The folks over at GMBapi have put together a large study on the topic of how and why Google removes reviews from Google Business Profiles. It looked at nearly 5 million reviews across 78 countries and over 19,000 locations.…
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Google Merchant Center Now Lets You Select Your Payment Methods
Google Merchant Center now lets merchants specify which payment methods and options they offer customers. Google would normally handle this in an automated way but now Google is letting you override those payment options, in case Google is getting it …
November 2024 Core Update
On November 11, 2024 Google announced it was rolling out with the November 2024 Core Update.…
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 18, 2024
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. The Google search API leak, now with an end point leak……
Forbes Fires Freelancers Over Google’s Site Reputation Abuse Policy
Forbes has reportedly fired some of its freelancers for some stories over its ongoing issue with Google’s site reputation abuse policy, aka parasite SEO. The Verge wrote, “Forbes will stop using freelancers for some types of stories indefinitely ‘” and …
Google Search Tests Rich Things To Do Image Carousel
Google is testing a much richer experience for things to do style queries. Instead of showing a calendar box, text format with image boxes, Google is testing showing this rich image carousel of events that slides by itself from right …
Google Search Shadow On Hover Of Search Results
Google is testing another search result snippet interface change, this one is when you hover your mouse over the snippet, it adds a shadow effect to the snippet.…
Google Ads Tests Double Serving Ads From Same Advertiser On Same Page
Google has confirmed it is testing allowing showing the same ad, from the same advertiser, on the same search results page. Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison said, “We’re conducting a small experiment testing different ad configurations” in regards to …
Video On Google Exploit With End Points Reveal Interesting Ranking Signals
Mark Williams-Cook gave an unbelievable presentation at SearchNorwich named Improving your SEO with conceptual models. Lucky for you and me, this presentation was posted on YouTube for us all to enjoy. It covers how Mark found an exploit in Google’s …
What Are Orphan Pages? (How to Find & Fix Them)
Orphan pages are website pages with no internal links pointing to them. This makes them inaccessible through the site’s normal navigation, meaning users and search engines can’t find them by browsing or crawling your website. However, users and search engines …
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 17, 2024
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today……
Google Site Reputation Abuse: Treating Some Sites Within A Site
Jonathan Jones attended the Google Search Central Live event in Zurich last week and posted excellent and detailed notes about the event, including a bit more on the more often core updates. But he also covered how Danny Sullivan, Google’s …
Google: Disavowing Toxic Links Is A Billable Waste Of Time
Google’s John Mueller reiterated in a big way that SEOs and site owners should not spend time disavowing “toxic” links. He said it is a “billable waste of time” to disavow toxic links, as provided in some of these SEO …
Google Adds Faceted Navigation To Help Documentation
Google has repurposed its 2014 blog post on faceted navigation best practices (which we covered a decade ago) and created a new help document page named Managing crawling of faceted navigation URLs.…
New Google Merchant Center Promotion For First Order Discount
Google Merchant Center added a new field in the “Promotion conditions” section for “first order” discount. This seems to be for shopping ads set up in Merchant Center.…
OpenAI Opens ChatGPT Search To All Logged In Users
When OpenAI launched ChatGPT Search several weeks ago, it was just available to paid users. Now, anyone who logs into ChatGPT should have access to the Search the Web button on ChatGPT.com.…
YouTube Backlinks: Why They Matter and How to Build Them for SEO
Know why and how you should build YouTube backlinks to improve your SEO for greater online visibility.…