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DetailsSEMrush, a very popular SEO toolset, came under scrutiny in the SEO industry this week when its content marketplace added guest blogging services that highlighted natural links as a benefit to the service. This ultimately resulted in SEMrush dropping the service from its website. SEMRush guest blogging. SEMRush removed the guest blogging page from its…
DetailsGoogle My Business has launched a new feature to give local businesses more flexibility with their business hours that reflect ways they’re adapting for social distancing as they start to reopen. You can now set up “more hours” in Google My Business with special times for seniors, pickup, kitchen, and more. You can even set…
Details“Location [data] . . . allows you to look back and say, ‘Pre-pandemic, who are the folks who went to Whole Foods? Who went to Costco? . . . How did that change during the pandemic? Who lost? Who won? And, who do we think is going to be at risk?’” said Duncan McCall, CEO…
DetailsGoogle has confirmed that there are indexing issues in Google Search that are causing some stale search results. Google said “we’re currently experiencing indexing issues that may cause stale search results in some cases.” The confirmation. Here is Google’s post on Twitter about this issue: We’re currently experiencing indexing issues that may cause stale search…
Details“Often, I see JavaScript being blamed when the problem is something else,” Martin Splitt, search developer advocate at Google, cited as the underlying issue behind many of the site errors he comes across. During our crawling and indexing session of Live with Search Engine Land, Splitt discussed the most common JavaScript-related issues that can hurt…
DetailsBing announced it pushed out a new feature for its backlinks tool within Bing Webmaster Tools. The new feature is named “similar sites” and it lets you compare your site’s backlinks to another site. How do you access it. To access this, login to Bing Webmaster Tools, click on Backlinks and then on the “similar…
DetailsAs many states are beginning to ease their COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, local businesses that rely on in-person or consumer touchpoints are investing in strategies to enable consumers to pick up goods curbside. While big-box retailers and grocery chains have had much success with the buy online, pick-up in store (and now curbside) model, many SMBs…
DetailsThe evergreen Googlebot was a huge leap forward in Google’s ability to crawl and render content. Prior to this update, Googlebot was based on Chrome 41 (released in 2015) so that the search engine could index pages that would still work for users on older versions of Chrome. The drawback, however, was that sites with…
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