Traditional SEO can reach any user, anywhere in the world, as long as they do an online search. It’s, without a doubt, a powerful marketing strategy for any company. But what if you could be even more specific? When users seek to find products, services, or businesses in a specific area, what if your brand […]
Allison Hasler of Marion owns Southern Illinois Vacation Rentals, a company that manages short-term rentals in Jackson and Williamson Counties. Provided / Nina Wilson Photography Allison Hasler could be described as a Southern Illinois’ cabin concierge. In a hospitality setting such as a five-star hotel, the concierge is one who, although employed by the hotel, […]
Here is the large Google webmaster report for August 2022 – catching you all up on what you may have missed in the past month related to Google search and SEO topics. We had a confirmed Google algorithm update, the July 2022 product reviews update that kicked in friday and the tools just picked up […]
Google’s Local Service Ads are supposed to be screened, guaranteed, and reviewed by someone contracted by Google. But supposedly, the reviews in many Local Service Ads are filled with fake reviews. As we covered earlier today, Google is now showing three local services ads on mobile, instead of two. Part of that tweet from Len […]
Google Search’s local pack has for a long time let you filter the local results by hours of operations. But I am not sure when Google added by the day of the week. I’m not sure if this is new but I don’t think I’ve seen it before. Shameem Adhikarath spotted this and posted about […]
We may have had another update, an unconfirmed Google Search algorithm update on June 27th and 28th. Google’s Danny Sullivan talked about how Google communicates about Google algorithm updates at the Google NYC SEO meetup. Google has updated the rich results guidelines to disallow marking up products that are widely prohibited or regulated, or that […]
Google is testing a search result snippet that shows an expandable drop down menus under the snippet that contains weather, hotels, restaurants, visual stories, events and more. When you click on these expandable menus, you get carousels of search results for those types of search features. This was spotted by Khushal Bherwani and posted on […]
This week, we had some interesting tremors and ranking shifts from an unconfirmed Juneteenth Google search ranking update that really spiked a day or so ago. Google News revamped its design, added more features and customizations and relaunched in Spain. Google updated its help documents around Googlebot crawling, job posting and moved HTTP status documentation […]
Just like when Google was testing expandable locations section that is in a collapsible menu in the Google Search results, now Google is testing an “in-store nearby” section that is expandable within a collapsible menu. Here is a GIF of this feature in action, this was spotted by Saad AK on Twitter where it shows […]
We have seen Google tests various labels for its Google Ads in search, including “Ads,” “Sponsored,” and of course “Advertisement.” But now we are seeing the full written out “Advertisement” label in the local pack ads as well. And we are seeing a “promoted” label in the search ads. Saad AK spotted this and posted […]