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Google Business Profiles now let’s you mark a product as special to pop it to the top. Google Business Profile, formerly Google My Business, has a new feature in the products section that lets you mark a product as “special.” After you mark a product as special, that...

Many SEOs have reported being unable to access Google Search Console. We are seeing a large number of SEOs reporting that they cannot access Google Search Console right now. It seems like it might be an issue in some regions; e.g., some users on the west coast or other regions....

This is not a ranking change, this is just a change in how Google reports on your rankings. Google, on December 9th, has updated the news performance report in Google Search Console “to make it more accurate,” the company said. This update may result in a drop in the number of...

Merchants no longer have to manually figure out which badge is being applied to each of their items. Google Merchant Center is now automatically showing retailers when their products are eligible for badges, a Google spokesperson has confirmed to Search Engine Land. Available...

Updates are aimed at improving app install outcomes. Mobile usage has accelerated during COVID-19 restrictions, says Google. On Wednesday it announced a test that connects feeds to App campaigns and will expand deep linking to more ad formats, expand deep linking and provide more...

For over four months, Google has been overcounting some of this data – make sure you communicate this to your clients when you send them your next batch of reports. For the last four months, Google has been miscounting the mobile page experience data in the Google Search...

Knowing which bot is really Google and which is not can help you decide which rogue bots to block from your site. Google has published the full list of IP addresses it uses for crawling and accessing your website under the Googlebot user agents. Google said if you do not want to...

Plus, some early stats on the effect of free listings in Google Shopping. Following the significant move of bringing free product listings to Google’s Shopping tab results in April, Google is starting to extend them into the main Search results. The company announced Monday that...

Google has confirmed the issue was resolved at 3:25pm ET. Google is working on a fix with the site command, a command used to restrict the search results to a specific domain name. Google said “we are aware of an issue with the site: command that may fail to show some or any...

The AMP, Mobile Friendly, and Rich Results testing tools will “align” with the URL Inspection tool, said Google. Google Search Console’s public-facing testing tools will be aligned more closely to the URL Inspection tool, the company announced today. Google said it is...