Google doubled down on removing unnatural links, reduced link spam by almost half. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Google is rolling out new features that make it easier to find local restaurants and bars that match personal tastes. The post Google Maps Makes it Easier to Find Restaurants and Bars by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Google has announced they are rebranding their 17+ year old brand money maker, AdWords, to simply Google Ads. Google launched AdWords back on October 23, 2000, almost 18 years ago, and was the driving force behind Google’s profits and power…

Google My Business is now providing insights to business owners about what their business is known for, according to customers. A new addition to the Google My Business insights section for cafes and restaurants offers data about subjective attributes, which are based on customers’ opinions. We’ve launched subjective attributes to provide more information in your insights tab! Customers of restaurants and cafes can submit subjective attributes to help you and their fellow customers.

Posted by sergeystefoglo If your work involves SEO at some level, you’ve most likely been hearing more and more about JavaScript and the implications it has on crawling and indexing.

Google quietly said on Twitter that they launched “subjective attributes to provide more information in your insights tab.” Subjective attributes (e.g. whether your business is popular with locals) rely on the opinions of Google users whoâve visited your business…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Yesterday we reported how Google released the Google Indexing API specifically for job posting URLs but if you look closely at the wording…