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This week, we reported on another Google Search algorithm update, but only one, it was on May 22nd and it seemed really big. Google did not release a broad core update in 2021, but it will announce a future update when it is ready. Google mobile first indexing is still not fully done yet, 4.5

Martin Splitt from Google said something I found very interesting in his video hangout from the other day. At the 25 minute mark, Martin said that his team technically now is “not supposed to know much about ranking.” Historically the team did, but not after he joined in 2018. He said John Mueller and Gary

As you may have heard, Google announced that it will be opening up a physical store in New York City this summer. Oɢᴏᴋ the bunny ????was hopping by and noticed the sign to the store and took a photo with it and posted that photo on Instagram. How cute. This post is part of our

In April we saw Google testing a new related search box named more specific searches. Now, we are seeing Google test an expandable version of the more specific searches. Brodie Clark shared some screen shots of this on Twitter, I took the liberty to convert it into a GIF so you can visualize how it

Update: Maybe this story does not make much sense, I am sorry for wasting anyone’s time with it. I was off the mark here. Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that he has “never seen a site where that was an issue which caused visible problems with SEO.” I wonder if any of you have.

While Google already published its annual web spam report for 2020, yesterday Google also published a bit more details on how the company tackled webspam in 2020. Specifically, Google said it sent out less manual webspam actions than previous years, 2.9 million in 2020, due to its algorithms tackling the spam automatically. Google said it

Google is testing or rolling out a new feature for its featured snippets section named “also covered on this page.” Google is adding below the main featured snippet, other topics the page covers, that hyperlink, anchor you down and then highlight that content. The hyperlink, anchor you down and then highlight that content is not

Kristina Azarenko posted an outstanding SEO poll on Twitter asking on average, how many of your SEO recommendations get implemented? The results show that 56% of SEOs who answered the poll said that fewer than 40% of their recommendations are actually implemented. And 82% said that fewer than 70% of their recommendations are implemented. So

Here is a video from Instagram of a bunch of folks outside of a Google office playing the birthday song on their kazoos. This is at the Google Kirkland, Seattle office by the way. Here is the embedded video: This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find

Google announced that the Google News Showcase feature is coming to desktop in eight countries (not the US). Google launched last October and News Showcase allows publishers can curate content using timelines, bullets and related articles. You can access News Showcase at news.google.com/showcase and if you are like me, you will see that it is