This day in search marketing history: January 28
Featured snippets introduced, plus: Hamlet Batista passes away, Google buys DeepMind, Google ad labeling and more.
Topic: Matt Cutts
This day in search marketing history: January 26
LinkedIn Ads launches, plus: holiday retail insights, crappy results, Google Panda 3.2, sitemap testing, DuckDuckGo and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 23
Expedia buys Travelocity, plus: Don't Be Evil tool, semantic search, Position 6 penalty, unlimited site exclusions and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 22
Google deduplicates featured snippets, plus: Facebook and Twitter signals, blacklisting domains, Wikipedia nofollows links and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 21
Google explains the core algorithm, plus: indexifembedded, Google sets sights on content farms, trademarketing SEO and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 20
Matt Cutts forks guest blogging, plus: Semrush buys Backlinko, ranking factor study, a Google search quality rater interview and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 19
Google's page layout algorithm, plus: Matt Cutts resigns from Google, Top Stories deduplication, mobile usability warnings and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 15
Facebook Graph Search launches, plus: brand profiles in Google knowledge panels, Rand Fishkin's last day at Moz, and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 13
Google's Matt Cutts search integrity tour, plus: core updates, Carol Bartz becomes Yahoo CEO, Baidu censors Google and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 12
Google Panda becomes a core ranking signal, plus: R.I.P. link command, Google Japan’s PageRank penalty expires and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 10
Google launches Search Plus Your World, plus: subtopics ranking, Google Ads custom dimensions, links within widgets and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 8
A shift from keyword research to intent research, plus: search engines taking data from SEOs, PPC spending/budget cuts, and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 6
Google Webmaster Tools added unnatural links and cloaking spam warnings, plus: Google Shops, how Yahoo angered advertisers and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 2
Google uses paid links and thin content to promote Chrome, plus: why people click on search ads, search quality raters guidelines and more.
Links may be less important to the Google Search ranking algorithm in the future
As Google better understands how the content fits in within the context of the whole web, links might not be as necessary.
Twitter removes nofollow attribute from links in tweets
It is unclear if Twitter intentionally removed the attribute or not and even so, if Google would count links in Twitter posts.
Google’s digital marketing course offers bad SEO advice
No, having 2% keyword density and a minimum 300-word count is not an “industry standard.”
Google November 2021 Core Update rolling out today
We have a new core update rolling out later today.
Is more transparency from Google a good thing?; Wednesday’s daily brief
Also UGC spam, shopping policies, phone calls and more.
Keywords in generic top-level domains won’t help you rank better
Here’s how Google treats every type of TLD.
Should Google not trust links in all guest blog posts?
Google has said again that links in guest blog posts should be nofollowed.
Video: Sarah Teach on conscious capitalism in SEO
Conscious SEO is about being conscious about all the stake holders with your content.
Video: Matt Cutts, former head of Google web spam, on his days at Google, current work at US Digital Services
An old industry colleague and friend in the White House is working to improve government websites -- and is hiring.
The Role of Nofollow Links in SEO
Written by Chris Hinchly, SEO Specialist Link building is a fundamental element of SEO. As a webmaster or digital marketer, you want as many sites as possible linking to your platform. Of course, they have to be quality links to make a difference in search engine rankings. The simplest way to understand the role that […]
Google made 3,200 changes to search in the past year
Do not sit idle. As Google continues to make changes, you should continue to invest in improving your web site.
Is link building dead? Depends on who you talk to
Some SEOs argue any form of proactive link building is a waste of time. Some say it should be apart of any SEO strategy. So which is it?
Patent suggests how CTR, time on page could be used in search rankings (if Google did that sort of thing)
But no, this doesn't confirm Google is using engagement metrics in rankings.
Google doc rekindles myth that click-through rate affects rankings
Despite repeatedly saying they do not use click data for search ranking purposes, a fresh document triggers confusion around the topic again.
SearchCap: Google doesn’t personalize SERPs, don’t fixate on CTR, Google sub-images & more
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 is right; click-through and conversion rates kinda don’t matter Sep 17, 2018 by Andy Taylor Say what? Turns out you may be focusing on the wrong things if you’re fixated […]
Search in Pics: Google beach party, beer pong & blue pool table
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more. Danny Sullivan of Google & Matt Cutts formerly of Google at foo camp together: Source: Twitter […]
SearchCap: LiveRamp targets Bing Ads, Amazon Marketing Services & more
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: The basics of working with Amazon Marketing Services Jun 15, 2018 by Daniel Gilbert Contributor Daniel Gilbert shares his insights on Amazon Marketing Services and how they stack up (or don’t) […]
Search in Pics: Matt Cutts at SMX, Google summer party & Google intern hat
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more. Matt Cutts stops by SMX to say hi: Source: SER A human flag at Google: Source: […]
SearchCap: Matt Cutts at SMX Advanced, Bing announces AMP viewer & more
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Supercharging your SEO with AI: Insights, automation and personalization Jun 12, 2018 by Jim Yu The tech giants are fully committed to ‘AI-first,’ and marketers who follow suit can supercharge their […]
Matt Cutts stops by SMX Advanced to say hello!
Hey, Matt Cutts came to say hello at SMX Advanced today.
Search Engine Land’s Community Corner: Charity selected for 2018 Search Engine Land Awards
Mental Health America selected as charity supported by the awards program, in honor of several search community members lost this past year.
SearchCap: Google bringing AMP benefits to web standards, musicians on Google Posts & Google Lens rollout
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 working to integrate AMP benefits into future open web standardsMar 8, 2018 by Michelle Robbins Standardization will allow sites to implement, and benefit from, AMP features without adopting the framework. […]
SearchCap: Google recent searches bug, Google mobile shopping & flight search upgrade
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 home page search box now shows you recent searches by defaultNov 21, 2017 by Barry Schwartz Even former Google search executive Matt Cutts calls this new Google search behavior “super […]
Updated: Google home page search box now shows you recent searches by default
Even former Google search executive Matt Cutts calls this new Google search behavior 'super annoying.' This story was updated to say this was a bug and Google is fixing it.
Submit your SEO questions to Google for upcoming short Q&A videos
Google hasn't produced short-form SEO video answers for three years, but now they're looking to start it back up again.
SearchCap: Google quality raters update, Google shopping cards & mobile-first
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 quality raters guidelines with details around non-English language web pagesAug 3, 2017 by Barry Schwartz Google made some small tweaks to their quality raters guidelines on July 27, 2017. […]