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Check it out, Mr. Schwartz wrote a book about SEO, it is called Product-Led SEO. So no, I didn’t write this book, but Eli Schwartz, no relation to me, wrote this book. I think you can buy it on Amazon if you want, but I know he is sending out some copies to some lucky […]

Google can show the wrong date in the search results snippets. We’ve covered this topic numerous times over multiple dates and times. But one aspect we did not cover is that when Google does this, it does not mean Google has quality issues with your website. It just means Google is not able to figure

Google’s John Mueller implied that since the product reviews update has been rolled out, it will be hard for user generated content generated product reviews to rank well in Google Search. John said on Twitter “the focus there is clearly on reviews from experts. Keeping the quality of a UGC site high is hard, I

Michelle Race, aka ShelliWeb, asked an interesting SEO question, she asked what is better for Google when you have empty webpages. Should you noindex the empty webpage or should you let Google index it and treat it as a soft 404? The specific case is that you create a category page but you have no

This week I spent a lot more time covering and updating the details around the Google product reviews update. I covered some of the early impact it had on some sites, and it was big. Google added more details about this update including that it can impact your Google Discover traffic, it will be updated

Google announced it will be rolling out in the coming weeks dynamic exclusion lists within Google Ads. Dynamic exclusion lists let you potentially automate the process of blocking your ads from showing on web pages or websites. Google said it is “announcing a new feature that will make it easier for advertisers to protect their

Google might be having some issues with serving Web Stories in Google Search now. This started last night, maybe around 7pm ET. Some publishers have been complaining that the Web Stories were not surfacing in Google Search for trending topics and traffic around Web Stories slowed last night. Danny Sullivan from Google said it is

Here is a photo, I think of someone modeling stuff, at the Google office, the GooglePlex, wearing a G belt. I don’t think it is a Google belt, but some sort of fancy brand but it is funny nevertheless, that it is a G belt at the Google office (oh the humor). This was shared

Yesterday Google tweaked the design for when it shows knowledge panel information in the search results. On desktop search, it is showing these search result filter buttons that swap in the filtered results at the top, as opposed to anchoring you down to the specific section in the search result listings. Here is what it