Today on Google’s home page is a special Google logo, Doodle, for Lyudmila Rudenko. Lyudmila Rudenko was a a Soviet chess player who was one of the most influential chess players of all time. She was the second women’s world chess champion..

This article was written by industry friend Jenny Halasz @jennyhalasz who we have cited here numerous times. She wanted to publish something on an important topic and here it is

Is the Reduced Link Graph algo affecting your ranking? The post Reduced Link Graph – A Way to Rank Links by @martinibuster appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Google announced on Twitter yesterday that they have added “two changes to make it easier to specify landing page parameters.” Specifically (1) Final URL Suffix is now available in Google Ads and (2) the number of custom parameters available has also increased from 3 to 8…

Google has released an update to event based search results that now add time, location, ticketing providers, the ability to share, save and other relevant information.

Google’s John Mueller has said that Google is able to determine when to combine URLs together even before crawling the page. They can do this with many web sites based on their site structure

Google Assistant is the most accurate smartphone digital assistant, beating Amazon Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Microsoft Cortana. The post Google Assistant is More Accurate Than Alexa, Siri, and Cortana by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google’s John Mueller said in this morning’s webmaster hangout at the 6:18 mark that he has not yet reviewed or read through the updated search quality raters guidelines PDF…

The rate at which Google shows its “People Also Ask” search suggestions, aka “Related Questions”, jumped by 34% this week.

Google has removed the public version of its URL submission tool, which allowed users to submit pages to Google’s index. The post Google Removes Public URL Submission Tool by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .