Google is now showing the average review ratings for restaurant listings when you overlay restaurant results in Google Maps. This is currently working for me in the mobile user interface but not the desktop user interface. …

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… …

The indie musician’s guide to building a professional website  Whether you’re making a website for your music for the first time, or looking to improve your current site, this guide will show you how to build an effective website to …

Google announced on June 10th that it has deprecated support for critic review markup schema and structured data. Google said “we initially tested critic review markup with a group of site owners, and ultimately found that it wasn’t useful for …

Google has upgraded the Google PageSpeed Insights tool to show partial field data. Google said “previously, field data was only surfaced if all metrics for a page or origin met a threshold of data.” “Now, any metric that meets the …

A site that lets you do online HTML editing has supposedly received a manual action for unnatural links. So what the site owner did was post a notice to its user base in a big box saying “goodbye” that the …

Google seems to be testing a new design for the delivery buttons in the local panel and local pack for restaurants. The old icon was a fork and knife but the new one looks like a car or bike delivery …

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John Shehata is the Global Vice Present of Audience Development Strategy & CRM at Condé Nast. John also founded NewzDash.com, an SEO software toolset for news publishers. But more importantly… …