Google started rolling out the first core update of the decade on January 13, 2020. It’s called the January 2020 Core Update according to Google. Google went onto say that they core update is now live and is rolling out to various data centers. According to Search Engine Land, “Whenever Google updates its search ranking...Read More
Google My Business (GMB) has shut down their toll-free number for customer support. You’ll no longer be able to call the GMB peeps and talk with a live person. According to Google, “We’ve removed toll free customer support numbers from the Google My Business homepage. If you call one of the existing numbers, you’ll be...Read More
Over the past few days, Google has rolled out a local algorithm update impacting Google My Business (GMB) and Maps listings. It appears that Google is tightening its geo-local proximity. According to Search Engine Land, “The local SEO community was a consistent chatter about a Google update, specifically targeting Google Maps rank. The consensus became...Read More
Google has announced the successor to RankBrain, which they have named BERT is rolling out now and will affect 1 in 10 search queries. BERT stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers. According to digital marketing lecturer Dawn Anderson, “BERT and family improve the state of the art on 11 natural language processing tasks. Even...Read More
According to Google, searches for small, local businesses are at an all-time high. For the past 3 years searches for local businesses such as restaurants, pharmacies and more have taken the Internet by storm, especially searches from mobile devices. Google says, “Today we are releasing a new report that shows how Americans are searching for...Read More
BrightLocal conducted a study that found that the sheer number photos posted on Google My Business (GMB) highly correlates to local search performance.According to BrightLocal some of the key findings include, “Google My Business listings have an average of 11 photos. Hotels have the most photos on GMB, with a median of 150 each. 6%...Read More
They tried this with Google + and now it’s back bigger and bolder than ever – shareable search results! Or at least a test. It looks like Google is kicking the tires and giving this a test drive for now. According to Search Engine Land, “Several people are sharing screenshots on Twitter of a feature...Read More
From approximately June 8 – 13, 2019 Google Maps had a redirect bug where users who tried to go to a business website was hit with a challenge response. The notice read: “The previous page is sending you to [the URL you clicked on],” and then adds, “If you do not want to visit that...Read More
Google had a rough couple of weeks earlier this month with bugs affecting de-indexing of search results, GMB issues and problems with News. According to Google its de-indexing of search results is now resolved, but not after many businesses are calling for an apology from Google since some websites lost huge amounts of traffic from...Read More
Yesterday, Danny Sullivan (Twitter handle @searchliaison) tweeted and confirmed that Google is rolling out a large core algorithm update. Webmaster World traditionally names the updates and this one they are calling the Google Florida 2 Update. Why Florida 2? This is a hat tip to the original Florida update that started rolling out on November...Read More
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