Did you know you can go to Google and vote for your favorite NBA players for the All Star game and events.

A few months ago, Google stopped showing Google Posts in the top location, somewhat above the fold, in the local panel for a business.

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Andy Simpson spotted a local panel that was using unicode to make the business name stand out from the rest. Andy was doing a normal search for a barber shop and this listing came up in Google’s local results, which caught his eye

Search marketing has continued to mature throughout 2018. At each twist and turn along the way, we’ve done our best to not only cover each change, but also offer insight and research-based strategy to help savvy digital marketers along the way. We’re fortunate to have a fantastic group of digital marketing professionals contributing to the TopRank Marketing Blog, with our CEO Lee Odden , Associate Director of Search & Analytics Tiffani Allen , Vice President of Client Accounts Alexis Hall , Content Strategist  Anne Leuman , and others, each contributing search marketing insights, tips, and tricks this past year

For those that get a lot of traffic to their AMP pages and show up in the featured snippets section, you may want to watch your metrics closely. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

The e-commerce giant’s ad business continued to grow as it made significant updates to its advertising systems and capabilities. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Google’s John Mueller was asked on Twitter about Google’s plans to upgrading their crawling to better support GoogleBot as Chrome 41.

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter some time ago that the trailing slash after the domain name is an implied canonical. He said “The trailing slash after a domain name is always there, even if it’s not shown.” “It’s always implied for canonicalization,” he added.