Archive of March, 2022

March, 31 2022

New Google Search Label For Highly Cited Sources via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google is rolling out a new label is search results for pages that are recognized as highly cited [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google launches new highly cited label in search and improved about results for rapidly evolving topics This is to help searchers better understand if they should trust the search results displayed by [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Highly Cited Stories & Come Back Later For Evolving Results Google is rolling out to features to give searchers more ammunition when looking at the search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s Privacy Sandbox ad technology testing begins Developers will gain access to Privacy Sandbox’s newest measurement proposals: Topics, FLEDGE [...] - Search Engine Land
How paid search marketers can address brand measurement challenges and grow in their careers Brands are facing huge data measurement challenges. At SMX Next, Pascal Skropke and Andreas Reiffen [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Now Using MUM For Detecting Personal Crisis Searches & BERT For Detecting Shocking Content Google promised to let us know when they expand when they use MUM in search and Google did just [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Now Seeing Volatility For The Google Product Reviews Update (v. March 2022) Earlier this week I reported that we were not seeing huge changes yet for the March 2022 Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 30 2022

More Search Console Insights Added to Google Data Studio via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Additional data from Search Console is now available through the Google Data Studio connector, [...] - Search Engine Journal
How to keep your SEO clients engaged: 8 communication touchpoints Take the time to review your communication plan to keep your projects on track and your clients [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Interactive Wikipedia Box In Search Results Microsoft Bing seems to be testing a new search feature that embeds snippets of content from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Explains How AI Keeps Search Safe Via MUM & BERT via @sejournal, @mirandalmwrites Google shares new information on how it has reduced "unexpected shocking" search results [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Local Pack Refine Query & Location Search Box Google seems to be testing a specialized local pack that looks more like the local service ads. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Most plan to tough out the switch to Google Analytics 4 About 70% of the 250 marketers we polled said they planned to switch and will handle the migration [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Keep Old Redirected URLs In Sitemaps Files Temporarily Google's John Mueller said again on Twitter that you should only keep old URLs that have been [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Monitoring Search traffic (and more!) with Data Studio This article shows how to create a monitoring dashboard for your Search traffic on Data Studio. It [...] - Google Webmaster Central
YouTube to drop Maximize Lift bidding Maximize Lift used details input by advertisers about their brands and products to generate content [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 30, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google shares search traffic monitoring dashboard for Data Studio Plus, you can now pull Discover and Google News traffic data into Data Studio using the Search [...] - Search Engine Land

March, 29 2022

Google Docs can write your meta descriptions Google Docs can automatically generate content summaries. But can it help you write a great meta [...] - Search Engine Land
15 content strategy myths debunked Content may still be king, but you need the right approach, strategy and talent. Let's clear up [...] - Search Engine Land
Google London Outdoor Work Desks - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Structured Data Error Reporting Gets More Descriptive Names & Context Google today has rolled out more specific, descriptive and contextually helpful names for the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: It's Best To Have Google Discover New Sites With External Links Over URL Submission Google's John Mueller said there is nothing wrong with using the Google Search Console URL [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
For Google Updates, The Product Reviews Update III Is Not That Huge - So Far So far, I will say that the Google Products Reviews update version 3, the March 2022 version, is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdSense Anchor Ads On AMP Sites With Auto Ads Google AdSense announced that those with AMP sites that have Auto ads with AdSense will now [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Trusted Store Badge Based On Shopping Experience Scorecard Google has launched a new Trusted Store badge for merchants who have an excellent Google Shopping [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 29, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 28 2022

Helping your products stand out to shoppers Online shoppers are more empowered than ever. They can find ratings, reviews, price comparisons and [...] - Inside Adwords
Adding context to structured data issues in Search Console To help you identify structured data issues more effectively, Search Console is adding more context [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google’s URL Parameters tool is going away Google said this is because the tool has "low value." - Search Engine Land
Spring cleaning: the URL Parameters tool We're deprecating the URL Parameters tool in Search Console in 1 month. There's no action [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Local Search Update On March 23rd 'Corrects' Vicinity Update On March 22nd and 23rd I noticed the BrightLocal tracking tool spike up a bit, so I kept tabs on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Join us online THIS WEEK for 50+ free martech sessions Don't miss your opportunity to attend MarTech, online, March 29-30! - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console To Kill URL Parameter Tool On April 26th Google has announced this morning that on April 26, 2022 it will be killing off the URL parameter [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to write compelling ad copy in a Smart Bidding landscape Writing compelling ad copy can be challenging, but there are many automated processes that can [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console structured data error reporting gains more contextual information This won't result in more errors, just more descriptive errors to help you debug issues. - Search Engine Land
Google Trusted Store badge for merchants with excellent shipping and returns services Plus, Google releases new Google Merchant Center Insights reports. - Search Engine Land
Google Tests News Search Results Snippets Without Borders Google is always testing, always, and here is another test where Google is testing snippets in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Results Rolls Out Much More Visual Design In Grid Formats & More On Friday afternoon, Google confirmed with me that the search company has rolled out more visual [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Chrome Table - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Visual Stories Showing On Page One For Competitive Keywords Brodie Clark reported that Google is now showing web stories / visual stories on the first page of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 25 2022

Google Search rolls out a more visual search interface on mobile with grid format Are both top results position one or does Google count the one on the right as position two? - Search Engine Land
Enterprise SEO: Lessons from 20 years in the trenches Want to gain market share rapidly and boost profits? Learn the key elements of a winning SEO [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Tests Healthcare Provider Appointments & Booking Google announced that in addition to helping searchers find healthcare providers that take their [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Tests New Ad Extension Icons Google may be testing new Google Ads extension icons in the search results. Khushal Bherwani [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Talks About de-SEOing The Search Central Web Pages Google's Martin Splitt, Gary Illyes, and Lizzi Sassman sat together on the latest Search Off the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Testing Lower Price Icon In Search Shopping Results Google is testing displaying a badge or icon or label that demonstrates if a product you are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search News Buzz Video Recap: 3rd Google Product Reviews Update, Spring Update, Google Data That Might Surprise You, Google Ads Updates, UI Tests & More This week was pretty busy, we had the third Google product reviews update and I go deep into this [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 24 2022

Why Search Console Query Reports Are Inconsistent via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller explains why Search Console query data is inconsistent between the different [...] - Search Engine Journal
How to Rank Seasonal Ecommerce Products via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google’s John Mueller answered a question about the difficulties of ranking seasonal [...] - Search Engine Journal
March 2022 Google Product Reviews Update Rolling Out - Everything We See So Far Google has rolled out its third version of the product reviews update, named the March 2022 Product [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Tests Light Gray Search Box Google seems to be testing another variation of the Google Search box. This one is a light gray [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search adds booking and appointment availability for healthcare providers This is a pilot with a limited number of providers including MinuteClinic at CVS. - Search Engine Land
Rooftop Mini Golf At Google Toronto - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Maps blocked 100 million abusive business profile edits in 2021 Less than 1% of the content viewed on Google Maps was fraudulent or abusive, Google said. - Search Engine Land
New Google Partners Directory Now Live Google has launched the new Google Partners directory with new ways to search for partners and also [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Recommends Which Stocks To Buy Now If you do a search in Google Search for [inflation stocks], Google will show you a related searches [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Reduced Irrelevant Search Results By 50% & Made 5,000 Changes In 2021 Google said in a spotlight piece of Danny Sullivan's 25 year career in search (which is a nice [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 23 2022

Google Launches Third Product Review Algorithm Update via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google launches a third product review algorithm update in search results, which builds off of the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google releases March 2022 product reviews update with additional ranking criteria The new product reviews update looks for in-depth analysis, actual product use, unique information [...] - Search Engine Land
Improving Product Review ranking, one year on Our March 2022 product reviews update is now rolling out for English-language pages. This [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Rank Math WordPress Plugin Duplicate Sitemap Bug via @sejournal, @martinibuster WordPress SEO plugin Rank Math bug generates duplicate sitemaps - Search Engine Journal
Google releases Partner Program directory in latest effort to rebuild program After trying to relaunch it with strict requirements, Google now seems intent on building goodwill [...] - Search Engine Land
Google claims it reduced irrelevant search results by over 50% in seven-years Also, Google said they saw an 60% increase in natural language queries by searchers. - Search Engine Land
Google Search With Discount Coupon Codes In Shopping Pack Google is showing coupon codes that you can click on to "view code" and then that will [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Register for the first Search Central Virtual Unconference Japan 2022! The Search Central Virtual Unconference Japan 2022 is now open for registration. The sessions will [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Microsoft Advertising Updates Reporting Capabilities & Usability Microsoft Advertising announced its "biggest reporting update in our history" by making [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Easter Egg For National Cherry Blossom Festival If you go to Google and search for [National Cherry Blossom Festival] or [cherry blossom] or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Auto-generated Summaries in Google Docs Posted by Mohammad Saleh, Software Engineer, Google Research, Brain Team and Anjuli Kannan, [...] - Google Research

March, 22 2022

Google: Alt Text Only A Factor For Image Search via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google’s use of alt text as a ranking factor is limited to image search. It does not add [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Explains Why Google Does Not Crawl & Index Every URL John Mueller of Google wrote a very detailed and honest explanation on why Google (and third party [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Merchant Center can now be linked to Google Analytics 4 You can now see your conversions from free product listings by connecting your Merchant Center and [...] - Search Engine Land
11 conspiracy theories about search, Google and Big Tech From your phone is spying on you to Google manipulating ad auctions, here are some of the juiciest [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console to show event rich results errors for missing locations You may see an increase in rich results report errors for event schema in Search Console as a [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Again: Product Prices Not A Ranking Factor But Explains Why... Back in 2016, we covered how Google's John Mueller said product pricing is not a web search ranking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Ads Editor v2.0 Live With Performance Max Campaign Support & More Google has released version 2.0 of Google Ads Editor and as promised, this version comes with [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Looked Into An Eco-Friendly Search Ranking Boost Google's John Mueller said that the search company did look into what it could do to incentivize [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 21 2022

Yoast WordPress SEO Bug Creates Duplicate Sitemaps via @sejournal, @martinibuster Yoast confirmed a bug that causes WordPress to generate duplicate sitemaps and is said to be [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Machine Or AI Generated Content Still Not High Quality For the past several years, Google has been saying that when machine generated or AI generated [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Editor version 2.0 supports Performance Max campaigns The update also includes support for custom actions and action triggers, conversion goals, shared [...] - Search Engine Land
How your ad position and CTR impact conversion rate Learn how to use your keyword ranking and click-through rate data to improve the performance of [...] - Search Engine Land
Run In Parallel The Old Google Analytics UA Tracking Code With New GA4 Code With Google Analytics rushing folks on Universal Analytics to set up Google Analytics 4, many are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Site Moves With Redirects In Place Only For 3-Months Is Too Short We know that Google for several years has been telling us we need to have redirects in place for a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Merchant Center Integration Live For Some In Google Analytics 4 Some are saying they now see under the Google Analytics 4 property settings where it lets you link [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #164: David Melamed On Search Spam's Long Term Search Success & Can Others Compete With Google In part one of my interview with David Melamed... - Search Engine Roundtable
Peter The Greeter On Saint Patrick's Day at Google - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 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 Business Profile Emergency Help Attributes Last week sometime, probably around the same time Google added the hotel attributes for Ukraine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 20 2022

How Google Ranks Pages With Abbreviations via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller answers how Google's algorithm handles abbreviations - Search Engine Journal
Spring 2022 Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update Google may have started to release another Google search ranking algorithm update starting Friday, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 18 2022

14 ways Google may evaluate E-A-T Learn about some potential signals Google may be using to gauge whether your content and brand has [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Results and Synonyms via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller discusses synonyms and search results and explains how context of the whole [...] - Search Engine Journal
500 Response on Robots.txt Fetch Can Impact Rich Results via @sejournal, @martinibuster 500 response to a robots.txt fetch causes loss of rich results and while a bug in search console [...] - Search Engine Journal
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Weirdness, Google Analytics 3 Going Away, Google Local Review Bugs & More This week, I covered a possible Google update that ticked off a week ago, but it was weird, the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Business Profiles new emergency help attributes for Ukraine support Google also added hotel attributes to define if your hotel offers support to those displaced from [...] - Search Engine Land
Quality: Site With Quality Issues Switched Domains, Saw Temporary Google Ranking Boost & Dropped Again On last Friday's hangout with Google's John Mueller, Ankit Dalal, an SEO, asked about a site he is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Google Analytics 4 Won't Be A Search Ranking Boost Sometimes when Google wants to encourage site owners to take action, they might give us a ranking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Movie Reviews Panel Goes Full Width Rajan Patel, the VP of Engineering at Google, confirmed with me that Google has rolled out full [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SMS Messaging Support Returns To Google Business Profiles? When Google first launched messaging within Google Business Profiles (formerly Google My Business), [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 17 2022

3 SEO tools to build for your clients in Google Data Studio Creating technical SEO auditing, keyword research, and link building tracking tools is easy with [...] - Search Engine Land
Reaction Towards Google Killing Google Analytics 3 For Google Analytics 4 So Google is doing away with Google Analytics 3, aka Universal Analytics and you will all have to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Offline Optimization for Architecting Hardware Accelerators Posted by Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Research Scientist and Aviral Kumar, Student Researcher, Google [...] - Google Research
Google Rope Sleep Area - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Offers Carousel In Search Result Snippets Google Search has a carousel, which may or may not be new, that shows categories of offers from a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Poll: 80% Of SEOs Expect Some Traffic Loss After Site Migration A Twitter poll by Natalie Mott showed that almost 80% of SEOs do expect to see some traffic lost [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Local Business Listing Tests More About Button Google seems to be testing a new button in the local business listings, the local panel, that has a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 16 2022

Google to deprecate Universal Analytics on July 1, 2023 It’s time for search marketers to shake off the inertia and adopt Google Analytics 4. - Search Engine Land
Hybrid Quantum Algorithms for Quantum Monte Carlo Posted by William J. Huggins, Research Scientist, Google Quantum AI The intersection between the [...] - Google Research
How to prepare for an SEO sales call Asking these key questions and doing some organic research will massively help you when selling SEO [...] - Search Engine Land
How E-A-T content and link building can drive YMYL SEO success E-A-T is an important concept for YMYL sites. In a recent webinar, Kevin Rowe shared how marketers [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s free hotel booking links arrive on Search and Maps The expanded capabilities may be good news for hotels, but not so much for online travel agencies. - Search Engine Land
Google business profile reviews posting bugs should be resolved soon Google has confirmed there was an issue with some reviews not posting and those reviews should be [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Ranking Update Weirdness On March 11th For the past few days I have been debating if I should cover what may have been a Google search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New tools for hotels to reconnect with travelers The travel industry has faced steep challenges since the pandemic began two years ago. But now, [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Adds Business Profiles Managers Controls In Web Search Google continues to move more and more business editing features and controls to the web search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 15 2022

Are Internal Links In Header and Footer Treated Differently? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Does Google treat internal links differently based on location on a page? Are header and footer [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: We Don't Use User Engagement As A Search Ranking Factor Google's John Mueller said again that Google Search does not use "engagement" as a factor [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google refine this search & broaden this search now live in search results While the things to know and things to consider feature is not fully live yet. - Search Engine Land
Multimodal Bottleneck Transformer (MBT): A New Model for Modality Fusion Posted by Arsha Nagrani and Chen Sun, Research Scientists, Google Research, Perception Team [...] - Google Research
Reviews In Google Local Going Missing Recently There are tons and tons of complaints over the past week or so of reviews not posting or going [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google rolls out Search Ads 360 integration for Google Analytics 4 The integration may help contextualize data to enable more efficient campaigns as well as time [...] - Search Engine Land
Level up your gaming business with new ad features With more people playing games on their mobile devices than ever before, developers have a huge [...] - Inside Adwords
Save time on negative keywords using the lowest common denominator method Want to dramatically reduce the number of negative keywords you need to maintain? Save time and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Page Experience Update Metrics Can Be Split Into Sections Of Your Site When it comes to the Google page experience update and its metrics, Google may in some cases split [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 15, 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 Console URL Inspection Tool Not Fully Fixed Yet Two weeks after Google first confirmed an issue with the Google Search Console URL Inspection Tool, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 14 2022

Google Performance Max campaigns: What marketers should know Performance Max campaigns use automation to help marketers drive more conversions. At SMX Next, [...] - Search Engine Land
8 SEO costs that impact your ROI In SEO, there are obvious costs, but also some hidden costs. Learn how to understand the true, full [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Hreflang Does Not Give You A Ranking Boost Google's John Mueller said again that using hreflang will not help you rank better and does not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing’s ‘Russian invasion of Ukraine’ results show Opinions section and timelines The Opinions section contextualizes news-related listings for users, which may help reduce [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Brings Back Pi Day Easter Egg Calculator If you search for Pi Day in Google Search you will see a calculator come up that has the pie logo [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Travel Related Photographs For a Travel Search Engine I have worked on sites that featured places that you can visit – specific city or country [...] - SEO by the Sea
Survey: Most SEOs Opt To Canonicals To Manage Faceted Navigation Joe Hall posted a poll on Twitter asking what do SEOs use most to manage faceted navigation. The [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Favicon Crawler Now Uses Googlebot & Googlebot-Image Token Google has updated its Google crawler help documentation to specific that the Google Favicon [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: The Google URL Parameters Tool Is Scary Google's John Mueller said (again) that the Google URL Parameters tool is scary. He said this on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #163: David Melamed About The Earlier Days Of Search Marketing & The Immense Sharing In The Industry David Melamed, who I've known for about 15 years or so, has been in the space for about that long [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 11 2022

How Page Experience Ranking Factors Actually Work via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller shows how page experience ranking signals can help a site rank better and why [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google's Danielle Marshak On How Google Understands Videos In the latests Search Off the Record, Gary Illyes and Lizzi Sassman from the Google Search Central [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Things To Know In Search Results More Often Google seems to be testing displaying the Things To Know section in the Google search results more [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google launches automated vehicle ads This new format uses vehicle data feeds in Google Merchant Center to match users’ searches [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Vehicle Ads Now Available To All US Advertisers Google announced that the vehicle ads are now available to all US advertisers. Vehicle ads are a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Turbulence, SafeSearch Classification Is Faster, Plus More SEO & PPC Topics On March 4th we had more Google search turbulence, a possible Google search ranking update around [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 11, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Get into gear with vehicle ads on Google More people are turning to the web to find their next car. In fact, 89% of new car buyers [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Shows Buddhist Calendar Year For News Stories Here is a screenshot of Google News on mobile showing a date that is not the Gregorian date but [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Ads: No Products Found Here is a weird Google issue where Google is showing a Google Ad slot in the search results that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 10 2022

Google May Surface More Short-Form Video In Search Results via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google is working on ways to show more short-form video in search results, saying it’s a [...] - Search Engine Journal
John Mueller Gives A Hard Lesson To An SEO On Google Ranking & Spam John Mueller of Google responded to a complaint on Reddit where the SEO or site owner was upset his [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Why on-site search should be a priority for marketers On-site search can provide marketers with key insights into their audiences. At SMX Next, Stephen [...] - Search Engine Land
5 things your Google Data Studio PPC Dashboard must have Set yourself up for more success. Learn how to take your PPC dashboard from good to great using [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: We Mostly Just Ignore Widget Links And Not Penalize For Them As you know, Google has a webmaster guideline against widget links, despite what some SEOs want to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 10, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Russia-based advertisers can no longer reach global audiences on Google properties and networks This latest policy change takes widespread ad suspensions from platforms across the industry into [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Shopping Add To Cart Icon In Googley Colors In the Google Shopping search results, if you can check out with Google, Google will add a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 9 2022

Dear Google: It’s time to remove Russian propaganda from search results Some tech giants are taking steps to curate the Russian content that hits their platforms. It is [...] - Search Engine Land
Drive ranking by mastering E.A.T. with content and links Increase Expertise, Authority and Trustworthiness through masterful content-driven link building. - Search Engine Land
How Google search personalization works: Professors and politicians just don’t understand Google has told us how search works. We know plenty about how it works. But a professor seems [...] - Search Engine Land
SEO Claims Higher Rankings Without Content Hidden In Tabs Again A few years ago, we reported that Google said despite some of the SEO case studies, content [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Advertising Editor Gains Audience Network Control Microsoft announced that the Microsoft Advertising Editor now works with the Microsoft Audience [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Mural Central Park Theme - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 8 2022

Member of SEO community and her two children killed in Ukraine Tatiana Perebeinis, the chief accountant of SE Ranking, was one of four people killed in a Russian [...] - Search Engine Land
Internal Linking is Super Critical For SEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller affirms the importance of internal linking for SEO and recommends a strategic [...] - Search Engine Journal
How Google Search Console Tracks ‘People Also Ask’ Performance Data via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google clarifies how performance data for pages in the ‘people also ask’ section is [...] - Search Engine Journal
Platforms that have suspended ads in Russia In addition to political and economic sanctions, the conflict in Ukraine has prompted many crucial [...] - Search Engine Land
Connecting Search Console to Data Studio This post is the first in a series of posts that will focus on exporting, enhancing, and [...] - Google Webmaster Central
SEOPress WordPress plugin adds IndexNow support This gives IndexNow access to another 200,000 sites. - Search Engine Land
GIF Of Noogler Propeller Hat Spinning - Search Engine Roundtable
Can You Gain More Intended Google Search Results With Subdomains? When it comes to "dominating" the search results, most SEOs define that as taking up as [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Save the date for Google Marketing Live, May 24, 2022 Add Google Marketing Live to calendar: Google Calendar , other calendars Tuesday, May [...] - Inside Adwords
Robust Graph Neural Networks Posted by Bryan Perozzi, Research Scientist and Qi Zhu, Research Intern, Google Research Graph [...] - Google Research
Google Search Adds Jewish Shabbat Times Again Back in 2011 Google first launched prayer time rich results but then a year later Google sunset [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Microsoft Advertising Professional Service Ads For Bing Search Microsoft Advertising announced yet another set of vertical ad formats for Bing Search - [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Connect Your Google Business Profiles To Woo Promo Google is sending out a notice via Google Business Profiles that you can connect your business [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 7 2022

Google On Recipe Pages – Are They Getting Too Long? via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google hears the complaints about recipe pages getting too long, and suggests more concise pages [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Broad Core Algorithm Updates: Everything you need to know What is a broad core algorithm update? Learn the complete history of Google's core updates, what [...] - Search Engine Land
Geotargeting optimization: How region impacts your PPC results Geotargeting is a critical optimization tactic. Learn how analyzing paid search results by regions [...] - Search Engine Land
Improving Linking Confidence I am starting an “SEO Classics” category on SEO by the Sea for papers by Search [...] - SEO by the Sea
Google’s ‘Russian invasion of Ukraine’ results includes new search features The new features include sections for background information, estimated casualties and photos of [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Shopping Filter By "Smaller Stores" Google Shopping has a filter to show you products sold in "smaller stores." I believe [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Scootering In The Google Washington DC Office - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 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 Search Results For Russian Invasion Of Ukraine If you do a search for variations of Russia and Ukraine keywords together, Google will show you a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #162: Taylor Kurtz On Google AMP & Apple Search & Video SEO Taylor Kurtz (@realtaylorkurtz) is the Founder of Crush the Rankings and he stopped by my office to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Indexing Issues Can Be Old Spam Related But Likely Not Adult Content Related Having issues with Google indexing your web pages? Google's John Mueller said while Google may not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Cloud Translated Pages Not Indexed By Google Search Google Cloud's web site is having issues being indexed in Google Search, specifically the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 6 2022

Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update On March 4th - Unconfirmed This past Friday, March 4, 2022, I noticed that the chatter within the SEO community started to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 4 2022

SEO Community Support For Ukraine & How You Can Help via @sejournal, @mirandalmwrites See how SEO companies and individuals are supporting colleagues in Ukraine and how you can help, [...] - Search Engine Journal
Yandex Warns Debt May Affect Ability To Continue Operating via @sejournal, @martinibuster Yandex issued a statement warning that debt may cause material adverse effect on ability to keep [...] - Search Engine Journal
Anton Shulke In Kyiv Making Bandages Out Of Bedding - Search Engine Roundtable
Google launches new Google Analytics 4 home page The new GA 4 home page provides more personalized content, the company says. - Search Engine Land
Yandex Warns of Threats To Continued Operations via @sejournal, @martinibuster Yandex issued a statement warning of two threats to its continued operations, either of which could [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Page Experience Update For Desktop Done Rolling Out That is a wrap - the Google page experience update for desktop is now fully rolled out - as of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 4, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Master Google Ads conversion from clicks, to calls, to revenue In this webinar, learn how to drive more valuable conversions online and over the phone. - Search Engine Land
Google and Bing halt all ad sales in Russia The platforms already suspended ads from Russian state media; but, as the conflict in Ukraine [...] - Search Engine Land
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Page Experience Desktop Update Live, Search Console Errors, IndexNow Growing, Local Map Interactive & Ads Paused In Russia This week in search, I reported how the Google page experience update for desktop has been fully [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Googlebot May One Day Crawl From Outside The U.S. The other day I reported again how blocking US based users would require you to also block [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
There Is No Google Search Console Demo Account Some folks are asking why there isn't a demo account for Google Search Console like there is for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Temporarily Pauses All Ads In Serving In Russia Last night Google announced it is temporarily pausing Google ads from serving to users located in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 3 2022

Google Page Experience Update – Desktop Rollout Complete via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google confirms the page experience update finished its rollout to desktop search results. Now [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google confirmed by phone label in local panel may add trust to local listings This label seems to be based off of Google Duplex calling businesses to verify their business [...] - Search Engine Land
TRILLsson: Small, Universal Speech Representations for Paralinguistic Tasks Posted by Joel Shor, Staff Software Engineer, Google Research In recent years, we have seen [...] - Google Research
Google page experience update for desktop done rolling out After 9-days this page experience update for desktop is now fully rolled out. - Search Engine Land
Google Local Panel Showing Confirmed By Phone Call (Duplex Related) Google is now showing how long ago it confirmed a phone number and hours were accurate for a local [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Removing Estimated Number Of Search Results Google Search is testing removing the estimated number of search results figure you typically see [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ranking Quotas Do Not Exist Google's John Mueller said again that websites do not have some form of quota where they can only [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Central Virtual Unconference Back Returns For 2022 Martin Splitt from Google announced on Twitter that the Google Search Central Virtual Unconference [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 2 2022

Google Search Trends Show How Customer Expectations Are Changing via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern A new report from Google contains data on how customer expectations are changing, and reveals what [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google may require double verification for some business profiles Google updated its help documents to say that it may require you to verify your business with an [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Business Profiles May Require Additional Verification Google has updated the help document on how to verify your business to say "we may require you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
PSA: Blocking USA Users But Allowing Googlebot Is Against Google's Webmaster Guidelines Google sends its crew of crawlers, Googlebot, from the United States. That is where 99% of the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to use Google Business Messages to talk to your customers Google's Business Messages is one of the best ways to connect with your customers and future [...] - Search Engine Land
How to be a competitive paid search marketer in 2022 The paid search landscape is more competitive than ever. In a recent webinar, Ashley Fletcher [...] - Search Engine Land
Semrush buys Kompyte so it can upsell competitive intelligence tools The acquisition is Semrush’s first foray into products not specifically designed for search [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Translated Content & Garbage Parameters In URLs You may end up confusing Google when you have "garbage" parameters trailing in your URLs, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console URL Inspection Tool Errors Yesterday, Google confirmed that some folks trying to use the URL Inspection tool via the console [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
March 2022 Google Webmaster Report It is time for the March 2022 Google webmaster report, where I look back at the past 30-days of SEO [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 2, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 1 2022

Google brand SERPs: Why you must dominate People Also Ask It's time to pay attention to People Also Asked questions asked around and about your brand in [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: CSS Colors Are Not A Google Ranking Factor... Google's John Mueller said on Twitter "we generally don't use color as a factor." He [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google URL inspection tool bug leading to errors for some Google is working on fixing the issue to resolve these errors. - Search Engine Land
Google removed App campaign placement data from Ads and AdWords API reports To view these reports, Google recommends referencing the App Campaigns Brand Safety Placement [...] - Search Engine Land
Want to speak at SMX Advanced? We want to hear your ideas Here's what we’re looking for in SMX Advanced session pitches and tips for submitting a [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 1, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: One Site Won't Always Rank Above Another Site Google's John Mueller said on Twitter "it's never that site A always ranks above site B." [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
IndexNow Added To Duda, All In One WordPress & Rank Math SEO Plugins Last week, Microsoft Bing announced over the course of three days that IndexNow gained support from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
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