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Google now lets some reviewers leave reviews specifically recommending dishes from that restaurant. Customers can manually add the foods and dishes they recommend at that restaurant. This was spotted by Claudia Tomina on Twitter the other day, she shared this screenshot (which I cropped a bit): This looks similar to the sub-reviews feature we spotted […]

Google seems to be testing showing a date picker and occupancy selector for searches related to hotel queries. I have not been able to replicate this, I have tried over the past few weeks without luck. But Saad AK spotted this and posted about it on Twitter – here is a screenshot from his videocast:

In Google Search you can trigger the Google Translation widget. But now, Google is testing a G icon to let you “search for this on Google” from that translate widget in Google Search. I mean, you are already searching for it in Google Search but for the translation. Google is saying, now let me search

Not too long ago, John Mueller from Google blasted an agency for using a disavow file and now he is doubling down on that, adding on Twitter in response to disavow link services, saying, “Some people do things that they can bill, regardless of whether it’s needed or makes sense.” Recently, Gary Illyes from Google

It’s time for the SEO video recap; in this episode, I talk about how the February 2023 Google product reviews update finished rolling out on March 7th. I spoke about more flutters we saw this past weekend with the Google Search results. Google has launched the new sitename, favicon, and sponsored ad label for desktop

In July and October of last year, we covered some interactive and visual knowledge panels in Google Search, both on mobile and desktop search. This might be a new variation of that, where Google has an image of the person and then overlays related people and their height on this panel. This one was spotted

Working with new clients for the first time can be overwhelming. Getting all the essential information to start working on growing their business through SEO is one thing. Doing it in a way that shows you’re a seasoned professional is another. After working with a number of SEO agencies and as a freelancer, I’ve found

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter, “Page size is not a ranking factor.” Meaning Google does not have anything specific signal that says page sizes of X to Y get a ranking boost or decline. John did add, “(I’m guessing the HTML file? or the total loaded bytes? either way.) It’s fine to look at

Google has made the sitename, favicon and sponsored label live on all desktop searches, like it did with mobile searches last October. To be clear, we saw google testing this on desktop in November and gradually increasing the test to more and more searchers but as of yesterday, it is now fully live on desktop

Microsoft’s Mikhail Parakhin said that the number one feature request is for Bing Chat to save historical chats for later for users to come back to them later or look them up later. And it seems like they are working on that feature request, plus more. Mikhail Parakhin said this on Twitter, here are those