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Google’s John Mueller had to confirm that you do not need to have a Google My Business verified business listing to show up in Google Web Search. You do need a Google My Business listing to show up well in Google Maps and in the local pack results or to show a local panel in […]

Well, 2020 is over – phew, right? December was a wild wild month in terms of what SEOs and webmasters need to be concerned with around Google Search. We had the December 2020 core update and some unconfirmed updates. We learned more about the page experience update, passage indexing and more. So let me give

The other week we reported on Google testing a new UI that shows products with a review slider. Now it seems Google is testing this to show how large a product is in terms of volume in ML. Here is a search for bourbon that shows this bottle is “larger than most whisky” you may

It looks like Google My Business insights, the area you go to see how much traffic, calls, messages, etc you get from Google Maps and Local, is missing data. The analytics data is missing from December 27th and 28th. Joy Hawkins posted a sample charge on Twitter and said she notified Google of the issue.

Google’s John Mueller shared a stream of tweets of memes of some of his favorite memes for 2020. He said on Twitter “putting together an important report over 2020 and one part I look forward to is taking all the memes / tweets I’ve collected over the year. It’s a long list, but so many

A couple hundred Googlers got together to start a rare union in the tech industry. It is called the Alphabet Workers Union and the union said “our company’s motto used to be “Don’t be evil.” An organized work force will help us live up to it.” The goals of the union according to the web

Here is a recent photo I found at the Google Hong Kong office. I have not seen a photo from this office in over a year, at least not a real one. Here is someone at the office with a mask on. It is refreshing to see. This was posted on Instagram by Benson. This

Microsoft has quietly added new metrics to the Bing Webmaster Tools performance reports. The new metrics include crawl requests, crawl errors and indexed pages. Previously, when this new report launched in February 2020, it had only clicks, impressions and average click through rate (CTR) and then later added average position. Microsoft Bing has not yet

I do not know when this photo is from but it was recently uploaded to Instagram. It shows a head bust sculpture at the GooglePlex, the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. Do you know who it is a sculpture of? It does not look like Sergey, Larry, or Sundar or even Eric Schmidt. This

For years, Google has had a feature called Google Question Hub. It is basically a way for publishers to see what questions go unanswered in Google Search and then create content that matches those questions. It is a neat idea where Google allows searches to submit questions that go unanswered and publishers can then create