A new spam algorithm is rolling out over the next two weeks aimed at fighting link spam more broadly. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Plus, how to optimize for Bing search Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Google’s John Mueller explains the reasons why Google may remove FAQ rich results displayed by a site The post Why Google May Remove a Site’s FAQ Rich Results appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Many marketers approach Search Engine Result Page (SERP) features from the wrong angle.

A few weeks ago marked the second Google Search Central Unconference edition, almost a year after the first one took place (though most probably remember the first edition under a slightly different name, the Virtual Webmaster Unconference).

Over the past couple of days, Google stopped showing review snippets, the stars under the search result snippets, for all queries. I did ask Google about this yesterday morning, as it really seems like a bug, but I have not heard back yet

Google Question Hub which has been in beta for years but officially launched earlier this year seems to have undergone a redesign. I am not sure when this happened but Eric Heiken noted it on Twitter and I think he is right, it looks new

Technically, when it comes to using file extensions in your URLs, it doesn’t really make a difference which one you use for ranking purposes. .PHP, .HTML, .ASP, etc – it doesn’t matter

Google is rolling out a new feature for the about this result overlay that actually tells searchers (and SEOs) why Google is ranking that page for that given query. Yes, Google is telling you which high level ranking factors are the reason this page is ranking.