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Google may have a bug, it is a confirmed bug according to some local SEOs, where a bunch of businesses are seeing a notice in Google Search that “your business is not visible to customers” in Google Search or Google Maps. While Google is telling you that your business is not visible on Google, it […]

Google has updated the interface and user experience for Auto ads within the AdSense console. Google said, “To make it easier to navigate and understand the differences between Auto ads formats, we’ve made the following updates to the Auto ads settings panel.” Those changes include: Reorganized the formats into two groups based on their behavior;

Google Search has started to roll out the first broad core update of the 2023 year, and this one is named the March 2023 broad core update. It began on March 15, 2023, at about 10:30 am ET and can take about two weeks to roll out, Google wrote. This update touched down fast and

Google’s John Mueller said when it comes to spammy referral traffic, you can ignore it and not worry about it regarding SEO. John said on Twitter, “I’d ignore it,” when asked about it. Tom Goering asked John, “Since Link Spam update, been getting a LOT of referral traffic from websites with an .xyz ext. I

Google may show similar businesses or restaurants in the local business listing of a competing business or restaurant. This “similar to” section may show up based on your previous search or visit history. This feature is not too far off the similar to local carousel from 2018. It may not be new but I have

I was doing some searches yesterday to test new Google Search featured and I stumbled upon Google showing a promotion in the mobile search results to use camera search. It was a snippet placed under some product results that says “Can’t describe it? Shop with your camera in the Google app.” Here is that screenshot

Google now lets you report some reviews left on Local Service Ads. You can report the normal Google Business Profile reviews, but not the verified reviews but at least it is a start. This was first spotted by Curtis Boyd who posted on Twitter saying, “Yes, finally we can flag/report Google LSA Reviews.” He shared

John Mueller of Google posted a super detailed response to an hreflang implementation question on Reddit. The response is so detailed, I am afraid that if I try to dumb it down, I will get it wrong. And honestly, hreflang is not my thing, that is something that I don’t have much of any experience

Microsoft Bing confirmed minutes after OpenAI announced the new version of GPT, GPT-4, that Bing uses that upgraded model. Yusuf Mehdi from Microsoft said, “We are happy to confirm that the new Bing is running on GPT-4, customized for search.” In fact, Microsoft’s Bing Chat has been using GPT-4 for the past five weeks. “If