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Year: 2022
Bing Tests Various Favicons In Title Tags
Here is an interesting test from Microsoft Bing. The search company is testing placing a newspaper emoji and a magnifying glass emoji as the favicon in the title of the search results pages. It is unusual and I am not …
Google Business Profiles Follow & Welcome Offer Going Away
Kara a Google Community Manager announced that Google is doing away with the Google Business profile feature to follow a local listing in Google Maps or Google Search and also dropping the welcome offer feature. There is no date on …
Questions and Answers In The Google Maps Interface
The questions and answers section is often found for local listings local knowledge panel listing on both desktop and mobile but now it is also showing up in the Google Maps interface. …
Google: Adding Individual Pages Does Not Impact How We Crawl Your Site
Google’s John Mueller said that simply adding individual pages won’t impact how Google crawls your site. Crawl budget generally is only impacted by hundreds of thousands, if not millions of pages – not individual pages here or there. …
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update Brewing, Google Ads Disapprovals, Google Reporting Glitches & More
This week, we reported about a possible Google search ranking algorithm update brewing, after weeks of calmness. Google Ads may be mass disapproving ads… …
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 17, 2022
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today… …
Some Recent Weird Google Search Interface Bugs
Over the past couple of days, I’ve seen a few recent complaints about weird interface bugs in Google Search. To be honest, I know some of these are browser extension related and thus not a Google bug, but an extension …
Google Business Profiles New Business Calls API
Google has launched a new API to retrieve call history data from your Google Business Profiles, you know, when people click call this business from Google Search and Google Maps. They named it the “My Business Business Calls API” – …
Google Tests Double Site Name & URL In Search Snippets
Google is testing showing the site name and URL twice in the search result snippets in Google mobile search. So not only do you see the name of the site or the URL with the favcion from the site, but …
Is Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update Coming Soon?
Over the past couple of weeks, the Google search rankings have been pretty stable and calm. It actually has been unusually calm that some SEOs are getting nervous. I recently saw some super early signs of an update brewing. Is …
Not New: 15% Of Search Queries On Google Are Still New
Here is a not new piece of data, 15% of the searches Google sees each day are new. Google shared this stat, again, on Twitter the other day saying “Fun fact: 15% of all Google searches have never been searched …
Google Quickly Processing Discover & Google News Manual Actions
A couple of weeks ago we reported that Google was sending out its first batch of manual actions (Google penalties) to news publications for Google News and Google Discover policy violations. Well, I am happy to report that Google is …
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 16, 2022
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 says there are no plans for a keyword tab for performance max …
10 Creative Challenges to Get You out of Your Songwriting Rut
Have you ever picked up your guitar and couldn’t find the right chords? Or sat down at your piano and the notes just weren’t there? Of course. We all have. Maybe you’ve found yourself returning to your comfort zone of …