Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

From Search Engine Land:

Recent Headlines From Marketing Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:

Search News From Around The Web:

• New Data: How Google’s Organic & Paid CTRs Have Changed 2015-2018, SparkToro
• Screaming Frog Report Builder, On Page Rocks
• We researched longer meta descriptions: here are our findings, Yoast
• 7 Examples of How BlackHat SEOs Hurt You, The Internet & Everyone Else, cognitiveseo.com
• Google Says Linking To Noindexed URLs Is Not A Problem, Search Engine Roundtable
• HTTPS Migration Best Practices Before the Deadline, Outbrain Blog
• Index Bloat: Why Deleting Website Pages Is Great for SEO in 2018, Go Inflow
• PageRank Updated, SEO By The Sea
• Search Marketing Firm SEMRush Raises $40 Million to Fund Expansion, Wall Street Journal
• Summer vacation planning with Google, Google Blog

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