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Google announced at I/O a bunch of updates to Google Maps but one that you might care more about, being a local SEO, is that Google Maps will begin to tailor the map results based on time of day and who the searcher is. Google said “soon Maps will tailor what you see on the […]

At Google I/O, Google also announced a bunch of Google Shopping and commerce related features. This includes the announcement of the Google Google Shopping Graph, a new Shopify partnership, Google Lens upgrades and more. Shopping Graph Google at I/O shared some details on the Google Shopping Graph. Google calls the Shopping Graph the “most comprehensive,

Last February, Google launched the “about this result” feature in its search results for English queries in the US. Well, now, Google is going to expand this feature worldwide for all English language queries. I suspect I will be fielding a lot of “is this new” style questions around this – so I figured I’d

This may be a bug or it may be a feature test – but Google is showing video results, i.e. the key moments interface, on the right side of the search results page. This was spotted by two folks including Aakash Singh and Brian Freiesleben – they both provided screen shots. Here is the screenshot

I seem like a broken record but for the past several weeks the Google Search ranking volatility has been off the charts. And yesterday and today are no different with a huge amount of SEO chatter from the forums and most of the tracking tools supporting that chatter. It looks like we had another Google

Google has this virtual area called the adventure game which is a virtual sandbox for registered attendees and visitors to get a hands-on experience with Google’s new products and features. Kristal found John Mueller, aka JohnMu, in the game and shared some screenshots. I found a sleeping @JohnMu! ???????? pic.twitter.com/d6M8qLfBvt — SEO_Kristal (@SeoKristal) May 18,

Here are some old shoes that were repurposed and used as a flower pot at the Google Dublin office. This is an old photo that I found on Instagram back in August 2017 but it is really cool and I wanted to share it with you all. This post is part of our daily Search

Greg Finn went on a great Twitter rant about how confusing parts of the Google Partners Resources Hub is even for the most savvy paid search specialists. Greg said “not going to lie, the new Google Partners Resources specifically the about optimization score is more confusing than anything that they’ve released to date.” Here is

Jeffrey Jose from Google announced that the Google Page Experience Update will eventually come to desktop pages, not just mobile pages. He announced this in his Google I/O presentation yesterday during his Preparing for page experience ranking session. He said “I am happy to announce that we are bringing page experience ranking to desktop. While

Google’s John Mueller announced at Google I/O yesterday that Google now supports (currently in BETA) two new schema markups for video content. The first is Clip markup that provides segments to Google and the second is Seek markup that enables Google to use machine learning to automatically set key moments. John announced this in this