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We had a bit of a breather this week with the July 4th weekend and a bit of a slower news week. I did post a recap of the past month of Google SEO and webmaster topics, it was a big month. Google reminded us to include customer support methods on our own websites, is […]

Sometime in early June 2021 some SEOs and webmasters began noticing a spoke in soft 404s reported in Google Search Console. I’ve seen the topic come up a bunch of times in the forums but it was not as super widespread as the soft 404 errors from April of this year. John Mueller said in

Google said that starting in August 2021 it will change its insufficient contact information policy in the Google Merchant Center guidelines from having two forms of contact information, to only one form of contact information on your site. Previously, Google merchants were required to provide two out of three types of contact information on their

 GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Jordan Koene, SEO strategist and advisor at Searchmetrics, discusses the Google Page Experience Ranking Factors Update with host Ben. SEOs have been waiting patiently for the Google Core Web Vitals since it was officially announced. Now that it’s here, what do SEOs have to look forward to? Today, Jordan

How many times have you said ‘Hey, Google?’ today? Well, you’d not be the only one! Voice search is on the rise, and we’re not just directing our questions at smart speakers but at our mobiles, too. And with this being the case, not being optimized for voice search in future is likely to have

Here is a photo from the Google São Paulo, Brazil office, where there is this outdoor staircase that has LED lights that can light up in different colors. We know Google has a trends staircase in the US office but the Brazil office has something similar outdoors. I spotted this on Instagram recently. This post

Google is testing on the mobile Chrome browser a sticky footer that contains the G logo on the left, followed by related search queries to refine your query. I personally cannot replicate this myself but Andrew Nechiporuk spotted this and shared this with me on Twitter. Here is the screen shot he shared with me

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that while it is not only okay but also expected for many sites to link from their home page to all of their internal pages, that it is not recommended to link from all of your webpages to all of your webpages. John said “It’s fine to link to

Microsoft announced that it has launched new multimedia ads that can appear in the Bing Search results. These multimedia ads are pretty graphical and filled with real images. Microsoft said these ads use your own images, headlines, and descriptions “with the power of machine-learning technology, to deliver the best attention grabbing large visual.” Here is

Danny Sullivan of Google did one of his reminder blog posts on the Google blog to highlight on your website how customers can contact your company for support. Google said this can Google show your main phone number as opposed to a third-party support provider. Danny Sullivan wrote that you want to make sure to