Google has introduced a catch-all tool for testing rich snippets, rich cards, and other “rich” additions to a website’s content. The post Google Introduces Rich Results Tool for Testing Structured Data by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Google has been spotted integrating reviews from third party sources in the Knowledge Graph cards for Google My Business listings. The post Google Integrating Third Party Reviews in Local Search Results by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Google has updated its Google My Business review guidelines with more specific information about conflicts of interest. The post Negative Google Reviews from Former Employees Are Now Against Guidelines by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google’s Year in Search continues as the company looks back on the most searched fads of 2017. The post Google’s Most Searched Fads of 2017 by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Today’s New Year’s Eve image is the third entry in the series. The post New Year’s Eve 2017 Google doodle brings back penguins for the holiday doodle series appeared first on Search Engine Land

Today is New Year’s Eve 2017, the last day of 2017 and of course, both Google and Bing have special logos and designs.

This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series – feel free to nominate someone over here.

Google now has updated their review guidelines to prohibit and disallow negative reviews from current or former employees. The new section under “conflict of interest” reads: Maps user contributed content is most valuable when it is honest and unbiased..

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…