Archive of November, 2021

November, 30 2021

Google November Core Update Is Over – What Happened? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google announced that the November 2021 Core Update is over. Search marketers share their insights [...] - Search Engine Journal
FLAN: Google Research Finds Better Machine Learning via @sejournal, @martinibuster New Google machine learning model is better state of the art for solving natural language [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads Upgraded Ad Extensions In Ad Console Brett Bodofsky, a Google Ads specialist, shared a screenshot on Twitter of a new report tab that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
60,000 websites using Cloudflare turned on IndexNow IndexNow is an initiative by Microsoft and Yandex to push content to search engines that launched [...] - Search Engine Land
Google November 2021 core update is finished rolling out This update surprised many, since it started to roll out on November 17th and continued rolling out [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Only Pure Spam Or Adult Old Domains Can Be Problematic For SEO Google's John Mueller said when it comes to repurposing old domains that may have not been used but [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: The November 2021 Core Update Mostly Done Rolling Out Google's Danny Sullivan said that the Google November 2021 core update is mostly done rolling out [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
5 steps to automate your SEO processes using simple programming tactics “Everyone has annoying tasks in their job that you wish you could hire someone else to do, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Merchant Center now shows relative visibility, page overlap rate and higher position rate metrics The new Competitive visibility report can help merchants get a more defined view of their reach [...] - Search Engine Land
YouTube’s experimental tool for creators simplifies keyword research and identifies content gaps YouTube Search Insights also shows creators the number of views a given search term drove for their [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Performance Planner adds support for ineligible campaigns, secondary metrics, “Suggested changes” and specific time ranges These new features expand Performance Planner’s flexibility, making it potentially more [...] - Search Engine Land
Lost SEO traffic in 2021? Here are 3 potential reasons why (and how to recover your rankings heading into 2022) From site speed to link spam, here is how to recover lost traffic in 2022. - Search Engine Land
Shuffleboard Table At Google's NYC Office - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 29 2021

Google Algo Bug Puts Sites In Weird Limbo State via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller confirmed a rare algorithm bug that causes sites to get stuck in a limbo that [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Site Speed Is Not Why A Site Would See Significant Changes In Search Visibility Google has once again said that if you see significant changes in your Google search visibility it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google says it values all local reviews, both positive and negative Google has updated their help documents to say it finds a mix of reviews more trustworthy. - Search Engine Land
Google Announces A Search Bug in News Tab via @sejournal, @martinibuster Odd search bug discovered in Google News Search Tab. Will take a day to fix - Search Engine Journal
Google Watches For How Sites Fit Into Overall Internet via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller describes how Google can take months to understand how a site fits into the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Merchant Center now automatically displays badge eligibility for products Merchants no longer have to manually figure out which badge is being applied to each of their items. - Search Engine Land
7 best link-building services for SEO performance Use these services to help you improve your search engine rankings. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 29, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog Episode #147: Joseph Goldsmith On Video Production, Vlog Editing & Filming This is a very special vlog, I interviewed the very person who has been editing these videos for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Sites Can Be Stuck In Algorithm Penalty Limbo For Several Years (Rare) Google's John Mueller said in this past Friday's hangout that in rare situations some sites can get [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Violation Of Webmaster Guidelines Email The other day we shared a screenshot of an email of an email notification when a website is no [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Drops The Deadline For Mobile-First Indexing On Friday, Google's John Mueller announced Google is doing away with the deadline for sites to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Good morning: Back to work This holiday season, under-promise and be transparent. - Marketing Land
Google Takes Precautionary Health Measures Due To COVID & Omicron If you visit the Google Support pages, any of them, at support.google.com, you will see a banner at [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
YouTube Thanksgiving - Friendsgiving at Google NYC - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 28 2021

Google Review Snippets Won’t Show For Testimonials via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google won’t display enhanced search results for customer reviews that are republished from [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Doodle For Seasonal Holidays Google has this interesting Christmas looking Doodle on its home page today with the alt tag that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 27 2021

Expired Domains And Google Ranking Bonus? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller answers a question about expired domains and any bonus they might have - Search Engine Journal
Google Will Not Set Date For Mobile-First Index via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google announces that they will not set a date for a switch to a 100% mobile-first search index - Search Engine Journal

November, 26 2021

Google drops its mobile-first indexing deadline, leaves it open-ended Google said because of some difficulties that some sites may have moving to mobile-first indexing, [...] - Search Engine Land
A 2021 update on mobile indexing We first started working on mobile-first indexing a number of years ago. Since then, we [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google: Semantic HTML Is Not A Google Search Quality Signal Google's John Mueller said that semantic HTML is not a quality signal used in Google Search for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: You Can Use The Same Website Theme Across Multiple Sites Do you want to use the same design theme on multiple websites? Well, Google's John Mueller said it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
An update on our Privacy Sandbox commitments For further background on this topic, please see our blog from June . Since we announced [...] - Inside Adwords
Google: Random Sentence Bolding For SEO So now that we know that bolding works for SEO and rankings in 2021, we need to start bolding [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: As Featured On Links To Publications Are Normal Links I am sure you've all seen websites that have a section on their website for "As Featured [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Automobile Search Add Sliders & More Search Tools A couple of months ago, Google upset the automotive industry by adding more data sets to its search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 26, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google November Core Update Continued, Search Console Redesign, Crawling Bugs & Google Ads Credits Happy Thanksgiving - we had a surprise from Google again, where the second wave of the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 25 2021

Google November 2021 Core Update Tremors On Thanksgiving We are seeing big volatility again in the Google Search results as of yesterday and today, which [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Docs Update: A Mix Of Positive & Negative Reviews More Trustworthy Google has updated the Google Business Profiles Get Reviews help document to explicitly say that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
History of Thanksgiving Google Doodle & Logo - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Hanukkah Decorations Are Live For 2021 I've been checking for the past week, multiple times per day, and just now, Google has launched the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Crawl Stats Data Bug Missing Two Days Of Data Google has another bug, this time with Google Search Console's crawl stats report. The report has a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 24 2021

Google Explains How To Hide A Website From Search Results via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google says the best way to hide a website from search results is with a password, but there are [...] - Search Engine Journal
How marketers can adapt to Google’s local SEO changes SEOs should prepare for the coming changes in local reviews, knowledge panels and mobile displays. - Search Engine Land
Google AdSense’s Matched content widget will only show ads starting on March 1, 2022 Matched content will be rebranded as “Multiplex ads” and only show ads, even if [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AdSense Matched Content Being Shut Down On March 1, 2022 Google announced that it is shutting down the AdSense Matched content ad unit types beginning on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 23 2021

Google’s November 2021 core update hit fast and hard; here is what the data providers saw The results from this data showed that this rollout hit hard within the first 24 hours of the [...] - Search Engine Land
Why consumer privacy is Google’s ace in the hole Google's ad business changes mean that advertisers should prepare and tap into their first-party [...] - Search Engine Land
Google had a crawling issues that impacted some sites Between November 11th and November 17th, Googlebot slowed crawling some websites. - Search Engine Land
Microsoft Bing launched Page insights After months of testing, the lightbulb icon in the Bing Search results are live for all. - Search Engine Land
6 tactics to rank better in Google Discover While you can’t target users or interests, you can increase your chances of ranking better in [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Generally Has Different Crawl Capacities For Your Images Hosted On A CDN Google's John Mueller confirmed that when it comes to sites that host their images (or likely other [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
50% Of SEOs Not Seeing Impact From Google November 2021 Core Update Marie Haynes posted a Twitter poll (which I reshared a couple times yesterday) asking what you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Save time online with Page insights from Microsoft Bing The breadth of information available online can both be helpful and frustrating when you’re [...] - Bing Search
Google Local Business Photos Lead To Blank Images On Desktop Search If you go to Google Search on desktop and type in some local businesses, then click on the first [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Googlebot Slow Crawling The Web From November 11 - November 17? Olivier Papon from Seolyzer, a log analysis toolset, reported the other week that Google seemed to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 22 2021

Google Search Console rolls out new design Google has rolled out a new look for Google Search Console aimed at improving accessibility and [...] - Search Engine Land
What Is The Best Title Tag Length For SEO? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller answers question about 65 character limit on title tags for SEO and if it's [...] - Search Engine Journal
4 ways to optimize your responsive search ads ETAs will be deprecated in less than a year. At SMX Next, Frederick Vallaeys provided marketers [...] - Search Engine Land
Campaign creation, search trends and performance insights explanations arrive on Google Ads mobile app The new mobile app features can be used to identify emerging trends and act on them from anywhere. - Search Engine Land
Google Structured Data Markup Helper Is Outdated In 2013, Google launched its Structured Data Markup Helper tool to help site owners mark up their [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console New Design Interface Now Live This morning at about 5:30am ET, the Google Search Console team rolled out a new facelift and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #147: Bryan Cush On Health Consumer Searches, Doctors With The Same Name & Health Brand Defense In part one, Bryan Cush, the co-founder of Tidal Health Group, and I spoke about how to use health [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Don't Hold A Grudge For Technical Issues Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that Google Search does not hold a grudge for SEO technical [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Mobile App Gains Performance Insights, Review Search Trends & Create Campaigns Google has added a few new features to the Google Ads mobile app. The new features work on both [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 22, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Demandbase brings account-based advertising to consumer platforms The ABM leader offers targeting on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and other platforms. - Marketing Land
Predicting Text Selections with Federated Learning Posted by Florian Hartmann, Software Engineer, Google Research Smart Text Selection, launched in [...] - Google Research

November, 19 2021

Google Ads Insights Report Gains Demand Forecasts, Consumer Interest, Audience Insights & More Google announced a bunch of additions coming to the Google Ads Insights reporting. These include [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Decisiveness in Imitation Learning for Robots Posted by Pete Florence, Research Scientist and Corey Lynch, Research Engineer, Robotics at Google [...] - Google Research
GoogleBot Spider Name: Crawley - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Lens Button In Search Bar On Mobile Search Google is testing adding the Google Lens button in the mobile search results bar. This camera [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Email Tells Site Owner Site No Longer Blocked In Bing Search So we know Google has manual actions where a site can be impacted in terms of how it ranks in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Shopping Tab Animated Snowman How cute is this, Microsoft Bing Search is testing placing this animated snowman next to the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 18 2021

When To Use Rel Canonical Or Noindex …Or Both via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller explained how to choose between rel canonical and noindex and suggested that [...] - Search Engine Journal
Why we’re turning off AMP pages at Search Engine Land For starters, we've seen a big drop in traffic to AMP pages, suggesting that the inclusion of [...] - Search Engine Land
Is Google out of touch? What the SEO community thinks about the November 2021 core update SEOs have a few opinions on the timing of this update. - Search Engine Land
Google logo schema markup now requires logos to look good on white backgrounds This is a new requirement for your logo structured data and if logo does not render well on white [...] - Search Engine Land
The Google Interactive SEO Checklist For Business Owners/Marketers, Developers Or SEO Google has produced a new interactive SEO checklist with "specific things you can do to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Power your holiday strategy with helpful insights This year’s holiday shopping season is shaping up to be one of the biggest yet. In fact, 53% [...] - Inside Adwords
Demand forecasts, consumer interest and audience insights are coming to Google Ads’ Insights Page The new features may help all advertisers, but the benefits will likely be greater for SMBs working [...] - Search Engine Land
Twitter rolls back AMP support, no longer sends users to AMP pages With social media referrals to AMP pages cut down by the change, the reasons for supporting AMP are [...] - Search Engine Land
Google November 2021 Core Update Is Live - What We Are Seeing Now As you know, Google started to rollout the November 2021 Core Update yesterday, November 17th at [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Permutation-Invariant Neural Networks for Reinforcement Learning Posted by David Ha, Staff Research Scientist and Yujin Tang, Research Software Engineer, Google [...] - Google Research
Google: Leaving Old XML Sitemaps Up After URL Migration Will Have Minimal Effect Google's John Mueller was asked if it is helps after doing a big URL migration to keep the old XML [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 17 2021

Google Updates Some SERPs With Translated Results via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google documented a change called Translated Results that affects six languages. It auto-translates [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google November 2021 Core Update Rolling Out Later Today Right before the big Thanksgiving Black Friday and Cyber Monday holiday season Google decided to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google November 2021 Core Update rolling out today We have a new core update rolling out later today. - Search Engine Land
No, 30 Articles On Your Site Won't Make Your Site Authoritative in Google Search Last week, I included in my recap a link to a Reddit thread that seems to have got some attention. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google adds documentation on translated search results and ad networks with Google Translate Have you recently seen Google translate your snippets, here is how to control it. - Search Engine Land
Edward Snowden: Google Search Is Totally Unusable Edward Snowden, former computer intelligence consultant who leaked highly classified information [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Revamped Google PageSpeed Insights Is Live Yesterday, Google began to rollout the revamped and new PageSpeed Insights at its new home at [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Edward Snowden calls out Google over search engine’s privacy Will this tweet trigger some change at Google? Probably not - but it might be wishful thinking. - Search Engine Land
Lighthouse 9.0 includes API changes, user flows, updated reports and more Check out the new features in the updated version of Lighthouse, which has been released with the [...] - Search Engine Land
The top 100 consumer products this holiday season, according to Google Along with supply chain delays, the pandemic has also brought more shoppers online. Retailers [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Says It Is Promoting More Local News In Search Results Google said it is now promoting more local news in its search results and news results, including [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 16 2021

Google Cloud Networking Outage Darkens Websites via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google Cloud Outage shutters websites worldwide. Network issue is partially resolved - Search Engine Journal
Google Maps Adds 4 New Features For Local Shopping via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google Maps launches four new features to improve the local shopping experience for customers, [...] - Search Engine Journal
Data Seemingly Proves Googlebot Crawling Has Slowed via @sejournal, @martinibuster Publishers worldwide share data that seemingly proves that Googlebot has dramatically reduced [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google adds local news features to search, giving publishers more exposure Local news organizations depend on organic search traffic as queries like “news near [...] - Search Engine Land
Google rolling out new PageSpeed Insights Google announced these changes weeks ago but it is now rolling out under a new URL. - Search Engine Land
Google Maps will show price ranges for US restaurants The company also announced an expansion of indoor directories, Pickup with Google Maps and Area [...] - Search Engine Land

November, 15 2021

Google: Bolded Text Can Help Your SEO via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's John Mueller confirms bolding important text in a paragraph can help your site's SEO as it [...] - Search Engine Journal
SiteGround Hosting Outage Over – Site Recoveries Continue via @sejournal, @martinibuster SiteGround announced the outage is over. Amazon’s Global Accelerator cited as cause. Sites [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Progressive Web Apps Don’t Rank Better Than Regular Sites via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's John Mueller states that progressive web apps (PWAs) do not, by default, rank better in [...] - Search Engine Journal
MetNet-2: Deep Learning for 12-Hour Precipitation Forecasting Posted by Nal Kalchbrenner and Lasse Espeholt, Google Research Deep learning has successfully [...] - Google Research
Google Shopping Ads Bug Causes CPCs To Skyrocket Friday evening, Google Ads had a bug of some sorts that caused the cost per click (CPC) prices to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Confirms Again, Bolding Words Does Help With SEO Google's John Mueller confirmed again that bolding words and "important points on a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Helping European small businesses grow and succeed Today marks the beginning of the European SME week , a time to recognize the contribution that [...] - Inside Adwords
Google now allows the sale of medical tests kits New Google Merchant Center policy now allows you to list your at-home results or lab results and [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 15, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Some Customer Match features to become available to all policy-compliant advertisers The features enable advertisers to assess how their list performs against the general audience, [...] - Search Engine Land
That’s a wrap: Tips on keeping holiday gifts organized Because I have an enormous family and am the type of person who squirrels away random gifts over [...] - Inside Adwords
Microsoft list of Bingbot IP addresses released Knowing which bot is really from Microsoft Bing and which is not can help you decide which rogue [...] - Search Engine Land

November, 14 2021

Why Google Discover Traffic Goes Away via @sejournal, @martinibuster John Mueller answers question about Google Discover traffic that collapsed, explains what to be [...] - Search Engine Journal

November, 13 2021

Can Site Quality Be Quantified in Search Console? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller answers question about quantifying site quality and mentions having inquired [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads shopping ads bug results in huge CPC increased; issue now resolved The bug was between 6pm PST on Friday Nov 12 through 3am PST Saturday, Nov 13. - Search Engine Land

November, 12 2021

Google: “Hard To Call A Site Authoritative After 30 Articles” via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Building authority with Google is going to take more than publishing a site with just 30 pages, [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Voice Search Is Not The Future via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's Martin Splitt shared his opinion that voice search is not the future and that there will [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Spam Update Done Rolling Out via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google’s spam update has finished rolling out in search results worldwide, the company [...] - Search Engine Journal
An Open Source Vibrotactile Haptics Platform for On-Body Applications. Posted by Artem Dementyev, Hardware Engineer, Google Research Most wearable smart devices and [...] - Google Research
SiteGround Google’s crawling and indexing issues fixed After numerous days where sites hosted on SiteGround were blocking Google from indexing, the issue [...] - Search Engine Land
Google On The Future Of SEO Here is a fun podcast from Googlers John Mueller, Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt on the future of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google rolls out product feed support to more video campaign types Brands can now make any Video campaign more shoppable without having to create a separate Trueview [...] - Search Engine Land
Google November Spam Update Rollout Completed After 8 Days It took about eight days for Google to rollout the November spam update. This update targeted [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 11 2021

Google Drops Sites Hosted on SiteGround via @sejournal, @martinibuster SiteGround hosted sites dropping out of Google since Monday. Possibly an issue with DNS - Search Engine Journal
Google On The Future Of SEO via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's Search Relations team gets together for a discussion on the future of SEO in the latest [...] - Search Engine Journal
Massive CTR Study Reveals Actionable Insights via @sejournal, @martinibuster Largest ever research study of billions of searches uncovers surprising insights into CTR behavior [...] - Search Engine Journal
How to meet your brand goals by organizing your content strategy Keeping your brand at the center is crucial to meeting customer needs and addressing pain points. - Marketing Land
Google November spam update is fully rolled out This rollout took about 8 days to complete - so check your rankings to see if you were impacted. - Search Engine Land
PSA: Google Ads Account Suspensions Over Violating Webmaster Guidelines Google Ads has a policy that it can immediately and without notice, suspend your Google Ads [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google logo schema gains ImageObject type support In addition to the URL type, you can now use the ImageObject type. - Search Engine Land

November, 10 2021

Google: You Shouldn't Be Creating Links To Your Site Google's John Mueller said on Twitter this morning "you shouldn't be creating links to your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google publishes the list of Googlebot IP addresses You can use this list to help verify that Googlebot is really who it says it is. - Search Engine Land
Google is testing the IndexNow protocol for sustainability After both Microsoft Bing and Yandex announce IndexNow, Google promises to give it a try. - Search Engine Land
How To Enable Key Moments Snippets In Google Search via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Learn how to enable key moments snippets in Google Search, which allows searchers to jump to the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: No Need For Legal Interstitials / Banners Requirements Guidelines Google has said before that legal interstitials are fine and you don't really have to worry about [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google goes 1-1 in Europe: EU upholds $2.8B fine; UK dismisses lawsuit over alleged iPhone tracking The rulings carry implications for other platforms currently under investigation, as well as class [...] - Search Engine Land
Shop what’s trending this holiday season It’s that festive time of year when we start planning holiday gatherings, swap out our iced [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Video: How Key Moments Work In Videos In Search Danielle Marshak, Product Manager at Google, posted an absolutely outstanding video on how video [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google May Use IndexNow Protocol For Instant Indexing Surprise, surprise, Google has confirmed it is testing the new IndexNow protocol that was headed by [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Loses Antitrust Shopping Search $2.8B Fine But Wins iOS Tracking UK Case $4B Fine It was a busy morning for Google in the European region; first losing its EU antitrust case for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 9 2021

Google Will Be Testing IndexNow via @sejournal, @martinibuster A Google spokesperson confirmed to SearchEngineJournal that they will be testing the IndexNow [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Sites Need to Be Worthwhile to be Indexed via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller shares insights on the "Discovered - but currently not indexed" [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Keyword Planner Tool gains year-over-year, 3-month change and trends data The platform is making more data available that you can use to make informed decisions about your [...] - Search Engine Land
Google November Spam Update Target Cloaked Spam Content With Injected Links? Last week, Google announced the rollout of the November spam update, which Google said targeted [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Why The Sun and Mail Online Don't Rank As Well As They Could In Google Search Matt Rogerson, the Director of public policy at Guardian Media Group, posted a Twitter thread [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 9, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Keyword Planner Tool New YoY Change Column Google Ads has added to the keyword planner tool a new column for YoY, year over year, change. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 8 2021

Google: We Will Have More Algorithm Updates, Core Updates, Spam Updates & Other Updates Google's Danny Sullivan has confirmed that Google will be releasing more search algorithm updates. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Industry Mourns The Loss Of John Carcutt - Legendary SEO I am so sad to report that John Carcutt, an SEO many of us have known, has suddenly passed away. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Why Some Sites Lose Rankings in Core Update via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller says fixing technical issues and disavowing random spam links won't fix core [...] - Search Engine Journal
Improved On-Device ML on Pixel 6, with Neural Architecture Search Posted by Suyog Gupta, Silicon Engineer and Marie White, Software Engineer, Google Research [...] - Google Research
Google Update Slapped Your Rankings: What’s Next via @sejournal, @martinibuster An overview of Google's history of dialing back and fine tuning their updates and how this should [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google On Embedding Videos On Your Pages: Speed Vs Video Ranking Embedding videos on your pages can slow the page down and cause your core web vital scores not to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Confirms Intrusive Interstitials Ding Will Apply To Desktop Sites With the Google page experience update coming to desktop sites in February 2022, that means that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Machine Written Content May Be Okay For Ranking Soon One Day Google has talked about how machine written content is currently against Google's guidelines but [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google at EMNLP 2021 Posted by Catherine Armato, Google Research This week, the annual conference on Empirical [...] - Google Research

November, 6 2021

Google: How Long it Takes for Disavow File to Affect Rankings via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller explains how long it takes for a disavow file to eventually affect the search [...] - Search Engine Journal
Want to Learn About Bing and Search Ranking? Here You Go! via @sejournal, @martinibuster Fabrice Canel, Principal Program Manager at Bing discusses search crawling, machine learning and [...] - Search Engine Journal

November, 5 2021

Goodbye Google My Business & Hello Google Business Profile Google has changed the name of its local business management product once again. I think that might [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: If CTR Drove Search Rankings, The Results Would All Be Clickbait Google is constantly, for years and years, saying it does not use click through rate (CTR) for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Official: Google Desktop Page Experience Update Coming In February 2022 We now have an official date for when Google will be bringing the page experience update [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Another Step Towards Breakeven Fusion Posted by Ted Baltz, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google Research For more than 70 years, [...] - Google Research
Google Hiring A Spam Fighter For Search Google posted a new job opening to become a spam fighter at the company. The job title is a Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google is hiring a Search Quality Analyst to fight search spam The job is based in Mountain View, California and you would work on helping keep the search results [...] - Search Engine Land
Tracking Trending Information on the Web Finding Trending Information Through Google Many techniques are available to searchers to find [...] - SEO by the Sea
Good morning: Winning with empathy A long list of digital marketing trends for 2022 is missing something important. - Marketing Land

November, 4 2021

Google Page Experience Algorithm Update Coming to Desktop via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google confirms the Page Experience Algorithm update, which rolled out to mobile search earlier [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google My Business now known as Google Business Profile as Google migrates features to Maps and Search Google is also rolling out more support for managing your business profile directly in Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Claim Your Google Business Profile Directly On Search And Maps via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google My Business is no more—get used to saying "Google Business Profile" as the [...] - Search Engine Journal
How an SEO Fixed a Weird Crawled Currently Not Indexed Issue via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google canonicalized a feed over the web page which triggered a Crawled Currently Not Indexed [...] - Search Engine Journal
Timeline for bringing page experience ranking to desktop We’ll begin using page experience as part of our desktop ranking systems beginning in [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google November 2021 Spam Update Rolling Out Google announced last night that is has begun rolling out a new algorithm update targeting search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google to add page experience ranking signals to desktop search in February 2022 The rollout will be complete by the end of March 2022. - Search Engine Land
Destination mismatch: Advertisers are reporting another potential Google Ads glitch Google is already aware of the issue and investigating it, but it’s more important than ever [...] - Search Engine Land
Squid Game Guard At Google's New York Office - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 3 2021

Self-Supervised Reversibility-Aware Reinforcement Learning Posted by Johan Ferret, Student Researcher, Google Research, Brain Team An approach commonly [...] - Google Research
New Google Best Practice For Embedded Videos via @sejournal, @martinibuster Updated Google Best Practices shows how to get "maximum exposure" from hosting or [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google releases November 2021 spam update The rollout for this Google search algorithm update will take about a week. - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console overcounted mobile page experience data since June 29th For over four months, Google has been overcounting some of this data - make sure you communicate [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s John Mueller Q&A: 4 SEO Questions Answered via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's John Mueller answers four rapid fire questions about common technical SEO issues that [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google recommends placing videos on dedicated pages for maximum exposure Google updated its video best practices SEO guide to say if you want a video to perform well in [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Maximum Video Exposure By Creating A Dedicated Page For The Video Google has updated its video best practices search help documentation to add a section about [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How Google’s continuous scroll can affect impressions and CTR Reporting remains the same in Search Console, but eliminating the line between pages may result in [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console Tests Contact Form For Domain Verification & User Management Issues Google is piloting a new method to reach out to a person for help related to Google Search Console [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 2 2021

Does Comprehensive Content Build Trust? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller talks about the best way to write content and advises what to avoid - Search Engine Journal
Performance Max campaigns launch to all advertisers In an unpredictable year, change has been a reliable constant. And we’ve seen this clearly in [...] - Inside Adwords
Performance Max campaigns are now widely available and will include Smart Shopping and Local campaigns in 2022 Advertisers that rely on Smart Shopping and Local campaigns should test Performance Max campaigns [...] - Search Engine Land
Google says more detailed descriptions will improve your job posting pages In short, just include more details about your job posting in the description property of the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google tool for reporting domain verification and user management issues with Search Console Google is piloting a program to allow some users to contact Google over Search Console domain [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads New Conversion Goals, Tag Assistant Conversion Support & New Explanations Google announced a few new Google Ads features aimed at helping you manage your conversions and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Yahoo! withdraws from China, becoming the second major American tech company in a month to leave the country "In recognition of the increasingly challenging business and legal environment in China, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google updates AdSense Policy center look, adds new feature updates for advertisers The announcement also indicates that upcoming features include "enabling screenshots of issues [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Chrome makes Omnibox prefetch faster for your default search engine This not only will work in Chrome for Google Search but potentially can work for any default search [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 2, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
New Format For Google Search Snippets Tags / Labels Google is testing yet another format for the snippet tags or labels in the search results again. We [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 1 2021

Google Enhances Search Results For “Deals” Queries via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google is now showing a new set of search results when people look for deals. All products with a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Holiday shopping SEO: Last-minute tips and techniques for e-commerce sites How to optimize the work you’ve been doing year-round and what to avoid ahead of the most [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: We Use Many Signals To Detect Guest Posts, It's Not Just Link Anchor Text Google's John Mueller was asked how Google detects and determines if a piece of content is written [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads’ new conversion goals group conversion actions for account and campaign-level bidding optimization The company also introduced a new troubleshooting tool for conversion tags as well as explanations [...] - Search Engine Land
Google on Penguin algorithm; aims to ignore spammy links but can lead to distrusting your site Maybe it is best to avoid link building and build a site that naturally gains links? - Search Engine Land
New Google My Business Messaging Read Receipts Setting Google has added a read receipts setting to the Google My Business messaging platform. Now you can [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Shares Tips For Optimizing Job Postings via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google says businesses are missing opportunities when it comes to optimizing job postings, and [...] - Search Engine Journal
Sarah Bird, CEO of Moz, leaving Moz after 14 years Moz was recently acquired by iContact, and there is no word on who the new CEO will be. - Search Engine Land
Google Kills Ranking For Google Doodles With Behind The Doodle Box Google has now killed off getting traffic for ranking for Google Doodles. Back in the old days, if [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #144: Bryan Cush On Using Health Data For Content & Search Marketing Bryan Cush, the co-founder of Tidal Health Group, a healthcare marketing company, stopped by my [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Merchant Center Adds Reporting For Google Shopping Deals Badges Google announced that it is not only showing more flavors of deal badges and showcases but also has [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search App Recent Queries Card Google is showing a new card in the Google Search app for "recent queries." The recent [...] - Search Engine Roundtable