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A site owner on Reddit asked if there is a way to remove his site from Google Search in a specific country, specifically Indonesia. John Mueller of Google said there really is not way of doing that, he said “you can’t reduce your rankings in one country in Google.” John added that “you could set […]

The other day Google posted a blog post named the latest local shopping trends; local is now digital. In this blog post, Google shared a lot of trends the company tracked with local searches in 2020 due to COVID-19. Here are some of those data points in bullet format below: Searches for “local” + “business(es)”

Google is now able to show in the “people also search for” query refinement feature local business listings and map results. Valentin Pletzer noticed this and posted a screenshot (click to enlarge) on Twitter which you can see here. Valentin said “”People also search for” suggesting maps locations.” Then Dominik Schwarz responded that he also

Google has posted a new content policy within its Google Posts help documents that specifically disallows businesses to add phone numbers in the content of their Google Posts. Joy Hawkins posted on Twitter “Google clarifies phone numbers are not allowed in Google My Business posts.” Google Posts show up on your local knowledge panel in

Google posted a list of changes or updates rolling out now and in the upcoming months for the Merchant Center product data specifications. Google said “this year’s updates focus on improving the quality of product information across free listings and Shopping ads.” Some of the changes we were expecting like Google May Suspend E-Commerce Sites

First, I know little about art, so I apologize if I am mischaracterizing what this is. But the Google Pittsburgh office seems to be currently installing parabolas string art in one of the office locations. Megan Mosholder is installing her “Lui na Greine” work from March 13th to April 11th at the Google office. She

Google has been changing and testing the interface for its sitelinks for as long as I can remember. Well, here is another test, for the Google Ads version of the sitelinks, where Google is displaying them as a vertical list view. This screenshot below is from Andrea Cruz as she shared with me on Twitter

Yahoo Answers has been a staple of the internet for over 15 years, since June 28, 2005. Now, Yahoo is going to close it and not really provide an archive, like when they closed the Yahoo Directory – another piece of internet history. Yahoo Answers will go offline May 4th – I wonder why that

Google’s John Mueller said again that the best method to block Google from crawling and then indexing your staging site is to block GoogleBot and other humans with authentication. Prompt the access request to the staging site by requiring them to enter a valid username and password to access the staging environment. I believe most

After many months of Google teasing us that Google Search Console will gain support for regular expressions, even sharing a help document around it, Google has finally launched regex support in the performance report filters. And yes, the SEO industry is super excited about the launch. Here is what is new. Regular Expressions in Performance