Archive of August, 2022

August, 31 2022

How video SEO can boost your overall digital marketing strategy Uncovering video opportunities to increase traffic, boost engagement, improve conversions, and [...] - Search Engine Land
A PPC guide to privacy-focused audience targeting Google granted more time before cookies retire, but advertisers still need to build audience [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Adds Products Section To Business Profile Guidelines Google has added a new section for products to the Google Business Profile guidelines. The section [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's John Mueller: No Recent Search Algorithms Focused On Links Outside Of Webspam Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that he is not aware of any recent search algorithm update [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Learning Video Structured Data Docs Breaks Out educationalLevel Google has updated the Learning video structured data documentation to add the full list of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 30 2022

Google announces 4 new Shopping campaign features Merchants and advertisers can now add additional information and attributes to their shopping [...] - Search Engine Land
Turn curiosity into customers this holiday season The holiday season is the most beautiful time of the year and, for retailers, it’s also the [...] - Inside Adwords
10 SEO experts share their favorite interview questions Hiring for SEO roles? Asking these questions can help you separate the pretenders from the [...] - Search Engine Land
Did Google Remove The Maps Review-Gating Policy? Chris Silver Smith noticed how Google has updated its Google Maps contributed content policy and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Advertising RSAs Deadline Extended Again, This Time TO February 2023 Microsoft Advertising has extended the deadline to move from Expanded Text Ads to Responsive Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Business Profile guidelines updated to include products Product listings on Google Business Profile give advertisers and retailers a new way to promote [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Promotes Search Console Insights In Some Google Accounts Molly Youngblood posted some screenshots on Twitter showing how Google is pushing her to check out [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Webinar: Harness first-party data for conversion Learn how Hearst maximizes the power of audience intelligence to drive growth. - Search Engine Land
Google Local Business Structured Data Doesn't Support additionalType; Instead Use An Array Google has clarified on its Local Business structured data help documentation that when you want to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 29 2022

Google’s 6 SEO Tips For Ecommerce Websites via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google shares six SEO tips that combine structured data and Merchant Center to get the most out of [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Shares Insights into Indexing & Crawl Budget via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt discuss why Google chooses to index some content and not [...] - Search Engine Journal
Keyword rank tracking software – 6 tools compared We have looked at some of the most popular rank tracking tools to see how they differ and what [...] - Search Engine Land
10 tips to help you become an in-house SEO You don't have to be a hardcore programmer or have umpteen advanced degrees to do SEO. Follow these [...] - Search Engine Land
Google tests Quick Read, 5 Min. Read labels in search results Google is testing the labels, which highlight whether the content of a page can be read in five [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Helpful Content Update Seems Weak & Slow To Roll Out So Far... Google announced the helpful content update on August 18th and it officially started to roll out on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
YouTube is testing a new “Promotions” Tab YouTube is making it easier for creators to promote their content and is testing the new feature [...] - Search Engine Land
Data-driven attribution: How to think about Google’s default attribution model While not a silver bullet solution to attribution, a data-driven model provides better insights for [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Soft 404s Do Waste Crawl Budget Google's Gary Illyes said on the latest Search Off The Record podcast that soft 404s, pages Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 29, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Helpful Content Update Feedback Form As you know, the Google helpful content update started to roll out on Thursday, August 25th. Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Quick Read & 5 Minute Read Label In Search Results Google is testing a new label in the search results to tell searchers what is a quick read or a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 26 2022

Page speed and experience in SEO: 9 ways to eliminate issues Here's how page speed fits into page experience and SEO, plus tips for how to make your website [...] - Search Engine Land
The pros and cons of using AI content writing tools While there's value in adopting AI writing tools, they're not meant to replace human writers. [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Conversations & Discussion and Forums Google has had these discussion carousels for the past couple of years. Now Google also spotted a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdSense FLEDGE API testing delayed until September The Privacy Sandbox proposal was created so that it can’t be used by third parties to track [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Tests People Also Ask In Carousel UX Microsoft Bing is testing a carousel format and user experience for the people also ask. Normally [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Performance Max optimization: How to improve your performance While there aren't many levers to manually optimize campaigns, your job is to guide the machines. [...] - Search Engine Land
View From Inside Of the Google NYC Outside View Inside View Of A Google NYC Outside View - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Says Cloaking Affiliate Links Does Not Gain You Anything Google's John Mueller was asked about the pros and cons of cloaking affiliate links. John responded [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 25 2022

Google releases August 2022 helpful content update The update can take up to a couple weeks to roll out, so keep an eye on your Google visibility over [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Helpful Content Update Is Now Rolling Out The Google helpful content update is now rolling out. It can take up to two weeks to fully roll [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s Helpful Content Update Rolls Out: 7 Things To Know via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Today, Google begins rolling out the helpful content algorithm update, which rewards people-first [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Updates Education Q&A Structured Data Documentation via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google updated the Education Q&A structured data documentation with new guidelines and a new [...] - Search Engine Journal
Implementing an internal linking module: Should you build it or buy it? Lessons learned from implementing internal linking modules and how to find your pathway to profit [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Adds Content Guidelines To Education Q&A Structured Data Docs Google has added a new section to the Education Q&A structured data documentation for content [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
5 ecommerce SEO trends to know for the 2022 holidays New research reveals some remarkable Google search trends that could boost your rankings and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google out-of-home ads available for Display and 360 Google is making programmatic, in-public display & video ads easily accessible for brands and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google adds 3 new content guidelines for Education Q&A structured data Google provides new guidance around how to stay eligible to earn and maintain visibility in the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google To Clearly Label Clinics That Provide Abortions via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Health care providers that are verified to provide abortions will now have a clear label in Google [...] - Search Engine Journal
5 questions to evaluate any SEO training course Knowing how to evaluate an SEO training course can help you invest wisely in the future of your [...] - Search Engine Land
Webinar: Why digital changes drive SEO growth Use data-driven insights to elevate customer experience and search results. - Search Engine Land
Google: Quality Raters Guidelines Are Not A Collection Of Ranking Tips Google's John Mueller said that the Google quality raters guidelines are "not a collection of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Algorithm Update On August 24th But Was It The Helpful Content Update? We were all expecting Google to post that the helpful content update started to roll out earlier [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 24 2022

Google Search Console to remove International Targeting report Google said it will continue to hreflang and the recommendations for managing multilingual and [...] - Search Engine Land
How to audit your Google Ads account like a pro Brad Geddes, Co-Founder of Adalysis and Google Ads expert, to learn a step-by-step analysis of how [...] - Search Engine Land
White label link-building services: How to do it right Use these essential tips to help you understand if white label link building is right for you and [...] - Search Engine Land
How to manage SEO campaigns during economic downturns Here are ways SEO professionals can keep their campaigns going and show the value of their efforts [...] - Search Engine Land
Four ways to get smart with no-code or low-code methods: a detailed overview of JSON LD The next step towards boosting your SEO efforts. - Search Engine Watch
Google Discover Also Let's You Hide Content From Authors The other day we reported that Google Discover was showing the author name under the article and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Deprecates International Targeting Report In Search Console Google has announced on Twitter that it has deprecated the International Targeting report in Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Adds "View All Business Profiles" In Web Search Results As Google continues to migrate off of the old Google My Business manager to the web search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 23 2022

Google Updates Article Structured Data Guidelines via @sejournal, @martinibuster Three changes to Google's Article structured data documentation relaxes Top Stories eligibility [...] - Search Engine Journal
3 valuable Google Analytics 4 reports for SEOs It's time to set up your SEO reports in Google Analytics 4. Here are three common and useful [...] - Search Engine Land
How Google uses NLP to better understand search queries, content Learn the role that natural language processing plays in making Google search even more semantic [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Beauty Blog With Financial & Medical Advice A Bit Sus Google's John Mueller was asked if mixing topics on a single blog is a bad idea. John implied that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Performance Max self-upgrade tool for Local campaigns is now available Earlier this year Google announced another change to Local and Smart Shopping campaigns. Well, that [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Cannot Interpret Your Poem Do you write poems, creative texts, abstract thoughts, and the like and are wondering how Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Core Web Vitals Report Adds URL Level Data For Examples URLs Google announced on Twitter it has added URL-level data in the example URLs within the Google Core [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
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Google Tests New Local Service Ads UX Google is testing a new layout and user experience for the Local Service Ads. This interface has [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 23, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 22 2022

How GA4, data modeling and Google Ads work together Google is moving quickly to a future of data modeling. Here's how paid search marketers need [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s helpful content update: What should we expect? SEOs may be in for another shakeup similar to Penguin's launch 10 years ago. Here's what you need [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console adds URL-level data in Core Web Vitals report Change makes it easier to dig into URLs that have Poor or Need improvement issues, as well as URLs [...] - Search Engine Land
SEOs feel content ahead of Google helpful content update Most SEOs are taking a wait-and-see approach to the helpful content update, but many SEOs are [...] - Search Engine Land
Vlog #186: Jill Fecher On Creating Your Own Job Description At A Digital Marketing Agency Jill Fecher is the Chief Growth Officer at Cypress North and we spoke about her work history and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console’s video indexing report now live for all You will only see it if you have videos on your site that Google can detect. - Search Engine Land
Webinar: SEO metrics and KPIs every marketer should know This panel of search experts will help you track your SEO performance to know what’s working - Search Engine Land
Google Maps: Your Review Isn't Posted Email Google Maps is now notifying reviewers when their review isn't posted. The email says "your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Just Because You Didn't Write It, Doesn't Mean Google Won't Count It Against You Google's John Mueller explained that Google doesn't really care who wrote the content on your site [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 22, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Poll: Many SEOs Say The Content They Produce Is Helpful & Not Concerned As you know, Google will soon roll out the helpful content update and it has some SEOs and site [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: API Not Impacted By Search Console Indexing Label Bug Last week we reported that Google Search Console had an embarrassing bug where it was reporting [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Video Index Report Now 100% Live A month ago, Google started to slowly roll out the video index report within Google Search Console. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 19 2022

New Google Helpful Content Update To Change SEO Much Like Panda Did Google has announced a new big search ranking algorithm update named the helpful content update - [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
What is helpful content, according to Google Google is about to launch its helpful content update. So what exactly is helpful content? [...] - Search Engine Land
How to maximize insights from Performance Max Getting data and insights from Performance Max can be frustrating. Here are some tips and tricks [...] - Search Engine Land
A 3-phased approach to proactive online reputation management It's better to take steps to build a better online reputation now instead of waiting for a crisis [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: HTTPS Is Not A Requirement To Rank In Google Search Google's John Mueller was asked if Google still ranks sites that are on HTTP (not over HTTPS), i.e. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search On How Many Ads Are Too Much For Your Site Google's John Mueller was asked what percentage of content-to-ad ratio is too much to rank well in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google To Launch Fifth Product Reviews Update Just Weeks After The Last Update Google has announced it will be launching the fifth Product Reviews update in the coming weeks, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 18 2022

What creators should know about Google's helpful content update We're launching what we're calling the “helpful content update” that's part of a [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google’s new helpful content update targets sites creating content for search engines first Google will soon rollout an update to its search ranking algorithm that may be widely felt in the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google releases Ads API version 11 Version 11 of the ads API was released in June. - Search Engine Land
Google ‘Helpful Content’ Algorithm Update Launching Soon via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google announced it's launching a new algorithm update next week called the helpful content update. [...] - Search Engine Journal
More content by people, for people in Search Many of us have experienced the frustration of visiting a web page that seems like it has what [...] - Inside Search
Google to release August 2022 product reviews update in coming weeks The fifth version of the Google product reviews update will be rolling out after the helpful [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Readying A Product Review Algorithm Update For August via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google is preparing to launch another iteration of its product review algorithm in the coming [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google adds additional CTV buying options in Display & Video 360 Google has just announced three new features to help advertisers using CTV reach and measure the [...] - Search Engine Land
How to approach SEO in a period of global disruption A good SEO strategy reflects people's needs – especially in a turbulent global landscape. [...] - Search Engine Land
Poll: Most SEOs Don't Consider Themselves Perfectionists Do you consider yourself an SEO perfectionist? Marie Amelie White posted a poll on Twitter asking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Perfectionism in SEO: A route to self-destruction Is perfectionism holding you back as an SEO professional? Here are some ways you can overcome [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Can & Does Drop URLs From Its Index Over Time Most SEOs that have been doing the search engine optimization thing for any amount of time know [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Discovers 12s Of Billions Of URLs It's Never Seen Before Every Day Fabrice Canel from Microsoft said that each day Bing discovers 12s of billions of normalized URLs [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdSense Does Not Help Your Site Rank Better In Google Google has once again said that placing Google AdSense ads on your site will not and does not help [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
OptFormer: Towards Universal Hyperparameter Optimization with Transformers Posted by Yutian Chen, Staff Research Scientist, DeepMind, and Xingyou (Richard) Song, Research [...] - Google Research

August, 17 2022

The WORST SEO advice I heard this year (and what you should do instead) SEO is like ice cream; there are lots of flavors, but some (like Grey Poupon) should be avoided. [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Fixes Search Console Bug Labeling Pages As Indexed When Not Indexed Google just announced that it fixed a bug with Google Search Console that labeled pages as being [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Tons Of SEOs & Sites Produce Terrible Content Not Worth Indexing Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that "lots of SEOs & sites produce terrible content [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console reported pages as being indexed when they were not indexed This affected "many" Google Search Console properties, so make sure to check your reports [...] - Search Engine Land
Affiliates Swapping Out Dofollow Tracking Links After Google Product Reviews Update One space that seemed to be hit the hardest by the last Google Product reviews update - the July [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
5 international SEO tips that don’t include hreflang Hreflang tags are not enough to ensure a country-specific site ranks in its local market. Follow [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Displaying Far Fewer FAQ Rich Results Today Rank Ranger reports show a significant drop again with the rich results for FAQs in the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Driving SEM success: Lessons learned from $1 billion+ in ad spend Applying these insights to your campaigns to optimize customer experience, attribution, and [...] - Search Engine Land

August, 16 2022

6 fundamental truths about SEO Is your SEO not going the way you wanted or expected? Here are some realities about SEO that you [...] - Search Engine Land
How to plan and budget for enterprise SEO This step-by-step guide will help you make a business use case for your enterprise SEO budget that [...] - Search Engine Land
Senator claims Google isn’t doing enough to block ad scams The tech giant may be in hot water once again as Senator Richard Blumenthal alleges that they're [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Merchant Center will no longer remove listings missing return or refund policy and insufficient contact information Google may however limit the visibility of listings with these issues. - Search Engine Land
Google Tests Expandable Maps In Search & Tabs In Map Results (Again) Google is testing an expandable map feature in Google Search for when you see the map load in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Popular Destinations Overlays Google Travel Details Google seems to be testing overlaying on top of the web search results the popular destinations [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Merchant Center Policy For Missing Return/Refund Policy Or Insufficient Contact Info Updated Google has updated its Google Merchant Center policy for free listings only specific to the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Towards Helpful Robots: Grounding Language in Robotic Affordances Posted by Brian Ichter and Karol Hausman, Research Scientists, Google Research, Brain Team Over [...] - Google Research
Google Search Console Coverage Report New Source & Unsubmitted Pages Yesterday morning, Google fixed the validate fix button and rolled out the more simplified coverage [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Peter The Greeter Google Dance - Search Engine Roundtable
Your Google Ads Summary Snapshot Box In Google Search Results Google seems to be testing showing a new search box in the Google Search results for a summary view [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 16, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 15 2022

What SEOs can learn about aligning with consensus as described in Google’s QRG Here's how Google's approach to consensus ties in with its quality raters guidelines – and [...] - Search Engine Land
3 ways the customer journey can guide SEO A well-mapped customer journey can bring SEO closer to your overall marketing strategy. Learn how [...] - Search Engine Land
Google reenables the validate fix feature in Search Console and adds new classifications As expected, Google has launched the new classifications for the coverage report with a tour to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: What To Do With Old Event Pages What do you do if you run an event and the event is over, do you keep the webpage live, do you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Shopping Searches Gains Coupons, Promotions, Price History & More Microsoft Bing Shopping has officially added a lot of the features we noticed early such as coupons [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Validate Fix Now Back Google has reenabled the validate fix feature in Google Search Console just now. It was not there a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Discover With Author Names Instead Of Site Name Google Discover can now show the author name of a specific story instead of showing the site name [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
IndexNow Is Growing But Should You Pay Attention? Microsoft's IndexNow protocol is growing and the search company keeps investing in it, despite [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 15, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 12 2022

Google: Clicking On Your Site In Google Search Won't Hurt Or Help Your Rankings One of the oldest myths in the Google SEO-verse is that clicking on your search results in Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEO and the future world without cookies As the end of cookie tracking nears, other marketing channels are changing the way they do [...] - Search Engine Land
IndexNow attributed for 7% of all new URLs clicked on in Bing in the past month Plus, Czech search engine Seznam.cz has adopted IndexNow. - Search Engine Land
Yellow Hallway At Google NYC - Search Engine Roundtable
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google MUM Gives Featured Snippets Consensus, Google Breaks Bad, Ranking Tremors, Lens, Spam & More Google launched new features in search, one where Google is using MUM to give featured snippets a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests More New Sitelink Designs Google loves to test new designs and interfaces for the Sitelinks it shows in the snippets of its [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Sitemap 50,000 Limit Based On Location URLs, Not Alternative URLs We know that each XML sitemap file can contain a maximum of 50,000 URLs but what is counted as the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Guaranteed Local Ads Adds Reviews Not Guaranteed Disclaimer Google has added a label on the Google Guaranteed Local Service Ads reviews to say the reviews are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
IndexNow adoption gains momentum IndexNow adoption gains momentum, 16 million web sites have already adopted. Have you? - Bing Webmaster

August, 11 2022

The 4 stages of search all SEOs need to know Understanding how search engines work is fundamental for SEO professionals. Here's a refresher on [...] - Search Engine Land
Google steps up featured snippets with MUM; reducing false premise results by 40% Google is using general consensus for callouts, expanding content advisories and about this result [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s Algorithms Can Understand When Sources Agree On Same Fact via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's Multitask Unified Model (MUM) algorithm is now capable of identifying when multiple [...] - Search Engine Journal
Wix Integrates Google URL Inspection API via @sejournal, @martinibuster Wix is integrating Search Console URL Inspection API, giving users an easy way to view site health [...] - Search Engine Journal
New ways we're helping you find high-quality information People turn to Google every day for information in the moments that matter most. Sometimes [...] - Inside Search
Google 404s Rich Media File Best Practices Help Document Google has deleted and 404ed the Rich media file best practices. Google said removed its [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google reporting issue with Search Console Discover report This data logging issue was on July 26, 2022 - any drops in clicks or impressions might be just a [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console Performance Report For Discover Reporting Issue On July 26 Google has confirmed it had a reporting issue in the Google Search Console Performance Report for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Featured Snippet Callouts, False Premises, MUM & More Google has launched some improvements to featured snippets, about this result and the content [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 10 2022

Google: Avoid Duplicate Content In Business Profile Posts via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Duplicate content in posts published by Google Business Profiles is now considered spam, according [...] - Search Engine Journal
Analysis and advice: Why recipe sites saw huge fluctuations in visibility Post algorithm updates, some recipe sites experienced drops of 50 percent in May after huge [...] - Search Engine Watch
Aftermath Of August 8 Google Outage via @sejournal, @martinibuster What was the impact of the Google outage on the search community? We look at aftermath, which [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google no longer recommends using dynamic rendering for Google Search Google now says this is a workaround and not a long-term solution. - Search Engine Land
Do you plan to attend in-person events in the next year? With COVID seemingly never more transmissible, are you more hesitant about attending live events? [...] - Search Engine Land
How to optimize your ecommerce site for better indexing Is your ecommerce site underperforming? Learn how optimizing your product pages can help you exceed [...] - Search Engine Land
Webinar: The crucial role SEO plays in digital transformation Spoiler alert: It starts with people, process and technology. - Search Engine Land
Microsoft Bing Adds Coupon Codes To Shopping Searches via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Microsoft Bing is adding new annotations to shopping search results, including active coupon codes [...] - Search Engine Journal

August, 9 2022

Google Search Is Very Broken Now: Outages, Indexing Issues, Pages Missing & More Last night, Google suffered a pretty big outage with Google Search that is still lingering through [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search outage causing major issues with search quality and indexing Google is working on resolving the issue and we expect search quality to return to normal soon. - Search Engine Land
What percentage of your budget should go toward SEO? Spending on SEO now is an investment in your business's future revenue. Learn the key factors to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Experiences Rare, Widespread Outage via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google experienced a rare, widespread outage on August 9. The cause of the outage is currently [...] - Search Engine Journal
Top technical SEO issues every webmaster should master How to improve your SEO ranking and generate a better user experience. - Search Engine Land
Ranking Factors: Fact Or Fiction? Let’s Bust Some Myths! [Ebook] via @sejournal, @BennyJamminS Get evidence-based answers for all your pressing ranking factors questions. - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 9, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 8 2022

SEO is marketing SEO should be solidly considered a marketing function. That's because SEO is, perhaps, the best [...] - Search Engine Land
Google updates Business Profile posts spam policies The posts that do not comply with this guideline may be rejected and removed from Google Maps and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Local Spam Now Includes Duplicate Photos, Posts, Videos, and Logos Google has updated its Business Profile posts content policy to specify that Google now considers [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to craft a winning Search Engine Land Awards entry: Past judges share their advice Don't miss your chance to enter the 2022 Search Engine Land Awards... the final deadline is Friday, [...] - Search Engine Land
How Google Pros & Cons Update Impacts Product Review Sites via @sejournal, @martinibuster Update to structured data makes product review sites eligible for the new Pro & Con enhancement [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bad website design: Bad for SEO, UX and business Are these design elements slowing your download times and keeping your website from doing what you [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Now Supports Pros and Cons Structured Data For Reviews Pages Google now supports new structured data for pros and cons of editorial review pages. This new [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google launches new image preview interface in web search Instead of Google taking you to the Google Image tab, you now remain within the main search results. - Search Engine Land
The complete guide to on-page optimization This step-by-step guide will show you how to take your on-site optimization to the next level, [...] - Search Engine Land
Vlog #184: Part I: Sarah Burke On Data Analytics and Differences Between GA 4 & UA3 Sarah Burke is the Data and Analytics Manager at Cypress North, she has been with the company for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update On Saturday, August 6th - PRU Tremors Or Something Else? On Saturday, August 6th, we saw a lot of signals that there was another Google Search ranking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 8, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Noindex On One URL In An Hreflang Cluster Can Impact All The URLs In That Cluster In the latest Search Off the Record podcast, Lizzi Sassman of Google asked Gary Illyes of Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 5 2022

New in structured data: Pros and cons Product reviews are a valuable resource for users researching which product to buy. Product [...] - Google Webmaster Central
DuckDuckGo Now Says It Will Block Microsoft Trackers via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern DuckDuckGo responds to recent criticism saying the third-party tracking scripts it blocks will now [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Updates Search Snippets For Product Review Pages via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google updates search results for product review pages by listing an item's pros and cons in the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google adds structured data support for pros and cons on product markup Even if you don't use this markup, Google may still show pros and cons in the product search result [...] - Search Engine Land
The 10 best SEO companies across the globe Bringing in the best SEO company with the latest trending SEO services for your website is crucial [...] - Search Engine Land
Google addresses Impression Share and Auction Insights reporting issue Impression Share and Auction Insights data may be incorrect for some advertisers reports. - Search Engine Land
RankRanger: Google Things To Know Back In Desktop Search Results About two weeks ago, Google stopped showing the Things To Know box in the desktop search results [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Business Listings Test Photo Overlay Interface In Web Search Google seems to be testing overlaying the photos of some Google Business Profile listings in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Updates Searches With Quotes To Show Location Of Page That Contains Quoted Words Google announced it has changed how it displays search results for queries that use queries. The [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
July 2022 Google Product Reviews Update Finished On August 2nd & No One Said Anything So Google has finished the rollout of the July 2022 Google Product Reviews Update in a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 4 2022

Google July 2022 product reviews update is finished rolling out It took only six days to roll out, we expected it to take at least 14 to 21 days to roll out. - Search Engine Land
How we're improving search results when you use quotes Sometimes people know they absolutely, positively only want webpages that mention a particular word [...] - Inside Search
Indexing and keyword ranking techniques revisited: 20 years later Learn how keyword-based ranking techniques have evolved – from the 'little old ladies' to the [...] - Search Engine Land
Webinar: Secrets to link building from SEO experts Learn the strategies to keep and which to skip. - Search Engine Land
Google Search View In 3D For Some Wayfair Listings Google first demonstrated view in 3D augmented reality images in the Google Search results back in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Adds Content Guidelines Links For Bloggers, Hosts, E-Commerce Sites & More Google added links to its overview of guidelines page with five-more links, keep in mind, that this [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google announces 4 new features for Discovery ad users New Discovery ad features should help advertisers get ahead of the holiday season with new assets, [...] - Search Engine Land
Introducing the Google Universal Image Embedding Challenge Posted by Bingyi Cao, Software Engineer, Google Research, and Mário Lipovský, [...] - Google Research
Using search query reports to optimize PPC campaigns The search query report is one of the most important tools in your PPC arsenal. But knowing how to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Train Station Clock - Search Engine Roundtable
Google tests new SERP feature that gives searchers Perspectives Google has confirmed this Perspectives box is a test but would not tell us more on how this works. - Search Engine Land
Google updates search result snippets for queries with quotes Now Google will now show the quoted text in the snippet where that exact phrase appears on the page. - Search Engine Land
Google Adds Asian Owned Business Attribute For Business Profiles Google has added yet another business attribute for Google Business Profiles - Asian-owned [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 3 2022

Facebook To End Live Shopping on October 1 via @sejournal, @BrianFr07823616 Facebook announced it will no longer allow users to host live shopping events beginning October 1, [...] - Search Engine Journal
Efficient Sequence Modeling for On-Device ML Posted by Arun Kandoor, Software Engineer, Google Research The increasing demand for machine [...] - Google Research
Supporting Asian-owned businesses in your community When I was 5, our family moved from New York City to the countryside outside of the city. My [...] - Inside Search
Google Tests Site Name & Favicon On Image Results Within Web Search Google is testing promoting the source of the images it displays in web search by adding the full [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
August 2022 Google Webmaster Report Here is the large Google webmaster report for April 2022 - catching you all up on what you may have [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tag - A New Version Google announced a new Google Tag that Google says will "unlock new capabilities to help you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google adds Asian-owned attribute to business profiles These labels can help some businesses with visibility and potentially increase conversions. - Search Engine Land

August, 2 2022

Simplifying measurement with the Google tag Measurement is the bedrock of digital advertising. Accurate measurement relies on robust tagging to [...] - Inside Adwords
6 reasons why it makes sense to outsource SEO Although brands can be successful by taking SEO in-house, there are several benefits to outsourcing [...] - Search Engine Land
Rare Google Dublin Rooftop Outdoors Lunch - Search Engine Roundtable
John Mueller Beautiful SEO Rant On Doing Versus Reading I know some of you may not like it and may think I am some sort of suck-up for covering this but [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s Local Services Ads platform has a problem with spam Fake business names, virtual offices, multiple rankings... Google has a spam issue with LSAs and [...] - Search Engine Land
The creator economy boom, bust, and need for SEO! Assessessing influencer marketing trends and stats, and why content creators must harness SEO for [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google releases simple, centralized tag solution The new Google tag is an expansion and rebrand of the existing global site tag. It will require [...] - Search Engine Land
Legal Ruling May Allow Rumble To See Some Of Google's Secret Ranking Algorithms Glenn Greenwald reported that a "federal district court in California on Friday denied [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Continues To Work On Deduplicating Multiple Ad Listings After LSAs Example Joy Hawkins pointed out an example of Google Local Service Ads showing duplicate listings for the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 1 2022

Why and how to delete content in bulk for SEO Deleting content, as part of a larger strategy to improve content quality and increase topical [...] - Search Engine Land
July 2022 Google Product Reviews Update Kicked In Friday Afternoon On July 27th Google said it began to roll out the July 2022 Google Product Reviews update. But we [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google temporarily disables the validate fix feature in Search Console Google is updating something in Search Console and for now, you can't issue new validation requests. - Search Engine Land
Being In Close Contact With Google Doesn't Benefit You Or Me Being in close contact with Google or the people that work at Google really does not benefit you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Tips for how to post effectively on LinkedIn from SEO Sara Taher Looking to grow your engagement and visibility on LinkedIn? Learn some tips from someone who is [...] - Search Engine Land
Site taxonomy for SEO: A straightforward guide In this guide: learn why website taxonomy is fundamental to SEO success and how to optimize site [...] - Search Engine Land
2022 Update for Google Quality Rater Guidelines – Big YMYL Updates We finally have the first Google Quality Rater Guidelines update of 2022, and like usual, it is [...] - The SEM Post
Google Business Profile Tests Expandable Menu In Web Search Google Search is testing a new expanded menu for the Google Business Profile tool in Google Web [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google begins testing FLEDGE API on AdSense The new API uses interest groups instead of cookie-based tracking for both audiences and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Perspectives Search Results Google seems to be testing a new search box and feature titled "perspectives." [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Holding A Google NYC Manhole - Search Engine Roundtable