No, this is not new, Google has been sending out these “note from your reviewer” notifications since 2014. But they are rare and maybe, just maybe, Google will be doing more of these in the future. Kristine Schachinger recently received one before the New Year and it was very specific on what the site owner

It has been a slow week or so in the search news space because of the holidays but hey – things are never sitting idle in our industry. There has been some speculation that Google did some sort of algorithm update over the Christmas weekend but it seems highly doubtful. Google’s Danny Sullivan explained that

New Years Day is not over yet and John Mueller of Google has been out helping webmasters both in public forums and privately (I think). Here are some of the public responses John made during New Years Eve 2020 and New Years Day 2021. We don’t have a spam score at Google, so you have

New Year’s Day is here for some folks and with that the January 1 New Year’s Day Google logo or Doodle is also live on those who access Google.com when it is January 1, 2021 at their location. Google has changed the New Year’s Eve Doodle cuckoo clock 2020 logo to a January 1 New

Microsoft Bing it testing a new feature on images it displays within its search results. This test shows a “related content” icon and results with an icon when you hover over images displayed in the Microsoft Bing search results. It can show not just related content, but related products, and other related information about the

Colan Nielsen reported that Google is now testing showing service “justifications,” which according to him Google defines as the additional labels in the local pack result. Before we saw web site mentions here, as well as other items, but now Google is testing showing “services.” Here is a screen shot from Colan: So as Joy

Back in 2018, Google added the ability to allow Google Maps users to follow businesses – hence Google My Business followers. But is there any value to it? Google said back then that the value is that you can “post offers to your followers to keep them coming back in the door, and soon you’ll

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