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There may be a bug with the Google My Business Google Posts feature. There is a spike in the number of complaints about rejection notices for Google Posts. So when a business owner posts an update to Google Posts, those updates are more likely to be rejected now. Joy Hawkins said on Twitter “There are […]

I know, I know, this is getting ridiculous, at what won’t do I stop reporting on all these Google algorithm updates that are unconfirmed. But the beginning of 2021 is unlike anything I’ve seen from Google in terms of how volatile the organic search results are. And yes, I reported about a super large local

Frank Sandtmann, an SEO who sends me tips every now and then, sent me a screenshot of Microsoft Bing showing three columns in the search results interface. I suspect it is a bug because it just looks wrong and when I collapse the screen, the right box goes into the second column. The query is

Google announced that full coverage news is now rolling out in Google Search on mobile devices in the United States. I thought it rolled out in 2019 but here is Google’s official announcement that it is now rolling out officially, officially. Here is what it looks like now to access full coverage in Google News

Google has updated the directions icon it uses for its local search results. Before the icon had a shape with an arrow in white within it, now it has a simple arrow upwards. This is present both in the local pack and in the Google Maps listings on mobile. This was spotted by Sergey Alakov

Google is likely going to keep releasing new features and functionality for Google Search Console over the years. John Mueller of Google kind of confirmed that when he said on Twitter that the Search Console team is preparing for “future functionality that’s not yet released.” What is that functionality? It isn’t clear. John’s response was

John Mueller of Google wrote something on Twitter that caught my eye (well, everything he writes on Twitter catches my eye but this one more than others). He said “Yeah, the difference between technically indexed, and practically indexed is tricky.” So I asked John to explain the difference. Well, both are actually and “technically” indexed

Google has upgraded the Search Console reports specifically for the Q&A and FAQ structured data. Now Google will check the validity of FAQ and Q&A structured data that is below the root entity level. Google said previously the report only flagged entities at the root level, not below the root entity level. So if you

Here is an old photo of a dog, a wrinkled puppy, wearing a noogler hat at the Google office back in 2016. This was shared on Instagram and the person wrote “Visited Google HQ today with this little Noogler.” This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find

Core Web Vitals for Enterprise Businesses: Q/A with our own Kathy Brown and Karl Kleinschmidt On February 18th, we hosted our Core Web Vitals for Enterprise Businesses Session to address Google’s new Page Experience ranking factor update. The session focussed on what the Core Web Vitals were and why they mattered. Our experts dived into