The advanced location targeting option update is aimed at reaching commuters — whether they’re at home, work or on the road. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

A new feature in Google Maps utilizes machine learning to recommend a restaurant’s most popular dishes. The post Google Maps to Highlight a Restaurant’s Popular Dishes via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal

The post New B2B Marketing Research, LinkedIn Sales Navigator & Ad Transparency Updates, Using AI Wisely, & US Digital Ads Top $100B appeared first on Online Marketing Blog – TopRank® .

Under attack by Negative SEO and disavowing links hasn’t helped? This may help

When there are issues rendering pages server side to prevent correct rendering, the content can have discrepancies shown to end users (or search bots). Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

In an effort to modernize its advertising products, Google is returning the text-only AdSense ad unit. The post Google to No Longer Display Text-Only AdSense Ads via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

I personally have disabled the omnibox search suggestions or autocompletes in Chrome but a bunch of SEOs are saying Google is now showing image thumbnails in those search suggestions. Here are tweets and images from people in the industry that are saying this is new

I’ve been covering the favicon change in the search results almost every day since it launched but a new question SEOs want to know is how long would it take Google to update the favicon they display in the mobile search results for your site after you change it. For the most part it seems like most SEOs said it takes around 24 hours, sometimes less

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