Google is now showing the average review ratings for restaurant listings when you overlay restaurant results in Google Maps. This is currently working for me in the mobile user interface but not the desktop user interface. Here is a screen shot of NYC restaurants in the map view of Google Maps on my iPhone: Tim

John Shehata is the Global Vice Present of Audience Development Strategy & CRM at Condé Nast. John also founded NewzDash.com, an SEO software toolset for news publishers. But more importantly, John is a 20+ year SEO vet that has a deep passion about news SEO. We spoke for a pretty long time but the conversation

Google announced on June 10th that it has deprecated support for critic review markup schema and structured data. Google said “we initially tested critic review markup with a group of site owners, and ultimately found that it wasn’t useful for the ecosystem at scale.” Google added “This deprecation doesn’t affect any other review features on

There has been a heck of a lot of chatter from the SEO industry over the weekend, starting late Friday, June 10th, and then heating up June 11th and June 12th. Google has been doing this weekend updates for a couple of months now, all going unconfirmed, outside of the product reviews update and the

Here is a photo I found on Instagram from 2018 from the GooglePlex, the main Google offices in Mountain View, California of a plate of croissants. The person who posted called them rainbow croissants. It looks like the rainbow is from a reflection off a window or maybe it is a light? Anyway, I am

Only nine months ago, Google tested a feature to show a graphic behind the Google search box header, that was customized based on your query. Google ran into issues where it was showing some nudity or

Just another reminder that if you spam people asking to buy links or other link schemes, Google will potentially use that email and the sites listed in that email against you. John Mueller of Google said on Twitter the other day “Yes, we do use these kinds of lists to check our existing manual actions

Search Engine Land reported that Google told them that Google Partners can now keep their existing status and partner badges through February 2022. This is after postponing and then lessening the requirements of this program last year. Carolyn Lyden wrote on Search Engine Land “Any Google Partners who meet the new February 2022 Partner requirements

We may have seen a Google local search ranking update on Tuesday, June 8th. The BrightLocal tracking tool showed significant changes and volatility on June 8th, with a bit of heat also on June 6th and June 9th. Here is what the tool looks like, showing a big 4.10 hit on Tuesday: If you drill

So while about half of you call Google Ads, Google AdWords, only 20% of you call Google Search Console, Webmaster Tools. I ran a poll for both to see if the new branding is sticking and clearly, it takes time but the new brand does for the most part stick. Google rebranded Webmaster Tools (previously