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This photo is from a recent photo uploaded to Instagram from the Google office in Hong Kong. This shows a TV screen with boxes and green and red statuses. I am thinking, but I am not 100% sure, that this monitor shows you the office room utilization at any given time. I assume this is […]
Google Hong Kong Office Utilization Management Monitor Read More »
I didn’t intend to use this newsletter for any promotional guff (in fact I’ve turned down a few sponsorship offers already) but this one is close to my heart so I’m making an exception. For the past few years, John Shehata and I have had regular calls where we talked about all kinds of different
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This morning I’ve been noticing a lot of complaints about the Google Search Console Performance report being delayed and data not fully being represented. It seems to be a global issue and even John Mueller of Google confirmed there is an issue at the moment. The issue is that the data seems to have stopped
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A week after Google made a change to the titles it produces in its search results, the search company confirmed it actually did make these changes. I mean, why didn’t Google just write about it when they first noticed it, did they think we wouldn’t notice? Google said “last week, we introduced a new system
Google Confirmed Titles Did Change To Not Use The Query Read More »
Google now has a notice when you add Google Posts in Google My Business that those posts can appear not just on Google properties but third-party sites. Claire Carlile posted a screenshot of Google notifying her of this and asked on Twitter “which third party sites would posts appear on?” Here is a screenshot of
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Google now may decide to review your Google My Business product uploads manually and approve or reject those. Usama Ali posted screenshots on Twitter of the this happening for his product uploads. Google posts a notice that “your product is being reviewed.” Google adds that “it may take up to 30 minutes. Product will be
Google My Business Products Being Reviewed & Approved By Google Read More »
Google announced that the link spam update that initially began rolling out on July 26, 2021 is now done rolling out as of August 24, 2021. That is over a full-month of rolling for that update and two-weeks longer than Google initially said. Here is Google’s announcement that it is done rolling out: And we’re
Google Link Spam Update Took Four Weeks To Roll Out Read More »
Last September, in 2020, we reported that Google was testing the people also search for in the auto-complete search suggestions drop down. Well, those tests have not stopped. Here are more examples from Brodie Clark from the past week or so. In fact, I get numerous people sending me these examples every week, so Google
In today’s world, we get more than a handful of emails each day. From friends and colleagues to discounts from our favorite stores, our inboxes can easily get cluttered. While some of those emails get opened, we can’t deny that most are just marked as read or, even worse, moved to trash. So put
4 Tips for Email Pitches That Grabs Journalists’ Attention Read More »
Has your organic search traffic plummeted in recent months, and you can’t figure out why? While it’s very unlikely these days, negative SEO could be the culprit. But before we talk about detecting, deflecting, and fighting negative SEO, let’s make sure we understand what it is… Negative SEO is when a competitor uses black-hat tactics to attempt
How to Detect (and Deflect) Negative SEO Attacks Read More »