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Danny Sullivan from Google said Google is “looking at” providing a mechanism to block pages or subsections of your site from being displayed in Google Discover. This comes off the controversy that there are new manual actions for Discover and Google News but no way to control if you show in Discover. Here is the

Google announced responsive search ads will be the default ad type for Google Search ad campaigns in Google Ads. Google said the expanded text ads can still be created if needed. But Google doesn’t think you will need them because they are wicked smart when it comes to machine learning. Google said “the ways people

Google announced the Google Search Central Live Conference. It seems to be taking place on February 23, 2021 between the hours of 7:00PM and 8:35 PM (EST). Google said this event is scheduled for the “timezone to suit parts of the Asia-Pacific region.” So that is why the blog post about this announcement says February

Google wrote about some of the efforts it takes towards preventing and removing “fake and fraudulent contributed content” on Google Maps. The numbers of how much Google has removed from the Google Maps ecosystem is pretty amazing. Here are some of the highlights from the past year, in 2020: 55 million policy-violating reviews were blocked

I got to say, I am a bit frustrated with the release of Google passage based ranking. I rant on it for a while and clarify a lot of things around it, including how it seemed like a small update and the scroll to text misinformation. Google may have released another unconfirmed search update, this

Google’s John Mueller said Google may discover and index URLs it finds in form action attributes, just like it does when it finds URLs in simple text files. Again, these are not normal HTML hyperlinks but URLs listed in files. The question was “Does Google(bot) follow links inside a form action attribute?” John said “usually

Danny Sullivan shared a photo on Twitter from his photo archives of one of his visits at the Google NYC office. You can see they painted on the wall a message about COVID. To “keep on going, you are almost there.” Danny wrote “About a year ago, I shot this in one of the many

Google Image Search seems to be testing a compass icon in the image search results that trigger a search refinement feature. When you click on it, it takes you to a section to “explore more” images by showing you related searches. Saad AK spotted this and posted some screenshots on Twitter, but to be honest,

Google’s John Mueller said on Reddit “no” WhoisGuard, the NameCheap domain privacy setting, does not impact your SEO or rankings on Google. Google does not care if you use domain privacy settings or not when you register your domain name. The question was: Does Whois Guard affect SEO? I have been reading about spammers usually