Gary Illyes from Google added to the big crawl budget article he published on the webmaster blog in January 2017 a new question and answer. It basically says that if you disallow a URL in your robots.txt file, then those URLs do not affect your crawl budget

Google My Business announced a number of updates to the platform yesterday to help small businesses do more with their Google Maps and local listing on Google. In short you can personalize your business profile by adding a cover photo, logo, and claiming a short name as well as add welcome offers and promotions.

The folks at SEMRush spotted a new test format for Google Ads in the mobile search results.

Google launched FAQ schema at Google I/O and we have learned that implementing can result in a drop in traffic. So what can you do to increase clicks?

Google’s Gary Illyes updated his original writeup on crawl budget with clarification about disallowed URLs.

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…

Google Ads is making adjustments to two portfolio bid strategies in an effort to simplify the experience for users. The post Google Ads is Removing Features from Portfolio Bid Strategies via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

You and I and the whole local SEO community know how bad the Google Maps business listing spam issues are. We’ve been covering it forever.

This week in search I covered a possible Google algorithm and ranking update on June 19th.

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