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Offers information about the Google search engine and company.

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Feb

Google My Business Reclaiming Feature Being Piloted

February 8, 2020
Google is testing a new feature that helps business owners to reclaim their Google My Business (GMB) listing. According to Krystal Taing, “For anyone beginning to see this on your listings, it is a new #GMB feature. It does not mean your listing is unclaimed but is intended as an easier path to begin the...
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16
Jan

Google Rolling Out 1st Core Update of 2020

January 16, 2020
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...
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16
Nov

GMB Shuts Down Toll Free Support

November 16, 2019
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...
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13
Nov

Google Local Algo Update for November 2019

November 13, 2019
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...
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29
Oct

Move Over RankBrain, BERT Is in the Building!

October 29, 2019
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...
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05
Oct

Google Reveals Local Business Search at an All-Time High

October 5, 2019
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...
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10
Aug

Number of GMB Photos Correlated with More Local Traffic

August 10, 2019
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%...
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16
Jul

Google Wants You to Share Your Search Results

July 16, 2019
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...
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17
Jun

Google Maps Redirect Bug Fixed

June 17, 2019
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...
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21
Apr

Google Search De-Indexing, GMB and News Issues

April 21, 2019
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...
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