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I wanted to find out how going viral impacts SEO for different businesses. I thought that with all the news coverage and links these sites received that their businesses would be booming and they’d be ranking for everything. Spoiler alert: I was wrong.  There has to be some merit to it though, right? Even Google’s John […]

Here is a photo from the GooglePlex, or new Google offices near the GooglePlex in Mountain View, California. You can see this huge sphere object or monument that is being put up at the office. I spotted this on Instagram. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we

Google’s John Mueller is no longer recommending you verify all the variations of your domain with Google Search Console. Instead, he said, keep it simple and verify using domain verification. Why is he no longer recommending you verify all the property types, www, non-www, HTTP, https, etc? Because he said on Reddit, “in practice you’ll

Google Business Profiles seems to allow some restaurants to copy a menu that it thinks it pulled for that restaurant from another source and use that copied menu to start to build your own menu in Google Business Profiles. Lluc B. Penycate spotted this feature the other day and posted about it on Twitter asking

Google has extended the Google Ads Government documents and official services policy for several weeks, from March 31, 2023, to May 24, 2023. This was previously announced in late January, and we covered it, but now Google made two changes to that announcement. The two changes include: Extending the enforcement date from March 31, 2023

Microsoft Bing is testing adding an “official site” label in the search results. If you search for a specific site, you may find that Bing adds to the title of the search result snippet the words “Official Site.” This was spotted by Shameem Adhikarath and posted on Twitter, but I cannot replicate it myself: I

Google finished rolling out the March 2023 broad core update on Tuesday, and it took about 13 days to roll out. Microsoft said they are exploring sharing ad revenue from Bing Chat with publishers through the Microsoft Start program. Microsoft executives also mocked Google for Bard’s lack of citations and said Bing Chat is better.