SEO community shares thoughtful reasons why they don’t list business address. The post Google’s John Mueller Asks Why SEOs Don’t Publish Their Address via @martinibuster appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

The new Google Shopping offers personalized recommendations. “Buy on Google” is featured prominently as the company responds to Amazon. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Google has been hosting webmaster conferences all over the place, espesially in India and other regions where you cannot find many SEO type conferences. Well, that is now changing with Google hosting a Google Webmaster Conference at the GooglePlex, in Mountain View, California

Google has announced three new ways for users to hide their personal activity while using Maps, YouTube, and Assistant. The post Google Announces New Ways to Hide Personal Activity, Including Incognito Mode in Maps via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal

We’ve seen variations of Google showing image carousels in the featured snippet position, but this one seems new. If you search for [seo checklist] you may see a featured snippet that also shows an image carousel that lets you click on the images to see “more results” for that answer.

As part of Google’s switch to evergreen Googlebot, the user agent will be updated to reflect the new Chrome version.

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

Google has finally moved the ‘Change of Address’ tool to the new Search Console interface. The post Google Brings ‘Change of Address’ Tool to New Version of Search Console via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google’s John Mueller posted on Reddit that he agrees, that HTML sitemaps are not worthwhile for SEO purposes. He said “I agree. When it comes to SEO …