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Google seems to be testing launching a new local feature to let car dealerships showcase their local car and auto inventory on Google Search. This was spotted by Jim Kreinbrink and Dan Shure shared this screenshot below (click on the image to enlarge). Jim said that Google added these URL paths to their robots.txt overnight: […]

The Android statues outside of the Google offices at the Mountain View campus are even masked. Here is the Google Play Android statue outside one of the buildings and it has this massive blue mask. I should note, the Google dinosaur, named Stan, also is wearing a mask. This was shared on Instagram. This post

GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Join host Ben as he continues his discussion with Marcus Tober, Founder, and Chief Evangelist at Searchmetrics. Together they chat about specific metrics and their relation to industry benchmarks. Marcus dives into industry-specific Core Web Vital benchmarks. Marcus crawled millions of domains and noticed similarities between each industry. Google is

Here is a photo that was recently shared on Instagram from the Google office, the GooglePlex, of some folks doing the Tinikling, a traditional Philippine folk dance which originated during the Spanish colonial era. This photo was actually taken four years ago, because no one is Tinikling at Google right now during COVID. This post

Google’s John Mueller was asked if using the abbr tag – the HTML abbreviation markup – if that can help you rank higher in Google Search. John said nope, on Twitter. Here are those tweets: Nope — ???? John ???? (@JohnMu) April 19, 2021 Basically, it is use to define the abbreviation of words on

Google is testing some new local features in Search. Specifically, Google is testing a new local finder design and Google is also testing a new method to push users to use the chat button in a business local knowledge panel. Tom Waddington spotted the new local finder test. Tom said Google is testing a new

A week or so ago, I reported that there was an issue with Google Search labeling real content pages as soft 404s, and thus not ranking those pages in Google Search. This bug directly seemed to have caused traffic issues for these sites. Well, that bug seems now to be mostly, if not fully, resolved.

Google was asked if building links too fast, let’s call it speed link building, is a bad thing. If you get too many links, too fast, is that something that can count against you in Google Search. John Mueller of Google said on Twitter “We don’t count links like that.” The question was “is it

The Daily Mail owner has filed an antitrust lawsuit in a NYC federal court against Google alleging Google punishes publishers, like the Daily Mail, in its search results if they don’t sell enough ad space through Google’s marketplace, like Google AdSense. The reaction from many SEOs on this news is pretty funny, basically saying that

Google Ads announced Target CPA and Target ROAS will be bundled with the Maximize conversions and Maximize conversion value bid strategies. So Maximize conversions will have an optional target CPA and Maximize conversion value will have an optional target ROAS. But this is not always easier for advertisers, as Google suggested. Google said this change