Copyright bully Getty Images complains to EU that Google coerced it into image search
Company says high-res image search results have harmed traffic and revenues.
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Google Search Console now lets you unsubscribe from some email notifications
Finally, webmasters can now unsubscribe and mute email notifications from the Google search console.
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Google brings back in-depth articles to search results after 17-day outage
Google seems to have fixed a bug with their search results interface, bringing back the “in-depth articles” section for some queries.
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Forecast says SEO-related spending will be worth $80 billion by 2020
Report from Borrell Associates argues “marketing services” spending in US is much larger than advertising.
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Google Toolbar PageRank officially goes dark
A month or so after Google told us they would be removing the 1-to-10 PageRank scores from their toolbar feeds, they removed it this past Friday.
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Mashable reports Google is testing tending topics in auto-complete search results
A new Google experiment was captured by Mashable’s Samantha Murphy Kelly showing Google showing trending searches in their auto-complete.
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HTTP to HTTPS: An SEO’s guide to securing a website
Despite the numerous benefits of switching to HTTPS, many SEOs and website owners have not done so. For those feeling intimidated by the prospect of switching to HTTPS, columnist Patrick Stox breaks down the process.
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Google now blocks searchers from sites with deceptive download buttons
Google is now serving a big red warning to searchers before they go to websites with deceptive download buttons.
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Google adds Featured Snippets to 10 new European locales
Google expands featured snippets in 10 new European locales, expanding it to more than 20 different regions.
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Mississippi attorney general’s “conspiracy to censor the internet” back on as appeals court rules against Google
Google had alleged the Motion Picture Association of America was using Mississippi attorney general’s action as a tool of its private interests in content takedowns.
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Google penalizes sites for unnatural outbound linking on Saturday
Check your Google Search Console message center. Google sent out outbound link penalties over the weekend.
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Searchmetrics now shows where your app appears in App Packs
Also new: rankings for app ads, unique keywords on a page, and the release of the Visibility Guard to protect against errors affecting ranking
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Google warns site owners their site is not mobile-friendly in mobile search results
A month before the Google mobile-friendly algorithm boost, Google starts issuing new warnings to site owners.
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Google tests displaying review snippets in the local 3-pack
Google now may show a single review in the 3-pack. This was caught being tested in the wild.
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Columbia University researchers claim 28% of Google’s URL takedown requests are invalid
Among the questionable DMCA notices, 4.2% of the takedown requests targeted sites that failed to include any copyright infringing content.
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Google Updates The Search Quality Rating Guidelines
Google has updated their search quality raters guidelines document on March 28, 2016 reducing it from 160 to 146 pages.
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Google Working On Fixing Search Analytics Bug In The Search Console
The Google Search Analytics report is missing a day of data but Google is on it and a fix should be out soon.
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Google documents Google My Business local ranking factors
Google’s document on ranking in the local search results has been expanded to include factors like links, articles and directories.
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Google adds share feature to Knowledge Graph panel
Google now lets you share a Knowledge Graph panel on social via Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and more.
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Google AMP listings feature live In 12 countries
The Google AMP news carousel is only live in Brazil, Germany, Spain, France, the UK, India, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Japan, Russia and the US.
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