Archive of February, 2022

February, 28 2022

How to turn data into insights and impactful SEO strategies Are you extracting all the value from your data? Learn how you can transform data into insights to [...] - Search Engine Land
3 ways to optimize internal linking Poor internal link structure can end up harming your site's rankings. At SMX Next, Jonathan Epstein [...] - Search Engine Land
Vlog #161: Taylor Kurtz On SEO Gratitude & Getting Up Early To Work Taylor Kurtz (@realtaylorkurtz) is the Founder of Crush the Rankings and he stopped by my office to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Blocks Search Ads From So-Called Donetsk People's Republic & Luhansk People's Republic Google has posted a new legal requirement policy that blocks search ads related to what is going on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Internal SEO Experts Hosting SEO Workshop - Is That Okay? David Mihm pointed out on Twitter that Google is hosting a partner workshop event named "Drive [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Local Pack Is Now Interactive (Not A Static Map) Allie Margeson from Whitespark noticed that the Google local pack in the search results is no [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Making A Video At Google For Edible Food Surplus - Search Engine Roundtable
Constrained Reweighting for Training Deep Neural Nets with Noisy Labels Posted by Abhishek Kumar and Ehsan Amid, Research Scientists, Google Research, Brain Team Over [...] - Google Research
PSA: Google Top Stories Eligibility For All Pages, Not Just AMP Or Good Page Experience Scores This is just a reminder, since I covered this back last April but I forgot myself, there is really [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Search Bar Filters & Options On Top Right Side I am seeing multiple reports of Google placing the search bar filters, you know, the bar that says [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 28, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 27 2022

Are Brand Mentions Important to Google’s Algorithm? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller answers if brand mentions are important to Google's algorithm - Search Engine Journal
Google Search local pack’s map is now interactive The new map lets you zoom, pan, hover and click to see more details on the map. - Search Engine Land

February, 26 2022

Rank Math WordPress SEO Plugin Adds IndexNow via @sejournal, @martinibuster Bing announces that the IndexNow protocol added to Rank Math WordPress SEO Plugin - Hands-on review [...] - Search Engine Journal

February, 25 2022

Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update On February 24th (Unconfirmed) I am seeing new signs of a possible, but yet, unconfirmed Google Search ranking algorithm update [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
A Guide to More Credible Websites Why More Credible Websites? I have seen buzz around the topic of more credible websites and the [...] - SEO by the Sea
SEO dos and don’ts of website migration Site migrations are necessary at times, but rankings and traffic can drop if you're not careful. At [...] - Search Engine Land
IndexNow integrations grow as Bing says ‘millions’ of sites are using it Duda, All in One WordPress SEO plugin and Rank Math SEO plugin gain IndexNow support. - Search Engine Land
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Page Experience Update For Desktop, Shopping Experience Scorecard, Stronger Pirate Update & Google Ads Latency This week was packed with algorithm and ranking topics but not the typical unconfirmed Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Three Image Links In Mobile Search Ads Google is testing an ad format, that I think is new, where it has three images in the ad, all that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google SEO Recognition Or Stamp Of Approvals Does Not Exist Google's John Mueller if a claim found on an SEO website that says "recognized by Google as an [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 24 2022

Google On The SEO Impact Of Changing Website Hosting Location via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google addresses whether the changing your website hosting provider to one in a new location can [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google makes offline conversion tracking easier with Enhanced Conversions for Leads The new method can be configured entirely from your Google Ads account instead of your CRM. - Search Engine Land
Answering Queries With A Knowledge Graph How Do Knowledge Graphs And Search Work Together? There are at least a couple of processes that [...] - SEO by the Sea
Buy on Google gets rid of order caps and automatic suspensions The changes remove potential bottlenecks for retailers, but how will Google ensure that merchants [...] - Search Engine Land
Google's John Mueller On When You Should Make A Blog Google's John Mueller posted on Reddit about when he thinks one should pursue starting down the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Rolls Out Enhanced Conversions For Leads As reported by George Nguyen, Google is now officially launching enhanced conversions for leads. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Image Search Tests Rounded Corners On Images Google Image Search is testing rounding the corners on the images it displays in the search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Shoppers may soon be able to message merchants via Google Shopping Google is running a messaging pilot program that would enable customers to send messages to your [...] - Search Engine Land

February, 23 2022

Google Explains Geotargeting Via URL Subdirectories via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller explains how websites can optimize content for search [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Page Experience Update For Desktop Rolling Out Google is now rolling out the desktop version of the Google Page Experience update. This rollout [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdSense separates YouTube earnings into its own payments account In addition to separate payment thresholds, the platform is also adding a dedicated AdSense for [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AdSense Estimated Earnings Report Is Broken Right Now There are numerous reports that the Google AdSense estimated earnings report on the AdSense console [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
BrightEdge acquires Oncrawl in enterprise SEO shakeup Oncrawl will continue to run under BrightEdge's umbrella. Here's what the deal means to both [...] - Search Engine Land
Duda - Professional Website Builder - Supports IndexNow Duda supports IndexNow out of the box, so that Webmasters using Duda can quickly reflect latest [...] - Bing Webmaster
Google Ads latency issues and error messages within advertiser console Google has confirmed the issue and is currently investigating these reports. - Search Engine Land
Google AdSense earnings report may be buggy Google has not yet confirmed the issue but there are numerous complaints from publishers. - Search Engine Land
Google Shopping Experience Scorecard Will Promote Merchants In Search That Provide Excellent Customer Service Google is emailing folks who use the Google Merchant Center about a new Shopping experience [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
YouTube is the Main Stream: Our NewFronts and Upfronts approach The way we watch TV has changed. We increasingly stream it on our connected TVs (CTVs) and mobile [...] - Inside Adwords

February, 22 2022

Google Page Experience Update For Desktop Starts Rolling Out via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's Page Experience algorithm update for desktop search results is now rolling out [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Says ‘Discovered – Currently Not Indexed’ Status Can Last Forever via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern The ‘Discovered - Currently not indexed’ status in Google Search Console’s Index [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Strengthens The Pirate (DMCA) Penalty Algorithm Google sent a document to the U.S. Copyright Office that explains how Google's DMCA update (aka the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to improve E-A-T for YMYL pages Learn what type of content Google considers to be YMYL and where to focus your SEO efforts to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google page experience update for desktop now rolling out As expected, Google is now rolling out the desktop version of the page experience update, this [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s Pirate Update can cause 89% drop in search traffic for offending site A recent document Google sent to the U.S. Copyright Office shows just how much being hit by the [...] - Search Engine Land
Poll Implies Most SEOs Don’t Disavow Spammy Links via @sejournal, @martinibuster Twitter poll seems to indicate that most SEOs choose to ignore spammy links rather than disavow them - Search Engine Journal
New Google Shopping experience scorecard Those merchants who provide an excellent customer experience will see a boost in rankings and other [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Colorized Backgrounds For Search Ads & More Microsoft is testing or rolling out colorized background patterns for search ads, shopping search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 21 2022

Is Author Expertise Important To Google’s Algorithm? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller answers the question of whether author expertise is important to Google's [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Merchant Center adds short title option for smaller ad placements Short titles differ from the existing title attribute in that they’re intended to show in [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 21, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Standard Shopping Campaigns Will Continued To Be Supported Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, confirmed on Twitter that "standard Shopping campaigns [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Using The Indexing API Not For Jobs Or Livestreams Won't Hurt Or Help As you know, Google has an indexing API to expedite indexing of two content types. It is only [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How Google Crawls Pages With Infinite Scrolling via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google is capable of crawling webpages that utilize infinite scrolling to a certain extent. [...] - Search Engine Journal
How core web vitals and page experience are different Core web vitals are important, but they're just one part of page experience. At SMX Next, Diane [...] - Search Engine Land
Casino Poker Table At Google Germany Office - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: No EAT Score But EAT Is Important & Indirectly In The Search Ranking Algorithm It has been some time since I covered the topic of E-A-T (expertise, authoritativeness and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #160: Brain Wallace On Promoting Infographics & What SEOs Are Missing In part one we spoke about how Brian Wallace of NowSourcing got into infographics, how it is not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google On Pagination & The Value Of Showing Newer Content First In this next question, Google's John Mueller was asked about the downside of having newer content [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Web Stories Performance Not Indicative Of Overall Site Performance In Search Google's John Mueller said that the performance of your Web Stories in Google Search is not related [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 20 2022

Google On The SEO Value Of User Comments On Websites via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Should you allow users to leave comments on your website? They could help with SEO, as long as [...] - Search Engine Journal

February, 18 2022

Robust Routing Using Electrical Flows Posted by Ali Kemal Sinop and Kostas Kollias, Research Scientists, Google Research In the world [...] - Google Research
Google testing questions and answers in the Google Maps interface This feature first launched in 2017 in the local panel and Google appears to be testing it in [...] - Search Engine Land
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update Brewing, Google Ads Disapprovals, Google Reporting Glitches & More This week, we reported about a possible Google search ranking algorithm update brewing, after weeks [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Video On How BERT Helps With Google Search - It's The Little Words Google has posted a new video on how BERT helps Google Search understand language. Google has been [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Tests Various Favicons In Title Tags Here is an interesting test from Microsoft Bing. The search company is testing placing a newspaper [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Life Size Outdoor Chess Set At Google Zurich - Search Engine Roundtable
Questions and Answers In The Google Maps Interface The questions and answers section is often found for local listings local knowledge panel listing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 17 2022

Google launches Google Business Profiles calls API Businesses can pull call history data from this API and into their CRM software. - Search Engine Land
Google Web Stories – The New AMP? via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google’s push for adoption of Web Stories is drawing comparisons to AMP, another lightweight [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google And The Right To Be Forgotten via @sejournal, @brockcooper1 Learn how the Right to be Forgotten works, which allows people to request URL delisting on Google, [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google confirms Standard Shopping campaigns will remain available This will come as a relief to advertisers that still rely on Standard Shopping’s manual [...] - Search Engine Land
Could 57% Of North American SMBs Still Lack An SEO Strategy? via @sejournal, @mirandalmwrites A recent survey of 600 SMBs shows 57% do not have an SEO strategy – and 23% have no plans to [...] - Search Engine Journal
How to avoid international SEO mistakes International SEO is an important piece of any global marketing strategy. In a recent webinar, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google dropping follow and welcome offers in local listings Soon, you won't be able to follow local businesses in Google anymore. - Search Engine Land
Is Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update Coming Soon? Over the past couple of weeks, the Google search rankings have been pretty stable and calm. It [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Double Site Name & URL In Search Snippets Google is testing showing the site name and URL twice in the search result snippets in Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Business Profiles New Business Calls API Google has launched a new API to retrieve call history data from your Google Business Profiles, you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Quickly Processing Discover & Google News Manual Actions A couple of weeks ago we reported that Google was sending out its first batch of manual actions [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Not New: 15% Of Search Queries On Google Are Still New Here is a not new piece of data, 15% of the searches Google sees each day are new. Google shared [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google vs. Edible Arrangements: Court rejects ‘theft’ claim Edible Arrangements was seeking damages from Google for selling its name via search ads. The court [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 17, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Machine Learning for Mechanical Ventilation Control Posted by Daniel Suo, Software Engineer and Elad Hazan, Research Scientist, Google Research, on [...] - Google Research

February, 16 2022

Google: No SEO Bonus For Keyword-Based Domains via @sejournal, @martinibuster John Mueller says keyword-based domains are limiting and provide no SEO bonus. He then offered [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: There Is No Snippet Wide Ban Over the past few months, there have been some SEO folks asking me about Google's snippet wide ban. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Good Core Web Vitals Scores Won’t Improve Indexing via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Having good Core Web Vitals scores won’t necessarily lead to improved indexing of your [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Business Profiles Manager Removes Appointment Link Google Business Profile manager seems to have removed the ability to modify or add a new [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s Privacy Sandbox, including the Topics API, is coming to Android Google is soliciting feedback for its initial design proposals and is expecting to launch in beta [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: No Plans For Keyword Tab In Performance Max But Negative Keywords Are Coming Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison said on Twitter that there are no plans for a keyword tab in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Conductor acquires technical SEO monitoring tool ContentKing ContentKing customers can continue to use the tool. Conductor plans to fully integrate ContentKing [...] - Search Engine Land
Smart Pages, Microsoft’s free site builder, is now available to US-based SMBs The company also announced feature updates, including video embeds and integration with Bing Maps. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 16, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Asks Do You Own This Product Before Reviewing It Google is now asking searchers if they own the product before they rate it. Google asks under the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 15 2022

Good News About the Carbon Footprint of Machine Learning Training Posted by David Patterson, Distinguished Engineer, Google Research, Brain Team Machine learning [...] - Google Research
Local SEO: The Definitive Guide To Improve Your Local Search Rankings [Ebook] via @sejournal, @duchessjenm People searching for a local business online are usually ready to convert – right now. Get [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google denies mass search ad disapprovals or bugs with ad policy enforcement There are widespread reports of Google Ads disapproving ads and accounts in the past 24-hours but [...] - Search Engine Land
New Google AdSense Related Search For Content Pages Google has announced a new AdSense ad unit named related search for content pages. The feature [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: How You Implement Analytics Does Not Affect SEO Google's John Mueller said that your SEO is not impacted by the way you implement your analytics [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Needs At Least 15 Conversion In 30 Days For Machine Learning To Work Better Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, confirmed some time ago that for the Google Ads machine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Trade Desk launches OpenPath The new adtech product will connect advertisers with premium publishers, sidestepping Google Open [...] - Marketing Land
Microsoft Advertising Expands, Now In 29 New Countries Microsoft announced the expansion of Microsoft Advertising in 29 new countries. This expansion goes [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 15, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Disapproving & Suspending Accounts In Masses? I am seeing tons of reports over the past 24 hours of complaints around mass disapproving of ads [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 14 2022

Do Small Sites Have A Chance Anymore? via @sejournal, @martinibuster John Mueller says if you're a small company competing with large companies it's always going to be [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google AdSense launches related search for content pages The new feature is designed to drive incremental ad revenue while encouraging more engagement from [...] - Search Engine Land
Google crawl stats report is missing a chunk of data This seems to be just a reporting issue, as everyone seems to be impacted by this Google Search [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads To Create & Show More Ad Extensions In Search Google announced that it has is releasing more features to potentially show more ad extensions [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Crawl Stats Report Missing A Day It looks like there is a missing day, a data gap, in the Google Search Console crawl stats report. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: More Content Does Not Mean More Traffic Google's John Mueller said on Twitter "more content definitely does not mean more [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 14, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Large Sitelinks Block Design Google seems to be testing really large sitelinks for some Google search ads in the mobile search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Construction Worker Pipe Bending At Google NYC - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Reporting Delay Bug Causes Advertiser Confusion On Friday, February 11th, Google confirmed an issue with the Google Ads reports where there was a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 11 2022

The benefits of dynamic rendering for SEO Google is getting better at crawling JavaScript, but there are still limitations. At SMX Next, Nati [...] - Search Engine Land
3 changes coming to Google Ads automated extensions The way Google Ads automated extensions work is changing. Here’s what you need to know. - Search Engine Land
Google Ads issue results in missing conversions from data-driven attribution The issue, which occurred between 7:54 p.m. and 12:34 p.m. PST on February 9, has been resolved and [...] - Search Engine Land
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Weird Google Algorithm Patterns, New Google Ad Label, Unusual Googlebot Crawling Issue, Search Console Loss & More Messages The Google algorithm ranking tracking tools seems to be having fun, or maybe they are off, I am [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests A Curved With Green Border & More Visible Ad Label Google seems to be testing a new ad label on the search ads that is way more noticeable than the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Create a high-impact link-building program Learn how to evaluate sites for quality and drive your ranking. - Search Engine Land
PSA: Upload Your Own Videos To Your Google Ads Performance Max Campaign Or Google Will For You There have been some recent complaints that Google Ads is creating and picking its own videos for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The path forward with the Privacy Sandbox Google’s aim with the Privacy Sandbox is to improve web privacy for people around the [...] - Inside Adwords
Google ad label experiment makes it easier to distinguish paid results The design is a throwback to 2017’s green, boxed ad labels. - Search Engine Land
Google AdSense Has A Revenue Calculator Widget Google AdSense has a revenue calculator widget that estimates how much money you can make from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Poll: SEMs Go Deep On Keyword Research A Twitter poll by Liraz Postan showed that many SEOs and SEMs go pretty deep with their keyword [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
10 top retail sector video ads of 2021 There are some reversible, pandemic-related wins and at least one trend that may be long-term. [...] - Marketing Land

February, 10 2022

Google On The SEO Impact Of Dates In Title Tags via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller addresses whether including publishing dates in webpage [...] - Search Engine Journal
How to create a multi-site indexing monitoring system using the URL Inspection API and Analytics Edge In this tutorial, you'll learn a step-by-step process you can use to create a multisite URL [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Tests Larger Fonts In Desktop Search Bar Google is testing using a larger font in the desktop search bar where you type your query. Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Optimizing Core Web Vitals: Why real-user monitoring is key With Core Web Vitals now a key factor in search rankings for mobile and desktop, publishers must [...] - Search Engine Land
Be ready for what’s next: growing your business in 2022 Like many of you, I’ve spent the first month of 2022 ramping back up at work and making [...] - Inside Adwords
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 10, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Bulleted Descriptions In Search Ads Yusuf Ozbay spotted Google Search testing bulleted descriptions in the Google Ads spot. So instead [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads API Version 10 Now Available Google has released version 10.0 of the Google Ads API. Keep in mind, the AdWords API will sunset [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 9 2022

Bing’s New PubHub Offers Millions Of New Site Visitors via @sejournal, @martinibuster Bing's new PubHub is a new way to bring millions of site visitors to news sites of all sizes - Search Engine Journal
Google Recommends Original Photos For Product Reviews via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller recommends using original photos when publishing [...] - Search Engine Journal
Expect more messages in Google Search Console Google said it finished the migration of all the messages into the new Search Console interface. - Search Engine Land
Google tests bulleted lists in ads Screenshots of the test show up to three bullet points beneath the headline. - Search Engine Land
Google gives more visibility to local news publishers Google search may show local news stories more often in Top Stories. Google News Showcase also gets [...] - Search Engine Land
How marketers can create a holistic search strategy SEO and PPC teams can empower each other when they work together. At SMX Next, Allison Duvall and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads API v10 is now available Additions include general availability for Smart Campaigns and support for Local Service Ads [...] - Search Engine Land
Survey Says: The Pandemic Brought An Increase In Demand For SEO Joe Hall posted a Twitter poll asking the SEO community how the pandemic impacted their SEO [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 8 2022

Google Will Likely Index Content That’s Important via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller discusses the kind of content that is more likely to be indexed - Search Engine Journal
Robot See, Robot Do Posted by Kevin Zakka, Student Researcher and Andy Zeng, Research Scientist, Robotics at Google [...] - Google Research
Google: CTAs Above The Fold Is Not Bad For Google Search Or SEO There is a new SEO myth floating around that says CTAs, call to action buttons, placed above the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google adds Journeys to Chrome: search your history by topic Want to resume searching for topics you did days or weeks ago? Google Chrome's new Journeys feature [...] - Search Engine Land
4 ways to boost your paid search performance You are swimming in data. Here's how to unlock insights for better ad copy relevancy, targeting, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google launches revamped Search Ads 360 The new Search Ads 360 supports Performance Max and Discovery campaigns, includes a refreshed UI [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing News PubHub moves to Bing Webmaster Tools Bing News PubHub launched in 2016 at its own location but it has now been migrated into Bing [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Code To Text Ratio Is Not & Has Never Been An SEO Factor Google's John Mueller and Gary Illyes both said in a Reddit thread that code to text ratios for SEO [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Atlanta Tower - Search Engine Roundtable
The SEO tool you use shouldn’t become the SEO project Data without wisdom is useless. That is why relying only on the recommendations of your SEO [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads Tests Global Site Tag With Automatic User Data Collection Google Ads is testing a new feature for the global site tag that can be configured to automatically [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to win at content creation, Esports, gaming, and web3 markets with SEO Advice on finding the route to a thriving presence in these industries - Search Engine Watch
Microsoft Bing Expands Car & Automobile Search Microsoft Bing, in this crazy car market, has expanded its search features to help you buy a car. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 7 2022

Google: Update Dates On Articles When You Significantly Change Existing Content Google's John Mueller said it only makes sense to update the date on a piece of content or article [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google On The SEO Impact Of Changing Page Titles Every Day via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller explains whether updating page titles every day will [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google says Shopify sites are in a good crawling state after reports of stalled crawling Google Search Console's crawl stats report showed Google stopped crawling many Shopify sites last [...] - Search Engine Land
Google tests Buying Guides in mobile search results Buying Guides may present visibility opportunities for your content marketing campaigns. - Search Engine Land
8 SEO tools to get Google Search Console URL Inspection API insights Discover some free tools, SEO crawler integrations, and scripts to leverage with Google Search [...] - Search Engine Land
Some Google Algorithm Tracking Tools Are Reporting An Update But Results Are Mixed Over the past couple of days, some of the Google search algorithm tracking tools were reporting [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console performance reports data issue may impact analytics This issue was between February 1st through February 3rd and did not impact your rankings. - Search Engine Land
Google Shows More Product Rich Results For Pages Without Structured Data Starting in mid-December, Google seemed to start showing more product rich results in the search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Massive Super G Logo Signage At New GooglePlex Office - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Fixes Shopify Crawling Issue, Calling It A Temporary Drop In Calculation Last week, we saw reports that some Shopify sites were showing massive declines in crawling [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 7, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Rolls Out Black Bar Knowledge Panels With Links That Don't Work? Yesterday, Brian Freiesleben and Khushal Bherwani both noticed a new design for some of the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 4 2022

Shopify SEO Guide: How to increase organic traffic to your store SEO tips to fully optimize your Shopify site for higher rankings and more sales. - Search Engine Land
Subdomain to Main Domain Site Migrations via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller explains the complexity of migrating a subdomain to a main domain - Search Engine Journal
Google Manual Actions And Honest SEO Mistakes via @sejournal, @brockcooper1 Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller answers a question about making honest mistakes in SEO [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Buying Guides In Search Results Google is testing, at least I can't replicate it right now, enhanced buying guides in the search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Enhanced conversions: Google tests global site tags with automatic collection This feature may be particularly useful for SMBs that might not otherwise be able to implement [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Doesn't Use MUM For Ranking Or Much Of Anything In Google Search So I wrote this pretty deep dive into how Google uses AI in Google Search at Search Engine Land, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google URL Inspection API, Manual Actions Galore, New Partner Programs, Earnings, MUM, Web3 & More I posted the monthly Google webmaster report for February 2022, so check it out. Google released a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Bing adds automobile and car search features This is powered through the sell your car feature in the MSN Autos Marketplace. - Search Engine Land
SEOs Says Google Page Experience More Important Despite There Being No Impact Aleyda Solis did a Twitter poll thread, multiple polls in a Twitter thread, around the Google page [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Googler Says Web 3.0 Won't Kill SEO All the craze right now is Web3 or Web 3.0, the new iteration of the World Wide Web based on the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Screaming Frog Adds Google URL Inspection API via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google URL Inspection API integration adds 7 new ways to fix a website with Screaming Frog - Search Engine Journal
MarTech’s Email Marketing Periodic Table: Manage deliverability and optimization like a scientist This new resource gives marketers insights into the building blocks for good campaigns. - Marketing Land
Google: No Mechanism To Force Title Tag Changes Even For Legal Reasons As you may remember, in August 2021 Google changed the algorithm it uses to determine your title [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 3 2022

How Google Search Understands Human Language via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google Search is capable of understanding human language with the assistance of multiple AI models [...] - Search Engine Journal
How Google uses artificial intelligence In Google Search From RankBrain, Neural Matching, BERT and MUM - here is how Google uses AI for understanding [...] - Search Engine Land
How marketers can best optimize their Google Shopping ads Google Shopping is a great commerce platform, but too few marketers take the time to optimize their [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Tests Lens Button In Search Bar On Desktop Search Last November, we spotted Google testing adding the Google Lens icon/button to the mobile search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Functions for Core Web Vitals Tactics with Cloudflare’s HTMLRewriter Knowing "vanilla" JavaScript is becoming rarer than knowing a Framework like React. [...] - Search Engine Land
4 things to beware of with Google’s Performance Max automated campaigns Google’s made it easier than ever to run PPC ads. But beware of these pitfalls. - Marketing Land
Why you need Site Search Site Search is the single most important piece of technology on your site that is used by your [...] - Search Engine Land

February, 2 2022

Google finally launches revamped Partners program After nearly two years, the new Partners program requirements have taken effect and Google will [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console snapshot in search results now can show domain properties You may start seeing this snapshot show up more often because Google now supports more verification [...] - Search Engine Land
Performance Max campaigns get support in Data Studio Google continues its streak of Performance Max-related updates, putting its weight behind the new [...] - Search Engine Land
Can Robots Follow Instructions for New Tasks? Posted by Chelsea Finn, Research Adviser and Eric Jang, Senior Research Scientist, Robotics at [...] - Google Research
Google opens up about how Maps review moderation works Google’s overview details why it might update its policies, how it enforces them and the role [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Gives 3 Reasons Why FAQ Schema Won’t Show In Search via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller offers three possible reasons why your FAQ schema [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google May Share Your Google Discover Likes Anonymously With Publishers You know how you can like the Google Discover stories Google puts in your Google home page feed by [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 2, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 1 2022

Google Affirms Reciprocal Linking Is Natural In Many Cases via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Reciprocal linking isn’t always bad, in Google’s view. In many cases it’s natural [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Says Emojis Won’t Hurt Or Help SEO via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google provides an update on the use of emojis in webpage titles and meta descriptions, saying [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: We Do Not Give Full Weight To All Links Google's John Mueller said that not all links are given full weight and does not pass the full [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How marketers can adjust to redefined keyword matching Keyword matching has changed, but not all campaigns are ready to use them effectively. At SMX Next, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: We Don't Count Links On Domain Level Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that Google Search does not count links on a domain level. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Performance Max Data To Come To Data Studio In Very Near Future Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, said that in the "very near future" the Google Ads [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Applying Differential Privacy to Large Scale Image Classification Posted by Alexey Kurakin, Software Engineer and Roxana Geambasu, Visiting Faculty Researcher, [...] - Google Research