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Google posted on the Google blog that it will try to no longer show “teaser” based web stories in Google Search and Google Discover. Paul Bakaus from Google wrote “A critical ranking signal at Google is the quality of your content. And a one- or two-page teaser for your blog post doesn’t tell a satisfying […]

Google on Sunday, January 31, 2021, will stop supporting markup in the format from data-vocabulary.org. Google gave us over a years notice of this change, so this change should not come as a surprise to anyone here. In fact, Google initially said they would remove this support on April 6, 2020, but then pushed off

Yesterday we saw robots at the Google Poland office, and part of the same set, I saw this massage chair at that same office. We have seen massage rooms and even someone getting a massage, but I have not seen one of these chairs. It is also positioned in a nice place with a nice

There are a number of reports in the Local Search Forum that businesses are seeing their logos disappear from their Google local listings in search. I currently see mine so maybe it was a temporary glitch and it is now fixed. Here is a screen shot of my Google local listing with an arrow pointing

Google is emailing users to verify their sites in Google Search Console. The issue is that this is going to people who do not have any way of verifying those sites because they are not the site owner. Google began sending out these marketing emails a couple of weeks ago. Those were sent out accurately.

Microsoft announced a new Microsoft Advertising search ad extension named Filter Link extensions. These Filter Link extensions enable advertisers to show many different link extensions in their ad snippet, as opposed to one. Microsoft wrote “we’re always looking for ways to bring our clients new and unique ad opportunities, so we’re very excited to announce

Here is a small and subtle test that probably will irritate some advertiers. Google Ads is testing placing a label named “Site” between the Ad label and the URL of the search ad in the mobile results. Patrick Garde shared a screen shot of this with me on Twitter. Here is his screen shot showing

Let’s say you run a legit network of sites under one umbrella company. Those sites have different content but the content is in the same framework and structure because I assume they use the same content management system and overall site structure. Guess what, if Google assigns a manual action to one site and knows

It looks like Google has stopped displaying the rich results review snippets for attorneys and lawyers in the Google search results. Joy Hawkins showed a screen shot from January 10, 2021 with ratings showing in the Google search results and then on January 26, 2021 they are gone. Here are the screen shots side by

Google My Business seems to be adding to the Insights section new metrics that businesses can use for analytical purposes. The new metrics is called platform and device breakdown that show you the devices people used to find your business in Google Search or Maps. It breaks down the data by: Google Search Desktop