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Google seems to be testing adding smiley faces to the local pack reviews filter options. So in the “people often mention” keyword filters, instead of it just saying the words like care, food, products, quality, etc, it may add a smiley face to some of those words to express higher satisfaction from customers in those […]

Google’s John Mueller had to tell an individual that when Google makes changes to its search algorithms, those changes should have zero impact on your direct traffic. Yes, they can have a big impact on your organic traffic, but not your direct traffic. Direct traffic are website visits that arrived on your site either by

Google has created a single page where you can find all of the Google Search content policies. This includes Google Search’s overall content policies, search feature policies and feature specific policies. You can find them all in this one document here. Here is an overview of these policies but if you want to read each

Google has confirmed that on June 23, 2021 it has released a search “spam update.” The update started and completed on a single day, June 23rd. Google did not say exactly what type of spam it targeted with this update but just linked to its general spam prevention notices. Google said on Twitter “as part

If you visit the GooglePlex, the main Google headquarters, you may notice that Stan, the Google dinosaur is dressed up in its rainbow gear. This includes a rainbow jacket, scarf, headwear, sunglasses, a flag and more. This photo above is from Instagram but there are more photos, I’ve embedded another view below: This post is

Matt Tutt posted a poll on Twitter asking where do SEOs go for help when they run into an SEO that they cannot solve themselves. The poll has over 850 responses and the responses probably have a bias towards Twitter (since it is a Twitter poll) but it interesting. The responses show that about 33%

Google seems to be testing a new section in the mobile search results for movie related queries. The new section is titled “Extras” and shows additional details on the movie from analysis, interviews, recaps and more. I cannot replicate this but Saad AK noticed it and posted several screenshots on Twitter: Here are more screen

Google is replacing the “Delivery issues” policy violation within Google Merchant Center with a new policy violation named “Inaccurate availability (due to inconsistent availability between the landing page and checkout pages on your website).” This can happen when your product landing page availability does not match what a user sees on the checkout page of

The folks at Shopify were excited to announce that they now let you modify and edit your robots.txt file. Previously, Shopify handled it all automatically but now, if you know better, you can make your own modifications. We’re live!#shopifyseo #seo https://t.co/kRpzph0SXz — Jackson Lo ???????? (@jackson_lo) June 21, 2021 Robots.txt has been a thing since