Posted by AnnSmarty Have you noticed it’s getting harder and harder to build referral traffic from Google? And it’s not just that the competition has got tougher (which it certainly has!). It’s also that Google has moved past its ten blue links and its organic search results are no longer generating as much traffic they used to.

Google Search Console has a remove URL feature that lets you quickly and temporarily remove content from Google search. There is a status column in the tool to tell you if the request was completed (i.e. removed), cancelled..

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on and from other places across the web. The post SearchCap: How to choose the perfect domain, website load time tips & more appeared first on Search Engine Land

Utilizing “Fast Fetch” ad request and rendering, ads served on AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) will now be faster, and potentially will improve viewability rates.

A trademark lawsuit before the Supreme Court alleges the word “Google” has become too generic. The post Google May Lose Trademark Rights to Its Own Name, Here’s Why by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google’s Gary Illyes, a webmaster trends analyst at Google who is designed to help around the communication between Google and webmasters said on Twitter a few weeks ago that he does not provide private support…

BrightEdge also reported that mobile vs. desktop queries produce different rankings nearly 80% of the time

Starting over the weekend, mostly Saturday and Sunday on August 19th and 20th, there were some chatter in the webmaster channels around Google fluctuations in the search results. The chatter was intense for a day or so and died out a lot since then…

When it comes to choosing a domain name for your business, you’ve got more choices than ever. Columnist Ryan Shelley provides suggestions for narrowing it down