Google has finally started to remove the Search Queries report from the Google Search Console. Since the new Search Analytics report was expected to completely replace the Search Queries report at some point, this really isn’t shocking at all.  The Search Analytics report became available to all Google Search Console users about months ago. All ready, reports have come […]

Google has chosen to enlarge the search box on their site by giving it more height.  Both search boxes that you see on the Google.com home page and inside search results pages have been modified to be a little bit taller.  Who will notice the change, who knows.  More than likely, the average Google user […]

To SEOs, when it comes to understanding Googlebot behavior we would use Log Files.  But did you know that they can be used to identify any bad bots that are crawling your site?  After all, finding out what bots are crawling your site is important, as these bots are executing JavaScript, inflating analytics, taking resources, and […]

These days, when you think of Google and antitrust battles, we think of the search engine’s battle with the European Union.  But surprisingly, there is another ongoing investigation going on in India that hasn’t gotten nearly the same amount of coverage the European antitrust investigation.  There was an article that has appeared in the India-based Economic Times that […]

A new design is coming to Google’s mobile search results that you see when you search for apps.  If you decide to search for news apps on your mobile device, as an example, Google will show you a new interface, instead of the basic line-by-line listings your’d see as typical search results. The interface that we’re […]

Google SVP and General Counsel Kent Walker, in a formal filing and in a companion blog post, says that Google is denying that they have abused the market position in search.  In their defense, Google stated that they are characterizing the actions they took and UI changes that were made as a move towards quality […]

As many of us may have learned, earlier this month, Google decided to replace their “7-pack” (which is the local results box that showed seven local businesses in the Google Web search results) with the now current 3-pack.  As a significant change to how results are displayed, it was an interesting thing to do on Google’s […]

When doing a Google Image Search on mobile, have you ever been shown large filter buttons for your image search requests?  If you have, as some already have discovered for themselves, you may wonder if they are brand new.  Well, according to Google, they are indeed new. It seems that this feature was added earlier this summer and […]

These days, it’s no secret that mobile configuration for any business running a website is a big part of the future of SEO and digital marketing.  There are statistic out there that says that there are more Google searches that take place on mobile devices than desktop computers in 10 countries.  We also have to to take into […]

The 2015 Local Consumer Review Survey has just been published by BrightLocal, so it’s time to explore the attitudes, the influences and overall consumption of local business reviews by consumers. This is the fifth year that BrightLocal has been doing this research, and in this year’s survey, 15 questions had been asked to over 2,000 […]