Archive of December, 2022

December, 31 2022

Is This Google’s Helpful Content Algorithm? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google research paper may shed light on how the helpful content update works - Search Engine Journal

December, 30 2022

How The ChatGPT Watermark Works And Why It Could Be Defeated via @sejournal, @martinibuster A looming ChatGPT watermark will expose auto-generated content. What is it and will the watermark [...] - Search Engine Journal
Top 10 SEO expert columns of 2022 on Search Engine Land Google Sheets, E-A-T, helpful content and more! These 10 SEO columns got the most pageviews on [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads Dynamic Search Ads Experimental Flow Google has confirmed it is testing a non-DSA option when creating new search campaigns within [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Thanks, 2022 You know what time it is: year in a review. With only a few days left of 2022 and with all the [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Search Adds Grammar Check Feature Google Search can now tell you if your query is using proper grammar. Google will show you a green [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Despite Criticism, Google Says Search Results Are Better & Are More Relevant In November, yes, a month ago, there was a lot of criticism across the web that Google Search and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Top Contributors To The Search Engine Roundtable In 2022 As you all know, I source a lot of forums and Twitter threads (now Mastodon as well) here for the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 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 Search Product Listings With Price History Graph Google seems to be testing a "price history" chart or graph in the Google Shopping search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Intern Cohort - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 29 2022

NBA and Google Water Bottle - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: "Here" Is Bad Link Text Lizzi Sassman from Google said in this morning's Google SEO office hours that using the anchor text [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Things To Do Carousel Gains More Details In Scroll Window For the past couple of weeks, Google has expanded the Things To Do overlay carousel to allow [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 29, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Do Not Nofollow Links To Your Own Social Media Profiles Google's John Mueller said on Reddit that when it comes to linking from your site to your social [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Many Marketers Worried About SEO & PPC Budgets Being Cut In 2023 Due To Recession I conducted a very unscientific poll on Twitter asking marketers who do SEO and PPC if they are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Search Algorithm Ranking Fluctuations On December 26th While it has been calm for the past several days, today is a new day and I am seeing some signs of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 28 2022

22 products and features we launched in 2022 Pixel Watch, Android 13, Google Wallet and other Google product launches from 2022. - Inside Search
SEO 2022 in review: E-E-A-T, ChatGPT, Search Essentials and more SEO proved to be yet another challenging year with several big changes. Here's our recap of the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Building Your Site On Bad Links Over Time Will Have A Lasting Effect Google's John Mueller provided some advice on a site that seemed to have been hit due to bad links. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Speed Bumps - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Links On YouTube Won't Help Your Google Rankings & SEO An SEO asked if links on YouTube videos will help with your Google SEO. Then someone said that it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Helpful Content Update & Link Spam Update Delayed Rollout Due To Holidays Google officially confirmed that the helpful content update needs more time to roll out, but now [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
PSA: Google's Passage Indexing / Ranking Helps Google Better Understand Messy Content It has been a while since I heard anyone talk about Google's passage indexing, technically should [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 28, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Catching Up On Bing Search User Interface & Search Experiments Over the past several weeks, I've been collecting a number of Microsoft Bing search experiments and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 27 2022

Google algorithm updates 2022 in review: Core updates, product reviews, helpful content updates, spam updates and beyond Google introduced a brand new ranking algorithm this year, the helpful content update but pushed [...] - Search Engine Land
Google:Unique Text, Infographics & Video Does Not Make Content Good, Accurate & Helpful Google's John Mueller said that "writing unique text, adding infographics, and a video" [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Spam Update Hits Won't Be Fixed By Removal Internal Duplicate Content Google's John Mueller said that removing internal duplicate content and other technical issue fixes [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Most SEOs Aren't Concerned About ChatGPT Threatening The SEO Industry ChatGPT is cool, very cool, in fact, I used it for fun for my video introduction earlier this [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Says Cache-Control Headers Aren't Used For Crawling & Indexing Unless It's Embedded Content In 2018, John Mueller of Google said Google does not use cache-control headers when crawling. He [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Search Engine Watch Top 5! Gripping reads from 2022 that informed, amazed, and helped SEOs and search marketers tackle [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Ads To Allow Some Cannabidiol (CBD) & Hemp Ads In Some Regions Google Ads will soon allow some cannabidiol (CBD) and topical, hemp-derived CBD products to be [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 27, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Wicker Chair At Google - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 26 2022

PPC 2022 in review: Performance Max, Apple Search, chaos at Twitter, and more If you thought it was going to be a dull year, you were wrong. Here’s a look at the most [...] - Search Engine Land
Vlog #203: Jessica Budde On Transitioning Her Role As A Digital Marketer & Client Red Flags In part one, we spoke about Jessica Budde's professional history, and in part two, we spoke more [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Provides SEO Advice Around LastPass Security Breach As some of you may know, LastPass had a pretty big security breach that is pretty concerning. But [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Lizzi's Crochet Googlebot & Crawley Are Outstanding - Search Engine Roundtable
Calmer Christmas Weekend For The Google Search Results It seemed a lot calmer this past weekend, Christmas weekend than we had it a while in the world of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Fixing Bug With Search Not Caching & Serving SXG (Signed Exchange) Google confirmed last week that it is working on a fix with SXG, signed exchanges, and not working [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 26, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
John Mueller Of Google Providing Webmaster Support on Christmas Again (2022 Edition) Every year John Mueller of Google makes a big effort to help respond to both SEO-related questions [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Does Being Internet Famous Help Get SEO Support From Google? I spotted this thread on Mastodon where both John Mueller and Danny Sullivan of Google was helping [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 23 2022

Google Tests About Carousel For Websites Google is testing a new search feature to tell you more about a website. This is an [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How Google Autocomplete works Here's what you need to know about Google Autocomplete, how it generates predictions, and why it [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Testing New Desktop Search User Interface Design We've been covering a lot of Google user interface tests but here is a look at a revamped Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Sponsored Label On Desktop Search Ads Google is testing displaying the new "sponsored" ad label on the desktop search results. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Testing Displaying Local Business Profiles In Google Discover Google is testing including the local business profile listings in Google Discover. There is this [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search News Buzz Video Recap: No More Google Core Updates In 2022, Helpful Content Update Taking Longer, The Impact Of These Updates & More Google told us that we should not expect another Core update in 2022, so you can relax about that. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 23, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Ignore Spammy Links Even When A Whole Penalized Site Is Redirected To You Google's advice since Penguin 4.0 was that you don't need to disavow links since the links are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Rusty Google Room - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 22 2022

Google Helpful Content Update & Link Spam Update Still Making SERP Turbulence As you know, the December 2022 helpful content update and the link spam update are rolling out now. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google updates ad policies to allow more CBD promotions CBD advertisers in California, Colorado, and Puerto Rico can apply for certification beginning in [...] - Search Engine Land
Why SEO experts rarely share actual success stories Curious about anonymized screenshots showing supposed SEO wins? Let's uncover why there seem to be [...] - Search Engine Land
GA4 now lets you recreate Universal Analytics audiences, and personalize the Home page The new features help make the transition into GA4 much easier. - Search Engine Land
Google: You Can Use A Single Robots.txt For All Your International Sites Gary Illyes from Google said on LinkedIn that if you want to you can use a single robots.txt file [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Our Search Algorithm Doesn't Look At Words Per Section Google's John Mueller said on Mastodon that the Google Search ranking algorithm does not look at [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 22, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Merchant Center Feeds issue There is no indication on what caused the outage, how many merchants are affected, or when a [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Comments On Making Mastodon More Search Engine Friendly There is an interesting thread on Mastodon where Danny Sullivan and John Mueller, both of who work [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 21 2022

How the TikTok algorithm works: Everything you need to know We read TikTok’s creator guidelines and newsroom documentation, so you don’t have to. [...] - Search Engine Land
Microsoft to go fully live with new Bingbot user-agent change in January 2023 After a couple years of testing, Microsoft said it will stop using the old BingBot user agent next [...] - Search Engine Land
December 2022 Google Helpful Content Update Taking Longer, Said Google Google's Search Liason, Danny Sullivan, said that the December 2022 helpful content update would [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google PSA: Sitemaps Are Hints, Not Orders Gary Illyes from Google said on LinkedIn the other day that sitemaps are hints, not orders. Meaning [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Looking At Upper Limit Of Word Count? Probably Not But Get To The Point. Google's John Mueller again said word count is not a thing with SEO or Google Search. He said on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Business Profile Web Search Interface Gains Add Map To Your Website Google's new Business Profile interface, aka NMX (I hate the name), in the web search results, for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The ultimate 2022 Google updates round up Summarizing the rumored and confirmed updates Google launched this year, their impact on page [...] - Search Engine Watch
8 things we launched in 2022 to support your health Check out some of this year’s health and wellness features and initiatives from Search, [...] - Inside Search
New Google Ads Policy Disallows Promoting Content That Risks Harming Users, Googlers Or Google Ads Google will update its Google Advertising policies to disallow the promotion of content or engaging [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 21, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 20 2022

Google CALM: A New Language Model Technology via @sejournal, @martinibuster New research paper demonstrates a way to increase language model performance speed by up to three [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Debuts New Search Technology, Including In-Video Search via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google is rolling out brand new search technology in India, one of the search company's biggest [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Retires Web Light Webpage Transcoding via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google retired the Web Light service that made the Internet faster for users in countries where [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search testing search in video Google announced this as a pilot feature in India, but some in the U.S. are also seeing it. - Search Engine Land
Google updates Ads Policy Requirements The policies are designed to ensure a safe and positive experience for all Google users. - Search Engine Land
Customer segmentation models to improve the performance of loyalty marketing campaigns by Comarch Segmenting your customers is critical to your success. - Search Engine Land
Ranking data during the December 2022 Google helpful content update and link spam update The data providers sent us data looking at the Google Search results over the last couple of weeks. - Search Engine Land
How to set up a Google Ads account Getting started with Google Ads is a bit more complex than it used to be. This guide walks you [...] - Search Engine Land
Google market pulse for search marketers A guide covering all the key organic Google SERP features you can harness for a successful strategy [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Search In Video Google announced in India yesterday that they are testing a search feature to allow you to search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Face Paint At Google Dublin Office - Search Engine Roundtable
Study: Upvoting Reviews Keeps The Reviews On Google Local Longer Here is another study from Joy Hawkins and friends. This study says that upvoting reviews tend to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's New Local Pack Full Design Now Live? A couple of months ago, I reported Google testing a new design for the local pack, which is a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Top Products Added To Business Profiles Performance Reports Google seems to be rolling out a new "top products" report to the performance reports [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 19 2022

Google’s John Mueller: WordPress Not Inherently Better For SEO via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern In response to a thread on Reddit, Google Search Advocate John Mueller says there’s no [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google search retires Web Light, Google’s method to serve faster, lighter pages to people Google said this feature is no longer needed these days, as providers and devices are now faster. - Search Engine Land
Facebook: A content marketing guide Here's how to create a Facebook content plan that meshes well with your brand's overarching content [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: No Core Update During Remainder Of The Year Google's John Mueller said that Google has no plans to release another core update in 2022. This [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Learning Video Structured Data Text Field Now Recommended But Not Required Google has updated its learning video structured data documentation to no longer require the text [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Knowledge Panel With Grey Links Google is testing a light gray colored font for the links in the Google Search knowledge panel box. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google December 2022 Link SpamÂ Update's Impact Last Wednesday, December 14th, Google began to roll out the December 2022 link spam update, and it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Merchant Center Policy For Google Ads Linked Account Suspension Google posted an updated policy update in the Google Merchant Center section for a new "linked [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 19, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Custom Google Jenga Set - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #202: Jessica Budde From Furry Fun Facts To Brewing Digital Marketing Jessica Budde was next to be interviewed and she has an amazing personality. She co-hosts the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 16 2022

Google says don’t expect a new core update by year-end The holidays are approaching and SEOs are worried that we might get another core update by year end. - Search Engine Land
E-E-A-T - "Experience" Added To Revised Search Quality Raters Guidelines The Google search quality raters guidelines were updated and updated in a big way, with a new E [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads updates in 2022: The good, the bad, the jury’s still out Here's a rundown of Google Ads announcements, updates and releases in 2022 and how they impact paid [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads Insights Page Adds Search Terms, Asset, Audience & Change History Insights Google announced that the Insights page in Google Ads has gained four new features including new [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Business Profile Photo Uploads Processing Notice & Pending Label On Photos Sometime in the past couple of months or so, Google added a notice after you upload photos to your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The enterprise business of SEO: Communicating to the C-suite Learn how to effectively engage with your organization's leaders and help them understand the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Business Profiles Services Now Displays On Desktop Interface Google is now testing showing the services listings, the different services a business offers, on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Cozy up with a good book for $0 this holiday season Google Books wants to help you find your holiday spirit with a list of public domain holiday [...] - Inside Search
Search Central Live 2022 Highlights We spent the past few weeks busy hosting events in Singapore and Tel Aviv. In this post we [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 16, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 15 2022

Google E-E-A-T: How To Demonstrate First-Hand Experience via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Demonstrating first-hand experience is more important than ever for Google Search rankings. Updates [...] - Search Engine Journal
E-E-A-T and major updates to Google’s quality rater guidelines The most important change to the QRG is the introduction of the letter E to the start of the [...] - Search Engine Land
Our latest update to the quality rater guidelines: E-A-T gets an extra E for Experience Many creators are familiar with the concept of E-A-T, which is used in how we evaluate if our [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Reveals More Information About Search Status Dashboard via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google search podcast reveals more details about the new Search Status Dashboard including why it's [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google doubles up on E with updated search quality raters guidelines (E-E-A-T) Add an E to E-A-T with experience, expertise, authoritativeness and trustworthiness. - Search Engine Land
Google Helps Searchers Find Cost Of Living Assistance via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern In response to a spike in searches for "cost of living," Google is updating search [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Unleashes December 2022 Link Spam Update With SpamBrain AI Google began rolling out a revised link spam update on December 14, 2022 named the December 2022 [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Business Profile Settings Added "Remove Business Profile" Google has recently added a new option to the Google Business Profile settings to remove that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 15, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Top 5 search marketing trends and 3 must-haves for 2023 Here's a look at significant search, digital marketing and consumer trends, along with the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Product Search Results With Information Boxes That Expand Google Search has been super busy with tons of unique and different interfaces for shopping and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
4 new features on the Google Insights page The new features can help you navigate demand, trends and even optimize fluctuating demand during [...] - Search Engine Land

December, 14 2022

December 2022 link spam update releasing for Google Search Today, we're leveraging the power of SpamBrain to neutralize the impact of unnatural links on [...] - Google Webmaster Central
How to use Google Search to help manage uncertain times Here are a few ways you can use Google Search to find support and navigate financial hardship. - Inside Search
Google December 2022 Link Spam Update Rolling Out Now via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google confirms an update to its spam detection system, called the December 2022 link spam update, [...] - Search Engine Journal
Introducing the Google Search Status Dashboard As we head into 2023, we want to introduce another tool for the public to understand the most [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google releases December 2022 link spam update This update is rolling out now for the next couple weeks, while the helpful content is still [...] - Search Engine Land
Is Google Down Right Now? Check The Search Status Dashboard via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google is rolling out a search status dashboard that will inform you, in real-time, whether there's [...] - Search Engine Journal
4 main types of local links and how to earn them Earning links for your local business starts with evaluating your organization’s values and [...] - Search Engine Land
How to drive 10x more conversions with magnetic paid search offers The best PPC optimization you can make is one you won’t find in the Google Ads interface, and [...] - Search Engine Land
500/503 HTTP Status Code On Robots.txt Can Remove Your Site From Google Search Gary Illyes from Google said on LinkedIn that if your server returns a 500/503 HTTP status code for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google launches new Google Search status dashboard This report will confirm if there is an issue with crawling, indexing or serving with Google Search. - Search Engine Land
Google Gives Official Names Of Some Search Features With Visual Elements Gallery Google has launched a new visual elements of Google Search gallery that documents some of the more [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Disallowing Crawling Is Not A Super Fast Way To Deindex A Site John Mueller of Google said in a post on Reddit that disallowing Googlebot to crawl your site would [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How one digital book led to an important COVID-19 discovery How a little-known textbook scanned by Google Books changed the course of the pandemic. - Inside Search
New Google Analytics 4 Landing page report GA4 users should see the new report in their dashboards automatically but can also add it manually. - Search Engine Land
New Google Search Status Dashboard Tells Us When Crawling, Indexing Or Serving Goes Down I always wondered why Google had status dashboards for hundreds of other products across Gmail, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 13 2022

Google Launches Visual Guide To Search Elements via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's new guide to search features visualizes and defines the various elements that appear on a [...] - Search Engine Journal
6 SEO considerations for a successful international expansion Learn key SEO elements to consider when deciding whether going global and entering new markets is [...] - Search Engine Land
SEO Trends 2023, According To 24 Experts [Ebook] via @sejournal, @sejournal Which SEO trends will matter most in 2023? Find out in the latest edition of our SEO Trends ebook [...] - Search Engine Journal
Visual Elements of Google Search It can be challenging to find a certain search feature or UI element that you want to learn about, [...] - Google Webmaster Central
2 new Google data-driven attribution features Data-driven attribution assigns incremental values to each touch point in the customer purchase [...] - Search Engine Land
Google launches visual elements gallery documenting 22 elements on the Google Search results page This new document explains the most common user interface elements of Google web search page. - Search Engine Land
After the content audit: 7 steps for improving content A content audit is only useful if you take action on your findings. Take these post-audit steps to [...] - Search Engine Land
UK Financial Services Advertisers Now Needs Verification For Microsoft Advertising Microsoft announced that if you do financial service ads in its network, like on Bing Search, in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Your Content Does Not Need To Be Niche, It Can Be Diverse - Just Write For Your People Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liaison, said on Masoton that your content does not need to be on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 13, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: There Is No Helpful Content Score Or Threshold Google's John Mueller said there is no score or threshold for the Google helpful content update. He [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Featured Snippets Not In Position Zero, Again Google is once again testing showing the featured snippet, aka position zero, not in the first or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Turning data into results with data-driven attribution Showcasing how Mercedes-Benz Germany increased performance with data-driven attribution, and [...] - Inside Adwords
Study: Google Local Guides Reviews Stay At The Top Longer Joy Hawkins has published another local SEO case study, this one on whether reviews left by Local [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
18 Google Scholar tips all students should know 18 tips to become a Google Scholar expert — one for every year it’s been around. - Inside Search

December, 12 2022

ChatGPT For Content and SEO? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Six important things to know before using ChatGPT for SEO and content - Search Engine Journal
Programmatic SEO: Your missing link to 1M+ sessions Here's what you need to know about programmatic SEO and how to start publishing unique, [...] - Search Engine Land
A guide to LinkedIn content marketing Looking to reach and nurture your audience on LinkedIn? Here's a seven-step process for building [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 12, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Content Ideas - Experimental Feature Google Search Console is testing a new feature named "content ideas." It is labeled as an [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google On Pages Popping In & Out Of The Google Index Google has spoken about being on the edge of indexing is similar to Google thinking those pages are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's John Mueller: Expired & Repurposed Domains Are SEO-Flotsam Google's John Mueller said that using expired domains, repurposed domains are "SEO-flotsam, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #201: Jeremy Meindl On Failing in Digital Marketing Part one and part two with Jeremy Meindl was more on black hat SEO stuff and now in part three, we [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Featured Snippet Perspectives Now Live On Mobile? In August, we covered a new form of featured snippets in Google Search named Google perspectives. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Android Brazil Soccer Statue At Google Office - Search Engine Roundtable
Updates to Google's Services in Czechia in Light of the Czech Transposition of the European Copyright Directive The European Copyright Directive, which is being implemented by countries in the European [...] - Google Webmaster Central

December, 11 2022

Search Engine Land celebrates its 16th birthday Search Engine Land launched on this day in 2006. Today, we look back on a successful 2022 and look [...] - Search Engine Land

December, 9 2022

Content ideas may be coming to Google Search Console This feature looks and feels a lot like the Google Question Hub. - Search Engine Land
JavaScript rendering and indexing: Cautionary tales and how to avoid them The results of a JavaScript rendering and indexing experiment highlight some challenges of running [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Using A CDN Or Cloud Hosting, Set Up Routine Tests To Ensure Googlebot Is Not Blocked Gary Illyes from Google loves posting his PSAs on Mastodon. His next PSA is that if you are using a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Helpful Content System Update, Continuous Scroll On Desktop & Topic Refinements This week we had another confirmed update to the Google helpful content system; it is now global. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
2023 Edition: Google Says Only Update The Date When Significantly Updating The Content It is that time of year when content creators take their content that has been performing well and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Arches At The Google Carpenter Chicago Office - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 9, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's John Mueller Says HTML Sitemaps Should Never Be Needed John Mueller of Google has always downplayed the importance of HTML sitemaps over the years, he is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google 2022 Year In Search - Top Searches It is that time of the year again when Google publishes its top searches for the year. Not going [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests +Topic Search Bar Refinements On Desktop After Launching On Mobile Earlier this week, Google announced it has begun to roll out the new topics + sign refinement [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 8 2022

Google’s Top Global & Local Search Trends Of 2022 via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google’s annual report of top search trends is now available, which includes all new [...] - Search Engine Journal
How to make the most of the new Google Business Profile dashboard Google's New Merchant Experience (NMX) has rolled out. Here's a rundown of the changes in GBP and [...] - Search Engine Land
Poll Shows SEOs Split On If Google Or The Web Is Getting Worse There have been a lot of complaints about the quality of Google search results - the truth is, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Subscribe with Google publishers may see an increase in clicks and impressions from Google Search This started on December 5th, in the search performance report in Google Search Console. - Search Engine Land
Hit by the Google spam update? Here’s what you might be doing wrong Steer clear of outdated and dubious SEO tactics. Here are tips for doing SEO that benefits [...] - Search Engine Land
Year in Search 2022: All about new possibilities Watch our 2022 Year in Search video and learn more about the year’s trending searches. - Inside Search
Teddy Bear Hardly Working At The GooglePlex - Search Engine Roundtable
Formation of Robust Bound States of Interacting Photons Posted by Alexis Morvan and Trond Andersen, Research Scientists, Google Quantum AI When quantum [...] - Google Research
Google Search Console: Sites Using Subscribe With Google May See Increase In Impressions & Clicks Google added a new annotation to the Google Search Console performance reports on December 5th, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 7 2022

Year in Search 2022: See the top trending searches of the year Join us in looking back at the moments and trends that defined 2022 with Year in Search. - Inside Search
December 2022 Google Helpful Content Update Rolling Out With Global Impact Google has officially confirmed the launch of the second release of the Google helpful content [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Panel Adds Disclaimer To Appointment Providers Links Google has added a disclaimer to the appointment provider links that you find in the Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Poll: 40% Of SEOs Say Link Building Is As Effective As It Always Was We have heard a lot from Google recently that links are just not as significant of a ranking factor [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Private Ads Prediction with DP-SGD Posted by Krishna Giri Narra, Software Engineer, Google, and Chiyuan Zhang, Research Scientist, [...] - Google Research
Google Launches +Topic Search Bar Refinements After Several Months Of Testing Back in July we reported that Google was testing a new more dynamic search bar refinement option [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
3 SEO tools to build for your clients in Looker Studio Creating technical SEO auditing, keyword research, and link building tracking tools is easy with [...] - Search Engine Land
Give your customers what they want with e-commerce AI by HawkSearch by Bridgeline Match customers with the products they are searching for. - Search Engine Land
How to get Google featured snippets: 9 optimization guidelines Here's a set of guidelines to follow when optimizing for the featured snippet – like using an [...] - Search Engine Land
Search Chrome Tabs, Bookmarks & History Google announced three new ways to search in Chrome - including search your tabs, your bookmarks [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Dublin Office Tower Viewer - Search Engine Roundtable
How to advance your SEM career: 9 attributes to master To thrive in search marketing, consider how you can deliver stellar results, be an incredible [...] - Search Engine Land

December, 6 2022

Google Rolls Out December 2022 Helpful Content Update via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google confirms another helpful content update is rolling out across search results. It started on [...] - Search Engine Journal
Location pages in Google’s crosshairs after October spam update Ranking drops and deindexed pages are plaguing service area business sites. Let's explore the [...] - Search Engine Land
New Google Feature May Help You Find More Relevant Results via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google is rolling out a new feature in search results that may help people find more relevant [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google helpful content system update rolling out now (December 2022 update) This update adds new signals and also brings the helpful content update globally for all languages. - Search Engine Land
Ecommerce SEO & UX: 4 simple tips to boost traffic and sales Make the shopping experience better for users. Take a cue from brick-and-mortars with these [...] - Search Engine Land
Official: Google Continuous Scroll Now On Desktop Search Google has officially brought the continuous scroll feature from the mobile search results to the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Zooming in on an easier way to explore on Search We’re making it easier to drill down or expand on a search by showing you helpful related [...] - Inside Search
Businesses Cannot Upload Their Logo & Photos To Their Google Business Profiles There is a confirmed bug with Google Business Profiles where you cannot upload your logo or other [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Chrome adds 3 site search shortcuts Adding @bookmarks, @history or @tabs into your Chrome address bar should help speed up your [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Tests Short Product Reviews In Image Thumbnails Google seems to be testing showing a super short product review in the image thumbnail in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Keyword Planner Organize Keywords Into Ad Groups Officially Live In English Back in August that Google added a new feature to the Keyword Planner tool to organize keywords [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Advertising Gains Flyer Extensions, Retract & Restate Conversions, Ad Schedule Calendar View & More Microsoft posted the monthly Microsoft Advertising news and new features and announced a bunch of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 5 2022

Google brings continuous scroll to desktop search results This is now rolling out for English / U.S. search results. - Search Engine Land
WordPress Hit With Multiple Vulnerabilities In Versions Prior To 6.0.3 via @sejournal, @martinibuster WordPress recommends immediate action to fix multiple vulnerabilities discovered in versions prior [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s Desktop Search Results Are Now Continuously Scrollable via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google is making desktop search results more like mobile with an update that lets users [...] - Search Engine Journal
How to optimize underperforming content Don't let stale or lackluster content drag down your SEO performance. Learn how to find content [...] - Search Engine Land
Large Google Search Ranking Algorithm Updates & Volatility Continues Every Monday, I end up covering an unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update but this past [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Have Content Load First For JavaScript Heavy Sites Says Google Gary Illyes from Google posted a PSA (public service announcement) of sorts on Mastodon and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Clarifies Using Noindex & 404 Status Codes For Crawl Budget Optimization On Friday, Lizzi Sassman from Google updated the crawl budget management help document with two [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search rolls out new search refinements for top bar filters with related topics As previewed at the Search On event, now these new related topics options can show in the top far [...] - Search Engine Land
New Retired Google Crawlers Document With DuplexWeb-Google Being Retired Google has updated its Google Crawler / User Agent help document with a new section for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
December 2022 Google Webmaster Report Welcome to the big Google Webmaster Report for December 2022, the last one for the 2022 year. It [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google shut down Duplex on the Web Google has also retired the DuplexWeb-Google web crawler. - Search Engine Land
Google Doogler Fire Station Hydrant - Search Engine Roundtable
3 last-minute Amazon optimization tips for the holidays Here's how you can optimize your Amazon product listings, attract last-minute shoppers and get a [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 5, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How do you hire an SEO manager? Tips and considerations to get it right first time - Search Engine Watch

December, 4 2022

Rackspace Hosted Exchange Outage Due to Security Incident via @sejournal, @martinibuster Details emerge that Rackspace outage due to a security incident - Customers encouraged to migrate [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Doodle For Seasonal Holidays 2022 Google has posted its "Seasonal Holidays" Google Doodle for the month of December - the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 2 2022

19 Years Covering The Search Industry It has now been 19 years that I've been writing on this site, covering what you - the search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
YouTube SEO: How to find the best traffic-generating keywords Want to increase the chances of your videos showing up in YouTube’s search results? Here's a [...] - Search Engine Land
YouTube year in review: The top 10 ads of 2022 YouTube has been a major player in marketing for a while, and this year was no exception. - Search Engine Land
Poll: SEOs Are Mixed On Importance Of Domain Age For Google Rankings A recent Twitter poll by Tim Soulo shows that SEOs are super mixed in their opinion of the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Shows Download Your Google Business Profile Data When You Remove Your Listing In the new Google Business Profile manager, in Google Search, when you go to the option to remove [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Doesn't Rotate Its Index Here is a bizarre question that was asked on the Google office hours video asking if Google rotates [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: If Your Most Important Page Is Terrible, Then That Is Not Good For SEO Google's John Mueller said it is a big deal if your most important page or pages are terrible but [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Hollywood Mirror at Google Office - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 1 2022

Google Answers If Splitting A Long Article Could Result In Thin Content via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google answers if a long article that is split into interlinked pages risks being seen as thin [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Links Have Less Impact Today Than In The Past via @sejournal, @martinibuster A Googler remarked that links have "a lot less significant impact" today than they [...] - Search Engine Journal
In-house vs. agency SEO work: The pros and cons Looking for a change in your SEO career? Can't decide between an in-house marketing or agency role? [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Sues Company That Impersonates Google Through Scammy Telemarketing Calls Google announced it has filed a lawsuit against "scammers who sought to defraud hundreds of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Views per Session and Average Session Duration now available in GA4 Advertisers should be aware that the difference in session counts between UA and GA4 can vary from [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Discover performance reports improve accuracy Google Search Console said click and impression data may appear to increase because of this update. - Search Engine Land
Finance Marketing: How To Form A Successful Content Strategy via @sejournal, @sejournal This pocket guide has all the insights you need to navigate the ins and outs of content marketing [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Improved The Search Console Discover Performance Report Google has annotated the Discover performance report in Google Search Console, saying the report [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
3 big reasons businesses can be thankful for SEO As we head into the holiday season and a time of giving thanks, here are three reasons businesses [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: URLs Don't Have To Be In Same Language As Content Of The Page Back in 2015, Google said the URL should be in the same language as the content of the page. But [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Massive Google Maps Hallway At Pier 57 - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 1, 2022 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable