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We are living in a weird time - typically when I see the community begin talking about a potential Google update and it is real - the trackers, such as Mozcast and others, will light up the next day with signs as well...

Nicolai Helling posted on Google+ a new shopping and maps feature that Google seems to be testing that allows searches to click on a button to search the local stores inventory directly from the map results...

I enjoyed answering some questions about prototyping and Product Management in startups from the nice folks at Justinmind recently. Among other things I got an opportunity to share my thoughts about a particular phrase we hear a lot about Product Managers, one that I think is quite dangerous for our profession…

What kind of challenges and opportunities face Product Managers in a software development context?

I think the Product Management role is still incredibly misunderstood...

Now, I do not know if authorship was ever a ranking signal but I assume Google tested it to see if it should be. And we now know Google said it is safe to remove authorship...

I thought this was an interesting question to ask people because I think it’s often misunderstood. Google treats content found at different URLs as if it is different content, even though it might be the same, such as in the following examples:...

This morning I woke up to dozens of reverification notices from Google Search Console for dozens of different profiles...

This past month was actually fairly slow with Google Webmaster big news. The biggest topics we had were two possible Google updates to their ranking algorithm that went unconfirmed...

Over the past 24 hours or so, Google seems to have cancelled a massive number of Google AdSense accounts. Emails are going to these publishers that read "Your Google AdSense account was recently cancelled."

Of course, this is causing major panic in the support forums...