Google announced that you can now see your annotations in your change history report and reporting data within Google Ads. Google said “To help you understand the impact of your campaign changes, you can now view changes annotated in your performance charts.”

Here is an interesting move by Google. Google updated its improve your local rankings help document to show an example of how keywords in your business description can help improve your local rankings. But local SEO experts say that is not how it works and keywords in the description have no impact

Posted by BritneyMuller You’ve figured out what’s wrong, and you’ve delivered a laundry list of demands to your web dev team: re-index these pages, fix this duplicate content, redirect these URLs… but how often are those fixes prioritized, and how much time do you invest in pushing to get them there? Cultivating a positive, productive relationship with your web developers is one of the smartest (and most empathetic) things you can do as an SEO

An official set of recommendations concerning SEO for AMP stories is now available from the AMP Open Source Project. The post How to Optimize AMP Stories for Google Search Results via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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

Here are nine reasons you should use Instagram as a business, no matter what your industry is. The post 9 Reasons to Use Instagram for Business via @KristiKellogg appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Someone on Twitter shared a Google home page test with me. The new test has a few noticeable changes; the first is the blue background on the Google Search button, the blue (or white) font in the buttons and the final thing is the microphone button is outside of the search box.

Rather than automatically changing default search engines for Chrome and Firefox, administrators are required to opt-in for it to do so network-wide. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Are you current on your mobile-first indexing information?

This is the first of a two-part series about how to scale your analyses to larger datasets from your server logs. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.