For the past 20 years, local business owners and their marketers have had to live and work with Google as the “great house”, owning all the good real estate. The dominant role Google’s local and organic results play in bringing nearby customers to our doors has had the effect of making every other source of business…

Google is testing displaying a business profile listing in an overlay interface within the web search results instead of taking you into the Google Maps interface. So when you click on a business listing in the local pack, instead of it taking you into Google Maps to view more details on that business, Google is…

In today’s digital age, YouTube has become a powerful platform for individuals and businesses to showcase their brands, products, and services. With over two billion monthly active users, everyone is leveraging the power of YouTube for greater reach and to engage with their audiences in new and exciting ways.

Brandon Mercer, who works at Hearst Newspapers, posted in the Google Search Console help forums that people are using the “remove outdated content tool” from Google to remove competitor pages, and he said it works. Although Google’s Danny Sullivan responded, he seems unconvinced that it does indeed work. The tool was launched in January 2020 and was upgraded several months later.

Since there have been webpages on the internet, scrapers have been out there scraping content off those sites for one reason or another. Well, even Microsoft’s Bing Chat has to deal with scrapers and yes, those scrapers can even cause sites hosted by Microsoft to slow down.

I am starting to see early signs of a possible Google search ranking algorithm update touching down this morning, April 3rd. The automated tracking tools are not picking it up yet, but I am seeing some chatter from SEOs who are up already checking their traffic.

Google released spam and fraud prevention stats for Google Maps and local search. In short, Google blocked 21% more reviews, 5% more photos, 40% more videos, and 5% more fake business profiles in 2022 than they did in 2021.

Need 44 reasons why you need to be careful about publishing AI-assisted content, even if it is easy to do? Meet As Told to Buzzy.

It looks like review spammers are using ChatGPT and other AI tools to generate fake reviews. These reviews are being posted in Google Business Profile local listings and causing a headache for small businesses.