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Google has removed the phone number for the hotel panel and hotel panels in the search results. To be clear, the normal local listings, like pizza shops and so forth,…

Google is testing more polls and feedback forms within its search results. We spotted a “How helpful was the result above?” and “Does this interest you?” feedback feature in the…

According to Google’s policies, order delivery “providers are required to remove third-party links from a profile within 5 business days of a request from a business.” But Uber Eats is…

For the past several months Google Image search has been showing a notice for some meme related queries. The notice reads, “Memes about groups of people might be disturbing or…

We’ve covered product images within the search result snippets many times but here are even more variations where Google is showing up to several images across the snippet in the…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

If you’ve been glancing at the comments on this site or reading the feedback thus far on social media, you can tell that so far, SEOs and site owners are…

Google’s John Mueller said publishing content in bulk does not make the content spammy in the eyes of Google Search. He said if you publish awesome content in bulk, Google…

While Microsoft has offered tools to import your Google Ads campaigns into Microsoft Advertising, including PMax import tools – now you can supposedly import from PMax to PMax, with Microsoft…

Google’s John Mueller said that if your website is www.domain.com and then you decide to canonicalize it to the non-www, so it goes to domain.com from www.domain.com – that change…

Google announced some executive changes last night with Liz Reid being named the new head of Google Search. Pandu Nayak stepped down as the lead of search quality and ranking….

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Google is urging site owners and SEOs to have patience as the Google March 2024 core update continues to roll out over the coming weeks. Danny Sullivan, the Google Search…

A month ago we saw Google test a new search filter for “Forums.” This would filter the search results just to show results from forums, like Reddit, Quora and maybe…

Google has updated its help document on how to fix suspended or disabled Google Business Profiles to explain that you can now “request an additional review to a denied request.”…

We’ve been covering many of the Google Maps changes, many related to what searchers see in Europe related to the required DMA changes Google has to make. But searchers are…

Both Semrush and SimilarWeb’s RankRanger tool are reporting that Google is showing fewer sitelinks within the Google Search results. In fact, it seemed to have dropped over 10 percentage points….

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

This past weekend (a week ago) we saw the first ranking volatility likely from the Google March 2024 core update. We also some saw possible reversals or recoveries a few…

Today is day 10 of the Google March 2024 core update rollout and Google March 2024 spam update. We believe we saw the core update touch down on March 8th…

Google seems to be testing a like, thumbs-up, button on image search results. The thumbs-up icon is near the share and save button and below the image, description and visit…

Google Merchant Center has added new themed templates to the Product Studio. The new theme was for St. Patrick’s Day, which is coming up this Sunday. But Google will soon…

Have you seen the “dishes nearby” carousel in the mobile Google Search results? I am not 100% sure if it is new, but I don’t think I’ve covered it before….

Google is placing trending icons on some of the people also search for people in the knowledge panel. We’ve seen various forms of this and I don’t think this is…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been informed of a number of local user interface changes to the Google local panels in the search results. Here are some of…

Google has posted an FAQ on what to do if you received a pure spam manual action. This was posted by Ryan T. from Google who titled his post in…

Bing is testing a new design for how it shows some videos in the Bing search results interface. Now they are testing showing a bar across the search results page,…

Microsoft seems to be rolling out a new Microsoft Advertising console design. The new interface is more modern and possibly more efficient to use.

Google seems to be testing new filter options for hotel listings within Google Business Profiles. When you click on a specific hotel, Google can show filters for reviews, dates, guests…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Everyone in the SEO community is talking about how John Mueller’s website is no longer listed in the Google Search results. It seems like it was deindexed and removed from…

Google has updated the Understanding page experience in Google Search results help document to clarify how page experience and core web vitals are used or not used as signals for…

Google is smart enough to showcase related reviews to a photo someone is looking at in a Google local business profile listing. In the case below, you can see a…

Last week, Bing Webmaster Tools introduced top SEO insights that give you some SEO tips for your site. It even tells you when you don’t have enough good links pointing…

In November, Microsoft said we would soon see Copilot powered by GPT-4 Turbo instead of GPT-4. Well, it took several months, and now Copilot uses GPT-4 Turbo.

Bingbot is now rolling out Brotli compression for its web crawler, Bingbot. Fabrice Canel from Microsoft said on X that Bing “enabled it on a small percentage of URLs crawled…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…