Today on Google’s home page in the United States is a special Google Doodle for US Teacher Appreciation Week. Teacher Appreciation Week is a national holiday celebrated in United States of America which takes place in the first full week of May..

This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series – feel free to nominate someone over here.

Kim Krause Berg, who we profiled, announced at her Cre8asite Forums that she is closing down the forums after 20 years of operations on May 25, 2018. The date is interesting because of it overlapping with the GDPR date..

Image credit to Shutterstock Mordy Oberstein spotted and posted on Twitter what looks to be a new feature for those Google featured snippets. This one shows a more button under the featured snippet (even when the featured snippet is at the top)…

Google AdWords is implementing a new policy prohibiting ads that bail bond services. This will come into effect July 2018.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. The post SearchCap: AdWords interface changing, manual penalties & link building appeared first on Search Engine Land

Manashjyoti Athparia posted in the Gulshan Kumar Forums (hat tip to mayank_jee) a screen shot of Google’s search results with a big box letting the searcher submit a question to be answered later by humans…

Squarespace has become the first content management system (CMS) to integrate with Google Search Console. The post Google Integrates Search Console With Squarespace by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Contributor Andrew Dennis (kinda) disagrees with a previously published SEL article and offers his view on why link building may be difficult. The post Link building is complicated: A rebuttal appeared first on Search Engine Land