Today is Memorial Day in the United States and to honor the day, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Bing all have special logos or themes on their home page. Google also has a special inside page for its search results with …
Month: May 2021
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 31, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today… …
Vlog #122: John Shehata On The Early Days of Google News & SEO (Part One)
John Shehata is the Global Vice Present of Audience Development Strategy & CRM at Condé Nast. John also founded NewzDash.com, an SEO software toolset for news publishers. But more importantly… …
Google Podcast: Deeper Insight Into Serving & More Fun Tidbits
I have to say, I love these Search Off The Record podcasts because they always contain really useful details on how Google Search works and the hosts are always fun to listen to, when they chat together. In this episode …
6 Months Since The Last Google Core Update, Google Will Announce When A New Update Is Released
It is just about six months since the last Google core update (5 weeks and 25 days) since the December 2020 core update. We have not had a core update in all of 2021. And no, Google did not release …
Google: AJAX Crawling Scheme For Search Not Supported Again
The AJAX crawling schema has like nine lives, it has died many deaths but has kept coming back. The latest, John Mueller of Google said last week that “we dropped support for AJAX crawling a while ago, and now just …
The Grammy process for independent musicians
How to get nominated for a Grammy as an independent musician. For most viewers and musicians, the Grammy awards are what we see on TV: big-time artists and much-hyped newcomers accepting trophies in a night dominated by the major players …
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 28, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web… …
Google Search Advocates Aren’t Suppose To Know About Ranking Anymore
Martin Splitt from Google said something I found very interesting in his video hangout from the other day. At the 25 minute mark, Martin said that his team technically now is “not supposed to know much about ranking.” Historically the …
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Search May Updates, Featured Snippet Testing, Fewer Manual Actions & Google Ads News
This week, we reported on another Google Search algorithm update, but only one, it was on May 22nd and it seemed really big. Google did not release a broad core update in 2021, but it will announce a future update …
New From Google Marketing Live: Hotel Ads, Local Ad Campaigns, Product Feeds, Customer Match & More
Google announced a slew of new features and tools at its Google Marketing Livestream event yesterday. This includes new features for hotel ads, local campaigns, local inventory ads, customer match, insight page upgrades, performance max, product feeds, tROARS and more.…
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 27, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today… …
Google Sent 2.9 Million Manual Webspam Actions In 2020; Less Than Previous Years
While Google already published its annual web spam report for 2020, yesterday Google also published a bit more details on how the company tackled webspam in 2020. Specifically, Google said it sent out less manual webspam actions than previous years, …
Poll: 56% Of SEOs Say Fewer Than 40% Of Their SEO Recommendations Are Implemented
Kristina Azarenko posted an outstanding SEO poll on Twitter asking on average, how many of your SEO recommendations get implemented? The results show that 56% of SEOs who answered the poll said that fewer than 40% of their recommendations are …
Google Tests Expandable More Specific Searches
In April we saw Google testing a new related search box named more specific searches. Now, we are seeing Google test an expandable version of the more specific searches. …