Search marketing history Archives

March 26, 202302

This day in search marketing history: March 26

More sites move to Google mobile-first indexing In 2018, Google announced it had enabled mobile-first indexing for more websites. This was t

March 25, 202303

This day in search marketing history: March 25

Google Panda patent granted In 2014, a patent (Ranking search results) written by Google’s Navneet Panda and Vladimir Ofitserov – possibly

March 22, 202304

This day in search marketing history: March 22

Google Search Console to show event rich results errors for missing locations 2022: Google Search Console’s rich results report could now show y

March 21, 202308

This day in search marketing history: March 21

rel=next/prev was not found on Google. That’s an error. In 2019, we learned Google had stopped supporting the rel=next/prev markup it had i

March 18, 2023012

This day in search marketing history: March 18

Google Business Profiles new emergency help attributes for Ukraine support 2022: Google also added hotel attributes to define if hotels offered suppor

March 17, 2023011

This day in search marketing history: March 17

Google blocks 3.1 billion ads in a tumultuous 2020, says annual Ads Safety Report 2021: The report listed misinformation around COVID-19 and the polit

March 16, 2023012

This day in search marketing history: March 16

Google Univeral Analytics: The beginning of the end In 2022, Google announced its plan to deprecate Universal Analytics on July 1, 2023. (That’s

March 15, 2023012

This day in search marketing history: March 15

Google rolls out Search Ads 360 integration for Google Analytics 4 2022: Integrating enabled advertisers to see sessions, users and conversions within

March 13, 2023012

This day in search marketing history: March 12

Google publishes video of search quality meeting In 2012, Google shared a video from one of its search quality meetings – something that few out

March 12, 2023010

This day in search marketing history: March 11

Google officially acquires DoubleClick In 2008, the European Commission approved Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick, valued at $3.1 b

March 10, 2023013

This day in search marketing history: March 10

Google and Bing “exception lists” In 2011, Google and Bing revealed at SMX West that they have “exception lists” for websites

March 9, 2023014

This day in search marketing history: March 9

Happy Frediversary In 2017, there were strong signs of a Google algorithm ranking update that had actually started on March 7. At first, it seemed to

March 8, 2023018

This day in search marketing history: March 8

Goodbye, Google Toolbar PageRank In 2016, Google confirmed that it would be removing Toolbar PageRank. Google would still continue using PageRank data

March 7, 2023020

This day in search marketing history: March 7

Google adds landing page load time to Quality Score In 2008, Google AdWords confirmed a new addition to Quality Score: landing page loa

March 6, 2023017

This day in search marketing history: March 6

Google Webmaster Tools adds user administration In 2012, Google Webmaster Tools added a much-wanted feature: user administration. Site owners could fi

March 5, 2023018

This day in search marketing history: March 5

Matt Cutts confirms Vince, calls it a ‘minor change’ In 2009, Google’s Matt Cutts created a video to answer many questions

March 4, 2023015

This day in search marketing history: March 4

Sheryl Sandberg named Facebook Chief Operating Officer In 2008, Facebook announced Sheryl Sandberg as its new Chief Operating Officer. At the time, Sa

February 25, 2023017

This day in search marketing history: February 25

SEOs upset over Google dropping attribution in featured snippets In 2019, SEOs were not happy about a Google featured snippet format that didn’t

February 24, 2023018

This day in search marketing history: February 24

Google unleashes the Panda algorithm In 2011, Google released an algorithm update that would eventually become known as the Google Panda Update. Googl

February 23, 2023020

This day in search marketing history: February 23

Google penalizes Natural News In 2017, Google confirmed that a controversial alternative medicine website was delisted because of a webmaster guidelin