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There has been a large number of recent complaints that Google is suspending tons of Google My Business listings. It seems these are account wide suspensions, where if you have multiple business listings in your account, all those listings would be suspended together. I am seeing tons of complaints about this in the Google My […]

Microsoft Bing has added a new feature to its search results page before the holiday shopping season named “shopping the look.” It basically will show you outfits of items that go together, and not just clothing items one at a time. This is what it looks like: Microsoft said “you can use Shop the Look,

Here is a weird Google Search feature that the company may be testing. Jackson Lo first notified me of it on Twitter, where if you do a search in Google and then highlight text on the search results page, Google will overlay a box to let you search for the text you highlighted. Here is

When you move your web site from one host to another, Google generally knows about it. When Google detects the change, it can and likely does attempt to relearn how fast and frequent it should crawl your site. Gary Illyes from Google said this on Twitter this morning. He said “Fun fact: changing a site’s

GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Join host Ben as he kicks off Search Insights Week with Searchmetrics’ VP of Services Tyson Stockton and VP of Sales (Americas) Alan Turner. Together they discuss a recent webinar topic on data-driven, decision-making frameworks. A common problem facing marketers using data to inform marketing strategies is lag issues. Studies

Last week starting around Wednesday November 18th manual actions began disappearing from Google Search Console. Google’s Daniel Waisberg confirmed everything is back to normal as of today. We knew it was a bug – we told you not to get your hopes up. The day has come where those manual actions you had in your

Elie Orgel has been doing SEO for about ten years and I actually have some connections that go way back. He currently works at the Rosenblum Law firm as the director of marketing there. He got into SEO by making web sites for local businesses and then started to learn about SEO over time. He

Google released a new Google Ads Editor release the other day, it is version 1.5 and with it comes a bunch of goodies. The big changes are improved filtering options, support for image extensions, more detailed recommendations, and so much more. The previous update was in July for version 1.4. Here is the

We already heard a bit about the differences between featured snippets and passage indexing from Google. But in a video interview with Martin Splitt of Google, Martin went a lot deeper into the differences. Again, for more details on passage indexing, see our stories here. At the 6:34 mark into that video, Martin is asked

GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Join host Ben as he continues his 2020 Q3 in-review discussion with Searchmetrics’ Senior SEO Manager Kathy Brown and VP of Services Tyson Stockton. Together they take a look at the technical changes that occurred throughout the quarter. Google’s upcoming web vitals will focus on all aspects of page speed