Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

SMXpert Upasna Gautam continues the Q&A from SMX Advanced and discusses a number of topics including creating the right content, using homonyms, stressed words and quality metrics when optimizing for voice search. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

This week, Google was fined a record breaking $5 billion by the EU for Android antitrust issues. Google Image search has updated their referral URLs for easier tracking. Trump..

This SEO keyword research guide will show you how to rank better in organic search and make more money. The post How to Do Keyword Research for SEO: Everything You Need to Know by @martinibuster appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Do you have good, but underperforming content? Use these quick wins to improve it and boost your traffic! The post Content Optimization: Boost Traffic by Improving What You Already Have by @Stevenvvessum appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Here are three tactics that can help get the most value possible from your existing content. The post 3 Easy Steps to Make Your Content Work Harder by @LWilson1980 appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Report: Google’s mobile search results now show image thumbnails 45% of the time Mobile Google users see image thumbnails in nearly half the search results shown, according to new report data. Should marketers consider placing greater importance on thumb images

Bing announced 10 days ago that they are now strongly recommending that you switch all your ad URLs from HTTP to HTTPS. “Bing Ads strongly recommends you update your URLs to use the HTTPS protocol instead of HTTP…

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This might sound funny by now because we’ve been talking about Google adding voice query data and filters to the Google Search Console Search Analytics report a lot last year…