Let’s explore the growth of the “Buy Online, Pick Up In-Store” experience and how retailers can leverage it. The post Buy Online & Pick up In-Store: How It’s Changing Everything from Daily Groceries to Holiday Shopping via @christijolson appeared first on Search Engine Journal

The case may still be reheard or appealed but it appears to be a broad ruling in favor of “the open internet.” Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Here’s a wild new idea: Consumers expect immediate, consistent, on-brand experiences across channels. Just kidding about the “wild” and “new” parts. Most marketers likely have the phrase embroidered on a pillowcase by now.

Google has updated the Google search quality raters guidelines handbook on September 5, 2019. That is 16-weeks after it last updated the guidelines, which was on May 16, 2019 and before that, it was about 10-months since Google updated that document

Is there any harm or benefit to disavowing spammy adult links?

Google has made a small change to the Google My Business Guidelines explaining and clarifying the roles of practitioners. Joy Hawkins posted in the Local Search Forums that the line that was added was “Sales associates or lead generation agents for corporations aren’t individual practitioners and aren’t eligible for a listing.”

For years we have known Apache.org, the Apache Foundation, has been giving thanks to its big sponsors and donors with a thank you page with links that do not have the nofollow link attribute on it. Google’s John Mueller, three years after I wrote about it, responded to these allegations

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

Google is introducing a new policy to prohibit ads for unproven or experimental medical techniques. The post Google Ads Introduces New Policies for Certain Types of Medical Ads via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Facebook is also being investigated in another multistate action lead by New York.