors For Job Postings May Increase Due To Evaluation Change Google posted that starting on October 18, 2021 that the job posting rich results report may show a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
An ML-based Framework for COVID-19 Epidemiology Posted by Joel Shor, Software Engineer, Google Research and Sercan Arik, Research Scientist, Google [...] - Google Research
Google Does Not Rank Popular WordPress Themes Lower Google's John Mueller was asked if using WordPress themes that are used on many websites can have a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 12 2021

NerdWallet blames Google ranking issues in S-1 filing This shows the importance of traffic diversification for both small and large companies. - Search Engine Land
Google: Basic SEO Does Not Mean Easy SEO John Mueller of Google posted a set of posts on Twitter the other day that deserve to be [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
On-Page SEO Guide: Strategy, Trends & Expert Advice [Ebook] via @sejournal, @MrDannyGoodwin Get expert advice on planning and implementing a successful on-page SEO strategy to drive more [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Explains Rendering and Impact on SEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's Martin Splitt explains rendering and how it impacts SEO - Search Engine Journal
Peter Norvig is stepping back from Google after 20 years He is joining Stanford's Human-Centered AI Institute as a Distinguished Education Fellow. - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console Tools Start To Match URL Inspection Tool Google has updated three of its public facing Search Console tools to match and "align" [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console’s public-facing tools to match URL Inspection tool; Tuesday’s daily brief Plus, Microsoft adds some nifty features to its Smart Page site builder. - Search Engine Land
3 tips for winning with real-time, inventory-driven ads Automating search ads is the secret to success against supply chain challenges, rising shipping [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Displaying Two Local Screened Ads & Scrollable Local Reviews Ben Fisher spotted Google showing not just one local based screened ad but two screened ads in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 11 2021

Google Responds To Crawled, Not Indexed Errors Saying It Is Just A Delay Remember we reported that Google is investigating the reports around SEOs noticing a spike in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Aligning Search Console testing tools and the URL Inspection tool We’re making changes in the AMP, Mobile Friendly, and Rich Results testing tools to be fully [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Tests Short Videos On Desktop Results Google Search is now testing displaying the short videos we spotted on mobile almost a year ago, on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console testing tools to match URL Inspection tool The AMP, Mobile Friendly, and Rich Results testing tools will "align" with the URL [...] - Search Engine Land
Yet Another Google Weekend Search Ranking Algorithm Update... At some point, I should just report when there is not a Google search ranking update on the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: SEO Is All About Not Requiring Search Engines To Read Your Mind John Mueller of Google had a nice one liner that I thought would be useful to highlight here. He [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s new policy means it literally won’t pay to deny climate change; Monday’s daily brief Plus, why basic questions about search marketing never go out of style. - Search Engine Land
Google Tests Query Based Google Suggest Footers It looks like Google is testing in the Google Suggest autocompletion a dynamic query based footer. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Meet the search marketing experts you’ll train with at SMX Don’t miss your final chance to attend two days of tactic-rich SMX training in 2021. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 11, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google at ICCV 2021 Posted by Cat Armato, Program Manager, Google Research The International Conference on Computer [...] - Google Research
Photos: NYC Googlers Returning To Office - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 8 2021

Google on Product Price As a Ranking Factor via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's John Mueller discusses product price as a ranking factor and explains whether it can [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google publishes new help documents on controlling titles and descriptions in search Plus, Google has introduced a new term, "title link," for the title of a search result on [...] - Search Engine Land
Google To Ban Climate Change Deniers Advertisers & Publishers Google announced that starting on December 6, 2021 it will ban and prohibit climate change deniers [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Why Search Console and Analytics Differ in Discover Reporting via @sejournal, @martinibuster John Mueller explains why there is a discrepancy between Google Analytics and Search Console [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google is Developing ‘Big Moments’ Feature For Breaking News via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google is reportedly developing a new search feature called "Big Moments" to highlight [...] - Search Engine Journal
Possible Google Search Ranking Update On October 6th & 7th There were some signs of a possible Google search ranking algorithm update that touched down on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Something is off with this morning’s newsletter; Friday’s daily brief Google Search Console beefs up rich results errors. - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console Core Web Vitals Report Adds Granular Scores In May 2020, Google added a core web vitals report (to replace the speed report) in Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 8, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Facebook’s failure highlights why email reigns How email marketers seized the chance to capitalize on the Facebook/Instagram outage. - Marketing Land
Google AdSense To Move To First-Price Auction - Expect No Impact Google announced that by the end of the year, Google will move AdSense from second-price to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 7 2021

Google Halloween Search Trends For 2021 via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google shares data about the top trending Halloween-related searches this year, such as most [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google takes stand against climate change deniers with new ads and monetization policy Advertisers, AdSense publishers and YouTube creators will be prohibited from running ads or [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console Rich Results Status Reports Gets More Actionable Errors Google has added some detail to the Search Console rich results status report errors. These new [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Rolls Out New Eco-Friendly Search Filters via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern New filters in Google Search can help users find the most eco-friendly options when it comes to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google AdSense moves to a first-price auction model By the end of the year, advertisers can expect to pay the full amount of their bid instead of the [...] - Search Engine Land
AMP links in Google Search break with iOS 15 This bug should be resolved soon according to a Google spokesperson. - Search Engine Land
Google tackles pollution and competitors with Maps updates; Thursday’s daily brief Plus, the hallmarks of bad content marketing. - Search Engine Land
Built on GA4, Google announces the new Analytics 360 New features include the ability to create product line sub-properties, custom user roles and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Local Pack Offer Label Attribute Google is testing a new icon or label attribute in the local pack for "offers." The icon [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Vertical Line Sitelinks Google is testing yet another format for its Sitelinks for both the organic search results and the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Boston Office Work View - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 6 2021

Google on Using CSS to Hide Internal Links via @sejournal, @martinibuster John Mueller points out the larger SEO problem inherent in using CSS to hide internal links - Search Engine Journal
Google Hints It Will Penalize Interlinked Link Schemes? Google's John Mueller posted a cryptic tweets this morning with a dark photo with the date, October [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console adds new rich results status reports errors Here are some details for the rich result reports from Google to help you perform better in the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Tests Five Results In The Local Pack - A 5 Pack Google is possibly testing the local pack in a five pack form, with five local results. The local [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Search Refinements In Autocomplete Google is testing placing those search refinement bubbles directly in the Google suggest [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
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October, 5 2021

Outbound Links to Authority Sites Good For SEO? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller discusses the practice of linking out to authoritative sites for SEO purposes - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads Keyword Planner Tool With Trending Data Google is testing showing trending keyword data on the keyword planner tool. You can see from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Analytics 4 updates include data-driven attribution, machine learning models to fill in measurement gaps and a Search Console integration Google hasn’t said when it will deprecate Universal Analytics, but the updates and language [...] - Search Engine Land
We asked, you answered: Should Google add noindex support to robots.txt? Poll results In total, 84% of the 87 respondents said “yes,” they would like this feature. - Search Engine Land
How Google Search Handled The Facebook Outage Yesterday, as everyone knows, Facebook was offline for several hours, leading to huge financial [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
October 2021 Google Webmaster Report This month, we had the big Google Search On event where Google touted how it will be using MUM in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads With Larger Sitelinks Block Design Also A few weeks ago we reported that Google was testing a new layout and design for Sitelinks. The [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Bans High Fat Sugar Salt Food & Beverage Targeting Minors In UK & EU Google Merchant Center posted a new policy that prohibits advertising and promoting High Fat Sugar [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 4 2021

FedJAX: Federated Learning Simulation with JAX Posted by Jae Hun Ro, Software Engineer and Ananda Theertha Suresh, Research Scientist, Google [...] - Google Research
Huge Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update On October 2nd & 3rd I know I sound like a broken record but yet again, we have another unconfirmed Google search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google MUM Algorithm Can Do More than Rank Websites via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller said that the MUM algorithm can be applied to many parts of search, beyond [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Tests Feature to Help Users Click from Websites to Competitors via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google announced an experimental Chrome feature makes it easy to access search results without [...] - Search Engine Journal
Comin’ out of my cage, and I’ve been doing just fine; Monday’s daily brief Gotta, gotta be down because I want it all - Search Engine Land
Winning search marketing teams attend SMX Attend SMX online, November 9-10, to unify your teams… and unlock up to 20% off registration [...] - Search Engine Land
A shoppable TV screen with YouTube Whether kicking back with a movie or kicking their fitness routine into gear, more people are [...] - Inside Adwords
What marketers can do next time a major social network goes down Today's Facebook and Instagram outage is on track to be the longest ever. But there's a lot that [...] - Marketing Land
Google Is The Number One Search On Bing I believe one of the most searched on phrases at Google.com is the term [Google]. Well, the number [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: When Redirecting For Geotargeting, Do Not Redirect Googlebot Google's John Mueller issued a PSA, public service announcement, the other day on Twitter saying [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Drops Support For Internet Explorer 11 And So Can You Malte Ubl, a Technically a Software Engineer at Google, announced on Twitter that Google has [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Launches Offline Conversion Import (OCI) Helper Google announced a new tool to help you import your offline conversion data into Google Ads. Yes, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 4, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 3 2021

Google Search Ends Support For Internet Explorer 11 via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google Search is no longer supporting the Internet Explorer 11 web browser, as the company says: [...] - Search Engine Journal

October, 1 2021

Major Changes to a Website: Why Are You Even Doing It? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller answers a question about migrating to WWW version of a site. Then he offers [...] - Search Engine Journal
Build Fewer but Stronger Pages or Create Lots of Pages? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller compares content strategies and shows which are appropriate for different [...] - Search Engine Journal
Chrome tests Google side search in the browser Also, Journeys is a new feature in Chrome that clusters your browsing history in a new way. - Search Engine Land
Holiday Searches Start Early This Year, Microsoft Reports via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Holiday shopping is starting early this year, and a new report from Microsoft aims to make [...] - Search Engine Journal
Does Sarcasm Still Confuse Google? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller discusses how sarcasm can impact rankings and why sometimes content should [...] - Search Engine Journal
Using psychology and better data practices to get customers closer to purchase Optimizing campaigns with psychological insights saves times and makes you more competitive. - Marketing Land
Google pushes back FLoC testing to Q1 2022 Google has updated its Privacy Sandbox timeline, delaying testing for several APIs, including FLoC [...] - Search Engine Land
SEOs Noticing Google Search Console Crawled, Not Indexed Errors Even When Indexed Lily Ray posted on Twitter that many SEOs are noticing this and posting about it on Twitter with [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Says URL Case Applies To Robots.txt Directives We've known for like two decades that Google does and can treat the same URL but with different [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Gains New Budget Reports Google announced new budget reports for Google Ads. Google said these new budget reports will [...] - Search Engine Roundtable