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Google recently started to support author.url and other author properties that let you communicate to Google which author wrote an article on your site. I asked John Mueller of Google if he is worried if people will fake author details …

Daniel Waisberg and Maya Mamo from the Google Search Console team published a blog post named Google Search Console Insights behind the curtains. This document, according to Daniel Waisberg, has new details on how Google “handles the data was not …

Google listed a boat load of changes it is making around children and search and ads. Google Ads will restrict ad targeting of children 18 or under by age, gender, or interests. Google Search and Assistant will automatically enable SafeSearch …

Google is holding its inaugural Google News Initiative for the North American Community News Summit on August 17th and 18th. Danny Sullivan, the public liaison for Search at Google, will answer selected questions during the Summit and you can submit …

Ginny Marvin from Google asked that if you want additional custom column metrics in your Google Ads report, that you let her know on the AdsLiaison account on Twitter. Ginny wrote “Is there a Custom Column metric you’d like to …

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… …

How smaller playlists helped me get on an official Spotify playlist. I’m Cristina. I write and produce music as Siren and the Sea. I recently released my second album For Bathing and got my songs placed on a bunch of …

Google is now requiring some businesses to add a physical address and not be a service area business in Google My Business. Google told Stefan Somborac that this is a “new feature is an automated, anti-spam protection designed to reduce …

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For the past few weeks or so, I have been hearing complaints from SEOs, mostly in private forums, about Google having weird indexing issues. The issues are not persistent, in that a new page is indexed, then drops out of …

Google said it has recently added the author.url property to the Article structured data documentation. Google said this “url property helps Google disambiguate the correct author of the article.” But it seems Google added a number of author based properties …

Google has updated the structured data testing tool page to a page that instructs the user to either go to the rich results testing tool on Google or the schema markup validator on Schema.org. …

Google, after a false start, announced the release of version 1.7 of Google Ads Editor. Google Ads Editor 1.7 brings Hotel ads, easier downloads, YouTube audio ads, lead form extensions, additional recommendation types and the deprecation of Showcase ads. …

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… …

If you try to login to your Google Ads account right now, you will be out of luck. I suspect this will be fixed any minute now, but for now, just know, you are not alone. …

Newsflash, Google’s Martin Splitt said that “alt text is important for SEO too.” I did ask him how important, but he would not disclose that information. Here is more of the context around this on Twitter. …