Plus, how long does your site need to keep redirects? Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Gary Illyes and Lizzi Harvey published a new Google Search developer help document on an overview of of Google search operators. This document differs from the existing one in that it is more focused on what SEOs should be aware of in regards to these search operator limitations.

New Google Advanced SEO support page shows how to use search operators for identifying errors and making improvements The post Google: How to Use Search Operators for SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Gary Illyes of Google posted on Twitter that you should keep a redirect live for a year for Google Search purposes. The signals from original page A to destination page B will all be transferred and stick with page B even after the redirect is removed, if that redirect is live for a year.

Google announced a number of new Google Shopping features across both Google Ads and free Merchant Center to help merchants enhance and showcase their promotions, deals and sales in Google Search. Google said the company is making it easier for you to showcase your promotions across more surfaces on Google, customize your seasonal promotions and make better merchandising decisions

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…

At the beginning of this month I reported that 12% of Google’s top stories carousel URLs were not AMP pages.

Major outage at Akamai Edge and GTM service brings down major websites around the world. The post Akamai Outage Pulls Major Sites Offline Globally appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google is expanding the ‘About This Result’ panel with information about what factors went into ranking a page in search results. The post Google Expands ‘About This Result’ With Info On Ranking Factors appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

After making deal pages free for all ecommerce stores, Google offers six best practices to follow to optimize the pages for search results. The post Google’s 5 Best Practices For Optimizing Deal Pages appeared first on Search Engine Journal .