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Google’s John Mueller said in Friday’s video that he reviewed a bunch of recipe related queries and notices a nice number of sites using rich results markup incorrectly. He said it might lead Google to automating the removal of those rich results for those sites. He said structured data for rich results, including recipe listicles, […]

Back in June Google said you will be able to add Google Posts directly from the Google search results page. I suspect that went live shortly after the announcement on mobile and maybe desktop, but maybe it didn’t and I missed it. It may or may not be new but I wanted to cover that

This is a programming note that Tuesday and Wednesday is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and I will be offline the next two days. I will be offline Tuesday and Wednesday, September 7th and September 8th. There will be stories posted each day, all of them were pre-written before the holiday and scheduled to

It has been a while since I’ve seen a recent photo from the Google Chicago office, like almost none since COVID hit. But it looks like the rooftop is back open and these folks are using it for a yoga session. This photo was shared recently on Instagram where she wrote “Finding the Balance… Back

Microsoft announced the company has opened up the Bing Content Submission API to all for site owners, publishers, and webmasters. Microsoft announced this over two years ago and while the company released the URL submission API a while ago, the content submission API has been in a private beta since then. That was until this

The other day, I posted on Twitter a video from the inaugural Google News Initiative Community News Summit of Danny Sullivan doing a Q&A sessions from publishers. There are a number of videos from this summit but I suspect Danny’s Q&A was the most interesting. Honestly, I don’t think there was anything specifically new here

With news that the Google page experience update is pretty much done rolling out, with the one piece left being the Google News apps, Google News sent out emails to publishers with this great subject line “simplifying content management in Google News.” I just love the subject line – that reads “simplifying content management in

This weekend there may have been yet another Google Search algorithm ranking update. This one is a bit different in that the chatter was pretty low, maybe that is because of the Labor Day weekend? But the tools, almost all of them, spiked higher than the September 1st update that had a lot more chatter

This is the second time I interviewed Dan Shure, the first time was in vlog #20, where I went to his office. This time, Dan came to me and we spoke in my office. Dan Shure has been doing SEO consulting for the past 15+ years and has a podcast named Experts on the Wire

Google’s John Mueller was once again asked about how much content should you put on your category pages, be it e-commerce categories pages or other category pages. In short, John said a “little bit of content I think is always useful” but don’t overdo it with too much content. John said “it’s not the case