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Reunited, and it feels so good. Well, we’ll see if that line from the classic song plays out for Yahoo, which has revealed it wants to be together with Google again in a deal for search results. The deal excludes Europe and India, almost certainly to avoid anti-trust issues there. It also will depend on US Department of Justice approval. The Deal, In Summary

As part of today’s Yahoo earning news, it revealed a new search deal with Google:

In October, the Company reached an agreement...

There have been plenty of signs of updates over October with the Google algorithm. The last time we reported these shifts were on October 8th but I am seeing shifts reported on October 14th and 15th as well as the past couple days, October 17th through today...

We know that using Google translate to auto-translate content can be a form of spam. It also causes issues for GoogleBot in understanding what your page is about.

Google's John Mueller said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that the Polyglot Googlebot has issues understanding it...

There are a few Black Hat communities discussing and complaining about ranking drops for some of their web sites over the past 24 hours. The public one is at Black Hat World and it shares that the ranking drops at Google started last night...

Wix, the popular low cost web site builder tool, seems to be having issues with their web sites being indexed in Google. It seems like many web sites powered by Wix have recently been dropping out of the Google index.

I am seeing new reports via Twitter and the Google Analytics Help forum that the Google Analytics Search Engine Optimization Queries report, where you link up your Google Search Console with Google Analytics and the report funnels in there...

A couple weeks ago, we covered how Google has a new app indexing ranking factor that will boost your app content if you use the new Google App Indexing API. I also mentioned then that the new iOS documentation is out...

One of the challenges of optimizing an ecommerce site that has lots of filtering and sorting options can be to try to create a click path through the site so that all the pages on the site that you want indexed by a search engine get crawled and...

Google App Indexing has allowed publishers to serve up links within Google’s search results on iOS that lead directly into their apps, but only for Chrome. Now, Google has announced similar support is coming to Safari, for those on iOS 9.

Spotted via VentureBeat, Google shared on its Google Developers Google+ page that iOS apps can now have deep links to their content appear when people do a Google search in Safari, with the right setup:

App Indexing is now compatible with HTTP deep...