Search advertising grew by just 1% in the third-quarter of fiscal year 2020. That could spell opportunity for some advertisers. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

There has been no greater disruption to business in the modern era than the COVID-19 pandemic. For many, it seems as though the world has stopped turning. For marketers, it seems as though now is the worst time to try to promote anything

Why search results correlation studies are unreliable The post Why Google Correlation Studies are Unreliable via @martinibuster appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

I’ve been saying this for years but now Google has confirmed that the site speed ranking signals are a small, even “teeny tiny” ranking factor in Google search. Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter “ranking wise it’s a teeny tiny factor.”

Google’s John Mueller said it is a waste of time to submit an additional reconsideration request after you already submitted one. Google will discard any new reconsideration requests he said. So submitting a new one, won’t help you.

This year,the company says it has removed “tens of millions” of COVID-19 related ads. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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

Google’s John Mueller recently stated that a sitelinks search box is rarely shown for sites in search results. The post Google: We Rarely Show Sitelinks Search Box, Even When Markup is Used via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that when the search results become overloaded with rich results of any kind, Google’s engineers may decide to show fewer. John said “but usually I see the search engineering teams get pickier about showing rich results when it starts to look like the search results are overloaded.”