Google clarifies that the Passage Indexing announcement has more to do with ranking than indexing. Google has not changed how it indexes when it comes to this, it still indexes the full page. Google’s systems [...]

Ads Data Hub enables customized analysis of your Google ad campaigns to help you get more detailed insights from your campaigns across screens while also protecting user privacy. Changes include: improving the user experience for [...]

Facebook today announced its Messenger API has also been updated to allow businesses to manage their communications across Instagram, in addition to Messenger. Before today, businesses could only respond to customer inquiries through the Instagram app and through Facebook’s unified [...]

Social media is the driving force behind buying online for many consumers, with nearly a fifth of internet shoppers now making purchases online via an app. According to new research from Visa(paywall) (survey of 2,000 [...]

Google News Showcase announced in October is startign to roll out in Germany on the iOS app.

Google has pushed out a tweet stating that the canonical issue was effectively resolved last Wednesday, with about 99% of the URLs restored. And they expect the remaining edge cases will be restored within a [...]

Google test a three dots label that can trigger an “about this result” overlay in Google search. It shows you information like when google started indexing the site, if that site is secure, the URL [...]

Google’s John Mueller said that when it comes to Google measuring speed with the upcoming Google Page Experience and Core Web Vitals metrics, that sometimes individual slow URLs can potentially impact other faster URLs if [...]

A handy little tool to chack comparison of source & rendered HTML. You can pick a mobile or desktop view and gives you a quick way to see if there are differences in Title, description, [...]

Apple launches Apple Music TV, which is exactly what it sounds like: Apple Music on television. It’s a free, curated, 24-hour live stream of popular music videos (though it’s only available to US residents); you [...]

With the new desktop How-To treatment, it appears that Google has decided not to show rich results for the top spot. This is unlike all other rich results in Google Search, which have the ability [...]

Facebook Watch is the go-to place to discover videos across Facebook from live events, to TV shows, sports, news or music videos. They are introducing some new features: Topics in Watch:  in addition to following [...]

Facebook’s lead data regulator in Europe has opened another two probes into its business empire — both focused on how the Instagram platform processes children’s information. Children who changed their Instagram account settings to a [...]

Check out this SEO experiment for internal links from Pinterest. The post breaks down their testing methodologies and how they calculate success for these tests. They test three hypothesis A page linked from an internal [...]