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Google announced the launch of a new redesign for Google May Business. This includes updated navigation, which the company says is aimed at making it easier to access the product's...

Google Updates First Click Free Policy

Google introduced its "First Click Free" policy nearly a decade ago to help paywall-using publishers better monetize their content. It lets users see a little bit of content for fr...

Google Penguin Update Expected Before End Of Year

As of mid-July, Google was sending the message that a new launch of its Penguin update was still months away. Now, over two months later, it's getting closer. Just how close we don...

Google Improves Voice Search With New Acoustic Models

Google announced new improvements to voice search to make it faster and more accurate. The company has built new neural network acoustic model, which it says are a special extensio...

Study Finds Wikipedia Still Outperforms Google Properties in Google

Last month, there were a number of reports about a significant drop in Wikipedia's Google traffic. A report from SimilarWeb...

Study: Local Search Gets Local Businesses More Clicks, Calls Than Any Other Channel

Facebook may be doing more with is ads to help local businesses, but local...

Google Shuts Down Hotel Finder, Adds More To Hotel Ads

Google announced broader availability of its Hotel Ads Commission program, an expansion of its Book on Google feature and the addition of more information about hotel locations wit...

Where Your Business Needs To Be Listed For Apple Maps

It's hard to believe, but it's been three years since Apple dropped Google Maps from iOS in favor of its own maps offering. It got off to a rocky start, and Google would later offe...

Google ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ Appeal Shut Down

In June, French regulators ordered Google to extend its "Right to be Forgotten" search engine delistings to its sites around the world rather than only in Europe. From their perspe...

Google Will Make It Harder For Repeat Offenders To Get Back Rankings

Google is not cool with you frequently violating their guidelines. Well, obviously they're not cool with you violating them at all, but they do give second chances. If you screw up...

Two SEO Reasons To Use Structured Markup

If you're not using structured markup on your website, you risk losing out on potential clicks and possibly even a rankings boost. It's time to take this seriously if you haven't b...

Google Extends Forwarding Numbers To The North

Last summer, Google introduced website call conversions to let advertisers track calls...

New Google Video Discusses Getting Started With App Indexing

The Google Developers YouTube channel has a series called "Coffee with a Googler," in which various Googlers share insights into various dev topics in a casual interview setting. T...

Google Gives Webmasters A New Reason To Use Structured Markup

Historically, Google hasn't counted structured markup as a ranking signal in search results. I've always found this somewhat surprising considering how actively they've encouraged...

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