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Yesterday I reported that Google said clicks impact Google My Business rankings. Well, Google later edited what they wrote and removed that clicks matter.

I believe this is common knowledge in the local SEO world but I don't think I've seen Google come out and say it. Google's Rahul J from the Google My Business team posted in the Google My Business Help forum four ways to help promote your local listing in the Google search results...

Over the past few weeks, I have been seeing sporadic reports in the Google Web Search Help forums around Google dropping the location setting, where you can filter search results based on a specific locale...

TIME has this great piece on Google Now and a prototype of the communicator that Captain Picard and company use to interact with the Enterprise on Google's search czar Amit Singhal. It is basically something you tap, ask a question...

In early October, Google announced a major announcement around Accelerated Mobile Pages - a way to speed up the mobile web...

In 2015, I’ve been pretty obsessed with keyword research and the tools web marketers are using to do it. I’ve made no secret of the fact that I’m working with Russ Jones (after our SERPscape acquisition) and a small team at Moz to build something in this space. But, I’m always trying to learn more and, in that spirit, after some nudging to try using Typeform again (which is pretty damn great survey software, BTW), I put up a short survey asking for thoughts around keyword research tools....

Googlebot Doesn’t Read Pictures of Text During Web Crawls

When I was an Administrator at Cre8asiteforums (2002-2007), one of my favorite forums on the site was one called the Website Hospital. People would come with their sites and questions...

Google has announced that it plans to support fast loading AMP within Google search “early next year.”

AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages, a project backed by Google and which has gained support from publishers, platforms like Twitter, analytics tools and today, from advertising networks and platforms.

In October, Google released a special version of Google search to test how AMP pages work. Now, Google says that the real thing will be coming to regular Google search after the new...

As many of you know, we are expecting a Google Penguin update by the end of this year and that update is expected to be the real time version.

But when we asked Gary about that at SMX Israel...