Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Official: Google makes change, results are no longer in denial over ‘Did the Holocaust happen?’Dec 20, 2016 by Danny Sullivan Criticized for listing a Holocaust-denial site first, Google’s results are finally […]
Google Search Console has upgraded the AMP error report to show which errors are causing your AMP content to not be indexed in Google.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google reviews schema guidelines to prohibit vulgar or profane languageDec 16, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Make sure your reviews don’t contain profane or vulgar language. If they do, Google can remove […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: AMP results now showing in Google Image SearchDec 15, 2016 by Barry Schwartz AMP is now showing up in the mobile Google Image search results. Retailers testing Google Maps mobile Promoted […]
AMP is now showing up in the mobile Google Image search results.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Searchmetrics Google ranking factors study says content gaining while links losing in importanceDec 13, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Google search ranking factors study is now out, it measured the top 20 […]
What's in a name? When it comes to AMP, a URL that's not the publisher's may not smell as sweet.
Google's property set feature in the Google Search Console just got way more useful.
Do you manage the search marketing team at your company or agency? Sister site Search Engine Land’s SMX West is the ultimate team-building experience. Members will get must-know SEO, SEM, mobile and conversion optimization tactics at more than 50 sessions and from 100 expert presenters. Not only will you and your team be learning, you’ll […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing local search update highlights business holiday hours in local listings Nov 28, 2016 by Amy Gesenhues Local listings display accurate holiday hours in real time. SEO without SERPs is here […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Fun with robots.txtNov 23, 2016 by Patrick Stox Columnist Patrick Stox provides some dos and don’ts for creating your robots.txt file — along with examples of companies who have gotten creative […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Why Google might not be able to stop “fake news”Nov 22, 2016 by Danny Sullivan Google says it wants to prevent fake news from spreading, but the search giant has serious […]
Google updated their structured data documents to support new rich cards and their suggestions around AMP HTML.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: New take on Showcase Shopping ads? Categories of used items showing for retailer outlet queriesNov 18, 2016 by Ginny Marvin Similar to the Showcase ad format introduced this summer, the ads […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Moz beefs up Moz Local with new features, distribution and automationNov 17, 2016 by Greg Sterling With new activity alerts, GMB sync and reputation management, the expanded Moz Local is intended […]
Google's Search Analytics report will now show you how your AMP pages are performing in the rich cards section versus the core mobile results.
Google's mobile-first index may index your desktop version over AMP when there is no mobile version of your website.
Over the past couple of years, Google has shown a strong focus on user experience on mobile devices. They have developed their algorithms to address customer experience and usability and to encourage organizations to meet certain standards. For instance, Mobilegeddon looked not only at the responsiveness of a mobile site, but how truly mobile-friendly a […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Partner Program expands to agencies and technology partners, rolling out to more marketsNov 15, 2016 by Ginny Marvin Customers that meet certain engagement criteria can become eligible for program benefits. […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: For e-commerce success: SEO > aestheticsNov 7, 2016 by Julian Connors For those in the online retail space, columnist Julian Connors shares his advice for making your e-commerce website SEO-friendly. Google […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Report: AMP causing monetization frustration among some news publishersOct 28, 2016 by Greg Sterling Some publishers, such as CNN and The Washington Post, are having good experiences, however. Due to a […]
Some publishers, such as CNN and The Washington Post, are having good experiences, however.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Conductor adds Insight Stream to its Searchlight platform Oct 25, 2016 by Barry Levine The new insight engine culls recommended actions from the platform’s streams of data, part of a marketing […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: How keyword segmentation can increase Google Shopping profits Oct 18, 2016 by Digital Marketing Depot Over the past few years, retailers have seen steady growth in product listing ad (PLA) channels […]
We asked Google's Gary Illyes what SEOs and webmasters should think about as this year closes.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Panda demotes or adjusts your rankings down — it does not devalueOct 14, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Gary Illyes from Google told us Google’s new Penguin 4.0 algorithm devalues spam, […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Within months, Google to divide its index, giving mobile users better & fresher contentOct 13, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Currently, Google has a single index of documents for search. Google’s Gary […]
Check out the new AMP testing tool in the Google Search Console. It combines AMP and structured data errors with a live preview.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Rethinking today’s attribution problem in digital marketing Oct 12, 2016 by Christi Olson Proper attribution modeling is one of the biggest challenges facing marketers today. Columnist Christi Olson discusses the common […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Exploring a newly-granted Google patent around social signalsOct 7, 2016 by Dave Davies Columnist Dave Davies takes a deep dive into a recently published Google patent for clues on how the […]
There are now 600 million AMP pages on 700,000 domains.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: After 4 months & 125M+ pages indexed, where are we with AMP?Oct 6, 2016 by Kristi Kellogg Contributor Kristi Kellogg recaps a session from SMX East 2016 in which Google, Condé […]
Contributor Kristi Kellogg recaps a session from SMX East 2016 in which Google, Condé Nast and Vox Media share successes and challenges with Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP).
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Using search marketing to amplify TV buys: SMX East 2016Oct 4, 2016 by Erin Everhart Columnist Erin Everhart provides key takeaways on a session from SMX East 2016 detailing the relationship […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Allstate: offline call data improved SEM performance and the customer experienceOct 3, 2016 by Greg Sterling Company generated increase in quality calls and lowered customer acquisition costs. 3 mysterious and scary […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Penguin doesn’t penalize for bad links – or does it?Sep 28, 2016 by Barry Schwartz You technically no longer need to use the disavow file to help fix your Google […]
Even if your user downloads your app, which has app indexing deployed, Google will show them the AMP page over your app page.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google iOS search app adds Touch ID for reentering your private searchesSep 27, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Google’s iOS search app can unlock your incognito mode private searches using Touch ID. […]
Looks like a bug with Google's desktop search results were caused by accelerated mobile pages showing up in the desktop results.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google updates Penguin, says it now runs in real time within the core search algorithmSep 23, 2016 by Barry Schwartz The latest announced release, Penguin 4.0, will also be the last, […]