Understanding link ranking algorithms may improve how you approach link building.

We knew this was coming, Google said ads will be shown in the Google Discover feed and yes, it is something SEOs are not a huge fan of. But it is here and there are ads on the Google mobile home page

July 2018 Google told us they would be changing the referral source URL from Google Images from https://www.google.com to https://images.google.com but that isn’t going to happen anymore. Google updated their post last month I believe saying they will not be going through with this change

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

Bing announced they have made their Space Partition Tree And Graph (SPTAG) vector search algorithm open source to help others who want to make it possible to search through billions of pieces of information in milliseconds.

The updates add guidelines on content expertise and interstitial pages, while lumping “E-A-T” in with “Page Quality.” Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Multi-channel analytics are also available in a closed beta.

Campaign-level conversions and a new smart bidding strategy are among the new features. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

It was a busy week, Google told us there were no core updates or infrastructure updates recently despite rumors there were.

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