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Google announced last week that Google Search "now makes it easier to search for datasets" by showing "more datasets" and explore more features for datasets within Google Search.To be fair, Google has had datasets in Google Search…
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Google Explore is that weird feature you get when you keep scrolling and scrolling through the search results. Then Google hits you with this explore feature to expand your query in a very visual way. Well, it seems like Google…
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Google may be testing replacing the "people also ask" with a "more to ask" box. Google is also testing "People are also asking" and "Others want to know" too, instead of people also ask. I am unsure if this is just a headline…
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AI image generation has taken big leaps forward in the last year. It’s fun to play with. It’s a little bit weird. It can produce some mind-blowing results — and often laughable ones. But is it useful in a marketing context?…
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Google's John Mueller was asked if having hyphens in your domain name, like www.my-site-goes-here.com, can cause ranking issues in Google Search. John Mueller said no, domains with hyphens are not seen as low quality by Google…
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Google is now showing products that businesses add through the Google Business Profile manager directly in Google Shopping search results. I was not sure if this is new, but it seems most local SEOs think it is, so I am sharing it…
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The author's views are entirely his or her own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz. As SEOs, we know how to optimize websites, but what about our careers? In this episode of…
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Google is testing a few interfaces for the Google Posts and updates in the local interfaces. One is to overlay the Google updates in the images for the business listing and the other is to show a "more posts" button in the Google…
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Microsoft Bing is testing placing a site's favicon on the right side of the search result title's snippet. We are accustomed to seeing it on the left for Google search results, we even saw Bing testing it on the left on mouse…
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Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that it is an SEO myth to say you can use the nofollow attribute on links to hoard your links. He said, "You don't hoard anything when you make links nofollow." "It's a common SEO myth," he…
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