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This morning, July 9th, Google has begun rolling out the Google Speed Update that they first announced in January 2018. Google has updated their blog post this morning, as I wrote at Search Engine Land, “Update July 9, 2018: The Speed Update is now rolling out for all...

The new version of Google News has launched last night and with that, Google has ended support for the Editors’ Picks feeds and the standout meta tag in Google News. Google posted about it on Twitter last night saying “As part of the new Google News, we have ended...

Google said on Google+ and Twitter that two new cards have come to the AdWords overview page for advertisers. Google has brought New Words card and Ad group Shifts insight card to the overview page. New words card This card shows you new words that people used while searching and...

Google announced this morning they released a new API called the Indexing API but it is only available for job posting URLs that support job schema. It is not available for other types of content. Google said “this API allows any site owner to directly notify Google when...

Google’s Gary Illyes said this morning that he is “hunting” for spammy EMDs, exact match domains, that are ranking in Google. He said this on Twitter two different ways this morning. First he said he is looking for the spammy EMDs:

The past month in the Google webmaster and SEO sphere, relatively, was a slow month in terms of big changes. We had maybe two algorithm shifts this month that are still unconfirmed by Google. Google did make changes to Google News and Google Trends but that is a niche of Google....

So let’s say you decided to update the content on a page on your web site, the content is super out dated and needs a major revamp. When you update the content, it doesn’t mean you need to put that new content on a new URL, you can just update the content on the...

We discussed a few months ago how Google dumped the GDPR responsibilities on their AdSense publishers and customers, as opposed to taking responsibility themselves for the liability. Well, it resulted in a massive publisher group of 4,000 publishers writing a scathing 5-page...

It has been about 6 months since Google released an update to the Google AdWords Editor, the last update was version 12.2 which launched in November 2017. This new version adds search terms report, account-level extensions, functions in search filters and custom rules, sped up ad...

So Google announced the other day, as I covered at Search Engine Land, that they are keeping their “current practices regarding the AdWords API Terms and Conditions and the domain-by-domain opt-out following the expiration of the voluntary commitments.” That means,...