Gary Illyes of Google spent a nice amount of time talking in the last Search Off The Record podcast about information retrieval. If you have not read anything in-depth about this topic, I highly recommend you listen to what Gary said. This is a super useful refresher from Gary and he digs into it more

There is a heck of a lot going on here with this Google knowledge panel. This was

Looks like Google may be making a change to how many FAQ rich results can show in the Google Search results per search result snippet. Previously, Google would show many FAQ results below a snippet, now Google has reduced it to a maximum of two. I am not sure if this is a bug or

It was an insanely busy week this week, and we also ran SMX Advanced during all the chaos. We had Google tell that the June 2021 core update finished rolling out on June 12th, Google didn’t tell us this until two days after it finished rolling out. But that makes sense since we saw a

Google announced you can now manage your Google My Business profile Google Posts, your service listings, your delivery options and more directly in Google Search – like you can with other aspects of your Google My Business profile. (1) Services: You can now use the “Edit profile” menu within Google Search to quickly update the

Here is a photo from 2016 from one of the Google offices in California of a small pool designed to let Googlers swim in place. It is a swim machine pool. I found this on Instagram. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find fun and interesting

Here is another old photo I found on Instagram from the Google Dublin office of a cake someone made for a Googler celebrating their 12th Google anniversary. It is one significant cake with designed with Georgian doors around it. I embedded the Instagram post below so you can click and see the video of the

Last month we reported that Google updated its documentation to say the new Google My Business performance report will soon have driving direction requests and website visits. Well now, according to Colan Nielsen, Google is rolling out those metrics slowly to businesses. I personally do not yet see these metrics, but Colan does and he

Google often says that is algorithmic updates, be it core updates, page experience updates, and other search related updates can take several days to several weeks or even several months to fully roll out. What does that mean, how does that work? I was asked on Twitter by an SEO named Jabroni Slayer “How exactly