As I covered at Search Engine Land the other day, Fabrice Canel From Microsoft issued a feature request to WordPress to bake into the product instant indexing. Well, really, instant pushing of URLs to the search engines so the search engines don’t have to crawl sites to find new or updated content.

Google is packing more features, many commerce-related, into Maps, helping the company maintain its position as the intermediary between our online and offline activities. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Not getting the data you need from your SEO tool? It’s time to start prospecting for a new SEO software in your agency’s tool stack. The post Is It Time to Switch to a New SEO Tool?

I am surprised I am not seeing more concern with the latest Microsoft Advertising notice that it will automate its ad suggestions and if you do not specifically tell Microsoft within 14 days that you dislike that suggestion, the company will auto-apply it to go in your ad campaign.

Marshall Vale from Google said on Twitter that Google will first begin testing FLoC, the company’s cookie alternative, in the US and select countries.

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

The Google My Business team is looking for ways to improve and sent out an survey to a bunch of businesses asking them for feedback.

A recent survey of over 200 senior European marketers highlights the reasons behind a spike in creativity within in-house teams. The post Has COVID-19 Made Marketers More Creative? via @RebekahDunne appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

In part one with Dan Toplitt we spoke about how enterprise SEOs look at the larger picture of things but in part two, which is what this video is about, we spoke about the role of SEOs and how that changes over time and then what trends he sees in hiring SEOs.

Facebook Ads can be finicky.