Archive of January, 2022

January, 31 2022

Google Changes More Than 61 Percent Of Title Tags via @sejournal, @brockcooper1 Page titles have a large impact on click-through rates. A recent study shows Google rewrites page [...] - Search Engine Journal
Welcoming the new Search Console URL Inspection API Today we’re launching the new Google Search Console URL Inspection API, which gives [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Announces Search Console URL Inspection API via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google expanded Search Console access with the URL Inspection Tool API which extends [...] - Search Engine Journal
Breadcrumb & HowTo Google Search Console Errors Reporting Changed Google has said it changed the error and issues reporting in Google Search Console for Breadcrumbs [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google releases URL Inspection Tool API You can now programmatically access the data you'd request from the URL Inspection Tool within [...] - Search Engine Land
Deepcrawl launches technical SEO app for Wix Wix’s SEO efforts continue with an app for SMEs that costs $7 per month. - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console Launches URL Inspection API Google this morning launched a new API for Search Console - the URL Inspection API. This API lets [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Recommendations roll out to Discovery campaigns Google Ads also launched auto-applied recommendations for manager accounts and more recommendations [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console error reporting for Breadcrumbs and HowTo structured data changed This change may result in seeing more or less errors in your Breadcrumbs and HowTo structured data [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Penalizing News Publishers With Manual Actions For Discover & Google News About a year ago, Google first introduced guidelines around manual actions for Google Discover and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Reminder: Some Google Ads Search Terms Report Query Data Being Removed Tomorrow As a reminder, Google Ads will be removing some query data from your search terms report on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 31, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
How to personalize your brand on LinkedIn Brands can benefit from influencers on social platforms; they can help personalize their public [...] - Marketing Land

January, 30 2022

Google Says No Correlation Between Impressions And Search Volume via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's Search Advocate John Mueller says the impressions your site receives for a keyword is not [...] - Search Engine Journal
Link Graphs And Google Rankings via @sejournal, @martinibuster Link graphs are a fundamental part of how Google understands websites and ranks them - Search Engine Journal
Google merges its SafeSearch help information into a single new document Google expanded the document to explain how SafeSearch works, added some troubleshooting but the [...] - Search Engine Land

January, 28 2022

‘Untitled’ search results sending users to spam sites, Google ‘working on it’ There are multiple reports about 'Untitled' title tags appearing in Google's search results that [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Unveils .Day Domains via @sejournal, @martinibuster New .Day Top Level Domains makes valuable domains available, with prices dropping every day until [...] - Search Engine Journal
Messy SEO Part 6: Pillar pages and topic clusters In Part 6 of our series, we detail the process behind crafting pillar pages for MarTech to better [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Tests Search Results Without Descriptions Again Google has confirmed it has been testing Google Search result listings without any descriptions, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Deprecating The Google My Business API On April 20, 2022 Google will be deprecating the Google My Business API on April 30, 2022 and replacing it with new [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 27 2022

Does Value of Internal Links Differ Based on Page Location? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller answers if value of an internal link is influenced by the location on the page - Search Engine Journal
Building trust builds brands: SEO link-building strategies that work Rise above the competition with creative, effective and sustainable link-building strategies. - Search Engine Land
Google allows ads for sports betting in Louisiana Advertisers must be state-licensed and certified by Google to run gambling ads. - Search Engine Land
Get ready for Smart Shopping and Local campaign upgrades New year, same trend: Consumers continue to tap into an ever-growing number of places to get [...] - Inside Adwords
Google SERP analysis: PAA appears 10x more than featured snippets Is optimizing for featured snippets an important use of your time? Three years of data may hold the [...] - Search Engine Land
New Google mobile search feature: People Search Next See what Google's new search feature looks like when you do 'near me' searches on mobile. - Search Engine Land
Smart Shopping and Local campaigns to be transitioned to Performance Max by end of Sept. 2022 Google will also launch a “one-click” self-service tool for advertisers that would like [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console logging issue may cause drop in image search performance data The issue started on January 24 and is still ongoing, so please note this in your reports. - Search Engine Land
Multiple Google Search Console Properties For Same Site Is Okay It is okay to have multiple properties verified for the same site in Google Search Console. It is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to win with PPC in a dataless world There's less data available for PPC marketers, but that doesn't mean it's less actionable. At SMX [...] - Search Engine Land
Google "People Search Next" Search Refinements Google has a new search refinement titled "people search next." This is in addition to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Gmail campaigns to stop running on June 28, 2022 The campaign type’s deprecation date is now set, nearly a year after standalone Gmail [...] - Search Engine Land

January, 26 2022

Resolving High-Energy Impacts on Quantum Processors Posted by Matt McEwen, Student Researcher, Google Quantum AI and Lara Faoro, Research Fellow, [...] - Google Research
Google Product Reviews Update Not Designed For Reviews Of Places Or Things Lily Ray asked John Mueller of Google if the product reviews update work also for reviews of places [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Are SEOs Unwilling To Say “I Don’t Know”? via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Martin Splitt, Google's Developer Advocate, believes SEO professionals are unwilling to admit when [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads scripts rolls out support for asset-based video ads Advertisers have until February 28, 2022, to migrate their code from the previous media-based video [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s Topics API: Advertisers share concerns about topic diversity and other potential challenges While paid search marketers applaud Google’s proposed user privacy measures, they’re [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Deep Looking Subfolders In URLs Doesn't Matter For SEO Does it matter how deep your subfolder URL structure is for SEO purposes and Google rankings? No, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to produce actionable content throughout the marketing funnel Too many brands neglect their marketing funnels and miss sales opportunities. At SMX Next, Andrea [...] - Search Engine Land
Most SEOs Think 100% Google Algorithm Transparency Would Lead To Worse Search Results Google has often said that if they shared the full details of how its search algorithms and ranking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Human to Computer Dialog at Google Context Aware Human to Computer Dialog Searchers can increasingly interact with computers using [...] - SEO by the Sea

January, 25 2022

Build on Country Specific Domain Or Use Existing Site? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller offers advice on the multiple considerations prior to choosing how to build [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google kills FLoC, introduces Topics API as its next-gen targeting tech The new Privacy Sandbox proposal determines topics to share with sites and advertisers based on the [...] - Search Engine Land
Seven Google alerts SEOs need to stay on top of everything! Stay on top of competition, prevent a reputation crisis, fix a traffic drop, and do much more [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google’s Core Web Vitals Badge Likely Won’t Happen via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google says there are no plans for a Core Web Vitals badge in search results after proposing the [...] - Search Engine Journal
4 automated campaign types and how to control them Automation should supplement, not replace, your skills. At SMX Next, Michelle Morgan and Joe [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Confirms Testing Emojis In Some Search Ads Google has confirmed it is officially testing placing emojis in some search ads. Darcy Burk [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEO Poll On Near Me Optimization Is Mixed Brodie Clark posted a Twitter poll asking "is optimizing a website for search term variations [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
tCPA may not be going away (yet), but it should: Why it’s time to embrace value-based bidding Determining the value of your conversions can lead to smarter Google Ads bidding. And, if tCPA does [...] - Search Engine Land
Business Name "Keyword Near Me" Might Not Be A Great Idea Chris Tweten posted a photo the other day on Twitter of a dental office sign with its company name [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google May Assign Multiple Languages Per Page Google generally likes you to stick with one language per page, that isn't to say you cannot use [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
67% Of Google Searches Have Duplicate Top Stories & Web Results URLs; Newzdash Last week we broke the news that Google does some form of deduplication of the top stories and web [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 24 2022

Why entity search is necessary for SEO success Keywords are foundational, but entities may be the future. At SMX Next, a panel of SEO experts [...] - Search Engine Land
Google On Redirect Pull Backs Plus Signal Consolidation I am not going to get into the 301 vs 302 redirect debate, covered that countless times here. But I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Separating Birdsong in the Wild for Classification Posted by Tom Denton, Software Engineer and Scott Wisdom, Research Scientist, Google Research [...] - Google Research
Google tests favicons in text ads Google has confirmed a small experiment that might help users more easily identify an advertiser [...] - Search Engine Land
Evolving Core Web Vitals tactics using Cloudflare and WebpageTest In this article, we demonstrate an evolution from an original concept for a testbed to a project [...] - Search Engine Land
Search Engine Roundtable Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: There Is No Schema For Product Images In Web Search Google's John Mueller was asked if there is a way to better control the images that Google shows in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #156: Riley Hope On COVID & Searcher Behavior In part one Riley Hope and I spoke about her SEO career, how she did her thesis on ethics in SEO [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Accurate Alpha Matting for Portrait Mode Selfies on Pixel 6 Posted by Sergio Orts Escolano and Jana Ehman, Software Engineers, Google Research Image matting [...] - Google Research
Google AdSense To Separate YouTube Earnings With Own Payment Threshold Google sent emails to YouTube publishers that their YouTube AdSense payments will be separated from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 23 2022

Google Says It’s Not Possible To Prevent Outages via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google says it's impossible to prevent outages from happening, but the company is aiming to get [...] - Search Engine Journal
Neeva seeks to expand user base with free subscriptions Search marketers will have to pay attention if Neeva can grow its market share. But without search [...] - Search Engine Land
January 22nd Unconfirmed Google Search Ranking Update Again I am seeing signals, both a lot of chatter from the SEO community and tools lighting up [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 21 2022

Google Gives Sites More Indexing Control With New Robots Tag via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern A new robots tag, called indexifembedded, lets websites give Google more direction over which [...] - Search Engine Journal
New robots tag: indexifembedded Today, we're introducing a new robots tag, indexifembedded, that brings you more control over [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Answers Why Entire Top 10 is “Stolen” Content via @sejournal, @martinibuster Danny Sullivan explains why deduplication may temporarily cause an article headline search to drop [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Considers Reducing Webpage Crawl Rate via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google may reduce the frequency of crawling webpages as it grows more conscious of the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google adds new robots tag indexifembedded This new robots tag lets you define if you want your content indexed when it's embedded through [...] - Search Engine Land
How AI can automate SEO tasks at scale AI and its offshoots are expanding capabilities for marketers to help them scale tasks. At SMX [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Might Update & Even Rename The Webmaster Guidelines In 2022 Everyone panic - Google might not just make larger updates to the Google Webmaster Guidelines but [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Wants To Make Crawling More Efficient & Environmental Friendly Google's Gary Illyes said on the last Search Off The Record Podcast that Google in 2022 is looking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads issue impacted some Discover and Performance Max campaigns between Jan. 18-21 The issue, which affected the serving of ads on YouTube, has been resolved. - Search Engine Land
Google updates product structured data for car review snippets Car schema is not supported automatically as a subtype of product schema. - Search Engine Land
Google Requires Both Product & Car Markup For Review Snippets In Google Search Google has updated its product structured data help documents to say that you need both product and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 20 2022

Google Ads launches placement reports for Performance Max campaigns Placement reports show where Performance Max ads have served, which may help with brand safety [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Uses Different Algorithms For Different Languages via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google uses the same search algorithms for most languages, but there are certain cases where a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Another Unconfirmed Google Search Ranking Update (January 19th & 20th) Google has been busy over the last couple of weeks after being taking a bit of a break with the new [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Don't Understand If Content Is Equivalent When In A Different Language Google's John Mueller said in an SEO hangout last Friday that it is impossible for Google to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Semrush acquires SEO training website Backlinko This could make Semrush a more robust source of SEO knowledge and may help it pull away from other [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Reiterates That A Spike In Crawling Unrelated To Upcoming Algorithm Updates Google's John Mueller said again that a spike in crawling activity on your site is unrelated to an [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Danny Goodwin Joins Search Engine Land : Reaction As you all know, I have been with Search Engine Land and SMX since the company was founded and the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 19 2022

Google: FAQ Schema Can Be Used On Select Questions via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Here's what Google advises regarding the use of FAQ markup on only select questions within a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Does Google Have A Problem With Big Robots.txt Files? via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google addresses the subject of robots.txt files and whether it's a good SEO practice to keep them [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Changes Recipe Structured Data Guidance via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's guidance on recipe structured data is updated. Publishers recommended to update [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads’ updated Experiments page sheds campaign drafts and adds experiment sync Changes from the experiment to the base campaign can also be applied with a single click. - Search Engine Land
How analyzing search data can improve your decision-making Search data provides a wealth of insights for marketers. At SMX Next, Matt Colebourne shows how to [...] - Search Engine Land
Marketers, Google agree that proposed ‘surveillance advertising’ ban goes too far Legislation like this could be a game-changer for every digital marketer who advertises on Google, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google recipe markup now requires specific times, no more time ranges Google has removed all references to using time ranges in the recipe schema markup help documents. - Search Engine Land
Google explains how it deduplicates Top Stories from main search results Content that appears in the first slot of the Top Stories section may be deduplicated from the main [...] - Search Engine Land
Google heightens adult ad policy enforcement after Reuters finds illicit ads “Spotty” enforcement can result in inappropriate ads being shown to minors and an [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: SEO Site Migrations Are Hard Because URL Signals Need To Be Forwarded John Mueller is out with another #AskGooglebot Google SEO video, this one is on site migrations and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Some Sites Seeing Massive Crawl Spikes From Googlebot Glenn Gabe noted that he is seeing some weird Google Googlebot activity recently, saying he is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 18 2022

Google’s Advice For Targeting Multiple Locations With One Website via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google provides detailed advice for websites that need to target multiple locations, such as a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Shares Advice on Site Migrations via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google offers tips on completing a successful site migration - Search Engine Journal
Introducing StylEx: A New Approach for Visual Explanation of Classifiers Posted by Oran Lang and Inbar Mosseri, Software Engineers, Google Research Neural networks can [...] - Google Research
URL changes are not so simple for Google Search Making URL changes to your site can take several months for Google to process. - Search Engine Land
How Does Google Search Use Synonyms? via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's Search Advocate John Mueller explains how the search engine uses synonyms and whether [...] - Search Engine Journal
Yoast SEO launches on Shopify Like the WordPress version of the app, Shopify merchants can use it to optimize their products and [...] - Search Engine Land
Desktop Page Experience Report Now In Google Search Console As promised, Google has released the desktop version of the page experience report in Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Empty Google Cafe - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Do Not Use Commas, Brackets Or Non-Standard URL Encoding For Faceted Navigation Google's John Mueller confirmed that the search company's 2014 guidance with faceted navigation [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Will Google Target Fluff Content In Search? The other day I wrote about how Google said fluff content is hard for search engines to understand [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Business Profile Edit Large Overlay In Search Results With Google's new effort to get business owners to manage their business listing in web search and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 17 2022

DuckDuckGo Reaches 100B Searches, But Growth Is Slowing Down via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern DuckDuckGo celebrates a milestone of 100 billion total searches, but the search engine's [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Console launches desktop page experience report We now have a tool from Google to see how well our desktop URLs do with page experience. - Search Engine Land
Vlog #155: Riley Hope On Women In SEO & Automotive Search In part one Riley Hope and I spoke about her SEO career, how she did her thesis on ethics in SEO [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 17, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Product Reviews Update Will Expand, May Use Machine Learning & Can Be Incorporated In Core Updates Google's John Mueller was asked a series of questions around the product reviews update on last [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Hosting Companies Should Serve 500 Status Code On Robot Detection Interstitial Google's John Mueller posted one of those PSA tweets this morning asking hosting companies that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Ranking Update January 14th & 15th (Unconfirmed) Friday and Saturday, January 14th and 15th there may have been another unconfirmed Google search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Target CPA In Google Ads Not Going Away In 2022 Google's Ginny Marvin via the AdsLiaison account on Twitter confirmed that target CPA, tCPA, is not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Surprise Birthday Party At The Google New York City Office - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Location Search Pack With Things To Do, Airports & Transit Stops Google is testing a new layout for location packs that show things to do, airports and transit [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 16 2022

Google Ads bug again for Gmail on desktop Safari browsers Google has confirmed a bug impacting how ads are served on Gmail desktop with Safari browsers. - Search Engine Land

January, 14 2022

Google’s Help Documents Aren’t Always Up To Date via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google admits its help documents aren't always up to date and says it's worthwhile doing your own [...] - Search Engine Journal
What happened when we turned off AMP We went into this experiment knowing there was some risk, but haven't seen anything to make us [...] - Search Engine Land
Poll: 90% Of SEOs Are Vaccinated A Twitter poll with over 1,320 votes shows that 90% of SEOs are vaccinated. Well, at least 90% of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Shopify chat bug lead (1) titles in Google’s search results The issue is resolved but it might take time for your titles to be reprocessed. - Search Engine Land
IndexNow: Announcing Sharing of Submitted URLs Want more control over the content you publish to search engines? Want to have an easier process to [...] - Bing Webmaster
Google Search Showing (1) In Shopify Websites Titles Most SEOs often look at titles tags when browsing web sites, I mean, I do, while the average person [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Learning to Route by Task for Efficient Inference Posted by Sneha Kudugunta, Research Software Engineer and Orhan Firat, Research Scientist, Google [...] - Google Research
Microsoft Bing Tests Related Searches On Left Microsoft Bing is testing placing the related searches list on the left side of the search results [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google 1/11 Search Algorithm Update, Manual Actions Delayed, Core Update Specifics & Microsoft Bing IndexNow News We had our first unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update of the 2022 year... - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 13 2022

IndexNow Enables Data Sharing Between Search Engines via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Microsoft is making the IndexNow protocol easier to implement by ensuring submitted URLs are [...] - Search Engine Journal
DuckDuckGo passes 100 billion searches DuckDuckGo, the privacy focused search engine, keeps growing steadily. - Search Engine Land
How to build a long-term, search-first marketing strategy A transformed digital landscape means marketers must think search-first. - Marketing Land
Survey Says SEOs To Allocate More Resources To Content Over Other Areas Aleyda Solis posted a Twitter poll asking "in what area do you expect to allocate more [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to build a long-term, search-first marketing strategy A transformed digital landscape means marketers must think search-first. - Search Engine Land
IndexNow now officially co-sharing URLs between Microsoft Bing and Yandex Plus, you can now use api.indexnow.org's endpoint to submit URLs. - Search Engine Land
Google Business Profile Makes New Mangers & Owners Wait 7 Days To Manage Profiles Google is putting new Google Business Profile owners and managers into a sandbox, penalty box or a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Fluff Content Hard For Search Engines To Understand & Maybe Rank Google's John Mueller the other day said on Twitter the example given to him was "less about [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Search Results Grouping, Carousels & Count Labels Google has been pushing the limits of its user interfaces in the local search results in web search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Unbounce acquires LeadsRX marketing analytics The conversion intelligence platform adds marketing performance analytics and attribution. - Marketing Land

January, 12 2022

Google Business Profiles sets waiting period for new owners and managers Newly granted users now must wait 7 days before they can manage all the features of the profile. - Search Engine Land
Google Search Ranking Update On January 11th (Unconfirmed) There may have been a Google search ranking algorithm update on January 11, 2022. This would be [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Yoast SEO 17.9 adds keyphrase performance tracking Yoast SEO partnered with SEO tool provider Wincher for these capabilities. - Search Engine Land
Your guide to Core Web Vitals tactics using Cloudflare and WebpageTest Here is how to test Core Web Vitals scores and code changes using Cloudflare Workers as a reverse [...] - Search Engine Land
Why does Google tip us off to search updates with minor ranking impacts but surprise us with the major ones? It is the updates Google does not give us huge lead time to prepare for that impact the rankings [...] - Search Engine Land
E-commerce sales jumped this holiday season as search marketers weathered Google updates Despite supply chain challenges, U.S. consumers spent more than $204 billion online this holiday [...] - Search Engine Land
Poll: SEOs Not Confident In Giving Advice Around Google Discover Alan Kent from Google posted an "informal poll" on Twitter asking SEOs "how [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Still Recommending Disavowing Whole Domains With Machete Google's John Mueller said on Twitter "disavow the whole domain if you know there's an issue [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 11 2022

Google Can’t Provide Details About Core Algorithm Updates via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Announcements about core algorithm updates are unlikely to get more detailed in the future, as [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Nofollow Is Not A Substitute For Noindex via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's Search Advocate John Mueller advises that the nofollow link attribute isn't a substitute [...] - Search Engine Journal
Does Uniqueness of Content Help Rankings? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller offers a surprising insight on uniqueness of content and ranking - Search Engine Journal
Google Research: Themes from 2021 and Beyond Posted by Jeff Dean, Senior Fellow and SVP of Google Research, on behalf of the entire Google [...] - Google Research
Google’s page experience update coming to desktop next month This won't be a big update, but do expect new Search Console reports soon as well. - Search Engine Land
Why server logs matter for SEO Server log analysis can provide unparalleled insights into crawl prioritization, enabling SEO teams [...] - Search Engine Land
Should your SEO team invest in SEO tools? Before you purchase these essential tools, make sure your organization has the resources, and the [...] - Search Engine Land
SEO Strategy: A Full Year Blueprint (+Template) [Ebook] via @sejournal, @mirandalmwrites Get an easy-to-follow 12-month SEO blueprint to create profitable strategies, track your progress, [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Links Have To Be On Indexed Pages To Be Counted & Not Also All Indexed Links Are Counted Google said it is okay to ignore toxic links that some tools are reporting but why? Well, we know [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
6 key elements of a successful ABM strategy In this webinar, learn how modern B2B marketing is more insightful, global and illuminating than [...] - Marketing Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 11, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Web Stories For NFL Games (In Place Of YouTube Videos) Google is testing displaying web stories in place of YouTube videos for searches on NFL games. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Local Campaigns Ad Scheduling Isn't Allowed Did you know that your local campaigns in Google Ads can now be scheduled to turn on or off on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Logo On Barbell Weight Plates - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 10 2022

Google Has Two Types Of Crawling – Discovery & Refresh via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google utilizes two types of crawling methods when it goes through webpages — one to discover [...] - Search Engine Journal
Does Google Use Analytics and Chrome Data for Ranking? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller answers questions about bounce rate and whether Chrome and Analytics data is [...] - Search Engine Journal
3 ways to check technical SEO health issues on your website Technical SEO is vital to keep your website healthy. At SMX Next, Ashley Berman Hale shows how [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads releases disapproved ads auditor tool This tool is for developers to integrate into their backends and helps you flag and delete policy [...] - Search Engine Land
SEO software tools: What marketers need to know SEO platforms offer numerous capabilities that range from keyword research and rank-checking to [...] - Search Engine Land
Many SEOs Will Buy Links In 2022 Despite Google's Webmaster Guidelines Tim Soulo from ahrefs posted a Twitter poll asking will you pay money to get links in 2022? Sadly, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Ignore Threats For Do-Follow Links Google's John Mueller said you can ignore threats and blackmail emails from people who demand [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 10, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #154: Riley Hope On Ethics in SEO & Automotive SEO Riley Hope came to visit me at my office in October to talk SEO. Riley started in SEO by doing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 8 2022

How To Help Google Rank Products With Duplicate Descriptions via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller answers what to do about duplicate descriptions for products that are [...] - Search Engine Journal

January, 7 2022

Google: One Part Of Site Can Hurt Entire Site Quality via @sejournal, @martinibuster John Mueller discusses how Google assesses websites for site quality, which is important given how [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Ignore Toxic Links, Some Tools Make The Wrong Assumptions Google's John Mueller said it again, when it comes to "toxic links" you can ignore them. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Keyword Density Still Not An SEO Search Ranking Factor So it is now 2022 and some folks are asking if keyword density is an SEO Google search ranking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads to allow ads for sport betting in New York Mobile or online sports bets can be placed in New York beginning Saturday morning and with that [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AdSense related search experiments re-enabled 8-months later, Google AdSense related search custom search style experiments is working again. - Search Engine Land
Google Adds Shops Section To Search Results Google has recently added a new section to the mobile search results named "Shops." This [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Bing's IndexNow For WordPress, Google SEO Topics, Links In 2022 & More It was a slow start to 2022 but I guess that is welcomed by most of you - I have my January 2022 [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEO Office Hours: Recent Session Recaps, January 2022 SEO Office Hours: Recent Session Recaps & Key Takeaways — We’re kicking off the new [...] - DeepCrawl Blog
Trying To Adds Exact Match Keywords To Google Ads? Google Says Nope, We're Adding Broad Match Keywords Drew Cannon posted on Twitter a screenshot of him adding new exact match keywords to his Google Ads [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdSense Resumes Related Search Experiments After 8 Months Google has resumed the AdSense related search Custom search style experiments after pausing it back [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 7, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 6 2022

Google launches ‘Shops’ section in mobile search results The Shops section shows three to ten retailers based on their organic search rankings. - Search Engine Land
Does Domain Extension Affect SEO? Google’s John Mueller Explains via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's Search Advocate John Mueller answers whether your domain extension affects SEO, and other [...] - Search Engine Journal
How customer reviews can improve your SEO efforts Customer reviews aren't just for show. At SMX Next, Kyra Sammis explains how marketers can use [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads error tells advertisers exact match keywords are saving as broad match The issue has no impact on how keywords are saved and Google is working on a fix. - Search Engine Land
Google Discover Tests New Look For Trending Searches Google is testing a new look and design for the trending searches you see on the Google home page [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
IndexNow WordPress Plugin Released By Microsoft Bing Our friends at Microsoft Bing released a holiday gift over Christmas, the IndexNow WordPress [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Street View Skier With 360 Cameras - Search Engine Roundtable
Cars For Sale On Google Business Profiles Google is showing more and more cars for sales in the local search results. Saad AK spotted it the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google People Also Ask With Read Full Answer Button Google is testing a new option on some people also ask results, an option to click a button that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 5 2022

Microsoft releases IndexNow plugin for WordPress Microsoft Bing has released a plugin for WordPress to let you easily integrate the IndexNow [...] - Search Engine Land
How to automate your ad copy without sacrificing control Expanded text ads are going away, but they can still help you unlock the potential of RSAs. At SMX [...] - Search Engine Land
Google fixes user and permissions issue with Search Console Full user permissions no longer shows as delegated owners for some - this is now resolved. - Search Engine Land
Google: Rel Sponsored Not Needed For Internal Links To Affiliate Product Reviews You do not need to nofollow or use a rel sponsored attribute on your internal links, even if those [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Users and Permissions Issue Fixed A few months ago we reported about a Google Search Console users permissions issue. Well, that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Comscore launches new cross-platform measurement solution Comscore Everywhere will provide deduplicated insights into media consumtpion across channels. - Marketing Land
Google Search Console Office Corner - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Stock Levels Should Not Impact Search Rankings Google's John Mueller was asked if stock levels can impact the ranking of products on an e-commerce [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 4 2022

Google Search Console Geotargeting Can Hurt Search Rankings via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Utilizing Google Search Console's international targeting feature, also known as [...] - Search Engine Journal
Yoast SEO to launch on Shopify The well-known WordPress app will be available for Shopify merchants on Jan. 18, 2022. - Search Engine Land
Author Archive Pages And E-A-T via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller answers what effect would no-indexing author archives have on E-A-T - Search Engine Journal
How marketers can prepare for and respond to Google’s algorithm updates Google updates its algorithms all the time, which leaves many marketers playing catch-up. At SMX [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console International Targeting Setting Can Take Weeks Google's John Mueller said that it can take from a week to a couple of months for Google Search to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The not-so-SEO checklist for 2022 Best-selling author, Kris Jones debunks SEO myths and dishes out logical advice on the three things [...] - Search Engine Watch
Advice: Don't Migrate Domains & Drop Google AMP The Same Time It might not be the best idea to migrate to a new domain name and at the same time also drop your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Tests Blue Header Ric Rodriguez has spotted Google testing a blue colored header for the mobile search results. He [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
ON24 announces new integrations with Drift Virtual events and conversational marketing are teaming up to deliver cross-channel insights into [...] - Marketing Land
Google Local Results Displays Bike & Car Charging Icons In Local Results Google is now showing bike icons for the bikeshare data it shows in the local search results, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Pages That Look Like Error Pages Can Be Considered Soft 404s Several months ago Google told us that returning a "results not found" type of page can [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 4, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's User Agent Horse Wears A Mask - But It's A Bit Hoarse - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 3 2022

Google: Quality Of Your Languages On Your Multilingual Site Can Impact Each Other Google's John Mueller confirmed on the December 31st SEO hangout that if you have multiple versions [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #153: Colt Sliva On Going Beyond Frequency Statistics In SEO In part one, we spoke about how Colt Sliva became an SEO engineer and some topics around [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Products Rich Result Report Updated On December 28, 2021, Google updated the rich results report for product structured data in Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Site Duplicated With IP Address Won't Lead To Your Site Being Removed From Search Generally Google will list a site in its search results with the domain name, not the IP address [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 3, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Biking At The GooglePlex - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: The Coverage Report Won't Get unavailable_after Meta Tag John Mueller of Google was asked if the Google Search Console coverage report can show the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
John Mueller Of Google Helping Webmasters On New Years 2022 As expected, John Mueller of Google was at it again on New Years eve and New Years day - helping [...] - Search Engine Roundtable