Google published a blog post that shared that they updated their machine learning systems in order to catch and remove more fake reviews, fake business listings and fraudulent contributed images and videos. The automated systems and human review teams removed over 200 million photos, 7 million videos and blocked or removed over 115 million reviews, … Read more
Did you know Google can now detect if scammers are overlaying fake phone numbers in user-contributed photos within Google Maps and automatically detect and block those photos from displaying on business listings within the local search results? Google has released some information on its efforts to combat fake content and reviews in Google Maps and … Read more
Here is a photo from the GooglePlex, or new Google offices near the GooglePlex in Mountain View, California. You can see this huge sphere object or monument that is being put up at the office. I spotted this on Instagram. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we … Read more
Google’s John Mueller is no longer recommending you verify all the variations of your domain with Google Search Console. Instead, he said, keep it simple and verify using domain verification. Why is he no longer recommending you verify all the property types, www, non-www, HTTP, https, etc? Because he said on Reddit, “in practice you’ll … Read more
Google Business Profiles seems to allow some restaurants to copy a menu that it thinks it pulled for that restaurant from another source and use that copied menu to start to build your own menu in Google Business Profiles. Lluc B. Penycate spotted this feature the other day and posted about it on Twitter asking … Read more
Google has extended the Google Ads Government documents and official services policy for several weeks, from March 31, 2023, to May 24, 2023. This was previously announced in late January, and we covered it, but now Google made two changes to that announcement. The two changes include: Extending the enforcement **** from March 31, 2023 … Read more
Google finished rolling out the March 2023 broad core update on Tuesday, and it took about 13 days to roll out. Microsoft said they are exploring sharing ad revenue from Bing Chat with publishers through the Microsoft Start program. Microsoft executives also mocked Google for Bard’s lack of citations and said Bing Chat is better. … Read more
Google Search seems to be testing a new product carousel titles “products gaining attention.” I assume this carousel shows products that are being viewed or clicked on more often than they were previously, but I am not sure. This was spotted by Khushal Bherwani who shared a few screenshots of this on Twitter, here is … Read more
January 24, 2023 | Posted by The In Search SEO Podcast Is your Google business profile fully optimized? Today’s guest will help make sure that you’re taking advantage of all the key optimization opportunities that Google Business Profile offers. He’s a man who graduated from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, with a … Read more
Google Maps marketing is a set of tactics you can use to make your local business listing appear more prominently in Google’s map results. Maps marketing helps you reach people who search for relevant products and services in your area. And convert more of them into customers. Your Google business listing, also known as your … Read more
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