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Google Search supports discussion forum and profile page structured data. This functionality allows Google to show “first-person perspectives from social media platforms, forums, and other communities” within the search results. In addition, Google added new Search Console reports to support those who added structured data to their pages, the company announced. Profile page structured data….

Technical SEO refers to the process of improving a website’s architecture and backend elements to improve its visibility and performance on search engines. Tackling such SEO projects often requires collaboration between technical SEO specialists and web developers, especially for large sites. Technical SEO examines page load speed, site architecture, security, internal linking, etc., to eliminate…

Google has now added the business logo and business name details to the account-level automated assets within Google Ads. We knew this was being tested back in April and now it seems to be rolling out to advertisers. Back then Google wrote, “Advertisers who are qualified for this program, will see an option in their…

Google may be testing a new “Simple Search” feature that may dumb-down the search results when you want something more simple. Google shows the “Simple Search” +Topics refinement button at the top of the mobile and desktop results, when tapped on, it readjusts the results to give you a different set of results. Here is…

Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, confirmed on X that follower count is not used as a search ranking factor by Google Search. Sullivan said, “It is not,” when asked “Google now shows the number of followers on SERPs. What I’d like to know: Is follower count a ranking factor for social media profiles? So far…

Happy Thanksgiving everyone and to celebrate the holiday, I will not be posting news today. Don’t worry, a lot of news will be posted tomorrow, including the weekly SEO video recap (subscribe!). Today, Google has a special Thanksgiving Doodle that goes to the History of Thanksgiving search result in Google Search. Here is the search…

There have been a number of conferences in the SEO space since the Verge’s piece came out and of course, SEOs are brining alligator props to various conferences. Kelvin Newman even dressed up as one at his event, brightenSEO. Here are some photos I found, I did not include them all. The one above is…

Earlier this week, Google removed its Robots.txt FAQ help document from its search developer documentation. When asked, John Mueller from Google replied to Alexis Rylko saying, “We update the documentation from time to time. Feel free to submit feedback if you feel something’s missing. Robots.txt is definitely still a thing.” The Robots FAQ document lived…

Google may be testing a new type of rich result for flight prices. This test shows a section under the flight search snippet that contains the dates, trip details and price. This was spotted by Antoine Eripret who was able to trigger this numerous times, over numerous days, while in Spain. Here is his screenshot…

Google Merchant Center has been automatically creating and applying promotions to some of your products over the Black Friday holiday season. The truth is, Google has been doing this for some time, but more are noticing this now because there are a lot of discounts going around this season. In fact, the new Merchant Center…