Google can crawl AJAX just fine
No special action necessary for webmasters.
Topic: URL
Google selects canonical URLs based on your site and user preference
If a different URL is chosen, it doesn’t negatively affect your site.
Google notifying webmasters to remove noindex from robots.txt files
Google is now sending reminders that you need to stop depending on your noindex in your robots.txt file.
Google to stop supporting noindex directive in robots.txt
Changes are coming to how Google understands some of the unsupported directives in your robots.txt file.
How to spin a bad site migration into higher traffic and conversions
A look at Merkle's Search Engine Land Award-winning campaign to help a new client remedy replatforming problems, regain rankings and revenue.
Google My Business adds more branding tools, introduces searchable @shortnames
The top 5% of local businesses in each category will also be eligible for a new "Local Favorite" badge.
Google Search Console drops preferred domain setting
Make sure to watch your Google search results to see if this impacts the canonical URL Google shows in its search results.
Yoast, Google devs propose XML Sitemaps for WordPress Core
The proposal also includes an API for further customization.
A favicon is worth a thousand keywords
SEOs predictably unhappy about shrinking distinction between paid and organic mobile search results — and, they’re not wrong.
Google has fixed the indexing issue from Thursday night
2.5 days after Google's new indexing bug, Google has confirmed the issue was fully resolved today.
Google’s indexing issue is now resolved – new content being indexed
Google has fixed the issue with getting new and fresh content into their index.
User-generated content for SEO: The cost-benefit analysis you need
Understand the pros of UGC and precautions to make sure it helps, not hurts, your SEO efforts.
Parallel tracking goes live for Google Ads display campaigns May 1
Stay tuned for the launch date of parallel tracking for video campaigns.
Google bug may select unrelated canonical URLs, could impact indexing
Breadcrumb trails on mobile may reflect unrelated URLs.
Still have active destination URLs in Bing Ads? It’s time to migrate to final URLs
Say goodbye to standard text ads by the end of the year.
Google adds short names and URLs to Google My Business listings
The new feature has yet to be publicized by Google, but local guides like Mike Blumenthal report that it's already available to some verified business in Google My Business.
Google’s ‘Signed Exchange’ solution let’s publishers use their own URLs for AMP pages
Publishers will need to create a Signed Exchange but Cloudflare (and potentially others) promise to simplify the process.
4% of the Google index hit by de-indexing bug, Moz data shows
Now that the Google de-indexing issue is resolved, how bad was it?
Google’s de-indexing issue still not fully resolved
Not fixed yet - but Google is working on it and has been communicating better about the issue.
Bing Ads launches new action extensions to highlight calls-to-action
Actions extensions take a page from display and social media ads with prominent calls-to-action.
5 additional data blending examples for smarter SEO insights
Once you preprocess columns to consistent formatting, additional data blending options include prioritizing pages with search clicks, mining internal site search for content gaps, analyzing traffic issues with 404 pages and more.
Google to retire the info: command, adds canonical information to URL Inspection Tool
Google URL inspection tool now shows the Google discovered canonical URL.
Bing Ads Editor releases updates to make Google Ads imports faster, easier
The enhancements focus on reliability, speed and parity.
Using JavaScript to publish content? Here are 6 ways to view rendered HTML via desktop and mobile
Always test your pages using Google’s own tools and third-party resources to view the rendered HTML to make sure all your content is showing up.
Coveted featured snippet space is more exclusive than you think, study shows
A new study on featured snippets in Google shows you how competitive this search real estate can be.
Google Search Console goes live with new consolidated view
Google made a preview of the consolidated data view live early, go check it out now.
New Google Search Console adds a security issues section
In anticipation of the old Google Search Console going away, Google has moved the security issues into the new version.
How to make your content more accessible to the visually impaired
Updating alt tags and creating friendly URLs and file names are just a few ways to maximize the accessibility of your organic search presence.
Bing Ads launches page feeds for easier Dynamic Search Ads management
Use page feeds to manage URL groupings for auto targets in DSA campaigns.
Need to expedite page removal in Google’s search index? Try a temporary sitemap file
Do you need to remove a lot content from Google quickly? Here is how to do it if you own the site.
SEO Year In Review: 2018 saw Google updates and a focus on mobile
Here is our recap of what happened in SEO in 2018 - with links and summaries of some of the bigger changes throughout the year in search and SEO.
Human vs machine intelligence: how to win when ‘duplicate’ content is unique
Sometimes humans and machines disagree about what content is duplicate content. Here's why--and how to beat the system when it happens.
Google search now supports live streams with Indexing API, structured data
Do you live stream video content? Here is a new way to get more exposure for that content in Google Search and Google Assistant.
Google adds event listings, detail filters in Google Search Console performance report
Google has added a new option to the search appearance filters in Search Console for event markup.
Google opens developer preview of AMP URLs showing publisher domain names
Here is how to see Google's fix for AMP URLs from Google search when you click on an AMP result.
Verdict is in for CEO involved in forging court order over reputation attack
This case highlights the lack of protection and justice available for online defamation victims from Google and other tech companies.
Bing resolves backlog with its Webmaster Tools URL submission tool
Spammers went from the public Bing URL submission tool to the authenticated version, causing a backlog of URLs that needed to be processed.
Google Ads Report Editor gets two new landing page reports
New columns are available with an update to what was the final URL report.
Ask the SMXperts — Page speed, site migrations and crawling
Our SMXperts share their tactical insights on optimizing crawl budgets, fine-tuning page speed and how to execute on large-scale error-free site migrations.
Bing shuts down public URL submission tool
This decision may help Bing reduce spam shown in the search results and focus on more trustworthy content.