The number of complaints I am seeing from SEOs over the past couple of weeks around indexing is large.

Facebook Messenger Rooms, a new video chat option for up to 50 people, can now be launched from the Instagram Direct inbox.

Amazon is reported to be moving into Local Search Advertising via Local News and Sports Podcasts. Response to decline of 3rd party cookies

Retailers can now see Retail Category performance across different delivery avenues in Google Ads.

The cross-channel reporting is designed to help retailers and brands better understand and optimize ad performance across campaign types. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Gary Illyes from Google posted four Twitter polls asking SEOs how has their work changed since the COVID-19 outbreak.

This post explains the type of user behavior signals that the search engines do – and do not – use, using specific examples and applications. The post How User Behavior In Search Works: Everything You Need to Know via @beanstalkim appeared first on Search Engine Journal

And, what to do when there’s no easy way to appeal to everyone.

I have been reluctant to cover the negativity around the Google May 2020 core update because I don’t want it to come across as me complaining because I was hit. But there has been a lot of complaints not just from the SEO community but from normal searchers about a quality drop in Google’s search results since May 2020.

Here’s how search engines rank webpages – from query classification, to assigning context, and determining which signals are most important. The post How Search Engines Rank Pages via @beanstalkim appeared first on Search Engine Journal .