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How to use Bandsintown’s flexible tools to promote your shows

Music fans and frequent show-goers know Bandsintown as a one-stop hub to see when and where their favorite bands are touring. But did you know there’s much more to Bandsintown …

Google may be releasing two new reports within Google My Business Insights. One report shows your business’s popular times or “rush hour” and the other report shows what your company is known for.

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We expected Google to start showing non-AMP pages in the top stories carousel in mobile search last Thursday. It seems like as of yesterday, Monday afternoon, Google began to show non-AMP pages in the top stories carousel.

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The folks at Shopify were excited to announce that they now let you modify and edit your robots.txt file. Previously, Shopify handled it all automatically but now, if you know better, you can make your own modifications.

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Did you ever look at your Google Ads reporting and see that the quality score metrics are missing data. Specifically the columns for quality score, expected CTR, landing page experience and ad relevance fields. Well, the reason may be that …

Google has expandable ad formats and it seems like Google likes to use those formats for some queries and for some searchers. Valentin Pletzer shared screen shots of him being covered with these ad formats in Google Search.

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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…

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John Mueller of Google confirmed what most of you SEOs already know, that it can take Google “several months” to understand quality changes that are made to a site. John Mueller said on Twitter “making significant quality changes across a …

In 2018, Google’s Danny Sullivan said Google does not recognize sentiment in Google Search. He was asked again in 2021 and Danny Sullivan, no, Google still does not consider it for uses in Search.

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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…

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There has been what I would call light fluctuations in the Google search results over the past several days, some a bit over the weekend as well. There is more than the average chatter and fluctuations that you would typically …

Google is testing letting searchers in specific countries filter Google News to only show news from their country. Here is a screen shot of Google testing this from Bapun Raz as he shared with me on Twitter.

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John Shehata is the Global Vice President of Audience Development Strategy & CRM at Condé Nast. John also founded NewzDash.com, an SEO software toolset for news publishers. But more importantly…

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John Mueller from Google said on Twitter that Google does not have the concept of page authority. “We don’t have a notion of page authority,” John Mueller said. How does this differ from maybe site quality, well, that is a …

Google has released several updates to both the robots.txt documentation and the structured data documentation last Friday. Here is a list of those changes from Google’s site.

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