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At SMX Virtual earlier this month, John Mueller of Google graciously accepted to speak at the event and he shared a lot of amazing tips and changes in search in his presentation. But he also shared some outlook ideas looking forward to 2021 in search and SEO. Glenn Gabe took screen shots of those specific […]

Here is a photo from a year or so ago from the Google Boulder office. It is of this person playing the violin. Chris C who posted the photo said it was a Google violinists. This was posted on Instagram a year plus ago. Last time I saw a violin being played at Google was

GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Join host Ben as he concludes his conversation with Frase’s Director of Marketing Bill King discussing how to manage SEO search engines. Together they examine how to keep the “Engine,” in search engines running. Managing search engines is based on understanding the core components of your SEO strategy – Content

Seth Goldstein the other day shared a photo he took with me, where he said he was playing with clay (I think with his kids) and when he was done making a person he thought, that was a clay version of yours truly. Seth added “Haha. It just came to me. I looked down as

Today on Google’s home page is a special raven Doodle, special Google log, for Elizabeth Peratrovich. Elizabeth Peratrovich American civil rights activist and member of the Tlingit nation who worked on behalf of equality for Alaska Natives. She was born on July 4, 1911 Petersburg, District of Alaska and died at the age of 47

A couple of weeks ago Google announced it is launching a new ad setting, first on YouTube and then on Google Ads to let users see fewer alcohol ads and gambling ads. You can access this setting now in your Google Ads settings panel. Here is what it looks like: “Ad categories on YouTube” settings

Google seems to be testing displaying “practice problems” in the search results so that you can study directly in the search results. Shalom Goodman shared a screen shot with me on Twitter showing a search for [optics] not only brings up a new category on the left side for “practice problems” but also adds a

Google is testing displaying question mark icons in the people also ask results. I think someone else shared this with me recently but I thought it was a bug, but now that a second person notified me of this, maybe it is not a bug but a real Google test. Here is a screen shot

New Years Eve is just around the corner and Google’s special Doodle for New Year’s Eve 2020 is available for viewing. It is the holiday Doodle with an old fashioned bird-house clock with 2020 on it. There is also a little easter egg surprise in the search results that shoots confetti all of the search

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that passage indexing/rankings and the page experience update are “very different things.” This came about when Michel Fortin asked if the two might launch together. So no, they will not launch together and they are really different. I do expect the passage indexing ranking feature to go live in