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Google My Business has launched a new tool where you can not only see the reviews for your business, but also quickly report those reviews for policy violations and even better, check the status or reviews you already reported. Plus, if that review was not removed, you can quickly submit an appeal. The new tool […]

Bryant Suellentrop spotted a new ad placement in the Google Maps interface that Ben Fisher confirmed with me is new. In short, if you are browsing Google Maps and click on a business pin, Google will overlay the local result on the map interface. Now Google is showing an ad listing in that overlay. Bryant

Google has published its annual “Ads Safety Report” and disclosed that it has blocked or removed over 3.1 billion ads for violating its Google Ads policies, it restricted over 6.4 billion ads, suspended over 1.7 million advertiser accounts, and removed ads from over 1.3 billion pages in 2020. Google also said it added or updated

Here is a fun photo of two analytics gurus, one from Google – Daniel Waisberg who now is part of the Search Console team and John Mueller’s team and Yehoshua Coren who is an independent analytics consultant. They went onion shopping together in Israel. I believe this is “The Shuk” in Jerusalem, Mahane Yehuda Market,

When it comes to digital content, it can be difficult to stand out in today’s market. Improving the value of a webpage isn’t always about the copy on the page. Content also needs optimized meta descriptions to improve things like click-through rates (CTR) and the perception of customer options and result quality. So what are

Chris Silver Smith shared this photo with me on Twitter a while back, it got lost in the archives, but it is 100% worth sharing as a photo of the day here. This is Google bottled wine, they even named it Chateau Montagne Vue. Chris wrote “Google is now apparently into winemaking! Their winery brand

Google in the local pack is now expanding its “justifications” (weird word for this) to show not just general justifications about the business and not just what is on the menu but highlights from the menu. Luca Bove noticed this and Mike Blumenthal pointed it out, that this is new. Mike wrote on Twitter via

There is a nice chat recorded in the last Google webmaster hangout between Mihai Aperghis and with Google’s John Mueller. Where they talked about the times you canonical a URL to another to consolidate signals but those URLs have different content on them. One example was that if you have a page about blue cars

Google lets businesses that do not want to display their addresses (like home based businesses) on Google Maps or Google Search the ability to label their business as “service level businesses.” But starting last Friday according to Tricia Clements (@yourbizwatchdog) Google is now showing the street views for these businesses, which is obviously scary, creepy

Over the past couple of days I am seeing more reports of people seeing Google multiple display product image thumbnails throughout the mobile search results snippets. Not just a few but in excess. Yes, Google does show product image thumbnails in the snippets, they have been for years, but it seems like Google may be