Google has updated its Google Business Profiles guidelines to say that businesses associated with products or services that require the customer to be a certain minimum age are not permitted as service-area businesses without a storefront.…

Google’s John Mueller said he was generally in favor to the idea of giving prior notice to receiving a manual action, but he said “it’s challenging.” John then explains that Google’s search algorithm try to reward sites, while also negating …

Bing Webmaster Tools shows search data for Bing Search and Yahoo Search but not OpenAI’s ChatGPT search feature. I actually forgot that Bing Webmaster Tools has Yahoo Search data but that was the deal when Yahoo closed Site Explorer in …

Google is testing displaying a button in Google Search to load more ads. The button reads, “More sponsored results” and when clicked, it can load more ads, if Google has more to serve.…

Today is Thanksgiving in the United States, so I was planning on not posting anything – since most of you just want to enjoy your time with your family. But I felt I needed to (1) showcase the Thanksgiving Doodle …

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

There is some speculation within the SEO and search community that Google’s search results have recently become more personalized and tailored. This is based on people comparing the search results to being logged into Google and signed out of Google.…

Google Ads has a new column named “conversation started” for message assets, like WhatsApp messaging, through Google Ads. Clicking on a WhatApp button in Google Ads will trigger the “conversation started” metric in Google Ads.…

Two years ago, we saw Google playing videos, mostly YouTube videos, in an overlay that really gave almost zero incentive for the searcher to click over to the YouTube page. The issue is that you don’t get the subscribe or …

Google has slightly updated its Google crawlers and fetchers documentation to say that it will pick the protocol, HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2, that “provides the best crawling performance” for Googlebot. In fact, it may even switch protocols between sessions, if it …

Google is testing swapping out the blue buttons within the local pack with gold buttons. In this example, the blue call phone icon is now in a gold color, on dark mode.…

A couple of weeks ago, we spotted Google testing large thin fonts for the search results. Now I am seeing Google testing large thick and chunk fonts for its search results.…