International SEO: Measure results & avoid costly mistakes
Use international SEO to avoid costly mistakes and track performance across languages, countries, and cultures with confidence.
Topic: Russian
The web is multilingual – so why does search still speak just a few languages?
Despite AI’s promise of inclusion, search and LLMs still sideline minority languages. Here’s why it matters – and what must change.
Unlock the power of organization schema: A simple step-by-step guide
Learn everything about organization schema, how it improves SEO, boosts visibility in search results, and how to implement it correctly on your website.
International SEO: Everything you need to know in 2025
From technical SEO and content localization, learn to enhance your global online presence and optimize for multiple countries and languages.
Global search engine AI innovations: What SEOs need to know
Baidu, Yandex, Naver and Seznam are reshaping the global search market with new products and features using AI and LLMs.
8 steps to maximize success during global site migrations
Ensure SEO is deeply integrated from the start, high-value URLs are preserved and monitoring occurs across all language/market sites.
Google November 2023 reviews update now done rolling out
This update will be the last time Google has confirmed a reviews update.
5 Excel and Google Sheets tricks every SEO should know
Crunching big marketing data? Brush up on tips for merging, analyzing, and visualizing Excel and Google Sheets files to extract key insights.
Google releases November 2023 reviews update
This is the third reviews update of the year and the last reviews update Google will likely confirm.
Google releases April 2023 reviews update
Google is no longer just looking at product reviews. Google's review system is now evaluating reviews about services, media and other topics.
Google February 2023 product reviews update more volatile than previous updates, say data providers
Semrush compared the sixth release against the July 2022 version, while Rank Ranger compared it against September 2022 data.
Google February 2023 product reviews update is finished rolling out
This update took 14 days to fully roll out and is now complete.
This day in search marketing history: March 4
Sheryl Sandberg leaves Google for Facebook, plus: new GA4 homepage, Wikipedia turns PPC into SEM, goodbye Scroogled and more.
This day in search marketing history: February 28
R.I.P., DMOZ, plus: Multifaceted featured snippets, Google's non-answer on CTR, voice search ranking factors and more.
Google releases February 2023 product reviews update
This update brings new languages to the product reviews update including English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, and Polish.
Yandex scrapes Google and other SEO learnings from the source code leak
Yandex isn't Google, but there is a lot SEOs can learn about how a modern search engine is built from reviewing this codebase.
This day in search marketing history: January 11
Google's mobile intrusive interstitials penalty, plus: AdWords eases negative keyword management, Search Plus pushing Google+ and more.
SEO 2022 in review: E-E-A-T, ChatGPT, Search Essentials and more
SEO proved to be yet another challenging year with several big changes. Here's our recap of the year's most important SEO news and stories.
5 international SEO tips that don’t include hreflang
Hreflang tags are not enough to ensure a country-specific site ranks in its local market. Follow these tips to boost your international SEO.
Facebook confirms ‘massive ranking failure’
A bug allowed Facebook posts with nudity, violence, Russian propaganda to appear in users' news feeds.
Russia-based advertisers can no longer reach global audiences on Google properties and networks
This latest policy change takes widespread ad suspensions from platforms across the industry into new territory by targeting businesses in Russia.
MUM’s the word, and it’s 1,000x more powerful than BERT; Wednesday’s daily brief
Plus, updated phrase match will roll out to all languages in July
Apple’s Siri gets first major redesign in years
Plus there is a new Apple Translate app that is private and on-device.
Yandex, the big Russian search engine, releases Vega update
Yandex doubled the size of its index, made it faster and added human elements to search.
Google rolling out more features for responsive search ads, adding 10 languages
New tools in the web interface are designed to make creating RSAs easier.
Google facing fine in Russia for allegedly not purging banned websites
The fine would be just over $10,000, but Russian officials are seeking penalties of 1 percent of global revenue going forward.
Election 2018: Social media trolls, Google touts search, video ads get ugly
Gone are the days when the internet was simply a tool to learn more about candidates and issues.
SearchCap: Google EU rivals, Bing Ads tracking fix & Google speed index update
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’s Page Speed Update does not impact indexingJan 31, 2018 by Barry Schwartz In response to questions raised in the community, here’s clarification about how indexing is impacted by the Google […]
Google revamps its SEO Starter Guide
This is the first update of the SEO starter guide in several years.
SearchCap: Google printed materials, SEO migrations & development servers
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: A site migration SEO checklist: Don’t lose trafficNov 22, 2017 by Pratik Dholakiya Planning a site migration? Columnist Pratik Dholakiya’s helpful guide will ensure that you cover all the SEO bases […]
Gboard adds new languages, voice typing, new emojis & doodles
Google has upgraded their iOS keyboard extension to support voice dialing and 15 more languages.
Google formally changes AdWords price extension format to swipeable cards
Price extensions are also rolling out for more languages and currencies.
Google expands Now on Tap to translate app screens, discover button & barcode scanning
Google Now on Tap has added three new features for Android devices.
Yandex updates their version of PageRank named Thematic Index of Citation (TIC)
The Russian search engine, Yandex, has updated their TIC scores, and webmasters took notice.
SearchCap: Google TV, AdWords annual livestream & 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: Better in-store attribution is here Apr 21, 2016 by Mona Elesseily Closing the online-offline attribution gap is difficult, but strides have been made in recent years. Columnist Mona Elesseily discusses some […]
Google “Now on Tap” Offers Holiday Use Cases Such As Package Tracking, Travel
The simplest way to describe Google Now on Tap is perhaps “context-driven search.” It’s a way for users to generate more content or information about a subject or item without ever conducting a formal search — or even swiping for Google Now. Whether in an app, mobile site, email or text message, Now on Tap […]
Yandex, Russian-Based Search Engine, Adds Mobile-Friendly Label To Search Results
Yandex is the third search engine to add the mobile-friendly label to their mobile search results and release a testing tool.
Yandex, The Popular Russian Search Engine, Begins Crawling JavaScript & CSS
Yandex warns webmasters to not block their JavaScript and CSS files because they are starting to crawl those resources for indexing.
SearchCap: Yahoo Gemini, Google Search Console & Penguin Update
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 To Prep For The Pending Penguin Update & Ensure You’re Penalty Free In 2016Nov 17, 2015 by Erin Everhart The next Penguin update is coming soon, according to a Google […]
Microsoft Translator App Comes To iOS & Android With Wearable Support
Microsoft launches a new mobile app for real-time translation to compete with Google's Google Translate app.