Google has announced a range of new features for Google My Business in order to help small businesses differentiate themselves in the search results. You can now personalise your listing as more of a social networking profile. You can add a cover photo, logo and have a short name that acts similarly to Twitter handles.
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Google, rather unusually, pre-announced a core algorithm update that hit the search results in early June. The broad core algorithm update rolled out on June 3rd, and changes in the search results were seen for the following week. These core updates are the algorithm updates which directly impact and influence how search results are ranked
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Google is bringing a new look and feel to the mobile search results. Google is now displaying favicons next to organic search results, as well as streamlining the appearance of Google Ads at the top. What’s changing with organic search listings and Favicons? Google is now adding favicons to organic search listings – so favicons
It was noticed on May 22nd that new content was not being indexed by Google. Even if you searched for new content from any major publishers, there was no content available. This was then confirmed by Google, stating they had indexing issues which could cause stale search results. Google could not index any new content,
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4% of pages indexed by Google were impacted by Google’s de-indexing bug. From around the 4th of April 2019, a number of pages completely dropped out of Google’s search results. Google were said to have resolved the issue a few days later, but then retracted this by the end of the week. By April 10th,
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oogle recently announced that it has stopped supporting rel=prev/next markup that is used to indicate when a page is part of a larger set of pages in terms of pagination.
Google No Longer Supports rel=next/prev Pagination Ranking Signal for SEO Read More »
Google confirmed it updated the search algorithm on March 12th, and is named the “March 2019 Core Update” – but what do we need to know for SEO?
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2018 saw many changes for search advertising, and 2019 is set to continie this. Google, Bing, Amazon and other platforms have big things in store.
Paid Search Trends 2019: Google Ads, Bing Ads & Amazon Advertising Read More »
Microsoft and Verizon Media announced a new search partnership that will use the Bing Ads platform to reach audiences across Bing, Yahoo and AOL networks. Search ad opportunities over Verizon Media properties, which include Yahoo and AOL, will be exclusively served by Bing Ads.
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DuckDuckGo reveals Google still personalises results, even when users are logged out or using a private browsing mode. DuckDuckGo has written a piece on measuring the “filter bubble”, which details how Google influences what you click. In this, it describes how Google manipulates search results based on personal data, which involves how links are moved
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