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Here is a photo from before Google I/O this year, which was a super limited audience, at the Google office. They hired a firm to create this I/O designed flower bed and do some of the creative direction for the outside event. Here is that photo above from Instagram but here are more photos from […]

For the past few weeks or so, I have been hearing complaints from SEOs, mostly in private forums, about Google having weird indexing issues. The issues are not persistent, in that a new page is indexed, then drops out of the index, then indexed again, then drops out and then back again. It is like

Google said it has recently added the author.url property to the Article structured data documentation. Google said this “url property helps Google disambiguate the correct author of the article.” But it seems Google added a number of author based properties to the document recently, not just author.url. If you compare the document from June or

Google is now requiring some businesses to add a physical address and not be a service area business in Google My Business. Google told Stefan Somborac that this is a “new feature is an automated, anti-spam protection designed to reduce category misuse across millions of business profiles.” There have been complaints about this on Google

Google, after a false start, announced the release of version 1.7 of Google Ads Editor. Google Ads Editor 1.7 brings Hotel ads, easier downloads, YouTube audio ads, lead form extensions, additional recommendation types and the deprecation of Showcase ads, plus more. This release comes after version 1.6 released last April. In version 1.7 include: (1)

Google has updated the structured data testing tool page to a page that instructs the user to either go to the rich results testing tool on Google or the schema markup validator on Schema.org. Google announced this change over here saying “the Schema Markup Validator has stabilized, and Google now redirects the Structured Data Testing

This is sad, here is a photo from Twitter of the Yahoo sign in front of the Yahoo Sunnyvale, California headquarters, being taken down. You can see tons of legacy photos of this iconic sign on Shutterfly or on Google. But here is a recent photo of the logo (the new one) being dismantled. I’ve

Newsflash, Google’s Martin Splitt said that “alt text is important for SEO too.” I did ask him how important, but he would not disclose that information. Here is more of the context around this on Twitter. Is there an SEO benefit to having alt text ? — Stephen Shankland (@stshank) August 3, 2021 Yep, alt

Google’s John Mueller clarified on Friday that when Google pushes out new core updates that each one can be unique and impact Google’s core rankings differently. So if your site is impacted by one, it might not be impact by another core update. In addition, Google said different core updates can impact different parts of

If you try to login to your Google Ads account right now, you will be out of luck. I suspect this will be fixed any minute now, but for now, just know, you are not alone. There are tons of complaints about this going on right now on Twitter and social. .@GoogleAds for ya’ll too?