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Google Says Charitable Donations In Exchange For Business Reviews Is Against Guidelines

Google has told Joy Hawkins that giving charitable donations in exchange for a positive review on your Google Business Profile listing is against its guidelines.

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Google launches new Google Trends portal

SEOs, content creators and marketers use Google Trends as part of their toolset, so this update might be useful for all of you.
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February 8th/9th Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update (Unconfirmed)

I am seeing signs of another Google search ranking algorithm update just a few days after the February 4th Google search ranking update – both of these have not been confirmed by Google. This February 8th and 9th Google update may be even stronger than the previous update.
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OpenAI GPT-4 Arriving Mid-March 2023

OpenAI GPT-4 is about to be released. It’s multimodal, which means if Google isn’t worried then it should start right now
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Google: We Treat Hashtags As Words In Content

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter, “when it comes to web pages in Google Search, hashtags are just words, they have no special meaning or effect.” So if you are big into #hashtagging everything, Google will consume it as just content on the page.
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