This day in search marketing history: March 13
Google hides organic search listings plus: broad core search algorithm update, Panda updates, author rank, incremental ad clicks and more.
Topic: Google Images
This day in search marketing history: March 9
Google's Fred update, plus: people also ask, personalization, Google puts bad merchants on notice and more.
This day in search marketing history: March 5
Google confirms Vince Update, plus: mobile-first indexing, webspam, Google adds page load time to Quality Score algorithm and more.
This day in search marketing history: March 3
Google Panda name revealed, plus: desktop page experience update completes rollout, Interflora gets its Google rankings back and more.
This day in search marketing history: February 25
SEOs upset over Google featured snippets, plus: Google's red Slow label, Google Panda fallout, PageRank 301 redirect dilution myth and more.
This day in search marketing history: February 20
Google stops supporting meta news keywords tag, plus: Google Ads tweaks mobile speed score algorithm, Voluntary Code of Practice and more
This day in search marketing history: February 19
Google removes right sidebar ads, plus: Bing Webmaster tools refresh, YMYL ranking weights, hreflang notifications and more.
Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of YouTube, is stepping down
Susan Wojcicki has been with Google since its infancy, in fact, the first Google offices were out of her garage.
This day in search marketing history: February 15
Google explains how to hire an SEO, plus: mass search ad disapprovals, Marin IPO, Google blurs paid and unpaid results (again) and more.
This day in search marketing history: February 14
Google Webmaster Tools comes out of beta, plus: Chrome's personal blocklist, AdWords video ads and quality score updates and more
This day in search marketing history: February 11
Yahoo officially rejects Microsoft, plus: passage ranking goes live, Google's SEO consulting services, Google Japan's link penalty and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 29
Google penalizes a link network, plus: paid search spending, Google warns about article directories, Yelp ratings in Google AdWords and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 24
Google Ads experts managing your campaigns, plus: favicons, Google organic search CTRs decline, Bing Ads Automated Imports and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 16
Google explains crawl budget, plus: website outages and blackouts the right way, Google doing 1 trillion searches, and more.
Meta introduces new ad targeting limits for teens
The changes are the latest effort to build in some after-the-fact privacy protections for Meta’s youngest users.
Google expands enhanced product experiences to more ecommerce sites, releases new Search Console reports
You no longer need to be in Google Merchant Center, websites that implement structured data will also gain rich product experiences in Google search results.
How Google creates knowledge panels
The influence of the Knowledge Graph is growing fast and should be included in your SEO strategy.
Should your business ever take a break from doing SEO?
SEO is not once and done. If you’re thinking about putting your SEO campaign on hold for a while — don’t. Here’s why.
Google reveals new image ranking signal, inclusive schema
Google will use the MST scale into image ranking and wants brands and publishers to start labeling images using inclusive schema.
Google heightens adult ad policy enforcement after Reuters finds illicit ads
“Spotty” enforcement can result in inappropriate ads being shown to minors and an unfair advantage for advertisers that slip through the cracks.
SEO 2021 in review: Endless updates, title rewrites, GMB becomes GBP and more
Despite facing a still-raging pandemic and a slew of updates, SEOs rose to the challenge. Here’s our recap of the year’s most important SEO stories and news.
Holiday shopping SEO: Last-minute tips and techniques for e-commerce sites
How to optimize the work you’ve been doing year-round and what to avoid ahead of the most profitable time of the year.
Google makes it easier to remove images of kids from the search results
This may come in handy if you work in online reputation management.
15 years of Google Trends; Thursday’s daily brief
Plus, Instagram tests out more ecommerce support and adds contact “Limits.”
Google Ads will soon block ad targeting based on age, gender or interests of people under 18
In the coming months, Google Ads will be expanding safeguards to prevent age-sensitive ad categories from being shown to teens.
Google search rankings algorithm check-in; Friday’s daily brief
Local Service Ads Google bug, speeding up images and the value of our old internet companies.
Google set to deprecate Showcase Shopping ads on April 1
Previous Showcase Shopping ad layouts will be included in Product Shopping ad groups.
Google goes dark theme and passage ranking sees the light: Friday’s daily brief
Plus, making the case for more Google Search Console data.
Google Image Search update reduces duplicate image results
Google said this launched in November, so it seems Google is November but is just announcing this now.
Google Web Stories ads now available via Display Network
In an open beta, publishers can sell ads into their Google Web Stories programmatically.
Google Ads turns 20: The most important trends and changes of the past 5 years
Looking back, we can see where the biggest trends in search (and beyond) are heading.
Google Shopping now free globally
Initially launched in the U.S. in April, now available worldwide in mid-October.
Google officially launches ‘licensable’ image label and filter in Image search
The badge is powered by structured data and part of an effort to help photographers get paid for their images.
Google Search Console adds image license structured data support
Now you can debug your image license markup in the Rich Results test tool or in Search Console.
Google’s tools now recognize “Web Story”
As Web Stories become more popular, Google now supports labeling them as such in Google Search Console and its testing tools.
Google Images adds more facts about images with the Knowledge Graph
If you notice more traffic to your site from Google Image Search, this may be why.
Google is streamlining ‘Ad’ labeling for Shopping ads
The "Sponsored" label will be retired on desktop results, too.
Google adds ClaimReview or Fact Check schema support for images
This won't improve your rankings but it may lead to better click-through rates.
How to track free Shopping traffic from Surfaces across Google [Video]
Combine UTM parameters and Google Analytics to see how shoppers behave after they click through on your Shopping listings.
Why you should upload your full product catalog to Google Merchant Center [Video]
It's free! Take full advantage of Surfaces across Google.