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Google updates crawlers and user-triggered fetchers documentation
With that, Google expanded how Google products are affected by each crawler and gave robots.txt examples for each crawler.
Google updates image SEO best practices and Google Discover docs
The title and link elements are most important for RSS feed follow in Discover and Google parses img elements within other elements.
Podcast knowledge panels go live in Google Search
Many podcasters are noticing that searching for their podcast show's name shows a new knowledge panel in Google Search.
There are new requirements to appear in Google Podcasts recommendations
The new requirements do not affect visibility in Google or Google Podcasts search results.
Say hello to Google’s new Publisher Center
The interface is now the central hub for publishers to manage content across Google.
Google Search Console adds new actions to sitemap report
Google is proving that it is continuing to port old features from the old Search Console to the new one.
Google News adds new referral URL source that publishers should begin tracking
Google tells publishers to add news.url.google.com to the Google News referral tracking sources.
SearchCap: Google mobile design, Google News breaks RSS feeds & Baidu hack
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 rolling out new curved mobile search results interfaceNov 2, 2017 by Barry Schwartz Are you seeing a new look for the Google mobile search results page? You are not alone! […]
Meet A Landy Award Winner: How iProspect Helped LIDS.com Capitalize On March Madness & Win Best Retail Initiative
A search surge spearheaded by iProspect around the NCAA Championships helped drive LIDS.com a YoY revenue increase.
Google Quietly Brings Back RSS Feed Option To Google Alerts
The Next Web reports Google has quietly added back the RSS Feed option to Google Alerts. I’ve confirmed the RSS Feed option has indeed returned at google.com/alerts. In early July, Google quietly dropped RSS delivery as an option for Google Alerts. I lost tons of the alerts I’ve set up, however, they still seemed to […]
Google’s Cutts: Auto-Generated Content & Search Results In Our Index Violate Our Guidelines
In a recent video from Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, Matt discussed a pretty obvious spam tactic that Google will take action on. The question was Does Google take action on automatically generated pages that provide no added value? The answer is, yes. Of course, Google is not perfect and if you see […]
Need A Google Alerts Replacement? Meet Talkwalker
With Google Alerts coming under fire as being broken, an impressive new service has stepped up to appeal to those seeking an alternative: Talkwalker. Luxembourg-based Talkwalker is a social media monitoring company that has now released its own keyword-based alerts resource. The free service utilizes Google’s Web, news, and blog databases and delivers alerts by email or RSS. So, are […]
Site Performance, Subscriber Stats & Robots.txt Tool Removed From Google Webmaster Tools
Google announced they are removing three features from Google Webmaster Tools. Google made the announcement on the Google Webmaster Central blog saying the three features going away include the site performance report, the subscriber stats and the robots.txt creation tool. Google placed reversed the order of these features when they wrote about it, trying to […]
Google Revamps The Google Doodles (Logos) Directory
Google announced on their Google+ page that they have revamped the Google Doodles page. Google Doodles is what Google calls their special logos that they put up for special holidays or to remember special people from our history. The new Doodle page has a quick search box at the top, making it easy to search […]
Google News Brings Editor’s Picks To Home Page
More than a year after the experiment began, Google News has brought Editor’s Picks to the home page of its US site– marking the first real human-curated content on what Google has proudly said was always a completely algorithmic way of presenting news. It could also be seen as something of an olive branch toward […]
Easy Ways To Keep Up With The Search News
We publish a huge amount of search marketing and search engine-related news here on Search Engine Land. I thought it was worth a reminder on the best ways to keep up with it all. You could, of course, come back to Search Engine Land throughout the day to see the latest news articles, briefs, columns […]
6 Daily Habits That Make Up My Link Reading List
I’m frequently asked what resources I read to keep up with the latest trends and information on link building. While it’s an easy question, answering it takes a while since I follow a long list of sites. Here’s a list of resources I find invaluable and try to review every day. I’ve grouped them by […]
Integrating Feedburner & Google Analytics
In mid-November, Google Analytics and Feedburner announced a very interesting integration. While this is excellent news for Google Analytics and Feedburner users, it must be dealt properly when it comes to SEO, especially on websites that are heavily based on RSS feeds. Google Analytics users rejoice! This integration is very interesting in that it allows […]
Google Launches Living Stories News Experiment With New York Times & Washington Post
Google has unveiled a new Living Stories are, where the New York Times and the Washington Post are experimenting with how coverage of a particular news story would look if content was all centralized within a single page. The experiment puts into practice a vision that Google has long expressed previously as “Living URLs,” a […]
Outside.in Expands Its Hyperlocal Search Capabilities
While real-time search gets all the attention these days, there’s also increased interest in hyperlocal search. Where real-time search answers What’s happening right now?, hyperlocal search answers the question, What’s happening right here? It’s like local search on steroids, you could say. Outside.in has, for several years, been somewhat like a clearinghouse of hyperlocal information […]
FeedBurner Goes 301 All The Way
The Google AdSense for Feeds (aka FeedBurner) blog announced that all of their links will be 301 redirected, as opposed to some that are 301 redirected. In summary, when you use FeedBurner to create and host your RSS feed, FeedBurner creates special links that are used to send the reader to your web site. Some […]
Yahoo’s New Homepage Gets Personal, Tests Search Filters
When I heard about the call with Yahoo yesterday, which was to feature “a significant announcement,” I thought: “Bing, here it is.” When it turned out the call was about a formal announcement of the new Yahoo homepage I was disappointed; it seemed anti-climactic. The existence of a forthcoming Yahoo homepage redesign has been known […]
Google Study On Sitemaps
The Google Webmaster Central blog notified us that Googlers have presented a new study on Sitemaps at the WWW’09 conference in Madrid. The study is absolutely interesting and I recommend printing out the ten page PDF document and reading it. For those of you who don’t have time for that, I hope to highlight the […]
Live Search News Adds Email Alerts
The Live Search Blog announced the addition of email alerts for Live Search News. Live Search had RSS results for a while, but did not have a way to subscribe to news alerts via email. Live Search now gives you the ability to get these alerts via email either once a day, twice a day […]
Find Friends On Twitter With Twitter People Search
Twitter announced that you can now use their people search feature to find friends, family or colleagues that are using Twitter. For example, I wanted to see if any of my immediate family is on Twitter, so I searched for schwartz. It looks like I am the most popular Schwartz on Twitter (ahem). But it […]
Proximic (“Don’t Call It A Newsreader”) Moves Into Mobile Search
Contextual content and advertising provider Proximic released an iPhone app, as the first step into a much broader foray into consumer-facing mobile search. The company’s underlying technology is called “pattern proximity matching,” which seeks to better understand pages and context through numerous points of relevance. Company CEO Philipp Pieper says that it can be used […]
New Video: Easy Tips For Better Searching
Last year, Common Craft produced a great, short video explaining RSS “in plain English.” The company is back now with another wonderful one, Web Search Strategies in Plain English. It’s less than three minutes long and does a great job explaining how to use some of the most simple “power” commands at searchers’ disposal — […]
Google Confirms RSS For Web Search Results
Google has confirmed for Search Engine Land that they’ll soon start offering RSS feeds for web search results. When it happens, the RSS feeds will be an extension of Google Alerts, which currently only allow notification by email.
Linked, Tagged, Tweeted, and Feeded – Three Real Time Link Trackers
One challenge we all have is showing our clients evidence that our work is having the effect we said it would. What would make this part of the process easier is if there was one single universal tool that could identify every single instance when a site is mentioned, linked, tagged, tweeted, or feeded. That perfect tool doesn't exist, but a few weeks ago Delicious unveiled a relaunch, and what was once really a pain is now a breeze.
AdSense For Feeds Is Now Available To All Google Publishers
Google Operating System reported they are now seeing the Google AdSense for Feeds option in their AdSense account set up screen. I noted at the Search Engine Roundtable that many folks are buzzing about the new feature at several discussion forums. It appears to me that this beta offering is now open to all, if […]
IAC Monetizes Bloglines With Display Ads
Bloglines, a popular web-based RSS reader, announced that they have begun testing the waters of monetizing the service with display ads. If you login to the Bloglines start page, you may see an ad on the right hand side. In addition, if you conduct a search in Bloglines, you may see ads show up on […]
Del.icio.us Now Delicious.com, With Improvements
Delicious has now relaunched under Delicious.com with some new functionality. The old Delicious was at del.icio.us and should soon redirect to the new dot com address. Along with the domain change, the Delicious site has been redesigned to aid newcomers on using the site. Here are before and after screen captures: