Google confirms a major update and offers official guidance. Information and facts as to what is happening

Google is testing showing image icons in the related search box. They look like the expandable featured snippets but again, within the related search box

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

Posted by BritneyMuller Welcome to the draft of Chapter Three of the new and improved Beginner’s Guide to SEO! So far you’ve been generous and energizing with your feedback for our outline , Chapter One , and Chapter Two . We’re asking for a little more of your time as we debut the our third chapter on keyword research. Please let us know what you think in the comments ! Chapter 3: Keyword Research Understand what your audience wants to find

Google Posts has announced new insights, or analytics, to see how well your Google Posts are doing in search and Google Maps. The insights provide data on an individual post, a week of posts and a month of posts

Contributor and Bing Chief Evangelist Christi Olson kicks off a multipart series on Bing webmaster tools.

Here’s how you can properly handle pagination for SEO and where you’re most likely to get into trouble.

Google launched datasets schema in the search results, which now enables them to show pretty charts and tables of data right in the Google snippets. I thought this launched a few years ago, more on that in the story.

Here are six basic best practices every SEO professional must know about optimizing JavaScript. The post SEO & JavaScript: 6 Things You Need to Know by @grybniak appeared first on Search Engine Journal

There is no “fix” if your website was hurt by this last Google update, Google says. But at least you know there was indeed a Google update that may have impacted your website in a good or bad way. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.