Google My Business Removes Addresses From Some Service Area Businesses
Google seems to have dropped some the addresses from Google My Business listings for service area businesses. It seems like some businesses that set a service area in their accounts would see their addresses disappear from the Google My Business conso…
Google Wants SEOs To Tell Them How They Can Do Better With Search Results Snippets
Danny Sullivan posted a bit of a cryptic tweet last night, asking SEOs how they want the search results listings to appear, what controls they want, things they dislike, etc. He wrote “We’re curious about what’s top-of-mind in your hopes and dreams ab…
Googlers Disagrees About Removing vs Improving Content For Google Ranking Benefit
For past few years, we have heard Google suggest that it is better to improve content and not remove content that is low quality. We also heard Google say removing content also works improve overall site quality. Which is it? The answer is that it i…
Google Structured Data Testing Tool Uses Neutral Crawler; Mostly Desktop
Google has a said that when the Google Structured Data Testing tool accesses a site, it uses a neutral crawler in terms of desktop versus mobile. It depends on what the site serves by default and John Mueller said, it probably will serve Google the des…
Google Halloween Ranking Update: Possible Targeted Update Yesterday?
Yesterday, on Halloween, I saw a some chatter within the industry around significant ranking changes in Google’s search results. The thing is, the complaints are not widespread but there are a nice number of complaints in the SEO communities. I am th…
Google Walkout: What the ‘five real changes’ demanded by staff will entail for the search giant
Earlier today thousands of Google employees across the world walked out of their offices in protest against sexual harassment and discrimination. We take a closer look at what the ‘five real changes’ demanded by staff will entail for the search giant.
Google asks SMBs if they’ll accept calls from Google Assistant
Google is testing business owner interest in receiving calls from an AI robot.
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Want to speak at SMX West? Here’s how
The agenda for our upcoming SMX West show is live and we’ve opened up our “speaking pitch” form.
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SearchCap: Google SEO feedback, fake local reviews & Google walkout
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
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Amazon Advertising tips from Bai and LEGO
7 expert strategies on Amazon Advertising, and how to use AMS and organic impressions to get your brand seen. Tips presented by John Denny of Cavu Venture Partners (formerly Bai) and Luis Navarrete Gomez of LEGO at the Transformation of Search Summit.
Bye bye Exact Match, hello “modified” Exact
Recently Google decided to let exact match less… exact, including in it the same search intent key-phrases. Here is what you need to know about it and how to react to this innovation.
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Google employee walkout followed by call for Google blackout at 11:10 am Pacific time
There is a call to users to stop using Google services for short period to show support for the walkout.
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Yelp vs Google: How they deal with fake reviews
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Out now: our new Site structure training!
Here it is: our brand-new, better-than-ever Site structure training course! Want to find out how to make sure visitors and Google find their way around your site? In Yoast Academy’s new Site structure training, you’ll find out how to improve your rankings by creating the optimal site structure! You can get the course for $129, […]
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Google wants to hear from SEOs on the search result listings
Here is how to give Google your two cents on the search result listings.
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Halloween Logos From The Search Industry In 2018
We showed you the first ever multiplayer Google Doodle for Halloween from Google yesterday and Bing’s bat home page. But today, while Google’s game Doodle is still live, Bing swapped their home page out to show you scary movie clips. Sogou posted the…
Google My Business Adds Setting For Google Assistant Calls Over Duplex
We know that Google is now going to be letting customers use Google Assistant’s duplex technology to book appointments or make reservations on their behalf. With that, Michael Wallace posted on Twitter that one of his customers has a new section to en…
Bing Ads API Version 11 Goes Aways Today
Bing sent out a final reminder this morning that today is the last day you can use version 11 of the Bing Ads API. You need to migrate to version 12 if you want to still use the Bing Ads API, version 11 will not work tomorrow.
Google On Lazy Loading Scroll Events For Search – Very Interesting…
Last night, John Mueller did a hangout at the GooglePlex and Martin Splitt from the Webmaster Trends Analyst team was with him who was able to answer some really technical JavaScript questions. This one was about lazy loading scroll events and how Goo…
Google: We Will Close The Gap On Modern Browsers & GoogleBot
Martin Splitt from the Google Webmaster Trends Analyst team said yesterday on a hangout that they are working on closing the gap between how modern browsers render web pages and how GoogleBot renders web pages.