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On Christmas, Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, shared a photo from the Google office of an Andorid statue space guy standing next to a Christmas tree. He wrote on X, “Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates. Wishing you a joyful holiday, whether you’re spending it in a winter wonderland or just enjoying the day with friends…

The Search Engine Roundtable is made up of what you, the search community, is talking about. What you, the search community, is noticing in the search results, be it ranking changes, user interface changes and beyond. As you all know, I source a lot of forums and social media threads for the stories that…

There has been a ton of chatter within the SEO community over the past couple of days related to extreme ranking volatility within the Google Search results. The Google tracking tools have also picked up the volatility over the past day or so. There is no way Google pushed out a confirmed update this week…

Google’s Google’s New Year’s Eve doodle for 2023 is live in some regions and will be live in New York in the next five hours or so. If you want a sneak peek at it early, here it is. Here is the animated GIF version, click on it to enlarge: Here are all the previous…

Here are the most popular articles on the Search Engine Roundtable by number of comments. In other words, these are the articles with the highest number of comments posted in 2023. Overall, there were over 21,000 comments added to stories in 2023. But here were the most commented on stories that were published in 2023:…

Google Search can show a “shop by price” and shop by brand” carousel and accordion box in the search results for shopping-related queries. The search bar filter for shopping has those features but now they can show in the middle of the search results. Khushal Bherwani spotted this and posted on X: Truth is, this…

Microsoft Bing is testing showing a “trending” label in the visually explore box within its search results. This may show up on some visually explore search boxes if Bing thinks the topic is trending. This feature was spotted by Khushal Bherwani on X and then Shameem Adhikarath on X a day later. Here are some…

2024 is just around the corner and a lot of you are worried that SEO will die again. Well, no need to worry because John Mueller of Google said you are good, at least for the first half of 2024. John said on Bluesky “SEO will not die in H1 2024.” This was in response…

This is the last SEO video recap of the year, and I covered a summary of all the confirmed Google algorithm updates in 2023. I also discussed the Christmas Google search ranking volatility we saw earlier this week. Bing Chat added favicons to links. Google’s John Mueller said SEO won’t die in the first half…

Since Search Engine Land launched, we have given SEO experts a platform to share their in-depth knowledge and timely insights – with the goal of helping you solve problems, manage challenges and understand the constantly shifting SEO landscape. What follows are links to the 10 most-read, must-read Search Engine Land SEO columns of 2023 that…