Usually December isn’t that busy because people go on vacation and all. But the last month has really not been that quiet. We had enormous volatility in the Google ranking We had one confirmed for most of the last month three-week rollout of Product reviews updated in December, Google confirmed a local update and much […]
As we reported a week ago, we saw a possible update of the Google ranking in the local search Started around a week earlier – well, Google has now confirmed it. Google continued Twitter “Our local search update from November 2021 has been completed.” Google said this local update started on November 30th and ran […]
We had some funny bugs this week as both Google Search had some massive indexing issues and Google Ads went offline for a couple of hours. Google has confirmed that between November 30th and December 8th, an update of the local search ranking was carried out in November 2021. It’s Christmas next week and the […]
Over the past week a lot of local SEOs have been talking about the big change in local results. It could be related to a Update of Google’s local search algorithm (Google hasn’t confirmed it yet) or it could be anti-spam efforts. But I see complaints that there is too much local spam now and […]
To many months of testing, Google did Confirmed it moves the local pack results up and the map to the right of those local results in the desktop search. Google said the search company “expects this to be widely available in the coming weeks”. In the past few days a lot of people have asked […]
This week I took a sneak peek at what we’re seeing in the context of this big update on Google Product Reviews from December 2021. I also talked about a possible, unconfirmed update of the Google ranking in local search. Google also introduced a new design for the local package with the map on the […]
Google now shows up to two ads in local search results – the Local Pack. Joy Hawkins found it during a search the other day [lawn care near me] and shared a screenshot where Google’s local package results showed two ads above the organic local listings. Here is a screenshot of Joy’s post over Twitter: […]
Praveen Sharma shared a screenshot of a new carousel in Google mobile search results that shows localized language content based on the searcher’s location, regardless of the language of the query entered. In this example, Praveen’s query was in English, but Google showed him results in Hindi based on his location. The screenshot that Praveen […]
The pandemic is with a wide variety of new digital behaviors. When users want something, they want it now and easily accessible. Google trends showed that searches for “news near me” increased threefold worldwide in the past five years. According to the research platform, the new local search functions aim to Improve visibility on local […]
APPLETON, Wis. (WFRV) – Thousands of miles away from home in Phu Bai, Vietnam and with a marketing degree under his belt, Appleton native George Knapstein found his niche in the U.S. Army. “That was the time that I went to the finance division and asked if they needed any help and it just so […]