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UK local SEO firm Movette shut down by regulators for deceptive sales practices

Channel: SEO, Google: Legal, Google: SEO, Legal, Legal: Regulation, SEO BLOG, SEO: Local / Good To SEO

Almost everyone, it seems, has received one: a call falsely claiming that your business listing on Google is about to expire. Many people also receive deceptive robocalls from marketing companies claiming to represent or be authorized by Google. One such UK-based company, Movette, was just shut down by regulators for using fraudulent tactics to sell […]

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Google updates quality raters guidelines with details around non-English language web pages

Channel: SEO, Google: Search Quality Raters, Google: SEO, SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

Google updated their search quality raters guidelines PDF document a few days ago. Jennifer Slegg first noticed and documented most of the changes between this updated version and the March version, which focused on upsetting and offensive content. The core change, according to Jennifer Slegg, is the new guidelines around non-English language pages. “This update

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Google adds new ‘save’ & bookmarking feature, which you can access in a new hamburger menu

Channel: SEO, Google: Maps & Local, Google: Mobile, Google: SEO, Google: User Interface, Google: Web Search, SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

AmsStudio / Shutterstock.com Google has added a new “save” feature, which you can access under a new hamburger menu, navigation drawer, on the left side of the Google home page on your mobile device. You can now save images, itineraries, places and web pages while using Google on your mobile device. You can then access

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Google Image Search adds badges for recipes, videos, products and animated images

Channel: SEO, Google: Images, Google: Rich Snippets, Google: SEO, SEO BLOG, SEO: Structured Data & Schema.org / Good To SEO

Google announced they now will be showing badges on some images within their image search interface on mobile. Adding badges to images helps searchers understand any data behind the image that Google may have. Google said, “These badges will help you uncover images where next steps or more in-depth information is available — everything from

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Google releases details on new beta Search Console reports

Channel: SEO, Google: Search Console, Google: SEO, SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

Last month, we uncovered screen shots of the beta Search Console interface being tested by Google. Today, Google announced a “sneak peek” at two of the new features or reports coming to the new beta Google Search Console. The new reports include an Index Coverage report and AMP fixing flow report. The Index Coverage report

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a new ‘point solution’ to monitor GMB listings changes

A-Post to MarTech Today, Channel: Local, Google: Analytics, Google: Google My Business, Google: SEO, SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

LocalSEOGuide is releasing a new Google My Business monitoring tool called “Locadium.” It’s conceptually similar to other local listings monitoring services; however it’s exclusively focused on Google My Business (GMB). Yext, Moz, Brandify, Vendasta, BrightLocal, SIMPartners, Chatmeter, among others, also provide local listings scans and monitoring. However, according to LocalSEOGuide founder Andrew Shotland, Locadium is

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Google has dropped Google Instant Search

Channel: SEO, Google: Instant, Google: SEO, Google: User Interface, Google: Web Search, SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

After launching Google Instant — Google’s method of showing search results as you type them — several years ago, Google has removed the feature from search effective today. Google Instant launched in 2010 under the leadership of Marissa Mayer. Mayer called this change a “fundamental shift in search” and the news was covered across all

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Google has explained how you can remove your AMP content from Google search

Channel: SEO, Google: Accelerated Mobile Pages / AMP, Google: SEO, SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

Google has finally added a help document in their developer section explaining how publishers and webmasters can remove AMP content from showing up in search results. Of course, Google doesn’t want you to stop serving up AMP content but if you decide that AMP is not driving the metrics you wanted to see, you can

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Google adds vacation rentals filter to hotel search results

Channel: Local, Google: Maps & Local, Google: SEO, SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

Google has begun testing a new filter for the hotel search results they provide in both web search and local search. You can now filter your hotel searches for “vacation rentals.” Skift was first to notice this Google test but now we at Search Engine Land are able to replicate it. Try a search for

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Google officially changes Sitelinks design to carousel format

Channel: SEO, Google: Mobile, Google: SEO, Google: Sitelinks, Google: User Interface, SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

AmsStudio / Shutterstock.com Google has confirmed with Search Engine Land that they are now rolling out a new design for Sitelinks. Sitelinks are additional links within the snippets of the search results where searchers can quickly jump to important and relevant pages on that site, as opposed to the main listing in the search result

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