Once upon a time, in a land of rainbows, butterflies, and evil content overload, a gripping love story is unfolding. But this love affair isn’t what you’d expect — it’s no “Romeo and Juliet” or “Sleepless in Seattle.” Rather, it’s an unlikely courtship with a bond sealed by three little words: Business-to-Business .

Here’s how to find your key success metric, prove the value of your work, and make your bosses happy.

Controversial ‘link tax’ and content filtering provisions part of the final language of the Directive. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Last night, Google sent out notifications via Google Search Console reminding sites that have added Google+ buttons and other integrations to remove them by March 7th.

Google’s new service area business set up cleared addresses. If you’re a service business, don’t try to add it back.

Google has added to Google Image Search results a feature to see recently viewed images that are related to the image you are currently looking at on Google Image search. Sergey Alakov posted a screen shot of this feature on Twitter and you can see the recently viewed section is below the image preview

Gennaro Cuofano shared a screen shot on Twitter with me of the Google Assistant showing a search ad in the search results for a voice query. I tried to replicate this myself and came up short, but his 100% shows a search ad. I am not sure if this is new, but I don’t think Google Assistant typically shows ads – have you seen this before

Google appears to be testing the use of favicons within the top stories carousel in search results. The post Google is Testing Favicons in the Top Stories Carousel by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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

Evidence from forums, Facebook Groups and SERP trackers indicate that Google may be updating it’s algorithm. The post Evidence of Google Valentines Day Update by @martinibuster appeared first on Search Engine Journal .