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Google’s John Mueller highlighted a document, which he said is not new, but it is useful, named keep redacted information out of Google Search. This document gives you tips on how to help ensure Google does not find this content in the first place and then ends with how to remove the content if it […]

So you know, Google is going to slam sites that shift around and end up making you, by accident, click on the wrong spot on the page. It is part of the Page Experience Update‘s core web vitals Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) metric and is going live this May 2021. Well, Google Search has this

Amy Toman spotted a new feature in Google Local and Google My Business. The feature seems to allow you to send additional feedback to Google when a suggested edit you make to a Google business listing is not accepted (i.e. not applied) for some reason. She posted these screen shots on Twitter of the new

Black-owned businesses can now get the “black-owned business” label added to their Google Shopping listings in Google Search. This looks just like the Google My Business version but now it shows up on product results within Google Shopping. Here is a screen shot of the label in the product results within Google Shopping. Google said

Dawn Beobide and I in part two of the video started to talk about the upcoming Google Page Experience Update. Google is going to release a new update around Core Web Vitals and page experience factors. She said this goes back to her strategy on getting and educating your developers on SEO, which we discussed

Google is making changes to its adult policy for Google Ads starting on March 29, 2021. Google said it will then start the “full enforcement” of these new policies four “ramping up over approximately four weeks.” The new policies are around sexually suggestive live streaming, sexually suggestive live chat, sexually suggestive role playing games, and

Here is a photo from February 2019 I found on Twitter of Santa, with a Noogler hat, special propeller hats new Googlers wear, working at one of the Google offices. I am not sure which office or why this was done but it is funny. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of

Google Search is now showing the statistics for individual sport player stats. Mordy Oberstein, who admits he is not a 12 year old, noticed this new Google feature because he said he checks these queries often enough. He shared a screen shot of a search for [michael jordan stats]: Here are his tweets: Still a

Here is another variation of product attribute sliders within Google Search. In the screen shot from Brian Freiesleben you will see a “critic ratings” box that shows a scale that says “lower than most” from Bat Digest. Brian Freiesleben shared this screen shot on Twitter: Previously, we saw examples of size levels slider and reviewers

Google released a video talking about search spam and what Google does to protect searches from “spam sites, phishing scams, and other bad actors” trying to get into Google search. One metric that stood out was that Google detected “25 billion spammy pages every day” in 2020. Here is the super short video: Here is