We knew that Google was prepping to open a store in NYC and they did about a month or so ago. Here are some photos and videos of the store that I found on Instagram. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find fun and interesting photos

 GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Jordan Koene, SEO strategist and advisor at Searchmetrics, drops in with Benjamin Shapiro to talk about the announcement of Google’s MUM AI update. What really is the MUM update? As we have come to know and accept, a Google update means that you’ll probably need to adjust your optimization

 GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Jordan Koene, SEO Strategist and Advisor at Searchmetrics, joins Benjamin Shapiro to talk about the latest Google Core Algorithm update. The roll-out of the June Core update is something that every SEO has been anticipating, especially over the last couple of months. Now that it’s finally here, what can

As people start to venture back out and some Google employees head back to the office, Google is restocking the food and snacks in the office. Here is a photo from Satyajeet Salgar who went to the Google Mountain View office, aka the GooglePlex, and picked up some snacks while he was working. He shared

Google announced it will tighten its policies for Financial Services advertisers targeting searchers and consumers in the UK. The policy will be fully published on August 30, 2021 and then seven days later it will be enforced, on September 6, 2021. Google is doing this to fight financial fraud in the UK. This policy will

Are pages that are found in the Google Search Console coverage report, under “excluded” and labeled as “Crawled – currently not indexed” a sign that there are quality issues with not just those pages but also the site? Maybe. John Mueller of Google responded to Ori Zilbershtein implying that this may be such a sign.

Last week we saw a poll about where SEOs go for help when they have an SEO problem. This week I see a poll from Carolyn Lyden on how most SEOs learned SEO. It seems like the vast majority of SEOs learned SEO hands-on, by getting their hands dirty and just doing the work. In

Yesterday, June 30th, there may have been an unconfirmed update, just two days after Google ran the spam update – which ran on the 28th and would have then been seen more on June 29th than the 30th. But who knows, maybe it ran into the 29th and what we are seeing are fluctuations due

Google seems to be testing a new flavor of the Question and Answer rich results in the mobile search results. Saad AK spotted Google showing a “forums” header above what looks like a Q&A rich results carousel in mobile search. He shared a bunch of screenshots on Twitter, here is one of those screenshots: This