Archive of December, 2021

December, 31 2021

Top Contributors To The Search Engine Roundtable In 2021 As you all know, I source a lot of forums and Twitter threads here for the stories that I write. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Our authors' take on 2021 The authors of the Search Central blog reflect on 2021 and share their aspirations for 2022. - Google Webmaster Central
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Ranking Tremors, December Was Volatile, Sex Toy Companies In Search & New Years Is Here The week between Christmas and New Years is general slow and it was but we did have some Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 30 2021

Google: No Difference In SEO Value Between Nofollow, UGC Or Sponsored Link Attributes Google's John Mueller confirmed what it has I believe said before, that there is not difference in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console products rich result report error handling updated On December 28, 2021 Google made a change to how it evaluates and reports errors in product [...] - Search Engine Land
Wrapping up 2021 with our top 10! Our best reads on SEO, search, Google updates, the controversial cookie, ranking factors, digital [...] - Search Engine Watch
2022 Predictions: CTV and cross-channel advertising What marketers in the new year are looking to gain from increased programmatic investments. - Marketing Land
Google Search New Years Confetti Again & New Years Eve Doodle If you do a search in Google Search for [new years] related keywords, Google will bring back the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Office Old City Streets Like Hallway Theme - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Can Handle Really Long HTML Sizes Unlike Bing Google's John Mueller said on Twitter when it comes to really long HTML file sizes, Google can [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's John Mueller Pays For Screaming Frog How is this for an unpaid endorsement of your SEO product - John Mueller of Google said that he [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 30, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Now Has Asset Library Google Ads is rolling out or now has the Google Creative Studio's asset library feature directly in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 29 2021

Google On How To Improve SEO Audits via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's Martin Splitt offers advice on how to improve SEO audits in a way that makes them more [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Merchant Center allows retailers to save product filters Save-able product filters can enable marketers to more quickly zoom into the product category they [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console Announcements Bar Test Google Search Console had this new bar at the top of the Search Console interface with [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 29, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Semrush: December The Most Volatile Month For Google Search Of 2021 According to recent Semrush data, this month, the month of December, was the most volatile month of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Counterintuitive SEO Recommendations Thread A couple of months ago, Aleyda Solis posted a thread on Twitter (I was waiting for a slow week to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
December 27 & 28 Google Search Ranking Algorithm Jolt On? Around December 27th and 28th we may have a Google search ranking algorithm jolt or quick tremor. I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 28 2021

Google algorithm updates 2021 in review: Core updates, product reviews, page experience and beyond Google had a busy year of search algorithm updates in 2021, but some might question the timing of [...] - Search Engine Land
Google December Product Reviews Update Affects More Than English Language Sites? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller answers whether December 2021 Product Reviews Update affects more than just [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Console testing announcement bar Google looks to be testing a new announcement section at the top of the Search Console interace. - Search Engine Land
Google Product Reviews Update Likely Will Expand To Other Languages Google's April 2021 and December 2021 product reviews update only targeted English language [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google now lets you place products at the top of your local and maps listing Google Business Profiles now let's you mark a product as special to pop it to the top. - Search Engine Land
Google rolls out placement exclusions for Smart Shopping campaigns It’s unclear whether this feature will remain available once Smart Shopping campaigns are [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Search Santa Hat Video Play Button Easter Egg If you go to Microsoft Bing and conduct a search that triggers a video preview box to show up, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
2022 Predictions: E-commerce everywhere Social commerce, shoppable ads and how e-commerce buying will evolve in the new year – and [...] - Marketing Land
Google Business Profile Products "Mark As Special" For Top Placement Google Business Profiles (formerly Google My Business) seems to have added or is testing adding a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Poll Results: Did SEOs Work Over The Christmas Holiday Break? With all the changes and updates Google made recently, I wondered if some SEOs felt they couldn't [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
An Image Content Analysis And A Geo-Semantic Index For Recommendations This Patent Uses A Image Content Analysis With A Geo-Semantic Index To Build Search Recommendations [...] - SEO by the Sea
Five Golden Bing Logos - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Past Violations Can Limit Your Ads Shaun Elley posted a screenshot of one of his ads in Google Ads showing a status of "eligible [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 28, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 27 2021

SEO 2021 year in review: Endless updates, title rewrites, GMB becomes GBP and more Despite facing a still-raging pandemic and a slew of updates, SEOs rose to the challenge. [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Keeps Track Of Algorithm Changes But It's Hard To Use Even Internally Alan Bleiweiss, a smart and fun SEO, asked John Mueller of Google if Google has a "Google Book [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Won't Rank Sex Toy Companies For G-Rated Brand Names But Google Ads Will For The Money If you do a search in Google or Bing for [adam and eve] or [jack and jill], both very G rated [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Most Of Google's Search Algorithms Work For All Languages But Not All Did you know that most of the search algorithms Google launches work across all languages? There [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 27, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
John Mueller Of Google Providing Webmaster Support on Christmas Again Google's John Mueller again, actually since 2007, year-after-year, has jumped into the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console's Link Report Not A Priority For Google Google's John Mueller was asked on Twitter why the pipeline to get data into the link report within [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #152: Colt Sliva On Entities, Python For SEO & Winning Over Developers In part one, we spoke about how Colt Sliva became an SEO engineer and some topics around [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
2021 Microsoft Bing Swag - Backpack, Coffee Mug, Water Bottle, Ear Buds & More - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 24 2021

Google Ads not serving fully on Gmail This issue started yesterday afternoon and only impacts users on the desktop version of Gmail. - Search Engine Land
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Product Reviews Update Done Before Christmas, Lots Of Ranking Tremors & SEOs Working On Holidays Happy holidays and merry Christmas to all of you, hope you are not watching this video on your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Doogler At The Google Christmas Party - Search Engine Roundtable
The John Mueller Meme Report 2021 Like last year, Google's John Mueller put together a year end meme report of SEO for 2021. John [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Engineers Home Pages and Research Profile Pages I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday. I have many home pages that I have been visiting and [...] - SEO by the Sea
Google Ads Serving Issue For Ads On Desktop Gmail Google has a new serving issue with Google Ads that is impacting ad serving on the desktop version [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 23 2021

No, Google Doesn't Use Google Analytics 4 For Ranking Purposes Google's John Mueller posted a very necessary clarification that Google does not use Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Survey Says: Most SEOs Spend Less Than 25% Of Their Time With Link Building Yesterday, I posted a poll asking what percentage of your time as an SEO is spent doing link [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
PPC 2021 in review: Privacy and automation force advertisers to adapt From the deprecation of broad match modified keywords to FLoC to RSAs becoming the default, PPC [...] - Search Engine Land
SEO in 2022 – Experts reveal the best measures, insights and tips Whether Google Core Updates, artificial intelligence or Core Web Vitals – search engine [...] - Searchmetrics
Bing Shopping Buy Now Integration With Shopify & Ethical Shopping Microsoft Bing announced it launched its Shopify integration by allowing a buy now from Bing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEO Holiday Gift: Waking Up To $80,000 In New Revenue This Week There is a Reddit thread I found via John Mueller that claims a site owner woke up to an additional [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Image Search Section For "Top Categorized Results" - Confused? Google Image search on mobile has these labels for sections of the images it sometimes shows in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Nooglers Before Christmas At Google Dublin - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 23, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 22 2021

Messy SEO: Fixing site structure while a Google title change sinks clickthroughs In Part 5 of our Messy SEO series, we look at the results from Google's title tag changes and other [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: 100,000 URLs Usually Won't Impact Crawl Budget Google's John Mueller said a site with 100,000 URLs usually won't be enough to impact crawl budget. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: No Need To Work On Algorithm & Ranking Issues Over Holidays Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that when it comes to Google Search ranking algorithm updates [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Double Domes - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Kwanzaa Decorations With Special Pagination Bar Now Update For Holidays Google has now posted its full Kwanzaa decorations in the Google Search results interface both on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Podcast: Google Search Product Legal Counsel, David Price For some reason, legal discussions always fascinate me - the nuance in how words are put together, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
It's A Wrap: December 2021 Google Product Reviews Update Done Rolling Out Google said on Tuesday, December 21, 2021 that the December 2021 Google product reviews update is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Confirmed Google Ads Conversions Bug Impacting Non-First/Last Click Attribution Models Google has confirmed a bug with Google ads impacting conversion data. The issue is specific with [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 22, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Email marketing will be a success story in 2022 As long as its effective and ethical, said Kate Adams of Validity, which last week announced a new [...] - Marketing Land

December, 21 2021

Google’s John Mueller on Brand Mentions via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller explains Google's position on using brand mentions for ranking purposes - Search Engine Journal
Google December 2021 product reviews update is finished rolling out Google has confirmed this update is now complete - days before the Christmas holiday. - Search Engine Land
Google Confirms Links To 404 Pages Are Not Counted If you have a lot of links to your site, but some of those links are pointing to pages that no [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console accessibility issues fully resolved five days later Although, it seems most of us have been able to access this tool for the past few days. - Search Engine Land
DuckDuckGo to launch a desktop browser That’s one more Chrome alternative that won’t support FLoC. - Search Engine Land
Build a high-impact SEO strategy in 2022 In this webinar, discover exactly what you need to get in front of your audience and deliver on [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads issue affected a significant subset of users, now resolved This bug impacted Google Ads conversions that use non-First/Last Click attribution models, such as [...] - Search Engine Land
What are LSI Keywords and What I Use Instead of Them? LSI Keywords and What I Use Instead of Them? One of the myths about SEO is that there is something [...] - SEO by the Sea
Google Top Stories Won't Show AMP Logos In Dark Mode Danny Sullivan of Google confirmed that Google won't show the AMP specific logo for your news [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 21, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Not All Websites Need To Be An Authority Google's John Mueller said in a video hangout the other day that not all websites need to be an [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Winter Season Doodle Today is the first day of Winter in the Northern Hemisphere and for it, Google has this hedgehog [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 20 2021

The ‘Vicinity Update’: Winners and losers from the November 2021 local update This update seemed to be focused on changes around proximity and distance. - Search Engine Land
Non-stop updates: SEOs share the impact on their day-to-day, work-life balance and career outlook Stakeholder expectations seem more realistic as the industry has matured, but Google’s [...] - Search Engine Land
SEO Hired To Gain Links Hacked The Client's Related Site To Acquire Those Links Image you hire an SEO company for SEO services and they email you the links they acquired for you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads rolling out new icons more widely Over the past few months, Google has been rolling out new icons within the Google Ads console. - Search Engine Land
5 ways marketers can support entry-level SEO talent With a huge demand for SEO specialists, marketers shouldn't neglect entry-level talent. At SMX [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Fiber Splice Box Fire Damage For Google Datacenter - 100Tbps Capacity - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Adds New Icons & Workspace Filter Google Ads is rolling out new icons and a workspace filter to some accounts and eagle eyes [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Look At Language On A Per Page Basis, Not Site Wide Basis This is just a reminder, that Google says it does not look at the language of your site overall but [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Interactive Quizzes Test? Saijo George spotted a possible Google Search testing related to more quizzes in the search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Ghost Directories Don't Impact SEO Or Rankings Google's John Mueller said on Reddit that Ghost directories do not impact SEO or have an effect on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 18 2021

Why You Shouldn’t Rely On Google Discover Traffic via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller explains why Google Discover traffic shouldn't be relied on as the main [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s Mueller On Self-Hosted WordPress Versus Wix via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller offered his opinion on moving a website from Wix to self-hosted WordPress and [...] - Search Engine Journal

December, 17 2021

Google Business Profile Video Verification Now When You Add A New Profile Ben Fisher notified me that now when you add a new business to Google Business Profiles (formerly [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Tremors Continue & It's Big Are you dizzy yet? The Google search results are still super volatile and we are seeing high [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to optimize your site for better findability An optimized site structure serves as the foundation for SEO success. At SMX Create, Niki Mosier [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: The Number Of Links Is Not A Useful Metric Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that the number of links, for SEO purposes, is not a useful [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to gain SEO insights using data segmentation It's difficult to find value in mounds of data. At SMX Next, Murat Yatağan shared how SEOs can [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Maps adds dock to bottom Searchers can now dock places they find in Google Maps to the bottom of the map interface. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 17, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 16 2021

Google Confirms Update To Local Search Results via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google confirms an algorithm update began rolling out to local search results at the end of [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google December 2021 Products Reviews Update Will Roll Out Until Right Before Christmas Google started to roll out the December 2021 product reviews update on Wednesday, December 1, 2021. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console inaccessible for some users Many SEOs have reported being unable to access Google Search Console. - Search Engine Land
Google SEO Tips On Taking A Site Offline To Fix Log4j Security Vulnerability I previous wrote about how Google Ads is not impacted by the Log4j security vulnerability but many [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Seems To Be Not Indexing Or Crawling New Content This Morning It seems like Google is having a major indexing or crawling issue this morning - again. Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search launches enhanced autocomplete with second column In addition, Google is testing an edge to edge autocomplete interface and more full width designs. - Search Engine Land
Google: You Can't Tell Which SEO Efforts Led To Ranking Success John Mueller from Google shared something both funny and mostly true about SEO tasks. He basically [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google confirmed serving issue with Google Search results If you see your content not showing up in Google Search this morning, you are not alone - it is a [...] - Search Engine Land
Chrome will show updated pricing in the tabs grid on mobile Google also announced more Lens integrations for Chrome as well as the rollout of the “Your [...] - Search Engine Land
Google also had a local search update from November 30 through December 8 This overlapped other ranking updates and a Google map and local pack update design change. - Search Engine Land

December, 15 2021

Training Machine Learning Models More Efficiently with Dataset Distillation Posted by Timothy Nguyen 1 , Research Engineer and Jaehoon Lee, Senior Research Scientist, [...] - Google Research
Google: Links Are Not Mandatory For Ranking In Google Search Google's John Mueller said again that having links to your site is not a requirement and not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEO Who "Learned A Few Tricks" Landed Large SEO Publisher Job Now Asks How To Do SEO On Reddit This is somewhat both sad and funny and I thought I should share it here. Via Joe Youngblood, an [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
You can now link Google Analytics 4 to Google Search Console The ability to associate GA4 and GSC properties gives SEOs more time to assess GA4’s [...] - Search Engine Land
How to effectively deliver the results of your work to clients When working with clients, make sure you have everything you need for effective communication to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: We Won't Penalize Your Site For Not Nofollowing Affiliate Links Google's John Mueller confirmed again that Google won't likely penalize or give your site a manual [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Washington, D.C. Lobby - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 14 2021

SEO Trends 2022, According to 44 Experts [Ebook] via @sejournal, @MrDannyGoodwin Learn the SEO trends you need to know for 2022. Our new ebook features insights from 44 top SEO [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Analytics vs. Google Analytics 360 Learn about the pros and cons of upgrading to Google Analytics 360 - Search Engine Land
How marketers can prepare for what’s next in page experience A lot has change since the Page Experience update rolled out. At SMX Next, Patrick Stox shared [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Review Snippets rich results report updated You may see a reduction in the number of review objects in this report starting on December 14, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads unaffected by Log4j vulnerability However, if you are using an Ads API Client Library and Apache Log4j versions 2.0 to 2.14.1, you [...] - Search Engine Land
Four tips for SEM teams to adjust to a privacy-focused future Smart ways practitioners can work around the third-party cookie deprecation and privacy regulations - Search Engine Watch
Google Search Testing Empty Design Search Box It looks like Google is testing a more empty style for its search bar. The search bar has no [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Tests Translating Your Query Microsoft Bing seems to be testing a feature to translate your query. Frank Sandtmann sent me a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 13 2021

Google Will Deindex Pages If Site Is Down For Several Days via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google will begin to deindex your pages from search results if your website experiences more than a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Says No Penalty For Using Affiliate Links Without Markup via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's Search Advocate John Mueller says websites will not receive a manual penalty for using [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Experiences Internal Issues During Indexing via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google acknowledges an internal issue with indexing that triggered redirect error notices from [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: You Don’t Need To Be An Authority To Rank via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Not all websites need to be seen as authorities in order to rank well in search results, says [...] - Search Engine Journal
Interpretable Deep Learning for Time Series Forecasting Posted by Sercan O. Arik, Research Scientist and Tomas Pfister, Engineering Manager, Google Cloud [...] - Google Research
Top 4 backlink API vendors compared (1 million domain study) Who has the largest backlink index? We’ve run four million checks with Ahrefs, Majestic, SEO [...] - Search Engine Land
Google issue sent Search Console redirect error notifications; Google will fix issue You can safely ignore this notification if you received it over this past weekend. - Search Engine Land
Google Posts open to hotels for update notices but not promotions Hotels can now officially use Google Posts in their local listings but in a limited way. - Search Engine Land
Google Search Ranking Tracking Tools Continue Showing Major Volatility Pretty much all the tools that automatically track the volatility and changes in the Google search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
I Am A Big Deal On Google Maps Decal From 2018 - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Full Width Autocomplete Search Suggestions Google has been testing showing more in the autocomplete search suggestions drop down bar as you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 13, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google May Finish Mobile-First Indexing Switch Over By July 2022 As you know, Google has dropped its deadline to switch all sites to mobile-first indexing after [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Official: Google Now Allows Hotels To Use Google Posts In July we saw a number of hotels and hospitality business listings say they are seeing the ability [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Amobee expands partnership with CPG analytics and intelligence provider Amobee and IRI offer CPG retailers a way to leverage their purchase and loyalty data in the bid [...] - Marketing Land

December, 12 2021

Google Investigating Mass Notices From Search Console Coverage Issue Redirect Errors Over the past 24 hours or so, Google has sent me dozens of notices from sites I have verified [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 10 2021

Google: Category Or Topic Name In URL Slug Is Not Important For SEO Google's John Mueller said putting the category name or topic name in your URL slug has zero impact [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads refreshes custom columns UI and adds new metrics When it rolls out in a few weeks, advertisers will be able to reference Search, Click and Display [...] - Search Engine Land
Brand familiarity drives social commerce Knowing about a brand makes shoppers overwhelmingly more likely to buy from that brand on social. - Marketing Land
Zero click search: the new consumer comfort zone Because convenience is the key to conversions - Search Engine Watch
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 10, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Alexa.com Going Away - Old Tool SEOs Used To Predict Google Rankings Back in the early 2000s we use to cover Alexa, an Amazon related website ranking service here a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Official: Google Moves Local Pack Results Higher & Map On Right Side After many months of testing, Google has confirmed it is moving the local pack results to the top [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Masking With Android - Search Engine Roundtable
A Fast WordPiece Tokenization System Posted by Xinying Song, Staff Software Engineer and Denny Zhou, Senior Staff Research Scientist, [...] - Google Research

December, 9 2021

Google Reveals Top Searches Of 2021 via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's annual recap of the year's top trending searches offers dozens of ideas for content [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google rolling out new map and local interface in search Google will show local results on the left and a map on the right of those results. - Search Engine Land
Google News performance report updated for accuracy, expect impression reductions This is not a ranking change, this is just a change in how Google reports on your rankings. - Search Engine Land
Ads Creative Studio’s Asset Library is coming to Google Ads Currently in closed beta, the Asset Library displays any existing image assets the advertiser has [...] - Search Engine Land
400+ businesses swear by this secret to their digital marketing success Take the next step to boost your digital presence. - Marketing Land
Google’s Guide To User Generated Content (UGC) via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern A new guide from Google goes over the acceptable ways to incorporate UGC on your website to ensure [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Relevancy & Core Updates Factors Are More Than Just Text On A Page Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that when it comes to Google understanding and ranking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 9, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Search Ranking Algorithm Update Last Week Google may have also pushed out a local search and map algorithm and ranking update over the past [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 8 2021

Google Is Creating A New Core Web Vitals Metric via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google is developing a new responsiveness metric that could be a replacement for First Input Delay - Search Engine Journal
The cost of ignoring website accessibility Non-compliant sites are vulnerable to lawsuits. SEOs can help protect sites and businesses by [...] - Search Engine Land
How expired landing pages kill your Google rankings Soft 404s can lead to a poor user experience, fewer conversions and impact your site's visibility [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Googlebot Not Crawling Over HTTP/3 Yet Google's John Mueller confirmed that Googlebot is not yet crawling over HTTP/3 yet. He said if you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Image Extensions Come To Desktop & More Google announced that image extensions for Google Ads is rolling out to desktop ads now. Note, it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s December 2021 product reviews update was bigger than the April product reviews update, say data providers RankRanger and Semrush provided us with exclusive data breaking down the two product reviews [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Updates Search Results For News Stories On Desktop via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google changes how search results for news stories are presented on desktop by grouping together [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google 2021 Year In Search - Top Searches Google has published this years year in review for the top searches it saw in 2021. From COVID [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Poll: Search Marketers Prefer To Specialize In Their Job Azeem posted a Twitter poll a while back asking the digital marketing community if they prefer to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Sydney, Australia Office Pool Tables & Christmas Lights - Search Engine Roundtable
How email marketing is changing and what marketers should do about it Find out what's been added to the Email Marketing Periodic Table. - Marketing Land
General and Scalable Parallelization for Neural Networks Posted by Yuanzhong Xu and Yanping Huang, Software Engineers; Google Research, Brain Team [...] - Google Research
Google Search Efforts On Inclusive Language Google's John Mueller and Martin Splitt had two special guests on their podcast show this week to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 7 2021

9 in 10 customers more likely to overlook a negative review if the business responds adequately, Yelp says Half of survey respondents said they don’t trust reviews if they know the business asked [...] - Search Engine Land
Improving Vision Transformer Efficiency and Accuracy by Learning to Tokenize Posted by Michael Ryoo, Research Scientist, Robotics at Google and Anurag Arnab, Research [...] - Google Research
Google Ads brings image extensions to desktop devices When the update rolls out in a few weeks, advertisers that are already using image extensions for [...] - Search Engine Land
InMobi CEO bullish about prospects for independents in the advertising space Abhay Singal sees "do not track" and the exit of third-party cookies as creating [...] - Marketing Land
How to align your tech stack with your organization Drive adoption and ROI by aligning your tech stack with your team. - Marketing Land
Down The Google Escalator - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests New Key Moments Video Feature Snippets Layout Google is testing a new layout for the key moments video featured snippets layout in Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 6 2021

Google Ads issue resulted in spend fluctuations for tROAS and Maximize Conversion Value bid strategies on December 2 "The issue has been resolved and everything is now working as expected," a Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Free technical SEO training online next week Grab your free pass now and join us online, Tuesday, December 14, for SMX Build: SEO for Developers! - Search Engine Land
Seismic event or overblown rebrand: Local search experts weigh in on ‘death’ of Google My Business Google’s recent rebranding and new profile management options may be a sign that it’s [...] - Search Engine Land
Google rolling out new Top stories design on desktop The change comes two years after the last redesign. - Search Engine Land
Google Ads updated political content policies Google is ending some election ads exemptions, adding new election ads serving options and changing [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Image Search Tests Latest Section For New Images Google Image Search seems to be testing a new feature to group images by type of search filter. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdSense Deactivating Accounts For Inactivity Again Google is once again deactivating accounts for inactivity. Google AdSense sent out emails last [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft adds simple default browser change option after receiving criticism In Windows 11, Microsoft made switching default browsers a multi-step process. After feedback and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads Election & Political Ad Policy Changes For 2022 Google posted a number of new Google Ads policy changes that take place in January and February [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests New Top Stories Layouts Again Google is once again testing new layouts for the top stories section of the Google Search results. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 6, 2021 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #149: Joseph Goldsmith On His View Of SEO As A Video Guy In part one, we spoke about Joseph Goldsmith and video production topics. In part two, we speak [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Experiments No Longer To Require Drafts Requirement Google seems to be rolling out a new Google Ads experiments workflow that drops the need to use [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
MNTN launches Creative-as-a-Subscription The marketing platform for connected TV aims to simplify the ad process. - Marketing Land

December, 5 2021

December Google Product Reviews Update Is Lit As you all know, Google launched a new algorithm update on December 1st named the December 2021 [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 3 2021

Google confirms a bug with Google Ads Editor image uploads Google is working on a fix for the ad image upload feature in Google Ads Editor. - Search Engine Land
Healthcare Providers Add Insurance & Languages To Google Business Profile Google now lets searchers filter the local search listings for healthcare providers; facilities, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads ditches campaign drafts in updated experiments page The updated experiments workflow is currently rolling out to select advertisers. - Search Engine Land
Why on-site search is the best investment you’ll make in 2022 Explore the relationship between SEO, SEM, and on-site search to get more out of your investments. - Search Engine Land
Google Ads API supports Performance Max campaigns, Keyword Planner and recommendations Google is also reminding advertisers that the AdWords API will be deprecated in April 2022. - Search Engine Land
Google's John Mueller Offers Jurassic Park SEO Advice John Mueller of Google gave a nice one liner of SEO advice using the movie Jurassic Park. He said [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Shopping Ads With Negative Prices Zac Stafford posted a screenshot on Twitter of his client's ads showing negative prices in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 2 2021

Google: Keep 301 Redirects In Place For A Year via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google answers how long 301 redirects should be kept in place after a site move, saying year is the [...] - Search Engine Journal
3 tactics to improve CTAs for increased relevance and conversions CTAs shouldn’t be an afterthought. Including them in your on-page optimizations can help [...] - Search Engine Land
December 2021 Google Product Reviews Update Rolling Out - What We See So Far Google is rolling out yet another confirmed Google search ranking algorithm update - the second [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search lets you see if a doctor or healthcare facility takes your insurance Make sure to update your healthcare client's Google Business Profile and website to ensure Google [...] - Search Engine Land
When Google’s title change goes wrong In Part 4 of our Messy SEO series, we look at how Google's SERP title change gutted one of [...] - Search Engine Land
Google adds PrestaShop to its list of available e-commerce integrations Google now has shopping integrations for retailers on Shopify, WooCommerce, GoDaddy, Square, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Our Product Experts Don't Get A Ranking Boost Or Ranking Secrets Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that the Google Product Experts do not get access to any [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
PrestaShop merchants can now display their products on Google As the end-of-year holiday season is in full swing, our aim at Google is to help shoppers browse [...] - Inside Adwords
2021 Google updates round up: everything businesses need to win at search A simplified and concise list of all the Google updates this year and what they actually meant - Search Engine Watch
Google Boulder Office Conference Room Views Are Insane - Search Engine Roundtable
Search local stores and more with Microsoft Bing Time is important and shoppers are smart. Consumers increasingly check store stock availability and [...] - Bing Search

December, 1 2021

Product reviews update and your site We are now rolling out a new product reviews update, the first major update since April 2021, [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google December 2021 product reviews update rolling out Google said this update will take about three weeks to fully rollout. - Search Engine Land
Google December 2021 Product Review Update via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google announced the rollout of a Product Review Update that will last during three entire weeks. [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s New Pathways AI Is Closer to Mammalian Brain via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google announced a new AI Architecture called Pathways that functions similarly to the human brain [...] - Search Engine Journal
3 SEO metrics to help secure executive-level buy-in Campaign metrics alone may not accurately represent your team's work. At SMX Next, Jessica Bowman [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Chanukah Donuts Easter Egg On Pagination Bar If you search for Hanukkah, Chanukah, Menorah and other related searches, you will not only see the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable