Craig Hordlow

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

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In 2019, Google My Business added the ability for businesses to create short names – i.e. short URLs – for your Google business profile in Google Maps or Google Search. Well, Google said it will no longer allow businesses to …

Google has launched a new label in the local search results, both the local pack in Google Search and in the Google local results in Google Maps. The new label reads “new on Google” with an announcement speaker blue icon.…

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It was a pretty busy week, with Google releasing a new core update after not having one is about six months. This core update is named the June 2021 Core Update and Google said part two of this update will …

Google seems to be testing a bunch of variations and adjustments to the local panel in the mobile search results. Amy Toman posted a few examples on Twitter, both video screen casts and screen shots.

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Microsoft Bing added (not sure how new this is) a feature named “explore this page” to its search results. When you click on the arrow to explore the page, an overlay box comes up in the search results showing you …

If you search for [seo] and look at the knowledge panel on the right, you will see a section that says “Monthly cost: $2819 per month.” That links to an SEO company’s SEO packages page but it makes it looks …

Google has added six new supported math solver rich result problem types to its support documentation. The new types are arithmetic, eigenvalue, eigenvector, limit, statistics and system of equations. There are now 49 problem types supported in the math solver …

I was expecting as of this morning that I’d see significant signals that the Google June 2021 core update has landed. But at the time of posting this, I am not seeing “significant” signals of this, but I am seeing …

Google added a support document for the web crawler Google uses for Duplex, its Google Assistant voice features that can have conversations with people. The bot’s useragent is named DuplexWeb-Google and is now part of the modern set of GoogleBot …

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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Google announced that beginning on August 3, 2021 it will allow advertisers to use Google Ads to promote their Cryptocurrency Exchanges and Wallets in the United States. To do so, you need to be a registered financial company, comply with …

The time has come – Google has finally released another broad core update – this one is named the June 2021 Core Update. This update started rolling out yesterday, June 2, 2021 and it came just about six months after …

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It has been half a year since I saw Google test the Google page experience and core web vitals label or icon in the search results. Google’s latest messaging is that Google will continue to test it but made no …