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If you visit the Google office in Zurich you may have to enter a door that has this big G logo on it. At first, it kind of looked like a fancy garage door but as you look closer, it is just a fancy door in one on one of the floors in the Google […]

Google said that if you don’t need an XML sitemap file anymore, all you need to do is delete the sitemap file from your server and CMS. There is not much more you need to do after that, just delete it. Here is John Mueller of Google’s tweet on this: If you don’t need the

Google has posted that it may begin to start automatically adding location extensions to some of your Google Ads. Google wrote this in a Google help document saying “if you have not added locations to your account, Google Ads may automatically match your business to known locations.” Google wrote and highlighted it in red: Important:

Google’s John Mueller was asked if templated content above the fold can rank in Google Search, where the unique content is below the fold. John Mueller said “the important part for us is really that there is some amount of unique content in the above the fold area.” So yes, you need to show some

Google has added support to mark a product as back ordered for its product rich results. You can now set the availability property with a BackOrder value to communicate to Google Search that the item is back ordered. Google added this new value to the recommended properties availability section of the product structured data developer

To double check, Glenn Gabe asked Danny Sullivan of Google if there was a product reviews update that happened at the same time or so as the June 2021 core update. The answer from Danny Sullivan of Google was no, if a product reviews site was impacted, it was “almost certainly related to” the core

Google has announced a two-part summer update. Google’s first Core Update for 2021 is on its way, but as their developers couldn’t manage it all in one go, this Core Update will be released in two parts. The June 2021 roll-out began on June 2, with the next instalment planned for some time in July

Google has added a new section to its video best practices help document for SafeSearch and adult oriented content. The document was updated on June 3rd, after a big update to that document this past March. The document added sections for how to optimize your video content for SafeSearch, Google’s adult filter. Google wrote “SafeSearch

Here is a photo from the Google Zurich office of a room that uses bicycle wheels as light fixtures. Martin Splitt, our friendly Googler, shared this photo on Instagram a few years ago and I honestly just found it recently. I guess this is one way to recycle old bikes? This post is part of

Google is testing a new carousel in the search results titled “trending searches.” This shows a carousel with images and query refinements based on your original query – that may show what searches related to your original query are trending. In the example sent to me by Saad AK on Twitter, the search was for