Google Maps will soon stop supporting drafting reviews for local business listings and Google Business Profiles. Google said that starting July 16, 2024, review drafts will no longer be supported. Google added that all the existing drafts will be removed from your account and Google Maps and you will be unable to save new drafts … Read more
On Friday, Google responded to a pending bill in the California state legislature, the California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA), that would require Google to pay a link tax to publishers by testing removing links to California based publishers and pausing investments in news publishers within the state. Google wrote, “To prepare for possible CJPA implications, … Read more
Appen, an Australian data services company that Google has contracted with for a large number of its third-party search quality raters, has been notified by Google that its contract is ending on March 19, 2024. Appen said it had no prior notice and would result in a loss of $82.8m of revenue at a gross … Read more
Microsoft announced it is going to do away with Hotel Center subaccounts on February 6, 2024 and you should migrate to Lodging campaigns instead. “As we strive to improve and innovate our products, we’re changing how you set up and manage Hotel Price ads and Property Promotion ads,” Microsoft wrote. Starting on February 6, 2024, … Read more
A couple of days ago, we reported that the FAQ rich results dropped out of the search results again, and now we are seeing the how-to rich results drop out of the search results again. This happened around the same time as the FAQ rich results dropping. Glenn Gabe noticed this and posted about it … Read more
A couple of weeks ago, I reported about that Google Groups was seeing a very big ranking and visibility boost. Well, it seems to have caught Google’s attention, the rankings of Google Groups seems to be declining and their visibility in Google Search has dropped. Google Groups still has a lot of visibility in the … Read more
A Google Analytics expert, Charles Farina spotted that Google Analytics 4, which had tracking for many attribution ******, keeps reducing the specific attribution cases you can track. We are now down to just access last click and data-driven attribution. Charles wrote on Twitter, “RIP to the Attribution ****** in GA4. Google has rolled out the … Read more
Gary Illyes from Google spoke about the topic of a website dropping in rankings for a single keyword or single keyword phrase while ranking fine for others. Can it happen? And if it does happen, what should you look out for? This question came up in the latest Google SEO office hours at the 10:23 … Read more
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