Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

  These are a few of the common objections I hear when it comes to cover songs: “I’m not a serious artist if I do covers.” “The world has enough cover songs already.” “There are only so many hours in the day; why would I waste time on someone else’s song?” Alright genius, you can do whatever you want as an artist. But if your de facto stance is NO COVERS, I’d encourage you to rethink things. Because whether we’re talking about live gigs, releasing singles, or making TikTok videos, covers can be a pretty powerful tool. Here’s why: 1. […]

One of the few sessions at Google I/O on Google Search was presented by John Mueller, who you all know, and also Dikla Cohen, a Technical Solutions Consultant at Google. This covers some of the more basics around Google Search Console, some of the newer features released – all of which you should all know about if you read this site daily.

Google has quietly added a new search appearance filter to the performance report in Google Search Console. The new search appearance filter is named “translated results” and it shows you how many searchers accessed your site’s content when Google translates it in the search results.

Google had added a “popular destinations” search related carousel to the search results for some queries. Valentin Pletzer spotted this the other day and I can see it as well on both mobile and desktop search.

Bing Search has a new carousel for “top rated tutors” for keyword searches such as [piano], [makeup], [guitar] and so on. This brings up a special search carousel that pulls data from TakeLessons, a Microsoft owned property.

At Google I/O yesterday, Google announced a new report coming to Google Search Console named the video page indexing report. This report will be available under the index section in Search Console and will show you a summary of all the video pages Google found while crawling and indexing your web site.

Google had a big unconfirmed search ranking algorithm update around Mother’s Day. Also, this week was Google I/O and Google had a ton of announcements specific to search…

Microsoft seems to be testing a search carousel titles “interesting reads.” This can show up for a super competitive keyword phrase, like [coffee], [beer], [wine] and so forth. I personally cannot replicate it but the box seems to show content from news sites or blogs.

Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, said the Google Ads team has updated its additional best practices for Performance Max help document with more details on how final URL expansion works in this context.

Expand the research process beyond search volume in order to keep up with how search engines rank content today. Here’s how. The post Why Keyword Research Is Useful For SEO & How To Rank appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

New metrics improve feedback on server-related speed and provides a more comprehensive representation of page performance than previously available The post PageSpeed Insights Adds New Lighthouse Speed Metrics appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Updated support page adds a new troubleshooting section for helping diagnose why Google is rewriting title tags The post Google Updates Advice on How to Control Titles in Search Results appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

What’s personal branding all about, anyway? Here’s why it matters and what you can do to build a solid brand of your own. The post What Is Personal Branding? Here’s Why It’s So Important appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

It’s not always straightforward to set KPIs for your paid ad campaigns. Here’s what you can do, according to Navah Hopkins in this month’s column. The post What’s A Good Cost Per Acquisition (CPA)? Ask The PPC appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Tinder parent company Match Group files suit against Google over restrictive billing policies in the Play Store. The post Google Sued Over Android In-App Payment Monopoly appeared first on Search Engine Journal.