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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More content, less traffic: part I
It’s important to have high-quality content on your website, but columnist Conrad Saam believes that SEOs might be overdoing it.
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Yahoo 2016 Year in Review: ‘2016 Election’ top search term & ‘Election Day’ No. 1 news story
Yahoo says “Donald Trump” ranked as its second most popular search of the year, while “Hillary Clinton” barely made the top 10.
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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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Google confirms testing movie and TV show ratings with like and dislike buttons
Google is now asking searchers to rate movies and TV shows. Google confirmed this is a live experiment but would not add anything additional.
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Google adds holiday decorations for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa & Festivus searches
Holiday-themed imagery has been added to search results, including a Festivus pole for those who prefer to air grievances this time of year.
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SEO trends to prepare for in 2017
What’s on the horizon for search engine optimization (SEO) practitioners in the coming year? Columnist Pratik Dholakiya shares his predictions.
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Canonical chaos: doubling down on duplicate content
Duplicate content issues? Problems with your canonical tags? Columnist Marcus Miller explains why these issues occur and how to fix them.
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10 domain name secrets to repair your online reputation
If you’re trying to fix your personal reputation online, looking toward your domain name is a valuable first step. Columnist Chris Silver Smith explains some options beyond setting up YourName.com.
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How Google is tackling fake news, and why it should not do it alone
What can Google do to combat fake news? Columnist Ian Bowden illustrates some ways the search giant can tackle — and already is tackling — this problem.
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Google drops their feature phone crawler & error report in Search Console
Google has officially dropped full support for feature-phone web sites.
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Google & Bing increase the file size limit of Sitemaps files
While the 50,000 URL limit has not changed, your Sitemaps file size can now be up to 50MB.
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Google knowledge panel now showing videos from the web carousel
Videos are now showing up below the Google knowledge panel for some queries, including local panels and other knowledge panels.
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Google’s machine learning now writes featured snippets descriptions
Google recently launched sentence compression algorithms to help surface the best answers for your questions from publisher content across the web.
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Google’s shift to mobile-first: mobile moments that matter
Columnist Jim Yu outlines Google’s long march toward a mobile-first index and explains why optimizing for mobile devices is no longer optional.
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Google drops the Content Keywords feature from Google Search Console
It is official. After hinting at removing the Google content keywords report from Google Search Console, Google did it.
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Bing local search update highlights business holiday hours in local listings
Local listings display accurate holiday hours in real time.
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SEO without SERPs is here with Google Assistant, Home and Amazon Echo. Here’s how to survive.
Columnist Bryson Meunier discusses how the rise of digital assistants will impact how search engine optimization is performed.
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Fun with robots.txt
Columnist Patrick Stox provides some dos and don’ts for creating your robots.txt file — along with examples of companies who have gotten creative with their files.
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