Google seemed to have removed/deleted a ton of reviews from Google Business Profiles within Google Maps and Local search last week, around September 17th. This came a day or so before Google updated its Google Business Profiles review restrictions policy and around the same time Google suspended many business profiles. Earlier this week, Tim Colling, … Read more
Google has updated their documentation on their spam policies. This latest update to the spam guidelines has several changes I thought were interesting enough to write about. 1. Manipulation of search = spam Google added this to the beginning of their document: It’s no surprise that content designed to deceive users is spam, but this … Read more
Google AdSense has removed reference to your privacy policy as a place to withdraw consent. AdSense now has clarified that the revocation link at the bottom of the page should say “Privacy and cookie settings”. Google wrote: In the Privacy & messaging user message, we removed reference to your privacy policy as a place to … Read more
Google has released the 2023 Google Ads safety report sharing that Google has removed 5.5 billion ads, suspended 12.7 million advertiser accounts, restricted over 6.9 billion ads, and restricted ads from showing up on 2.1 billion publisher pages. That is about 6% more ads removed, 90% more suspended advertiser accounts, restricted 60% more ads, and … Read more
Google is changing the Google Assistant, removing and changing dozens of features that some of you may have become accustomed to. Google said these changes are aimed to “focus on quality and reliability,” adding it will “ultimately make it easier to use Assistant across devices,” the company wrote. With these changes, Google also has laid … Read more
When Google first launched its Search Generative Experience, it labeled the “end” **** of the program as December 2023 for US users and February 2024 for India and other countries. Well, now that end **** was removed from the Google Search Labs interface. Here is what it looked like before: Here is what it looks … Read more
Earlier this week, Google removed its Robots.txt FAQ help document from its search developer documentation. When asked, John Mueller from Google replied to Alexis Rylko saying, “We update the documentation from time to time. Feel free to submit feedback if you feel something’s missing. Robots.txt is definitely still a thing.” The Robots FAQ document lived … Read more
Google has confirmed that it has removed event rich results from showing under search result snippets. This was confirmed at the Google Search Central live SEO event in Zurich today by Ryan Levering of Google during the Q&A session. What happened. Over the past few weeks or so, some SEOs started to notice that the … Read more
In a recent announcement, Google has made a significant update that has caught the attention of SEO professionals and website owners alike. They’ve completely removed How-To Rich Results, a feature that has been a part of Google’s search landscape for a while. While the schema for How-To Rich Results can still be used, it no … Read more
This morning, we are seeing significant movement with the Google search results ranking and algorithm. Twitter blocked unregistered users from seeing tweets, which blocked Googlebot and resulted in huge drops in Google Search traffic but a few days later, Twitter fixed it. Bing Chat improved its efficiency and dropped latency by 25%. OpenAI disabled the … Read more
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