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Two Justifications In The Google Local Search Results

Now, Google is showing double justifications for some local results. Google’s local search results has a feature to highlight and/or summarize some of the local reviews in the map pack…

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Google To Sunset Google Optimize On September 30, 2023

Google will be sunsetting, killing off, the Google Optimize product on September 30, 2023. “Google Optimize and Optimize 360 will no longer be available after September 30, 2023. Your experiments…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 23, 2023

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. There may have…

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Yahoo To Make Search Cool Again

Yahoo posted on Twitter under its Yahoo Search account, “Just popping in to remind everyone that we did search before it was cool. BRB making it cool again.” Is that…

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Google Search Console Insights Achievements Section

Google Search Console Insights seems to have added a new section named “Achievements.” I believe Google would email these achievements but now there is a section at the top of…

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Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update On Wednesday?

It looks like we may have had another tremor or Google search ranking algorithm update kickoff yesterday, Wednesday, January 18th. We just had one this weekend after the December 2022…

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Google Search Drops Playable Podcast Rich Snippets

Google has dropped the playable podcast search result rich snippets. 9to5Google reported this first, and there is a bit of confusion around what exactly Google removed. Google seems to have…

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Google Search “Related Products”

Google has a “related products” section in its search results. This seems similar to the similar products concept, but it looks like the other query expansion options for Google Search…

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Google Discontinues Google Posts Insights

Google Posts insights is no longer working, it has been discontinued according to the Google Business Profiles API documentation for the deprecation schedule.

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Google Maps Tests Business Photo In Round Map Pin

Google is testing displaying a round map pin that has a business photo in the pin itself. This is supposedly working on some Google Maps devices when you request directions.

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Google Search Tests New Location Override Feature

For a long, long time, Google has given searchers a way to override the location Google Search thinks you are searching for. Often, that location was in the footer, but…

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Google Search Perspectives & Opinions

Google seems to be testing a new box in the search results named perspectives and opinions. The naming convention reminds me of Google perspectives, but this acts differently, as the…

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Google Local Check Wait Time Button

Google is testing a “check wait time” button for some local results in the Google search results. I guess this tells you how long you have to wait to receive…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 16, 2023

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

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Google Business Profiles Attribute Details Beta

Google Business Profiles seems to be testing, beta testing, the ability for businesses to add more details, to “say more about” their business attributes.

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Google Sponsored Label In Product Listing Results

Google is now testing the Google Ads sponsored label in the product listing results within the more products section in an additional result. I cannot replicate this, but Saad AK…

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Google Knowledge Panel Recent Images Carousel

Google has a “recent images” photo carousel for some knowledge panels. For example, Google had this for a search on the [golden globes] last week, where it shows photos from…

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Google Search Tests Trending Stories From Country/Region

Google Search is testing displaying news stories for users in a specific country or region, from a specific country or region. Google titles this section, “Trending stories from country/region” and…

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Google: Keep Your HTML Head Section Clean

Google’s John Mueller said when it comes to your HTML head section, you want to ensure that section is clean and tight. If possible, you don’t want it to have…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 11, 2023

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

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Poll: Most SEOs Not Using Google Analytics 4

Carrie Hill posted a poll on Twitter asking SEOs, her followers, what the status of their GA4, Google Analytics 4 installs are. It seems like most SEOs, well, the 300…

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Google: Traffic Is Not A Measure Of Search Quality

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that traffic is not necessarily a quality measure. Basically, John is saying just because a certain number of pages do not get as much…

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Dentists Now Can Use Google Local Service Ads

Matt Casady spotted that Google added a new vertical to Local Service Ads. Google now allows dental practices and dentists to buy ads on Google Local Service Ads.

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Microsoft Bing Tests Zoomable Sitelinks

Microsoft Bing is at it again, this time testing a sitelink interface that zooms in and expands as you hover your mouse cursor over the link. It is pretty cool…