Previously Google My Business had labeled the business attributes for women owned businesses as “women-led” and veteran owned businesses and “veteran-led.” Google now put them all in sync by labeling them as as “owned.” So now we have them as …

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

Abel Capella used CD Baby’s Release Plan Generator map a strategy for his single “Só Vem.” This is his story. While Capella is an experienced indie musician, he was still a newcomer in the world of digital distribution. He decided …

Miriam Schwab is the co-founder and CEO of Strattic, a static hosting and publishing platform for WordPress. I’ve known Miriam for many many years, maybe as far back as 2004 or 2005… …

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Over the weekend a webmaster asked John Mueller of Google for assistance around why Google was not indexing his site. John looked at it quickly and noticed the site had AI driven content and then responded that Google shouldn’t be …

Google has updated its review snippet structured data guidelines to say the author name of the reviewer must be less than a 100 characters. If it is longer than 100 characters your page won’t be eligible for an author-based review …

Google has posted a new policy in the merchant center help area that is “prohibiting offers that make claims that are demonstrably false and could significantly undermine participation or trust in an electoral or democratic process.” …

Some SEOs are now seeing the Things To Consider, Refine This Search and Broaden This Search features live in the Google search results. I do not see them yet but they were announced at the Search On event a few …

I lead with I am sorry for yet reporting on another Google search ranking algorithm update – another unconfirmed one. But like I said on Friday, there seemed to be one ticking up and it seems Google did have some …

Every musician wants FANS! (But they don’t invent themselves.) There’s a movie where a ghost tells a guy to build a baseball diamond in the middle of a cornfield, promising that when he does, thousands of sports fans — and …

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. Google launched what they are calling continuous scrolling in the mobile search results……

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Google announced yesterday that it is rolling out what they are calling “continuous scrolling” on the mobile search results. Google is not calling it infinite scroll, because the scroll does not infinitely scroll, it should stop after page four or …

Microsoft announced back in February a website builder tool named Smart Pages and it recently also added support for “standalone mode” and analytics and Bing Place integration. …

Over the past few days the Google search tracking tools, some of them, showed huge spikes in changes in the Google search results. Some did not, many did. The chatter didn’t really match the spikes. So many are asking me …

Do links from reporting tools, like similar sites checker and SEO report generation sites, impact your site in Google Search? The answer is no, according to John Mueller of Google. …