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 announced that it is not only showing more flavors of deal badges and showcases but also has added more reporting to the performance report in the Google Merchant Center to report on these deal badges. …

Google’s John Mueller was asked how Google detects and determines if a piece of content is written as a guest post? John said “we use lots of different signals to try to figure out what might be a guest post.” …

Google has now killed off getting traffic for ranking for Google Doodles. Back in the old days, if you wrote a news post about a Google Doodle, and if you could rank in the top stories carousel or news box, …

Google has added a read receipts setting to the Google My Business messaging platform. Now you can decide to show your customers who are messaging you via Google Maps and Search if you read their message or not through read …

Google is showing a new card in the Google Search app for “recent queries.” The recent queries are pulled from your Google Search history and can show up with your Google Discover personalized stories. …

Bryan Cush, the co-founder of Tidal Health Group, a healthcare marketing company, stopped by my office to chat SEO and healthcare marketing… …