Google Product Reviews Update Causing Wild Volatility & Swings

Google Product Reviews Update: Wild & Wide Volatility & SwingsWell, this last February 2023 product reviews update has been pretty volatile, and we have seen some significant ranking changes and the chatter within the SEO community has been pretty wild. This product reviews update seems to be much more widespread than previous product review updatesContinueContinue reading “Google Product Reviews Update Causing Wild Volatility & Swings”

Google On Rewriting Your Content With ChatGPT

Google’s John Mueller On Rewriting Your Content With ChatGPTGoogle’s John Mueller went back and forth multiple times with some SEOs on the topic of using ChatGPT not to write content from scratch but to rewrite existing content. The responses from John are educational, useful, and somewhat funny as well.I’ll share as much of the threadContinueContinue reading “Google On Rewriting Your Content With ChatGPT”

Google Maps App For Android Adds Business Profile Tab

The Google Maps app for Android has seem to add a new tab to manage your business profile(s). The tab shows a store icon with the word “Business” below it. Clicking it, lets you manage your Google Business Profile listing directly in the app.Now, you can manage your business profile in the Google Maps appContinueContinue reading “Google Maps App For Android Adds Business Profile Tab”

Google Says Embedding Local Reviews On Your Site Does Not Help With Web Rankings

Google: Embedding Local Reviews Collected By Third Parties Does Not Help With Web Search RankingsGoogle’s John Mueller was asked if it would help with web rankings in Google to embed reviews from sites like Facebook, Bing, Google, etc., on your website. John said no, not for web search, and he also warned us about notContinueContinue reading “Google Says Embedding Local Reviews On Your Site Does Not Help With Web Rankings”

Google Updates Site Move Documentation

Google Site Move Documentation UpdatedGoogle has updated the site move related search documentation this week. It seems like most of the changes were mostly about simplifying things around site moves, removing some content, clarification and so forth.Gary Illyes said on Mastodon, “just cleaned it up; it collected a lot of potentially unnecessary sentences over theContinueContinue reading “Google Updates Site Move Documentation”