Search Engine Optimization (SEO) News

These are the top SEO News resources to follow in order to keep your finger on the pulse of the ever-changing SEO industry.

Search Engine Land

Search Engine Land, originally founded by Danny Sullivan, is the leading news site covering everything surrounding the search engine industry, from SEO to SEM, Google, Bing and social media. This is one of the first places that SEO professionals look when there is a potential algorithm update from Google, as they are always quick to cover these stories.

12/01/20: Google adds more discovery to Google Maps with ‘community feed’
12/01/20: Google Discovery ads can now use your 4:5 social image assets
12/01/20: Adthena launches granular local search insights solution
11/30/20: Online shopping hits new records over the holiday weekend
11/30/20: Video: Elie Orgel on leveraging data for unique content

Search Engine Watch

Search Engine Watch is another major search engine news website that helps online marketers and website owners improve their website’s visibility in search engines. They cover everything (SEO, PPC, Analytics, Social, Local, Mobile, Video, Content, Development, etc.).

Search Engine Roundtable

Search Engine Roundtable, led by Barry Schwartz, reports the most interesting forum threads happening in search engine marketing message boards across the web. Webmasters are often the first people to notice a change in Google’s algorithms, and Search Engine Roundtable brings the SEO chatter to the forefront.

12/01/20: Daily Search Forum Recap: December 1, 2020
12/01/20: Google Global Holiday Doodles Throughout All Of December 2020
12/01/20: Google: We Don't Differentiate Search For Travel In X vs Live In X
12/01/20: Google: We Do Not Support Nested XML Sitemap Index Files
12/01/20: Google Local Panel Adjusts How To Suggest An Edit To Store Hours

Search Engine Journal

Founded by Loren Baker, Search Engine Journal has been offering a community-focused approach to the search marketing industry through leveraging industry experts to spotlight industry trends, news and thought leaders who are shaping the future of search marketing.

Google Webmaster Central

The Google Webmaster Central Blog is often the source of much SEO news regarding Google. The company makes announcements about new features in Webmaster Tools, mobile search advancements and other Google-specific news in this blog. It’s a must-follow for any SEO professional.

11/24/20: New and improved crawl stats for your site
11/18/20: We moved! Introducing the new home for the Google Webmasters blogs
11/11/20: Goodbye Google Webmasters, hello Google Search Central
11/10/20: Timing for bringing page experience to Google Search
11/05/20: [email protected] 2020: Google’s first virtual summit for Product Experts

Bing Webmaster Blog

The Bing Webmaster Blog offers great insight into how to run a successful website, often from a user’s perspective. We think that is what makes this blog great. The Bing Webmaster Blog provides an alternate voice in the arena of search engine webmaster blogs.

10/29/20: Microsoft Clarity is now Generally Available
10/15/20: Site explorer: SEO-explore your site
09/10/20: Introducing the Bing Webmaster Tools URL Inspection Tool
09/04/20: Bing Webmaster Tools makes it easy to edit and verify your robots.txt
07/30/20: Announcing the new Bing Webmaster Tools (migration complete)

Moz Blog

Originally founded by Rand Fishkin and his community of Mozzers including Britney Muller and Dr. Pete, the Moz Blog is full of cutting-edge inbound marketing and SEO strategies. Learn what works and what’s hot in content marketing, link earning, authorship, client management and overall…the right way to build community online and earn search engine traffic.

Distilled

Distlled got its start when Duncan Morris and Will Critchlow joined forces back in 2005 to start a web development company. The Distilled blog offers tactical SEO content that can help you refine your skills.