As we look out at the horizon that is 2019, there looms all of this technological advance and possibility. This could be a very exciting planning season for marketers. Consumer experiences, artificial intelligence and a granularity in tracking that were futuristic hopes not long ago are now commonplace — even expected. Google is taking the lions share [...]
Conducter, an SEO firm, has introduced Actions, which is designed to democratize and disseminate search data to people throughout a marketing organization. Actions will send the data to Asana and, in Q1 2019, Jira and Trello. Basically, Actions is meant to give non-SEOs in the organization access to search data as a kind of proxy for the voice [...]
On December 11, Facebook announced that it is now testing ads in its search results. The two places that the test will run is in both the platforms primary search results and in Marketplace search results. For Facebook, search is one of the few untapped inventory sources that remain for the social platform, which has [...]
There are some changes to how Google is showing some of the issues within Google Search Console for the AMP enhancement report. According to Google, they will be combining some over-specific issue types into fewer generalized issue types within the report in an effort designed to separate issues into "more manageable groups" for webmasters. The AMP enhancement [...]
If you saw the Search Engine Land report last month, Google is going to sunset some reports within the Google Search Console. The company announced that many of these reports will redirect from the old to the new Google Search Console on December 13. Google wants to reduce duplication efforts of maintaining to similar reports, since having [...]
Google has announced that is is now supporting better discovery of livestreams in Google Search and Google Assistant. These livestreams will be able to show up in the search results in a carousel and have a live label like the older live blog posts feature Google had back in 2015. If you'd like your livestreams to show up in [...]
Last Friday, Google had delisted Search Engine Land from its index and search results by accident. In that situation, not a single page from from the site showed up in Google search. When Search Engine Land got a response from Google that morning, They were told that its “system misidentified the site as being hacked” and thus was [...]
A new study (via Wired) from DuckDuckGo, a rival of Google, charges that Google search personalization is contributing to "filter bubbles." Disputes this, Google says that search personalization is mostly a myth. Filter bubbles in social media or search has been something of a controversy for a number of years now by Eli Pariser, who described it as how relevance [...]
Starting December 1, Google has lost data in the Google Search Console's search analytics and performance reports. According to Google, image search data was lost due to a bug, and it isn't clear how much data was lost over what period of time. So far, we know that if you filter your search analytics and [...]
The European Commission has been asking local search competitors in Europe whether the changes in Google's algorithm, as well as their other practices, are hurting them, according to a questionnaire seen by Reuters. If the answer is "yes," then that means that the EC could end up bringing a fourth antitrust against Google. Two of [...]