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Here is a photo from a couple of years ago shared by Matthew Yeager with me on Twitter of a sticker from Google for Jewish Googlers, Jewglers. Matthew is a Googler in the London office, I assume he is also a Jewglers and he said on Twitter “There are many and several ERGs within Google. […]

Here is a photo I recently found on Instagram of a roller skater near Stan the dinosaur, who is wearing a mask. Fun to see this photo, makes me smile. I think Stan is also smiling but hard to tell with the mask on. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the

Google has made some updates to the meta robots directive help documentation, specifically by adding more examples for the max-snippet and specifying for each tag what Google’s default behavior is when the tags are omitted. I highly recommend you re-review these docs starting from the valid indexing & serving directives until the end of that

So while Google made some additions to the meta robots directives section of the robots help documents, Google’s Gary Illyes and Lizzi Harvey said more is to come. They said if you have feedback and want anything added or explained in the docs, to let them know by submitting feedback now. Gary Illyes wrote on

Google has published some new and updated resources around video SEO. First, there is a new video, lighting talk, on the topic of video SEO best practices by Danielle Marshak, Product Manager at Google. Second, there is an updated help doc section on video SEO best practices. For those doing video SEO, I don’t think

Google Ads announced a new summary view interface with the goal of making “it easier for you to manage your campaigns.” The new views include performance at a glance, performance custom recommendations, quick create and edit campaigns and a quick way to manage your keywords. The summary view shows you a simplified version of your

Eric Heiken shared a photo on Twitter of what looks like a Google Search bug with the search bar and the search tools. It shows the search tools right aligned to the search bar, which is not normal. I then did some testing and noticed on some browsers, the search bar was being cut off.

Splitting a platform into more topic-specific domains can result in an enormous boost in SEO visibility. This is how former content farm about.com turned into a success story: Under the umbrella brand Dotdash, the split topic domains are among the winners in Google Core Updates – even during the Corona pandemic. All info and timeline

Over the past week or so, there has been a lot of chatter in the SEO industry around the potential threat third-party browser extensions can have on your core web vitals scores. Specifically how it might impact your rankings in Google Search based on how a user who visited your site may have installed a

A couple of years ago we reported Google showing emojis in part of the search suggestions and autocomplete suggestion as you type your query into Google Search. Well, I am seeing reports of this again, not just on the desktop results but also the mobile search results. This one comes up as you start to