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It is nice to see Google doing some part in helping some local businesses keep busy doing the pandemic. Here is a photo from artist Katie Benn who was hired by Google to do some mural painting work at the GooglePlex, the main Google headquarters in California. The office is pretty much empty, so I […]

 GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Join host Ben as he continues Black Friday Predictions Week with Searchmetrics’ VP of Services Tyson Stockton as they make predictions for Black Friday. Together they share a prediction that Google Shopping is going to take over Black Friday. Google made moves earlier in 2020 by offering Google Shopping

Looks like Google is testing a new dashboard for the location list view in Google My Business. Claire Carlile shared a screen shot of the new design, which basically adds a pencil icon, photo icon and comment icon, with a new verified icon and a see your profile button. You might be able to see

GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Join host Ben as he concludes Black Friday Predictions Week with Searchmetrics’ VP of Services Tyson Stockton, as they predict the most searched for product this holiday season – the Playstation 5. The new X-Box, iPhone 12 series and Playstation 5 are expected to top the Black Friday electronics categories

How do you sum up how Google renders and crawls web sites in about two minutes? Well, John Mueller of Google was tasked to do just that and he managed to do it in this video. John answered what crawl budget is, and whether the web rendering service reduces crawl budget. He described how caching

Structured data is a standardized way to provide information about a web page. It helps search engines like Google to better understand what your content is about. But what’s in it for you, and how do you implement it? Let’s get into it! How structured data helps your SEO First things first, structured data is

Our goal with Microsoft Bing is to deliver experiences that give back to our users. That’s why we’re excited about our 2020 elections answers in the Bing search results, which save you time by helping you quickly find the elections information you’re looking for.   One feature is our rich candidate answers. We know many

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, as things are moving more and more online, having effective internet search experiences enabled, in the customer as well as business applications, has become even more important. Whether it’s an educator’s need to check online submissions for plagiarism or a crowdsourcing app’s requirement of restricting fraudulent online profiles. If it’s

Microsoft Clarity is a free-to-use analytics product built to help website managers improve their website experiences by better understanding site visitor behavior. With Clarity we’ve built a set of tools that help people who manage websites make more informed decisions about the modifications they should make to their sites. Clarity shows you which parts of

As you know, Google renamed Google Webmaster Central to Google Search Central. But with that, as Google told us, they are moving the blogs to a new location. That move was made yesterday (they actually did some weird things that broke Wednesday night) but the move completed on Thursday. The new blog location is at