Study shows search terms with the very worst (and best) clickthrough rates
A new study uncovers a slew of search terms that aren’t earning their fair share of clicks in the search engine results pages.
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Matt Cutts officially resigns from Google
Matt Cutts is the new director of engineering at the US Digital Service. He has been on leave with Google since 2014 and officially resigned at the end of 2016.
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Google Android search app will keep trying your searches when your internet connection is poor
Don’t you hate it when your phone loses it’s internet connection and you can’t search for something on Google? Well, Google’s latest Android app makes that experience a lot better.
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Google explains what “crawl budget” means for webmasters
Google says crawl demand and crawl rate make up GoogleBot’s crawl budget for your web site.
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Google Image Search testing YouTube videos with “New Look on YouTube”
YouTube videos now being tested in Google Image Search for mobile for retail based queries.
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Google has officially killed off their link command
Google tells webmasters and SEOs to stop using the link command, that it is officially dead and not functioning properly.
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Google confirms rolling out the mobile intrusive interstitials penalty yesterday
Google said the mobile intrusive interstitial penalty went live yesterday but webmasters have not claimed any issues yet.
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Paradigm shift: Has Google suspended defamation removals?
Columnist Chris Silver Smith takes a look at what could be a recent policy shift in Google’s longstanding informal policy of granting court-ordered defamation removal requests.
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Google launches a new look for recipes in the mobile search results
Google launched a new way to find new recipes for your New Years feast. The new recipe results are seen on mobile search.
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Google AMP reports now differentiate between critical and non-critical errors
Google Search Console has upgraded the AMP error report to show which errors are causing your AMP content to not be indexed in Google.
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Google reviews schema guidelines now prohibit vulgar or profane language
Make sure your reviews don’t contain profane or vulgar language, if they do, Google can remove your review rich snippets.
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What the heck is machine learning, and why should I care?
Understanding the impact of machine learning will be crucial to adjusting our search marketing strategies — but probably not in the way you think. Columnist Dave Davies explains.
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AMP results now showing in Google Image Search
AMP is now showing up in the mobile Google Image search results.
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Google’s Top Searches in 2016: Pokémon Go & iPhone 7 outrank Donald Trump, Prince & Powerball
The site released a variety of its top search trends — ranking everything from top searches overall to the most searched people and global news stories.
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Google now showing product schema rich snippets in image search results
Google Image Search now supports product schema markup in the mobile image search results.
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Searchmetrics Google ranking factors study says content gaining while links losing in importance
Google search ranking factors study is now out, it measured the top 20 search results for 10,000 keywords on Google.com.
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Google Search Console expands reports for property sets
Google’s property set feature in the Google Search Console just got way more useful.
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Google replaces ‘In the News’ box with ‘Top Stories’ on desktop
Google has replaced the “In the news” title with “Top stories” on desktop to bring it more in line with the mobile version of the search results.
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Recent changes to organic sitelinks cause major drops in impressions in Google Search Console
Google released sitelink updates that caused impression and average position drops in Google Search Console. Merkle SEOs Melody Petulla and Kyle Blanchette dive into what happened, how to check your site and what it means for SEO.
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Google begins rolling out a new desktop search user interface
Check out the new desktop search interface rolling out to a Google near you.
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