Google announced in the Local Guides Forum that they now are rolling out support to upload videos to Google Maps local listings on Android devices. The help document explains the feature is currently only available to Android users. Google wrote, “To add videos, you must use an Android device. To remove videos, you must use […]
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By August 29, 2017, 12:00 AM EDT Google faces a Tuesday deadline to tell the European Union how it plans to comply with an order to stop discriminating against rival shopping search services under threat of new fines that would add to a record 2.4 billion-euro ($2.9 billion) penalty. The EU gave the Alphabet Inc.
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This is the second post in an 8-part series on how to rank your business for local searches at Google. Google My Business (GMB) is a free product that allows business owners to verify and submit basic details about their business to Google. Owners can also engage with existing and potential customers across Google’s properties. Eligibility
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Last May, Google introduced the ability to find out if a local retailer had specific products in stock right from the knowledge panel listing for the retailer. Now, it’s dedicating a whole lot more real estate to the feature. Glenn Gabe, digital marketing consultant at G-Squared Interactive, tweeted a look at the update. Below are
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Google is testing more ad opportunities in knowledge panels. In this case, it’s testing ads on panels for local businesses. Spotted by Dr. Pete Meyers of Moz, the example below shows an ad from Groupon for the featured club. A call to action to “View Deal” links to the related offer page on Groupon.com. “We’re
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It’s essential that entrepreneurs in the digital age know how to manage their Google My Business profile. By Megan Zheng – Google My Business is essential for entrepreneurs looking to improve their local search engine optimization. The service is free, and knowing how to manipulate your profile will allow your website to appear higher in
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Later this month, Google will change how AdWords mobile ads display sitelinks, callouts and structured snippets. The goal is to make the ads increasingly clickable and callouts and structured snippets bigger. Today, between two and four callouts are served, in addition to the ad text, when the callout extension appears with the ad on a
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SEO is a highly technical, and ever-changing field. Staying across all the key best practices requires time and effort, and locating and actioning all the various potential elements necessitates technical skill. But that said, the basic pillars of SEO are fairly simple, details and elements that anyone can research and apply. Are you struggling to
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Site navigation is one of those areas that has many facets of importance when it comes to both SEO and usability. A good site navigation makes it easier for Google to crawl and index a site, but it also needs to be usable for visitors to the site, since many use that same navigation to
